top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-03-16

Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

2 weeks ago

1952 upvotes – 454 comments

Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1901244199220982213

2 weeks ago

542 upvotes – 488 comments

Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

https://github.com/giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder

2 weeks ago

433 upvotes – 142 comments

Our interfaces have lost their senses

https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/our-interfaces-have-lost-their-senses

2 weeks ago

370 upvotes – 174 comments

Zlib-rs is faster than C

https://trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs-is-faster-than-c/

2 weeks ago

341 upvotes – 473 comments

Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/03/apples-long-lost-hidden-recovery-partition-from-1994-has-been-found/

2 weeks ago

315 upvotes – 99 comments

When the Dotcom Bubble Burst

https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-the-dotcom-bubble-burst/

2 weeks ago

302 upvotes – 350 comments

Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

https://antirez.com/news/147

2 weeks ago

301 upvotes – 213 comments

GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price

https://twitter.com/Baidu_Inc/status/1901089355890036897

2 weeks ago

296 upvotes – 257 comments

Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

https://visualgo.net/en

2 weeks ago

251 upvotes – 14 comments

How I got 100% off my train travel

https://readbunce.com/p/how-i-got-100-off-my-train-travel

2 weeks ago

248 upvotes – 237 comments

Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript

https://github.com/casparwylie/cascii-core

2 weeks ago

238 upvotes – 53 comments

DiceDB

https://dicedb.io/

2 weeks ago

235 upvotes – 132 comments

Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43377829

2 weeks ago

229 upvotes – 109 comments

Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia

https://news.err.ee/1609634600/muons-used-to-test-the-condition-of-a-road-bridge-in-estonia

2 weeks ago

229 upvotes – 51 comments

Teach, Don't Tell (2013)

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/09/teach-dont-tell/

2 weeks ago

212 upvotes – 75 comments

Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/towards-extracting-content-from-an-lcp-protected-epub/

2 weeks ago

198 upvotes – 66 comments

The good times in tech are over

https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-times-are-over/

2 weeks ago

185 upvotes – 252 comments

AI Is Making Developers Dumb

https://eli.cx/blog/ai-is-making-developers-dumb

2 weeks ago

173 upvotes – 213 comments

Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite

https://dfarq.homeip.net/amiga-600-the-amiga-no-one-wanted/

2 weeks ago

162 upvotes – 103 comments
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