top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-17

GIMP 3.0

https://testing.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/

2 years ago

The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

https://discuss.systems/@dev/114161826926246661

2 years ago

Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS

https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-update-launching-rdap-sunsetting-whois-27-01-2025-en

2 years ago

Rippling sues Deel over spying

https://twitter.com/parkerconrad/status/1901615179718406276

2 years ago

Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113

2 years ago

Archival Storage

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/03/archival-storage.html

2 years ago

The High Heel Problem

https://simonschreibt.de/gat/the-high-heel-problem/

2 years ago

Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers

https://x.company/blog/posts/taara-graduation/

2 years ago

Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office

https://blog.cloudflare.com/chaos-in-cloudflare-lisbon-office-securing-the-internet-with-wave-motion/

2 years ago

Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly

https://techstartups.com/2025/03/17/amazon-to-lay-off-14000-managerial-positions-to-save-3-5-billion-annually/

2 years ago

Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table

https://www.wired.com/story/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture/

2 years ago

Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/17/lapd-surveillance-gaza-palestine-protests-dataminr/

2 years ago

uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users

https://wagtail.org/blog/uv-overtakes-poetry/

2 years ago

Underware 2.0 – Open Source Infinite Cable Management

https://makerworld.com/en/models/783010-underware-2-0-infinite-cable-management

2 years ago

Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition

https://map.koljapluemer.com

2 years ago

Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design

https://www.datagubbe.se/futui/

2 years ago

Show HN: OpenTimes – Free travel times between U.S. Census geographies

https://opentimes.org

2 years ago

Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/13/meta-careless-people-book-former-employee

2 years ago

Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-16/wall-street-s-dark-pools-grow-murkier-with-private-rooms

2 years ago

Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable

https://liu.se/en/news-item/nasta-generations-lysdioder-ar-billiga-och-miljovanliga

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available for Purchase, Stacked Memory Variant Coming

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-RP2350-Buy

2 years ago

Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/akira-ransomware-cracked-with-rtx-4090-new-exploit-to-brute-force-encryption-attack

2 years ago

Conducting forensics of mobile devices to find signs of a potential compromise

https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt

2 years ago

Stupid Smart Pointers in C

http://blog.kevinalbs.com/stupid_smart_pointers

2 years ago

'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scientists

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-dark-oxygen-deep-sea-discovery.html

2 years ago

McLaren invented new carbon fiber tape to build even more complex parts

https://www.thedrive.com/news/mclaren-invented-new-carbon-fiber-tape-to-build-even-more-complex-parts

2 years ago

Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge's Order

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/brown-university-rasha-alawieh-professor-deported.html

2 years ago

Napkin Math Tool

https://taylor.town/napkin-math

2 years ago

How Cursor (AI IDE) Works

https://blog.sshh.io/p/how-cursor-ai-ide-works

2 years ago

Help Identify the Photographer Who Captured Many Images of 1960s San Francisco

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-you-identify-the-mystery-photographer-who-captured-thousands-of-captivating-images-of-1960s-san-francisco-180986107/

2 years ago

Genomic study: our capacity for language emerged at least 135k years ago

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-genomic-capacity-language-emerged-years.html

2 years ago

Let's knock down social media's walled gardens – Tim Berners-Lee

https://www.ft.com/content/79d2d19a-08df-48fc-9a6f-a9dbef58f642

2 years ago

But how to get to that European cloud?

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/now-how-to-get-that-european-cloud/

2 years ago

The exceptional Jordan algebra (2020)

https://cp4space.hatsya.com/2020/10/28/the-exceptional-jordan-algebra/

2 years ago

After 47 years, OpenVMS gets a package manager (VSP)

https://raymii.org/s/blog/After_47_years_OpenVMS_gets_a_package_manager_VSP.html

2 years ago

Lock Contention

https://maksimkita.com/blog/lock-contention.html

2 years ago

A Facebook Insider's Exposé Alleges Bad Behavior at the Top

https://web.archive.org/web/20250310221013/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html

2 years ago

"Awful": Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/roku-says-unpopular-autoplay-ads-are-just-a-test/

2 years ago

History of Null Pointer Dereferences on macOS

https://afine.com/history-of-null-pointer-dereferences-on-macos/

2 years ago

Adminer: Database management in a single PHP file

https://github.com/vrana/adminer

2 years ago

Show HN: I Built an iOS app to locate stray animals

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/straysync/id6742747753

2 years ago

Harvard says tuition will be free for families making $200K or less

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/harvard-tuition-families-making-200k/story?id=119874241

2 years ago

Converting C to ASM to specs and then to a working Z/80 Speccy tape

https://ghuntley.com/z80/

2 years ago

Show HN: A bi-directional, persisted KV store that is faster than Redis

https://hpkv.io

2 years ago

Brown Medicine professor and doctor deported to Lebanon despite valid visa

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/brown-medicine-professor-doctor-deported-lebanon-valid-visa-court-fili-rcna196638

2 years ago

Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz03gjnxe25o

2 years ago

Quantum Speedup Found for Class of Hard Problems

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-speedup-found-for-huge-class-of-hard-problems-20250317/

2 years ago

France plots tax on super-rich to rearm – and Britain could be next

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/france-tax-super-wealthy-fund-defence-bill-britain-next/

2 years ago

Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43392875

2 years ago

Show HN: EnkiTask: Lightweight Project Management for Freelancers

https://enkitask.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: Localscope–Limit scope of Python functions for reproducible execution

https://localscope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

2 years ago

Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/03/12/want-even-tinier-chips-use-a-particle-accelerator

2 years ago

Tesla fans exposes Tesla's own shadiness in attempt to defend Autopilot crash

https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/tesla-fans-exposes-shadiness-defend-autopilot-crash/

2 years ago

Trump Derangement Syndrome

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF2589&version=0&session=ls94&session_year=2025&session_number=0

2 years ago

Dioxus – Fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust

https://dioxuslabs.com/

2 years ago

Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-17/alphabet-in-talks-to-buy-cloud-security-firm-wiz-for-33-billion

2 years ago

22% Drop in Programming Jobs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/14/programming-jobs-lost-artificial-intelligence/

2 years ago

What It Would Take for the U.S. Dollar to Collapse

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex-currencies/091416/what-would-it-take-us-dollar-collapse.asp

2 years ago

How to Infect Your PC in Three Easy Steps

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/clickfix-how-to-infect-your-pc-in-three-easy-steps/

2 years ago