Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2025-02-04

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1. El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender ticotimes.net - 489 comments 665 points
2. Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants" simonwillison.net - 395 comments 459 points
3. US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek www.404media.co - 266 comments 452 points
4. Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program github.com - 109 comments 451 points
5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025) news.ycombinator.com - 375 comments 394 points
6. Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living www.videotoflip.com - 92 comments 380 points
7. Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies” bsky.app - 106 comments 368 points
8. I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C irreducible.io - 59 comments 266 points
9. AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability github.com - 90 comments 215 points
10. Developer Philosophy qntm.org - 49 comments 206 points
11. A Coup Is in Progress in America www.techdirt.com - 93 comments 204 points
12. AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU techcrunch.com - 173 comments 201 points
13. He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along www.nytimes.com - 179 comments 195 points
14. Bluesky now has 30 million users bsky.app - 166 comments 194 points
15. Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014) www.dezeen.com - 211 comments 193 points
16. Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf] www.govinfo.gov - 143 comments 183 points
17. Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game shalzuth.com - 113 comments 175 points
18. London Street Views (1840) www.davidrumsey.com - 23 comments 165 points
19. Decorator JITs: Python as a DSL eli.thegreenplace.net - 35 comments 155 points
20. Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking arxiv.org - 36 comments 150 points
21. A computer can never be held accountable simonwillison.net - 109 comments 135 points
22. I Conditioned Myself to Fail www.brainbun.com - 67 comments 132 points
23. Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe openeurollm.eu - 55 comments 129 points
24. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025) news.ycombinator.com - 299 comments 128 points
25. The Video Game History Foundation Library Opens in Early Access gamehistory.org - 23 comments 125 points
26. Reverse Engineering Apple's typedstream Format chrissardegna.com - 20 comments 114 points
27. No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming blog.reverberate.org - 67 comments 102 points
28. Show HN: Klarity – Open-source tool to analyze uncertainty/entropy in LLM output github.com - 25 comments 100 points
29. The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG cantoscrolls.com - 38 comments 99 points
30. I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators. Here's what showed up electrek.co - 36 comments 98 points