top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-03-02

Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

https://www.cnn.com/science/live-news/moon-landing-blue-ghost-03-02-25/index.html

2 years ago

Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office

https://twitter.com/EthanEvansVP/status/1895845734177452369

2 years ago

NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable [fixed]

https://www.nslookup.io/domains/www.nih.gov/dns-records/#authoritative

2 years ago

The early days of Linux (2023)

https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/

2 years ago

Solarpunk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk

2 years ago

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice

https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice

2 years ago

Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/01/mark-cuban-offers-to-fund-government-tech-unit-that-was-cut-in-the-middle-of-the-night/

2 years ago

The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three

https://www.righto.com/2025/03/pentium-multiplier-adder-reverse-engineered.html

2 years ago

Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/hallucinations-in-code/

2 years ago

Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet

https://zetier.com/speedrunners-are-vulnerability-researchers/

2 years ago

Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises to not sell their data

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/mozilla_introduces_terms_of_use/

2 years ago

Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/geothermal-power-is-a-climate-moon-shot-beneath-our-feet

2 years ago

Schools reviving shop class

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/high-school-shop-class-revival-24d7a525

2 years ago

Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/03/the-gooey-rubber-thats-slowly-ruining-old-hard-drives/

2 years ago

Trust in Firefox and Mozilla Is Gone – Let's Talk Alternatives

https://boilingsteam.com/poll-trust-in-firefox-mozilla-is-gone/

2 years ago

Why do we have both CSRF protection and CORS?

https://smagin.fyi/posts/cross-site-requests/

2 years ago

Understanding Smallpond and 3FS

https://www.definite.app/blog/smallpond

2 years ago

Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative

https://kaguya.io/

2 years ago

I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare others the pain

https://initialcommit.com/blog/im-making-a-git-game

2 years ago

How Flash games shaped the video game industry (2020)

https://www.flashgamehistory.com/

2 years ago