Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2025-02-19

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1. Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code github.com - 256 comments 1155 points
2. Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme tintin.dlazaro.ca - 143 comments 751 points
3. Pi-hole v6 pi-hole.net - 201 comments 412 points
4. Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations scripton.dev - 122 comments 359 points
5. My LLM codegen workflow harper.blog - 109 comments 342 points
6. A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate www.bitecode.dev - 139 comments 339 points
7. Moving on from 18F ethanmarcotte.com - 177 comments 338 points
8. XOR www.chiark.greenend.org.uk - 51 comments 316 points
9. The ideal candidate will be punched in the stomach www.scottsmitelli.com - 192 comments 295 points
10. Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO www.tomshardware.com - 481 comments 274 points
11. Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration www.cea.fr - 241 comments 271 points
12. South Korean regulator accuses DeepSeek of sharing user data with ByteDance www.bbc.com - 102 comments 200 points
13. AWS paywalling select knowledge base articles, requiring Premium Support plan repost.aws - 70 comments 181 points
14. Svelte 5 is not JavaScript hodlbod.npub.pro - 180 comments 171 points
15. Among top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds www.chemistryworld.com - 100 comments 165 points
16. Reviewing the cryptography used by Signal soatok.blog - 126 comments 157 points
17. By the end of today, NASA's workforce will be about 10 percent smaller arstechnica.com - 185 comments 136 points
18. One year after switching from Java to Go glasskube.dev - 139 comments 130 points
19. Linux’s Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down www.phoronix.com - 83 comments 129 points
20. Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything www.smithsonianmag.com - 36 comments 128 points
21. HP Acquires Humane's AI Software humane.com - 131 comments 126 points
22. Tesla was hit by a wave of protests, sales are crashing, insiders are waking up electrek.co - 88 comments 123 points
23. Try thinking and learning without working memory (2008) sharpbrains.com - 61 comments 123 points
24. File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface filepilot.tech - 59 comments 122 points
25. Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope www.nature.com - 124 comments 115 points
26. USDA fired officials working on bird flu, now trying to rehire them www.nbcnews.com - 36 comments 113 points
27. Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference on April 29 www.meta.com - 58 comments 110 points
28. India's Tata Consultancy Was Gaming the US Visa System www.bloomberg.com - 56 comments 110 points
29. Show HN: Cot: a Rust web framework for lazy developers mackow.ski - 93 comments 99 points
30. Appeasement at Munich snyder.substack.com - 47 comments 92 points