Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2025-02-09

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1. We are destroying software antirez.com - 402 comments 585 points
2. Jacksonpollock.org (2003) jacksonpollock.org - 84 comments 329 points
3. The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter github.com - 64 comments 250 points
4. Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007) johnkerl.org - 97 comments 198 points
5. Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement github.com - 73 comments 187 points
6. Writing a simple windows driver in Rust scorpiosoftware.net - 72 comments 180 points
7. Generating Voronoi diagrams using Fortune's algorithm redpenguin101.github.io - 15 comments 167 points
8. Is software abstraction killing civilization? (2021) datagubbe.se - 121 comments 152 points
9. Carbon is not a programming language (sort of) herecomesthemoon.net - 66 comments 134 points
10. A tale of distros joining forces for a common goal: reproducible builds [video] video.fosdem.org - 53 comments 121 points
11. The LLMentalist Effect softwarecrisis.dev - 92 comments 104 points
12. Collection of one-file C/C++ libraries with no dependencies, primarily for games github.com - 32 comments 73 points
13. Amazon blew Alexa's shot to dominate AI, according to employees (2024) fortune.com - 55 comments 65 points
14. Retaking the web browser, one small step at a time andregarzia.com - 32 comments 64 points
15. 'The Licensing Racket’ Review: There's a Board for That www.wsj.com - 104 comments 62 points
16. Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer twitter.com - 35 comments 62 points
17. Show HN: Chez Scheme txtar port from Go git.sr.ht - 7 comments 58 points
18. Show HN: FreeDemandLetter – A Weapon for Anyone Who's Sick of Getting Shafted www.freedemandletter.com - 51 comments 54 points
19. Deep Fake Detector Extension by Mozilla Firefox addons.mozilla.org - 30 comments 53 points
20. NIH slashes overhead payments for research www.science.org - 63 comments 46 points
21. Turner, Bird, Eratosthenes: An eternal burning thread www.cambridge.org - 15 comments 45 points
22. Ask HN: why are posts about Elon Musk and DOGE getting quickly flagged? news.ycombinator.com - 36 comments 43 points
23. Ada Gems (2014) www.adacore.com - 7 comments 43 points
24. SilverBullet – note-taking Git-friendly alternative to Logseq and Obsidian silverbullet.md - 8 comments 41 points
25. The Daughter of Dawn [1920] (2024) www.afi.com - 4 comments 39 points
26. Ask HN: Finding interesting work if disenchanted with "big tech" & "VC-backed" news.ycombinator.com - 38 comments 35 points
27. Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts arstechnica.com - 48 comments 32 points
28. Ask HN: Why? news.ycombinator.com - 38 comments 29 points
29. Belief of Aliens Derailed This Internet Pioneer's Career. Now He's Facing Prison www.bloomberg.com - 12 comments 29 points
30. Night owl behavior could hurt mental health, sleep study finds med.stanford.edu - 6 comments 29 points