Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 17, 2025.

“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066953

Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died
https://www.eurogamer.net/half-life-2-and-dishonored-art-lead-viktor-antonov-dies-aged-just-52
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43069514

All Kindles can now be jailbroken
https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073969

Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers
https://uchu.style
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072338

Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone
https://hforsten.com/homemade-polarimetric-synthetic-aperture-radar-drone.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073808

Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf]
https://rtestardi.github.io/usbte/flea-scope.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43068585

YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info
https://old.reddit.com/r/VirtualYoutubers/comments/1iqmul1/if_you_have_a_moment_i_need_your_help/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073836

San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time
https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/golden-gate-park-ranger-homelessness/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073292

Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/02/15/javier-milei-backtracks-on-usd4-4b-memecoin-after-insiders-pocket-usd87m
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072790

IPv6 Is Hard
https://techlog.jenslink.net/posts/ipv6-is-hard/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43069533