top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-18

Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones

https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones/

2 years ago

1678 upvotes – 1106 comments

Two new PebbleOS watches

https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watches/

2 years ago

1658 upvotes – 525 comments

US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rejects-copyrights-ai-generated-art-lacking-human-creator-2025-03-18/

2 years ago

765 upvotes – 538 comments

Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)

https://ericdraken.com/pfsense-decrypt-ad-traffic/

2 years ago

756 upvotes – 426 comments

Google to buy Wiz for $32B

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/google-agrees-buy-cybersecurity-startup-wiz-32-bln-ft-reports-2025-03-18/

2 years ago

608 upvotes – 845 comments

Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/istanbul-university-annuls-istanbul-mayor-imamoglus-diploma-over-irregularities-2025-03-18/

2 years ago

608 upvotes – 434 comments

Moving away from US cloud services

https://martijnhols.nl/blog/moving-away-from-us-cloud-services

2 years ago

580 upvotes – 368 comments

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them

https://gist.github.com/jwbee/7e8b27e298de8bbbf8abfa4c232db097

2 years ago

542 upvotes – 357 comments

Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date

https://bluemigrate.com

2 years ago

524 upvotes – 213 comments

Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/17/amazon_kills_on_device_alexa/

2 years ago

457 upvotes – 132 comments

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

https://freedom.press/issues/wired-is-dropping-paywalls-for-foia-based-reporting-others-should-follow/

2 years ago

447 upvotes – 74 comments

Liberapay

https://en.liberapay.com/

2 years ago

352 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: How do I escape homelessness after rebuilding my mental health?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402315

2 years ago

343 upvotes – 233 comments

Sync Engines Are the Future

https://www.instantdb.com/essays/sync_future

2 years ago

327 upvotes – 204 comments

FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies

https://www.wired.com/story/federal-trade-commission-removed-blogs-critical-of-ai-amazon-microsoft/

2 years ago

306 upvotes – 113 comments

Designing Electronics That Work

https://www.hscott.net/designing-electronics-that-work/

2 years ago

286 upvotes – 115 comments

Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face

https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

2 years ago

258 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming

https://github.com/sinclairtarget/git-who

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 127 comments

Rhombus Language

https://rhombus-lang.org

2 years ago

242 upvotes – 158 comments

Show HN: I made a live multiplayer Minesweeper game

https://www.minesweeperpro.com/

2 years ago

242 upvotes – 82 comments

The model is the product

https://vintagedata.org/blog/posts/model-is-the-product

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 81 comments

Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1014002/580b8750bf02cf41/

2 years ago

231 upvotes – 227 comments

Stamina Is a Quiet Advantage

https://kupajo.com/stamina-is-a-quiet-advantage/

2 years ago

227 upvotes – 104 comments

Google announces agreement to acquire Wiz

https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/google-agreement-acquire-wiz/

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 5 comments

Global population datasets underrepresent rural population

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56906-7

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 98 comments

HTTrack Website Copier

https://www.httrack.com/

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 64 comments

Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate

https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts/diagrams-ai-can-and-cannot-generate/

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 68 comments

Build a Container Image from Scratch

https://danishpraka.sh/posts/build-a-container-image-from-scratch/

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 56 comments

Fedora 42 Beta

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/fedora-42-beta-now-available

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 115 comments

PeerTube v7.1 Is Out

https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-7.1

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 51 comments

Preview: Amazon S3 Tables and Lakehouse in DuckDB

https://duckdb.org/2025/03/14/preview-amazon-s3-tables.html

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 47 comments

20 Years of YC / HN

https://vickiboykis.com/2025/03/17/20-years-of-yc/

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 42 comments

Zero-knowledge proofs, encoding Sudoku and Mario speedruns without semantic leak

https://vasekrozhon.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/zero-knowledge-proofs/

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 25 comments

NASA Whoosh Rocket

https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/beginners-guide-to-aeronautics/whoosh-rocket/

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 86 comments

North Korea Launders Billions in Stolen Crypto

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/03/07/here-s-how-north-korea-launders-billions-of-stolen-crypto

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 68 comments

Nvidia Dynamo: A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework

https://github.com/ai-dynamo/dynamo

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 39 comments

Underrated Soft Skills: Charisma

https://utopianengineeringsociety.substack.com/p/new-series-underrated-soft-skills

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 126 comments

Half-Life 2 RTX

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2477290/HalfLife_2_RTX/

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 81 comments

'It's a Heist': Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by Doge

https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 88 comments

Don't Be Afraid of Types

https://lmika.org/2025/03/18/dont-be-afraid-of-types.html

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 229 comments

Java 24

https://jdk.java.net/24/

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 112 comments

How I Stay Motivated Working on My Solo SaaS (When It Feels Like Nobody Cares)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398652

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 55 comments

BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/18/byd-ev-fast-charging-system-petrol-fuel-speed

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 198 comments

The real failure rate of EBS

https://planetscale.com/blog/the-real-fail-rate-of-ebs

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

43-year-old Family Canoe Trip

https://paddlingmag.com/stories/features/legendary-43-year-family-canoe-story/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 24 comments

Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-hate-is-making-insurance-more-expensive-for-owners-2000577467

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 205 comments

Are you VC-funded? No, we're profitable

https://twitter.com/jasonbosco/status/1901766688565043273

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 38 comments

Manifest: A 1-file micro-back end

https://github.com/mnfst/manifest

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 45 comments

You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why They Do Not Work (2019)

https://blog.smartdec.net/you-do-not-need-blockchain-eight-popular-use-cases-and-why-they-do-not-work-f2ecc6cc2129

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 145 comments

When Oregon blew up a whale with 20 cases of dynamite (2024)

https://katu.com/news/local/exploding-whale-day-54-years-since-whale-infamously-blown-up-on-oregon-beach

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 65 comments

The New Three-Tier Application

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/new-three-tier-application

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 86 comments

'Dogequest' Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S.

https://www.404media.co/dogequest-site-claims-to-dox-tesla-owners-across-the-u-s/

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 285 comments

Show HN: I converted my notebook into a searchable database of IT keywords

https://techbook.digital/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/ai_crawlers_sourcehut/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 43 comments
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