February 2025 Archive
1.
Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads (timsh.org)
2.
The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE (wired.com)
3.
WikiTok (wikitok.vercel.app)
4.
El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender (ticotimes.net)
5.
CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised (insidemedicine.substack.com)
6.
Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools (danieldelaney.net)
7.
CDC data are disappearing (theatlantic.com)
8.
Macrodata Refinement (lumon-industries.com)
9.
Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program (github.com)
10.
Apple is open sourcing Swift Build (swift.org)
11.
Beej's Guide to Git (beej.us)
12.
Introducing deep research (openai.com)
13.
Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored (deno.com)
14.
What's happening inside the NIH and NSF (science.org)
15.
Apple Invites (apple.com)
16.
Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore (crisesnotes.com)
17.
Waydroid – Android in a Linux container (waydro.id)
18.
Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
19.
Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance (washingtonpost.com)
20.
Show HN: AI Company Researching Agent (github.com)
21.
Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living (videotoflip.com)
22.
US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek (404media.co)
23.
Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space (phiresky.github.io)
24.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)
25.
Kagi – Introducing Fair Pricing (kagi.com)
26.
RLHF Book (rlhfbook.com)
27.
Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants" (simonwillison.net)
28.
How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server (digitalspaceport.com)
29.
AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU (techcrunch.com)
30.
"A computer can never be held accountable" (simonwillison.net)