Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2025-02-17

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1. “A calculator app? Anyone could make that” chadnauseam.com - 347 comments 1369 points
2. Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS caddyserver.com - 179 comments 487 points
3. US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago www.bbc.com - 710 comments 437 points
4. Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died www.eurogamer.net - 86 comments 432 points
5. Uchū – Color scheme for internet lovers uchu.style - 152 comments 363 points
6. Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th old.reddit.com - 181 comments 319 points
7. Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf] rtestardi.github.io - 92 comments 272 points
8. United States Power Outage Map poweroutage.us - 128 comments 268 points
9. 50 Years of Travel Tips kk.org - 192 comments 243 points
10. All Kindles can now be jailbroken old.reddit.com - 81 comments 209 points
11. Vim after Bram: a core maintainer on how they've kept it going thenewstack.io - 66 comments 201 points
12. Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living www.ssp.sh - 69 comments 196 points
13. Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone hforsten.com - 15 comments 165 points
14. YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info old.reddit.com - 109 comments 148 points
15. IPv6 Is Hard techlog.jenslink.net - 231 comments 146 points
16. Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus www.chillyatc.com - 77 comments 139 points
17. Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M www.coindesk.com - 142 comments 131 points
18. Big tech has disrupted the social contract basedfob.substack.com - 85 comments 126 points
19. San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time sfstandard.com - 166 comments 124 points
20. Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy www.bbc.com - 60 comments 115 points
21. Rust Is Eating JavaScript (2023) leerob.com - 220 comments 113 points
22. Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016) simplyfabulicious.wordpress.com - 70 comments 107 points
23. Why I'm leaving Elm (2020) lukeplant.me.uk - 79 comments 95 points
24. Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube surasshu.com - 80 comments 92 points
25. Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff meeting www.theguardian.com - 128 comments 89 points
26. Musk's DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS www.washingtonpost.com - 24 comments 88 points
27. Does or did COBOL default to 1875-05-20 for corrupt or missing dates? retrocomputing.stackexchange.com - 118 comments 86 points
28. Why is there a screen that says "It is now safe to turn off your computer"? (2016) devblogs.microsoft.com - 74 comments 74 points
29. Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Software Defined Radio www.tomshardware.com - 33 comments 73 points
30. Statement or eyesore? Japan's divisive brutalist buildings – in pictures www.theguardian.com - 31 comments 72 points