top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-06

Mistral OCR

https://mistral.ai/fr/news/mistral-ocr

2 years ago

Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.ads1560?af=R

2 years ago

Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

https://revolt.chat

2 years ago

The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide

https://apnews.com/article/us-air-quality-monitors-8270927bbd0f166238243ac9d14bce03

2 years ago

Succinct data structures

https://blog.startifact.com/posts/succinct/

2 years ago

Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-surprisingly-difficult-mathematical-proof-that-anime-fans-helped-solve/

2 years ago

Buy European Made. Support European Values

https://www.buy-european-made.eu/

2 years ago

Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata

https://google-research.github.io/self-organising-systems/difflogic-ca/?hn

2 years ago

Show HN: CodeTracer – A time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust

https://github.com/metacraft-labs/codetracer

2 years ago

DeepSeek-R1-671B-Q4_K_M with 1 or 2 Arc A770 on Xeon

https://github.com/intel/ipex-llm/blob/main/docs/mddocs/Quickstart/llamacpp_portable_zip_gpu_quickstart.md

2 years ago

Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43285725

2 years ago

Cognitive Behaviors That Enable Self-Improving Reasoners

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01307

2 years ago

Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams

https://driesdepoorter.be/theflemishscrollers/

2 years ago

Exploring Polymorphism in C: Lessons from Linux and FFmpeg's Code Design (2019)

https://leandromoreira.com/2019/08/02/linux-ffmpeg-source-internals-a-good-software-design/

2 years ago

The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

https://verfassungsblog.de/the-authoritarian-regime-survival-guide/

2 years ago

NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-shuts-off-voyager-science-instrument-more-power-cuts-ahead-to-keep-both-probes-going-2000572202

2 years ago

Why I find diffusion models interesting?

https://rnikhil.com/2025/03/06/diffusion-models-eval

2 years ago

Using GRPO to Beat o1, o3-mini and R1 at “Temporal Clue”

https://openpipe.ai/blog/using-grpo-to-beat-o1-o3-mini-and-r1-on-temporal-clue

2 years ago

50 Years in Filesystems: 1984

https://blog.koehntopp.info/2023/05/06/50-years-in-filesystems-1984.html

2 years ago

Finland applies the “Housing First” concept (2020)

https://thebetter.news/housing-first-finland-homelessness/

2 years ago

56k modems relied on digital trunk lines

https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/why-56k-modems-relied-on-digital-phone-lines-you-didnt-know-we-had/

2 years ago

Rayhunter – Rust tool to detect cell site simulators on an orbic mobile hotspot

https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter

2 years ago

Forget Twitter threads and write a blog post instead (2021)

https://kevquirk.com/blog/forget-twitter-threads-write-a-blog-post-instead

2 years ago

How to distrust a CA without any certificate errors

https://dadrian.io/blog/posts/sct-not-after/

2 years ago

Scientists crack how aspirin might stop cancers from spreading

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1d4n119xr7o

2 years ago

AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Intella-Open-Source-LM

2 years ago

The "Take It Down" Act

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/trump-calls-congress-pass-overbroad-take-it-down-act-so-he-can-use-it-censor

2 years ago

Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container OS provisioning system

https://github.com/warewulf/warewulf

2 years ago

Volkswagen seeks to counter rivals with budget EV model

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/vw-introduces-id-every1

2 years ago

A few words about FiveThirtyEight

https://www.natesilver.net/p/a-few-words-about-fivethirtyeight

2 years ago

Show HN: Shelgon: A Framework for Building Interactive REPL Shells in Rust

https://github.com/NishantJoshi00/shelgon

2 years ago

Show HN: Rust Vector and Quaternion Lib

https://github.com/David-OConnor/lin-alg

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-source, native audio turn detection model

https://github.com/pipecat-ai/smart-turn

2 years ago

UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/uk-quietly-scrubs-encryption-advice-from-government-websites/

2 years ago

Exposing Russian EFF Impersonators: The Inside Story on Stealc and Pyramid C2

https://hunt.io/blog/russian-speaking-actors-impersonate-etf-distribute-stealc-pyramid-c2

2 years ago

Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack?

https://blog.det.life/apache-iceberg-the-hadoop-of-the-modern-data-stack-c83f63a4ebb9

2 years ago

Tesla gets more than 20% of parts from Mexico, it will be affected by tariffs

https://electrek.co/2025/03/05/tesla-gets-more-than-20-of-its-parts-from-mexico-yes-it-will-be-affected-by-tariffs/

2 years ago

Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/evolution-of-it-operations

2 years ago

PurrCrypt: Steganographic encryption disguised as pet sounds

https://github.com/vxfemboy/purrcrypt

2 years ago

Bangladesh's factories turn to surveillance, automation; workers feel pressure

https://restofworld.org/2025/bangladesh-garment-factories-automation-surveillance/

2 years ago

Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/insurrection-act-president-trump-20201819.php

2 years ago

Spark-TTS: Text-2-Speech Model Single-Stream Decoupled Tokens [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01710

2 years ago

LFortran compiles PRIMA

https://lfortran.org/blog/2025/03/lfortran-compiles-prima/

2 years ago

How much traffic can a pre-rendered Next.js site handle?

https://martijnhols.nl/blog/how-much-traffic-can-a-pre-rendered-nextjs-site-handle

2 years ago

More thoughts on the 1670 modem's weird noises

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/03/05/1670/

2 years ago

Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)

https://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/bcvi/

2 years ago

Xdg-ninja: checking your $HOME for unwanted files and directories

https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja

2 years ago

Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg8jllq283o

2 years ago

SpaceX launches Starship Flight 8 - Loses attitude control

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-8

2 years ago

A brief meditation on formal systems and lying goblins

https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/a-brief-meditation-on-formal-systems-and-lying-goblins/

2 years ago

A shirt whose price increases by 1 euro with every purchase

https://driesdepoorter.be/shirt/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Best Windows/Linux developer laptop in 2025

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43275014

2 years ago

I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats

https://thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-teach-students-now-i-catch-chatgpt-cheats/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Cenote (YC W25) – Back Office Automation for Medical Clinics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43280836

2 years ago