top 50% 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

Recommendations for designing magic numbers of binary file formats

https://hackers.town/@zwol/114155595855705796

2 years ago

A 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` (2024)

https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/building-a-2fa-app-that-detects-patterns

2 years ago

Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury

https://slamdunksoftware.substack.com/p/hidden-messages-in-emojis-and-hacking

2 years ago

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is a Stone-Cold Masterpiece

https://gizmodo.com/reminder-the-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance-is-a-stone-cold-masterpiece-2000574613

2 years ago

Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)

https://www.exurbe.com/stoicisms-appeal-to-the-rich-and-powerful/

2 years ago

In S3 simplicity is table stakes

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/03/in-s3-simplicity-is-table-stakes.html

2 years ago

FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds to claw back climate money

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/fbi-epa-and-treasury-told-citibank-to-freeze-funds-as-trump-administration-tries-to-claw-back-climate-money/

2 years ago

DeepSeek focuses on research over revenue

https://www.ft.com/content/fb5c11bb-1d4b-465f-8283-451a19a3d425

2 years ago

Building AI agents to query your databases

https://blog.dust.tt/spreadsheets-databases-and-beyond-creating-a-universal-ai-query-layer/

2 years ago

Finding Signal in the Noise: Machine Learning and the Markets (Jane Street)

https://signalsandthreads.com/finding-signal-in-the-noise/

2 years ago

Amazon Is Discontinuing the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" Feature on Echo

https://www.resetera.com/threads/amazon-is-discontinuing-the-do-not-send-voice-recordings-feature-on-echo-devices-starting-march-28th-2025-voice-recordings-will-be-sent-to-amazon.1134942/

2 years ago

AMD's Strix Halo under the hood

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-strix-halo-under-the-hood

2 years ago

The curious surge of productivity in U.S. restaurants

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-papers/the-curious-surge-of-productivity-in-u-s-restaurants/

2 years ago

Coq-of-rust: Formal verification tool for Rust

https://github.com/formal-land/coq-of-rust

2 years ago

Block Diffusion: Interpolating between autoregressive and diffusion models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09573

2 years ago

Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%

https://www.hopsworks.ai/post/migrating-from-aws-to-a-european-cloud-how-we-cut-costs-by-62

2 years ago

Local-First and Ejectable

https://thymer.com/local-first-ejectable

2 years ago

Image Processing in C (2000) [pdf]

https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/BOOKS/PHILLIPS/cips2ed.pdf

2 years ago

Edgar Allan Poe's life was a mess. But his work was in his command

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/03/13/edgar-allan-poe-biography-kopley-review/

2 years ago

Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck

https://electrek.co/2025/03/13/tesla-cybertruck-deliveries-are-on-hold-as-trims-are-flying-off-the-bulletproof-truck/

2 years ago

'Profit-Enhancing Middlemen' Fuel $200B Health-Care Chaos

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-13/middlemen-in-us-health-care-are-driving-up-costs-frustrating-patients

2 years ago

High-performance computing, with much less code

https://news.mit.edu/2025/high-performance-computing-with-much-less-code-0313

2 years ago

Sesame CSM: A Conversational Speech Generation Model

https://github.com/SesameAILabs/csm

2 years ago

Ask HN: Any jobs that don't force you to always be advancing career wise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43362865

2 years ago

Show HN: A website that makes your text look cool anywhere online using Unicode

https://fontgenerator.cool/

2 years ago

The 2008 coal ash disaster in Kingston, Tennessee

https://oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-toxic-wave-that-swallowed-a-tennessee-town

2 years ago

ArkFlow – High-performance Rust stream processing engine

https://github.com/chenquan/arkflow

2 years ago

Porkbun partners with Proton

https://porkbun.com/products/proton_mail

2 years ago

'Once in a Century' Proof Settles Math's Kakeya Conjecture

https://www.quantamagazine.org/once-in-a-century-proof-settles-maths-kakeya-conjecture-20250314/

2 years ago

Johns Hopkins University slashes 2k jobs

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/johns-hopkins-university-slashes-2000-jobs-after-trump-administration-grant-cut-2025-03-13/

2 years ago

Copyright and the Demo Scene

https://www.datagubbe.se/scenecop/

2 years ago

Exo: Exocompilation for productive programming of hardware accelerators

https://github.com/exo-lang/exo

2 years ago

Checkers written in Rust and exported to WASM

https://kevinalbs.com/checkers/

2 years ago

Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/bluesky-quickly-sold-out-of-the-t-shirt-its-ceo-wore-to-troll-mark-zuckerberg/

2 years ago

Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdfExtended/S1550-4131(25)00006-3

2 years ago

Pressure grows to hold secret Apple data privacy hearing in public

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0rr51gn3o

2 years ago

Six mistakes I made in my dioramas-and-felt Steam game and one I didn't

https://novalis.org/blog/2025-03-13-six-mistakes-i-made-and-one-i-avoided.html

2 years ago

Command A: Max performance, minimal compute – 256k context window

https://cohere.com/blog/command-a

2 years ago

Show HN: Web Audio Spring-Mass Synthesis

https://blog.cochlea.xyz/string.html

2 years ago

Timeframe of 8-hour restricted eating irrelevant to weight loss

https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/timeframe-8-hour-restricted-eating-irrelevant-weight-loss

2 years ago

Ask HN: How much traffic do you serve and with which database engine?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43365793

2 years ago

Show HN: CodeVideo – Two years in the making to build an event-sourced IDE

https://studio.codevideo.io

2 years ago

How ProPublica Uses AI in Its Investigations

https://www.propublica.org/article/using-ai-responsibly-for-reporting

2 years ago

From Languages to Language Sets

https://gist.github.com/xixixao/8e363dbd3663b6729cd5b6d74dbbf9d4

2 years ago

English Multinyms

https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/fun/wordplay/multinyms.html

2 years ago

The Cassowary Linear Arithmetic Constraint Solving Algorithm [pdf] (2002)

https://constraints.cs.washington.edu/solvers/cassowary-tochi.pdf

2 years ago

Cwtch – Privacy Preserving Messaging

https://docs.cwtch.im/

2 years ago

Theory crafting a system for 1000 simultaneous micro SD card ingests

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/theory-crafting-a-system-for-maximum-simultaneous-micro-sd-card-ingest/227159

2 years ago