HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order DESI Opens Access to the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Yet 12 133 10mo +22m newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/03/19/desi-opens-access-to-the-largest-3d-map-of-the-universe-yet 1Show HN: MCP-Kafka – Natural Language Interface for Kafka Commands 3 19 10mo +1d github.com/kanapuli/mcp-kafka 2Bolt3D: Generating 3D Scenes in Seconds 50 288 10mo +45m szymanowiczs.github.io/bolt3d 3OpenAI's o1-pro now available via API 128 127 10mo +38m platform.openai.com/docs/models/o1-pro 4Looking for beta testers for my GPS based game 19 26 10mo +2d cityquizler.com 5LLM Agents Are Simply Graph – Tutorial for Dummies 80 258 10mo +40m zacharyhuang.substack.com/p/llm-agent-internal-as-a-graph-tutorial 6Looking Ahead at Intel's Xe3 GPU Architecture 36 119 10mo +44m chipsandcheese.com/p/looking-ahead-at-intels-xe3-gpu-architecture 7Show HN: Codemcp – Claude Code for Claude Pro subscribers – ditch API bills 36 163 10mo +6d github.com/ezyang/codemcp 8Control your attention on the web – Block sites on certain days and times 12 36 10mo +52m github.com/Bsodoge/Focus-Mode 9The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time 66 129 10mo +3d thephd.dev/c2y-the-defer-technical-specification-its-time-go-go-go 10Scoping a Local-First Image Archive 13 31 10mo +34m scottishstoater.com/2025/03/scoping-a-local-first-image-archive 11When writing, don't mention people who've criticized you 18 13 10mo +5m twitter.com/paulg/status/1902310081066147942 12ByteCraft: Generating video games and animations through bytes 5 24 10mo +28m emygervais.github.io/2025/03/15/bytecraft.html 13Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals 151 107 10mo +10m reuters.com/technology/apple-ordered-by-eu-antitrust-regulators-open-up-rivals-2025-03-19 14For Many of America's Aging Workers, 'Retirement Is a Distant Dream' 56 94 10mo +1h time.com/7260357/aging-workforce 15Notebooks as reusable Python programs 60 115 10mo +1h marimo.io/blog/python-not-json 16Pierogi in Space 45 149 10mo +5m esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Pierogi_in_space 17Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia 51 227 10mo +3d news.err.ee/1609634600/muons-used-to-test-the-condition-of-a-road-bridge-in-estonia 18Show HN: We built an agentic image editor that preserves the original structure 13 20 10mo +42m palette.cam/gallery 19Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities 51 30 10mo +4m aaronrosspowell.com/p/why-tech-bros-overestimate-ai-s-creative-abilities 20Imagining the Dinosaurs: How art, science combined to bring a lost world to life 2 16 10mo +3d worldhistory.substack.com/p/imagining-the-dinosaurs 21Dutch institutes seek to attract sacked American academics 1 16 10mo +4m dutchnews.nl/2025/03/dutch-institutes-seek-to-attract-sacked-american-academics-fd 22Fine-tune Google's Gemma 3 74 221 10mo +1h unsloth.ai/blog/gemma3 23AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding 232 551 10mo +1h ezyang.github.io/ai-blindspots 24The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp 27 111 10mo +17m mssv.net/2025/03/19/the-collective-ambition-behind-odysseus-a-game-changing-sci-fi-larp 25Rules for Crafting Products That Stand Out 0 6 10mo +26m figma.com/blog/karri-saarinens-10-rules-for-crafting-products-that-stand-out 26Implementing Generic Types in C 44 87 10mo +3d btmc.substack.com/p/implementing-generic-types-in-c 27Harvard study finds seed oils healthier than butter 83 32 10mo +13m producer.com/news/harvard-study-finds-seed-oils-healthier-than-butter 28Fauna Service Winding Down 92 129 10mo +1m fauna.com/blog/the-future-of-fauna 29Show HN: Cursor Directory – From a 3-hour build to a 250k users/mo community 20 45 10mo +3h cursor.directory/rules 30Markprompt (YC W24) – Stripe for customer support – is hiring founding eng in SF 0 1 10mo +5s markprompt.com/jobs 31Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software 107 119 10mo +4m 32Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition 76 210 10mo +1d map.koljapluemer.com 33People Are Using AI to Create Influencers with Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes 9 15 10mo +7m 404media.co/people-are-using-ai-to-create-influencers-with-down-syndrome-who-sell-nudes 34How fast the days are getting longer (2023) 202 599 10mo +2m joe-antognini.github.io/astronomy/daylight 35Solar Generation Surge Sends European Power Prices Below Zero 109 38 10mo +15m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-19/solar-generation-surge-sends-european-power-prices-below-zero 36Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees 134 104 10mo +25m theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/19/google-pay-settle-claims-favoured-white-asian-employees 37The Business of Phish (2013) 44 83 10mo +10m priceonomics.com/business-of-phish 38Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union 193 406 10mo +1h engadget.com/big-tech/video-game-workers-in-north-america-now-have-an-industry-wide-union-130024730.html 39An early look at cryptographic watermarks for AI-generated content 23 38 10mo +1h blog.cloudflare.com/an-early-look-at-cryptographic-watermarks-for-ai-generated-content 40Data Becker 8 8 10mo +1d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Becker 41Memory safety for web fonts 215 302 10mo +1m developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-safety-fonts 42Show HN: AGX – Open-Source Data Exploration for ClickHouse (The New Standard?) 2 29 10mo +11m github.com/agnosticeng/agx 43CVE-2024-9956 – PassKey Account Takeover in All Mobile Browsers 115 234 10mo +8h mastersplinter.work/research/passkey 44Is Tim Hortons Canadian? 2 7 10mo +2h cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7485431 45Tech employees are getting the message: Playtime's over 12 13 10mo +3h businessinsider.com/tech-industry-amazon-microsoft-meta-google-companies-intensity-hardcore-2025-3 46Pixel 9a: The latest A-series phone with Google AI smarts at an unbeatable value 84 45 10mo +29m blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-9a-the-latest-a-series-phone-with-google-ai-smarts-at-an-unbeatable-value 47Supply Chain Attacks on Linux Distributions 1 24 10mo +57m fenrisk.com/supply-chain-attacks 48[dead] ? 23 10mo +1m donotpanic.news 49How Do Bluetooth Cassette Adapters Work? 1 5 10mo +2h garagedreams.net/products/how-do-bluetooth-cassette-adapters-work 50How I got 100% off my train travel 235 246 10mo +3d readbunce.com/p/how-i-got-100-off-my-train-travel 51The clustering behavior of sliding windows 20 95 10mo +13m arxiv.org/abs/2503.14393 52Ikemen-GO: open-source reimplementation of MUGEN 16 105 10mo +19m github.com/ikemen-engine/Ikemen-GO 53Learning about Innovation from Half a Century of Conway's Game of Life 55 110 10mo +2h writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/03/what-can-we-learn-about-engineering-and-innovation-from-half-a-century-of-the-game-of-life-cellular-automaton 54Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP 45 101 10mo +1h zbeegnew.dev/tech/build_your_own_ai_coding_assistant_a_cost-effective_alternative_to_cursor 55Supply constraints do not explain house price, quantity growth across US cities 360 210 10mo +41m nber.org/papers/w33576 56Code is the new no code 17 13 10mo +1h lumberjack.so/p/code-is-the-new-no-code 57Konva.js - Declarative 2D Canvas for React, Vue, and Svelte 69 250 10mo +56m konvajs.org 58Nvidia Blackwell Delivers World-Record DeepSeek-R1 Inference Performance 0 8 10mo +49m developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-blackwell-delivers-world-record-deepseek-r1-inference-performance 59fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' 283 679 10mo +1h github.com/sharkdp/fd 60[dead] ? 22 10mo +11m ctvnews.ca 61The Origin of the Pork Taboo 300 286 10mo +1h archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2025/letters-from/on-the-origin-of-the-pork-taboo 62Zest: a programming language for malleable and legible systems 13 56 10mo +2d github.com/jamii/zest 63Ex-PO operator is first Horizon IT victim to launch legal action against 3 11 10mo +23m theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/19/ex-subpostmaster-lee-castleton-horizon-it-victim-first-legal-action-post-office-fujitsu 64Apple Loses Top Court Fight Over German Antitrust Crackdown 46 137 10mo +2h bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-18/apple-loses-top-court-fight-against-german-antitrust-crackdown 65MVVM in SwiftUI for a Better Architecture 3 4 10mo +1m matteomanferdini.com/swiftui-mvvm 66[dead] ? 4 10mo +38m getcoai.com 67Tesla Will Die 35 76 10mo +35m planetearthandbeyond.co/p/this-is-how-tesla-will-die 68The Document Culture of Amazon (2021) 15 23 10mo +52m justingarrison.com/blog/2021-03-15-the-document-culture-of-amazon 69I think we need a bigger boot partition 21 26 10mo +3d blog.fernvenue.com/archives/i-think-we-need-a-bigger-boot-partition 70I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks 812 943 10mo +54m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney 71Intel AVX10 Drops Optional 512-Bit: No AVX10 256-Bit Only E-Cores in the Future 19 33 10mo +48m phoronix.com/news/Intel-AVX10-Drops-256-Bit 72Apple M4 MacBook Air review: I have no notes 75 55 10mo +3m arstechnica.com/apple/2025/03/apple-m4-macbook-air-review-i-have-no-notes 73Indiana Pi Bill 3 12 10mo +19m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill 74Tesla loses ground as Chinese EVs dominate global markets 140 125 10mo +30m restofworld.org/2025/tesla-loses-ground-chinese-ev-dominate-global-markets 75Everything Is Broken: Shipping Rust-Minidump at Mozilla (2022) 5 55 10mo +59m hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/everything-is-broken-shipping-rust-minidump-at-mozilla 76[dead] ? 43 10mo +13m planetearthandbeyond.co 77The Molecule of the Month 7 35 10mo +1h chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/motm.htm 78The Lost Art of Research as Leisure 270 490 10mo +14m kasurian.com/p/research-as-leisure 79The Wasp That Lays Eggs Inside Caterpillars and Turns Them into Slaves (2014) 3 14 10mo +3d wired.com/2014/10/absurd-creature-week-glyptapanteles-wasp-caterpillar-bodyguard 80Chrome disabling uBlock Origin is a serious security threat 83 99 10mo +45m nuage.quimerch.com/-/ewen/articles/chrome-disabling-ublock-origin-is-a-serious-security-threat 81Dear hosters, you are selling wood, not furniture 27 64 10mo +10h berthub.eu/articles/posts/dear-hosting-providers-you-sell-lumber-and-not-furniture 82Selective async commits in PostgreSQL – balancing durability and performance 37 109 10mo +2d shayon.dev/post/2025/75/selective-asynchronous-commits-in-postgresql-balancing-durability-and-performance 83Nvidia DGX Spark 10 15 10mo +26m nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark 84The Internet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004) 265 206 10mo +1h fourmilab.ch/documents/netslum 85Digital Hygiene 20 31 10mo +2h karpathy.bearblog.dev/digital-hygiene 86Small Archives 11 31 10mo +2d helloruby.substack.com/p/no-95-small-archives-without-blurs 87Co-Doodle with Gemini 6 12 10mo +10m huggingface.co/spaces/Trudy/gemini-codrawing 88Ne Zha 2 is the most successful animated film – and I've no idea why 9 5 10mo +14m telegraph.co.uk/films/0/ne-aha-2-review-animation 89The "Memory Cartography" of Azerbaijani Emigrants 2 39 10mo +1d jam-news.net/memory-cartography-of-azerbaijani-emigrants 90CockroachDB has changed their license, again 5 27 10mo +14m github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/commit/c0274df57a9f8d0086577bcf74c81110db2cea22 91Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here? 84 46 10mo +2h 92Sony's new RGB backlight tech smokes regular Mini LED TVs 8 20 10mo +3d theverge.com/news/628977/sony-rgb-led-backlight-announced-color-mini-led-tvs 93Crew-9 Returns to Earth 651 454 10mo +14m spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=crew-9-return 94Reviving the modprobe_path Technique: Overcoming search_binary_handler() Patch 3 8 10mo +3d blog.theori.io/reviving-the-modprobe-path-technique-overcoming-search-binary-handler-patch-2dcb8f0fae04 95Some notes on Grafana Loki's new "structured metadata" 44 117 10mo +2d utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/GrafanaLokiStructuredMetadata 96E-Identity 0 8 10mo +1m e-estonia.com/solutions/estonian-e-identity/id-card 97[dead] ? 21 10mo +9m msn.com 98Gnome / mutter triple buffering patch merged 25 73 10mo +3d gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1441 99JFK Assassination Files Chatbot 10 15 10mo +6m chatwithjfkfiles.com 100Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation 14 247 10mo +2d visualgo.net/en 101Show HN: I made a worldwide sexual life dashboard 22 62 10mo +4m worldsexmap.com 102Nvidia announces DGX desktop "personal AI supercomputers" 6 20 10mo +27m arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/nvidia-announces-dgx-desktop-personal-ai-supercomputers 103Social Security Admin to require in-person ID checks for new&existing recipients 45 50 10mo +47m apnews.com/article/social-security-fraud-waste-doge-elon-musk-212e3089951f731fd3f83443e104b315 104Would You Rather Have Married Young? 59 48 10mo +54m metropolitanreview.org/p/would-you-rather-have-married-young 105Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents 49 114 10mo +2d artint.info/index.html 106Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them 355 539 10mo +9m gist.github.com/jwbee/7e8b27e298de8bbbf8abfa4c232db097 107 More... 2025.03.18