Hacker News on Monday, 10 March 2025

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of chromewebstore.google.com: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store (chromewebstore.google.com)

1610 points by non- 1 year ago | 803 comments

Chrome Web Store listing for uBlock Origin showing a warning that the extension may soon no longer be supported and suggesting alternatives.

ublock-origin chrome-web-store manifest-v3 ad-blocking

Screenshot of blog.nelhage.com: Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter

Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter (blog.nelhage.com)

557 points by signa11 1 year ago | 160 comments

Blog post by Nelson Elhage examining the performance gains of CPython 3.14's new tail-call bytecode interpreter and reassessing its reported 10-15% speedup.

python cpython interpreters performance

Screenshot of exclusivearchitecture.com: Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors

Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors (exclusivearchitecture.com)

503 points by ExAr 1 year ago | 124 comments

A technical article/e-book describing all autofocus motor types used in Canon EF and RF lenses over the past 40 years, including USM, Nano USM, STM and VCM.

canon camera-lenses autofocus photography

Screenshot of goeuropean.org: Go European: Discover European products and services

Go European: Discover European products and services (goeuropean.org)

500 points by doener 1 year ago | 221 comments

Go European (formerly Buy European Made) is a community-driven directory of European products and services offered as alternatives to non-European brands.

buy-european european-alternatives consumer-directory europe

Screenshot of arstechnica.com: Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says

Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says (arstechnica.com)

452 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 153 comments

Ars Technica article on music labels' copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive over digitized 78 rpm records, with a sound historian warning of consequences.

internet-archive copyright music-labels 78rpm-records

Screenshot of github.com: Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning

Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning (github.com)

386 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 40 comments

GitHub repository hosting the book "Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning" with chapter PDFs, lecture slides, and grid world code.

reinforcement-learning machine-learning mathematics textbook

Screenshot of science.org: Bispecific antibodies potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

Bispecific antibodies potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (science.org)

347 points by ohjeez 1 year ago | 96 comments

A Science Translational Medicine research paper on bispecific antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern; the page was blocked by a Cloudflare check.

sars-cov-2 covid-19 bispecific-antibodies immunology

Screenshot of arxiv.org: Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence

Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence (arxiv.org)

335 points by pavanto 1 year ago | 83 comments

arXiv listing for "Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence" by Andreas Krause and Jonas Hübotter, a manuscript on probabilistic ML, uncertainty, and decision-making.

probabilistic-machine-learning uncertainty-quantification reinforcement-learning bayesian-inference