top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-31

How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/how-each-pillar-of-the-1st-amendment-is-under-attack/

2 years ago

Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed

https://9to5google.com/2025/03/31/honey-extension-users-dropped-chrome-march-2025/

2 years ago

Stop syncing everything

https://sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-syncing-everything/

2 years ago

The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden

https://www.goto80.com/the-demoscene-as-a-unesco-heritage-in-sweden

2 years ago

Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

https://doublepulsar.com/oracle-attempt-to-hide-serious-cybersecurity-incident-from-customers-in-oracle-saas-service-9231c8daff4a

2 years ago

The <select> element can now be customized with CSS

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/a-customizable-select

2 years ago

Go Optimization Guide

https://goperf.dev/

2 years ago

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison

https://composio.dev/blog/gemini-2-5-pro-vs-claude-3-7-sonnet-coding-comparison/

2 years ago

AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please

https://www.sergey.fyi/articles/reliability-vs-capability

2 years ago

New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00945-z

2 years ago

KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader

https://github.com/koreader/koreader

2 years ago

It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018)

https://www.thephcheese.com/theres-white-stuff-growing-on-your-cheese-that-isnt-mold

2 years ago

Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)

https://eater.net/8bit/

2 years ago

James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-that-most-galaxies-rotate-clockwise-180986224/

2 years ago

Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits (2020)

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/8/21051869/indoor-air-pollution-student-achievement

2 years ago

MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

https://thelibertyline.com/2025/03/30/yankees-new-torpedo-bat/

2 years ago

ToS;DR

https://tosdr.org/en

2 years ago

Study finds solo music listening boosts social well-being

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-solo-music-boosts-social.html

2 years ago

Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride

2 years ago

France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/france-fines-apple-e150m-for-excessive-pop-ups-that-let-users-reject-tracking/

2 years ago

A decision to eject from a failing F-35B fighter and the betrayal in its wake

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/special_reports/marine-fighter-jet-eject-north-charleston/article_80d55e4a-f600-11ef-8ef4-03f14319ce57.html

2 years ago

Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C and C++

https://best.openssf.org/Compiler-Hardening-Guides/Compiler-Options-Hardening-Guide-for-C-and-C++.html

2 years ago

Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

https://github.com/lharries/whatsapp-mcp

2 years ago

The Egg (2009)

https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg.html

2 years ago

Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta

https://turso.tech/blog/turso-offline-sync-public-beta

2 years ago

John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-were-we-all-doing-here-my-600-mile-trip-to-hear-an-organ-play-a-d-natural/

2 years ago

Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/31/france-marine-le-pen-embezzlement-verdict-europe-news-live

2 years ago

Everything is Ghibli

https://carly.substack.com/p/everything-is-ghibli

2 years ago

JEP draft: Prepare to make final mean final

https://openjdk.org/jeps/8349536

2 years ago

Win98-quickinstall: A framework and installer to quickly install Windows 98

https://github.com/oerg866/win98-quickinstall

2 years ago

Kagi for Kids

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/family-plan.html#kidslogin

2 years ago

Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)

https://aumont.fr/posts/FreeBSD-Home-Server/

2 years ago

Apple's Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection

https://github.com/apple/ml-cubifyanything

2 years ago

Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry

https://www.righto.com/2025/03/pentium-microcde-rom-circuitry.html

2 years ago

Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models (Anthropic)

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

2 years ago

Browsercraft: Java Minecraft in the browser

https://browsercraft.cheerpj.com/

2 years ago

Microsoft employees recall their early years

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-turns-50-4-employees-recall-their-early-years/

2 years ago

BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

https://breezewiki.com/

2 years ago

Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from c. 1300

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merlin-manuscript-discovered-cambridge

2 years ago

How to Secure Existing C and C++ Software Without Memory Safety [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21145

2 years ago

LLM Workflows then Agents: Getting Started with Apache Airflow

https://github.com/astronomer/airflow-ai-sdk

2 years ago

AI image recognition detects bubble-like structures in the universe

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-ai-image-recognition-universe.html

2 years ago

OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback

https://openai.com/open-model-feedback/

2 years ago

Show HN: JavaScript PubSub in 163 Bytes

https://github.com/hassanshaikley/pico-pubsub

2 years ago

Launch HN: Augento (YC W25) – Fine-tune your agents with reinforcement learning

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43537505

2 years ago

Automating Interactive Fiction Logic Generation with LLMs in Emacs

https://blog.tendollaradventure.com/automating-story-logic-with-llms/

2 years ago

Debugging Lotus 1-2-3 by fax

https://blog.jgc.org/2025/03/debugging-lotus-1-2-3-by-fax.html

2 years ago

The US Assault on Science: National Academies Letter

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/science/trump-science-nas-letter.html

2 years ago

Palma 2

https://shop.boox.com/products/palma2

2 years ago

Microsoft reports several bootloader vulnerabilities

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/31/analyzing-open-source-bootloaders-finding-vulnerabilities-faster-with-ai/

2 years ago

Taming the UB Monsters in C++

https://herbsutter.com/2025/03/30/crate-training-tiamat-un-calling-cthulhutaming-the-ub-monsters-in-c/

2 years ago

Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale of 'Coyote vs Acme'

https://deadline.com/2025/03/coyote-vs-acme-warner-bros-sale-complete-ketchup-1236354552/

2 years ago

New nanoparticle therapies target two major killers

https://www.science.org/content/article/new-nanoparticle-therapies-target-two-major-killers

2 years ago

The Average College Student Is Illiterate

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-average-college-student-is-illiterate

2 years ago

United States Disappeared Tracker

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

2 years ago

Declarative Web Push

https://webkit.org/blog/16535/meet-declarative-web-push/

2 years ago

Runway Gen-4

https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4

2 years ago

Show HN: GuMCP – Open-source MCP servers, hosted for free

https://github.com/gumloop/guMCP

2 years ago

An AlphaStation's SROM

https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-03-30/

2 years ago

Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam

https://ewintr.nl/posts/2025/dipping-my-toes-in-openbsd-in-amsterdam/

2 years ago

Amazon introduces Nova Chat

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/amazon-nova-website-sdk

2 years ago

Village Roadshow Entertainment has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-03-17/joker-matrix-studio-village-roadshow-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy

2 years ago

There is no Vibe Engineering

https://serce.me/posts/2025-31-03-there-is-no-vibe-engineering

2 years ago

Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore's Law is dead and buried

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/29/nvidia_moores_law/

2 years ago

Showcase: Working on a voice/text chat app in a cyberpunk style

https://static.mollohq.com/molly-0.0.1-showcase.mp4

2 years ago

Show HN: I made Confetti: a configuration language file format

https://confetti.hgs3.me/

2 years ago