Hacker News Highlights

Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update
https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Home-Theater/Samsung-Q990D-unresponsive-after-1020-firmware-update/td-p/3168571
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364016

RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
https://github.com/crmne/ruby_llm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331847

A look at Firefox forks
https://lwn.net/Articles/1012453/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43361959

Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging
https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363031

Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325049

Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
https://www.theverge.com/news/629620/apple-iphone-e2ee-encryption-rcs-messaging-android
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43361822

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363056

Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised
https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/popular-github-action-tj-actionschanged-files-is-compromised/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43368870

Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs
https://tinyhack.com/2025/03/13/decrypting-encrypted-files-from-akira-ransomware-linux-esxi-variant-2024-using-a-bunch-of-gpus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43365083

Kerning, the Hard Way
https://home.octetfont.com/blog/kerning-hard.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43366479

OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-asks-white-house-relief-100000706.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43352531

The Lost Art of Logarithms
https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356314

"Normal" engineers are the key to great teams
https://spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356995

IO Devices and Latency
https://planetscale.com/blog/io-devices-and-latency
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43355031

Steam Networks
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/steam-networks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43353822

Amateur Telescope Making Main Page
https://stellafane.org/tm/atm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351988

Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/y-combinator-urges-the-white-house-to-support-europes-digital-markets-act/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43357739

Statistical Formulas for Programmers (2013)
https://www.evanmiller.org/statistical-formulas-for-programmers.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43353551

Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/ex-facebook-director-book-brutal-image-zuckerberg-20220239.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360024

Show HN: Bubbles, a vanilla JavaScript web game
https://ehmorris.com/bubbles/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43355658

Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347662

Gemini Robotics
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-brings-ai-into-the-physical-world/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344082

The DuckDB Local UI
https://duckdb.org/2025/03/12/duckdb-ui.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43342712

Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
https://github.com/kern/filepizza
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43342361

Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/Gemma3Report.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340491

Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
https://mozillapetition.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340948

The Future Is Niri
https://ersei.net/en/blog/niri
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43342178

Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its adherence and adoption
https://github.com/openui/open-ui
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308278

I stopped everything and started writing C again
https://www.kmx.io/blog/why-stopped-everything-and-started-writing-C-again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340731

Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
https://www.eggnog.ai/entertimeportal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347306

A 10x Faster TypeScript
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332830

Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator
https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1899092996702048709
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332658

Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories
https://jackhopkins.github.io/factorio-learning-environment/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331582

Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library
https://medium.com/@caitlin9165/fastplotlib-driving-scientific-discovery-through-data-visualization-418f8bff094c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43334190

What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)
https://seeinglogic.com/posts/visual-readability-patterns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43330900

New tools for building agents
https://openai.com/index/new-tools-for-building-agents/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43334644

The Startup CTO's Handbook
https://github.com/ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook/blob/main/StartupCTOHandbook.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337703

The US island that speaks Elizabethan English
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332752

NASA to launch space observatory that will map 450M galaxies
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-spherex-space-observatory-launch-map-galaxies-universe-rcna190877
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296184

Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/Gemma3Report.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340491

Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors
https://exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical-articles-CLT-12-autofocus-systems.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320230

Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322245

Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
https://blog.ecosia.org/trees-not-profits/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317887

Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05244
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318624

Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning
https://github.com/MathFoundationRL/Book-Mathematical-Foundation-of-Reinforcement-Learning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323946

Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
https://www.seven39.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43328095

3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/so-powerful-its-kind-of-ridiculous
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43287327

Software-Defined Radio for Engineers (2018) [pdf]
https://www.analog.com/media/en/training-seminars/design-handbooks/Software-Defined-Radio-for-Engineers-2018/SDR4Engineers.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323071

What made the Irish famine so deadly
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/rot-padraic-x-scanlan-book-review
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326275

Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/firmware-update-bricks-hp-printers-makes-them-unable-to-use-hp-cartridges/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323923

It is as if you were on your phone
https://pippinbarr.com/it-is-as-if-you-were-on-your-phone/info/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308994

Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43314781

I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
https://twitter.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1898674257808515242
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43307809

Apple Exclaves
https://randomaugustine.medium.com/on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c37194
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43314657

Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index
https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43311573

Chasing RFI Waves – Part Seven
https://raoulpop.com/2012/04/15/chasing-rfi-waves-part-seven/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43315406

Stanford researchers develop dual-antibody treatment for ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adq5720
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43315634

Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter
https://blog.nelhage.com/post/cpython-tail-call/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317592

Show HN: Evolving Agents Framework
https://github.com/matiasmolinas/evolving-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43310963

Improving on std:count_if()'s auto-vectorization
https://nicula.xyz/2025/03/08/improving-stdcountif-vectorization.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43302394

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00648-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43295692

Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volkswagen-reintroducing-physical-controls-vital-functions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298271

The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
https://www.wired.com/story/the-doj-still-wants-google-to-divest-chrome/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299886

My 16-month theanine self-experiment
https://dynomight.net/theanine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43305803

Show HN: I built an app to get daily wisdom from Mr. Worldwide
https://daale.club/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43304785

Discworld Rules
https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-rules
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299815

Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal
https://github.com/mfontanini/presenterm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43303752

The program is the database is the interface
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-program-is-the-database-is-the-interface/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43300528

Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP
https://glthr.com/discovering-errors-in-donald-knuths-taocp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301342

Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed
https://tzx.notion.site/What-I-Learned-Building-a-Free-Semantic-Search-Tool-for-GitHub-and-Why-I-Failed-1a09b742c7918033b318f3a5d7dc9751
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299659

Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292820

Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI
https://techstartups.com/2025/03/07/microsoft-is-plotting-a-future-without-openai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292946

Introducing command And commandfor In HTML
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/command-and-commandfor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292056

Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/feds-link-150m-cyberheist-to-2022-lastpass-hacks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296656

Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment
https://github.com/directvt/vtm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43291946

Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43291922

Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/07/athena-spacecraft-mission-dead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292471

Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere
https://pola.rs/posts/polars-cloud-what-we-are-building/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43294566

Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics
https://www.mooncake.dev/blog/clickbench-v0.1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270712

Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/01/21/production-engineering/strobelight-a-profiling-service-built-on-open-source-technology/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43290555

Mistral OCR
https://mistral.ai/fr/news/mistral-ocr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282905

Succinct Data Structures
https://blog.startifact.com/posts/succinct/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282995

Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-surprisingly-difficult-mathematical-proof-that-anime-fans-helped-solve/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282133

Show HN: CodeTracer – A new time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust
https://github.com/metacraft-labs/codetracer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43280615

Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata
https://google-research.github.io/self-organising-systems/difflogic-ca/?hn
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43286161

Reintroductions of beavers into the wild in several parts of England
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/beavers-are-coming-home
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43241589

Using GRPO to Beat o1, o3-mini and R1 at "Temporal Clue"
https://openpipe.ai/blog/using-grpo-to-beat-o1-o3-mini-and-r1-on-temporal-clue
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43284420

Rayhunter – Rust tool to detect cell site simulators on an orbic mobile hotspot
https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43283917

50 Years in Filesystems: 1984
https://blog.koehntopp.info/2023/05/06/50-years-in-filesystems-1984.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43283498

Why I find diffusion models interesting?
https://rnikhil.com/2025/03/06/diffusion-models-eval
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43285726

Apple M3 Ultra
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-reveals-m3-ultra-taking-apple-silicon-to-a-new-extreme/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266453

Tailscale is pretty useful
https://blog.6nok.org/tailscale-is-pretty-useful/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270835

MacBook Air M4
https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266537

Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/apple_reportedly_ipt_complaint/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270079

The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide
https://apnews.com/article/us-air-quality-monitors-8270927bbd0f166238243ac9d14bce03
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43274821

QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270843

Git without a forge
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/git-no-forge/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43272275

Things we've learned about building products
https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/50-things-weve-learned-about-building
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43267095

DeepSeek-R1-671B-Q4_K_M with 1 or 2 Arc A770 on Xeon
https://github.com/intel/ipex-llm/blob/main/docs/mddocs/Quickstart/llamacpp_portable_zip_gpu_quickstart.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43274613

There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-05/there-was-a-texas-lottery-arbitrage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43269846