top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-11

A 10x Faster TypeScript

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/

2 years ago

Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1899092996702048709

2 years ago

Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories

https://jackhopkins.github.io/factorio-learning-environment/

2 years ago

Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

https://www.seven39.com

2 years ago

The Startup CTO's Handbook

https://github.com/ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook/blob/main/StartupCTOHandbook.md

2 years ago

RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI

https://github.com/crmne/ruby_llm

2 years ago

Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library

https://medium.com/@caitlin9165/fastplotlib-driving-scientific-discovery-through-data-visualization-418f8bff094c

2 years ago

What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)

https://seeinglogic.com/posts/visual-readability-patterns/

2 years ago

New tools for building agents

https://openai.com/index/new-tools-for-building-agents/

2 years ago

Show HN: We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls

https://pilaenergy.com

2 years ago

The US island that speaks Elizabethan English

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english

2 years ago

America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1

https://semianalysis.com/2025/03/11/america-is-missing-the-new-labor-economy-robotics-part-1/

2 years ago

Bending Spacetime in the Basement (1997)

https://www.fourmilab.ch/gravitation/foobar/

2 years ago

Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/27/india-has-undermined-a-popular-myth-about-development

2 years ago

So Long and Thanks for All the Words: A Toast to Douglas Adams

https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/adams-birthday-toast/

2 years ago

ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air

https://developer.espressif.com/blog/2025/03/esp32-bluetooth-clearing-the-air/

2 years ago

It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life

https://ourworldindata.org/foreign-aid-donations-increase

2 years ago

Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

https://chicagomaroon.github.io/data-visualizations/2025/uchicago-property/

2 years ago

AI-Generated Voice Evidence Poses Dangers in Court

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-generated-voice-evidence-poses-dangers-in-court

2 years ago

Local Deep Research – ArXiv, wiki and other searches included

https://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research

2 years ago

Mayo Clinic's secret weapon against AI hallucinations: Reverse RAG in action

https://venturebeat.com/ai/mayo-clinic-secret-weapon-against-ai-hallucinations-reverse-rag-in-action/

2 years ago

What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)

https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/stanford-research-on-effects-of-radioactivity-from-bikini-atoll-nuclear-tests-on-coral-and-crab-dna-48459144020c

2 years ago

Show HN: Krep a High-Performance String Search Utility Written in C

https://davidesantangelo.github.io/krep/

2 years ago

Show HN: Metacheck – preview how any link appears on social media and chat apps

https://metacheck.appstate.co/

2 years ago

New Zealand's $16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/nz_health_excel_spreadsheet/

2 years ago

NIST selects HQC as fifth algorithm for post-quantum encryption

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/03/nist-selects-hqc-fifth-algorithm-post-quantum-encryption

2 years ago

Sorting algorithms with CUDA

https://ashwanirathee.com/blog/2025/sort2/

2 years ago

Shef

https://github.com/eduardoagarcia/shef

2 years ago

Backyard Cyanide

https://suziepetryk.com/blog/cyanide.html

2 years ago

Why Go?

https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411

2 years ago

Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours

https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/switching-to-bunny-cdn

2 years ago

Creative Fansubbing Techniques: Part 2

https://www.md-subs.com/blog/creative-fansubbing-techniques-2

2 years ago

Computers and Mice – Mister Rogers Neighborhood

https://misterrogers.org/episodes/computers-and-mice/

2 years ago

The masters of Commodore 64 games

https://spillhistorie.no/masters-of-c64-games/

2 years ago

Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/cloudflare_blocking_niche_browsers/

2 years ago

Saving U.S. Climate and Environmental Data Before It Goes Away

https://e360.yale.edu/features/eric-nost-interview

2 years ago

A Supersolid Made Using Photons

https://www.photonicsonline.com/doc/a-super-solid-made-using-pho-tons-0001

2 years ago

Representing Type Lattices Compactly

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/lattice-bitset/

2 years ago

European-alternatives.eu Experiencing Massive Traffic Increase Since January

https://mastodon.social/@european_alternatives/114139039515682544

2 years ago

Espressif's Response to Undocumented Commands in ESP32 Bluetooth by Tarlogic

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/response_esp32_bluetooth

2 years ago

Carlos Slim cancels Starlink orders

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/10/billionaire-carlos-slim-cancels-22-billion-in-starlink-orders-due-to-elon-musks-outburst/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Sift Dev (YC W25) – AI-Powered Datadog Alternative

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43334589

2 years ago

Pets Can't Stop Watching 'Flow,' the Oscar-Winning Cat Movie

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/movies/flow-movie-pets-oscars.html

2 years ago

How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html

2 years ago

More mysterious DNS root query traffic from a large cloud/DNS operator (2022)

https://blog.apnic.net/2022/06/02/more-mysterious-dns-root-query-traffic-from-a-large-cloud-dns-operator/

2 years ago

Cool native HTML elements you should already be using

https://harrisonbroadbent.com/blog/cool-native-html-elements/

2 years ago

Fitness Trackers Are Only 67% Accurate, New Research Finds

https://wellnesspulse.com/research/accuracy-of-fitness-trackers/

2 years ago

Modern Baby: A pioneering computer from Manchester

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/modern-baby

2 years ago

Show HN: Program Explorer, a container playground

https://programexplorer.org/

2 years ago

India's Battle to Control the Democracy Narrative

https://www.theplankmag.com/india-democracy-narrative

2 years ago

Three Implementation Models for Scheme (1987) [pdf]

https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/papers/3imp.pdf

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do you have effective 1:1s with your manager?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337028

2 years ago

Percolation Theory [pdf]

https://web.mit.edu/ceder/publications/Percolation.pdf

2 years ago

Here's how I use LLMs to help me write code

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/

2 years ago

Open-sourcing 5,000hrs of self-driving dataset

https://huggingface.co/blog/lerobot-goes-to-driving-school

2 years ago

Volkswagen Bringing Back Physical Buttons, Says Removing Them Was a Mistake

https://www.pcmag.com/news/volkswagen-to-bring-back-physical-buttons-to-all-vehicles

2 years ago

"It has been determined" that infected dairy herd serology can be disclosed

https://hogvet51.substack.com/p/one-year-later-it-has-been-determined

2 years ago

Trump Says He Will Raise Canada Steel and Aluminum Tariffs to 50%

https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/trump-tariffs-steel-no-exemptions-6ed95f5b

2 years ago

Can a Geothermal Startup Vaporize Rock to Drill the Deepest Holes?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/can-a-geothermal-startup-vaporize-rock-to-drill-the-deepest-holes-ever/ar-AA1AoaWT

2 years ago