Feb 10, 2025 | Teen on Musk's DOGE team; ChatGPT - oracle or BS machine; blogging's purpose questioned

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 10, 2025.Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981756Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT worldhttps://thebullshitmachines.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989320Why blog if nobody reads it?https://andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992159Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()https://iquilezles.org/articles/gpuconditionals/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42990324LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoninghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03387https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42991676Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makershttps://phys.org/news/2025-01-rwandan-scientists-local-yeast-banana.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42985342Show HN: Searchable library of free audiobookshttps://booksearch.party/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42994440Douglas McIlroy responds to Unix spell article with new implementation detailshttps://twitter.com/abhi9u/status/1887010136155414602https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42962394Advanced Magnet Manufacturing Begins in the United Stateshttps://spectrum.ieee.org/advanced-magnet-manufacturing-in-ushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42991558PhD Knowledge Not Required: A Reasoning Challenge for Large Language Modelshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01584https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992336