Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 8, 2025.

Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/7/9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972062

VSCode's SSH agent is bananas
https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979467

Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line
https://soranews24.com/2024/12/21/station-of-despair-what-to-do-if-you-get-stuck-at-the-end-of-tokyos-chuo-rapid-line/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42945980

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970412

Hotline for modern Apple systems
https://github.com/mierau/hotline
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959841

Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
https://theretowhere.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975803

Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing
https://github.com/c0stya/trre
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974378

A brief history of code signing at Mozilla
https://hearsum.ca/posts/history-of-code-signing-at-mozilla/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975436

Three-nanite: Unreal Nanite in Three.js
https://github.com/AIFanatic/three-nanite
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974461

The PS2's backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020)
https://freelansations.medium.com/the-story-of-the-ps2s-backwards-compatibility-from-the-engineer-who-built-it-ec39cf5a0353
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42931241