HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 181 192 9mo +6m theverge.com/news/638967/microsoft-windows-11-account-internet-bypass-blocked 1Volvo Tells Plug-In Hybrid Owners to Stop Charging 20 13 9mo +13m carscoops.com/2025/03/volvo-recalling-thousands-of-plug-in-hybrids-over-fire-risk 2[dead] ? 14 9mo +30m diziet.dreamwidth.org 32025 Tariff Impacts at Puget Systems 136 175 9mo +13m pugetsystems.com/blog/2025/03/28/2025-tariff-impacts-at-puget-systems 4Plasmonic Modulators Can Break the Wireless Terahertz Barrier 11 17 9mo +3d spectrum.ieee.org/terahertz-waves-2671362433 5[dead] ? 21 9mo +24m advocate.com 6Show HN: An Almost Free, Open Source TURN Server 52 122 9mo +21m github.com/lvidgen/WebRTC/blob/master/FOSS_TURN_Server/howto.md 7[dead] ? 13 9mo +25m daringfireball.net 8[dead] ? 13 9mo +28m cbsnews.com 9DIY PTP Grandmaster Clock with a Raspberry Pi 32 104 9mo +1h jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/diy-ptp-grandmaster-clock-raspberry-pi 10Angelina Jolie Was Right About Computers 2 21 9mo +3d wired.com/story/angelina-jolie-was-right-about-risc-architecture 11Flight bookings from Canada to the US plummet over 70% 2 59 9mo +3m newsweek.com/canada-us-flight-bookings-fall-70-percent-2051327 12US Securities and Exchange Commission beginning to bring on DOGE staff 132 106 9mo +9m reuters.com/world/us/us-securities-exchange-commission-beginning-onboard-doge-staff-email-says-2025-03-28 13TV is watching you – Companies inventing new ways to make money off your data 33 64 9mo +1h vox.com/technology/405879/roku-amazon-netflix-moana-disney 14FDIC says banks can engage in crypto activities without prior approval 91 83 9mo +56m reuters.com/business/finance/fdic-says-banks-can-engage-crypto-activities-without-prior-approval-2025-03-28 15xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B 1229 782 9mo +7m twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1905731750275510312 16Ask HN: can Wireless-CarPlay dongles steal your data? 30 45 9mo +3d 17Swiftly 1.0 82 178 9mo +37m swift.org/blog/introducing-swiftly_10 18Finley (YC W21) Is Hiring a Technical Implementations Specialist 0 1 9mo +10s ats.rippling.com/finley-technologies/jobs 19Is This Sex Offender Map in Japan Legal? 26 16 9mo +30m unseen-japan.com/sex-offender-map-japan-legal 20Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds 82 169 9mo +29m chrbutler.com/digital-echoes-and-unquiet-minds 21'You're His Property': How One Sheriff Used Inmate Labor on His Family Farm 5 34 9mo +12m nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/mississippi-inmate-labor-sheriff-farm.html 22Optimizing Matrix Multiplication on RDNA3 26 117 9mo +3d seb-v.github.io/optimization/update/2025/01/20/Fast-GPU-Matrix-multiplication.html 23The Art of DJing: Avalon Emerson (2019) 51 91 9mo +19m it.ra.co/features/3392 24Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD 32 65 9mo +3d euroquis.nl/freebsd/2025/03/16/framework.html 25A cretaceous fly trap? Remarkable abdominal modification in a fossil wasp 4 29 9mo +9m bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-025-02190-2 26SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal 49 60 9mo +1h signalbot.one 27Superhyperbola 20 63 9mo +7m johndcook.com/blog/2025/03/27/superhyperbola 28Hyperlegibility 1 20 9mo +3d notboring.co/p/hyperlegibility 29We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some) 133 652 9mo +2m landh.tech/blog/20250327-we-hacked-gemini-source-code 30Show HN: Hexi – Modern header-only network binary serialisation for C++ 43 115 9mo +5m github.com/EmberEmu/Hexi 31Show HN: An open source alternative to Wakatime 23 41 9mo +3d wakana.io 32[dead] ? 16 9mo +2m wbez.org 33The Real Book (2021) 38 156 9mo +7m 99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-real-book 34How Kerala got rich 295 378 9mo +7m aeon.co/essays/how-did-kerala-go-from-poor-to-prosperous-among-indias-states 35Moiré Than Meets the Eye: Uncovering the Quantum Potential of Phasons 2 24 9mo +3d newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/03/24/moire-than-meets-the-eye 362,200-year-old pyramid filled with coins and weapons found near Dead Sea 10 31 9mo +1m livescience.com/archaeology/2-200-year-old-mysterious-pyramid-structure-filled-with-coins-and-weapons-found-near-dead-sea 37Colorado's Experiment with Psychedelic Mushrooms Begins 2 9 9mo +4m undark.org/2025/03/25/colorado-psychedelic-mushrooms 38Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions 72 105 9mo +29m depot.dev/blog/uncovering-disk-io-bottlenecks-github-actions-ci 39Show HN: Cursor IDE now remembers your coding prefs using MCP 39 105 9mo +1h 40Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust 229 377 9mo +8h blog.startifact.com/posts/xee 41The Pyrex Glass Controversy That Just Won't Die (2019) 39 28 9mo +34m gizmodo.com/the-pyrex-glass-controversy-that-just-wont-die-1833040962 42We Mapped DOGE's Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections 3 19 9mo +3m wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-silicon-valley-corporate-connections 43Building Statically Linked Go Executables with CGO and Zig 19 139 9mo +1h calabro.io/zig-cgo 44Building Node.js on Windows with Clang-cl 1 7 9mo +3d joyeecheung.github.io/blog/2025/02/16/building-nodejs-on-windows-with-clang-cl 45Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from Gemini 1 6 9mo +2m arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/gemini-hackers-can-deliver-more-potent-attacks-with-a-helping-hand-from-gemini 46The Biology of a Large Language Model 19 113 9mo +47m transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html 47Decomposing a Factorial into Large Factors 27 133 9mo +5m terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/decomposing-a-factorial-into-large-factors 48Japanese scientists create new plastic that dissolves in saltwater overnight 118 192 9mo +48m newatlas.com/materials/plastic-dissolves-ocean-overnight-no-microplastics 49Despite Ukraine war, Europe imported even more Russian gas last year 137 103 9mo +30m e360.yale.edu/digest/europe-russia-ukraine-war-natural-gas-2024 50Doge Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months 129 118 9mo +28m wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits 51The Great Chatbot Debate 12 18 9mo +3d computerhistory.org/events/great-chatbot-debate 52Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL 127 219 9mo +48m ditto.com/blog/cross-platform-p2p-wi-fi-how-the-eu-killed-awdl 53[dead] ? 27 9mo +2h nature.com 54Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees 63 141 9mo +3m caryinstitute.org/news-insights/press-release/getting-hit-lightning-good-some-tropical-trees 55The Biology of B-Movie Monsters (2003) 44 94 9mo +3m fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757 56How to write blog posts that developers read 153 571 9mo +2h refactoringenglish.com/chapters/write-blog-posts-developers-read 57Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's? 147 160 9mo +1h nymag.com/strategist/article/levis-amazon-jeans-testing.html 58The Epicenter of Conspiracy Belief 15 19 9mo +4h onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.13085 597.7M Violent Burma Earthquake 0 7 9mo +3h earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000pn9s/pager 60Trump's FCC Starts Harassing Public Broadcasters with Bogus Investigations 8 42 9mo +18m techdirt.com/2025/03/28/trumps-fcc-starts-harassing-public-broadcasters-with-bogus-investigations 61MilliForth-6502: The smallest Forth real programming language for 6502 38 119 9mo +1h github.com/agsb/milliForth-6502 62Nobody should be a "content creator" 43 70 9mo +29m christianheilmann.com/2025/03/12/nobody-should-be-a-content-creator 63I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car 511 636 9mo +16m cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rural-virginia-then-asked-police-to-send-me-their-public-surveillance-footage-of-my-car-heres-what-i-learned 64Retreating Glaciers Expose 1,500 Miles of Coastline 17 30 9mo +3d e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-glaciers-coastline-study 65Let's Take a Look at JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading and Linking 28 49 9mo +58m morling.dev/blog/jep-483-aot-class-loading-linking 66PermitFlow (YC W22) Is Hiring Senior/Staff Engineers in NYC 0 1 9mo +11s jobs.ashbyhq.com/permitflow?departmentId=d33195eb-8978-4439-abc6-5a8a072de808 67Jevons Paradox: A Personal Perspective 8 17 9mo +56m fakepixels.substack.com/p/jevons-paradox-a-personal-perspective 68Google is publishing the home addresses of developers without their consent 77 123 9mo +1h 69The Last Stand of the Corporate Peacock 56 26 9mo +46m wrk3.substack.com/p/the-last-stand-of-the-corporate-peacock 70Postgres Extension Tutorial 0 24 9mo +2h github.com/IshaanAdarsh/Postgres-extension-tutorial/blob/main/SGML/intro_and_toc.md 71iPhone users can now set WhatsApp as their default calling and texting app 71 81 9mo +39m theverge.com/news/637489/iphone-whatsapp-default-calling-texting-app 72On Tyranny [book] 20 58 9mo +2h timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny 73Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests 180 167 9mo +2d phys.org/news/2025-03-preschoolers.html 74Researchers get spiking neural behavior out of a pair of transistors 4 20 9mo +33m arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/researchers-get-spiking-neural-behavior-out-of-a-pair-of-transistors 75Mid-pregnancy pollution exposure linked to postpartum depression 11 60 9mo +3h bps.org.uk/research-digest/mid-pregnancy-pollution-exposure-linked-postpartum-depression-new-study-suggests 76Entropy Attacks 32 100 9mo +2d blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html 77Learn to code, ignore AI, then use AI to code even better 143 154 9mo +26m kyrylo.org/software/2025/03/27/learn-to-code-ignore-ai-then-use-ai-to-code-even-better.html 78Patience is a coping strategy, not a virtue 19 18 9mo +2h bps.org.uk/research-digest/patience-coping-strategy-not-virtue 797.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand 107 272 9mo +4m twitter.com/TaraBull808/status/1905534938558157139 80Plasmonic Modulators Break Wireless Terahertz Barrier 7 25 9mo +2d spectrum.ieee.org/terahertz-waves-2671362433 81How I Choose What to Work On (2023) 31 112 9mo +2d tynan.com/workonwhat 82A Debugger is a REPL is a Debugger 19 43 9mo +2d matklad.github.io/2025/03/25/debugger-is-repl-is-debugger.html 83Estimating Camera Motion from a Single Motion-Blurred Image 19 69 9mo +1h jerredchen.github.io/image-as-imu 84Software Eng Intern – Structured Labs (YC S23) Is Hiring 0 1 9mo +27s ycombinator.com/companies/structured-labs/jobs/MWU8Ws3-software-engineer-intern 85Architecture Patterns with Python 135 474 9mo +52m cosmicpython.com/book/preface.html 86Create Weird Fun PHPStan Rules Like Nobody's Watching 0 11 9mo +2d tomasvotruba.com/blog/create-weird-fun-phpstan-rules 87Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots 74 115 9mo +8m nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/pilots-signal-leak.html 88US no longer a reliable partner, old relationship is over: Canadian PM Carney 26 65 9mo +29m tribuneindia.com/news/world/us-no-longer-a-reliable-partner-old-relationship-is-over-canadian-pm-carney 89One Drive in Toyota's $10k Pickup Will Make You Want One (2023) 18 30 9mo +24m motor1.com/reviews/696031/toyota-cheap-pickup-concept-review 90Making math fun by prepping for friendly competition (2022) 2 8 9mo +3d news.mit.edu/2022/mit-math-problem-solving-class-putnam-competition-1214 91Show HN: I built a command line ASCII logo SVG generator for laser cutting 0 12 9mo +3d github.com/ykhli/ascii-logo 92Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life 127 304 9mo +4h livescience.com/animals/giant-fungus-like-organism-may-be-a-completely-unknown-branch-of-life 93Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada 79 93 9mo +15m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada 94Every Flop Counts: Scaling a 300B LLM Without Premium GPUs 9 116 9mo +3d arxiv.org/abs/2503.05139 95A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C 38 180 9mo +15m github.com/SAT-R/sa2 96Show HN: Built an MCP server for direct sound design on my hardware synth 2 11 9mo +2d github.com/zerubeus/elektron-mcp 97Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts 118 245 9mo +1h thisdavej.com/share-python-scripts-like-a-pro-uv-and-pep-723-for-easy-deployment 98LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs 215 339 9mo +1h computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html 99Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025 140 135 9mo +59m nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/analyses/arctic-sea-ice-sets-record-low-maximum-2025 100Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter 115 392 9mo +42m blog.autorouting.com/p/13-things-i-would-have-told-myself 101Revolving Door: Ex FCC Boss Ajit Pai Promoted to Top Wireless Industry Lobbyist 8 65 9mo +27m techdirt.com/2025/03/27/the-revolving-door-spins-former-trump-fcc-boss-ajit-pai-promoted-to-top-wireless-industry-lobbyist 102What it takes to add a new back end to Futhark 1 28 9mo +3d futhark-lang.org/blog/2025-03-04-adding-a-new-backend.html 103Anti-Orbit Laser Submarines (2017) 31 62 9mo +59m toughsf.blogspot.comhttp:///2017/10/anti-orbit-laser-submarines.html 104A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices 140 376 9mo +48m devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250325-00/?p=110993 105Helpcare AI (YC F24) Is Hiring 0 1 9mo +7s docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpzOyP_mk3muEpbKrnW8UTZB_yP5SJwjbeT8_6A6fhdvpJCg/viewform?usp=preview 106The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing 71 84 9mo +2d asteriskmag.com/issues/09/the-unbearable-loudness-of-chewing 107Executive order on Smithsonian targets funding programs with 'improper ideology' 35 71 9mo +20m apnews.com/article/trump-smithsonian-executive-order-improper-ideology-558ebfab722f603e94e02a1a4b06ed4d 108Golang 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