top 50% 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

The Differences Between Deep Research, Deep Research, and Deep Research

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2025/02/26/deep-research/

2 years ago

Knowing CSS is mastery to front end development

https://helloanselm.com/writings/knowing-css-is-mastery-to-frontend-development

2 years ago

The A.I. Monarchy

https://substack.com/home/post/p-156886169

2 years ago

The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed"

https://www.sensible-med.com/p/the-nih-is-being-slashed-and-burned

2 years ago

Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biUfMZ2dts8

2 years ago

2025 Hiring Pause

https://hr.cornell.edu/2025-hiring-pause

2 years ago

Show HN: Tangled – Git collaboration platform built on atproto

https://blog.tangled.sh/intro

2 years ago

Google's Unannounced Update Scans All Your Photos

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/02/28/google-starts-scanning-your-photos-without-any-warning/

2 years ago

Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/yoke-k8s/

2 years ago

GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"?

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/gpt-45-not-a-frontier-model

2 years ago

I'm done with coding

https://www.neelc.org/2025/03/01/im-done-with-coding/

2 years ago

Mozilla site down due to "overdue hosting payments" [fixed]

https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/114089626244932902

2 years ago

This Month in Ladybird February 2025

https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2025-02-28/

2 years ago

Matt's Script Archive (1995)

https://www.scriptarchive.com/

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi Pico audio player

http://lucstechblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/raspberry-pi-pico-audio-player.html

2 years ago

What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/03/what-if-anything-should-i-do-about-using-mozillas-firefox/

2 years ago

olduse.net

https://olduse.net/

2 years ago

Nebu: A Spreadsheet Editor for Varvara

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/nebu

2 years ago

German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/02/28/german-tourist-held-indefinitely-in-san-diego-area-immigrant-detention-facility

2 years ago

Why Vermont farmers are using urine on their crops

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250227-the-vermont-farmers-using-urine-to-grow-their-crops

2 years ago

Unleashed Recompiled: PC port of the Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed

https://github.com/hedge-dev/UnleashedRecomp

2 years ago

The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (2022)

https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option/

2 years ago

Towards a test suite for TOTP codes

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/towards-a-test-suite-for-totp-codes/

2 years ago

America faces a Trumpian economic slowdown

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/03/02/america-faces-a-trumpian-economic-slowdown

2 years ago

Ask HN: Are you a 40-year old software engineer without a job for > 1 year?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43234513

2 years ago

U.S. halts offensive cyber operations against Moscow

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/01/trump-putin-russia-cyber-offense-cisa/

2 years ago

Show HN: SafeHaven – A Minimal VPN Implementation in Go

https://github.com/kwakubiney/safehaven

2 years ago

CSS Custom Functions are coming

https://www.bram.us/2025/02/09/css-custom-functions-teaser/

2 years ago

Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva Research Initiative

https://www.science.org/content/article/pentagon-guts-national-security-program-harnessed-social-science

2 years ago

NIH insiders reveal process stalling grants

https://bsky.app/profile/jeremymberg.bsky.social/post/3ljflptdcy22r

2 years ago

Show HN: I built a memory-safe web server in Rust

https://www.ferronweb.org/

2 years ago

Show HN: Recommendarr – AI Driven Recommendations Based on Sonarr/Radarr Media

https://github.com/fingerthief/recommendarr

2 years ago

Firefly Aerospace becomes first commercial company to successfully land on moon

https://fireflyspace.com/news/firefly-aerospace-becomes-first-commercial-company-to-successfully-land-on-the-moon/

2 years ago

Passing the Buck: The story of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show collision

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/passing-the-buck-the-story-of-the-2022-wings-over-dallas-air-show-collision-9bbe5947297b

2 years ago

New battery-free technology can power devices using ambient RF signals

https://news.nus.edu.sg/nus-researchers-develop-new-battery-free-technology/

2 years ago

A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust

https://github.com/Shemnei/punktf

2 years ago

Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bTquKjzos

2 years ago

Show HN: Fast Transition from Firefox to Librewolf

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43233245

2 years ago

Show HN: Robyn – “Batman Inspired” Python Web Framework Built with Rust

https://robyn.tech/

2 years ago

Rotors: A practical introduction for 3D graphics (2023)

https://jacquesheunis.com/post/rotors/

2 years ago

The Era of Solopreneurs Is Here

https://manidoraisamy.com/developer-forever/post/the-era-of-solopreneurs-is-here.anc-52867368-2029-4dc5-a7da-ece853a648b5.html

2 years ago

The internet is killing old PC hardware [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE_ePuGAvPM

2 years ago

Tiny Ten DSP-Based HF Transceiver

https://www.janbob.com/electron/TinyTen/TinyTen.htm

2 years ago

ACCESS.bus: The Forgotten USB Competitor

https://tedium.co/2025/02/17/access-bus-i2c-usb-competitor-history/

2 years ago