top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-23

The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)

https://dannorth.net/the-worst-programmer/

2 years ago

Show HN: I built a website for sharing drum patterns

http://drumpatterns.onether.com

2 years ago

Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one

https://heyopenspot.com/

2 years ago

Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/recsys-llm/

2 years ago

A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset

https://www.righto.com/2025/03/mother-of-all-demos-usb-keyset-interface.html

2 years ago

Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notes-sight-reading-trainer/id874386416

2 years ago

Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction

https://www.turing.ac.uk/blog/project-aardvark-reimagining-ai-weather-prediction

2 years ago

The SeL4 Microkernel: An Introduction [pdf]

https://sel4.systems/About/seL4-whitepaper.pdf

2 years ago

Show HN: I'm a teacher and built an AI presentation tool

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451141

2 years ago

Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE

https://retr0.blog/blog/llama-rpc-rce

2 years ago

Do viruses trigger Alzheimer's?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/03/17/do-viruses-trigger-alzheimers

2 years ago

Technicalities of Homeworld 2 Backgrounds

https://simonschreibt.de/gat/homeworld-2-backgrounds/

2 years ago

Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

https://polypane.app/

2 years ago

Gemma3 Function Calling

https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/capabilities/function-calling

2 years ago

Aiter: AI Tensor Engine for ROCm

https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/software-tools-optimization/aiter:-ai-tensor-engine-for-rocm™/README.html

2 years ago

argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go

https://github.com/tdewolff/argp

2 years ago

The great Hobby Lobby artifact heist

https://meghanboilard.substack.com/p/the-great-hobby-lobby-artifact-heist

2 years ago

Is it safe to travel to the United States with your phone?

https://www.theverge.com/policy/634264/customs-border-protection-search-phone-airport-rights

2 years ago

RDNA 4's “Out-of-Order” Memory Accesses

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/rdna-4s-out-of-order-memory-accesses

2 years ago

All clothing is handmade (2022)

https://ruthtillman.com/post/all-clothing-is-handmade/

2 years ago

A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2018-02-19-rl-overview/

2 years ago

Pi Pico Rx – A crystal radio for the digital age?

https://101-things.readthedocs.io/en/latest/radio_receiver.html

2 years ago

The Software Engineering Identity Crisis

https://annievella.com/posts/the-software-engineering-identity-crisis/

2 years ago

The case of the critical section that let multiple threads enter a block of code

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250321-00/?p=110984

2 years ago

Bitter Lesson is about AI agents

https://ankitmaloo.com/bitter-lesson/

2 years ago

Ruby, Ractors, and lock-free data structures

https://iliabylich.github.io/ruby-ractors-and-lock-free-data-structures/

2 years ago

Shift-to-Middle Array: A Faster Alternative to Std:Deque?

https://github.com/attilatorda/Shift-To-Middle_Array

2 years ago

Writing Programs with Ncurses

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-intro.html

2 years ago

Play the Virtual Organ from Arp Schnitger

https://www.orgelstadt-hamburg.de/play-arp/

2 years ago

Achieving Great Privacy with Safari

https://matanabudy.com/achieving-great-privacy-with-safari/

2 years ago

Rickover's Lessons

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/rickovers-lessons-how-to-build-a

2 years ago

The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars

https://www.exurbe.com/the-lost-towers-of-the-guelph-ghibelline-wars/

2 years ago

How one of the world’s major money laundering networks operates

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/world/asia/cambodia-money-laundering-huione.html

2 years ago

America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/

2 years ago

NotaGen: Symbolic Music Generation

https://electricalexis.github.io/notagen-demo/

2 years ago

Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras

https://www.intelrealsense.com

2 years ago

Next.js and the corrupt middleware: the authorizing artifact

https://zhero-web-sec.github.io/research-and-things/nextjs-and-the-corrupt-middleware

2 years ago

Germany is unlocking billions to supercharge its military at a seismic moment

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/europe/germany-military-investment-intl/index.html

2 years ago

MRubyD: A new mruby virtual machine implemented in pure C#

https://github.com/hadashiA/MRubyD

2 years ago

Ask HN: Difficulties with going back to school

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452945

2 years ago

High-Performance PNG Decoding

https://blend2d.com/blog/png-image-codec.html

2 years ago

The Mystery of the Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until 1856

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mystery-worlds-oldest-writing-system-remained-unsolved-until-four-scholars-raced-decipher-it-180985954/

2 years ago

Stop using the elbow criterion for k-means

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12189

2 years ago

Books on Making and Maintaining Friendships

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2025/03/18/8-books-on-making-friends/

2 years ago

Understanding DNS Resolution on Linux and Kubernetes

http://jpetazzo.github.io/2024/05/12/understanding-kubernetes-dns-hostnetwork-dnspolicy-dnsconfigforming/

2 years ago

Mruby/C and picoruby: high level langs in low-level devices?

https://github.com/picoruby/picoruby

2 years ago

A Brief History of the Miracle Bacterium

https://www.asimov.press/p/miracle-bacterium

2 years ago

ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving

https://biblioracle.substack.com/p/chatgpt-cant-kill-anything-worth

2 years ago

Show HN: Fingernotes – handwritten notes which become their own preview image

https://fingernotes.com/note/97513380

2 years ago

Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250312123847.htm

2 years ago

IBM's CEO doesn't think AI will replace programmers anytime soon

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/ibms-ceo-doesnt-think-ai-will-replace-programmers-anytime-soon/

2 years ago

Fast columnar JSON decoding with arrow-rs

https://www.arroyo.dev/blog/fast-arrow-json-decoding

2 years ago

A Canadian's Perspective on US Behavior Since the Trump Regime Was Installed

https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/a-canadians-perspective-on-us-behavior-since-the-trump-regime-was-installed

2 years ago

Show HN: Formal Verification for Machine Learning Models Using Lean 4

https://github.com/fraware/leanverifier

2 years ago

Rest Easy

https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/rest-work-purpose/

2 years ago

Ollama Models Atom Feed

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/22/ollama-models-atom-feed/

2 years ago

A sodium-ion portable power bank comes to market

https://www.theverge.com/news/631357/elecom-power-bank-battery-sodium-ion

2 years ago