Hacker News 250

Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban
Link: https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577761

2026-03-30 21:05:11 UTC

I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
Link: https://blog.lysk.tech/excalidraw-frame-export/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571376

2026-03-30 20:45:12 UTC

New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements
Link: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/new-washington-law-bans-noncompete-agreements/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47576861

2026-03-30 19:45:11 UTC

Bird brains (2023)
Link: https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573887

2026-03-30 17:10:11 UTC

"Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot"
Link: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575212

2026-03-30 16:50:12 UTC

How to turn anything into a router
Link: https://nbailey.ca/post/router/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574034

2026-03-30 15:15:12 UTC

15 Years of Forking
Link: https://www.waterfox.com/blog/15-years-of-forking/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545607

2026-03-30 14:55:11 UTC

How the AI Bubble Bursts
Link: https://martinvol.pe/blog/2026/03/30/how-the-ai-bubble-bursts/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573420

2026-03-30 13:45:11 UTC

The curious case of retro demo scene graphics
Link: https://www.datagubbe.se/aipixels/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570666

2026-03-30 12:45:11 UTC

My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix
Link: https://tobiasberg.net/posts/my-macbook-keyboard-is-broken-and-its-insanely-expensive-to-fix/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566143

2026-03-30 12:05:12 UTC

C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report
Link: https://herbsutter.com/2026/03/29/c26-is-done-trip-report-march-2026-iso-c-standards-meeting-london-croydon-uk/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565365

2026-03-30 10:05:11 UTC

Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
Link: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/smart-glasses-ai-meta-courts-20260326.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569471

2026-03-30 06:40:13 UTC

Copilot edited an ad into my PR
Link: https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269

2026-03-30 05:25:11 UTC

Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout
Link: https://github.com/chenglou/pretext
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556290

2026-03-30 02:40:11 UTC

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/29/full-network-clitoral-nerves-mapped-out-first-time-women-pelvic-surgery
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564245

2026-03-30 02:00:12 UTC

The Cognitive Dark Forest
Link: https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/cognitive-dark-forest/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566442

2026-03-29 23:25:11 UTC

ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State
Link: https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566865

2026-03-29 22:55:11 UTC

Neovim 0.12.0
Link: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.12.0
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565316

2026-03-29 21:20:11 UTC

A nearly perfect USB cable tester
Link: https://blog.literarily-starved.com/2026/02/technology-the-nearly-perfect-usb-cable-tester-does-exist/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524778

2026-03-29 21:10:13 UTC

Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
Link: https://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561819

2026-03-29 20:30:13 UTC

Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563384

2026-03-29 20:30:12 UTC

Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
Link: https://techfixated.com/a-1977-time-capsule-voyager-1-runs-on-69-kb-of-memory-and-an-8-track-tape-recorder-4/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564421

2026-03-29 16:30:12 UTC

LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561489

2026-03-29 16:30:12 UTC

Say No to Palantir in Europe
Link: https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03-palantir-petition-EN
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563655

2026-03-29 14:50:12 UTC

Overestimation of microplastics potentially caused by scientists' gloves
Link: https://news.umich.edu/nitrile-and-latex-gloves-may-cause-overestimation-of-microplastics-u-m-study-reveals/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561711

2026-03-29 05:25:11 UTC

CSS is DOOMed
Link: https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2026/css-is-doomed-rendering-doom-in-3d-with-css/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557960

2026-03-29 04:55:11 UTC

South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots
Link: https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/south-korea-mandates-solar-panels-for-public-parking-lots/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX01UMU5VUlBITzAwMFZKRjFZQQ
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558997

2026-03-28 21:20:11 UTC

The bee that everyone wants to save
Link: https://naturalist.bearblog.dev/the-bee-that-everyone-wants-to-save/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520599

2026-03-28 20:35:23 UTC

I decompiled the White House's new app
Link: https://thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555556

2026-03-28 19:55:10 UTC

Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly
Link: https://github.com/J-x-Z/cocoa-way
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553185

2026-03-28 19:55:10 UTC

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Link: https://sytse.com/cancer/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556729

2026-03-28 19:05:12 UTC

CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering
Link: https://theopenreader.org/Journalism:CERN_Uses_Tiny_AI_Models_Burned_into_Silicon_for_Real-Time_LHC_Data_Filtering
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552562

2026-03-28 19:00:12 UTC

I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXxmIw9axWw
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553717

2026-03-28 17:30:11 UTC

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/amds-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-dual-edition-crams-208mb-of-cache-into-a-single-chip/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550878

2026-03-28 16:55:13 UTC

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice
Link: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554773

2026-03-28 15:35:12 UTC

Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables
Link: https://grid.iamkate.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553484

2026-03-28 14:10:11 UTC

I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit
Link: https://github.com/EnriqueLop/legalize-es
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553798

2026-03-28 13:45:12 UTC

Explore the Hidden World of Sand
Link: https://magnifiedsand.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493677

2026-03-28 10:55:11 UTC

LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3096432/lgs-new-1hz-display-is-the-secret-behind-a-new-laptops-battery-life.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495245

2026-03-28 10:15:11 UTC

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/iran-linked-hackers-claim-breach-of-fbi-directors-personal-email-doj-official-2026-03-27/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543167

2026-03-28 08:20:21 UTC

Meow.camera
Link: https://meow.camera/#4258783365322591678
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543204

2026-03-28 07:25:11 UTC

Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
Link: https://jai.scs.stanford.edu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550282

2026-03-28 06:05:11 UTC

‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms
Link: https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/26/suddenly-energy-independence-feels-practical-europeans-are-building-mini-solar-farms-at-ho
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540383

2026-03-28 00:05:13 UTC

Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)
Link: https://lr0.org/blog/p/macos/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547009

2026-03-27 21:55:12 UTC

If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548243

2026-03-27 21:05:11 UTC

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544980

2026-03-27 20:25:11 UTC

Desk for people who work at home with a cat
Link: https://soranews24.com/2026/03/27/japan-now-has-a-special-desk-for-people-who-work-at-home-with-a-pet-catphotos/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543943

2026-03-27 19:35:11 UTC

Anatomy of the .claude/ folder
Link: https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/anatomy-of-the-claude-folder
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543139

2026-03-27 18:45:11 UTC

People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
Link: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/people-inside-microsoft-are-fighting-to-drop-windows-11s-mandatory-microsoft-account-requirements-during-setup
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542695

2026-03-27 18:00:11 UTC

Schedule tasks on the web
Link: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/web-scheduled-tasks
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47539188

2026-03-27 15:10:12 UTC

The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat Before Dinner
Link: https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542057

2026-03-27 14:55:12 UTC

A Faster Alternative to Jq
Link: https://micahkepe.com/blog/jsongrep/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47539825

2026-03-27 13:10:11 UTC

Hold on to Your Hardware
Link: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540833

2026-03-27 10:20:11 UTC

Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
Link: https://georgelarson.me/writing/2026-03-23-nullclaw-doorman/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536761

2026-03-27 09:50:12 UTC

$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks
Link: https://github.com/itigges22/ATLAS
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533297

2026-03-27 07:20:12 UTC

DOOM Over DNS
Link: https://github.com/resumex/doom-over-dns
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490705

2026-03-27 06:30:11 UTC

John Bradley, author of xv, has died
Link: https://voxday.net/2026/03/25/rip-john-bradley/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534086

2026-03-27 06:05:11 UTC

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
Link: https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535708

2026-03-27 03:25:13 UTC

Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/26/business/anthropic-pentagon-injunction-supply-chain-risk
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537228

2026-03-27 01:20:12 UTC

Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/world/olympics/ioc-transgender-athletes-ban.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530945

2026-03-27 00:10:11 UTC

New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/new-york-hospitals-palantir-ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535371

2026-03-26 22:25:12 UTC

My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack
Link: https://futuresearch.ai/blog/litellm-attack-transcript/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531967

2026-03-26 21:15:11 UTC

We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
Link: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/we-havent-seen-the-worst-of-what
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534848

2026-03-26 21:05:12 UTC

From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures
Link: https://en.andros.dev/blog/aa31d744/from-zero-to-a-rag-system-successes-and-failures/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499356

2026-03-26 19:45:13 UTC

Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)
Link: https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-many-control-rooms-were-seafoam
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518960

2026-03-26 17:10:12 UTC

Swift 6.3
Link: https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.3-released/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47527590

2026-03-26 16:40:11 UTC

Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people
Link: https://unterwaditzer.net/2025/codeberg.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530330

2026-03-26 16:20:11 UTC

Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids
Link: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-25/social-media-lawsuit-trial-meta-google-verdict
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529534

2026-03-26 16:10:12 UTC

End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller
Link: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529609

2026-03-26 14:15:12 UTC

European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/tuta.com/post/3mhxkfowv322c
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529646

2026-03-26 13:55:11 UTC

Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
Link: https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-save-your-sanity/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525243

2026-03-26 11:35:10 UTC

Personal Encyclopedias
Link: https://whoami.wiki/blog/personal-encyclopedias
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522173

2026-03-26 09:45:12 UTC

Quantization from the Ground Up
Link: https://ngrok.com/blog/quantization
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519295

2026-03-26 08:10:11 UTC

FreeCAD v1.1
Link: https://blog.freecad.org/2026/03/25/freecad-version-1-1-released/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521945

2026-03-26 07:45:11 UTC

False claims in a widely-cited paper
Link: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/24/false-claims-in-a-published-no-corrections-no-consequences-welcome-to-the-business-school/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525378

2026-03-26 07:20:12 UTC

90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
Link: https://www.claudescode.dev/?window=since_launch
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521157

2026-03-26 04:00:14 UTC

Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
Link: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521799

2026-03-26 01:45:10 UTC

ARC-AGI-3
Link: https://arcprize.org/arc-agi/3
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521150

2026-03-26 00:25:11 UTC

Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed
Link: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/3/11.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521876

2026-03-26 00:20:11 UTC

Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/supreme-court-cox-music-copyright.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518281

2026-03-26 00:20:11 UTC

Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
Link: https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/tesla/2026/03/23/running-tesla-model-3s-computer-on-my-desk-using-parts-from-crashed-cars/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523330

2026-03-25 21:55:12 UTC

Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/tech/meta-new-mexico-trial-jury-deliberation
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509984

2026-03-25 21:25:11 UTC

The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos
Link: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/?foo=bar
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522709

2026-03-25 20:35:10 UTC

Antimatter has been transported for the first time
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00950-w
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518171

2026-03-25 20:00:11 UTC

Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/technology/social-media-trial-verdict.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520505

2026-03-25 19:45:11 UTC

Miscellanea: The War in Iran
Link: https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513229

2026-03-25 19:00:12 UTC

Jury says Meta knowingly harmed children for profit, awarding landmark verdict
Link: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-03-25/jury-says-meta-knowingly-harmed-children-for-profit-awarding-landmark-verdict
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519625

2026-03-25 18:35:12 UTC

Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-dc
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511703

2026-03-25 18:35:12 UTC

Thoughts on Slowing the Fuck Down
Link: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-the-fuck-down/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517539

2026-03-25 17:45:13 UTC

Local LLM App by Ente
Link: https://ente.com/blog/ensu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47516650

2026-03-25 17:35:12 UTC

Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote
Link: https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/spies-lies-and-fake-investors-in-disguise-how-plotters-tried-to-flip-a-european-election-1f42b39a
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519519

2026-03-25 16:15:10 UTC

My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary
Link: https://rpastro.square.site/s/stories/phm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477873

2026-03-25 15:30:10 UTC

Apple Just Lost Me
Link: https://andregarzia.com/2026/03/apple-just-lost-me.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517701

2026-03-25 15:15:11 UTC

VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
Link: https://v-os.dev
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512816

2026-03-25 13:55:11 UTC

Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql75dn07n2o
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514916

2026-03-25 13:05:10 UTC

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
Link: https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme-compression/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513475

2026-03-25 09:05:11 UTC

Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis
Link: https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/hegel/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504094

2026-03-25 06:55:12 UTC

Flighty Airports
Link: https://flighty.com/airports
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511589