news, !paper / hn digest   2025-03-31

663 Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed / 9to5google.com / 317
633 Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers? / doublepulsar.com / 127
633 The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden / goto80.com / 86
499 The <select> element can now be customized with CSS / developer.chrome.com / 185
479 Go Optimization Guide / goperf.dev / 157
476 Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison / composio.dev / 325
454 A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up / captrice.io / 136
420 AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please / sergey.fyi / 254
413 KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader / github.com/koreader / 104
407 It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018) / thephcheese.com / 224
354 James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise / smithsonianmag.com / 306
322 Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic / sgnt.ai / 167
304 MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming / thelibertyline.com / 412
295 ToS;DR / tosdr.org / 42
276 The case against conversational interfaces / julian.digital / 217
267 Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010) / science.org / 119
256 Netflix’s Media Production Suite / netflixtechblog.com / 141
249 France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking / arstechnica.com / 205
246 A decision to eject from a failing F-35B fighter and the betrayal in its wake / postandcourier.com / 206
229 Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C and C++ / best.openssf.org / 76
224 Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server / github.com/lharries / 137
224 The Egg (2009) / galactanet.com / 91
221 Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta / turso.tech / 67
213 Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence / theguardian.com / 394
212 Everything is Ghibli / carly.substack.com / 339
206 JEP draft: Prepare to make final mean final / openjdk.org / 140
206 Win98-quickinstall: A framework and installer to quickly install Windows 98 / github.com/oerg866 / 120
197 Kagi for Kids / help.kagi.com / 166
187 Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024) / aumont.fr / 243
180 Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry / righto.com / 32
173 Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models (Anthropic) / transformer-circuits.pub / 27
162 Browsercraft: Java Minecraft in the browser / browsercraft.cheerpj.com / 101
153 Show HN: I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight / knightride.rakhim.org / 57
130 How to Secure Existing C and C++ Software Without Memory Safety [pdf] / arxiv.org / 86
128 LLM Workflows then Agents: Getting Started with Apache Airflow / github.com/astronomer / 41
120 An 'Administrative Error' Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison / theatlantic.com / 39
115 Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball / blog.ploopy.co / 49
106 OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback / openai.com / 77
103 Show HN: JavaScript PubSub in 163 Bytes / github.com/hassanshaikley / 36
101 Launch HN: Augento (YC W25) – Fine-tune your agents with reinforcement learning / news.ycombinator.com / 60

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