top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-03-14

Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Home-Theater/Samsung-Q990D-unresponsive-after-1020-firmware-update/td-p/3168571

2 years ago

A look at Firefox forks

https://lwn.net/Articles/1012453/

2 years ago

Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file

https://keepworking.github.io/nash/

2 years ago

Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging

https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/

2 years ago

Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/ex-facebook-director-book-brutal-image-zuckerberg-20220239.php

2 years ago

HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere

https://httptoolkit.com/blog/http3-quic-open-source-support-nowhere/

2 years ago

TinyKVM: Fast sandbox that runs on top of Varnish

https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/tinykvm-the-fastest-sandbox

2 years ago

The Church FAQ

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/03/13/the-church-faq/

2 years ago

Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users

https://www.theverge.com/news/629620/apple-iphone-e2ee-encryption-rcs-messaging-android

2 years ago

I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox

https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/i-cant-believe-its-not-webusb

2 years ago

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363056

2 years ago

Why do transit agencies keep falling for the hydrogen bus myth?

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/13/why-do-transit-agencies-keep-falling-for-the-hydrogen-bus-myth/

2 years ago

Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/harden-runner-detection-tj-actions-changed-files-action-is-compromised

2 years ago

The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment

https://collegetowns.substack.com/p/the-school-car-pickup-line-is-a-national

2 years ago

Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs

https://tinyhack.com/2025/03/13/decrypting-encrypted-files-from-akira-ransomware-linux-esxi-variant-2024-using-a-bunch-of-gpus/

2 years ago

New York Times shut down Tor Onion service

https://open.nytimes.com/https-open-nytimes-com-the-new-york-times-as-a-tor-onion-service-e0d0b67b7482

2 years ago

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/

2 years ago

Kerning, the Hard Way

https://home.octetfont.com/blog/kerning-hard.html

2 years ago

Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/athena-landed-in-a-dark-crater-where-the-temperature-was-minus-280-f/

2 years ago

Making Postgres scale

https://pgdog.dev/blog/you-can-make-postgres-scale

2 years ago