top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-08

Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think

https://usher.dev/posts/2025-03-08-kill-your-feeds/

2 weeks ago

833 upvotes – 312 comments

Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volkswagen-reintroducing-physical-controls-vital-functions

2 weeks ago

610 upvotes – 379 comments

The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome

https://www.wired.com/story/the-doj-still-wants-google-to-divest-chrome/

2 weeks ago

501 upvotes – 682 comments

Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/feds-link-150m-cyberheist-to-2022-lastpass-hacks/

2 weeks ago

383 upvotes – 258 comments

Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/kag-orion-web-browser-coming-to-linux

2 weeks ago

375 upvotes – 226 comments

Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/undocumented-backdoor-found-in-bluetooth-chip-used-by-a-billion-devices/

2 weeks ago

371 upvotes – 111 comments

PayPal honey extension has again "featured" flag in Chrome web store

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/paypal-honey-automatic-co/bmnlcjabgnpnenekpadlanbbkooimhnj/reviews

2 weeks ago

324 upvotes – 177 comments

Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal

https://github.com/mfontanini/presenterm

2 weeks ago

305 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Open-Source DocumentAI with Ollama

https://rlama.dev/

2 weeks ago

295 upvotes – 33 comments

Discworld Rules

https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-rules

2 weeks ago

277 upvotes – 324 comments

NASA to launch space observatory that will map 450M galaxies

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-spherex-space-observatory-launch-map-galaxies-universe-rcna190877

2 weeks ago

270 upvotes – 120 comments

The Einstein AI Model

https://thomwolf.io/blog/scientific-ai.html

2 weeks ago

260 upvotes – 209 comments

You might not need Redis

https://www.viblo.se/posts/no-need-redis/

2 weeks ago

240 upvotes – 147 comments

An epic treatise on error models for systems programming languages

https://typesanitizer.com/blog/errors.html

2 weeks ago

220 upvotes – 76 comments

Falkon: A KDE Web Browser

https://www.falkon.org

2 weeks ago

208 upvotes – 117 comments

Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP

https://glthr.com/discovering-errors-in-donald-knuths-taocp

2 weeks ago

206 upvotes – 65 comments

The program is the database is the interface

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-program-is-the-database-is-the-interface/

2 weeks ago

203 upvotes – 61 comments

Google will still have to break up its business, the Justice Department said

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/google-will-still-have-to-break-up-its-business-the-justice-department-said-150000739.html

2 weeks ago

189 upvotes – 5 comments

MCP vs. API Explained

https://norahsakal.com/blog/mcp-vs-api-model-context-protocol-explained/

2 weeks ago

184 upvotes – 115 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried thrown into solitary over Tucker Carlson interview: report

https://gizmodo.com/sam-bankman-fried-thrown-into-solitary-over-tucker-carlson-interview-report-2000573371

2 weeks ago

180 upvotes – 226 comments

Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog

https://github.com/vnglst/when-ai-fails/blob/main/shepards-dog/README.md

2 weeks ago

155 upvotes – 55 comments

Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed

https://tzx.notion.site/What-I-Learned-Building-a-Free-Semantic-Search-Tool-for-GitHub-and-Why-I-Failed-1a09b742c7918033b318f3a5d7dc9751

2 weeks ago

145 upvotes – 51 comments

Deploy from local to production (self-hosted)

https://github.com/bypirob/airo

2 weeks ago

137 upvotes – 67 comments

Improving on std:count_if()'s auto-vectorization

https://nicula.xyz/2025/03/08/improving-stdcountif-vectorization.html

2 weeks ago

134 upvotes – 45 comments

An election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/05/no-an-election-forecast-thats-50-50-is-not-giving-up-no-the-election-forecasters-in-2024-did-not-say-whatever-happened-it-was-supposed-to-be-razor-thin/

2 weeks ago

124 upvotes – 290 comments

Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That'll Lead to Censorship

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/take-it-down-act-flawed-attempt-protect-victims-will-lead-censorship

2 weeks ago

119 upvotes – 38 comments

Learn Arabic

https://arabic.fi

2 weeks ago

114 upvotes – 38 comments

How much are LLMs boosting real-world programmer productivity?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tqmQTezvXGFmfSe7f/how-much-are-llms-actually-boosting-real-world-programmer

2 weeks ago

109 upvotes – 97 comments

Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/08/pi_hole_6_flyby/

2 weeks ago

106 upvotes – 92 comments

Auntie PDF – an open source app built using Mistral OCR

https://www.auntiepdf.com/

2 weeks ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

Kissing moons may explain why Earth's moon is so large

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/kissing-moons-may-explain-why-earth-s-moon-is-so-large-1.7428016

2 weeks ago

99 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298663

2 weeks ago

95 upvotes – 86 comments

The 90s Gamer Experience: Handwritten Notes and Maps

https://rz01.org/90s-gamer-handwritten-notes-maps/

2 weeks ago

88 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: Is Cursor deleting working code for you too or is it just me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298275

2 weeks ago

85 upvotes – 81 comments

What We Lose When Our Memories Exist in Our Phones

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/the-case-for-ditching-digital-memories-for-physical-objects

2 weeks ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

Most Americans just don't matter to the economy like they once did

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-cant-afford-life-anymore-and-they-just-dont-matter-to-the-economy-like-they-used-to-5c5aaca5

2 weeks ago

76 upvotes – 101 comments

US support to maintain UK's nuclear arsenal is in doubt

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/us-support-uk-nuclear-arsenal-in-doubt-trident-france

2 weeks ago

74 upvotes – 119 comments

Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch that activated when fired

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/08/developer_server_kill_switch/

2 weeks ago

73 upvotes – 78 comments

My legal last name prevents me from completing my Twitch affiliate onboarding

https://old.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/1j3fvzx/my_legal_last_name_is_preventing_me_from/

2 weeks ago

68 upvotes – 51 comments

Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/07/gene-edited-non-browning-banana-cut-food-waste-tropic-norwich

2 weeks ago

68 upvotes – 76 comments
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