news, !paper 2025-03-08

797 Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think / usher.dev / 307

592 Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions / autocar.co.uk / 367

591 AI tools are spotting errors in research papers / nature.com / 211

487 The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome / wired.com / 671

374 Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics / mooncake.dev / 118

371 Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices / bleepingcomputer.com / 111

365 Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux / omgubuntu.co.uk / 219

321 PayPal honey extension has again "featured" flag in Chrome web store / chromewebstore.google.com / 174

304 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023) / abortretry.fail / 259

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

299 Show HN: I built an app to get daily wisdom from Mr. Worldwide / daale.club / 80

274 Discworld Rules / contraptions.venkateshrao.com / 322

236 You might not need Redis / viblo.se / 145

219 An epic treatise on error models for systems programming languages / typesanitizer.com / 73

208 Falkon: A KDE Web Browser / falkon.org / 116

205 Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP / glthr.com / 62

199 The program is the database is the interface / scattered-thoughts.net / 60

187 Google will still have to break up its business, the Justice Department said / engadget.com / 5

175 Sam Bankman-Fried thrown into solitary over Tucker Carlson interview: report / gizmodo.com / 227

173 MCP vs. API Explained / norahsakal.com / 110

173 Roald Dahl on the death of his daughter (2015) / telegraph.co.uk / 72

159 Building an open-source Wi-Fi Mac layer for the ESP32 / esp32-open-mac.be / 25

141 Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed / tzx.notion.site / 51

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

112 Zig's dot star syntax (value.*) / openmymind.net / 123

112 Learn Arabic / arabic.fi / 38

107 How much are LLMs boosting real-world programmer productivity? / lesswrong.com / 97

106 Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you / theregister.com / 92

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