Hacker News recap for week 9/2025

From 24/2/2025 to 2/3/2025

Articles #

• Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting 5124 comments in 3 discussions

• Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox 1988 comments in 6 discussions

• GPT-4.5 982 comments in 1 discussion

• Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code 957 comments in 2 discussions

• Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working 889 comments in 1 discussion

• Microsoft is killing Skype 656 comments in 1 discussion

• Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US 719 comments in 2 discussions

• Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion 562 comments in 1 discussion

• Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone 538 comments in 1 discussion

• GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024) 896 comments in 2 discussions

• Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC 517 comments in 1 discussion

• Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge 1249 comments in 4 discussions

• A Letter to the American People 956 comments in 2 discussions

• Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office 469 comments in 1 discussion

• Hyperspace 449 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work? 268 comments

• Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey? 86 comments

• Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using? 70 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers 94 comments

• Tell HN: Substack Is Spamming 7 comments

Releases #

• PyPy v7.3.19: release of Python 2.7, 3.10 and 3.11 beta

Projects #

• EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games 350 comments in 3 discussions

• Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser 334 comments in 2 discussions

• What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP? 128 comments in 2 discussions

• DeepSeek Open Source FlashMLA – MLA Decoding Kernel for Hopper GPUs 106 comments in 1 discussion

• Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents 102 comments in 2 discussions

• Fire-Flyer File System (3FS) 94 comments in 1 discussion

• A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust 84 comments in 2 discussions

• WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari 76 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Libredesk – Open-source customer support desk. Single binary app 75 comments in 1 discussion

• DeepSeek open source DeepEP – library for MoE training and Inference 71 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video] 387 comments in 1 discussion

• TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] 529 comments in 3 discussions

• Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED 163 comments in 1 discussion

• Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video] 187 comments in 3 discussions

• Microsoft is Getting Rusty [video] 81 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Wireless video streaming on POV bike display 21 comments in 1 discussion

• I recreated Shazam's algorithm with Go [video] 16 comments in 1 discussion