Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-02-08

  1. Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data arstechnica.com - 811 comments 1135 points
  2. Apple ordered by UK to create global iCloud encryption backdoor www.macrumors.com - 2 comments 1110 points
  3. Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel lkml.org - 546 comments 605 points
  4. Donald Knuth’s 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components - video www.youtube.com - 63 comments 379 points
  5. Announcing the data.gov archive lil.law.harvard.edu - 114 comments 362 points
  6. VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas fly.io - 146 comments 261 points
  7. Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences theretowhere.com - 81 comments 227 points
  8. German civil activists win victory in election case against X www.reuters.com - 213 comments 223 points
  9. Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing github.com - 68 comments 223 points
  10. Copilot stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from GitHub - 2023 github.com - 99 comments 221 points
  11. Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams www.bbc.co.uk - 88 comments 211 points
  12. A brief history of code signing at Mozilla hearsum.ca - 67 comments 194 points
  13. U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts www.washingtonpost.com - 702 comments 192 points
  14. Kokoro WebGPU: Real-time text-to-speech 100% locally in the browser huggingface.co - 41 comments 187 points
  15. Three-nanite: Unreal Nanite in Three.js github.com - 31 comments 186 points
  16. Stop using zip codes for geospatial analysis - 2019 carto.com - 118 comments 156 points
  17. Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math www.nature.com - 155 comments 141 points
  18. The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency ieeexplore.ieee.org - 182 comments 139 points
  19. Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds theconversation.com - 22 comments 133 points
  20. A 16TB Mirror of Data.gov on Source.Coop source.coop - 18 comments 131 points
  21. Radiation belts detected around Earth after solar storm www.sciencealert.com - 51 comments 122 points
  22. Show HN: ExpenseOwl – Simple, self-hosted expense tracker github.com - 40 comments 111 points
  23. Baltic countries disconnect from the Russian power grid baltic-grid.sympower.net - 59 comments 108 points
  24. Ketamine for Depression: How It Works - 2024 - video www.yalemedicine.org - 70 comments 95 points
  25. The Age of Agent Experience stytch.com - 38 comments 93 points
  26. Estonia to disconnect from the Russian-run electricity network on Saturday elering.ee - 76 comments 92 points
  27. When Louis Armstrong conquered Chicago www.honest-broker.com - 10 comments 92 points
  28. How to help us build open source Pebble software ericmigi.com - 33 comments 90 points
  29. Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying www.theverge.com - 2 comments 88 points
  30. DOGE member previously fired by cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets www.bloomberg.com - 54 comments 77 points