top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-16

Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

2 years ago

Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Our interfaces have lost their senses

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

2 years ago

Zlib-rs is faster than C

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

When the Dotcom Bubble Burst

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

2 years ago

Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

https://antirez.com/news/147

2 years ago

GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price

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

2 years ago

Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

https://visualgo.net/en

2 years ago

How I got 100% off my train travel

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

DiceDB

https://dicedb.io/

2 years ago

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 years ago

Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained

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

2 years ago

Teach, Don't Tell (2013)

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

2 years ago

Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub

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

2 years ago

The good times in tech are over

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

2 years ago

AI Is Making Developers Dumb

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Tcl Tutorial

https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/tcltutorial.html

2 years ago

Tesla drives into Wile E. Coyote fake road wall in camera vs. Lidar test

https://electrek.co/2025/03/16/tesla-autopilot-drives-into-wall-camera-vs-lidar-test/

2 years ago

Show HN: My high school team’s space probe

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_9V6lBTIfDsPdKCohQBc5Ed5UzDbnsrI/view?usp=sharing

2 years ago

Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder

https://brainsteam.co.uk/2025/2/15/personal-archive-hoarder/

2 years ago

Breaking Up with On-Call

https://reflector.dev/articles/breaking-up-with-on-call/

2 years ago

Cloudflare asks browser devs to sign insane NDAs before fixing browser blocking

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=32127

2 years ago

Rust on the RP2350 (2024)

https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2024-08-08/

2 years ago

SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator

https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver

2 years ago

The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time

https://thephd.dev/c2y-the-defer-technical-specification-its-time-go-go-go

2 years ago

Show HN: 10 teams are racing to build a pivotal tracker replacement

https://bye-tracker.net

2 years ago

The race is on to build the most complex machine

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/03/12/the-race-is-on-to-build-the-worlds-most-complex-machine

2 years ago

"Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI

https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/

2 years ago

Microsoft's 1986 IPO

https://dfarq.homeip.net/microsofts-1986-ipo/

2 years ago

Some notes on Grafana Loki's new "structured metadata"

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/GrafanaLokiStructuredMetadata

2 years ago

Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents

https://artint.info/index.html

2 years ago

How My Six Months Working on the Railway Changed My Life

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/04/canadian-national-railroad-graydon-carter/681770/

2 years ago

Everything Picolisp can do, and more

https://picolisp.com/wiki/?Documentation

2 years ago

Selective async commits in PostgreSQL – balancing durability and performance

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/75/selective-asynchronous-commits-in-postgresql-balancing-durability-and-performance/

2 years ago

Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good (2013)

https://learnyousomeerlang.com/content

2 years ago

PrintedLabs – 3D printable optical experiment equipment

https://printedlabs.uni-bayreuth.de/en

2 years ago

For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/e-bike-boom-delivery-workers/

2 years ago

“QWERTY wasn't designed to solve type bar jamming” [pdf]

https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/139379/1/42_161.pdf

2 years ago

Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/raytracing-on-intels-arc-b580

2 years ago

Comet open source remote KVM from GL-iNet

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-rm1/

2 years ago

Male octopus injects female with venom during sex to avoid being eaten

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2471120-male-octopus-injects-female-with-venom-during-sex-to-avoid-being-eaten/

2 years ago

Compression of Spectral Images Using Spectral JPEG XL

https://jcgt.org/published/0014/01/04/

2 years ago

Implementing Generic Types in C

https://btmc.substack.com/p/implementing-generic-types-in-c

2 years ago

Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation is

https://www.theverge.com/news/629940/apple-siri-robby-walker-delayed-ai-features

2 years ago

Microsoft paywalling AI features in Notepad and Paint

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2614943/microsoft-is-paywalling-these-features-in-notepad-and-paint.html

2 years ago

Abuse of power at Germany's elite research institution [video]

https://www.dw.com/en/max-planck-institute-abuse-of-power-elite-scientists-germany-v2/video-71904207

2 years ago

‘Bloody Saturday’ at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5329244/bloody-saturday-voiceofamerica-radio-free-asia-europe-trump-kari-lake

2 years ago

Styling an HTML dialog modal to take the full height of the viewport

https://til.simonwillison.net/css/dialog-full-height

2 years ago

US deports Venezuelans despite court order

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9yv1gnzyvo

2 years ago

Subsonic Weapon used on the crowd in Belgrade today

https://old.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/comments/1jcanva/bad_vibes_subsonic_weapon_used_on_the_crowd_in/

2 years ago

Implications of Global Privacy Control

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/global-privacy-control/

2 years ago