top 50% 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 years ago

Tailscale is pretty useful

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

2 years ago

MacBook Air M4

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

2 years ago

Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order

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

2 years ago

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

https://www.xmox.nl/

2 years ago

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 years ago

Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award

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

2 years ago

The Demoralization is just Beginning

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

2 years ago

QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics

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

2 years ago

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

https://alecmuffett.com/article/112522

2 years ago

Apple unveils new Mac Studio

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

2 years ago

Git without a forge

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

2 years ago

NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon

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

2 years ago

Things we've learned about building products

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

2 years ago

Lynx: Open Source Native Cross Platform framework used in TikTok

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

2 years ago

There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage

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

2 years ago

Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks

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

2 years ago

Zentool – AMD Zen Microcode Manipulation Utility

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

2 years ago

My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)

https://fangpenlin.com/posts/2024/12/30/my-beancount-books-are-95-percent-automatic/

2 years ago

Trump's 'Crypto Reserve' Is Such Brazen Corruption

https://zeteo.com/p/trumps-crypto-reserve-is-such-brazen

2 years ago

MS Paint IDE

https://ms-paint-i.de/

2 years ago

uBlock Origin forcefully disabled by Chrome

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1j2ec76/ublock_origin_is_gone/

2 years ago

Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/jeep-owners-fed-up-with-in-car-pop-up-ads/

2 years ago

Skynet won and destroyed humanity

https://dmathieu.com/en/opinions/skynet-won/

2 years ago

The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/technology/digg-alexis-ohanian-kevin-rose.html

2 years ago

Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protection to European allies

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-macron-address-nation-late-wednesday-2025-03-05/

2 years ago

Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters

https://drubinstein.github.io/pokerl/

2 years ago

'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's undersea cables under attack?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/mar/05/shadow-fleets-subaquatic-sabotage-europe-undersea-internet-cables-under-attack

2 years ago

Roald Dahl on the death of his daughter (2015)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/roald-dahls-darkest-hour/

2 years ago

SMBC Parts Ways with Hiveworks

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/announcement-2

2 years ago

Show HN: Leaflet.pub – a web app for creating and sharing rich documents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43269928

2 years ago

Best Buy and Target CEOs say prices are about to go up because of tariffs

https://www.theverge.com/news/624254/best-buy-target-raise-prices-tariffs

2 years ago

NetBSD on a JavaStation

https://fatsquirrel.org/oldfartsalmanac/netbsd-on-a-javastation/

2 years ago

Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat

https://delta.chat/

2 years ago

We're Charging Our Cars Wrong

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ev-charging-2671242103

2 years ago

The features of Python's help() function

https://www.pythonmorsels.com/help-features/

2 years ago

"Big 3" science fiction magazines including Asimov's and Analog acquired

https://jasonsanford.substack.com/p/genre-grapevine-for-last-half-of

2 years ago

Tmux – The Essentials (2019)

https://davidwinter.dev/2019/03/14/tmux-the-essentials

2 years ago

Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)

https://time.com/6092844/peter-thiel-power-biography-the-contrarian/

2 years ago

Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs

https://news.mit.edu/2025/study-healing-ozone-hole-global-reduction-cfcs-0305

2 years ago

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore's Law

https://spectrum.ieee.org/euv-light-source

2 years ago

The Dead Planet Theory

https://arealsociety.substack.com/p/the-dead-planet-theory

2 years ago

How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola, M&M's is smuggled from war-torn Sudan

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250304-how-a-key-ingredient-in-coca-cola-mms-is-smuggled-from-war-torn-sudan/

2 years ago

After 120 years, Yellowstone bison are a single breeding population

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-years-efforts-yellowstone-bison-population.html

2 years ago

Ultrasonic deep drawing cuts friction by 20%, extends tool lifespan

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-ultrasonic-deep-friction-tool-lifespan.html

2 years ago

GSA prepares to sell over 400 federal properties

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/04/gsa-sell-400-federal-properties-00212071

2 years ago

Private employers added just 77,000 jobs in February, far below expectations

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/adp-jobs-report-february-2025-.html

2 years ago

Intel the CPU Company

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/intel-the-cpu-company

2 years ago

Renault Is Giving Away Its Proprietary Tech to Stop EV Fires Quickly

https://www.thedrive.com/news/renault-is-giving-away-its-proprietary-tech-to-stop-ev-fires-quickly

2 years ago

Zig 0.14.0 Release Notes

https://ziglang.org/download/0.14.0/release-notes.html

2 years ago

Dear Apple: Add "Disappearing Messages" to iMessage

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/03/01/dear-apple-add-disappearing-messages-to-imessage-right-now/

2 years ago

Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/microsoft-publisher-will-no-longer-be-supported-after-october-2026-ee6302a2-4bc7-4841-babf-8e9be3acbfd7

2 years ago

16-Bit to 1-Bit: Visual KV Cache Quantization for Efficient Multimodal LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14882

2 years ago

Brother refutes "false claims" that it bricked printers using third-party ink

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/

2 years ago

A game of learning your homelab into a cyberpunk mystery adventure

https://github.com/Fimeg/NetworkChronicles

2 years ago

Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70%

https://electrek.co/2025/03/05/tesla-tsla-sales-crash-continues-in-europe-with-germany-down-70/

2 years ago

The Strategic Crypto Swindle

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/strategic-cryptocurrency-reserve-swindle/681917/

2 years ago

Explore Sutro Tower

https://explore.sutrotower.com

2 years ago

They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed

https://www.theguardian.com/global/ng-interactive/2025/mar/05/zizians-artificial-intelligence

2 years ago

US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/05/us-stops-sharing-intelligence-on-russia-with-ukraine

2 years ago

Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/two-americas-one-bank-branch/

2 years ago

NASA Turns Off 2 Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2025/03/05/nasa-turns-off-2-voyager-science-instruments-to-extend-mission/

2 years ago

Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian Acquire Digg

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/kevin-rose-and-alexis-ohanian-acquire-digg/

2 years ago

US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine

https://www.ft.com/content/c58fccea-00c4-4fad-bc0a-0185b7415579

2 years ago

Zen and the Art of Microcode Hacking

https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842357473280/zen-and-the-art-of-microcode-hacking

2 years ago

The Rise of the Brutal American

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/trump-and-vance-shattered-europes-illusions-about-america/681925/

2 years ago

Leaked VA memo calls for up to 83,000 layoffs to reduce workforce to 2019 levels

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/03/va-plans-lay-many-83000-employees-year/403477/

2 years ago

The Nightmare Bicycle

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/03/03/the-nightmare-bicycle.html

2 years ago