Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
1512 points by leotravis10 | 320 comments
EFF memorial post by Cindy Cohn and Corynne McSherry honoring Mark Klein, the AT&T technician who exposed NSA mass spying on internet traffic.
887 points by meetpateltech | 532 comments
Google DeepMind blog post from March 2025 announcing Gemini Robotics, models that bring Gemini AI into physical robot control.
868 points by xnx | 181 comments
DuckDB blog post announcing a local web-based UI for DuckDB, built with MotherDuck and shipped as part of the ui extension.
554 points by keepamovin | 243 comments
GitHub repository for FilePizza, an open-source web app for peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser using WebRTC.
![Screenshot of storage.googleapis.com: Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/3/12/d243f671-2cd1-4420-9d32-e5bb24efe252.jpg)
464 points by meetpateltech | 239 comments
Google DeepMind's technical report PDF describing the Gemma 3 family of open-weight language models.
462 points by samplank2 | 204 comments
Time Portal is a browser game that shows AI-generated video of a historical event and asks players to guess the year and map location.
393 points by notpushkin | 400 comments
A petition-style open letter urging Mozilla to end its reliance on Google search revenue in light of the U.S. v. Google antitrust case.
391 points by acdha | 142 comments
Ben Tasker's blog post recounting how he engaged with and baited a romance scammer who contacted him via spam emails.
388 points by mattjhall | 202 comments
A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.
387 points by tb8424 | 156 comments
A Substack essay by Tibi Iorga on how startups can work out their user experience without a dedicated designer, time, or budget.
371 points by dvrj101 | 392 comments
A personal blog post by a longtime freelance developer explaining why they moved from Ruby on Rails and Common Lisp back to writing C.
367 points by Tomte | 95 comments
Simon Tatham's blog post on the history and evolution of the PuTTY tools' icons, from hand-drawn designs through scripted rendering to an SVG revamp.
218 points by coloneltcb | 164 comments
192 points by marklit | 12 comments
![Screenshot of usenix.org: The Night Watch (2013) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/3/13/f7f62098-12e2-4099-9445-b612739bca00.jpg)
173 points by mifydev | 31 comments
138 points by LorenDB | 87 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: I Built a Mechanical Calculator [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/3/13/7fe297ed-e663-4b1c-9498-1952422b41d3.jpg)
72 points by Tomte | 29 comments
51 points by diodorus | 3 comments
