Feb 7, 2025 | Simulating water, Reasoning LLMs, SQLite disk page explorer

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 7, 2025.Simulating water over terrainhttps://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/simulating-water-over-terrain.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42962508Understanding Reasoning LLMshttps://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-reasoning-llmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966720Show HN: SQLite disk page explorerhttps://github.com/QuadrupleA/sqlite-page-explorerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965198Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salthttps://spectrum.ieee.org/aluminum-batteryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42960907OpenLDK: A Java JIT compiler and runtime in Common Lisphttps://github.com/atgreen/openldkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42947447Transformer – Spreadsheethttps://www.byhand.ai/p/transformer-spreadsheethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968547Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos"https://thestrikeagency.com/kaos/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42963346Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guidehttps://spillhistorie.no/qa-with-game-designer-steve-meretzky/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946752Search PPP Loans by Zip Codehttps://ppploanmap.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969334Announcing the data.gov archivehttps://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970039