Feb 8, 2025 | Hector Martin resigns from Linux, VSCode's SSH agent issues, and advice for Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 8, 2025.Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernelhttps://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/7/9https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972062VSCode's SSH agent is bananashttps://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979467Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Linehttps://soranews24.com/2024/12/21/station-of-despair-what-to-do-if-you-get-stuck-at-the-end-of-tokyos-chuo-rapid-line/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42945980U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accountshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970412Hotline for modern Apple systemshttps://github.com/mierau/hotlinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959841Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferenceshttps://theretowhere.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975803Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editinghttps://github.com/c0stya/trrehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974378A brief history of code signing at Mozillahttps://hearsum.ca/posts/history-of-code-signing-at-mozilla/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975436Three-nanite: Unreal Nanite in Three.jshttps://github.com/AIFanatic/three-nanitehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974461The PS2's backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020)https://freelansations.medium.com/the-story-of-the-ps2s-backwards-compatibility-from-the-engineer-who-built-it-ec39cf5a0353https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42931241