news, !paper 2025-03-17

1937 uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store / chromewebstore.google.com / 978

1805 A 10x Faster TypeScript / devblogs.microsoft.com / 908

1409 Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator / twitter.com/garrytan / 274

874 The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available / discuss.systems / 614

840 It is as if you were on your phone / pippinbarr.com / 131

812 My 16-month theanine self-experiment / dynomight.net / 434

746 Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories / jackhopkins.github.io / 209

730 Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening / seven39.com / 349

658 Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance / eff.org / 445

636 The Startup CTO's Handbook / github.com/ZachGoldberg / 205

603 Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter / blog.nelhage.com / 173

599 AI tools are spotting errors in research papers / nature.com / 215

541 Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index / blog.ecosia.org / 175

532 Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors / exclusivearchitecture.com / 133

500 The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome / wired.com / 682

499 Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says / arstechnica.com / 184

489 Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library / medium.com / 178

470 Apple Exclaves / randomaugustine.medium.com / 217

429 Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI / techstartups.com / 443

421 Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning / github.com/MathFoundationRL / 43

411 What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023) / seeinglogic.com / 370

405 Layoffs Don't Work / thehustle.co / 754

386 New tools for building agents / openai.com / 155

369 Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition / arxiv.org / 110

349 Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence / arxiv.org / 97

347 Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its adherence and adoption / github.com/openui / 102

345 Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018) / blog.ecosia.org / 215

324 Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app / github.com/johnbean393 / 91

318 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023) / abortretry.fail / 268

316 What made the Irish famine so deadly / newyorker.com / 513

305 With AI you need to think bigger / rodyne.com / 164

304 Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal / github.com/mfontanini / 45

299 Chasing RFI Waves – Part Seven / raoulpop.com / 116

289 HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere / httptoolkit.com / 295

288 Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised' / theguardian.com / 257

270 NASA to launch space observatory that will map 450M galaxies / nbcnews.com / 120

269 The US island that speaks Elizabethan English / bbc.com / 188

265 America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1 / semianalysis.com / 415

261 Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere / pola.rs / 87

260 The Einstein AI Model / thomwolf.io / 208

246 Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office / blog.cloudflare.com / 111

239 Bending Spacetime in the Basement (1997) / fourmilab.ch / 58

238 Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different / arxiv.org / 58

232 Exploring Polymorphism in C: Lessons from Linux and FFmpeg's Code Design (2019) / leandromoreira.com / 124

230 Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart / theguardian.com / 103

223 It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life / ourworldindata.org / 384

213 uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users / wagtail.org / 189

209 Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond / chicagomaroon.github.io / 77

206 AI-Generated Voice Evidence Poses Dangers in Court / lawfaremedia.org / 163

205 Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table / wired.com / 98

203 The program is the database is the interface / scattered-thoughts.net / 61

202 Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments on AWS with EKS / glasskube.dev / 114

201 People are just as bad as my LLMs / wilsoniumite.com / 163

197 A look at the creative process behind Bluey and Cocomelon (2024) / readtrung.com / 215

193 A Post Mortem on the Gino Case / statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu / 118

192 Building websites with lots of little HTML pages / blog.jim-nielsen.com / 86

191 Magnesium Self-Experiments / gwern.net / 131

190 Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe? / bbc.com / 277

190 Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video] / youtube.com / 55

188 Local Deep Research – ArXiv, wiki and other searches included / github.com/LearningCircuit / 33

184 Mayo Clinic's secret weapon against AI hallucinations: Reverse RAG in action / venturebeat.com / 80

184 Optimistic Locking in B-Trees / cedardb.com / 54

181 What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017) / medium.com / 97

179 Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee / theguardian.com / 83

177 Bring Back Shortwave / spectator.co.uk / 111

177 Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology / engineering.fb.com / 49

176 Matters Computational (2010) [pdf] / jjj.de / 23

174 Woman's DNA discovered in 20k year old deer-tooth pendant (2023) / cbc.ca / 78

172 Show HN: Krep a High-Performance String Search Utility Written in C / davidesantangelo.github.io / 74

166 Dithering in Colour / obrhubr.org / 65

164 NIST selects HQC as fifth algorithm for post-quantum encryption / nist.gov / 116

157 Archival Storage / blog.dshr.org / 87

157 Show HN: In-Browser Graph RAG with Kuzu-WASM and WebLLM / blog.kuzudb.com / 28

150 Online Embedded Rust Simulator / wokwi.com / 22

149 Sorting algorithms with CUDA / ashwanirathee.com / 41

147 Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available for Purchase, Stacked Memory Variant Coming / phoronix.com / 62

143 Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly / techstartups.com / 97

142 Shef / github.com/eduardoagarcia / 46

141 Show HN: Editable Games / playscl.com / 30

138 Conducting forensics of mobile devices to find signs of a potential compromise / github.com/mvt-project / 46

137 Deploy from local to production (self-hosted) / github.com/bypirob / 67

137 Backyard Cyanide / suziepetryk.com / 56

137 Bel in Clojure (2022) / stopa.io / 6

133 Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub / shkspr.mobi / 50

130 H3: For indexing geographies into a hexagonal grid, by Uber / h3geo.org / 44

130 Underware 2.0 – Open Source Infinite Cable Management / makerworld.com / 37

128 Internationalization-puzzles: Daily programming puzzles just like Advent of Code / i18n-puzzles.com / 6

127 A technical history of Acorn Computers / mcmordie.co.uk / 60

126 Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours / jonathan-frere.com / 69

126 Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours / tomshardware.com / 35

124 An election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up” / statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu / 290

117 Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests / theintercept.com / 113

113 HyperShell X Outdoor PowerSuit Exoskeleton / hypershell.tech / 67

108 STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming (2012) [pdf] / tinlizzie.org / 86

103 Genomic study: our capacity for language emerged at least 135k years ago / phys.org / 63

103 The exceptional Jordan algebra (2020) / cp4space.hatsya.com / 11

102 Compiling C++ with the Clang API / maskray.me / 20

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