HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Wearable Electronics Made with a 1000-Year Old Technology 1 7 10mo +3d ygoliya.medium.com/wearable-electronics-made-with-a-1000-year-old-technology-c585a792b958 1EFF Border Search Pocket Guide 32 121 10mo +15m eff.org/document/eff-border-search-pocket-guide 2Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs (2016) 1 11 10mo +33m gwern.net/tool-ai 3Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened 45 30 10mo +2d ciq.com/products/rocky-linux/hardened 4Frink 40 225 10mo +2h frinklang.org 5Jagged Flash Attention Optimization 3 23 10mo +3d shaped.ai/blog/jagged-flash-attention-optimization 6MySQL transactions per second vs. fsyncs per second (2020) 52 117 10mo +8m sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-10-mysql-transactions-per-second 7The little book about OS development 54 360 10mo +49m littleosbook.github.io 8I want a good parallel computer 187 217 10mo +1h raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2025/03/21/good-parallel-computer.html 9Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default 224 227 10mo +3d lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1014002/580b8750bf02cf41 10How 'Careless People' is becoming a bigger problem for Meta 40 48 10mo +20m theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/634080/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams-book-meta-congress 11France rejects backdoor mandate 293 991 10mo +8m eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate 12Show HN: Hyperbrowser MCP Server – Connect AI agents to the web through browsers 26 62 10mo +1d github.com/hyperbrowserai/mcp 13Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong 136 58 10mo +8m wonger.dev/posts/pronunciations 14Advanced Algorithms [pdf] 0 21 10mo +19m people.inf.ethz.ch/aroeyskoe/AA23_materials/AAscript.pdf 15Lock Contention 1 90 10mo +4d maksimkita.com/blog/lock-contention.html 16Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning (2022) 58 407 10mo +18m arxiv.org/abs/2206.13446 17Foreigners Dump U.S. Treasuries. Here's Who Did the Most Selling 3 18 10mo +19m barrons.com/articles/treasuries-foreign-sell-gold-765ce81f 18Plex remote stream no longer free; Plex Pass 2x price hike 5 8 10mo +57m plex.tv/blog/important-2025-plex-updates 19Researcher uses AI to make texts that are thousands of years old readable (2023) 9 40 10mo +2d phys.org/news/2023-02-ai-texts-thousands-years-readable.html 20National Lab Creates New Device to Test Safety Limits of Nuclear Fuel 1 13 10mo +18m energy.gov/ne/articles/national-lab-creates-new-device-test-safety-limits-nuclear-fuel 21Ask HN: What is the simplest data orchestration tool you've worked with? 29 46 10mo +20m 22Piccolo: Large-Scale Graph Processing with Fine-Grained In-Memory Scatter-Gather 0 42 10mo +14m arxiv.org/abs/2503.05116 23Population much more than 8.2B, rural areas underestimated 51 89 10mo +19m popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a64222314/human-population-count 24German company set for first commercial rocket launch from Europe 29 97 10mo +24m msn.com/en-us/technology/space-exploration/german-company-set-for-first-commercial-rocket-launch-from-europe/ar-AA1Boq4F 25EU pushes ahead with Big Tech antitrust enforcement 100 91 10mo +16m wsj.com/tech/eu-pushes-ahead-with-big-tech-antitrust-enforcement-8abd6fdf 26Feds charge three over Molotov attacks on Tesla sites in multiple states 15 17 10mo +17m theregister.com/2025/03/21/tesla_attack_charges 27New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder 97 303 10mo +17m eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-uspto-memo-makes-fighting-patent-trolls-even-harder 28Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa 51 117 10mo +1d nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00764-2 29Artificial Intelligence Learns to Reason 6 19 10mo +37m science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw5211 30Game of Trees 6 33 10mo +1h gameoftrees.org/index.html 31The iPad's "Sweet Solution" 27 26 10mo +10m macstories.net/stories/the-ipads-sweet-solution 32Livestock feed additives for methane mitigation 5 9 10mo +20m sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030224013997 33‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut 303 342 10mo +2d hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/blueys-world-success-puppy-juggernaut-1236164905 34Show HN: A terminal emulator in pure PHP 75 187 10mo +10m github.com/soloterm/screen 35Chunking Attacks on File Backup Services Using Content-Defined Chunking [pdf] 21 117 10mo +19m daemonology.net/blog/chunking-attacks.pdf 36Italian Court Orders Google to Poison Public DNS to Prevent IPTV Piracy 2 19 10mo +19m torrentfreak.com/court-orders-google-to-poison-public-dns-to-prevent-iptv-piracy-250321 37Mathup: Easy MathML authoring tool with a quick to write syntax 35 126 10mo +34m mathup.xyz 38The Cult of the American Lawn 102 60 10mo +1h noemamag.com/the-cult-of-the-american-lawn 39Bigscreen Beyond 2 117 129 10mo +14m bigscreenvr.com 40GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring Back end Engineers 0 1 10mo +31s 41Global population datasets underrepresent rural population 95 213 10mo +3d nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56906-7 42Unix Pipeline Philosophy in HTMX + FastHTML Workflows 0 5 10mo +14m mikelev.in/futureproof/unix-pipelines-htmx-fasthtml-workflow 43Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US 10 31 10mo +5m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/uk-subs-band-detained-deported 44IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol 210 524 10mo +27m github.com/Devolutions/IronRDP 45Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle 325 175 10mo +1h bettercities.substack.com/p/congestion-pricing-is-a-policy-miracle 46Liberapay 87 347 10mo +3d en.liberapay.com 47Legged Locomotion Meets Skateboarding 37 154 10mo +2h umich-curly.github.io/DHAL 48Police-Induced Confessions, 2.0: Risk Factors and Recommendations 51 63 10mo +19m psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-79126-001.html 49New desalination technology being tested in California could lower costs 1 6 10mo +20m latimes.com/environment/story/2025-03-21/desalination-tech-tested 50The Road Not Taken Is Guaranteed Minimum Income 196 109 10mo +22m blog.codinghorror.com/the-road-not-taken-is-guaranteed-minimum-income 51Specializing Python with E-Graphs 5 64 10mo +3d vectorfold.studio/blog/egglog 52The Prehistoric Psychopath 40 51 10mo +2d worksinprogress.co/issue/the-prehistoric-psychopath 53'The Maverick's Museum' Review: Albert Barnes and the Art of Collecting 7 15 10mo +3d wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-mavericks-museum-review-albert-barnes-and-the-art-of-collecting-11f6c5e3 54Even the worst mass extinction had its oases 46 99 10mo +2d arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/even-the-worst-mass-extinction-had-its-oases 55‘The Celts: A Modern History’ by Ian Stewart Review 43 105 10mo +8h historytoday.com/archive/review/celts-modern-history-ian-stewart-review 56The Risk of Financial Bubbles in Renewable Energy Markets 0 3 10mo +22m mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/6/1400 57Steam on Xbox evidence Microsoft didn't want you to see 1 11 10mo +51m theverge.com/news/633478/microsoft-xbox-steam-games-support-ui 58Napkin Math Tool 33 132 10mo +3d taylor.town/napkin-math 59Show HN: Torch Lens Maker – Differentiable Geometric Optics in PyTorch 43 177 10mo +18m victorpoughon.github.io/torchlensmaker 60Excessive Criticism Is a Sign of Internal Conflict 2 8 10mo +12m kupajo.com/excessive-criticism-is-a-sign-of-internal-conflict-projecting 61Counter-terror police investigating 'unprecedented' fire that shut Heathrow 3 7 10mo +10m theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/21/counter-terror-police-investigating-unprecedented-fire-shut-heathrow 62U.S. blocks Canadian access to iconic Stanstead border-straddling library 64 74 10mo +33m cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7489528 63Component Simplicity 9 57 10mo +3d jerf.org/iri/post/2025/fp_lessons_simplicity 64Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024) 98 212 10mo +27m tobloef.com/blog/wheel-reinventors-principles 65Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month 150 162 10mo +24m old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1jged6g/imagine_telling_2010_devs_that_in_2025_collapsing 66The mistakes and missed opportunities in the design of IPv6 69 34 10mo +3d ipv6.hanazo.no/posts/ipv6-missed-opportunities-1 67Numbering should start at zero (1982) 289 106 10mo +2h cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html 68Boston Dynamics shows off another major leap in humanoid mobility 75 101 10mo +1h newatlas.com/ai-humanoids/boston-dynamics-atlas-athletic 69Show HN: My Attempt to Organize the World of AI Dev Tools 29 101 10mo +10m aicode.danvoronov.com/tools 70Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped 125 187 10mo +32m notetimeapp.com 71Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015) 241 524 10mo +5m kellblog.com/2015/03/08/career-development-what-it-really-means-to-be-a-manager-director-or-vp 72Art the Whale 3 14 10mo +2d ejournals.sierracollege.edu/jscnhm/v1n1/artthewhale.html 73The FBI Seized This Woman's Life Savings–Without Telling Her Why 117 247 10mo +10m reason.com/2025/03/20/the-fbi-seized-this-womans-life-savings-without-telling-her-why 74Manifest: A 1-file micro-back end 44 96 10mo +2d github.com/mnfst/manifest 75Human Perception of Dog Emotions Is Influenced by Extraneous Factors 4 12 10mo +3d tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08927936.2025.2469400#d1e710 76A New Form Factor for Drones: Vertical and Coaxial 28 39 10mo +4h core77.com/posts/135952/A-New-Form-Factor-for-Drones-Vertical-and-Coaxial 77Germany tightens travel advice to US after three citizens detained 165 179 10mo +9m euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/19/germany-tightens-travel-advice-to-us-after-three-citizens-detained 78Calibre 8.0 143 282 10mo +18m calibre-ebook.com/whats-new 79BCX Basic 4 28 10mo +3d bcxbasiccoders.com 80Show HN: Minimal JavaScript/TS framework that made us 10k in 10 days 2 10 10mo +3h github.com/The-Pocket-World/Pocket-Flow-Framework 81Not dropping RISC-V support after all, maybe 37 64 10mo +50m chimera-linux.org/news/2025/03/new-riscv-server.html 82Harvard study: open-source has an economic value of 8.8T dollars 28 66 10mo +7m heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html 83Ask HN: Should I learn COBOL at 14yo in 2025? 56 21 10mo +1h 84Help Identify the Photographer Who Captured Many Images of 1960s San Francisco 42 113 10mo +3d smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-you-identify-the-mystery-photographer-who-captured-thousands-of-captivating-images-of-1960s-san-francisco-180986107 85Western Ignorance: Failure to See China Beyond the Party 30 31 10mo +26m thechinaacademy.org/western-ignorance-failure-to-see-china-beyond-the-party 86London's Heathrow Airport announces complete shutdown due to power outage 245 235 10mo +2h cnn.com/2025/03/20/travel/london-heathrow-airport-shut-intl-hnk/index.html 87History of Null Pointer Dereferences on macOS 19 87 10mo +3d afine.com/history-of-null-pointer-dereferences-on-macos 88Boycott IETF 127 351 556 10mo +1h boycott-ietf127.org 89QRP Labs QMX SSB beta firmware relased 22 71 10mo +2d qrp-labs.com/qmxp/ssbbeta.html 90iPhones were being stolen off porches right after delivery, and now we know how 65 75 10mo +1h 9to5mac.com/2025/03/20/iphones-were-being-stolen-off-porches-right-after-delivery-and-now-we-know-how 91Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri 549 331 10mo +10m finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-shuffles-ai-executive-ranks-162500488.html 92The head of South Korea's guard consulted ChatGPT before martial law was imposed 130 149 10mo +28m hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/1187705.html 93Sync Engines Are the Future 197 325 10mo +2d instantdb.com/essays/sync_future 94The indieweb doesn't need to “take off” 161 307 10mo +1h susam.net/indieweb-does-not-need-to-take-off.html 95Asahi Linux Progress Report - Linux 6.14 43 82 10mo +13m asahilinux.org/2025/03/progress-report-6-14 96SmolDocling: An ultra-compact VLM for end-to-end multi-modal document conversion 11 65 10mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2503.11576 97NASA Whoosh Rocket 84 158 10mo +2d .grc.nasa.gov/beginners-guide-to-aeronautics/whoosh-rocket 98Chibi: PNG-tuber application made in Rust 62 58 10mo +1h github.com/megabytesofrem/chibi 99Feds indict ex-Michigan FB coach Matt Weiss: Hacked computers to spy on women 11 33 10mo +18m freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2025/03/20/matt-weiss-charged-crimes-computers-michigan-football/82570958007 100Nonprofit's Leader Convicted of Siphoning Off $240M in Federal Food Aid 42 95 10mo +13m nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/nonprofit-leader-convicted-federal-food-aid.html 101Indian chemical company employees indicted for Importing of Fentanyl Precursors 0 17 10mo +26m justice.gov/opa/pr/india-based-chemical-manufacturing-company-and-top-employees-indicted-unlawful-importation 102Debugging PostgreSQL More Easily 17 62 10mo +2d cybertec-postgresql.com/en/debugging-postgresql-more-easily 103Be My Eyes 7 30 10mo +5m bemyeyes.com 104[dead] ? 11 10mo +35m nytimes.com 105Zero-knowledge proofs, encoding Sudoku and Mario speedruns without semantic leak 25 160 10mo +2d vasekrozhon.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/zero-knowledge-proofs 106 More... 2025.03.20