top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-20

Claude can now search the web

https://www.anthropic.com/news/web-search

2 years ago

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

2 years ago

The Burnout Machine

https://unionize.fyi

2 years ago

The Frontend Treadmill

https://polotek.net/posts/the-frontend-treadmill/

2 years ago

The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

https://www.feldera.com/blog/the-pain-that-is-github-actions

2 years ago

OpenAI Audio Models

https://www.openai.fm/

2 years ago

Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web

https://github.com/smparsons/retroboy

2 years ago

Dutch Parliament: Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/dutch_parliament_us_tech/

2 years ago

Leaking Passwords and more on macOS

https://wts.dev/posts/password-leak/

2 years ago

Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/03/19/minding-the-gaps-a-new-way-to-draw-separators-in-css/

2 years ago

How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

https://fastcall.dev/posts/genai-genesis-firebase/

2 years ago

Powers of 2 with all even digits

https://oeis.org/A068994

2 years ago

Understanding Solar Energy

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/understanding-solar-energy

2 years ago

SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B

https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20250320

2 years ago

Oxygen atoms discovered in most distant known galaxy

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2507/

2 years ago

ACARS Drama

https://acarsdrama.com/

2 years ago

The Last Drops of Mexico City

https://mexicocitywater.longlead.com

2 years ago

Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly67j35y99o

2 years ago

Hunyuan3D-2-Turbo: fast high-quality shape generation in ~1s on a 4090

https://github.com/Tencent/Hunyuan3D-2/commit/baab8ba18e46052246f85a2d0f48736586b84a33

2 years ago

Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/03/17/british-columbia-introduces-toll-measure-to-counter-tariffs/

2 years ago

French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French government says

https://www.reuters.com/world/french-scientist-denied-entry-into-us-french-government-says-2025-03-20/

2 years ago

EmptyEpsilon open source spaceship bridge simulator

https://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Are you afraid to travel to US to tech conferences?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422350

2 years ago

Austral: A Systems Language with Linear Types and Capabilities (2022)

https://borretti.me/article/introducing-austral

2 years ago

Tesla falls after Commerce secretary recommends buying stock

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tesla-musk-lutnick

2 years ago

'More than a hint' that dark energy isn't what astronomers thought

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/science/space/astronomer-desi-dark-energy.html

2 years ago

Tesla to recall more than 46,000 Cybertrucks due to exterior panel issue

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/business/tesla-cybertruck-recall/index.html

2 years ago

Google calls Gemma 3 the most powerful AI model you can run on one GPU

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/627968/google-gemma-3-open-ai-model

2 years ago

First Known Photographs of Living Specimens

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/first-known-photographs-of-living-specimens

2 years ago

Show HN: I built a MCP server so Claude can play Minesweeper

https://github.com/tonypan2/minesweeper-mcp-server

2 years ago

Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00764-2

2 years ago

I fear for the unauthenticated web

https://sethmlarson.dev/i-fear-for-the-unauthenticated-web

2 years ago

Grease: An Open-Source Tool for Uncovering Hidden Vulnerabilities in Binary Code

https://www.galois.com/articles/introducing-grease

2 years ago

The F-35 as a Subscription Service

https://xxtomcooperxx.substack.com/p/the-f-35-as-a-subscription-service

2 years ago

EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and devices

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/eu-sends-apple-first-dma-interoperability-instructions-for-apps-and-connected-devices/

2 years ago

Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_opens_data_treasure_trove_offers_glimpse_of_deep_fields

2 years ago

Doge to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/doge-to-fired-cisa-staff-email-us-your-personal-data/

2 years ago

Teaching a new way to prevent outages at Google

https://sre.google/stpa/teaching/

2 years ago

ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/chatgpt-hit-with-privacy-complaint-over-defamatory-hallucinations/

2 years ago

Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers

https://anubis.techaro.lol/

2 years ago

Greenpeace must pay over $660M in case over Dakota Access protest activities

https://apnews.com/article/greenpeace-dakota-access-pipeline-lawsuit-verdict-5036944c1d2e7d3d7b704437e8110fbb

2 years ago

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 10 – dropout

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/03/llm-from-scratch-10-dropout

2 years ago

Particle Based Physics Engine in Golang

https://github.com/rudransh61/Physix-go

2 years ago

DNA evidence says first Americans came from Asia

https://factsanddetails.com/world/cat56/sub361/entry-8944.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Minimalytics – a standalone minimal analytics app built on SQLite

https://github.com/nafey/minimalytics

2 years ago

Trump's US Commerce Secretary publicly recommends to buy TSLA

https://electrek.co/2025/03/19/trump-us-commerce-secretary-owns-tesla-recommends-buy-tsla-stocks/

2 years ago

Silicon Labs Shrinks Wireless SoCs to Extend BLE to Miniature Devices

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/silicon-labs-shrinks-wireless-socs-to-extend-ble-to-miniature-devices/

2 years ago

Michael Seibel is leaving Y Combinator

https://twitter.com/mwseibel/status/1902510758925365590

2 years ago

Magical Instant Bullets

https://militaryrealism.blog/2025/03/20/magical-instant-bullets/

2 years ago

The Humans Building AI Scientists

https://www.asimov.press/p/futurehouse

2 years ago

OpenAI uses open source Ory to authenticate over 400M weekly active users

https://www.ory.sh/blog/openai-oauth2-server-open-source

2 years ago

Tesla Recalls Every Single Cybertruck over Stainless Steel Trims Falling Off

https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/tesla-recalls-every-single-cybertruck-over-stainless-steel-trims-falling-off/

2 years ago

Block AI Scrapers with Anubis proof-of-work

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/

2 years ago

Cloudflare: Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/

2 years ago

Honda's F1 engine technologies that enable >50% thermal efficiency

https://global.honda/en/tech/motorsports/Formula-1/Powertrain_Combustion_Efficiency/

2 years ago

Fetch-MCP: Playwright-Based MCP Server with Batch URL Fetching Support

https://github.com/jae-jae/fetch-mcp

2 years ago

Plex no Longer Offers Free Remote Playback for Personal Media

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/19/plex-price-increase/

2 years ago

Show HN: AgentKit – JavaScript Alternative to OpenAI Agents SDK with Native MCP

https://github.com/inngest/agent-kit

2 years ago

Show HN: Hyperbrowser MCP Server – Connect AI agents to the web through browsers

https://github.com/hyperbrowserai/mcp

2 years ago

I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me

https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope

2 years ago

The Myth of Liquid Detection

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/03/16/last-week-on-my-mac-the-myth-of-liquid-detection/

2 years ago

Pocket Keyboard Design Contest (2024)

https://chrischrislolo.github.io/orthoLabLogs/keyboard-design-contest-00.html

2 years ago

The Shitthropocene

https://www.patagonia.com/stories/the-shitthropocene/video-150905.html

2 years ago

How to Be Good at Dating

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2025/03/20/how-to-be-good-at-dating/

2 years ago

Claude Tried to Nuke My Home Directory

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1jfidvb/claude_tried_to_nuke_my_home/

2 years ago

Building and deploying a custom site using GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages

https://til.simonwillison.net/github-actions/github-pages

2 years ago