HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Apple losing over $1B a year on streaming service 44 36 9mo +46m reuters.com/technology/apple-losing-over-1-billion-year-streaming-service-information-reports-2025-03-20 1“Moonshots” Initiative to Secure the Future of RISC OS 16 50 9mo +1h riscosopen.org/news/articles/2025/03/28/moonshots-initiative-to-secure-the-future-of-the-os 2Ex-FCC chairs from both parties say CBS news distortion investigation is bogus 1 16 9mo +22m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/ex-fcc-chairs-from-both-parties-say-cbs-news-distortion-investigation-is-bogus 3How the Queen of England Beat Everyone to the Internet 23 38 9mo +2d wired.com/2012/12/queen-and-the-internet 4[dead] ? 44 9mo +12m au.news.yahoo.com 5[dead] ? 13 9mo +36m dolthub.com 6Everyone knows all the apps on your phone 468 1141 9mo +1h peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-use 7Why do blue-footed boobies have blue feet? And 8 other blue-footed booby facts 0 6 9mo +2d worldwildlife.org/stories/why-do-blue-footed-boobies-have-blue-feet-and-8-other-blue-footed-booby-facts 8Convert Linux to Windows 432 362 9mo +1h philipbohun.com/blog/0007.html 9De-Atomization Is the Secret to Happiness (2022) 12 67 9mo +24m nateliason.com/blog/de-atomization-is-the-secret-to-happiness 10XAN: A Modern CSV-Centric Data Manipulation Toolkit for the Terminal 24 141 9mo +2d github.com/medialab/xan 11Proof that Steins;Gate world is a running simulation 8 19 9mo +1h samyar.me/posts/steins-gate-and-hamming-code 12Atop 2.11 heap problems 81 166 9mo +48m openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/03/29/1 13Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown 166 141 9mo +33m cnn.com/2025/03/27/tech/apple-ai-artificial-intelligence/index.html 14Spark AI (YC W24) is hiring a full-stack engineer in San Francisco 0 1 9mo +17s ycombinator.com/companies/spark/jobs/kDeJlPK-software-engineer-full-stack 15Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink 2 23 9mo +2h sambroner.com/posts/raspberry-pi-train 16Show HN: Appear as anyone in video calls like zoom or Google meets 50 108 9mo +2h phazr.ai 17The disappearance of Gaia, ESA spacecraft will be turned off on 27 March 2025 45 125 9mo +3d cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/news 18Beautiful and Minimalistic Chrome Extension 13 20 9mo +1h lofitab.com 19Commercials that David Lynch directed (2018) 38 164 9mo +3m openculture.com/2018/07/watch-commercials-david-lynch-directed-big-30-minute-compilation.html 20Show HN: Job Application Bot by Ollama AI 5 14 9mo +43m github.com/lookr-fyi/job-application-bot-by-ollama-ai 21Decline of cash credited for drop in surgery for children swallowing objects 60 85 9mo +14m theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/28/decline-of-cash-credited-for-drop-in-nhs-surgery-for-children-swallowing-objects 22Matrix Calculus (For Machine Learning and Beyond) 30 176 9mo +15m arxiv.org/abs/2501.14787 23The Candid Naivety of Geeks 83 155 9mo +27m ploum.net/2025-03-28-geeks-naivety.html 24"Station" by Mitsuo Isaka (1994) 3 13 9mo +19m twitter.com/gingerbeardman/status/1906041957668770237 25The Wrong Way to Use a Signed Distance Function (SDF) 6 49 9mo +2h winterbloed.be/the-wrong-way-to-use-a-signed-distance-function 26Lvgl: Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs 33 203 9mo +1h github.com/lvgl/lvgl 27Making of the New York and Erie Railroad Organizational Diagram 3 49 9mo +2h c82.net/blog/?id=98 28Oil and gas money shapes research, creates 'echo chamber' in higher education 7 45 9mo +40m floodlightnews.org/fueling-knowledge-oil-and-gas-money-shapes-research-creates-echo-chamber-in-higher-education 29Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water 1219 489 9mo +50m bbc.com/news/articles/c4gmggp2y99o 30OSS-SEC: Three bypasses of Ubuntu's unprivileged user namespace restrictions 23 72 9mo +1h seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q1/253 31ICE detains Harvard researcher from Russia who protested Ukraine war 15 98 9mo +46m washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/28/harvard-researcher-detained-ice-russia-deportation 32I don't think I can trust Google as my search engine anymore 98 75 9mo +32m androidpolice.com/google-search-engine-lost-my-trust 33Portlander creates AI-powered device to monitor street health 4 22 9mo +3d bikeportland.org/2025/03/18/portlander-creates-ai-powered-device-to-monitor-street-health-393363 34Jeremy Howard taught AI and helped invent ChatGPT. He fears he's failed (2023) 1 20 9mo +28m abc.net.au/news/science/2023-11-15/jeremy-howard-taught-ai-to-the-world-and-helped-invent-chatgpt/103092474 35Free Output – AI output copyright status checker 19 35 9mo +33m freeoutput.org 36Body Doubling 16 65 9mo +27m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_doubling 37When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed 253 259 9mo +20m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/when-the-physicists-need-burner-phones-thats-when-you-know-americas-changed 38AI generated Ghibli images go viral as OpenAI loosens its rules 61 31 9mo +1h washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/28/chatgpt-ghibli-ai-images-copyright 39Paged Out #6 [pdf] 53 298 9mo +45m pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_006.pdf 40TSMC, Intel and other top chipmakers slow Japan, Malaysia expansions 11 36 9mo +1h asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supply-Chain/TSMC-Intel-and-other-top-chipmakers-slow-Japan-Malaysia-expansions 41Show HN: I implemented Snake in a tmux config file 6 71 9mo +3d willhbr.net/2025/03/20/snakes-in-a-pane 42New open-source benchmark for real-time analytics applications 4 16 9mo +2d github.com/timescale/rtabench 43Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software 337 553 9mo +25m tedium.co/2025/03/29/severance-apple-remote-editing-weirdness 44US investigates Stanford, UC schools over affirmative action 2 36 9mo +1h reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-dept-probing-admissions-policies-stanford-university-california-2025-03-27 45Vramfs: Vram Based Filesystem for Linux 41 128 9mo +26m github.com/Overv/vramfs 46Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing 89 335 9mo +11m veloren.net 47[dead] ? 15 9mo +2m youtube.com 48Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job 14 102 9mo +7m hackread.com/twitter-x-of-2-8-billion-data-leak-an-insider-job 49Typed Japanese 37 119 9mo +4h github.com/typedgrammar/typed-japanese 50Around the World, Many People Are Leaving Their Childhood Religions 107 44 9mo +56m pewresearch.org/religion/2025/03/26/around-the-world-many-people-are-leaving-their-childhood-religions 51AM Radio Will Never Die 1 18 9mo +3d discoursemagazine.com/p/am-radio-will-never-die 52Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines 74 229 9mo +34m richardzach.org/2025/03/accessible-open-textbooks-in-math-heavy-disciplines 53ASML's boss has a warning for Europe 125 60 9mo +2h economist.com/business/2025/03/25/asmls-boss-has-a-warning-for-europe 54New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft sign-in even more mandatory 47 74 9mo +46m arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/new-windows-11-build-makes-mandatory-microsoft-account-sign-in-even-more-mandatory 55The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning 3 65 9mo +41m explained.ai/matrix-calculus 56Bolt Graphics Zeus a New GPU Architecture with Up to 2.25TB of Memory and 800GbE 12 27 9mo +29m servethehome.com/bolt-graphics-zeus-the-new-gpu-architecture-with-up-to-2-25tb-of-memory-and-800gbe/2 57Rubik's Cube Solutions, Puzzles, and 8-Balls (2023) 4 38 9mo +2d williambader.com/museum/cubes/cubes.html 58Caido – A lightweight web security auditing toolkit 4 48 9mo +6h caido.io 59Real Time Chess – A physical chess board without the concept of turns 42 255 9mo +4h github.com/misprit7/real-time-chess 60ChatGPT is turning everything into Studio Ghibli art 6 9 9mo +1h theverge.com/openai/636529/images-chatgpt-openai-studio-ghibli-copyright 61Beyond Bohr and Einstein 5 48 9mo +2d cerncourier.com/beyond-bohr-and-einstein 62Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices 92 117 9mo +1h blog.container-solutions.com/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-architects-about-microservices 63Show HN: Bknd – Firebase alternative that embeds into any React stack 22 50 9mo +3d github.com/bknd-io/bknd 64Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers 18 25 9mo +3m nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-detained.html 65How to report a security issue in an open source project 2 10 9mo +5h jacobian.org/2025/mar/27/reporting-security-issues-in-oss 66[dead] ? 21 9mo +29m timesofindia.indiatimes.com 67The Design of the New Swiss Passport 1 18 9mo +29m kottke.org/25/03/the-design-of-the-new-swiss-passport 68Nick Cave's thoughts on a ChatGPT poem (2023) 73 56 9mo +2h theredhandfiles.com/chat-gpt-what-do-you-think 69Therapy chatbot trial yields mental health benefits 4 14 9mo +33m home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/03/first-therapy-chatbot-trial-yields-mental-health-benefits 70I Went Undercover in Crypto's Answer to Squid Game. It Nearly Broke Me 1 8 9mo +3d wired.com/story/crypto-the-game-undercover 71Why Studio Ghibli movies can't be made with AI (2023) 5 24 9mo +1h twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1684940023974793216 72The Real Story Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI 112 116 9mo +1h wsj.com/tech/ai/the-real-story-behind-sam-altman-firing-from-openai-efd51a5d 73A look at /e/OS on tablet hardware 5 8 9mo +4h lwn.net/Articles/1006557 74Windows 11: Removing bypassnro Script to Enhance Security and User Experience 24 26 9mo +7m blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5516-dev-channel 75Show HN: I built a tool that generates quizzes from documents using LLMs 4 10 9mo +45m 76What to Do 238 260 9mo +27m paulgraham.com/do.html 77Koto Programming Language 148 210 9mo +23m koto.dev 78OpenAI Close to Finalizing Its $40B SoftBank-Led Funding 16 17 9mo +2d bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-26/openai-close-to-finalizing-its-40-billion-softbank-led-funding 79Where Do the Bytes Go? 3 42 9mo +30m flak.tedunangst.com/post/where-do-the-bytes-go 80Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen 67 309 9mo +53m github.com/Rukenshia/pomodoro 81Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 1 2 26 9mo +35m jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503170800-search-engine-part-1 82Chimpanzees act as 'engineers', choosing materials to make tools 68 93 9mo +3d sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250324142002.htm 83Show HN: Personal Time Tracking with Git 6 16 9mo +1h doocot.sh/blog/2025/03/28/time-tracking-with-git 84Et Tu, Grammarly? 74 273 9mo +53m dbushell.com/2025/03/29/et-tu-grammarly 85Manjaro Linux: Making Arch Linux More Accessible 30 22 9mo +1h manjaro.org 86Andrej Karpathy on the State of Web Development 56 47 9mo +18m twitter.com/karpathy/status/1905051558783418370 87PCIe Endpoint on Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs with PCIe_2_1 Hard Block and GTP 0 34 9mo +1h github.com/regymm/pcie_7x 88Low responsiveness of ML models to critical or deteriorating health conditions 53 91 9mo +2d nature.com/articles/s43856-025-00775-0 89Postgres Language Server: Initial Release 52 345 9mo +1h github.com/supabase-community/postgres-language-server 90AI Accent Conversion for call centers 69 48 9mo +31m krisp.ai/accent-conversion 91Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores 156 228 9mo +1h christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-attacks-on-universities-get 92Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension 66 235 9mo +6m cloudisland.nz/@rmi/114219847307106213 93You Need Subtyping 91 71 9mo +2d blog.polybdenum.com/2025/03/26/why-you-need-subtyping.html 94Scammers Steal $1T a Year – Mostly from Americans 90 106 9mo +5m wired.com/video/watch/incognito-mode-romance-scams 95The Curious Case of Beam CPU Usage (2019) 6 36 9mo +3d stressgrid.com/blog/beam_cpu_usage 96Mathematical Compact Models of Advanced Transistors [pdf] 30 84 9mo +27m .eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2018/EECS-2018-24.pdf 97Window cleaner in quest to confirm priceless Shakespeare portrait 17 16 9mo +3d bbc.com/news/articles/c5yr37nlzv8o 98Emulating the YM2612: Part 1 – Interface 1 36 9mo +3d jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/emulating-ym2612-part-1 99The Culture Shock of Flossing 3 12 9mo +1h theguardian.com/wellness/2025/mar/28/teeth-flossing-france-dentist-culture 100The theft and recovery of a grisaille by Anthony Van Dyck (1599–1641) 1 9 9mo +2d britishartjournal.co.uk/recovery-of-a-stolen-van-dyck 101Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account 282 263 9mo +1h infosec.exchange/@wdormann/114242475168860209 102OpenWrt Two Approval 128 200 9mo +1h openwrt.org/voting/2025-02-12-openwrt-two 103Show HN Pianoboi – displays sheet music as you play your piano 25 108 9mo +12h pianoboi.site 104Pentagon to Remove Enola Gay 15 32 9mo +58m nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/war-heroes-and-military-firsts-are-among-26000-images-flagged-for-removal-in-pentagons-dei-purge/3861030 105Self-Supervised Learning from Images with JEPA (2023) 10 40 9mo +22m arxiv.org/abs/2301.08243 106Playstation Mod Turns the PSOne into a Crustacean 23 108 9mo +3d gizmodo.com/the-carcinisation-of-playstation-is-complete-say-hello-to-playstacean-2000579934 107Plain – a web framework for building products with Python 156 305 9mo +10m plainframework.com 108DIY Acoustic Camera using miniDSP UMA-16 (2021) 2 28 9mo +3d navat.substack.com/p/diy-acoustic-camera-using-uma-16 109The Gen X Career Meltdown 44 54 9mo +23m nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/28/style/gen-x-creative-work.html 110Conquest of the Incas 115 101 9mo +2d mattlakeman.org/2025/03/24/conquest-of-the-incas 111Show HN: Multi UPS SNMP based shutdown 14 25 9mo +22m nupst.serve.zone 112Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language (2023) 60 90 9mo +3d jamesshore.com/v2/projects/nullables/testing-without-mocks 113iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured? 87 180 9mo +49m mail-tester.com/test-p3tdhnk3o 114NSA F9T53 Opsec Special Bulletin: Signal Vulnerability 21 37 9mo +32m scribd.com/document/843124910/NSA-full 115Madison Square Garden's surveillance banned this fan over his T-shirt design 88 214 9mo +54m theverge.com/news/637228/madison-square-garden-james-dolan-facial-recognition-fan-ban 116Is AI the new research scientist? Not so, according to a human-led study 58 32 9mo +17m news.warrington.ufl.edu/faculty-and-research/ai-research-scientist 117Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents 44 113 9mo +3d krisp.ai/blog/improving-turn-taking-of-ai-voice-agents-with-background-voice-cancellation 118 More... 2025.03.28