Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 19, 2025.

Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/commit/0759e2e8e179d5352d81d0d4aaded72c1704b7a9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094260

Pi-hole v6
https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/18/introducing-pi-hole-v6/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093328

A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/a-year-of-uv-pros-cons-and-should
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43095157

My LLM codegen workflow
https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094006

Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations
https://scripton.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43090214

XOR
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/xor/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087944

Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration
https://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/News/nuclear-fusion-west-beats-the-world-record-for-plasma-duration.aspx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093939

South Korean regulator accuses DeepSeek of sharing user data with ByteDance
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gex0x87g4o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094651

Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-alice-hamilton-waged-one-woman-campaign-get-lead-out-everything-180985960/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096422

One year after switching from Java to Go
https://glasskube.dev/blog/from-java-to-go/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43092003