Hacker News Daily Top 10 @2025-02-08

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1. Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
   1072 points by gameshot911 13 hours ago | 776 comments

2. Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor
   1039 points by throw0101d 12 hours ago | 541 comments

3. Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
   446 points by Mond_ 11 hours ago | 387 comments

4. Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]
   362 points by esbudylin 17 hours ago | 57 comments

5. Announcing the data.gov archive
   358 points by govideo 18 hours ago | 114 comments

6. California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots
   277 points by alexd127 23 hours ago | 165 comments

7. Transformer – Spreadsheet
   244 points by next_xibalba 22 hours ago | 20 comments

8. Copilot stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from GitHub (2023)
   219 points by lknik 13 hours ago | 99 comments

9. Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams
   209 points by inm 14 hours ago | 88 comments

10. Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing
    201 points by c0nstantine 8 hours ago | 63 comments

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