top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-07

Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control

2 years ago

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00648-5

2 years ago

Introducing command And commandfor In HTML

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/command-and-commandfor

2 years ago

Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI

https://techstartups.com/2025/03/07/microsoft-is-plotting-a-future-without-openai/

2 years ago

Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-naturally-molecule-rivals-ozempic-weight.html

2 years ago

Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague

https://theins.press/en/inv/279034

2 years ago

Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00735

2 years ago

Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43291922

2 years ago

3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/so-powerful-its-kind-of-ridiculous

2 years ago

Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment

https://github.com/directvt/vtm

2 years ago

Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/07/athena-spacecraft-mission-dead

2 years ago

Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere

https://pola.rs/posts/polars-cloud-what-we-are-building/

2 years ago

Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YIR39KeJMk

2 years ago

Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6yg204pvmo

2 years ago

Bye, Prime

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/03/06/Canceled-Prime

2 years ago

Optimistic Locking in B-Trees

https://cedardb.com/blog/optimistic_btrees/

2 years ago

How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? (2023)

https://www.freaktakes.com/p/how-did-places-like-bell-labs-know

2 years ago

Bring Back Shortwave

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/bring-back-shortwave/

2 years ago

Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology

https://engineering.fb.com/2025/01/21/production-engineering/strobelight-a-profiling-service-built-on-open-source-technology/

2 years ago

Matters Computational (2010) [pdf]

https://www.jjj.de/fxt/fxtbook.pdf

2 years ago

Woman's DNA discovered in 20k year old deer-tooth pendant (2023)

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/pendant-ancient-dna-1.6832580

2 years ago

Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global

2 years ago

GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet

https://cybercultural.com/p/geocities-1995/

2 years ago

Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market

https://nodumbideas.com/p/betting-on-the-pope-was-the-original

2 years ago

Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what's in it

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-laser-based-device-scan-sample.html

2 years ago

Bel in Clojure (2022)

https://stopa.io/post/290

2 years ago

Mysterious tunnels sketched by Leonardo may have been found

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/science/leonardo-da-vinci-sforza-castle-tunnels/index.html

2 years ago

Letta: Letta is a framework for creating LLM services with memory

https://github.com/letta-ai/letta

2 years ago

AMD YOLO

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/03/08/AMD-YOLO.html

2 years ago

The necessity of Nussbaum

https://aeon.co/essays/why-reading-martha-c-nussbaums-philosophy-is-pure-pleasure

2 years ago

Zig's dot star syntax (value.*)

https://www.openmymind.net/Zig-Dot-Star-Syntax/

2 years ago

HyperShell X Outdoor PowerSuit Exoskeleton

https://hypershell.tech/en-us

2 years ago

Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-major-government-tech-projects-efficiency/

2 years ago

Rules to improve air quality are under attack

https://www.heatpumped.org/p/you-put-your-pitchfork-away-already

2 years ago

Great software design looks underwhelming

https://www.seangoedecke.com/great-software-design/

2 years ago

Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation

https://motorillustrated.com/suspicious-tesla-sales-surge-triggers-canadian-government-investigation/149947/

2 years ago

How to Build a Thousand-Year-Old Tree

https://www.noemamag.com/how-to-build-a-thousand-year-old-tree/

2 years ago

Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/shares-of-starlinks-european-competitor-have-tripled-ceo-says-it-can-do-the-job-in-ukraine-f5e4e1ac

2 years ago

Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener

https://ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(25)00017-6/abstract?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

2 years ago

How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars

https://www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-dmv-employee-sells-towed-cars

2 years ago

Rust inadequate for text compression codecs?

https://palaiologos.rocks/posts/rust-codecs/

2 years ago

Apple has 90 days to allow app sideloading in Brazil

https://www.theverge.com/news/625753/apple-ios-alternative-app-stores-sideloading-brazil

2 years ago

Virtual Punch Card Creator

https://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/

2 years ago

'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability

https://www.quantamagazine.org/next-level-chaos-traces-the-true-limit-of-predictability-20250307/

2 years ago

Sublogic Flight Simulator

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/sublogic-flight-simulator

2 years ago

When Crocodiles Attack: The Ramree Island Massacre (2013)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-ramree-island-massacre

2 years ago

What if America turned off Britain's weapons?

https://www.reaction.life/p/what-if-america-turned-off-britains

2 years ago

US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report

https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/us-deploys-ai-to-revoke-visas-of-foreign-nationals-supporting-hamas-report-19570130.htm

2 years ago

The Take It Down Act isn't a law, it's a weapon

https://www.theverge.com/policy/624974/take-it-down-act-deepfakes-nonconsensual-pornography-trump-constitutional-crisis

2 years ago

The Balatro Timeline

https://localthunk.com/blog/balatro-timeline-3aarh

2 years ago

YouTube scares me; I need RAID 1 for my video content

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/youtube-scares-me-i-need-raid-1-my-video-content

2 years ago

62% of Canadians Plan to Avoid the U.S. for at Least the Next Year

https://abacusdata.ca/canadians-plan-to-avoid-the-u-s-amid-political-tensions/

2 years ago

The Kernighan-Lin Search Algorithm

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00316

2 years ago

US satellite company Maxar reportedly cuts off Ukraine's access to imagery

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-satellite-company-maxar-cuts-off-ukraine-access-imagery-report-says/

2 years ago

Arranging invisible icons in quadratic time (2021)

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/arranging-invisible-icons-in-quadratic-time/

2 years ago

Show HN: A big tech dev experience for an open source CMS

https://contentfoundry.com/

2 years ago

When Europe needed it most, the Ariane 6 rocket delivered

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/when-europe-needed-it-most-the-ariane-6-rocket-finally-delivered/

2 years ago

Show HN: IEMidi –  Cross-platform MIDI map editor for arbitrary controllers

https://github.com/Interactive-Echoes/IEMidi

2 years ago

Ariane 6 performs first commercial flight with launch of CSO-3 satellite

https://www.arianespace.com/news/ariane-6-performs-first-commercial-flight-with-successful-launch-of-cso-3-satellite/

2 years ago

The Landscape of Lisp

https://churchofturing.github.io/landscapeoflisp.html

2 years ago

Ten Digit Problems (2011) [pdf]

https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/publication/PDF/2011_137.pdf

2 years ago

Cliff Asness: The New 'Crypto Fort Knox' Is as Dumb as It Sounds

https://www.thefp.com/p/trumps-crypto-fort-knox

2 years ago

WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/they-curdle-like-milk-wb-dvds-from-2006-2008-are-rotting-away-in-their-cases/

2 years ago

McDonald's gives its restaurants an AI makeover

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mcdonalds-gives-its-restaurants-an-ai-makeover-2134f01e

2 years ago

How often are children genetically unrelated to their presumed fathers?

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-often-are-children-genetically-unrelated-their-presumed-fathers

2 years ago

CDC to study vaccines and autism despite research showing no connection

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/cdc-study-vaccines-autism

2 years ago

Who Is the Doge and X Technician Branden Spikes?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/who-is-the-doge-and-x-technician-branden-spikes/

2 years ago

From Prompt to Adventures:Creating Games with LLMs and Restate Durable Functions

https://restate.dev/blog/from-prompt-to-adventures-creating-games-with-llms-and-restates-durable-functions/

2 years ago

Extracting time series features: a powerful method from a obscure paper [pdf]

https://rcin.org.pl/ippt/Content/117114/PDF/WA727_91599_P.262b-Van-Atta-Effect.pdf

2 years ago

The case of the vanishing CPU: A Linux kernel debugging story

https://clickhouse.com/blog/a-case-of-the-vanishing-cpu-a-linux-kernel-debugging-story

2 years ago

40% of Britons haven't read a single book in the last 12 months

https://yougov.co.uk/entertainment/articles/51730-40-of-britons-havent-read-a-single-book-in-the-last-12-months

2 years ago

Why Local-First Software Is the Future and Its Limitations

https://rxdb.info/articles/local-first-future.html

2 years ago

Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

2 years ago

Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06035-2

2 years ago

Masters of None: The Flawed Logic of One-Size-Fits-All Education

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/masters-of-none-the-flawed-logic-of-one-size-fits-all-education/

2 years ago

Help Me Help You, Maintainers

https://matduggan.com/help-me-help-you-maintainers/

2 years ago

Prepare now for a potential H5N1 pandemic

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw3278

2 years ago

Trump Promises to Abuse Take It Down Act for Censorship, Just as We Warned

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/06/trump-promises-to-abuse-take-it-down-act-for-censorship-just-as-we-warned/

2 years ago