top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-30

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/

1 year ago

TV Garden

https://tv.garden/

1 year ago

The average college student today

https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today

1 year ago

Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room

https://github.com/winblues/blue95

1 year ago

Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders

https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/

1 year ago

Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527452

1 year ago

My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened?

https://support.vizio.com/s/article/Ambient-or-Scenic-Mode-showing-on-my-TV?language=en_US

1 year ago

Public secrets exposure leads to supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQL

https://www.praetorian.com/blog/codeqleaked-public-secrets-exposure-leads-to-supply-chain-attack-on-github-codeql/

1 year ago

Buy once, use forever A directory of one-time purchase software

https://buyoncesoftware.com/

1 year ago

Introduction to System Programming in Linux (Early Access)

https://nostarch.com/introduction-system-programming-linux

1 year ago

A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports

https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/a-6-hour-time-stretched-version-of-brian-enos-music-for-airports.html

1 year ago

Rust Any part 3: we have upcasts

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/3/27/any-upcast/

1 year ago

Show HN: Cloud-Ready Postgres MCP Server

https://github.com/stuzero/pg-mcp

1 year ago

Why is this site built with C

https://marcelofern.com/posts/c/why-is-this-site-built-with-c/index.html

1 year ago

Trump's Police Are Now Disappearing Students for Their Op-Eds

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/trumps-secret-police-are-now-disappearing-students-for-their-op-eds/

1 year ago

Met Police smash down door of Quaker meeting house to arrest activists

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/met-smash-down-door-of-quaker-meeting-house-to-arrest-activists-jhhchrtlt

1 year ago

Span<T>.SequenceEquals is faster than memcmp

https://richardcocks.github.io/2025-03-30-FasterThanMemCmp.html

1 year ago

Four Lectures on Standard ML (1989) [pdf]

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/mads-tofte/four-lectures.pdf

1 year ago

ICE Arrested and Detained a US Citizen for Hours Because He Looked Mexican

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/28/ice-arrested-and-detained-a-us-citizen-for-hours-because-he-looked-mexican/

1 year ago

Man Detained by ICE for Autism Awareness Tattoo Sent to Prison

https://www.latintimes.com/man-detained-ice-autism-awareness-tattoo-still-sent-prison-after-officers-declared-him-clean-579373

1 year ago

Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114233788700982882

1 year ago

Raising Kids to Have an Analog Childhood in a Digital World

https://www.joshuakennon.com/raising-kids-to-have-an-analogue-childhood-in-a-digital-world/

1 year ago

Hacker Laws

https://hacker-laws.com/

1 year ago

ICE Revoking Students' Immigration Statuses Without Their or the Uni's Knowledge

https://zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revoking-university-students-residency-status-middle-east

1 year ago

Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball

https://blog.ploopy.co/the-classic-2-is-here-186

1 year ago

Why a plane turned around when a passenger lost a phone midflight

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/03/28/air-france-lost-cellphone/

1 year ago

Converting a Go-Kart into a Deathtrap

https://matto.io/posts/converting-a-go-kart-into-a-deathtrap/

1 year ago

Oka.wiki

https://oka.wiki/

1 year ago

Can Earth's rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claim

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00847-0

1 year ago

Trump says he is not joking about third presidential term

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-is-not-joking-about-third-presidential-term-2025-03-30/

1 year ago

MAME 0.276

https://www.mamedev.org/?p=549

1 year ago

Kalua: An OpenWrt extension for building large mesh-networks

https://github.com/bittorf/kalua

1 year ago

Tail Call Recursion in Java with ASM (2023)

https://unlinkedlist.org/2023/03/19/tail-call-recursion-in-java-with-asm/

1 year ago

Isar Aerospace launches Spectrum, fails early in first stage flight

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/03/isar-first-launch/

1 year ago

Private Equity Is Coming for America's $12T in Retirement Savings

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-25/retirement-saving-private-equity-comes-for-america-s-401-k

1 year ago

The Secret History of the War in Ukraine

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html

1 year ago

Xfinity XB3 hardware mod: Disable WiFi and save 2 watts

https://gist.github.com/pmarks-net/af40dba69272806c1ec9cbe71429d2e7

1 year ago

An Ode to the Game Boy Advance

https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/03/an-ode-to-the-game-boy-advance/

1 year ago

The Nobel Duel

https://www.asimov.press/p/nobel-duel

1 year ago

The Child and the Shadow (1975) [pdf]

https://www.johnirons.com/pdfs/shadowleguin.pdf

1 year ago

Breaking up with vibe coding

https://www.lucasaguiar.xyz/posts/vibe-coding-pitfalls/

1 year ago

Luigi Mangione-inspired ballot initiative targets health insurance denials

https://www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangione-inspired-ballot-initiative-targets-health-insurance-denials-2052789

1 year ago

File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Back Ends (2019)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3341301.3359656

1 year ago

It's the hottest car company. You can't buy one in America

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/cars/china-byd-profile-tesla-rival-intl-hnk/index.html

1 year ago

USGS: M 7.1 Earthquake – 90 km SE of Pangai, Tonga

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000pntq/executive

1 year ago

'Catastrophic': Canadian bookings for U.S. travel drop sharply

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/where-have-all-the-snowbirds-gone-canadians-cold-on-us-travel/

1 year ago

Open source, 3D-printable smart chess board

https://thangs.com/designer/Concept%20Bytes/3d-model/Open%20Chess%20-%20Smart%20Chess%20Board-1300202

1 year ago

Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force not ruled out

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/29/trump-greenland-military-force-denmark/82722287007/

1 year ago