WikiTok(wikitok.vercel.app)
1295 points by Group_B | 206 comments
WikiTok is a web app that presents random Wikipedia articles in a TikTok-style vertical scrolling feed; the screenshot shows it still loading.
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What's happening inside the NIH and NSF(science.org)
861 points by rrock | 1303 comments
Derek Lowe's In the Pipeline blog post on Science.org about current events and turmoil inside the NIH and NSF, dated February 4, 2025.
El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender(ticotimes.net)
830 points by smallerfish | 654 comments
Tico Times/AFP news article reporting that El Salvador has dropped Bitcoin as legal tender after its experiment with the cryptocurrency failed.
Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools(danieldelaney.net)
773 points by cryptophreak | 395 comments
Blog post by Daniel Delaney arguing that chat is a poor user interface pattern for AI-powered software development tools.
Apple Invites(apple.com)
603 points by openchampagne | 832 comments
Apple Newsroom press release from February 4, 2025 introducing Apple Invites, a new iPhone app for creating and sharing event invitations.
Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored(deno.com)
554 points by healsdata | 146 comments
Deno blog post on its legal fight to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark, arguing Oracle cited Node.js as use of the mark and now wants that disregarded.
Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance(washingtonpost.com)
474 points by jbegley | 459 comments
Washington Post article reporting that Google removed from its AI principles a 2018 pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance.
Infosec 101 for Activists(infosecforactivists.org)
440 points by greenie_beans | 174 comments
Infosec 101 for Activists is a guide by Drew Bjorn, Mark Sherman, and Blake Skinner on digital security practices for US activists attending protests.
Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore(crisesnotes.com)
398 points by shinryuu | 438 comments
A Crisis Notes post on day five of the 2025 Treasury payments crisis, reporting that DOGE-linked staff's access to Treasury payment systems went beyond read-only.
Open Deep Research(github.com)
367 points by transpute | 70 comments
GitHub directory in Hugging Face's smolagents repo containing an open-source Open Deep Research agent example, with scripts, analysis notebook, and run script.
The Video Game History Foundation library opens in early access(gamehistory.org)
344 points by pabs3 | 63 comments
Blog post by Phil Salvador announcing the Video Game History Foundation's digital library opening in early access, free for everyone.
Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig(gist.github.com)
322 points by todsacerdoti | 237 comments
A GitHub Gist by Richard Feldman explaining why the Roc programming language's compiler is being rewritten from Rust in Zig.
America desperately needs more air traffic controllers(cnn.com)
318 points by mooreds | 573 comments
CNN Business article examining the US shortage of air traffic controllers and why the FAA finds it so difficult to hire and train them.
![Screenshot of govinfo.gov: Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/2/4/b4116c58-d3d1-49f9-afe2-474551c72071.jpg)
DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM(modal.com)
188 points by gk1 | 88 comments
Build a link blog like Simon Willison(xuanwo.io)
179 points by xuanwo | 45 comments
OWASP Non-Human Identities Top 10(owasp.org)
135 points by raskelll | 28 comments
What's Going on at the FBI?(lawfaremedia.org)
102 points by hkhn | 52 comments
Microsoft Is Dead (2007)(paulgraham.com)
97 points by aamederen | 145 comments
Tapestry by Iconfactory(usetapestry.com)
84 points by maxmax_ | 42 comments
The Leaning Tower of New York(newyorker.com)
67 points by danso | 33 comments
Reasons Not to Refactor(thoughtbot.com)
65 points by chmaynard | 44 comments
Nontraditional Red Teams(zachholman.com)
64 points by feross | 21 comments
