news, !paper 2025-03-17

1284 GIMP 3.0 / testing.gimp.org / 506

949 The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available / discuss.systems / 661

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

527 Rippling sues Deel over spying / twitter.com/parkerconrad / 135

476 Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different / arxiv.org / 121

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

419 HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere / httptoolkit.com / 494

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

357 Archival Storage / blog.dshr.org / 186

326 The High Heel Problem / simonschreibt.de / 41

296 Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers / x.company / 270

279 Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office / blog.cloudflare.com / 132

261 Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly / techstartups.com / 268

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

241 How I got 100% off my train travel / readbunce.com / 232

241 Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table / wired.com / 112

240 Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests / theintercept.com / 217

237 Rhombus Language / rhombus-lang.org / 154

225 uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users / wagtail.org / 202

221 Underware 2.0 – Open Source Infinite Cable Management / makerworld.com / 66

221 Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript / github.com/casparwylie / 53

209 Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design / datagubbe.se / 117

205 Show HN: OpenTimes – Free travel times between U.S. Census geographies / opentimes.org / 50

196 Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub / shkspr.mobi / 66

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

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

182 Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee / theguardian.com / 88

181 Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’ / bloomberg.com / 198

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

153 Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available for Purchase, Stacked Memory Variant Coming / phoronix.com / 67

151 Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours / tomshardware.com / 39

149 Conducting forensics of mobile devices to find signs of a potential compromise / github.com/mvt-project / 65

148 The PhD Metagame: Don't try to reform science – not yet / maxwellforbes.com / 159

142 Stupid Smart Pointers in C / blog.kevinalbs.com / 164

136 Karatsuba Matrix Multiplication and Its Efficient Hardware Implementations / arxiv.org / 21

115 How Cursor (AI IDE) Works / blog.sshh.io / 7

112 Genomic study: our capacity for language emerged at least 135k years ago / phys.org / 89

107 The exceptional Jordan algebra (2020) / cp4space.hatsya.com / 14

105 PrintedLabs – 3D printable optical experiment equipment / printedlabs.uni-bayreuth.de / 12

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