Hacker News on Saturday, 1 March 2025

A Letter to the American People(18f.org)

677 points by erentz 1 year ago | 255 comments

An open letter from former 18F employees announcing the March 2025 termination of all staff at the GSA civic tech unit and arguing against its elimination.

The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks(varun.ch)

537 points by varun_ch 1 year ago | 54 comments

A blog post recounting a three-year project to turn a fleet of dismantled Chromebooks into a synchronized video wall, covering the software side.

GSA Eliminates 18F(nextgov.com)

412 points by patcon 1 year ago | 331 comments

Nextgov/FCW news article reporting that the General Services Administration has eliminated 18F, its in-house digital services consultancy.

China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns(wsj.com)

393 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 374 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting that China has told its AI leaders to avoid travel to the U.S. over security concerns; the page showed a captcha.

GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)(wildfirelabs.substack.com)

336 points by herbertl 1 year ago | 451 comments

A Substack essay by Todd Gagne arguing that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs could be a massive economic disruptor affecting jobs, investments, and industries.

A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub(twitter.com)

322 points by amarcheschi 1 year ago | 244 comments

An X post by Roger Sollenberger reporting that DOGE staffer Jordan Wick appears to be posting DOGE work, including a Twitter DM downloader and geospatial data, on his public GitHub.

Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server(blog.diego.dev)

303 points by shantara 1 year ago | 68 comments

Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market(swapfest.berlin)

296 points by mirshko 1 year ago | 60 comments

The housing theory of everything (2021)(worksinprogress.co)

274 points by lifeisstillgood 1 year ago | 298 comments

Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?

240 points by fuzztester 1 year ago | 336 comments

Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone(bengarcia.dev)

234 points by hahahacorn 1 year ago | 199 comments

Windows NT for GameCube/Wii(github.com)

234 points by zdw 1 year ago | 78 comments

Zen 5's AVX-512 Frequency Behavior(chipsandcheese.com)

186 points by matt_d 1 year ago | 57 comments

Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing(plus.nasa.gov)

176 points by rolph 1 year ago | 36 comments

Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code(ghuntley.com)

173 points by ghuntley 1 year ago | 101 comments

Xcode constantly phones home(lapcatsoftware.com)

160 points by MaysonL 1 year ago | 55 comments

Euclid finds complete Einstein Ring in NGC galaxy(euclid-ec.org)

156 points by raattgift 1 year ago | 40 comments

A Map of Python(fi-le.net)

154 points by fi-le 1 year ago | 23 comments

Efabless – Shutdown Notice(efabless.com)

141 points by KenoFischer 1 year ago | 60 comments

Effective Rust (2024)(lurklurk.org)

141 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 77 comments

Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008)(mattcutts.com)

138 points by gigaArpit 1 year ago | 70 comments

The cost of Go's panic and recover(jub0bs.com)

136 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 144 comments

Intel delays $28B Ohio chip fabs to 2030(reuters.com)

134 points by alephnerd 1 year ago | 97 comments

Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?(daringfireball.net)

129 points by ingve 1 year ago | 136 comments

Become a sponsor to Servo(github.com)

128 points by lostmsu 1 year ago | 46 comments

Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time(substack.com)

124 points by jxmorris12 1 year ago | 72 comments

Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting(amitp.blogspot.com)

115 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 12 comments

Abusing C to implement JSON parsing with struct methods(xnacly.me)

107 points by ingve 1 year ago | 58 comments

When eBPF pt_regs reads return garbage on the latest Linux kernels, blame Fred(tanelpoder.com)

95 points by tanelpoder 1 year ago | 9 comments

BMW Group Product Catalog–Historic Models(bmwgroup-classic.com)

89 points by NaOH 1 year ago | 42 comments

Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed(nature.com)

88 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 41 comments

Show HN: I took over Painteresque, a 14 year old Objective-C app and rebuilt it(apps.apple.com)

83 points by busymom0 1 year ago | 16 comments

GrapheneOS blocked exploitation of 3 Android zero-days used by Cellebrite(grapheneos.social)

76 points by akyuu 1 year ago | 14 comments

OpenGL to WASM, learning from my mistakes(uds5501.github.io)

71 points by uds5501 1 year ago | 18 comments

Salty game dev comments, easier mods are in Command and Conquer's source code(arstechnica.com)

58 points by ulrischa 1 year ago | 21 comments

Open AI in Trouble(garymarcus.substack.com)

58 points by a_tartaruga 1 year ago | 35 comments

Show HN: PG-Capture – a better way to sync Postgres with Algolia (or Elastic)(pg-capture.onrender.com)

48 points by nick-keller 1 year ago | 13 comments

Nearly 25 years later, Terminator 2 is getting a new video game(gizmodo.com)

45 points by ulrischa 1 year ago | 10 comments

Verifiable science on modified PCR machine(github.com)

45 points by kotaKat 1 year ago | 15 comments

18F GitHub Repositories(github.com)

44 points by ronbenton 1 year ago | 14 comments

Chip-8 Archive(johnearnest.github.io)

43 points by volemo 1 year ago | 4 comments

Cuts to US national parks and forests met with backlash(bbc.com)

43 points by throw0101c 1 year ago | 18 comments

What is vibe coding? How creators are building software with no coding knowledge(alitu.com)

42 points by Bocajmai 1 year ago | 76 comments

Federal spending is stable over time(lbo-news.com)

41 points by alpinisme 1 year ago | 34 comments

C1 modem breaks no speed records, but is power efficient(appleinsider.com)

40 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 17 comments

The AI Code Review Disconnect: Why Your Tools Aren't Solving Your Real Problem(avikalpg.github.io)

39 points by avikalp 1 year ago | 22 comments

China advises citizens specializing in AI to avoid traveling to America(saba.ye)

38 points by hjjkjhkj 1 year ago | 12 comments

Zapier says someone broke into its code repositories and may have customer data(theverge.com)

38 points by OmarShehata 1 year ago | 6 comments

Micro keypad to do your regular Git push/pull/add/commit actions(gitsyncpad.xyz)

31 points by aravindkumarv 1 year ago | 39 comments

The Nabataeans Are Coming(historytoday.com)

30 points by diodorus 1 year ago | 12 comments

FAA targeting Verizon contract in favor of SpaceX(washingtonpost.com)

30 points by dh2022 1 year ago | 11 comments

JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back(allenpike.com)

28 points by ingve 1 year ago | 16 comments

Microsoft Copilot continues to expose private GitHub repositories(developer-tech.com)

26 points by birdculture 1 year ago | 7 comments

Why so many children in America have ADHD(economist.com)

26 points by uberdru 1 year ago | 33 comments

How long can you balance a pencil?(thevirtuosi.blogspot.com)

26 points by phreeza 1 year ago | 7 comments

Infinite Retrieval: Attention enhanced LLMs in long-context processing(arxiv.org)

26 points by TaurenHunter 1 year ago | 3 comments

The American Weather Forecast Is in Trouble(theatlantic.com)

24 points by zfg 1 year ago | 7 comments

Number-Colour-Phoneme Associations: From IBM CGA Colours to Mnemonic Systems(susam.net)

23 points by susam 1 year ago | 5 comments

Stone tool analysis in Southeast Asia provides evidence of seafaring technology(popularmechanics.com)

22 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 9 comments

Looking Back at Speculative Decoding(research.google)

21 points by veryluckyxyz 1 year ago | 3 comments