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February 2025 discussion archive

Browse 160 retained Hacker News discussion records from February 2025, with reading status and captured HN facts shown for every entry.

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  1. An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox28 Feb 2025 · 596 points · 366 commentsPartial reading withheld
  2. Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working28 Feb 2025 · 678 points · 903 commentsPartial reading withheld
  3. How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps28 Feb 2025 · 1,156 points · 319 commentsPartial reading withheld
  4. 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure28 Feb 2025 · 703 points · 386 commentsPartial reading withheld
  5. Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting28 Feb 2025 · 2,936 points · 5,044 commentsPartial reading withheld
  6. AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data28 Feb 2025 · 276 points · 311 commentsPartial reading withheld
  7. Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data28 Feb 2025 · 901 points · 7 commentsPartial reading withheld
  8. Microsoft is killing Skype28 Feb 2025 · 751 points · 662 commentsPartial reading withheld
  9. Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge28 Feb 2025 · 787 points · 514 commentsPartial reading withheld
  10. macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)28 Feb 2025 · 587 points · 350 commentsPartial reading withheld
  11. Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser28 Feb 2025 · 994 points · 331 commentsPartial reading withheld
  12. "When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license"28 Feb 2025 · 839 points · 9 commentsPartial reading withheld
  13. GPT-4.527 Feb 2025 · 1,136 points · 988 commentsPartial reading withheld
  14. EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games27 Feb 2025 · 1,262 points · 325 commentsPartial reading withheld
  15. Distributed systems programming has stalled27 Feb 2025 · 287 points · 217 commentsPartial reading withheld
  16. A $100 DIY muon tomographer27 Feb 2025 · 283 points · 44 commentsPartial reading withheld
  17. Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit26 Feb 2025 · 288 points · 253 commentsPartial reading withheld
  18. Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam26 Feb 2025 · 1,581 points · 356 commentsPartial reading withheld
  19. The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)26 Feb 2025 · 273 points · 304 commentsPartial reading withheld
  20. TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]26 Feb 2025 · 1,328 points · 360 commentsPartial reading withheld
  21. Show HN: A Database Written in Golang26 Feb 2025 · 277 points · 68 commentsPartial reading withheld
  22. I Went to SQL Injection Court25 Feb 2025 · 1,230 points · 435 commentsPartial reading withheld
  23. Hyperspace25 Feb 2025 · 849 points · 456 commentsPartial reading withheld
  24. Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers25 Feb 2025 · 631 points · 188 commentsPartial reading withheld
  25. Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January25 Feb 2025 · 278 points · 517 commentsPartial reading withheld
  26. How Core Git Developers Configure Git25 Feb 2025 · 570 points · 122 commentsPartial reading withheld
  27. Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty25 Feb 2025 · 601 points · 66 commentsPartial reading withheld
  28. How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta25 Feb 2025 · 285 points · 122 commentsPartial reading withheld
  29. DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse25 Feb 2025 · 610 points · 190 commentsPartial reading withheld
  30. “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”24 Feb 2025 · 586 points · 353 commentsPartial reading withheld
  31. Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code24 Feb 2025 · 2,127 points · 963 commentsPartial reading withheld
  32. Ggwave: Tiny Data-over-Sound Library24 Feb 2025 · 284 points · 72 commentsPartial reading withheld
  33. Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass24 Feb 2025 · 1,203 points · 268 commentsPartial reading withheld
  34. Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US24 Feb 2025 · 623 points · 615 commentsPartial reading withheld
  35. European word translator: an interactive map23 Feb 2025 · 270 points · 109 commentsPartial reading withheld
  36. It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds23 Feb 2025 · 1,403 points · 800 commentsPartial reading withheld
  37. Thailand to Cut Power to Myanmar Scam Hubs23 Feb 2025 · 273 points · 108 commentsPartial reading withheld
  38. Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)22 Feb 2025 · 749 points · 276 commentsPartial reading withheld
  39. FFmpeg School of Assembly Language22 Feb 2025 · 869 points · 220 commentsPartial reading withheld
  40. Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time22 Feb 2025 · 289 points · 84 commentsPartial reading withheld
  41. Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act22 Feb 2025 · 273 points · 288 commentsPartial reading withheld
  42. DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes22 Feb 2025 · 1,092 points · 1,462 commentsPartial reading withheld
  43. 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised22 Feb 2025 · 788 points · 841 commentsPartial reading withheld
  44. I found a backdoor into my bed21 Feb 2025 · 980 points · 385 commentsPartial reading withheld
  45. Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row21 Feb 2025 · 1,770 points · 1,068 commentsPartial reading withheld
  46. Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life21 Feb 2025 · 578 points · 291 commentsPartial reading withheld
  47. Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)21 Feb 2025 · 278 points · 190 commentsPartial reading withheld
  48. Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding21 Feb 2025 · 698 points · 452 commentsPartial reading withheld
  49. DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days21 Feb 2025 · 757 points · 236 commentsPartial reading withheld
  50. I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares20 Feb 2025 · 270 points · 157 commentsPartial reading withheld
  51. Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco20 Feb 2025 · 825 points · 193 commentsPartial reading withheld
  52. Obsidian is now free for work20 Feb 2025 · 282 points · 23 commentsPartial reading withheld
  53. When your last name is Null, nothing works20 Feb 2025 · 272 points · 295 commentsPartial reading withheld
  54. DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data20 Feb 2025 · 884 points · 1,671 commentsPartial reading withheld
  55. Typst 0.13 is out now19 Feb 2025 · 284 points · 60 commentsPartial reading withheld
  56. When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines19 Feb 2025 · 785 points · 304 commentsPartial reading withheld
  57. Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger19 Feb 2025 · 836 points · 289 commentsPartial reading withheld
  58. Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks19 Feb 2025 · 641 points · 336 commentsPartial reading withheld
  59. Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"19 Feb 2025 · 679 points · 439 commentsPartial reading withheld
  60. "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order19 Feb 2025 · 715 points · 1,279 commentsPartial reading withheld
  61. HP Acquires Humane's AI Software18 Feb 2025 · 278 points · 279 commentsPartial reading withheld
  62. A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate18 Feb 2025 · 723 points · 394 commentsPartial reading withheld
  63. Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code18 Feb 2025 · 1,863 points · 387 commentsPartial reading withheld
  64. Pi-hole v618 Feb 2025 · 573 points · 304 commentsPartial reading withheld
  65. Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO18 Feb 2025 · 282 points · 516 commentsPartial reading withheld
  66. XOR18 Feb 2025 · 602 points · 100 commentsPartial reading withheld
  67. Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme18 Feb 2025 · 834 points · 154 commentsPartial reading withheld
  68. Grok3 Launch [video]18 Feb 2025 · 632 points · 1,354 commentsPartial reading withheld
  69. Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport17 Feb 2025 · 575 points · 705 commentsPartial reading withheld
  70. X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links17 Feb 2025 · 803 points · 758 commentsPartial reading withheld
  71. All Kindles can now be jailbroken17 Feb 2025 · 1,377 points · 423 commentsPartial reading withheld
  72. Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone17 Feb 2025 · 616 points · 60 commentsPartial reading withheld
  73. Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?16 Feb 2025 · 277 points · 499 commentsPartial reading withheld
  74. Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers16 Feb 2025 · 681 points · 272 commentsPartial reading withheld
  75. I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs16 Feb 2025 · 772 points · 212 commentsPartial reading withheld
  76. Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS16 Feb 2025 · 568 points · 227 commentsPartial reading withheld
  77. Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died16 Feb 2025 · 602 points · 128 commentsPartial reading withheld
  78. “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”16 Feb 2025 · 1,821 points · 430 commentsPartial reading withheld
  79. My Life in Weeks15 Feb 2025 · 984 points · 262 commentsPartial reading withheld
  80. Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find15 Feb 2025 · 581 points · 502 commentsPartial reading withheld
  81. Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal15 Feb 2025 · 271 points · 156 commentsPartial reading withheld
  82. We were wrong about GPUs14 Feb 2025 · 921 points · 578 commentsPartial reading withheld
  83. The hardest working font in Manhattan14 Feb 2025 · 857 points · 118 commentsPartial reading withheld
  84. LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen14 Feb 2025 · 277 points · 125 commentsPartial reading withheld
  85. DA, sheriff, who shared woman's nude photos on phone are covered by QI14 Feb 2025 · 277 points · 153 commentsPartial reading withheld
  86. Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI14 Feb 2025 · 281 points · 164 commentsPartial reading withheld
  87. You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)14 Feb 2025 · 783 points · 412 commentsPartial reading withheld
  88. Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website14 Feb 2025 · 1,125 points · 1,123 commentsPartial reading withheld
  89. The New York Stock Exchange plans to launch NYSE Texas14 Feb 2025 · 277 points · 242 commentsPartial reading withheld
  90. Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search13 Feb 2025 · 939 points · 341 commentsPartial reading withheld
  91. MapTCHA, the open-source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap [video]13 Feb 2025 · 291 points · 45 commentsPartial reading withheld
  92. Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead13 Feb 2025 · 1,116 points · 997 commentsPartial reading withheld
  93. Show HN: Game Bub – open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld12 Feb 2025 · 274 points · 62 commentsPartial reading withheld
  94. Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 202412 Feb 2025 · 285 points · 88 commentsPartial reading withheld
  95. Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k12 Feb 2025 · 1,624 points · 466 commentsPartial reading withheld
  96. Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji12 Feb 2025 · 769 points · 195 commentsPartial reading withheld
  97. The year I didn't survive12 Feb 2025 · 949 points · 262 commentsPartial reading withheld
  98. I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)11 Feb 2025 · 1,579 points · 454 commentsPartial reading withheld
  99. Backblaze Drive Stats for 202411 Feb 2025 · 646 points · 205 commentsPartial reading withheld
  100. Firing programmers for AI is a mistake11 Feb 2025 · 741 points · 847 commentsPartial reading withheld
  101. Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop11 Feb 2025 · 291 points · 202 commentsPartial reading withheld
  102. Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI10 Feb 2025 · 706 points · 978 commentsPartial reading withheld
  103. Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster10 Feb 2025 · 1,304 points · 584 commentsPartial reading withheld
  104. Bank CEO: Retract your debanking piece? Me: No10 Feb 2025 · 282 points · 75 commentsPartial reading withheld
  105. The Anthropic Economic Index10 Feb 2025 · 582 points · 225 commentsPartial reading withheld
  106. Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more10 Feb 2025 · 993 points · 449 commentsPartial reading withheld
  107. Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)10 Feb 2025 · 284 points · 272 commentsPartial reading withheld
  108. Why blog if nobody reads it?09 Feb 2025 · 770 points · 359 commentsPartial reading withheld
  109. Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world09 Feb 2025 · 930 points · 603 commentsPartial reading withheld
  110. Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007)08 Feb 2025 · 283 points · 158 commentsPartial reading withheld
  111. We are destroying software08 Feb 2025 · 1,012 points · 622 commentsPartial reading withheld
  112. Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'08 Feb 2025 · 1,624 points · 1,801 commentsPartial reading withheld
  113. VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas08 Feb 2025 · 737 points · 511 commentsPartial reading withheld
  114. Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)07 Feb 2025 · 582 points · 157 commentsPartial reading withheld
  115. Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel07 Feb 2025 · 918 points · 1,021 commentsPartial reading withheld
  116. Apple ordered by UK to create global iCloud encryption backdoor07 Feb 2025 · 1,146 points · 4 commentsPartial reading withheld
  117. Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data07 Feb 2025 · 1,270 points · 938 commentsPartial reading withheld
  118. U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts07 Feb 2025 · 762 points · 1,034 commentsPartial reading withheld
  119. California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots07 Feb 2025 · 284 points · 166 commentsPartial reading withheld
  120. Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer06 Feb 2025 · 288 points · 41 commentsPartial reading withheld
  121. Paper Apps06 Feb 2025 · 673 points · 94 commentsPartial reading withheld
  122. Some terminal frustrations06 Feb 2025 · 273 points · 311 commentsPartial reading withheld
  123. Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers05 Feb 2025 · 1,343 points · 524 commentsPartial reading withheld
  124. Andrej Karpathy: Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT [video]05 Feb 2025 · 582 points · 46 commentsPartial reading withheld
  125. Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything05 Feb 2025 · 1,303 points · 447 commentsPartial reading withheld
  126. Eggs US – Price – Chart05 Feb 2025 · 643 points · 769 commentsPartial reading withheld
  127. 20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says05 Feb 2025 · 280 points · 548 commentsPartial reading withheld
  128. Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone05 Feb 2025 · 612 points · 269 commentsPartial reading withheld
  129. Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed05 Feb 2025 · 757 points · 905 commentsPartial reading withheld
  130. Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?05 Feb 2025 · 641 points · 473 commentsPartial reading withheld
  131. S1: A $6 R1 competitor?05 Feb 2025 · 851 points · 416 commentsPartial reading withheld
  132. Software development topics I've changed my mind on05 Feb 2025 · 873 points · 776 commentsPartial reading withheld
  133. Fair Pricing05 Feb 2025 · 1,134 points · 498 commentsPartial reading withheld
  134. The FAA’s Hiring Scandal05 Feb 2025 · 739 points · 666 commentsPartial reading withheld
  135. Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong05 Feb 2025 · 563 points · 560 commentsPartial reading withheld
  136. Beej's Guide to Git05 Feb 2025 · 1,062 points · 311 commentsPartial reading withheld
  137. What's happening inside the NIH and NSF04 Feb 2025 · 957 points · 1,536 commentsPartial reading withheld
  138. Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored04 Feb 2025 · 631 points · 184 commentsPartial reading withheld
  139. Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance04 Feb 2025 · 617 points · 542 commentsPartial reading withheld
  140. WikiTok04 Feb 2025 · 1,459 points · 221 commentsPartial reading withheld
  141. Apple Invites04 Feb 2025 · 651 points · 913 commentsPartial reading withheld
  142. Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools04 Feb 2025 · 858 points · 417 commentsPartial reading withheld
  143. Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore04 Feb 2025 · 562 points · 654 commentsPartial reading withheld
  144. The PS2’s backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020)04 Feb 2025 · 280 points · 101 commentsPartial reading withheld
  145. Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]04 Feb 2025 · 270 points · 236 commentsPartial reading withheld
  146. El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender04 Feb 2025 · 927 points · 858 commentsPartial reading withheld
  147. AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability03 Feb 2025 · 287 points · 105 commentsPartial reading withheld
  148. Developer Philosophy03 Feb 2025 · 288 points · 69 commentsPartial reading withheld
  149. Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program03 Feb 2025 · 664 points · 145 commentsPartial reading withheld
  150. He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along03 Feb 2025 · 272 points · 270 commentsPartial reading withheld
  151. Introducing deep research03 Feb 2025 · 593 points · 418 commentsPartial reading withheld
  152. The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE02 Feb 2025 · 1,683 points · 2,991 commentsPartial reading withheld
  153. Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads02 Feb 2025 · 1,957 points · 607 commentsPartial reading withheld
  154. Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)02 Feb 2025 · 274 points · 131 commentsPartial reading withheld
  155. Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine, a high performance caching library02 Feb 2025 · 268 points · 47 commentsPartial reading withheld
  156. CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised02 Feb 2025 · 844 points · 721 commentsPartial reading withheld
  157. Macrodata Refinement01 Feb 2025 · 722 points · 369 commentsPartial reading withheld
  158. Apple is open sourcing Swift Build01 Feb 2025 · 612 points · 283 commentsPartial reading withheld
  159. CDC data are disappearing01 Feb 2025 · 749 points · 589 commentsPartial reading withheld
  160. I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)01 Feb 2025 · 280 points · 100 commentsPartial reading withheld