news, !paper 2025-03-16

1904 Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline / github.com/suitenumerique / 453

1753 Mistral OCR / mistral.ai / 417

874 Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS / icann.org / 343

588 Succinct data structures / blog.startifact.com / 105

535 Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia / twitter.com/nexta_tv / 475

513 Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof / scientificamerican.com / 232

469 Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata / google-research.github.io / 90

429 Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by / github.com/giacomo-b / 139

369 Our interfaces have lost their senses / wattenberger.com / 174

339 Zlib-rs is faster than C / trifectatech.org / 469

315 Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found / downtowndougbrown.com / 94

300 When the Dotcom Bubble Burst / dfarq.homeip.net / 348

299 Big LLMs weights are a piece of history / antirez.com / 212

295 GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price / twitter.com/Baidu_Inc / 255

295 That Time I Recreated Photoshop in C++ / f055.net / 144

287 Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain? / news.ycombinator.com / 288

232 DiceDB / dicedb.io / 130

228 Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained / news.ycombinator.com / 108

209 Teach, Don't Tell (2013) / stevelosh.com / 75

202 The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is a Stone-Cold Masterpiece / gizmodo.com / 113

201 Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function? / profmattstrassler.com / 290

180 56k modems relied on digital trunk lines / hackaday.com / 137

179 The good times in tech are over / seangoedecke.com / 252

173 AI Is Making Developers Dumb / eli.cx / 213

161 Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite / dfarq.homeip.net / 103

159 Tcl Tutorial / tcl-lang.org / 72

156 Show HN: My high school team’s space probe / drive.google.com / 33

155 Tesla drives into Wile E. Coyote fake road wall in camera vs. Lidar test / electrek.co / 241

151 Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder / brainsteam.co.uk / 19

147 Rust on the RP2350 (2024) / thejpster.org.uk / 48

131 Edgar Allan Poe's life was a mess. But his work was in his command / washingtonpost.com / 69

130 Show HN: 10 teams are racing to build a pivotal tracker replacement / bye-tracker.net / 90

130 Show HN: Shelgon: A Framework for Building Interactive REPL Shells in Rust / github.com/NishantJoshi00 / 25

126 "Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI / citationneeded.news / 46

122 The race is on to build the most complex machine / economist.com / 85

117 Microsoft's 1986 IPO / dfarq.homeip.net / 87

115 High-performance computing, with much less code / news.mit.edu / 11

111 Let's knock down social media's walled gardens – Tim Berners-Lee / ft.com / 98

108 Everything Picolisp can do, and more / picolisp.com / 14

104 Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good (2013) / learnyousomeerlang.com / 25

101 Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580 / chipsandcheese.com / 86

100 For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower / reasonstobecheerful.world / 107

100 Comet open source remote KVM from GL-iNet / gl-inet.com / 56

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