top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-27

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model

1 year ago

Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

https://reviews.ofb.biz/safari/article/1300.html

1 year ago

Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-4/

1 year ago

I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs

https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1905132853672784121

1 year ago

How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use

1 year ago

I tried making artificial sunlight at home

https://victorpoughon.fr/i-tried-making-artificial-sunlight-at-home/

1 year ago

The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss

https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/the_website_hacker_news_is_afraid_to_discuss

1 year ago

Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard

1 year ago

Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019)

https://medium.com/@brunopostle/piranesis-perspective-trick-6bcd7a754da9

1 year ago

Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo

https://inpractice.yimbyaction.org/p/abundance-isnt-going-to-happen-unless

1 year ago

AI models miss disease in Black and female patients

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-models-miss-disease-black-female-patients

1 year ago

Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life

https://www.livescience.com/animals/giant-fungus-like-organism-may-be-a-completely-unknown-branch-of-life

1 year ago

Blasting Past WebP - An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/03/blasting-past-webp.html

1 year ago

Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf]

https://www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/ltfp_book.pdf

1 year ago

Golang on the Playstation 2

https://rgsilva.com/blog/ps2-go-part-1/

1 year ago

DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets

https://www.musicweek.com/digital/read/dj-with-apple-music-launches-to-enable-subscribers-to-mix-their-own-sets/091655

1 year ago

A filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark's self-image

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/27/black-swan-denmark-documentary-mads-brugger-amira-smajic

1 year ago

Take this on-call rotation and shove it

https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/take-oncall-and-shove-it/

1 year ago

They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo (1990) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-tQSFQ-ESY

1 year ago

It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit

https://world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-five-grand-a-day-to-miss-our-s3-exit-b8293563

1 year ago

Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants

https://hub.continue.dev/explore/assistants

1 year ago

Source code art in the Rivulet language

https://github.com/rottytooth/Rivulet

1 year ago

C. Elegans: The worm that no computer scientist can crack

https://www.wired.com/story/openworm-worm-simulator-biology-code/

1 year ago

Asking good questions is harder than giving great answers

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/asking-good-questions-is-harder-than-giving-great-answers/

1 year ago

The mysterious flow of fluid in the brain

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mysterious-flow-of-fluid-in-the-brain-20250326/

1 year ago

XAN: A Modern CSV-Centric Data Manipulation Toolkit for the Terminal

https://github.com/medialab/xan

1 year ago

Zoom bias: The social costs of having a 'tinny' sound during video conferences

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-bias-social-tinny-video-conferences.html

1 year ago

DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19437

1 year ago

California bill aims to phase out harmful ultra-processed foods in schools

https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/03/california-bill-aims-to-phase-out-harmful-ultra-processed-foods-in-schools/

1 year ago

Modern C

https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/

1 year ago

SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever

https://www.wired.com/story/signalgate-is-driving-the-most-us-downloads-of-signal-ever/

1 year ago

Emacs Solo: A Surprise System Crafters Live Demo

https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-solo-demo

1 year ago

Glider for Apple II

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/glider-for-apple-ii/

1 year ago

NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

https://futurism.com/nasa-deletes-comic-women-astronauts

1 year ago

Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024)

https://citizenlab.ca/2024/11/analysis-of-censorship-on-amazon-com/

1 year ago

Building a modern durable execution engine from first principles

https://restate.dev/blog/building-a-modern-durable-execution-engine-from-first-principles/

1 year ago

Philosophy of Coroutines (2023)

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/coroutines-philosophy/

1 year ago

Inside arXiv–The Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/

1 year ago

Netlify deploys hundreds of thousands of Next.js sites – here's what challenging

https://www.netlify.com/blog/how-we-run-nextjs/

1 year ago

What went wrong with the Alan Turing Institute?

https://www.chalmermagne.com/p/how-not-to-build-an-ai-institute

1 year ago

University of Toronto Snags Yale Professors as Canada Raids American Brain Trust

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/canadas-quiet-coup-u-of-t-snags-yale

1 year ago

Clean, a formal verification DSL for ZK circuits in Lean4

https://blog.zksecurity.xyz/posts/clean/

1 year ago

Show HN: We are building the next DocuSign

https://sgnly.com

1 year ago

First C compiler source code from 1972

https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc/tree/master/last1120c

1 year ago

How the American Medical Association Screws Doctors

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-the-american-medical-association

1 year ago

George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/19/george-orwell-me-richard-blair-life-with-extraordinary-father

1 year ago

Executive order on Smithsonian targets funding programs with 'improper ideology'

https://apnews.com/article/trump-smithsonian-executive-order-improper-ideology-558ebfab722f603e94e02a1a4b06ed4d

1 year ago

Alkanes on Mars

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/alkanes-mars

1 year ago

The Leader of the LeetCode Rebellion: An Interview with Roy Lee

https://thepennpost.com/2025/03/25/nicolas-casey-the-leader-of-the-leetcode-rebellion-an-interview-with-roy-lee/

1 year ago

Why I'm Boycotting AI

https://unherd.com/2025/03/why-im-boycotting-ai/

1 year ago

Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident (1943)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigler_incident

1 year ago

Thinner Films Conduct Better Than Copper

https://spectrum.ieee.org/thin-film

1 year ago

Crawl Order and Disorder

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_117_crawl_order/

1 year ago

Parameter-free KV cache compression for memory-efficient long-context LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10714

1 year ago

Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app

https://www.noteux.com/

1 year ago

US administration revokes $11B in funding for addiction, mental health care

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342368/addiction-trump-mental-health-funding

1 year ago

Rust Adopting Ferrocene Language Specification

https://lwn.net/Articles/1015636/

1 year ago

B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers Begin Unannounced Deployment to Diego Garcia

https://theaviationist.com/2025/03/26/b-2-unannounced-deployment-diego-garcia/

1 year ago

Anthropic Economic Index: Insights from Claude 3.7 Sonnet

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-economic-index-insights-from-claude-sonnet-3-7

1 year ago

The way we're thinking about breaking changes

https://welltypedwitch.bearblog.dev/the-way-were-thinking-about-breaking-changes-is-really-silly/

1 year ago