top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-03-05

Apple M3 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-reveals-m3-ultra-taking-apple-silicon-to-a-new-extreme/

2 weeks ago

1077 upvotes – 1029 comments

Tailscale is pretty useful

https://blog.6nok.org/tailscale-is-pretty-useful/

2 weeks ago

804 upvotes – 404 comments

MacBook Air M4

https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/

2 weeks ago

716 upvotes – 944 comments

Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/apple_reportedly_ipt_complaint/

2 weeks ago

663 upvotes – 274 comments

Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server

https://www.xmox.nl/

2 weeks ago

564 upvotes – 307 comments

Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/brother-accused-of-locking-down-third-party-printer-ink-cartridges-via-firmware-updates-removing-older-firmware-versions-from-support-portals

2 weeks ago

538 upvotes – 334 comments

Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award

https://awards.acm.org/about/2024-turing

2 weeks ago

520 upvotes – 112 comments

The Demoralization is just Beginning

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/03/03/demoralization-is-just-beginning.html

2 weeks ago

496 upvotes – 783 comments

QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b/

2 weeks ago

480 upvotes – 169 comments

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 8 – trainable self-attention

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/03/llm-from-scratch-8-trainable-self-attention

2 weeks ago

380 upvotes – 31 comments

Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics

https://www.mooncake.dev/blog/clickbench-v0.1

2 weeks ago

378 upvotes – 120 comments

NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption”

https://alecmuffett.com/article/112522

2 weeks ago

376 upvotes – 245 comments

Apple unveils new Mac Studio

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-unveils-new-mac-studio-the-most-powerful-mac-ever/

2 weeks ago

348 upvotes – 288 comments

Git without a forge

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/git-no-forge/

2 weeks ago

322 upvotes – 159 comments

NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon

https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-successfully-acquires-gps-signals-on-moon/

2 weeks ago

315 upvotes – 168 comments

Things we've learned about building products

https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/50-things-weve-learned-about-building

2 weeks ago

313 upvotes – 110 comments

Lynx: Open Source Native Cross Platform framework used in TikTok

https://lynxjs.org/blog/lynx-unlock-native-for-more.html

2 weeks ago

249 upvotes – 93 comments

There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-05/there-was-a-texas-lottery-arbitrage

2 weeks ago

244 upvotes – 272 comments

Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks

https://micahflee.com/exploring-the-paramilitary-leaks/

2 weeks ago

239 upvotes – 190 comments

Zentool – AMD Zen Microcode Manipulation Utility

https://github.com/google/security-research/blob/master/pocs/cpus/entrysign/zentool/README.md

2 weeks ago

236 upvotes – 66 comments
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