top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-01

A Letter to the American People

https://18f.org/

2 years ago

The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks

https://varun.ch/posts/videowall/

2 years ago

GSA Eliminates 18F

https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/gsa-eliminates-18f/403400/

2 years ago

China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-ai-us-travel-advisory-ff248349

2 years ago

GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)

https://wildfirelabs.substack.com/p/the-100-trillion-disruption-the-unforeseen

2 years ago

A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

https://twitter.com/SollenbergerRC/status/1895609294810464390

2 years ago

Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

https://blog.diego.dev/posts/firefox-sync-server/

2 years ago

Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market

https://www.swapfest.berlin/

2 years ago

The housing theory of everything (2021)

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43223162

2 years ago

Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone

https://bengarcia.dev/making-o1-o3-and-sonnet-3-7-hallucinate-for-everyone

2 years ago

Windows NT for GameCube/Wii

https://github.com/Wack0/entii-for-workcubes

2 years ago

Zen 5's AVX-512 Frequency Behavior

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/zen-5s-avx-512-frequency-behavior

2 years ago

Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing

https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/firefly-blue-ghost-mission-1-lunar-landing/

2 years ago

Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code

https://ghuntley.com/tradecraft/

2 years ago

Xcode constantly phones home

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/2/5.html?__readwiseLocation=

2 years ago

A Map of Python

https://fi-le.net/pypi/

2 years ago

Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?

https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/why_cant_we_screenshot_frames_from_drm-protected_video

2 years ago

Effective Rust (2024)

https://www.lurklurk.org/effective-rust/title-page.html

2 years ago

Euclid finds complete Einstein Ring in NGC galaxy

https://www.euclid-ec.org/einstein-ring-in-ngc-6505/

2 years ago

Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008)

https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-license-agreement/

2 years ago

Efabless – Shutdown Notice

https://efabless.com/notice

2 years ago

Become a sponsor to Servo

https://github.com/sponsors/servo

2 years ago

Intel delays $28B Ohio chip fabs to 2030

https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-delays-28-billion-ohio-chip-factory-2030-local-media-reports-2025-02-28/

2 years ago

The cost of Go's panic and recover

https://jub0bs.com/posts/2025-02-28-cost-of-panic-recover/

2 years ago

Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

https://substack.com/home/post/p-158101095

2 years ago

GrapheneOS blocked exploitation of 3 Android zero-days used by Cellebrite

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114081753914226921

2 years ago

Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting

https://amitp.blogspot.com/2025/02/emacs-tree-sitter-custom-highlighting.html

2 years ago

Abusing C to implement JSON parsing with struct methods

https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/json-parser-in-c-with-methods/

2 years ago

Show HN: I took over Painteresque, a 14 year old Objective-C app and rebuilt it

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/painteresque-photo-to-sketch/id6742038583

2 years ago

18F GitHub Repositories

https://github.com/18f

2 years ago

When eBPF pt_regs reads return garbage on the latest Linux kernels, blame Fred

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/ebpf-pt-regs-error-on-linux-blame-fred/

2 years ago

Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00264-3

2 years ago

Open AI in Trouble

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openai-in-deep-trouble

2 years ago

'We stand with Ukraine for as long as it may take' – Keir Starmer tells Zelensky

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn5220x56pqt

2 years ago

BMW Group Product Catalog–Historic Models

https://www.bmwgroup-classic.com/en/history/historic-modeloverview-bmw.html

2 years ago

Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing program at IRS

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/musk-close-irs-free-filing-system

2 years ago

Norwegian fuel supplier refuses U.S. warships over Ukraine

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fuel-supplier-refuses-u-s-warships-over-ukraine/

2 years ago

OpenGL to WASM, learning from my mistakes

https://uds5501.github.io/mindpalace/2025/03/01/opengl-webgl-porting.html

2 years ago

What is vibe coding? How creators are building software with no coding knowledge

https://alitu.com/creator/workflow/what-is-vibe-coding/

2 years ago

FAA targeting Verizon contract in favor of SpaceX

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/26/musk-starlink-doge-faa-verizon/

2 years ago

Cuts to US national parks and forests met with backlash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx7kez4vx2o

2 years ago

Federal spending is stable over time

https://lbo-news.com/2025/02/16/no-federal-spending-and-employment-are-not-out-of-control/

2 years ago