Hacker News Highlights

I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-wont-connect-my-dishwasher-your-stupid-cloud
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43463200

Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops
https://github.com/chadmed/triforce
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461701

Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-vl-32b/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43464068

Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one
https://heyopenspot.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43454915

German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph
https://abstimmung.eu/git/2024
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43466509

The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to exist
https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43433030

Show HN: I'm a teacher and built an AI presentation tool
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451141

Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete
https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2025-march-mastering-delphi5-annotated-complete.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43462299

Autology: A Lisp with access to its own interpreter
https://github.com/Kimbsy/autology
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434010

Project Operation Whitecoat (2010)
https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1201&context=history-in-the-making
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43462882

Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs
https://eugeneyan.com/writing/recsys-llm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43450732

Show HN: I built website for sharing Drum Patterns
http://drumpatterns.onether.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452629

23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/dna-testing-firm-23andme-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy-sell-itself-2025-03-24/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43457666

A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset
https://www.righto.com/2025/03/mother-of-all-demos-usb-keyset-interface.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43453582

The SeL4 Microkernel: An Introduction [pdf]
https://sel4.systems/About/seL4-whitepaper.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452185

Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notes-sight-reading-trainer/id874386416
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43456030

Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction
https://www.turing.ac.uk/blog/project-aardvark-reimagining-ai-weather-prediction
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43456723

Technicalities of Homeworld 2 Backgrounds
https://simonschreibt.de/gat/homeworld-2-backgrounds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452688

Supply Chain Attacks on Linux Distributions – Fedora Pagure
https://fenrisk.com/pagure
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416605

RDNA 4's “Out-of-Order” Memory Accesses
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/rdna-4s-out-of-order-memory-accesses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43456341

Crabtime: Zig’s Comptime in Rust
https://crates.io/crates/crabtime
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43415820

California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-urgently-issues-consumer-alert-23andme-customers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43447421

Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers
https://github.com/Zouuup/landrun
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43445662

PyTorch Internals: Ezyang's Blog
https://blog.ezyang.com/2019/05/pytorch-internals/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43445931

NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor
https://luj.fr/blog/how-nixos-could-have-detected-xz.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43448075

Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision
https://blog.mozilla.ai/map-features-in-openstreetmap-with-computer-vision/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43447335

Differential Geometry: A First Course in Curves and Surfaces [pdf]
https://math.franklin.uga.edu/sites/default/files/users/user317/ShifrinDiffGeo.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43445614

Show HN: FastOpenAPI – automated docs for many Python frameworks
https://github.com/mr-fatalyst/fastopenapi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43445720

Mathematical Methods for Physics [pdf]
https://www.ma.imperial.ac.uk/~dturaev/Mathematical_Methods2021.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43448193

France rejects backdoor mandate
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440513

Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)
https://kellblog.com/2015/03/08/career-development-what-it-really-means-to-be-a-manager-director-or-vp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434093

IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol
https://github.com/Devolutions/IronRDP
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43436894

The little book about OS development
https://littleosbook.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440473

Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning (2022)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13446
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440267

Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
https://www.oncontracts.com/monster-cables-picked-the-wrong-guy-to-threaten/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43442178

Liberapay
https://en.liberapay.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398539

‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/blueys-world-success-puppy-juggernaut-1236164905/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410874

George Foreman has died
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/george-foreman-boxer-infomercial-star-dies-1236345523/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43442917

Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1014002/580b8750bf02cf41/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43403821

Claude can now search the web
https://www.anthropic.com/news/web-search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43425655

The Burnout Machine
https://unionize.fyi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427002

The Frontend Treadmill
https://polotek.net/posts/the-frontend-treadmill/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422162

OpenAI Audio Models
https://www.openai.fm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426022

Understanding Solar Energy
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/understanding-solar-energy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422033

Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web
https://github.com/smparsons/retroboy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43429417

ACARS Drama
https://acarsdrama.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43424065

The Last Drops of Mexico City
https://mexicocitywater.longlead.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423032

The indieweb doesn't need to “take off”
https://susam.net/indieweb-does-not-need-to-take-off.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43431068

Build a Container Image from Scratch
https://danishpraka.sh/posts/build-a-container-image-from-scratch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43396172

How fast the days are getting longer (2023)
https://joe-antognini.github.io/astronomy/daylight
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43413935

AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding
https://ezyang.github.io/ai-blindspots/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43414393

The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
https://www.feldera.com/blog/the-pain-that-is-github-actions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43419701

Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia
https://news.err.ee/1609634600/muons-used-to-test-the-condition-of-a-road-bridge-in-estonia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378358

Bolt3D: Generating 3D Scenes in Seconds
https://szymanowiczs.github.io/bolt3d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43417932

Fine-tune Google's Gemma 3
https://unsloth.ai/blog/gemma3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43414235

LLM Agents Are Simply Graph – Tutorial for Dummies
https://zacharyhuang.substack.com/p/llm-agent-internal-as-a-graph-tutorial
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43417511

Orpheus-3B – Emotive TTS by Canopy Labs
https://canopylabs.ai/model-releases
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43417894

DESI Opens Access to the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Yet
https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/03/19/desi-opens-access-to-the-largest-3d-map-of-the-universe-yet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43418184

Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43414405

Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43401245

Two new PebbleOS watches
https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watches/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43400989

Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)
https://ericdraken.com/pfsense-decrypt-ad-traffic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43396735

US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rejects-copyrights-ai-generated-art-lacking-human-creator-2025-03-18/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402790

Google to buy Wiz for $32B
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/google-agrees-buy-cybersecurity-startup-wiz-32-bln-ft-reports-2025-03-18/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518

Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date
https://bluemigrate.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43401855

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
https://gist.github.com/jwbee/7e8b27e298de8bbbf8abfa4c232db097
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43406710

Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402315

Designing Electronics That Work
https://www.hscott.net/designing-electronics-that-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43401179

Show HN: I made a live multiplayer Minesweeper game
https://www.minesweeperpro.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398081

GIMP 3.0
https://testing.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43393822

Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43390400

HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
https://httptoolkit.com/blog/http3-quic-open-source-support-nowhere/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360251

Archival Storage
https://blog.dshr.org/2025/03/archival-storage.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43391459

Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers
https://x.company/blog/posts/taara-graduation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43390467

The High Heel Problem
https://simonschreibt.de/gat/the-high-heel-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43392549

Moving away from US cloud services
https://martijnhols.nl/blog/moving-away-from-us-cloud-services
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43396795

Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/towards-extracting-content-from-an-lcp-protected-epub/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378627

Rippling sues Deel over spying
https://twitter.com/parkerconrad/status/1901615179718406276
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43388133

Show HN: OpenTimes – Free travel times between U.S. Census geographies
https://opentimes.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43392521

Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline
https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378239

Sunsetting Whois
https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-update-launching-rdap-sunsetting-whois-27-01-2025-en
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384069

The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enabled no longer available
https://discuss.systems/@dev/114161826926246661
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43385268

That Time I Recreated Photoshop in C++
https://f055.net/technology/that-time-i/that-time-i-recreated-photoshop-in-c/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374278

Zlib-rs is faster than C
https://trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs-is-faster-than-c/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43381512

Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-URI
https://blog.gitbutler.com/going-down-the-rabbit-hole-of-gits-new-bundle-uri/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43353223

DiceDB
https://dicedb.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43379262

When the Dotcom Bubble Burst
https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-the-dotcom-bubble-burst/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43380453

Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function?
https://profmattstrassler.com/2025/03/13/did-the-particle-go-through-the-two-slits-or-did-the-wave-function/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43353947

Teach, Don't Tell (2013)
https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/09/teach-dont-tell/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43380833

Milk Kanban
https://brodzinski.com/2025/03/milk-kanban.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43373157

Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file
https://keepworking.github.io/nash/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358914

Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
https://github.com/giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43376824

Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
https://github.com/christian-fei/my-yt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43373242

Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials
https://github.blog/security/sign-in-as-anyone-bypassing-saml-sso-authentication-with-parser-differentials/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374519

So Long and Thanks for All the Words: A Toast to Douglas Adams
https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/adams-birthday-toast/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331706

Career Advice in 2025
https://lethain.com/career-advice-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43375923

Wyvern's Open Satellite Feed
https://tech.marksblogg.com/wyvern-open-data-feed.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340651

What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)
https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/stanford-research-on-effects-of-radioactivity-from-bikini-atoll-nuclear-tests-on-coral-and-crab-dna-48459144020c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43335987

Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields
https://therasr.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43371583