top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-25

Chat Control is back, two weeks after the EU's previous attempt

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/?foo=bar

5 months ago

Thoughts on Slowing the Fuck Down

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-the-fuck-down/

5 months ago

Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green (2025)

https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-many-control-rooms-were-seafoam

5 months ago

Running Tesla Model 3's Computer on My Desk Using Parts from Crashed Cars

https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/tesla/2026/03/23/running-tesla-model-3s-computer-on-my-desk-using-parts-from-crashed-cars/

5 months ago

Personal Encyclopedias

https://whoami.wiki/blog/personal-encyclopedias

5 months ago

Slovenian officials catch Israeli firm Black Cube trying to manipulate vote

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/spies-lies-and-fake-investors-in-disguise-how-plotters-tried-to-flip-a-european-election-1f42b39a

5 months ago

Miscellanea: The War in Iran

https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/

5 months ago

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme-compression/

5 months ago

Flighty Airports

https://flighty.com/airports

5 months ago

Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/technology/social-media-trial-verdict.html

5 months ago

ARC-AGI-3

https://arcprize.org/arc-agi/3

5 months ago

Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/3/11.html

5 months ago

Apple Just Lost Me

https://andregarzia.com/2026/03/apple-just-lost-me.html

5 months ago

Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql75dn07n2o

5 months ago

Antimatter has been transported for the first time

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00950-w

5 months ago

Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/supreme-court-cox-music-copyright.html

5 months ago

Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/

5 months ago

VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS

https://v-os.dev

5 months ago

Local LLM by Ente

https://ente.com/blog/ensu/

5 months ago

Quantization from the Ground Up

https://ngrok.com/blog/quantization

5 months ago

FreeCAD Version 1.1 Released

https://blog.freecad.org/2026/03/25/freecad-version-1-1-released/

5 months ago

90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars

https://www.claudescode.dev/?window=since_launch

5 months ago

In Edison’s Revenge, Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC

https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-dc

5 months ago

Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist

https://blog.literarily-starved.com/2026/02/technology-the-nearly-perfect-usb-cable-tester-does-exist/

5 months ago

The Bee That Everyone Wants to Save

https://naturalist.bearblog.dev/the-bee-that-everyone-wants-to-save/

5 months ago

Jury says Meta knowingly harmed children for profit, awarding landmark verdict

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-03-25/jury-says-meta-knowingly-harmed-children-for-profit-awarding-landmark-verdict

5 months ago

Tracy Kidder, Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' Dies at 80

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/tracy-kidder-dead.html

5 months ago

I Forked Httpx

https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/httpxyz.html

5 months ago

Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/11-year-dog-reunion-9.7140780

5 months ago

Fiber optic cables reveal a serious problem at the heart of modern farming

https://grist.org/drought/fiber-optic-cables-reveal-a-serious-problem-at-the-heart-of-modern-farming/

5 months ago

Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min charging and 450 km range

https://electrek.co/2026/03/25/sodium-ion-ev-battery-delivers-11-min-charging-450-km-range/

5 months ago

China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000

https://kdwalmsley.substack.com/p/on-sale-now-china-is-mass-producing

5 months ago

Ball Pit

https://codepen.io/mrdoob_/full/NPRwLZd

5 months ago

I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260324-i-tried-to-prove-im-not-an-ai-deepfake

5 months ago

US Army raises enlistment age to 42 and removes marijuana waiver requirement

https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN42922-AR_601-210-000-WEB-1.pdf

5 months ago

Health NZ staff told to stop using ChatGPT to write clinical notes

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/590645/health-nz-staff-told-to-stop-using-chatgpt-to-write-clinical-notes

5 months ago

Show HN: A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code

https://lab.puga.com.br/cog/

5 months ago

Sony V. Cox Decision Reversed

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/607/24-171/

5 months ago

Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer

https://github.com/dbrll/ATTN-11

5 months ago

A Eulogy for Vim

https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2026-03-25-Forking-vim.html

5 months ago

"Disregard That" Attacks

https://calpaterson.com/disregard.html

5 months ago

.apks are just .zips; semi-legally hacking software for orphaned hardware [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1kfuCkWo24

5 months ago

A Love Letter to 'Girl Games'

https://aftermath.site/a-love-letter-to-girl-games/

5 months ago

Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2rew2dgzzo

5 months ago

21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains

https://jacobfilipp.com/yu/

5 months ago

How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

https://theintercept.com/2026/03/25/ice-airports-phone-security-privacy-safety/

5 months ago

Meta and Google found liable in social media addiction trial

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c747x7gz249o

5 months ago

Building a coding agent in Swift from scratch

https://github.com/ivan-magda/swift-claude-code

5 months ago

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/03/26/tick-tick-boom-1929-andrew-ross-sorkin/

5 months ago