Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-03-01

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending March 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised
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• DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes
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• FFmpeg School of Assembly Language
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• It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
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• Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
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• Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
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• Hyperspace
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• I Went to SQL Injection Court
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• TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]
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• Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
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• EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
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• GPT-4.5
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• \"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license\"
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• Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
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• Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge
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• Microsoft is killing Skype
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• Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data
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• Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
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• How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps
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• A Letter to the American People
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-02-22

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending February 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)
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• My Life in Weeks
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• “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
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• I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
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• Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers
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• All Kindles can now be jailbroken
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• X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
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• Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme
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• Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code
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• A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
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• \"Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies\" – Executive Order
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• Greg K-H: \"Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us\"
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• Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger
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• When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
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• DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
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• Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco
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• DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days
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• Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding
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• Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
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• I found a backdoor into my bed
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-02-15

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending February 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
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• Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
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• We are destroying software
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• Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
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• Why blog if nobody reads it?
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• Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
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• The Anthropic Economic Index
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• Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
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• Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
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• Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
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• Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
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• I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)
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• The year I didn't survive
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• Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
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• Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k
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• Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
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• Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search
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• Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
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• The hardest working font in Manhattan
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• We were wrong about GPUs
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-02-08

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending February 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets
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• Macrodata Refinement
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• CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research
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• Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
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• The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
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• El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender
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• Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
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• WikiTok
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• What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
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• Beej's Guide to Git
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• Fair Pricing
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• Software development topics I've changed my mind on
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• S1: A $6 R1 competitor?
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• Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
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• Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
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• Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
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• U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
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• Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
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• Apple ordered by UK to create global iCloud encryption backdoor
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• Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-02-01

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending February 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
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• Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
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• It's not a crime if we do it with an app
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• A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
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• Facebook ban on discussing Linux?
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• DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
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• Google open-sources the Pebble OS
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• We're bringing Pebble back
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• Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
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• Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code
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• Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
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• New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs
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• OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
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• I still like Sublime Text
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• OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us
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• An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1
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• JavaScript Temporal is coming
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• OpenAI O3-Mini
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• Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex
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• Add \"fucking\" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries
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