HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design 114 208 10mo +16m datagubbe.se/futui 1GIMP 3.0 498 1275 10mo +4m testing.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released 2France plots tax on super-rich to rearm – and Britain could be next 158 72 10mo +12m telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/france-tax-super-wealthy-fund-defence-bill-britain-next 3Harvard says tuition will be free for families making $200K or less 104 82 10mo +39m abcnews.go.com/Business/harvard-tuition-families-making-200k/story?id=119874241 4What Will the Betelgeuse Supernova Be Like – and Will It Hurt Us? 15 31 10mo +53m universetoday.com/articles/what-will-the-betelgeuse-supernova-be-like-and-will-it-hurt-us 5Trump's Tariffs: A Crowd-Sourced Verdict 0 8 10mo +25m bitsonfire.substack.com/p/trumps-tariffs-a-crowd-sourced-verdict 6Theory crafting a system for 1000 simultaneous micro SD card ingests 36 62 10mo +3d forum.level1techs.com/t/theory-crafting-a-system-for-maximum-simultaneous-micro-sd-card-ingest/227159 7Net Zero by 2050 Is 'Impossible,' UK Tory Leader Badenoch Says 50 22 10mo +10m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-17/net-zero-by-2050-is-impossible-uk-tory-leader-badenoch-says 8Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B 37 59 10mo +39m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-17/alphabet-in-talks-to-buy-cloud-security-firm-wiz-for-33-billion 9The Best Size of a Laptop 70 20 10mo +49m gokmengorgen.net/2025/03/17/the-best-size-of-a-laptop 10Quantum Speedup Found for Class of Hard Problems 33 72 10mo +1h quantamagazine.org/quantum-speedup-found-for-huge-class-of-hard-problems-20250317 11Half of Canadians favour joining EU 31 34 10mo +44m westernstandard.news/news/revealed-half-of-canadians-favour-joining-eu-carney-says-canada-is-the-most-european-of-non-european-countries/63137 12After 47 years, OpenVMS gets a package manager (VSP) 36 99 10mo +2h raymii.org/s/blog/After_47_years_OpenVMS_gets_a_package_manager_VSP.html 13Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript 53 217 10mo +1d github.com/casparwylie/cascii-core 14PrintedLabs – 3D printable optical experiment equipment 12 103 10mo +1d printedlabs.uni-bayreuth.de/en 15Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly 265 261 10mo +4m techstartups.com/2025/03/17/amazon-to-lay-off-14000-managerial-positions-to-save-3-5-billion-annually 16The High Heel Problem 41 325 10mo +52m simonschreibt.de/gat/the-high-heel-problem 17Luthor (YC F24) Is Hiring Ruby on Rails Engineers in San Francisco 0 1 10mo +15s ycombinator.com/companies/luthor/jobs/HKrdhp0-staff-senior-software-engineer-backend-fullstack 18Show HN: OpenTimes – Free travel times between U.S. Census geographies 50 201 10mo +4m opentimes.org 19Occupry your next lease to negotiate a better deal 77 51 10mo +32m occupry.com 20Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury 78 204 10mo +3d slamdunksoftware.substack.com/p/hidden-messages-in-emojis-and-hacking 21[dead] ? 24 10mo +1h desmog.com 22Show HN: Psychedelic animation generator; (p)art of your next trip 59 161 10mo +3d collidingscopes.github.io/liquid-shape-distortions 23Archival Storage 182 355 10mo +5m blog.dshr.org/2025/03/archival-storage.html 24Drones swarming sensitive national security sites 4 10 10mo +21m cbsnews.com/news/drone-swarms-national-security-60-minutes-transcript 25Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers 269 296 10mo +1h x.company/blog/posts/taara-graduation 26Copyright and the Demo Scene 25 97 10mo +3d datagubbe.se/scenecop 27Show HN: Localscope–Limit scope of Python functions for reproducible execution 31 64 10mo +3m localscope.readthedocs.io/en/latest 28Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests 213 238 10mo +5m theintercept.com/2025/03/17/lapd-surveillance-gaza-palestine-protests-dataminr 29Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’ 195 178 10mo +13m bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-16/wall-street-s-dark-pools-grow-murkier-with-private-rooms 30Why the Law Against Business Bribes Is Good for Business 12 16 10mo +15m sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-the-law-against-business-bribes-is-good-for-business 31Coq-of-rust: Formal verification tool for Rust 42 156 10mo +3d github.com/formal-land/coq-of-rust 32Piramidal (YC W24) is hiring a ML Engineer to decode brainwaves 0 1 10mo +24s ycombinator.com/companies/piramidal/jobs/neQ9JaN-research-engineer-foundational-ai 33Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different 120 474 10mo +13m arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113 34UK Online Safety Act comes into force today 12 32 10mo +17m ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/enforcing-the-online-safety-act-platforms-must-start-tackling-illegal-material-from-today 35BYD unveils battery system that charges EVs in five minutes 13 24 10mo +7m fortune.com/2025/03/17/byd-battery-system-charging-5-minutes-tesla-superchargers 36A Secret Mortgage Blacklist Is Leaving Homeowners Stuck with Unsellable Condos 18 18 10mo +2m wsj.com/finance/regulation/condo-sales-home-insurance-crisis-a921362b 37Underware 2.0 – Open Source Infinite Cable Management 62 216 10mo +6h makerworld.com/en/models/783010-underware-2-0-infinite-cable-management 38Take a New Look at CSS Shapes (2018) 6 16 10mo +1d smashingmagazine.com/2018/09/css-shapes 39Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office 127 277 10mo +44m blog.cloudflare.com/chaos-in-cloudflare-lisbon-office-securing-the-internet-with-wave-motion 40Harvard Will Make Tuition Free for More Students 7 9 10mo +6m nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/harvard-free-tuition.html 41Show HN: A bi-directional, persisted KV store that is faster than Redis 74 76 10mo +2h hpkv.io 42Doge Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts 1 20 10mo +6m nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/federal-job-cuts-nuclear-bomb-engineers-scientists.html 43Roblox Open-Sourcing Cube 3D Mesh Gen Model 0 13 10mo +9m corp.roblox.com/newsroom/2025/03/introducing-roblox-cube 44Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available for Purchase, Stacked Memory Variant Coming 66 153 10mo +1h phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-RP2350-Buy 45Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table 112 240 10mo +51m wired.com/story/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture 46Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub 64 194 10mo +1d shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/towards-extracting-content-from-an-lcp-protected-epub 47Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours 39 151 10mo +2h tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/akira-ransomware-cracked-with-rtx-4090-new-exploit-to-brute-force-encryption-attack 48Leprechauns of Software Engineering 3 43 10mo +50m markgreville.ie/2025/03/17/book-review-leprechauns-of-software-engineering 49Ogres Are Cool 37 90 10mo +2d lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n05/colin-burrow/ogres-are-cool 50Starlink satellite part hit a Canadian farm when it fell from orbit 16 18 10mo +1h newscientist.com/article/2472334-starlink-satellite-part-hit-a-canadian-farm-when-it-fell-from-orbit 51LLM generated code is like particleboard 4 7 10mo +40m so.dang.cool/blog/2023-12-30-llm-generated-code-is-like-particleboard.html 52HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere 492 414 10mo +3d httptoolkit.com/blog/http3-quic-open-source-support-nowhere 53Bambu Labs launches 3D-printable toys with reusable electronics 1 21 10mo +12m theverge.com/news/631060/bambu-labs-makerworld-cyberbrick-3d-printed-toys-programmable-kickstarter 54'We remember as true things that never even happened': Julian Barnes 0 6 10mo +17m theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/16/we-remember-as-true-things-that-never-even-happened-julian-barnes-on-memory-and-changing-his-mind 55Configure Azure Entra ID as IdP on Keycloak 6 19 10mo +36m blog.ght1pc9kc.fr/en/2023/configure-azure-entra-id-as-idp-on-keycloak 5622% Drop in Programming Jobs 62 58 10mo +6m washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/14/programming-jobs-lost-artificial-intelligence 57Scientists discover first known animal that doesn't breathe (2020) 4 26 10mo +20m livescience.com/first-non-breathing-animal.html 58Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee 88 182 10mo +47m theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/13/meta-careless-people-book-former-employee 59Stupid Smart Pointers in C 164 137 10mo +35m blog.kevinalbs.comhttp:///stupid_smart_pointers 60Cline: Autonomous Coding Agent for VS Code 2 6 10mo +3d github.com/cline/cline 61Nango (YC W23, Product Integrations Platform) Is Hiring Remote Engineers 0 1 10mo +27s nango.dev/careers 62Converting C to ASM to specs and then to a working Z/80 Speccy tape 72 79 10mo +25m ghuntley.com/z80 63The Trials of an Exorcist, 1597 0 13 10mo +2d gethistories.com/p/the-trials-of-an-exorcist-1597 64Pine64's RISC-V tablet now ships with a Debian-based Linux and improved hardware 24 53 10mo +35m liliputing.com/pine64s-risc-v-tablet-now-ships-with-a-debian-based-linux-distro-and-improved-hardware 65Show HN: EnkiTask: Lightweight Project Management for Freelancers 47 67 10mo +53m enkitask.com 66Trump Derangement Syndrome 34 64 10mo +12m revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF2589&version=0&session=ls94&session_year=2025&session_number=0 67Technical Mathematics (1954) [pdf] 4 27 10mo +3h sliderulemuseum.com/Manuals/TechnicalMathematics_RiceAndKnight.pdf 68Compression of Spectral Images Using Spectral JPEG XL 13 87 10mo +1d jcgt.org/published/0014/01/04 69Altbot (Fediverse alt-text generator) no longer uses Google's services 1 8 10mo +58m fuzzies.wtf/@micr0/114172532499348433 70A Facebook Insider's Exposé Alleges Bad Behavior at the Top 67 91 10mo +1h web.archive.org/web/20250310221013/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html 71Recommendations for designing magic numbers of binary file formats 84 209 10mo +2d hackers.town/@zwol/114155595855705796 72uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users 200 224 10mo +12m wagtail.org/blog/uv-overtakes-poetry 73Spanish toxic oil syndrome cover-up (2001) 3 30 10mo +35m theguardian.com/education/2001/aug/25/research.highereducation 74The exceptional Jordan algebra (2020) 13 107 10mo +15m cp4space.hatsya.com/2020/10/28/the-exceptional-jordan-algebra 75A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words 52 27 10mo +3d deconstructor.ayush.digital 76Genomic study: our capacity for language emerged at least 135k years ago 77 111 10mo +3h phys.org/news/2025-03-genomic-capacity-language-emerged-years.html 77Brown Medicine professor and doctor deported to Lebanon despite valid visa 49 77 10mo +44m nbcnews.com/news/us-news/brown-medicine-professor-doctor-deported-lebanon-valid-visa-court-fili-rcna196638 78Dioxus – Fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust 8 64 10mo +4h dioxuslabs.com 79Checkers written in Rust and exported to WASM 37 89 10mo +2d kevinalbs.com/checkers 80SpaceX asks US to address foreign trade barriers 20 29 10mo +51m reuters.com/technology/elon-musks-spacex-asks-us-address-foreign-trade-barriers-2025-03-14 81The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available 657 942 10mo +1h discuss.systems/@dev/114161826926246661 82Image Processing in C (2000) [pdf] 22 137 10mo +3d homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/BOOKS/PHILLIPS/cips2ed.pdf 83For Better or for Worse, the Overload (2024) 0 5 10mo +3d consteval.ca/2024/07/25/overload 84Conducting forensics of mobile devices to find signs of a potential compromise 59 146 10mo +25m github.com/mvt-project/mvt 85Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website 22 76 10mo +4m bbc.com/news/articles/cz03gjnxe25o 86Let's knock down social media's walled gardens – Tim Berners-Lee 98 111 10mo +6m ft.com/content/79d2d19a-08df-48fc-9a6f-a9dbef58f642 87Artificial photosynthesis directed toward organic synthesis 21 78 10mo +3d nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56374-z 88Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge's Order 49 135 10mo +7m nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/brown-university-rasha-alawieh-professor-deported.html 89As AI nurses reshape hospital care, human nurses are pushing back 11 29 10mo +24m apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-nurses-hospitals-health-care-3e41c0a2768a3b4c5e002270cc2abe23 90My Journey Back to Math: A Short Review of MathAcademy 14 17 10mo +3d staszewski.xyz/blog/math-academy-review 91Gene Winfield, One of History's Greatest Hot-Rodders, Dies at 97 3 19 10mo +24m thedrive.com/news/gene-winfield-one-of-historys-greatest-hot-rodders-dies-at-97 92Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS 343 873 10mo +16m icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-update-launching-rdap-sunsetting-whois-27-01-2025-en 93Leaving X (2024) 4 22 10mo +17m cacm.acm.org/opinion/leaving-x 94A 62M-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal 8 29 10mo +3d 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