Hacker News recap for week 8/2025

From 17/2/2025 to 23/2/2025

Articles #

• DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data 1925 comments in 4 discussions

• DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes 1547 comments in 7 discussions

• Grok3 Launch [video] 1351 comments in 1 discussion

• "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order 15637 comments in 9 discussions

• Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 2246 comments in 10 discussions

• Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer? 844 comments in 1 discussion

• 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised 830 comments in 1 discussion

• Apple Debuts iPhone 16e 1835 comments in 2 discussions

• It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds 1061 comments in 2 discussions

• X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links 788 comments in 2 discussions

• Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport 945 comments in 2 discussions

• San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time 695 comments in 1 discussion

• DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards 915 comments in 3 discussions

• Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts 644 comments in 1 discussion

• AI killed the tech interview. Now what? 628 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025) 704 comments

• Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe? 204 comments

• Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver? 167 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Five random IndieWeb blog links on your terminal 11 comments

• Tell HN: It is possible to have "breakpoint groups" 1 comment

Projects #

• DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days 231 comments in 1 discussion

• WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops 241 comments in 6 discussions

• BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English 283 comments in 4 discussions

• Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby 154 comments in 1 discussion

• Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker 146 comments in 1 discussion

• Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought 75 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers 73 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Jq-Like Tool for Markdown 73 comments in 1 discussion

• Simplewall Has Been Discontinued 65 comments in 2 discussions

• A password generator inspired by the Xkcd password spec 53 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Software engineers would rather quit than return to the office [video] 35 comments in 1 discussion

• Fish-delousing underwater laser (2018) [video] 32 comments in 1 discussion

• Algorithms are breaking how we think [video] 9 comments in 1 discussion

• Policing the internet in Germany, where hate speech, insults are a crime [video] 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Shenzhen: China's City of the Future [video] 7 comments in 1 discussion

• China's Take on Elon Musk's DOGE (using AI to modify a movie scene) [video] 3 comments in 1 discussion

• What Happened (Dot-com bubble) – 2001 Documentary [video] 2 comments in 1 discussion