top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-29

Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

https://peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-use

2 years ago

The Guardian flourishes without a paywall

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-the-guardian-us-flourishes-without-a-paywall.html

2 years ago

Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software

https://tedium.co/2025/03/29/severance-apple-remote-editing-weirdness/

2 years ago

Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gmggp2y99o

2 years ago

A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up

https://www.captrice.io/

2 years ago

Convert Linux to Windows

https://philipbohun.com/blog/0007.html

2 years ago

Postgres Language Server: Initial Release

https://github.com/supabase-community/postgres-language-server

2 years ago

Self-contained Python scripts with uv

http://blog.dusktreader.dev/2025/03/29/self-contained-python-scripts-with-uv/

2 years ago

Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing

https://veloren.net/

2 years ago

Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen

https://github.com/Rukenshia/pomodoro

2 years ago

Plain – a web framework for building products with Python

https://plainframework.com/

2 years ago

Paged Out #6 [pdf]

https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_006.pdf

2 years ago

Et Tu, Grammarly?

https://dbushell.com/2025/03/29/et-tu-grammarly/

2 years ago

What to Do

https://paulgraham.com/do.html

2 years ago

Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account

https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/114242475168860209

2 years ago

When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/when-the-physicists-need-burner-phones-thats-when-you-know-americas-changed

2 years ago

Real Time Chess – A physical chess board without the concept of turns

https://github.com/misprit7/real-time-chess

2 years ago

How IMAP works under the hood

https://blog.lohr.dev/imap-introduction

2 years ago

Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension

https://cloudisland.nz/@rmi/114219847307106213

2 years ago

Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores

https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-attacks-on-universities-get

2 years ago

Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines

https://richardzach.org/2025/03/accessible-open-textbooks-in-math-heavy-disciplines/

2 years ago

Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11

https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

2 years ago

Madison Square Garden's surveillance banned this fan over his T-shirt design

https://www.theverge.com/news/637228/madison-square-garden-james-dolan-facial-recognition-fan-ban

2 years ago

The Koto Programming Language

https://koto.dev/

2 years ago

Lvgl: Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs

https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl

2 years ago

OpenWrt Two Approval

https://openwrt.org/voting/2025-02-12-openwrt-two

2 years ago

Matrix Calculus (For Machine Learning and Beyond)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14787

2 years ago

iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured?

https://www.mail-tester.com/test-p3tdhnk3o

2 years ago

Towards fearless SIMD, 7 years later

https://linebender.org/blog/towards-fearless-simd/

2 years ago

Commercials that David Lynch directed (2018)

https://www.openculture.com/2018/07/watch-commercials-david-lynch-directed-big-30-minute-compilation.html

2 years ago

Atop 2.11 heap problems

https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/03/29/1

2 years ago

The Candid Naivety of Geeks

https://ploum.net/2025-03-28-geeks-naivety.html

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight

https://knightride.rakhim.org/

2 years ago

Experimental Tauri Verso Integration

https://v2.tauri.app/blog/tauri-verso-integration/

2 years ago

Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/tech/apple-ai-artificial-intelligence/index.html

2 years ago

Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink

https://sambroner.com/posts/raspberry-pi-train

2 years ago

Vramfs: Vram Based Filesystem for Linux

https://github.com/Overv/vramfs

2 years ago

Typed Japanese

https://github.com/typedgrammar/typed-japanese

2 years ago

The Real Story Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-real-story-behind-sam-altman-firing-from-openai-efd51a5d

2 years ago

Sales Compensation Simulator

https://www.exec.com/sales-comp

2 years ago

Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices

https://blog.container-solutions.com/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-architects-about-microservices

2 years ago

Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job

https://hackread.com/twitter-x-of-2-8-billion-data-leak-an-insider-job/

2 years ago

Show HN: Appear as anyone in video calls like zoom or Google meets

https://www.phazr.ai/

2 years ago

Scammers Steal $1T a Year – Mostly from Americans

https://www.wired.com/video/watch/incognito-mode-romance-scams

2 years ago

ICE detains Harvard researcher from Russia who protested Ukraine war

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/28/harvard-researcher-detained-ice-russia-deportation/

2 years ago

One Last Ride for Antarctica's 'Ivan the Terra Bus'

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/antarctica-ivan-the-terra-bus-retired

2 years ago

Madison Square Garden Bans Fan After Surveillance System IDs Him as CEO Critic

https://gizmodo.com/madison-square-garden-bans-fan-after-surveillance-system-ids-him-as-a-critic-of-its-ceo-2000582132

2 years ago

Why America now eats a crazy number of avocados

https://www.wsj.com/business/avocado-prices-tariffs-mexico-imports-3a951021

2 years ago

Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-symmetry-quarks-broken.html

2 years ago

Decline of cash credited for drop in surgery for children swallowing objects

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/28/decline-of-cash-credited-for-drop-in-nhs-surgery-for-children-swallowing-objects

2 years ago

Mathematical Compact Models of Advanced Transistors [pdf]

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2018/EECS-2018-24.pdf

2 years ago

Scientists uncover key mechanism in evolution: Whole-genome duplication drives

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250326221649.htm

2 years ago

RFK Jr. forces out FDA's top vaccine scientist, Peter Marks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/28/rfk-jr-fda-vaccine-scientist-peter-marks/

2 years ago

Canoeing on the Danube

http://jameswarnersmith.co.uk/canoeing-the-continent/canoeing-the-danube

2 years ago