Hacker News Highlights

Feb 14, 2025 | Privacy Pass for Kagi, LibreOffice turns 40 with new features, Phind 2 offers AI search with visuals

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 14, 2025.Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Searchhttps://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-passhttps://news.ycomb...

February 14, 2025 / 12:15/E24

Feb 13, 2025 | YouTube email leak for $10k, data smuggling via emoji, US and UK reject AI safety declaration

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 13, 2025.Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10khttps://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-youtube-emailsht...

February 13, 2025 / 12:20/E23

Feb 12, 2025 | Honda's rodent-repelling tape review, Backblaze 2024 drive statistics, a year of survival challenges

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 12, 2025.I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)https://haterade.substack....

February 12, 2025 / 12:28/E22

Feb 11, 2025 | Undergraduate improves hash table search speed, Surnames derived from obsolete nicknames, Anthropic Economic Index introduced

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 11, 2025.Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much fasterhttps://www.quantamagazine.or...

February 11, 2025 / 12:46/E21

Feb 10, 2025 | Teen on Musk's DOGE team; ChatGPT - oracle or BS machine; blogging's purpose questioned

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 10, 2025.Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-d...

February 10, 2025 / 12:40/E20

Feb 9, 2025 | Destroying software, gradual automation, interesting obscure islands

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 9, 2025.We are destroying softwarehttps://antirez.com/news/145https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983275Do...

February 9, 2025 / 11:28/E19

Feb 8, 2025 | Hector Martin resigns from Linux, VSCode's SSH agent issues, and advice for Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line

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 kernelhttps://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/7/9htt...

February 8, 2025 / 12:25/E18

Feb 7, 2025 | Simulating water, Reasoning LLMs, SQLite disk page explorer

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 7, 2025.Simulating water over terrainhttps://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/simulating-water-over-terrain.html...

February 7, 2025 / 11:11/E17

Feb 6, 2025 | Gemini 2.0 transforms PDF ingestion, Cloudflare blocks Pale Moon, and a $6 R1 competitor emerges

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 6, 2025.Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everythinghttps://www.sergey.fyi/articles/gemini-flash-2htt...

February 6, 2025 / 12:26/E16

Feb 5, 2025 | WikiTok, Chat UI issues, Oracle's JavaScript trademark dispute

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 5, 2025.WikiTokhttps://wikitok.vercel.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723Chat is a bad UI patte...

February 5, 2025 / 12:06/E15

Feb 4, 2025 | Young engineers support DOGE; El Salvador drops Bitcoin; Httptap monitors Linux HTTP/HTTPS requests

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 4, 2025.The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGEhttps://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-...

February 4, 2025 / 12:27/E14

Feb 3, 2025 | Location tracking via in-app ads, deep research introduction, Waydroid for Android in Linux

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 3, 2025.Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app adshttps://timsh.org/tracking-mysel...

February 3, 2025 / 12:25/E13

Feb 2, 2025 | Apple open sources Swift Build; archivists save data.gov datasets; Bay Area 'Zizians' linked to killings

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 2, 2025.Apple is open sourcing Swift Buildhttps://www.swift.org/blog/the-next-chapter-in-swift-build-technolo...

February 2, 2025 / 12:28/E12

Feb 1, 2025 | OpenAI O3-Mini, Google searches with profanity, bypass DeepSeek censorship in hex

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 1, 2025.OpenAI O3-Minihttps://openai.com/index/openai-o3-mini/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42890627Ad...

February 1, 2025 / 11:45/E11

Jan 31, 2025 | JavaScript Temporal introduction, 2024 Pokemon playtest cards, AI and human intelligence relationship

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 31, 2025.JavaScript Temporal is cominghttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/javascript-temporal-is-coming/...

January 31, 2025 / 11:55/E10

Jan 30, 2025 | Sublime Text appreciation, OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of model misuse, DeepSeek database leak exposes sensitive information

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 30, 2025.I still like Sublime Texthttps://ohdoylerules.com/workflows/why-i-still-like-sublime-text-in-2025/ht...

January 30, 2025 / 12:07/E9

Jan 29, 2025 | DeepSeek R1 shows promise, new speculative attacks on Apple CPUs, and Boom XB-1 completes first supersonic flight

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 29, 2025.Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for codehttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/llamacpp-pr/https:/...

January 29, 2025 / 12:46/E8

Jan 28, 2025 | Pebble returns, Google open-sources Pebble OS, DeepSeek launches Janus Pro

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 28, 2025.We're bringing Pebble backhttps://repebble.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845091Google o...

January 28, 2025 / 12:29/E7

Jan 27, 2025 | Wayland vs. X11 latency, Microsoft 365 Copilot disaster, Kansas tuberculosis outbreak

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 27, 2025.Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussionhttps://mort.coffee/home/wayland-input-l...

January 27, 2025 / 12:19/E6

Jan 26, 2025 | DeepSeek-R1 enhances LLM reasoning with RL; Steam Brick offers minimalistic design; CIA supports lab leak theory for Covid origins

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 26, 2025.DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RLhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948https:...

January 26, 2025 / 12:10/E5

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