Hacker News Daily Top 10 @2025-02-05

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1. El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender
   889 points by smallerfish 1 day ago | 801 comments

2. WikiTok
   802 points by Group_B 6 hours ago | 144 comments

3. Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
   645 points by cryptophreak 8 hours ago | 349 comments

4. Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore
   455 points by shinryuu 9 hours ago | 495 comments

5. The Video Game History Foundation library opens in early access
   350 points by pabs3 23 hours ago | 66 comments

6. A Coup Is in Progress in America
   334 points by maximilianburke 23 hours ago | 158 comments

7. Apple Invites
   319 points by openchampagne 8 hours ago | 529 comments

8. Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut
   296 points by cantaloupe 9 hours ago | 249 comments

9. GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases
   294 points by josefresco 5 hours ago | 245 comments

10. Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
    281 points by healsdata 2 hours ago | 51 comments

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