top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-03-12

Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying

2 years ago

Gemini Robotics

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-brings-ai-into-the-physical-world/

2 years ago

The DuckDB Local UI

https://duckdb.org/2025/03/12/duckdb-ui.html

2 years ago

Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser

https://github.com/kern/filepizza

2 years ago

Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

https://www.eggnog.ai/entertimeportal

2 years ago

Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/Gemma3Report.pdf

2 years ago

My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/security/seducing-a-romance-scammer.html

2 years ago

Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google

https://mozillapetition.com/

2 years ago

The Future Is Niri

https://ersei.net/en/blog/niri

2 years ago

Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer

https://www.tibinotes.com/p/practical-ux-for-startups-surviving

2 years ago

I stopped everything and started writing C again

https://www.kmx.io/blog/why-stopped-everything-and-started-writing-C-again

2 years ago

Iconography of the PuTTY tools

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/putty-icons/

2 years ago

The insecurity of telecom stacks in the wake of Salt Typhoon

https://soatok.blog/2025/03/12/on-the-insecurity-of-telecom-stacks-in-the-wake-of-salt-typhoon/

2 years ago

The cultural divide between mathematics and AI

https://sugaku.net/content/understanding-the-cultural-divide-between-mathematics-and-ai/

2 years ago

Reverse engineering OpenAI code execution to make it run C and JavaScript

https://twitter.com/benswerd/status/1899853533761200300

2 years ago

Intel appoints Lip-Bu Tan as its CEO

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-chipmaker-intel-appoints-lip-bu-tan-its-ceo-2025-03-12/

2 years ago

The 2005 Sony Bravia ad

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/san-francisco-sony-bouncy-ball-ad-20204385.php

2 years ago

Gemma3 – The current strongest model that fits on a single GPU

https://ollama.com/library/gemma3

2 years ago

I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts

https://www.nickcraux.com/blog/cursor-tips

2 years ago

Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/hardware_os_lockin_monopolies/

2 years ago