Hacker News on Friday, 7 March 2025

Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance(eff.org)

578 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 358 comments

EFF Deeplinks article arguing that age verification bills have expanded from porn sites to products like skin cream, threatening privacy and enabling surveillance.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

Introducing command And commandfor In HTML(developer.chrome.com)

406 points by Kerrick 1 year ago | 231 comments

Chrome for Developers blog post introducing the HTML command and commandfor attributes for declaratively wiring buttons to actions like opening popovers and dialogs.

Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI(techstartups.com)

381 points by doublebind 1 year ago | 378 comments

Tech Startups news article reporting that Microsoft is planning to reduce its reliance on OpenAI and develop its own AI models.

Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects(medicalxpress.com)

365 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 313 comments

Medical Xpress news article on a Stanford study finding a naturally occurring molecule that rivals Ozempic for weight loss without its side effects.

Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition(arxiv.org)

339 points by fofoz 1 year ago | 103 comments

arXiv paper introducing LADDER, a framework where LLMs self-improve by recursively generating simpler problem variants, plus TTRL test-time reinforcement learning.

Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague(theins.press)

306 points by dralley 1 year ago | 144 comments

Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?

302 points by jbornhorst 1 year ago | 284 comments

3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)(abortretry.fail)

296 points by kristianp 1 year ago | 241 comments

Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment(github.com)

287 points by klaussilveira 1 year ago | 81 comments

Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere(pola.rs)

239 points by neilfrndes 1 year ago | 84 comments

Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon(theguardian.com)

233 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 300 comments

Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?(bbc.com)

180 points by justin66 1 year ago | 259 comments

Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video](youtube.com)

167 points by kristiandupont 1 year ago | 50 comments

Optimistic Locking in B-Trees(cedardb.com)

164 points by uds5501 1 year ago | 44 comments

Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology(engineering.fb.com)

161 points by birdculture 1 year ago | 47 comments

Bring Back Shortwave(spectator.co.uk)

155 points by austinallegro 1 year ago | 101 comments

Woman's DNA discovered in 20k year old deer-tooth pendant (2023)(cbc.ca)

153 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 68 comments

Matters Computational (2010) [pdf](jjj.de)

152 points by nill0 1 year ago | 18 comments

How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? (2023)(freaktakes.com)

152 points by sebg 1 year ago | 93 comments

GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet(cybercultural.com)

140 points by cheeaun 1 year ago | 71 comments

Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market(nodumbideas.com)

131 points by nodumbideas 1 year ago | 69 comments

Mysterious tunnels sketched by Leonardo may have been found(cnn.com)

123 points by simonebrunozzi 1 year ago | 35 comments

Bye, Prime(tbray.org)

120 points by HieronymusBosch 1 year ago | 84 comments

Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what's in it(phys.org)

119 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 70 comments

Bel in Clojure (2022)(stopa.io)

117 points by tosh 1 year ago | 5 comments

Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools(newsguardrealitycheck.com)

112 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 60 comments

The necessity of Nussbaum(aeon.co)

102 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 113 comments

Zig's dot star syntax (value.*)(openmymind.net)

99 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 93 comments

HyperShell X Outdoor PowerSuit Exoskeleton(hypershell.tech)

99 points by danboarder 1 year ago | 57 comments

Letta: Letta is a framework for creating LLM services with memory(github.com)

95 points by sebg 1 year ago | 20 comments

How to Build a Thousand-Year-Old Tree(noemamag.com)

86 points by matthewjpo 1 year ago | 10 comments

AMD YOLO(geohot.github.io)

85 points by trulyrandom 1 year ago | 53 comments

Rules to improve air quality are under attack(heatpumped.org)

76 points by ssuds 1 year ago | 16 comments

'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability(quantamagazine.org)

68 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 22 comments

Sublogic Flight Simulator(goto10retro.com)

68 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 24 comments

Rust inadequate for text compression codecs?(palaiologos.rocks)

68 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 44 comments

Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener(ajcn.nutrition.org)

67 points by hilux 1 year ago | 67 comments

When Crocodiles Attack: The Ramree Island Massacre (2013)(atlasobscura.com)

64 points by lifeisstillgood 1 year ago | 73 comments

Virtual Punch Card Creator(masswerk.at)

62 points by eniac111 1 year ago | 14 comments

How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars(propublica.org)

57 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 17 comments

Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled(marketwatch.com)

57 points by _fizz_buzz_ 1 year ago | 34 comments

Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk(wired.com)

55 points by doener 1 year ago | 10 comments

The Kernighan-Lin Search Algorithm(arxiv.org)

48 points by optimalsolver 1 year ago | 2 comments

Arranging invisible icons in quadratic time (2021)(randomascii.wordpress.com)

47 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 19 comments

Show HN: IEMidi –  Cross-platform MIDI map editor for arbitrary controllers(github.com)

45 points by i-e 1 year ago | 9 comments

Cliff Asness: The New 'Crypto Fort Knox' Is as Dumb as It Sounds(thefp.com)

43 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 26 comments

From Prompt to Adventures:Creating Games with LLMs and Restate Durable Functions(restate.dev)

43 points by ivanleomk 1 year ago | 13 comments

Show HN: A big tech dev experience for an open source CMS(contentfoundry.com)

42 points by randall 1 year ago | 28 comments

What if America turned off Britain's weapons?(reaction.life)

40 points by howard941 1 year ago | 34 comments

Ten Digit Problems (2011) [pdf](people.maths.ox.ac.uk)

39 points by cpp_frog 1 year ago | 2 comments

WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely(arstechnica.com)

38 points by speckx 1 year ago | 40 comments

US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report(cnbctv18.com)

37 points by bobheadmaker 1 year ago | 34 comments

The Landscape of Lisp(churchofturing.github.io)

37 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 8 comments

Great software design looks underwhelming(seangoedecke.com)

36 points by pierremenard 1 year ago | 2 comments

The Take It Down Act isn't a law, it's a weapon(theverge.com)

35 points by archagon 1 year ago | 16 comments

Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant(nature.com)

33 points by wglb 1 year ago | 2 comments

McDonald's Gives Its Restaurants an AI Makeover(wsj.com)

31 points by tarunupaday 1 year ago | 36 comments

Ariane 6 performs first commercial flight with launch of CSO-3 satellite(arianespace.com)

29 points by mraniki 1 year ago | 3 comments

StrictYAML(hitchdev.com)

28 points by miohtama 1 year ago | 29 comments