news, !paper 2025-03-13

1575 Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died / eff.org / 351

765 OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules / finance.yahoo.com / 775

649 Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it / forum.cursor.com / 394

597 “Normal” engineers are the key to great teams / spectrum.ieee.org / 507

552 The Lost Art of Logarithms / lostartoflogarithms.com / 190

497 Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act / techcrunch.com / 376

489 Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed / eggnog.ai / 212

434 IO Devices and Latency / planetscale.com / 152

415 Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer / tibinotes.com / 172

397 Iconography of the PuTTY tools / chiark.greenend.org.uk / 104

360 Steam Networks / worksinprogress.co / 155

351 'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket / websiteplanet.com / 186

347 Switching from Pyenv to Uv / bluesock.org / 224

339 TinyKVM: Fast sandbox that runs on top of Varnish / info.varnish-software.com / 64

319 The Church FAQ / whatever.scalzi.com / 168

284 Intel appoints Lip-Bu Tan as its CEO / reuters.com / 142

284 Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook / engadget.com / 105

270 xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster / github.com/learnk8s / 74

256 My teen years: The transputer operating system / nanochess.org / 67

252 Amateur Telescope Making Main Page / stellafane.org / 54

236 Statistical Formulas for Programmers (2013) / evanmiller.org / 39

220 Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work? / news.ycombinator.com / 172

203 Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died / independent.co.uk / 88

202 The Night Watch (2013) [pdf] / usenix.org / 33

200 Show HN: Bubbles, a vanilla JavaScript web game / ehmorris.com / 73

195 Honey Bunnies / mameson.com / 38

185 A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells / danielchasehooper.com / 73

175 C Plus Prolog / github.com/needleful / 52

162 Lego says it wants to start to bring video game development in-house / videogameschronicle.com / 93

161 History of Maths for Beginners / thonyc.wordpress.com / 20

157 Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 in libexpat / blog.hartwork.org / 161

133 Zinc, a systems programming language prototype / sr.ht / 78

133 Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-URI / blog.gitbutler.com / 39

131 Huawei targeted in new European Parliament corruption probe / ftm.eu / 104

130 'Profit-Enhancing Middlemen' Fuel $200B Health-Care Chaos / bloomberg.com / 101

124 I Built a Mechanical Calculator [video] / youtube.com / 33

106 Porkbun partners with Proton / porkbun.com / 92

106 The 2008 coal ash disaster in Kingston, Tennessee / oxfordamerican.org / 80

106 ArkFlow – High-performance Rust stream processing engine / github.com/chenquan / 57

105 Show HN: A website that makes your text look cool anywhere online using Unicode / fontgenerator.cool / 53

101 Johns Hopkins University slashes 2k jobs / reuters.com / 88

100 Xata Agent: AI agent expert in PostgreSQL / github.com/xataio / 19

100 Experiment with Gemini 2.0 Flash native image generation / developers.googleblog.com / 12

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