Feb 4, 2025 | Young engineers support DOGE; El Salvador drops Bitcoin; Httptap monitors Linux HTTP/HTTPS requests

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 4, 2025.The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGEhttps://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910910El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tenderhttps://ticotimes.net/2025/02/02/el-salvador-abandons-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-after-failed-experimenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925210Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux programhttps://github.com/monasticacademy/httptaphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42919909Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for livinghttps://www.videotoflip.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918902I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in Chttps://irreducible.io/blog/my-wasm-interpreter/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918524AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EUhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/ai-systems-with-unacceptable-risk-are-now-banned-in-the-eu/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42916849AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerabilityhttps://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-4xq7-4mgh-gp6whttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42920921Developer Philosophyhttps://qntm.org/devphilohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42920285Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-31/pdf/2025-02116.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925712He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all alonghttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/iowa-identity-theft-sentencing.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918644