Mar 13, 2025 | Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower dies, Gemini Robotics, The DuckDB Local UI
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 13, 2025.Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has diedhttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spyinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347662Gemini Roboticshttps://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-brings-ai-into-the-physical-world/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344082The DuckDB Local UIhttps://duckdb.org/2025/03/12/duckdb-ui.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43342712Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browserhttps://github.com/kern/filepizzahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43342361Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/Gemma3Report.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340491Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Googlehttps://mozillapetition.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340948The Future Is Nirihttps://ersei.net/en/blog/nirihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43342178Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its adherence and adoptionhttps://github.com/openui/open-uihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308278I stopped everything and started writing C againhttps://www.kmx.io/blog/why-stopped-everything-and-started-writing-C-againhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340731Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landedhttps://www.eggnog.ai/entertimeportalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347306
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Mar 12, 2025 | 10x faster TypeScript, Y Combinator's 20th birthday, Factorio Learning Environment with agents
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 12, 2025.A 10x Faster TypeScripthttps://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332830Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinatorhttps://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1899092996702048709https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332658Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factorieshttps://jackhopkins.github.io/factorio-learning-environment/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331582Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting libraryhttps://medium.com/@caitlin9165/fastplotlib-driving-scientific-discovery-through-data-visualization-418f8bff094chttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43334190What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)https://seeinglogic.com/posts/visual-readability-patterns/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43330900New tools for building agentshttps://openai.com/index/new-tools-for-building-agents/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43334644The Startup CTO's Handbookhttps://github.com/ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook/blob/main/StartupCTOHandbook.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337703The US island that speaks Elizabethan Englishhttps://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-englishhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332752NASA to launch space observatory that will map 450M galaxieshttps://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-spherex-space-observatory-launch-map-galaxies-universe-rcna190877https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296184Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/Gemma3Report.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340491
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Mar 11, 2025 | Canon lenses autofocus motors, music labels vs. Internet Archive, Ecosia prioritizes trees over profits
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 11, 2025.Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motorshttps://exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical-articles-CLT-12-autofocus-systems.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320230Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian sayshttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322245Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)https://blog.ecosia.org/trees-not-profits/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317887Probabilistic Artificial Intelligencehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05244https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318624Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learninghttps://github.com/MathFoundationRL/Book-Mathematical-Foundation-of-Reinforcement-Learninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323946Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every eveninghttps://www.seven39.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433280953dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)https://www.abortretry.fail/p/so-powerful-its-kind-of-ridiculoushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43287327Software-Defined Radio for Engineers (2018) [pdf]https://www.analog.com/media/en/training-seminars/design-handbooks/Software-Defined-Radio-for-Engineers-2018/SDR4Engineers.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323071What made the Irish famine so deadlyhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/rot-padraic-x-scanlan-book-reviewhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326275Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridgeshttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/firmware-update-bricks-hp-printers-makes-them-unable-to-use-hp-cartridges/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323923
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Mar 10, 2025 | Phone experience, Tesla's secret team for range complaints, using Claude Code
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 10, 2025.It is as if you were on your phonehttps://pippinbarr.com/it-is-as-if-you-were-on-your-phone/info/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308994Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43314781I've been using Claude Code for a couple of dayshttps://twitter.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1898674257808515242https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43307809Apple Exclaveshttps://randomaugustine.medium.com/on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c37194https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43314657Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search indexhttps://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43311573Chasing RFI Waves – Part Sevenhttps://raoulpop.com/2012/04/15/chasing-rfi-waves-part-seven/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43315406Stanford researchers develop dual-antibody treatment for ALL SARS-CoV-2 variantshttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adq5720https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43315634Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreterhttps://blog.nelhage.com/post/cpython-tail-call/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317592Show HN: Evolving Agents Frameworkhttps://github.com/matiasmolinas/evolving-agentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43310963Improving on std:count_if()'s auto-vectorizationhttps://nicula.xyz/2025/03/08/improving-stdcountif-vectorization.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43302394
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Mar 9, 2025 | AI tools detect research errors, Volkswagen brings back physical controls, DOJ pushes for Google to divest Chrome
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 9, 2025.AI tools are spotting errors in research papershttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00648-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43295692Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functionshttps://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volkswagen-reintroducing-physical-controls-vital-functionshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298271The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chromehttps://www.wired.com/story/the-doj-still-wants-google-to-divest-chrome/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299886My 16-month theanine self-experimenthttps://dynomight.net/theanine/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43305803Show HN: I built an app to get daily wisdom from Mr. Worldwidehttps://daale.club/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43304785Discworld Ruleshttps://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-ruleshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299815Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminalhttps://github.com/mfontanini/presentermhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43303752The program is the database is the interfacehttps://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-program-is-the-database-is-the-interface/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43300528Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCPhttps://glthr.com/discovering-errors-in-donald-knuths-taocphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301342Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failedhttps://tzx.notion.site/What-I-Learned-Building-a-Free-Semantic-Search-Tool-for-GitHub-and-Why-I-Failed-1a09b742c7918033b318f3a5d7dc9751https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299659
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