top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-28

xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1905731750275510312

1 year ago

We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some)

https://www.landh.tech/blog/20250327-we-hacked-gemini-source-code/

1 year ago

I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car

https://cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rural-virginia-then-asked-police-to-send-me-their-public-surveillance-footage-of-my-car-heres-what-i-learned/

1 year ago

How to write blog posts that developers read

https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/write-blog-posts-developers-read/

1 year ago

Architecture Patterns with Python

https://www.cosmicpython.com/book/preface.html

1 year ago

Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter

https://blog.autorouting.com/p/13-things-i-would-have-told-myself

1 year ago

A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250325-00/?p=110993

1 year ago

Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust

https://blog.startifact.com/posts/xee/

1 year ago

How Kerala got rich

https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-kerala-go-from-poor-to-prosperous-among-indias-states

1 year ago

Claim for a missing tooth

https://tf230.matteason.co.uk/

1 year ago

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html

1 year ago

Excitable cells

https://jenevoldsen.com/posts/excitable-cells/

1 year ago

In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio

https://newslttrs.com/yes-in-the-1980s-we-downloaded-games-from-the-radio/

1 year ago

7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand

https://twitter.com/TaraBull808/status/1905534938558157139

1 year ago

Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts

https://thisdavej.com/share-python-scripts-like-a-pro-uv-and-pep-723-for-easy-deployment/

1 year ago

Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL

https://www.ditto.com/blog/cross-platform-p2p-wi-fi-how-the-eu-killed-awdl

1 year ago

Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

https://www.theverge.com/news/638967/microsoft-windows-11-account-internet-bypass-blocked

1 year ago

Japanese scientists create new plastic that dissolves in saltwater overnight

https://newatlas.com/materials/plastic-dissolves-ocean-overnight-no-microplastics/

1 year ago

A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C

https://github.com/SAT-R/sa2

1 year ago

Swiftly 1.0

https://swift.org/blog/introducing-swiftly_10/

1 year ago

2025 Tariff Impacts at Puget Systems

https://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2025/03/28/2025-tariff-impacts-at-puget-systems/

1 year ago

Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds

https://www.chrbutler.com/digital-echoes-and-unquiet-minds

1 year ago

Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's?

https://nymag.com/strategist/article/levis-amazon-jeans-testing.html

1 year ago

Learn to code, ignore AI, then use AI to code even better

https://kyrylo.org/software/2025/03/27/learn-to-code-ignore-ai-then-use-ai-to-code-even-better.html

1 year ago

The Real Book (2021)

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-real-book/

1 year ago

Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale

https://apnews.com/article/charlie-javice-convicted-fraud-jp-morgan-783cb7b089f6ab5d814c4c0984f0302b

1 year ago

Building Statically Linked Go Executables with CGO and Zig

https://calabro.io/zig-cgo

1 year ago

Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees

https://www.caryinstitute.org/news-insights/press-release/getting-hit-lightning-good-some-tropical-trees

1 year ago

Decomposing a Factorial into Large Factors

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/decomposing-a-factorial-into-large-factors/

1 year ago

Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025

https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/analyses/arctic-sea-ice-sets-record-low-maximum-2025

1 year ago

US Marines to get high-speed, radar-evading electric seagliders for rescue ops

https://interestingengineering.com/military/us-marines-seagliders-for-rescue-ops

1 year ago

Google is publishing the home addresses of developers without their consent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43503720

1 year ago

Doge Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

1 year ago

Show HN: An Almost Free, Open Source TURN Server

https://github.com/lvidgen/WebRTC/blob/master/FOSS_TURN_Server/howto.md

1 year ago

MilliForth-6502: The smallest Forth real programming language for 6502

https://github.com/agsb/milliForth-6502

1 year ago

Show HN: Hexi – Modern header-only network binary serialisation for C++

https://github.com/EmberEmu/Hexi

1 year ago

The Biology of a Large Language Model

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html

1 year ago

Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/pilots-signal-leak.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Cursor IDE now remembers your coding prefs using MCP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43506068

1 year ago

Show HN Pianoboi – displays sheet music as you play your piano

https://pianoboi.site

1 year ago

US Securities and Exchange Commission beginning to bring on DOGE staff

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-securities-exchange-commission-beginning-onboard-doge-staff-email-says-2025-03-28/

1 year ago

Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions

https://depot.dev/blog/uncovering-disk-io-bottlenecks-github-actions-ci

1 year ago

DIY PTP Grandmaster Clock with a Raspberry Pi

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/diy-ptp-grandmaster-clock-raspberry-pi

1 year ago

Despite Ukraine war, Europe imported even more Russian gas last year

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/europe-russia-ukraine-war-natural-gas-2024

1 year ago

The Biology of B-Movie Monsters (2003)

https://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/

1 year ago

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada

1 year ago

C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness (2023)

https://research.swtch.com/ub

1 year ago

The Art of DJing: Avalon Emerson (2019)

https://it.ra.co/features/3392

1 year ago

Technical Analysis – Improper Use of Private iOS APIs in Vietnamese Banking Apps

https://blog.verichains.io/p/technical-analysis-improper-use-of

1 year ago

Interview with the Creator of Deluxe Ski Jump

https://spillhistorie.no/interview-with-the-creator-of-deluxe-ski-jump/

1 year ago

Functors, Applicatives, and Monads

https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/functors-applicatives-monads

1 year ago

FDIC says banks can engage in crypto activities without prior approval

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/fdic-says-banks-can-engage-crypto-activities-without-prior-approval-2025-03-28/

1 year ago

iPhone users can now set WhatsApp as their default calling and texting app

https://www.theverge.com/news/637489/iphone-whatsapp-default-calling-texting-app

1 year ago

Nikola founder Trevor Milton, convicted of fraud, granted full pardon by Trump

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nikola-founder-trevor-milton-says-granted-full-pardon-by-trump-2025-03-28/

1 year ago

ByteDance Releases MegaTTS3

https://github.com/bytedance/MegaTTS3

1 year ago

Estimating Camera Motion from a Single Motion-Blurred Image

https://jerredchen.github.io/image-as-imu/

1 year ago

Nobody should be a "content creator"

https://christianheilmann.com/2025/03/12/nobody-should-be-a-content-creator/

1 year ago

Talkin’ about a Revolution

https://drb.ie/articles/talkin-about-a-revolution/

1 year ago

Revolving Door: Ex FCC Boss Ajit Pai Promoted to Top Wireless Industry Lobbyist

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/the-revolving-door-spins-former-trump-fcc-boss-ajit-pai-promoted-to-top-wireless-industry-lobbyist/

1 year ago

US no longer a reliable partner, old relationship is over: Canadian PM Carney

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/us-no-longer-a-reliable-partner-old-relationship-is-over-canadian-pm-carney/

1 year ago

Anti-Orbit Laser Submarines (2017)

http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2017/10/anti-orbit-laser-submarines.html

1 year ago

Superhyperbola

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/03/27/superhyperbola/

1 year ago

TV is watching you – Companies inventing new ways to make money off your data

https://www.vox.com/technology/405879/roku-amazon-netflix-moana-disney

1 year ago

Mid-pregnancy pollution exposure linked to postpartum depression

https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/mid-pregnancy-pollution-exposure-linked-postpartum-depression-new-study-suggests

1 year ago

SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal

https://signalbot.one/

1 year ago

Flight bookings from Canada to the US plummet over 70%

https://www.newsweek.com/canada-us-flight-bookings-fall-70-percent-2051327

1 year ago

Show HN: I made a C program to create a vanity SHA-1 hash for a text file

https://gist.github.com/o0101/77eb378b5076fe47c3336583330ac615

1 year ago

On Tyranny [book]

https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny

1 year ago