top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-13

OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-asks-white-house-relief-100000706.html

2 years ago

Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-told-me-i-should-learn-coding-instead-of-asking-it-to-generate-it-limit-of-800-locs/61132

2 years ago

“Normal” engineers are the key to great teams

https://spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer

2 years ago

The Lost Art of Logarithms

https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/

2 years ago

Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/y-combinator-urges-the-white-house-to-support-europes-digital-markets-act/

2 years ago

IO Devices and Latency

https://planetscale.com/blog/io-devices-and-latency

2 years ago

Steam Networks

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/steam-networks/

2 years ago

'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket

https://www.websiteplanet.com/news/eshyft-report-breach/

2 years ago

Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-URI

https://blog.gitbutler.com/going-down-the-rabbit-hole-of-gits-new-bundle-uri/

2 years ago

Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-is-trying-to-stop-a-former-employee-from-promoting-her-book-about-facebook-004938899.html

2 years ago

xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster

https://github.com/learnk8s/xlskubectl

2 years ago

My teen years: The transputer operating system

https://nanochess.org/transputer_operating_system.html

2 years ago

Amateur Telescope Making Main Page

https://stellafane.org/tm/atm/

2 years ago

Statistical Formulas for Programmers (2013)

https://www.evanmiller.org/statistical-formulas-for-programmers.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43354115

2 years ago

Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function?

https://profmattstrassler.com/2025/03/13/did-the-particle-go-through-the-two-slits-or-did-the-wave-function/

2 years ago

Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pirate-bay-carl-lundstrom-dead-plane-crash-b2714284.html

2 years ago

City simulator I made in Scratch

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1061728417/

2 years ago

Show HN: Bubbles, a vanilla JavaScript web game

https://ehmorris.com/bubbles/

2 years ago

Honey Bunnies

https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/fro_9/fro_9.html

2 years ago

A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/cracked-sudoku/

2 years ago

C Plus Prolog

https://github.com/needleful/c_plus_prolog

2 years ago

Show HN: Codemcp – Claude Code for Claude Pro subscribers – ditch API bills

https://github.com/ezyang/codemcp

2 years ago

Lego says it wants to start to bring video game development in-house

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/lego-is-starting-to-bring-its-game-development-in-house-key-exec-says/

2 years ago

Show HN: Psychedelic animation generator; (p)art of your next trip

https://collidingscopes.github.io/liquid-shape-distortions/

2 years ago

History of Maths for Beginners

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/history-of-maths-for-beginners/

2 years ago

Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 in libexpat

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-2-7-0-released/

2 years ago

Huawei targeted in new European Parliament corruption probe

https://www.ftm.eu/articles/huawei-targeted-in-european-parliament-corruption-probe

2 years ago

Doge Privacy Act Requests

https://jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy-act-requests/

2 years ago

Xata Agent: AI agent expert in PostgreSQL

https://github.com/xataio/agent

2 years ago

Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/arbitrator-prohibits-meta-whistleblower-from-promoting-tell-all-book.html

2 years ago

How Pi Almost Wasn't

https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/how-pi-almost-wasnt/

2 years ago

Carefully but Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995

2 years ago

Artificial photosynthesis directed toward organic synthesis

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56374-z

2 years ago

A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/213

2 years ago

Dodge Chargers now have pop-up ads at every stoplight

https://fuelarc.com/cars/dodge-chargers-now-have-pop-up-ads-at-every-stop/

2 years ago

The long flight to teach an endangered ibis species to migrate

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/17/the-long-flight-to-teach-an-endangered-ibis-species-to-migrate

2 years ago

Game Boy Advance Architecture – A Practical Analysis

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/game-boy-advance/

2 years ago

Interprocedural Sparse Conditional Type Propagation

https://railsatscale.com/2025-02-24-interprocedural-sparse-conditional-type-propagation/

2 years ago

Functional Tests as a Tree of Continuations (2010)

https://www.evanmiller.org/functional-tests-as-a-tree-of-continuations.html

2 years ago

Hexagon Spiral Coordinates

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-03-12-hexagon-spiral-coordinates/

2 years ago

FTC can't afford to fight Amazon's allegedly deceptive sign-ups after DOGE cuts

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/doges-extremely-severe-ftc-cuts-prompt-request-to-delay-amazon-trial/

2 years ago

Tiny changes in gene expression make big difference in eye size of fruit flies

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-tiny-gene-big-differences-eye.html

2 years ago

EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launches-biggest-deregulatory-action-us-history

2 years ago

BlenderMCP: Blender Model Context Protocol Integration

https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp

2 years ago

Musk Retweet: Hitler Didn't Murder Millions of People, Public Sector Workers Did

https://meidasnews.com/news/elon-musk-retweet-hitler-didnt-murder-millions-of-people-public-sector-workers-did

2 years ago

A platform where you can start working with the best Ukrainian tech companies

https://codeua.com/about-us/

2 years ago

"Have Quotes About Salieri"

https://contingentmagazine.org/2025/01/10/have-quotes-about-salieri/

2 years ago

The failure of the land value tax

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-failure-of-the-land-value-tax/

2 years ago

Mercedes-Benz Drives Toward Solid-State EV Batteries

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mercedes-benz

2 years ago

Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472068-revealed-how-the-uk-tech-secretary-uses-chatgpt-for-policy-advice/

2 years ago

Rembrandt to Picasso: Five ways to spot a fake masterpiece

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250311-rembrandt-to-picasso-five-ways-to-spot-a-fake-masterpiece

2 years ago

Would {word1} beat {word2} • Ranked AI game

https://www.word-battle.com/

2 years ago

Laplacian Mesh Smoothing by Throwing Vertices

https://nosferalatu.com/./LaplacianMeshSmoothing.html

2 years ago