top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-04

Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard

https://www.graz.io/articles/bayleaf-wireless-keyboard

2 years ago

Why fastDOOM is fast

https://fabiensanglard.net/fastdoom/index.html

2 years ago

U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-hitting-brakes-on-flow-of-arms-to-ukraine-980a71d1

2 years ago

Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back

https://www.RestoredCDC.org

2 years ago

ARC-AGI without pretraining

https://iliao2345.github.io/blog_posts/arc_agi_without_pretraining/arc_agi_without_pretraining.html

2 years ago

Let’s code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet and ARP (2016)

https://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-1-ethernet-arp/

2 years ago

Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/politics/federal-employees-return-to-office-problems/index.html

2 years ago

The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died

https://ip4only.me/

2 years ago

Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)

https://reactormag.com/lawrence-of-arabia-paul-atreides-and-the-roots-of-frank-herberts-dune/

2 years ago

Translating natural language to first-order logic for logical fallacy detection

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02318

2 years ago

Satellogic's Open Satellite Feed

https://tech.marksblogg.com/satellogic-open-data-feed.html

2 years ago

Should managers still code?

https://theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/should-managers-still-code

2 years ago

Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/global-sales-of-combustion-engine-cars-have-peaked

2 years ago

Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/cabinet-moves-to-reverse-italys-anti-nuclear-stance

2 years ago

What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/science/cuttlefish-camouflage-huting-crabs.html

2 years ago

DeepSeek's smallpond: Bringing Distributed Computing to DuckDB

https://mehdio.substack.com/p/duckdb-goes-distributed-deepseeks

2 years ago

Solving SICP

https://lockywolf.wordpress.com/2021/02/08/solving-sicp/

2 years ago

Learn How to Break AES

https://davidwong.fr/blockbreakers/

2 years ago

DARPA exploring growing bio structures of "unprecedented size" in microgravity

https://sam.gov/opp/426e5868fcf74dd4ada3768b00b09234/view

2 years ago

Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers

https://github.com/dnakov/anon-kode

2 years ago

Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Perlin Noise for Procedural Gen

https://jdhwilkins.com/mountains-cliffs-and-caves-a-comprehensive-guide-to-using-perlin-noise-for-procedural-generation/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Enhanced Radar (YC W25) – A safety net for air traffic control

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43257323

2 years ago

Body Doubling

https://bodydoubling.com/

2 years ago

The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015)

http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-inspection-paradox-is-everywhere.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Time travel debugging AI for more reliable vibe coding

https://nut.new

2 years ago

DIY "infinity contrast" TV – with 100% recycled parts [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXrn4MqY1Wo

2 years ago

The End of Weather Forecasting

https://thinc.blog/2025/03/03/the-end-of-weather-forecasting/

2 years ago

Tesla electric car sales plunge again in Australia – Model 3 down more than 81 p

https://thedriven.io/2025/03/04/tesla-electric-car-sales-plunge-again-in-australia-model-3-down-more-than-81-per-cent/

2 years ago

Trump administration drawing up plans to provide sanction relief for Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-seeks-plan-possible-russia-sanctions-relief-sources-say-2025-03-03/

2 years ago

Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-introduces-ipad-air-with-powerful-m3-chip-and-new-magic-keyboard/

2 years ago

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/google_android/

2 years ago

Simple Explanation of LLMs

https://blog.oedemis.io/understanding-llms-a-simple-guide-to-large-language-models

2 years ago

Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe?

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/whos-afraid-of-tom-wolfe/

2 years ago

Small German town starts testing geothermal power utilizing new techniques

https://apnews.com/article/energy-transition-gas-geothermal-geretsried-germany-heat-electricity-89a356c70851938963314b3882377247

2 years ago

Canada Retaliates, Puts Tariffs on $107B of US Products

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-03/canada-is-ready-to-retaliate-against-us-tariffs-foreign-minister-joly-says

2 years ago

Canada proposes 100% tariffs on Tesla

https://electrek.co/2025/03/04/canada-proposes-100-tariffs-on-tesla-i-have-an-alternative-open-the-door-to-chinese-evs/

2 years ago

Microsoft's new Dragon Copilot is an AI assistant for healthcare

https://www.theverge.com/news/622528/microsoft-dragon-copilot-ai-healthcare-assistant

2 years ago

Rayhunter: A New Open-Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

2 years ago

Mozilla rewrites Firefox's Terms of Use after user backlash

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozilla-rewrites-firefoxs-terms-of-use-after-user-backlash/

2 years ago

Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

https://pragmar.com/appstat/

2 years ago

Tattoo ink exposure is associated with lymphoma and skin cancers

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-025-21413-3

2 years ago

HYTRADBOI 2025 Conference Postmortem

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/hytradboi-2025-postmortem/

2 years ago

Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator

https://telegraph.13ug1mb.com

2 years ago

Writing small docs is a game changer

https://bufferbuffer.com/why-writing-small-docs-is-a-game-changer/

2 years ago

Performance optimization, and how to do it wrong

https://genna.win/blog/convolution-simd/

2 years ago

Words for the Heart: A treasury of emotions from classical India

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/theres-a-word-for-that/

2 years ago

"Wooly mice" a test run for mammoth gene editing

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/wooly-mice-a-test-run-for-mammoth-gene-editing/

2 years ago

AI models makes precise copies of cuneiform characters

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/03/ai-models-makes-precise-copies-cuneiform-characters

2 years ago

PostmarketOS in 2025-02: MSM89x7 Audio, Modern Xiaomis in Community, New Name

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/04/pmOS-update-2025-02/

2 years ago

Google change is breaking some digital photo frames

https://www.theverge.com/news/623306/google-photos-digital-photo-frame-auto-sync-going-away

2 years ago

DiffRhythm: Fast End-to-End Full-Length Song Generation with Latent Diffusion

https://aslp-lab.github.io/DiffRhythm.github.io/

2 years ago

Doge seeks to cancel lease on key NOAA computing facility

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/doge-noaa-weather-building-leases-trump

2 years ago

Kash Patel Wants to Work from Home for FBI

https://newrepublic.com/post/192150/kash-patel-work-home-fbi-vegas

2 years ago

Elon Musk urges Trump to 'think about' pardoning George Floyd's murderer

https://www.rawstory.com/derek-chauvin-2671265779/

2 years ago

Game Theory and Settling the Debts of the Deceased in Ancient Times

https://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2025/02/game-theory-and-settling-debts-of.html

2 years ago

Tips for using Gemini 2.0 for PDF ingestion

https://www.sergey.fyi/articles/gemini-flash-2-tips

2 years ago

Speeding up computational lithography with the power and parallelism of GPUs

https://semiengineering.com/speeding-up-computational-lithography-with-the-power-and-parallelism-of-gpus/

2 years ago

The British Navy Resisted a Decent Lightning Rod for Decades

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lightning-rod-2671217505

2 years ago

In Severance, Office Perks Couldn't Be More Sinister

https://theoffcut.substack.com/p/severance-office-perks-sinister

2 years ago

Static Site Generator for Emacs Lisp Programmers

https://one.tonyaldon.com/

2 years ago

Father tries to block daughter's euthanasia in landmark Spanish case

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrdqdky9gxo

2 years ago

Why Quantum Engineering Is Emerging as a Distinct Industrial Sector

https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-mechanics

2 years ago

Ask HN: Europeans living in the US, where do you draw the line?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43253842

2 years ago