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

Apple's Software Quality Crisis

https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-03-02-apple-quality

2 years ago

Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/flow-wins-best-animated-feature-film-oscar-2025-03-03/

2 years ago

Repairable Flatpack Toaster

https://www.kaseyhou.com/#/repairable-flatpack-toaster/

2 years ago

Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll

https://focusfurnace.com/scroll_buddy.html

2 years ago

TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-chip-maker-tsmc-expected-to-announce-100-billion-investment-in-u-s-02a44399

2 years ago

MIT 6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models

https://diffusion.csail.mit.edu

2 years ago

The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils (2022)

https://notes.stlartsupply.com/the-golden-age-of-japanese-pencils-1952-1967/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243024

2 years ago

SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale

https://rivet.gg/blog/2025-02-16-sqlite-on-the-server-is-misunderstood

2 years ago

The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/02/the-top-10/

2 years ago

Youth and what happens when it's gone

https://tolstoyan.substack.com/p/youth

2 years ago

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, has died

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/03/nx-s1-5316163/james-harrison-blood-donor

2 years ago

How the U.K. broke its own economy

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/uk-needs-abundance/681877/

2 years ago

About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/About-Google-Chrome%27s-%22This-extension-may-soon-no-longer-be-supported%22

2 years ago

Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit

https://icode4.coffee/?p=1081

2 years ago

The power of interning: making a time series database smaller

https://gendignoux.com/blog/2025/03/03/rust-interning-2000x.html

2 years ago

Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair

https://mikelikejordan.bearblog.dev/how-math-academy-pulled-me-out-of-the-valley-of-despair/

2 years ago

Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP

https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow

2 years ago

Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers [video]

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5381-comparing-fuchsia-components-and-linux-containers/

2 years ago

Show HN: Agents.json – OpenAPI Specification for LLMs

https://github.com/wild-card-ai/agents-json

2 years ago

An Attempt to Catch Up with JIT Compilers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20547

2 years ago

Show HN: Knowledge graph of restaurants and chefs, built using LLMs

https://theophilecantelob.re/blog/2025/foudinge/

2 years ago

Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/technology/anthropic-ai-fund-raising-61-billion.html

2 years ago

The Internals of PostgreSQL

http://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html

2 years ago

Reintroductions of beavers into the wild in several parts of England

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/beavers-are-coming-home

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243022

2 years ago

Go-attention: A full attention mechanism and transformer in pure Go

https://github.com/takara-ai/go-attention

2 years ago

Sayonara, R35: Nissan Japan has stopped taking orders for the GT-R

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercars/sayonara-r35-nissan-japan-has-stopped-taking-orders-gt-r

2 years ago

On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1972)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/361598.361623

2 years ago

Discovery of fresco portraying Dionysian mysteries at Pompeii

https://pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/pompeii-discovery-of-a-room-with-frescoes-depicting-the-initiation-into-the-mysteries-and-the-dionysiac-procession/

2 years ago

BM25 in PostgreSQL

https://blog.vectorchord.ai/vectorchord-bm25-revolutionize-postgresql-search-with-bm25-ranking-3x-faster-than-elasticsearch

2 years ago

Losing a 5-year-long Illinois FOIA lawsuit for database schemas

https://mchap.io/losing-a-5yr-long-illinois-foia-lawsuit-for-database-schemas.html

2 years ago

Show HN: FlakeUI

https://github.com/tearflake/flake-ui

2 years ago

The “strategic reserve” exposes crypto as the scam it always was

https://alexkolchinski.com/2025/03/03/the-strategic-reserve-exposes-crypto-as-the-scam-it-always-was/

2 years ago

Linux laptop maker called me a Zombie

https://thelibre.news/this-linux-laptop-maker-called-me-a-zombie/

2 years ago

Chrome Returns 206 when the Server Returns 403

https://aoli.al/blogs/chrome-bug/

2 years ago

Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers

https://sonauto.ai/developers

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-source Deep Research across workplace applications

https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx

2 years ago

Solving First Order Differential Equations with Julia

https://ritog.github.io/posts/1st-order-DE-julia/1st_order_DE_julia.html

2 years ago

One Logo, Three Companies

https://estilofilos.blogspot.com/2016/03/one-logo-three-companies-i.html

2 years ago

Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/former_sap_cto_payout/

2 years ago

Ereader Easy Swedish

https://ereader-swedish.fly.dev/

2 years ago

Amazon’s delivery drones are grounded in College Station, Texas

https://www.wired.com/story/texas-amazon-drones-stop-flying/

2 years ago

Urban Dead is shutting down

https://urbandead.com/shutdown.html

2 years ago

PFAS in fertilisers blamed for killing livestock in Texas and wreaking havoc

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/pfas-in-fertilisers-blamed-for-killing-livestock-in-texas-and-wreaking-havoc/4020874.article

2 years ago

Robust Wavefront OBJ model parsing in C

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/03/02/

2 years ago

AgenticMemory: Zettelkasten inspired agentic memory system

https://github.com/WujiangXu/AgenticMemory

2 years ago

Permacomputing

https://permacomputing.net/

2 years ago

First flat telescope lens that captures color, detecting light from stars

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-flat-telescope-lens-capture-faraway.html

2 years ago

Launch HN: Cuckoo (YC W25) – Real-time AI translator for global teams

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245153

2 years ago

Regulatory gridlock in the U.S. risks losing the drone arms race

https://seanobannon.substack.com/p/drone-delivery-for-defense

2 years ago

Some thoughts on autoregressive models

https://wonderfall.dev/autoregressive/

2 years ago

Tianjin robot incident raises alarm over public safety and robotics

https://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=236533

2 years ago

Treasury Announces Suspension of Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0038

2 years ago

The weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/mar/03/ghost-hunting-pornography-and-interactive-art-the-weird-afterlife-of-xbox-kinect

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-Source Windows AI assistant that uses Word, Excel through COM

https://github.com/Alkali-Sim/SmartestKid

2 years ago

DOGE's AI use in government doesn't add up

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/03/doge-ai-government-automation/

2 years ago

Phlex for Rails Emails: Action Mailer Without ERB

https://camillovisini.com/coding/phlex-for-rails-emails-action-mailer-without-erb

2 years ago

The Day the Muse Died

https://johnpweiss.com/blog/199949/the-day-the-muse-died

2 years ago

A New AI Worry: Many Young Coders No Longer Know How Their Code Works

https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/a-new-ai-worry-many-young-coders-no-longer-know-how-their-code-really-works/91151569

2 years ago

Cautious Optimizers: Improving Training with One Line of Code

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16085

2 years ago

Mozilla reverses course on its terms of use

https://lwn.net/Articles/1012788/

2 years ago