The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2025

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Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com · yakkomajuri · 28 Feb 2025

2.9k pts 5k comments

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Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code anthropic.com · bakugo · 24 Feb 2025

2.1k pts 963 comments

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Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads timsh.org · apokryptein · 2 Feb 2025

2k pts 607 comments

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Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code github.com · davikr · 18 Feb 2025

1.9k pts 387 comments

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“A calculator app? Anyone could make that” chadnauseam.com · pie_flavor · 16 Feb 2025

1.8k pts 430 comments

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Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row bbc.com · helsinkiandrew · 21 Feb 2025

1.8k pts 1.1k comments

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The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE wired.com · medler · 2 Feb 2025

1.7k pts 3k comments

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Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com' krebsonsecurity.com · mmsc · 8 Feb 2025

1.6k pts 1.8k comments

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Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k brutecat.com · brutecat · 12 Feb 2025

1.6k pts 466 comments

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Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam newobj · 26 Feb 2025

1.6k pts 356 comments

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I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021) haterade.substack.com · voxadam · 11 Feb 2025

1.6k pts 454 comments

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WikiTok wikitok.vercel.app · Group_B · 4 Feb 2025

1.5k pts 221 comments

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It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds berthub.eu · Sami_Lehtinen · 23 Feb 2025

1.4k pts 800 comments

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All Kindles can now be jailbroken kindlemodding.org · diana-404 · 17 Feb 2025

1.4k pts 423 comments

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Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers Hold-And-Modify · 5 Feb 2025

1.3k pts 524 comments

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TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] youtube.com · franky47 · 26 Feb 2025

1.3k pts 360 comments

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Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster quantamagazine.org · Jhsto · 10 Feb 2025

1.3k pts 584 comments

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Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything sergey.fyi · serjester · 5 Feb 2025

1.3k pts 447 comments

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Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data arstechnica.com · gameshot911 · 7 Feb 2025

1.3k pts 938 comments

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EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games github.com · Klaster_1 · 27 Feb 2025

1.3k pts 325 comments

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I Went to SQL Injection Court sockpuppet.org · mrkurt · 25 Feb 2025

1.2k pts 435 comments

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Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass touchgrass.now · risquer · 24 Feb 2025

1.2k pts 268 comments

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How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps kibty.town · xyzeva · 28 Feb 2025

1.2k pts 319 comments

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Apple ordered by UK to create global iCloud encryption backdoor macrumors.com · throw0101d · 7 Feb 2025

1.1k pts 4 comments

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GPT-4.5 openai.com · meetpateltech · 27 Feb 2025

1.1k pts 988 comments

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Fair Pricing kagi.com · CleverLikeAnOx · 5 Feb 2025

1.1k pts 498 comments

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Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website 404media.co · mahkeiro · 14 Feb 2025

1.1k pts 1.1k comments

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Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead marcan.st · Shank · 13 Feb 2025

1.1k pts 997 comments

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DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes nytimes.com · belter · 22 Feb 2025

1.1k pts 1.5k comments

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Beej's Guide to Git beej.us · mixto · 5 Feb 2025

1.1k pts 311 comments

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We are destroying software antirez.com · antirez · 8 Feb 2025

1k pts 622 comments

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Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser github.com · goplayoutside · 28 Feb 2025

994 pts 331 comments

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Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more blog.plover.com · JNRowe · 10 Feb 2025

993 pts 449 comments

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My Life in Weeks weeks.ginatrapani.org · bookofjoe · 15 Feb 2025

984 pts 262 comments

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I found a backdoor into my bed trufflesecurity.com · riverdroid · 21 Feb 2025

980 pts 385 comments

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What's happening inside the NIH and NSF science.org · rrock · 4 Feb 2025

957 pts 1.5k comments

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The year I didn't survive bessstillman.substack.com · LaurenSerino · 12 Feb 2025

949 pts 262 comments

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Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search blog.kagi.com · b3n · 13 Feb 2025

939 pts 341 comments

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world thebullshitmachines.com · ctbergstrom · 9 Feb 2025

930 pts 603 comments

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El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender ticotimes.net · smallerfish · 4 Feb 2025

927 pts 858 comments

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We were wrong about GPUs fly.io · mxstbr · 14 Feb 2025

921 pts 578 comments

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Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel lkml.org · Mond_ · 7 Feb 2025

918 pts 1k comments

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Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data twitter.com · notRobot · 28 Feb 2025

901 pts 7 comments

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DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data theatlantic.com · perihelions · 20 Feb 2025

884 pts 1.7k comments

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Software development topics I've changed my mind on chriskiehl.com · belter · 5 Feb 2025

873 pts 776 comments

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FFmpeg School of Assembly Language github.com · davikr · 22 Feb 2025

869 pts 220 comments

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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools danieldelaney.net · cryptophreak · 4 Feb 2025

858 pts 417 comments

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The hardest working font in Manhattan aresluna.org · robinhouston · 14 Feb 2025

857 pts 118 comments

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S1: A $6 R1 competitor? timkellogg.me · tkellogg · 5 Feb 2025

851 pts 416 comments

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Hyperspace hypercritical.co · tobr · 25 Feb 2025

849 pts 456 comments

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CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised insidemedicine.substack.com · KittenInABox · 2 Feb 2025

844 pts 721 comments

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"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license" mozilla.org · tomp · 28 Feb 2025

839 pts 9 comments

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Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger cloud.google.com · karel-3d · 19 Feb 2025

836 pts 289 comments

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Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme tintin.dlazaro.ca · dnlzro · 18 Feb 2025

834 pts 154 comments

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Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco vincentwoo.com · akanet · 20 Feb 2025

825 pts 193 comments

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X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links disruptionist.com · confusing3478 · 17 Feb 2025

803 pts 758 comments

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'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised theguardian.com · zeristor · 22 Feb 2025

788 pts 841 comments

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Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge neowin.net · thombles · 28 Feb 2025

787 pts 514 comments

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When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines jazco.dev · cyndunlop · 19 Feb 2025

785 pts 304 comments

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You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) infobip.com · tonkkatonka · 14 Feb 2025

783 pts 412 comments