Hacker News on Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard(graz.io)

664 points by sgraz 1 year ago | 223 comments

A case study by the builder of Bayleaf, a DIY wireless, split, ultra-low-profile keyboard, covering electronics, PCB design, and manufacturing.

Why fastDOOM is fast(fabiensanglard.net)

638 points by wicket 1 year ago | 201 comments

Fabien Sanglard's blog post explaining the optimizations that make FastDOOM, a DOS port of Doom, run faster on 486-era PCs like the IBM PS/1.

ARC-AGI without pretraining(iliao2345.github.io)

331 points by georgehill 1 year ago | 90 comments

Blog post by Isaac Liao and Albert Gu describing a method that solves ARC-AGI puzzles using lossless information compression without pretraining.

Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back(restoredcdc.org)

316 points by lparlett 1 year ago | 100 comments

Let’s code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet and ARP (2016)(saminiir.com)

285 points by jcartw 1 year ago | 18 comments

Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)(reactormag.com)

266 points by softwaredoug 1 year ago | 170 comments

The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died(ip4only.me)

256 points by lieuwex 1 year ago | 73 comments

Satellogic's Open Satellite Feed(tech.marksblogg.com)

244 points by marklit 1 year ago | 13 comments

Translating natural language to first-order logic for logical fallacy detection(arxiv.org)

242 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 117 comments

Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights(cnn.com)

231 points by rob74 1 year ago | 218 comments

Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked(ourworldindata.org)

213 points by myroon5 1 year ago | 257 comments

Should managers still code?(theengineeringmanager.substack.com)

211 points by blah2244 1 year ago | 279 comments

DeepSeek's smallpond: Bringing Distributed Computing to DuckDB(mehdio.substack.com)

191 points by xkgt 1 year ago | 21 comments

What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish(nytimes.com)

182 points by gk1 1 year ago | 51 comments

Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance(world-nuclear-news.org)

173 points by geox 1 year ago | 225 comments

DARPA exploring growing bio structures of "unprecedented size" in microgravity(sam.gov)

166 points by Jimmc414 1 year ago | 77 comments

Solving SICP(lockywolf.wordpress.com)

161 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 37 comments

Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Perlin Noise for Procedural Gen(jdhwilkins.com)

159 points by chwolfe 1 year ago | 29 comments

Launch HN: Enhanced Radar (YC W25) – A safety net for air traffic control

156 points by kristian1109 1 year ago | 105 comments

Learn How to Break AES(davidwong.fr)

147 points by baby 1 year ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers(github.com)

132 points by npace12 1 year ago | 30 comments

Body Doubling(bodydoubling.com)

117 points by yamrzou 1 year ago | 74 comments

Show HN: Time travel debugging AI for more reliable vibe coding(nut.new)

104 points by bhackett 1 year ago | 48 comments

DIY "infinity contrast" TV – with 100% recycled parts [video](youtube.com)

91 points by HelloUsername 1 year ago | 41 comments

The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015)(allendowney.blogspot.com)

90 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 29 comments

Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe?(commonreader.wustl.edu)

85 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 20 comments

Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard(apple.com)

79 points by praseodym 1 year ago | 152 comments

Small German town starts testing geothermal power utilizing new techniques(apnews.com)

77 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 12 comments

Microsoft's new Dragon Copilot is an AI assistant for healthcare(theverge.com)

76 points by 01-_- 1 year ago | 69 comments

Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows(pragmar.com)

72 points by pragmar 1 year ago | 19 comments

HYTRADBOI 2025 Conference Postmortem(scattered-thoughts.net)

70 points by luu 1 year ago | 9 comments

Simple Explanation of LLMs(blog.oedemis.io)

69 points by oedemis 1 year ago | 15 comments

Tattoo ink exposure is associated with lymphoma and skin cancers(bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com)

68 points by achristmascarl 1 year ago | 30 comments

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app(theregister.com)

65 points by owendarko 1 year ago | 22 comments

AI models makes precise copies of cuneiform characters(news.cornell.edu)

63 points by geox 1 year ago | 18 comments

Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator(telegraph.13ug1mb.com)

63 points by leugim 1 year ago | 21 comments

The End of Weather Forecasting(thinc.blog)

61 points by nickcotter 1 year ago | 25 comments

"Wooly mice" a test run for mammoth gene editing(arstechnica.com)

59 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 45 comments

Performance optimization, and how to do it wrong(genna.win)

57 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 17 comments

Words for the Heart: A treasury of emotions from classical India(bostonreview.net)

57 points by summoned 1 year ago | 9 comments

PostmarketOS in 2025-02: MSM89x7 Audio, Modern Xiaomis in Community, New Name(postmarketos.org)

56 points by fossdd 1 year ago | 13 comments

DiffRhythm: Fast End-to-End Full-Length Song Generation with Latent Diffusion(aslp-lab.github.io)

54 points by CrypticShift 1 year ago | 58 comments

Mozilla rewrites Firefox's Terms of Use after user backlash(techcrunch.com)

49 points by 01-_- 1 year ago | 32 comments

Speeding up computational lithography with the power and parallelism of GPUs(semiengineering.com)

46 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 0 comments

Why Quantum Engineering Is Emerging as a Distinct Industrial Sector(spectrum.ieee.org)

46 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 39 comments

Static Site Generator for Emacs Lisp Programmers(one.tonyaldon.com)

45 points by dskhatri 1 year ago | 7 comments

Google change is breaking some digital photo frames(theverge.com)

42 points by tomsonj 1 year ago | 27 comments

Game Theory and Settling the Debts of the Deceased in Ancient Times(politicalcalculations.blogspot.com)

40 points by stevefan1999 1 year ago | 4 comments

In Severance, Office Perks Couldn't Be More Sinister(theoffcut.substack.com)

40 points by nickcotter 1 year ago | 41 comments

The British Navy Resisted a Decent Lightning Rod for Decades(spectrum.ieee.org)

38 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 16 comments

Father tries to block daughter's euthanasia in landmark Spanish case(bbc.com)

36 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 31 comments

Why writing small docs is a game changer(bufferbuffer.com)

36 points by taubek 1 year ago | 38 comments

Ride into the Future with Waymo on Uber in Austin(uber.com)

33 points by ChrisArchitect 1 year ago | 29 comments

UEFI-Only Support for AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics and Later(amd.com)

31 points by doener 1 year ago | 30 comments

Tips for using Gemini 2.0 for PDF ingestion(sergey.fyi)

31 points by serjester 1 year ago | 2 comments

(Reasonably) secure Azure Pipelines on-prem deployments(rewiring.bearblog.dev)

30 points by Mossy9 1 year ago | 37 comments

Kash Patel Wants to Work from Home for FBI(newrepublic.com)

28 points by xnx 1 year ago | 2 comments

Uber users in Austin are getting matched with Waymo robotaxis(techcrunch.com)

26 points by ra7 1 year ago | 16 comments

Tether and Circle are battling to win the US stablecoin market(wsj.com)

24 points by wallflower 1 year ago | 39 comments

The Imaginary Engineer – Karl Hans Janke's Flights of Fancy(cabinetmagazine.org)

23 points by areoform 1 year ago | 9 comments