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 years ago

Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions

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

2 years ago

The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome

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

2 years ago

Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks

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

2 years ago

Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal

https://github.com/mfontanini/presenterm

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-Source DocumentAI with Ollama

https://rlama.dev/

2 years ago

Discworld Rules

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

The Einstein AI Model

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

2 years ago

You might not need Redis

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

2 years ago

An epic treatise on error models for systems programming languages

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

2 years ago

Falkon: A KDE Web Browser

https://www.falkon.org

2 years ago

Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP

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

2 years ago

The program is the database is the interface

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

MCP vs. API Explained

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

Deploy from local to production (self-hosted)

https://github.com/bypirob/airo

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

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 years ago

Learn Arabic

https://arabic.fi

2 years ago

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 years ago

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 years ago

Auntie PDF – an open source app built using Mistral OCR

https://www.auntiepdf.com/

2 years ago

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 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

The 90s Gamer Experience: Handwritten Notes and Maps

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

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 years ago

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 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

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 years ago

Show HN: I built didtheyghost.me, open-source tool for your next job search

https://didtheyghost.me/

2 years ago

Svelte5: A Less Favorable Vue3

https://gist.github.com/rxliuli/c886198390a9fd1138853d0e260025f3

2 years ago

Accessibility: Don't Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social Media

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/dont-use-fake-bold-or-italic-in-social-media.html

2 years ago

Why AI is still dumb and not scary at all (pt. 1)

https://tejo.substack.com/p/why-ai-is-still-dumb-and-not-scary

2 years ago

Show HN: TypeLeap: LLM Powered Reactive Intent UI/UX

https://www.typeleap.com/

2 years ago

Europe's largest battery site goes live in Scotland, boosting UK energy grid

https://www.techspot.com/news/107021-europe-largest-battery-site-goes-live-scotland-boosting.html

2 years ago