Hacker News digest

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The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE (www.wired.com)

2827 comments 2 days, 4391 points

Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads (timsh.org)

591 comments 2 days, 2440 points

El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender (ticotimes.net)

794 comments 28 hours, 1681 points

self ask Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?

668 comments 2 days, 1166 points

Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools (danieldelaney.net)

374 comments 12 hours, 1077 points

Apple Invites (www.apple.com)

629 comments 12 hours, 1061 points

Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore (www.crisesnotes.com)

539 comments 13 hours, 1023 points

Introducing deep research (openai.com)

403 comments 2 days, 968 points

self ask Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)

485 comments 36 hours, 957 points

AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU (techcrunch.com)

375 comments 42 hours, 812 points

Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants" (simonwillison.net)

373 comments 45 hours, 812 points

Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program (github.com)

144 comments 36 hours, 771 points

US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek (www.404media.co)

266 comments 29 hours, 718 points

"A computer can never be held accountable" (simonwillison.net)

274 comments 30 hours, 675 points

Waydroid – Android in a Linux container (waydro.id)

146 comments 2 days, 656 points

The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution (www.usni.org)

415 comments 46 hours, 654 points

Life is more than an engineering problem (lareviewofbooks.org)

238 comments 2 days, 621 points

America desperately needs more air traffic controllers (www.cnn.com)

411 comments 13 hours, 614 points

self ask Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)

437 comments 36 hours, 608 points

show Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living (www.videotoflip.com)

118 comments 37 hours, 606 points

Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe (openeurollm.eu)

263 comments 31 hours, 577 points

Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut (www.bloomberg.com)

253 comments 13 hours, 566 points

He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along (www.nytimes.com)

250 comments 38 hours, 514 points

The legacy of lies in Alzheimer's science (www.nytimes.com)

202 comments 2 days, 501 points

Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014) (www.dezeen.com)

256 comments 40 hours, 493 points

Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf] (www.govinfo.gov)

227 comments 28 hours, 487 points

Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies” (bsky.app)

100 comments 40 hours, 458 points

Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013) (onehundredpages.wordpress.com)

211 comments 2 days, 454 points

The Video Game History Foundation library opens in early access (gamehistory.org)

70 comments 27 hours, 424 points

What really happens inside a dating app (blog.luap.info)

173 comments 33 hours, 417 points

Costa Rican supermarket wins trademark battle against Nintendo (ticotimes.net)

109 comments 2 days, 405 points

Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020) (ripitapart.com)

130 comments 2 days, 397 points

I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C (irreducible.io)

76 comments 38 hours, 394 points

Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022) (www.efavdb.com)

193 comments 2 days, 390 points

GarminDB (github.com)

71 comments 2 days, 390 points

AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability (github.com)

103 comments 34 hours, 383 points

F-strings for C++26 proposal [pdf] (www.open-std.org)

198 comments 2 days, 378 points

A Coup Is in Progress in America (www.techdirt.com)

113 comments 28 hours, 369 points

show Show HN: Lume – OS lightweight CLI for MacOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon (github.com)

74 comments 2 days, 368 points

Developer Philosophy (qntm.org)

69 comments 35 hours, 342 points

Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost (arstechnica.com)

98 comments 17 hours, 340 points

Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic (github.com)

92 comments 2 days, 331 points

No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming (blog.reverberate.org)

123 comments 30 hours, 315 points

DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM (modal.com)

104 comments 13 hours, 315 points

Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine, a high performance caching library (adriacabeza.github.io)