Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2025-02-05

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1. WikiTok wikitok.vercel.app - 170 comments 1012 points
2. Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools danieldelaney.net - 379 comments 724 points
3. Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore www.crisesnotes.com - 544 comments 491 points
4. Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored deno.com - 121 comments 468 points
5. Apple Invites www.apple.com - 673 comments 462 points
6. Beej's Guide to Git beej.us - 108 comments 406 points
7. Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance www.washingtonpost.com - 426 comments 398 points
8. What's happening inside the NIH and NSF www.science.org - 433 comments 368 points
9. GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases www.404media.co - 260 comments 321 points
10. Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut www.bloomberg.com - 254 comments 314 points
11. Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig gist.github.com - 192 comments 300 points
12. Open Deep Research github.com - 51 comments 264 points
13. Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost arstechnica.com - 99 comments 243 points
14. Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website techcrunch.com - 2 comments 237 points
15. America desperately needs more air traffic controllers www.cnn.com - 449 comments 227 points
16. Alibaba/T-HEAD's Xuantie C910: An open source RISC-V core chipsandcheese.com - 67 comments 217 points
17. DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM modal.com - 104 comments 212 points
18. How I use LLMs as a staff engineer www.seangoedecke.com - 162 comments 209 points
19. Jujutsu VCS: Introduction and patterns kubamartin.com - 87 comments 205 points
20. Infosec 101 for Activists infosecforactivists.org - 69 comments 204 points
21. Build a link blog like Simon Willison xuanwo.io - 50 comments 204 points
22. Government planned it 7 years, beavers built a dam in 2 days and saved $1M www.voxnews.al - 89 comments 184 points
23. Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong about.usps.com - 197 comments 183 points
24. Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing radfoam.github.io - 21 comments 181 points
25. Alan Turing's "Delilah" project spectrum.ieee.org - 19 comments 164 points
26. How to scale your model: A systems view of LLMs on TPUs jax-ml.github.io - 22 comments 163 points
27. DeepRAG: Thinking to retrieval step by step for large language models arxiv.org - 23 comments 155 points
28. How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop gamechops.substack.com - 189 comments 147 points
29. OWASP Non-Human Identities Top 10 owasp.org - 33 comments 145 points
30. OmniHuman-1: Human Animation Models omnihuman-lab.github.io - 29 comments 140 points