Hacker News Highlights

Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard
https://www.graz.io/articles/bayleaf-wireless-keyboard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43255529

Why fastDOOM is fast
https://fabiensanglard.net/fastdoom/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258709

Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server
https://www.xmox.nl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261729

ARC-AGI without pretraining
https://iliao2345.github.io/blog_posts/arc_agi_without_pretraining/arc_agi_without_pretraining.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43259182

Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges
https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/brother-accused-of-locking-down-third-party-printer-ink-cartridges-via-firmware-updates-removing-older-firmware-versions-from-support-portals
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261933

The Demoralization is just Beginning
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/03/03/demoralization-is-just-beginning.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261941

Satellogic's Open Satellite Feed
https://tech.marksblogg.com/satellogic-open-data-feed.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43256349

Translating natural language to first-order logic for logical fallacy detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02318
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43257719

Should managers still code?
https://theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/should-managers-still-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43256113

What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/science/cuttlefish-camouflage-huting-crabs.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43254995

Apple's Software Quality Crisis
https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-03-02-apple-quality
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243075

Repairable Flatpack Toaster
https://www.kaseyhou.com/#/repairable-flatpack-toaster/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43246892

The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils (2022)
https://notes.stlartsupply.com/the-golden-age-of-japanese-pencils-1952-1967/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243716

SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale
https://rivet.gg/blog/2025-02-16-sqlite-on-the-server-is-misunderstood
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43244307

The power of interning: making a time series database smaller
https://gendignoux.com/blog/2025/03/03/rust-interning-2000x.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243914

Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit
https://icode4.coffee/?p=1081
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43244739

TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-chip-maker-tsmc-expected-to-announce-100-billion-investment-in-u-s-02a44399
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243580

Let’s code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet and ARP (2016)
https://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-1-ethernet-arp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43250093

Show HN: Knowledge graph of restaurants and chefs, built using LLMs
https://theophilecantelob.re/blog/2025/foudinge/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43242818

Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers [video]
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5381-comparing-fuchsia-components-and-linux-containers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43246703

Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/flow-wins-best-animated-feature-film-oscar-2025-03-03/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43237273

Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
https://www.cnn.com/science/live-news/moon-landing-blue-ghost-03-02-25/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43228816

Solarpunk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43236520

Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll
https://focusfurnace.com/scroll_buddy.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43237581

The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three
https://www.righto.com/2025/03/pentium-multiplier-adder-reverse-engineered.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43233143

Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet
https://zetier.com/speedrunners-are-vulnerability-researchers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43232880

Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200793

Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/hallucinations-in-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43233903

The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/02/the-top-10/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43239249

Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/geothermal-power-is-a-climate-moon-shot-beneath-our-feet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43234089

The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks
https://varun.ch/posts/videowall/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221697

Why it's so hard to build a jet engine
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-its-so-hard-to-build-a-jet-engine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43212952

Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone
https://bengarcia.dev/making-o1-o3-and-sonnet-3-7-hallucinate-for-everyone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222027

The early days of Linux (2023)
https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43225686

Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market
https://www.swapfest.berlin/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43223718

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice
https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43227881

Show HN: I made a website where you can create your own "Life in Weeks" timeline
https://lifeweeks.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43183635

What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports
https://themicrodose.substack.com/p/what-do-people-see-when-theyre-tripping
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43171007

Maestro – Next generation mobile UI automation
https://github.com/mobile-dev-inc/Maestro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43174453

How Flash games shaped the video game industry (2020)
https://www.flashgamehistory.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43225560

Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c625ex282zzt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208973

How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps
https://kibty.town/blog/todesktop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43210858

400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure
https://azsh.it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43210536

Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover
https://news.ufl.edu/2025/02/syrian-violence-epigenetics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43206722

3,200% CPU Utilization
https://josephmate.github.io/2025-02-26-3200p-cpu-util/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43207831

An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213612

Write to Escape Your Default Setting
https://kupajo.com/write-to-escape-your-default-setting/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43206174

Calendar.txt
https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160226

Boris Spassky: 1937–2025
https://en.chessbase.com/post/boris-spassky-1937-2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202982

Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete
https://www.autodidacts.io/troubleshooting/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43170843

GPT-4.5
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-4-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197872

EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197131

Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200604

Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065

Turning a Bluetooth device into an Apple AirTag without root privileges
https://nroottag.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43196207

Solitaire
https://localthunk.com/blog/solitaire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43195516

IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-27-ibm-completes-acquisition-of-hashicorp,-creates-comprehensive,-end-to-end-hybrid-cloud-platform
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43199256

macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
https://saurabhs.org/macos-tips
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201417

There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/02/24/http2-past-the-load-balancer.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168533

A $100 DIY muon tomographer
https://spectrum.ieee.org/diy-muon-tomography
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43195525

TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsluv5FXA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184291

Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43186406

The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18394
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43182325

Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist
https://breakout.lecaro.me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43183131

Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty
https://annas-archive.org/blog/all-isbns-winners.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168838

iMac G4(K)
https://jcs.org/2025/02/26/imacg4k
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43188971

Replace OCR with Vision Language Models
https://github.com/vlm-run/vlmrun-cookbook/blob/main/notebooks/01_schema_showcase.ipynb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187209

Show HN: A Database Written in Golang
https://github.com/Sahilb315/AtomixDB
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43183891

Show HN: Tach – Visualize and untangle your Python codebase
https://github.com/gauge-sh/tach
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43174041

The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/02/22/beverly-hills-hotel-paradise-lost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43186050

I Went to SQL Injection Court
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2025/02/09/fixing-illinois-foia/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175628

Hyperspace
https://hypercritical.co/2025/02/25/hyperspace
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173462

Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/framework-known-for-upgradable-laptops-intros-not-particularly-upgradable-desktop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43176314

DeepGEMM: clean and efficient FP8 GEMM kernels with fine-grained scaling
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepGEMM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43179478

Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
https://dashbit.co/blog/running-python-in-elixir-its-fine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43171239

Part two of Grant Sanderson's video with Terry Tao on the cosmic distance ladder
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114054291471216181
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43151943

Hard problems that reduce to document ranking
https://noperator.dev/posts/document-ranking-for-complex-problems/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43174910

If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2025/02/markdown-saves/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43137616

Bald eagles are thriving again after near extinction
https://www.newsweek.com/bald-eagles-back-brink-extinction-2025097
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154295

Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower case?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capital-letters-smaller-than-qr-codes-with-lower-case-letters/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149077

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-7-sonnet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163011

Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
https://touchgrass.now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158660

Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone
https://www.ericdaigle.ca/posts/breaking-into-dozens-of-apartments-in-five-minutes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160884

Introduction to Stochastic Calculus
https://jiha-kim.github.io/posts/introduction-to-stochastic-calculus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160779

“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”
https://www.jmspae.se/write-ups/kebabs-train-stations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43165112

Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/114059690609284323
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166830

DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1950144
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167087

Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
https://corporate.watch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162340

DeepSeek open source DeepEP – library for MoE training and Inference
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167373

AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyz6e9edy3o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43115548

But good sir, what is electricity?
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/but-good-sir-what-is-electricity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43148438

Vietnamese Graphic Design
https://vietgd.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149266

WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops
https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43151294

DeepSeek Open Source FlashMLA – MLA Decoding Kernel for Hopper GPUs
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/FlashMLA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43155023

Making any integer with four 2s
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/making-any-integer-with-four-2s/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43145753

Show HN: Jq-Like Tool for Markdown
https://github.com/yshavit/mdq
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152704

The benefits of learning in public
https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/02/20250223-til-deep-dive-posts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154666

War rooms vs. deep investigations
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/02/22/war/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43148683

Why Clojure?
https://gaiwan.co/blog/why-clojure/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43137586

European word translator: an interactive map
https://ukdataexplorer.com/european-translator/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152587