Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon(cnn.com)
722 points by complexpass | 180 comments
CNN live updates page covering Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost robotic lunar lander successfully touching down on the moon on March 2, 2025.
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Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office(twitter.com)
469 points by kappi | 306 comments
An X (Twitter) post by Ethan Evans arguing that executives' personal wealth influences their push for return-to-office policies; the post content did not load.
The early days of Linux (2023)(lwn.net)
422 points by stmw | 125 comments
LWN article by Lars Wirzenius recalling his memories of the earliest days of Linux, its creation by Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki, and its early growth.
NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable(nslookup.io)
398 points by raphman | 278 comments
NsLookup.io page showing authoritative DNS record lookup for www.nih.gov, shared to illustrate an NIH DNS outage affecting PubMed and BLAST.
Solarpunk(en.wikipedia.org)
389 points by nis0s | 202 comments
Wikipedia article on solarpunk, a literary and artistic movement envisioning an optimistic, sustainable future interconnected with nature and community.
The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three(righto.com)
354 points by Tomte | 138 comments
Ken Shirriff's blog post reverse-engineering the Pentium's ×3 multiplier circuit, used in its base-8 floating-point multiplication, and explaining how it works.
Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice(sesame.com)
346 points by monroewalker | 179 comments
Sesame research post by Brendan Iribe, Ankit Kumar and team on building natural-sounding conversational voice AI, with an interactive demo.
Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet(zetier.com)
343 points by chc4 | 83 comments
A Zetier blog post arguing that video game speedrunners use the same skills and techniques as security vulnerability researchers.
Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes(simonwillison.net)
339 points by ulrischa | 264 comments
Simon Willison blog post arguing that LLM hallucinations in code are the least harmful kind of mistake because running the code exposes them immediately.
Schools reviving shop class(wsj.com)
246 points by bookofjoe | 180 comments
Understanding Smallpond and 3FS(definite.app)
238 points by mritchie712 | 42 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/3/2/5c0f793f-a4cc-42db-b4cf-0d46d23054ce.jpg)
The A.I. Monarchy(substack.com)
163 points by zuzuleinen | 190 comments
GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"?(interconnects.ai)
135 points by pama | 129 comments
2025 Hiring Pause(hr.cornell.edu)
130 points by abhayhegde | 88 comments
I'm done with coding(neelc.org)
119 points by neelc | 74 comments
olduse.net(olduse.net)
116 points by tosh | 15 comments
CSS Custom Functions are coming(bram.us)
75 points by Fudgel | 69 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: The internet is killing old PC hardware [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/3/5/a868dcb5-3315-475b-afd5-0d916a28274c.jpg)
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/3/2/4ce8df87-e0e7-4f38-a25f-6c5ea2270e1b.jpg)
Tiny Ten DSP-Based HF Transceiver(janbob.com)
57 points by wglb | 15 comments
