top 50% 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

Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/12/australian-man-survives-100-days-with-artificial-heart-in-world-first-success

2 years ago

Wyvern's Open Satellite Feed

https://tech.marksblogg.com/wyvern-open-data-feed.html

2 years ago

The Night Watch (2013) [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf

2 years ago

Beyond Diffusion: Inductive Moment Matching

https://lumalabs.ai/news/inductive-moment-matching

2 years ago

A look at the creative process behind Bluey and Cocomelon (2024)

https://www.readtrung.com/p/why-i-love-bluey-and-hate-cocomelon

2 years ago

Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight

https://wulinshu.com/2025/03/11/reverse-engineering-adventures-3-bug-or-not-bug/

2 years ago

Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino

https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino

2 years ago

Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

https://xpipe.io/

2 years ago

Happy 10k Day

https://blog.comma.ai/happy10kday/

2 years ago

Azure's Weakest Link? How API Connections Spill Secrets

https://binarysecurity.no/posts/2025/03/api-connections

2 years ago

Zinc, a systems programming language prototype

https://sr.ht/~oconnor0/zinc/

2 years ago

First ammonia-fueled ship hits a snag

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ammonia-fuel-2671266100

2 years ago

I Built a Mechanical Calculator [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0pJST5mL3A

2 years ago

EU to impose counter tariffs on $28 billion of US goods

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/eu-impose-counter-tariffs-over-28-billion-us-goods-2025-03-12/

2 years ago

Experiment with Gemini 2.0 Flash native image generation

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/experiment-with-gemini-20-flash-native-image-generation/

2 years ago

Show HN: VSC – An open source 3D Rendering Engine in C++

https://github.com/WW92030-STORAGE/VSC

2 years ago

How far neuroscience is from understanding brains (2023)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10585277/

2 years ago

Evidence that Neanderthal and Homo sapiens engaged in cultural exchange

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-burials-compelling-evidence-neanderthal-homo.html

2 years ago

Space Invaders

https://www.computerarcheology.com/Arcade/SpaceInvaders/

2 years ago

First official release of LLVM Flang

https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2025-03-11-flang-new/

2 years ago

Children under eight should avoid slushies as glycerol leads to hospitalisations

https://news.sky.com/story/children-under-eight-should-avoid-slushies-as-glycerol-leads-to-hospitalisations-study-13326879

2 years ago

Show HN: AudioNimbus – Steam Audio's immersive spatial audio, now in Rust

https://github.com/MaxenceMaire/audionimbus

2 years ago

A more robust raw OpenBSD syscall demo

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/03/06/

2 years ago

What ketamine does to the human brain

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/ketamine-effects-elon-musk/681911/

2 years ago

An Egyptian Temple Reborn

https://archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2025/features/an-egyptian-temple-reborn/

2 years ago

Mozilla's response to proposed remedies in U.S. vs. Google

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/internet-policy/proposed-remedies-browsers/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Would you fund Mozilla to become independent of Google?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43341431

2 years ago

Ask HN: What do you use to create diagrams?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43343473

2 years ago

AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-fakers

2 years ago

Show HN: OCR Benchmark Focusing on Automation

https://nanonets.com/automation-benchmark

2 years ago