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DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1950144 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167087)

Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43164498

DeepSeek open source DeepEP – library for MoE training and Inference https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167373)

Judge: US gov't violated privacy law by disclosing personal data to DOGE https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/judges-block-doge-access-to-personal-data-in-loss-for-trump-administration/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167579)

A new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400M Tesla deal https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305269/tesla-state-department-elon-musk-trump (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167040)

US friendship is in freefall – shredding bonds and cutting lives short https://nypost.com/2025/02/24/opinion/friendship-in-america-is-in-freefall-and-its-killing-us/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166742)

Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone https://discuss.systems/@ricci/114059690609284323 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166830)

It's still worth blogging in the age of AI https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/02/blogging-in-the-age-of-ai (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166761)

US asked to kick UK out of Five Eyes https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366619170/UK-accused-of-political-foreign-cyberattack-on-US-after-serving-secret-snooping-order-on-Apple (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166670)

Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design https://github.com/johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code/blob/main/README.md (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166362)

$1.5B Bybit Hack – How the biggest hack in history happened https://harrydonnelly.substack.com/p/how-the-biggest-crypto-hack-in-history (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43164773)

Show HN: Electro – A hyper-fast Windows image viewer with a built-in terminal https://github.com/pTinosq/Electro (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43164794)

"The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab" – A "Study" https://www.jmspae.se/write-ups/kebabs-train-stations/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43165112)

PEGI amends classifications of 'Balatro' and 'Luck be a Landlord' to PEGI 12 https://pegi.info/news/pegi-complaints-board-amends-classifications-balatro-and-luck-be-landlord-pegi-12 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163521)

Closing the "green gap": energy savings from the math of the landscape function https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/closing-the-green-gap-from-the-mathematics-of-the-landscape-function-to-lower-electricity-costs-for-households/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43164499)

How I recreated Shazam's algorithm with Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0CVCcb0RJM (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43159222)

Behold Modular Forms, the 'Fifth Fundamental Operation' of Math[2023] www.quantamagazine.org/behold-modul... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4316...)

Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking modernistcuisine.com/books/modern... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4315...)

Starship's Eighth Flight Test www.spacex.com/launches/mis... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4316...)

Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device https://github.com/unkyulee/micro-journal (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162283)

What Happened to the N in Restaurateur? https://www.ciachef.edu/blog/what-happened-to-the-n-in-restaurateur/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163466)

Student refines 100-year-old math problem, expanding wind energy possibilities https://www.psu.edu/news/engineering/story/student-refines-100-year-old-math-problem-expanding-wind-energy-possibilities (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162544)

Google Co-Scientist AI fed previous paper with the answer in it https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/22/google-co-scientist-ai-cracks-superbug-problem-in-two-days-because-it-had-been-fed-the-teams-previous-paper-with-the-answer-in-it/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162582)

The Best Way to Use Text Embeddings Portably Is with Parquet and Polars https://minimaxir.com/2025/02/embeddings-parquet/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162995)

RunLLM – The AI Support Engineer https://www.runllm.com/blog/introducing-runllm-the-ai-support-engineer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163307)

Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate https://corporate.watch/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162340)

Flexport Intelligence https://www.flexport.com/technology/flexport-intelligence/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162889)

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-7-sonnet (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163011)

Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle https://bracket.city/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160542)

Parents favor daughters: A meta-analysis of predictors of differential treatment https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fbul0000458 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43161069)

Launch HN: SubImage (YC W25) – See your infra from an attacker's perspective https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43161332

Right to Repair Laws Have Now Been Introduced in All 50 US States https://www.ifixit.com/News/108371/right-to-repair-laws-have-now-been-introduced-in-all-50-us-states (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43161777)

ARPA Is Quietly Funding $50-$65 Community-Owned Fiber to Neglected Neighborhoods https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/24/arpa-is-quietly-funding-cheap-50-65-a-month-community-owned-gigabit-fiber-access-to-long-neglected-neighborhoods/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160196)

MongoDB Announces Acquisition of Voyage AI for $220M investors.mongodb.com/news-release... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4316...)

Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone https://www.ericdaigle.ca/posts/breaking-into-dozens-of-apartments-in-five-minutes/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160884)

Laravel Cloud https://app.laravel.cloud/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160612)

Larry Ellison's Half-Billion-Dollar Quest to Change Farming Has Been a Bust https://www.wsj.com/tech/larry-ellison-hawaii-greenhouse-farm-food-2d260e1f (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43161188)

Introduction to Stochastic Calculus https://jiha-kim.github.io/posts/introduction-to-stochastic-calculus/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160779)

The Wrongs of Thomas More (Wrong 5) https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/the-wrongs-of-thomas-more-wrong-5 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158442)

Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation [pdf] (2023) https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158529)

Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt https://www.uneed.best/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43159539)

Show HN: RadiaCode – Python Library for RadiaCode-10x Radiation Detectors https://github.com/cdump/radiacode (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158097)

'Impossible-to-Hack' Security Turns Out to Be No Security at All https://jltee.substack.com/p/new-zealand-companys-impossible-to-hack-security (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43159544)

Grok 3 is highly vulnerable to indirect prompt injection https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/23/grok-3-indirect-prompt-injection/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158562)

Show HN: I scrape Steam data every month and it's yours to download for free https://www.gginsights.io/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158425)

What's New in Emacs 30.1? https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-301 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158164)

Apache NetBeans 25 https://github.com/apache/netbeans/releases/tag/25 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158318)

i built an app to stop me doomscrolling by literally touching grass https://touchgrass.now/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158660)

Is Ketamine Neurotoxic? https://desmolysium.com/ketamineneurotoxic/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158292)

Computer Simulation of Neural Networks Using Spreadsheets (2018) https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00018 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43155881)