news, !paper 2025-03-14

635 RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI / github.com/crmne / 168

588 Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update / us.community.samsung.com / 556

555 A look at Firefox forks / lwn.net / 369

451 My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster / bentasker.co.uk / 154

443 Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging / briarproject.org / 200

428 Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg / sfgate.com / 262

316 Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users / theverge.com / 263

310 I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox / github.com/ArcaneNibble / 285

290 I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA / news.ycombinator.com / 476

278 Why do transit agencies keep falling for the hydrogen bus myth? / cleantechnica.com / 478

273 Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised / semgrep.dev / 4

260 The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment / collegetowns.substack.com / 373

254 Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs / tinyhack.com / 55

249 New York Times shut down Tor Onion service / open.nytimes.com / 154

245 Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 / arstechnica.com / 113

231 Magpies and crows are using “anti-bird spikes” to make nests (2023) / audubon.org / 84

230 Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C / arstechnica.com / 263

229 Kerning, the Hard Way / home.octetfont.com / 66

220 Making Postgres scale / pgdog.dev / 185

211 A 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` (2024) / blog.jacobstechtavern.com / 108

203 Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web / chriscoyier.net / 323

200 Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019) / exurbe.com / 317

198 In S3 simplicity is table stakes / allthingsdistributed.com / 135

196 FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds to claw back climate money / techcrunch.com / 130

179 Amazon Is Discontinuing the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" Feature on Echo / resetera.com / 28

174 Recommendations for designing magic numbers of binary file formats / hackers.town / 62

162 AMD's Strix Halo under the hood / chipsandcheese.com / 138

157 The curious surge of productivity in U.S. restaurants / bfi.uchicago.edu / 268

154 Block Diffusion: Interpolating between autoregressive and diffusion models / arxiv.org / 32

142 Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62% / hopsworks.ai / 65

129 Coq-of-rust: Formal verification tool for Rust / github.com/formal-land / 26

127 Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck / electrek.co / 237

116 Creative Fansubbing Techniques: Part 2 / md-subs.com / 28

103 Ask HN: Any jobs that don't force you to always be advancing career wise? / news.ycombinator.com / 145

103 'Once in a Century' Proof Settles Math's Kakeya Conjecture / quantamagazine.org / 28

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