HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Rembrandt to Picasso: Five ways to spot a fake masterpiece 29 42 10mo +1d bbc.com/culture/article/20250311-rembrandt-to-picasso-five-ways-to-spot-a-fake-masterpiece 1Show HN: Web Audio Spring-Mass Synthesis 17 72 10mo +1h blog.cochlea.xyz/string.html 2New York Times shut down Tor Onion service 154 249 10mo +23m open.nytimes.com/https-open-nytimes-com-the-new-york-times-as-a-tor-onion-service-e0d0b67b7482 3[dead] ? 33 10mo +37m nytimes.com 4Charted: The Decline of U.S. Software Developer Jobs 51 43 10mo +46m visualcapitalist.com/charted-the-decline-of-u-s-software-developer-jobs 5How to boil great eggs 80% of the time 29 15 10mo +3d indiantinker.bearblog.dev/how-to-boil-great-eggs-80-of-the-time 6Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 103 229 10mo +26m arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28 7It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life 372 218 10mo +3d ourworldindata.org/foreign-aid-donations-increase 8[dead] ? 16 10mo +2m electrek.co 9Tariffs Are Proving 'Big Headache' for Tech Giants, Says Foxconn 63 48 10mo +59m ft.com/content/cc290f55-e45a-42b1-bf2d-cf323053fade 10FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds to claw back climate money 128 196 10mo +1h techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/fbi-epa-and-treasury-told-citibank-to-freeze-funds-as-trump-administration-tries-to-claw-back-climate-money 11GCVR (YC W22) is hiring a lead technical artist 0 1 10mo +8s ycombinator.com/companies/gym-class-by-irl-studios/jobs/gfrf9Cu-lead-technical-artist-staff-principal 12Cwtch – Privacy Preserving Messaging 44 61 10mo +23m docs.cwtch.im 13Owl: Optimized Workforce Learning for multi-agent collaboration 1 38 10mo +3d github.com/camel-ai/owl 14Kerning, the Hard Way 66 224 10mo +15m home.octetfont.com/blog/kerning-hard.html 15East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago 44 47 10mo +22m davidsun.substack.com/p/the-origins-of-arcticism-theory 16Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg 84 85 10mo +23m techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/bluesky-quickly-sold-out-of-the-t-shirt-its-ceo-wore-to-troll-mark-zuckerberg 17The Internet of Beefs (2020) 9 46 10mo +3d ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs 18Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C 262 229 10mo +15h arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/athena-landed-in-a-dark-crater-where-the-temperature-was-minus-280-f 19Ask HN: How much traffic do you serve and with which database engine? 36 66 10mo +42m 20Show HN: OCR Benchmark Focusing on Automation 21 54 10mo +1d nanonets.com/automation-benchmark 21Apple's Siri Chief Calls AI Delays Ugly and Embarrassing, Promises Fixes 59 51 10mo +28m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/apple-s-siri-chief-calls-ai-delays-ugly-and-embarrassing-promises-fixes 22Exo: Exocompilation for productive programming of hardware accelerators 33 87 10mo +7m github.com/exo-lang/exo 23Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs 53 248 10mo +57m tinyhack.com/2025/03/13/decrypting-encrypted-files-from-akira-ransomware-linux-esxi-variant-2024-using-a-bunch-of-gpus 24Chrome for Android doesn't have extensions, but Edge now has a whole store 57 59 10mo +15m 25The Tyranny of Work or Why Are We Still Measured by Our Productivity? 7 13 10mo +2h anticapitalistmusings.com/2025/03/the-tyranny-of-work-or-why-are-we-still-measured-by-our-productivity 26Show HN: Pi Labs – AI scoring and optimization tools for software engineers 7 23 10mo +4h build.withpi.ai/dashboard 27Timeframe of 8-hour restricted eating irrelevant to weight loss 85 75 10mo +31m nia.nih.gov/news/timeframe-8-hour-restricted-eating-irrelevant-weight-loss 28USA asks Sweden for help in the egg crisis 16 14 10mo +1h freshpost.substack.com/p/usa-asks-sweden-for-help-in-the-egg 29Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures? 316 364 10mo +3d 30Making Postgres scale 172 219 10mo +27m pgdog.dev/blog/you-can-make-postgres-scale 31The curious surge of productivity in U.S. restaurants 260 149 10mo +21m bfi.uchicago.edu/working-papers/the-curious-surge-of-productivity-in-u-s-restaurants 32The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment 368 254 10mo +12m collegetowns.substack.com/p/the-school-car-pickup-line-is-a-national 33Prequel (YC W21) Is Hiring a Strong Front End Engineer 0 1 10mo +6s ycombinator.com/companies/prequel/jobs/wdjx5KE-frontend-software-engineer 34Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging 191 436 10mo +2h briarproject.org/how-it-works 35Architect of classic Hollywood gets his own star turn 2 8 10mo +3d latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2020-02-06/architect-paul-williams-documentary 36A 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` (2024) 108 211 10mo +27m blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/building-a-2fa-app-that-detects-patterns 37Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update 517 585 10mo +7m us.community.samsung.com/t5/Home-Theater/Samsung-Q990D-unresponsive-after-1020-firmware-update/td-p/3168571 38Why do transit agencies keep falling for the hydrogen bus myth? 468 275 10mo +1h cleantechnica.com/2025/03/13/why-do-transit-agencies-keep-falling-for-the-hydrogen-bus-myth 39'A lot worse than expected': AI Pac-Man clones, reviewed 27 37 10mo +33m theguardian.com/games/2025/mar/11/ai-pac-man-clones-reviewed-grok 40How ProPublica Uses AI in Its Investigations 13 66 10mo +29m propublica.org/article/using-ai-responsibly-for-reporting 41FAA issues permanent restrictions on Washington helicopter traffic 3 10 10mo +10m reuters.com/world/us/faa-issues-permanent-restrictions-washington-helicopter-traffic-after-fatal-2025-03-14 42Certificate will expire on 14 March – update Firefox to prevent add-on breakage 17 36 10mo +3d blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/03/10/root-certificate-will-expire-on-14-march-users-need-to-update-firefox-to-prevent-add-on-breakage 43Fediverse Donut Club 27 39 10mo +26m sethmlarson.dev/fedi-donut-friday 44Block Diffusion: Interpolating between autoregressive and diffusion models 32 154 10mo +12m arxiv.org/abs/2503.09573 45Show HN: CodeVideo – Two years in the making to build an event-sourced IDE 19 67 10mo +6m studio.codevideo.io 46Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019) 312 199 10mo +28m exurbe.com/stoicisms-appeal-to-the-rich-and-powerful 47Gold pops above $3k/oz for first time in historic safe-haven rally 5 15 10mo +4m reuters.com/markets/commodities/gold-mounts-record-summit-eyes-3000-peak-2025-03-14 48Renowned US health research hub Johns Hopkins to slash 2k jobs 1 11 10mo +4m medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-renowned-health-hub-johns-hopkins.html 49I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA 467 275 10mo +8m 50[dead] ? 8 10mo +27m illustration.app 51I create buildings from mushroom components 4 22 10mo +3d nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00741-9 52Ask HN: Any jobs that don't force you to always be advancing career wise? 144 103 10mo +17m 53The Cassowary Linear Arithmetic Constraint Solving Algorithm [pdf] (2002) 21 57 10mo +55m constraints.cs.washington.edu/solvers/cassowary-tochi.pdf 54[dead] ? 34 10mo +7m packagingdive.com 55Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was minus 280° F 1 35 10mo +26m arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/athena-landed-in-a-dark-crater-where-the-temperature-was-minus-280-f 56Show HN: Popularity Contest, the highest-ranking personal blogs of HN 0 18 10mo +18m refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity 57Liu Jiakun Receives the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize 39 53 10mo +3d pritzkerprize.com/laureates/liu-jiakun 58Stanford students want in on the military tech gold rush 18 20 10mo +10m sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush 59Beyond the 70%: Maximizing the human 30% of AI-assisted coding 23 13 10mo +46m addyo.substack.com/p/beyond-the-70-maximizing-the-human 60A look at Firefox forks 355 550 10mo +14m lwn.net/Articles/1012453 61[dead] ? 10 10mo +3d github.com 62In S3 simplicity is table stakes 133 195 10mo +34m allthingsdistributed.com/2025/03/in-s3-simplicity-is-table-stakes.html 63Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users 258 315 10mo +17m theverge.com/news/629620/apple-iphone-e2ee-encryption-rcs-messaging-android 64Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation 86 82 10mo +1h cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdfExtended/S1550-4131(25)00006-3 65Pressure grows to hold secret Apple data privacy hearing in public 37 82 10mo +1h bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0rr51gn3o 66Recurse Center (YC S10) Is Hiring an Office and Operations Assistant (New York) 0 1 10mo +2s recurse.notion.site/Office-Operations-Assistant-2a579bdf1d4e4baa9b6e5b7774803b70 67Fridgeditions Demo "Children's Art the World Can Enjoy" 4 6 10mo +2d fridgeditions.com 68Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62% 63 141 10mo +18m hopsworks.ai/post/migrating-from-aws-to-a-european-cloud-how-we-cut-costs-by-62 69Magpies and crows are using “anti-bird spikes” to make nests (2023) 84 230 10mo +3d audubon.org/magazine/apparently-magpies-and-crows-are-using-anti-bird-spikes-make-their-nests 70Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck 237 127 10mo +5m electrek.co/2025/03/13/tesla-cybertruck-deliveries-are-on-hold-as-trims-are-flying-off-the-bulletproof-truck 71AMD's Strix Halo under the hood 134 161 10mo +32m chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-strix-halo-under-the-hood 72Show HN: I built a Figma plugin for quick data calculations 2 15 10mo +3d figma.com/community/plugin/1478090512871122209/countastic 73The End of YC 18 26 10mo +1h benn.substack.com/p/the-end-of-yc 74OpenAI calls on U.S. Government to let it freely use copyrighted material 5 40 10mo +8m openai.com/global-affairs/openai-proposals-for-the-us-ai-action-plan 75I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox 283 309 10mo +8m github.com/ArcaneNibble/i-cant-believe-its-not-webusb 76My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster 153 448 10mo +2d bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/security/seducing-a-romance-scammer.html 77What is VRAN: Virtualize Your Radio Access Network 4 7 10mo +3d intel.com/content/www/us/en/wireless-network/5g-network/radio-access-network.html 78Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg 251 416 10mo +48m sfgate.com/tech/article/ex-facebook-director-book-brutal-image-zuckerberg-20220239.php 79SQL queries don't start with SELECT (2019) 12 32 10mo +5m jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/03/sql-queries-don-t-start-with-select 80Creative Fansubbing Techniques: Part 2 28 114 10mo +2d md-subs.com/blog/creative-fansubbing-techniques-2 81The Evolution of the Color Pink 0 17 10mo +3d lithub.com/from-princely-regalia-to-womens-underwear-the-evolution-of-the-color-pink 82Show HN: MCPGod: Fine-grained control over MCP clients, servers, and tools 11 37 10mo +2d github.com/mcpgod/cli 83Johns Hopkins University slashes 2k jobs 88 101 10mo +18m reuters.com/world/us/johns-hopkins-university-slashes-2000-jobs-after-trump-administration-grant-cut-2025-03-13 84TinyKVM: Fast sandbox that runs on top of Varnish 64 339 10mo +1h info.varnish-software.com/blog/tinykvm-the-fastest-sandbox 85ATProto Isn't What You Think 36 55 10mo +1h blog.muni.town/atproto-isnt-what-you-think 86Calendar.org 6 27 10mo +2d sourcery.zone/articles/20250311094031-calendar_org 87Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act 376 495 10mo +5h techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/y-combinator-urges-the-white-house-to-support-europes-digital-markets-act 88Show HN: Borderless Venmo 5 5 10mo +1h eth.cash 89Show HN: A website that makes your text look cool anywhere online using Unicode 53 105 10mo +1h fontgenerator.cool 90The Church FAQ 168 319 10mo +1h whatever.scalzi.com/2025/03/13/the-church-faq 91'Profit-Enhancing Middlemen' Fuel $200B Health-Care Chaos 101 130 10mo +58m bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-13/middlemen-in-us-health-care-are-driving-up-costs-frustrating-patients 92Porkbun partners with Proton 91 106 10mo +2h porkbun.com/products/proton_mail 93These Are the 10 Doge Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration 15 32 10mo +4m wired.com/story/doge-operatives-access-social-security-administration 94OpenAI declares AI race "over" if training on copyrighted works isn't fair use 5 46 10mo +28m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/openai-urges-trump-either-settle-ai-copyright-debate-or-lose-ai-race-to-china 95When did you first start worrying for humankind? 4 7 10mo +39m theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/when-did-you-first-start-worrying 96The 2008 coal ash disaster in Kingston, Tennessee 80 106 10mo +1h oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-toxic-wave-that-swallowed-a-tennessee-town 97ArkFlow – High-performance Rust stream processing engine 57 106 10mo +46m github.com/chenquan/arkflow 98Working with Systemd Timers 78 76 10mo +3d yieldcode.blog/post/working-with-systemd-timers 99Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores coming to the EU 10 24 10mo +25m techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/move-over-apple-meet-the-alternative-app-stores-coming-to-the-eu 100Will the Man Get Frog 9 61 10mo +3d lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=willthemangetfrog 101Would {word1} beat {word2} • Ranked AI game 51 41 10mo +1h word-battle.com 102 More... 2025.03.13