Hacker News recap for week 5/2025

From 27/1/2025 to 2/2/2025

Articles #

• OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor 5212 comments in 5 discussions

• The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE 3686 comments in 8 discussions

• Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout 1053 comments in 1 discussion

• A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work 949 comments in 1 discussion

• OpenAI O3-Mini 895 comments in 1 discussion

• String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians' 841 comments in 1 discussion

• We're bringing Pebble back 735 comments in 1 discussion

• CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised 715 comments in 2 discussions

• DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf] 671 comments in 1 discussion

• Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport 669 comments in 1 discussion

• I still like Sublime Text 595 comments in 1 discussion

• OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us 2146 comments in 5 discussions

• US pauses all federal aid and grants 720 comments in 3 discussions

• Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history 471 comments in 2 discussions

• Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence 467 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI? 655 comments

• Ask HN: Promoted, but Career Path Derailed 132 comments

• Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring? 116 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Hacker News will not delete my account – is that legal? 21 comments

• Tell HN: You can enable "Show Dead" in your profile settings 8 comments

Releases #

• Go 1.24 Release Notes

• Nom released 8.0: A byte-oriented, zero-copy, parser combinators Rust library

• Release Less Slow CPP v0.6: Thrust → CUDA → PTX → SASS

Projects #

• Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2 302 comments in 4 discussions

• Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar 259 comments in 6 discussions

• Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch 131 comments in 1 discussion

• Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia 229 comments in 7 discussions

• Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network 163 comments in 4 discussions

• Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic 270 comments in 11 discussions

• Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data 78 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Lume – OS lightweight CLI for MacOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon 74 comments in 1 discussion

• GarminDB 71 comments in 1 discussion

• Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease 119 comments in 6 discussions

Videos #

• Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video] 524 comments in 1 discussion

• Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs 298 comments in 1 discussion

• Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video] 89 comments in 1 discussion

• TCAS Avoided Collision with Army Helicopter over Potomac River [video] 42 comments in 1 discussion

• The PETG adhesive test [video] 35 comments in 1 discussion

• My 20 year journey to make a video game about the Bible 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Marc Andreessen: H1B and immigration [video] 3 comments in 1 discussion