Hacker News top 30 - 2025-02-21
- DOGE has ‘god mode’ access to government data www.theatlantic.com - 1559 comments 806 points
- Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco vincentwoo.com - 137 comments 478 points
- After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem www.quantamagazine.org - 117 comments 413 points
- DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards www.wired.com - 527 comments 308 points
- FAQ on Microsoft’s topological qubit thing scottaaronson.blog - 65 comments 303 points
- OpenEuroLLM openeurollm.eu - 156 comments 293 points
- Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control www.figure.ai - 149 comments 261 points
- Obsidian is now free for work obsidian.md - 15 comments 246 points
- Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models sshh12–llm-backdoor.modal.run - 56 comments 224 points
- Treasury agrees to block DOGE’s access to personal taxpayer data at IRS www.washingtonpost.com - 94 comments 217 points
- The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025 www.amazon.com - 185 comments 208 points
- Running Pong in 240 browser tabs eieio.games - 23 comments 191 points
- AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services xuanwo.io - 82 comments 180 points
- New horizons for Julia lwn.net - 46 comments 179 points
- Customizable HTML Select developer.chrome.com - 115 comments 177 points
- When your last name is Null, nothing works www.wsj.com - 184 comments 174 points
- Texas banned abortion, then sepsis rates soared www.propublica.org - 82 comments 162 points
- A cryptocurrency scam that turned a small town against itself www.nytimes.com - 111 comments 157 points
- TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end ssloy.github.io - 49 comments 156 points
- I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares newslttrs.com - 68 comments 146 points
- Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering github.com - 33 comments 145 points
- DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days github.com - 16 comments 133 points
- DOGE Said It Cut $232M from Social Security. It Was Only About Half a Mil theintercept.com - 31 comments 131 points
- Obsidian is now free for work obsidian.md - 73 comments 129 points
- You can’t build a moat with AI - redux frontierai.substack.com - 96 comments 127 points
- Introduction to CUDA programming for Python developers www.pyspur.dev - 50 comments 126 points
- Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson www.thealgorithmicbridge.com - 194 comments 124 points
- RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports github.com - 40 comments 109 points
- Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived - 2022 popzazzle.blogspot.com - 48 comments 107 points
- Netflix to invest $1B in Mexico over next 4 years www.reuters.com - 89 comments 105 points
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