top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-21

France rejects backdoor mandate

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate

2 years ago

Boycott IETF 127

https://boycott-ietf127.org/

2 years ago

IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol

https://github.com/Devolutions/IronRDP

2 years ago

★ 2.9k Rust Apache-2.0

Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)

https://kellblog.com/2015/03/08/career-development-what-it-really-means-to-be-a-manager-director-or-vp/

2 years ago

Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning (2022)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13446

2 years ago

The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to exist

https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc

2 years ago

The little book about OS development

https://littleosbook.github.io/

2 years ago

Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-shuffles-ai-executive-ranks-162500488.html

2 years ago

New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-uspto-memo-makes-fighting-patent-trolls-even-harder

2 years ago

The indieweb doesn't need to “take off”

https://susam.net/indieweb-does-not-need-to-take-off.html

2 years ago

Use Long Options in Scripts

https://matklad.github.io/2025/03/21/use-long-options-in-scripts.html

2 years ago

Calibre 8.0

https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

2 years ago

The FBI Seized This Woman's Life Savings–Without Telling Her Why

https://reason.com/2025/03/20/the-fbi-seized-this-womans-life-savings-without-telling-her-why/

2 years ago

London's Heathrow Airport announces complete shutdown due to power outage

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/travel/london-heathrow-airport-shut-intl-hnk/index.html

2 years ago

Frink

https://frinklang.org/

2 years ago

I want a good parallel computer

https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2025/03/21/good-parallel-computer.html

2 years ago

Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024)

https://tobloef.com/blog/wheel-reinventors-principles/

2 years ago

Show HN: A terminal emulator in pure PHP

https://github.com/soloterm/screen

2 years ago

Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

https://www.notetimeapp.com

2 years ago

A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks'

https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2025/03/21/how-a-glitch-in-an-online-survey-replaced-the-word-yes-with-forks/

2 years ago

Google’s two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI

https://www.wired.com/story/google-openai-gemini-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence/

2 years ago

Scientists break down plastic using a simple, inexpensive catalyst and air

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-scientists-plastic-simple-inexpensive-catalyst.html

2 years ago

Deciphering language processing in the human brain through LLM representations

https://research.google/blog/deciphering-language-processing-in-the-human-brain-through-llm-representations/

2 years ago

Germany tightens travel advice to US after three citizens detained

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/19/germany-tightens-travel-advice-to-us-after-three-citizens-detained

2 years ago

Show HN: Torch Lens Maker – Differentiable Geometric Optics in PyTorch

https://victorpoughon.github.io/torchlensmaker/

2 years ago

Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle

https://bettercities.substack.com/p/congestion-pricing-is-a-policy-miracle

2 years ago

Total lunar eclipse over Teide crater, Tenerife – a project with many obstacles

https://lrtimelapse.com/news/total-lunar-eclipse-over-teide-crater-tenerife/

2 years ago

Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1jged6g/imagine_telling_2010_devs_that_in_2025_collapsing/

2 years ago

Legged Locomotion Meets Skateboarding

https://umich-curly.github.io/DHAL/

2 years ago

The head of South Korea's guard consulted ChatGPT before martial law was imposed

https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/1187705.html

2 years ago

A proof checker meant for education

https://jsiek.github.io/deduce/index.html

2 years ago

Bigscreen Beyond 2

https://www.bigscreenvr.com/

2 years ago

Autology: A Lisp with access to its own interpreter

https://github.com/Kimbsy/autology

2 years ago

Brain scans of infants reveal the moment we start making memories

https://singularityhub.com/2025/03/20/new-baby-brain-scans-reveal-the-moment-we-start-making-memories/

2 years ago

Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/not-ok-cupid/

2 years ago

LangManus: An Open-Source Manus Agent with LangChain + LangGraph

https://github.com/langmanus/langmanus

2 years ago

Mathup: Easy MathML authoring tool with a quick to write syntax

https://mathup.xyz/

2 years ago

Chunking Attacks on File Backup Services Using Content-Defined Chunking [pdf]

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/chunking-attacks.pdf

2 years ago

EFF Border Search Pocket Guide

https://www.eff.org/document/eff-border-search-pocket-guide

2 years ago

MySQL transactions per second vs. fsyncs per second (2020)

https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-10-mysql-transactions-per-second

2 years ago

CO2 laser enables long-range detection of radioactive material

https://physicsworld.com/a/co2-laser-enables-long-range-detection-of-radioactive-material/

2 years ago

The Road Not Taken Is Guaranteed Minimum Income

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-road-not-taken-is-guaranteed-minimum-income/

2 years ago

The Jakt Programming Language

https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

2 years ago

‘The Celts: A Modern History’ by Ian Stewart Review

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/celts-modern-history-ian-stewart-review

2 years ago

Numbering should start at zero (1982)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

2 years ago

Derivatives and Logarithms of 3D Transforms

https://nosferalatu.com/./DerivativesLogarithmsTransforms.html

2 years ago

Boston Dynamics shows off another major leap in humanoid mobility

https://newatlas.com/ai-humanoids/boston-dynamics-atlas-athletic/

2 years ago

Show HN: My Attempt to Organize the World of AI Dev Tools

https://aicode.danvoronov.com/tools/

2 years ago

German company set for first commercial rocket launch from Europe

https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/space-exploration/german-company-set-for-first-commercial-rocket-launch-from-europe/ar-AA1Boq4F

2 years ago

600M years of shared environmental stress response found in algae and plants

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-million-years-environmental-stress-response.html

2 years ago

Nonprofit's Leader Convicted of Siphoning Off $240M in Federal Food Aid

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/nonprofit-leader-convicted-federal-food-aid.html

2 years ago

EU pushes ahead with Big Tech antitrust enforcement

https://www.wsj.com/tech/eu-pushes-ahead-with-big-tech-antitrust-enforcement-8abd6fdf

2 years ago

Population much more than 8.2B, rural areas underestimated

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a64222314/human-population-count/

2 years ago

Asahi Linux Progress Report - Linux 6.14

https://asahilinux.org/2025/03/progress-report-6-14/

2 years ago

iPhones were being stolen off porches right after delivery, and now we know how

https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/20/iphones-were-being-stolen-off-porches-right-after-delivery-and-now-we-know-how/

2 years ago

U.S. blocks Canadian access to iconic Stanstead border-straddling library

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7489528

2 years ago

All Placebos are not created equal (2021)

https://www.samstack.io/p/all-placebos-are-not-created-equal

2 years ago

Matched and Deleted

https://www.dikshaupadhyay.com/p/matched-and-deleted

2 years ago

Harvard study: open-source has an economic value of 8.8T dollars

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html

2 years ago

SmolDocling: An ultra-compact VLM for end-to-end multi-modal document conversion

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11576

2 years ago

Not dropping RISC-V support after all, maybe

https://chimera-linux.org/news/2025/03/new-riscv-server.html

2 years ago

Police-Induced Confessions, 2.0: Risk Factors and Recommendations

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-79126-001.html

2 years ago

The Cult of the American Lawn

https://www.noemamag.com/the-cult-of-the-american-lawn/

2 years ago

Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong

https://wonger.dev/posts/pronunciations

2 years ago

Chibi: PNG-tuber application made in Rust

https://github.com/megabytesofrem/chibi

2 years ago

How to create value objects in Ruby – the idiomatic way

https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/how-to-create-value-objects-in-ruby-the-idiomatic-way

2 years ago

PG&E asks to raise rates for California customers so it can pay investors more

https://www.kcra.com/article/pge-rate-request-california-investors/64247177

2 years ago

A Surprise Hair Loss Breakthrough: Sugar Gel Triggers Robust Regrowth

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-surprise-hair-loss-breakthrough-sugar-gel-triggers-robust-regrowth

2 years ago

Apple sued for false advertising over Apple Intelligence

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/apple-suit-false-advertising-ai-intelligence

2 years ago

Metabolism Can Shape Cells' Destinies

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-metabolism-can-shape-cells-destinies-20250321/

2 years ago

How 'Careless People' is becoming a bigger problem for Meta

https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/634080/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams-book-meta-congress

2 years ago