Hacker News on Thursday, 13 March 2025

OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules(finance.yahoo.com)

730 points by jonbaer 1 year ago | 659 comments

Bloomberg article syndicated on Yahoo Finance reporting that OpenAI asked the White House for relief from state-level AI regulations.

“Normal” engineers are the key to great teams(spectrum.ieee.org)

554 points by jnord 1 year ago | 475 comments

IEEE Spectrum guest article by Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors arguing against the myth of the "10x engineer" and in praise of normal engineers on strong teams.

The Lost Art of Logarithms(lostartoflogarithms.com)

517 points by ozanonay 1 year ago | 181 comments

Landing page for The Lost Art of Logarithms, an online book-in-progress by Charles Petzold about logarithms and their history.

Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it(forum.cursor.com)

496 points by nomilk 1 year ago | 315 comments

A Cursor forum bug report where a user says the AI editor refused to generate more code past about 800 lines, telling them to learn coding themselves.

Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act(techcrunch.com)

458 points by mrkramer 1 year ago | 337 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Y Combinator is urging the White House to back the EU's Digital Markets Act.

IO Devices and Latency(planetscale.com)

390 points by milar 1 year ago | 139 comments

PlanetScale engineering blog post by Benjamin Dicken explaining IO devices and latency, comparing local NVMe with network-attached storage like AWS EBS.

Steam Networks(worksinprogress.co)

346 points by herbertl 1 year ago | 149 comments

A Works in Progress Issue 18 article by Jamie Rumbelow about steam networks, the district steam heating systems used in cities like New York.

'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket(websiteplanet.com)

284 points by Twirrim 1 year ago | 154 comments

Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-URI(blog.gitbutler.com)

278 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 87 comments

My teen years: The transputer operating system(nanochess.org)

247 points by nanochess 1 year ago | 45 comments

xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster(github.com)

245 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 72 comments

Amateur Telescope Making Main Page(stellafane.org)

244 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 51 comments

Statistical Formulas for Programmers (2013)(evanmiller.org)

219 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 37 comments

Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function?(profmattstrassler.com)

199 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 259 comments

Show HN: Bubbles, a vanilla JavaScript web game(ehmorris.com)

183 points by ehmorris 1 year ago | 68 comments

Honey Bunnies(mameson.com)

178 points by memalign 1 year ago | 35 comments

A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells(danielchasehooper.com)

171 points by dmit 1 year ago | 63 comments

C Plus Prolog(github.com)

164 points by mpweiher 1 year ago | 48 comments

Lego says it wants to start to bring video game development in-house(videogameschronicle.com)

156 points by namanyayg 1 year ago | 91 comments

Ask HN: Where Do Seasoned Devs Look for Short-Term Work?

153 points by shinypenguin 1 year ago | 95 comments

Show HN: Codemcp – Claude Code for Claude Pro subscribers – ditch API bills(github.com)

143 points by ezyang 1 year ago | 31 comments

City simulator I made in Scratch(scratch.mit.edu)

142 points by Annulus 1 year ago | 14 comments

Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook(engadget.com)

138 points by SanjayMehta 1 year ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Psychedelic animation generator; (p)art of your next trip(collidingscopes.github.io)

137 points by getToTheChopin 1 year ago | 54 comments

Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 in libexpat(blog.hartwork.org)

134 points by spyc 1 year ago | 124 comments

History of Maths for Beginners(thonyc.wordpress.com)

132 points by kreig 1 year ago | 14 comments

Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died(independent.co.uk)

124 points by HeckFeck 1 year ago | 22 comments

Huawei targeted in new European Parliament corruption probe(ftm.eu)

106 points by suraci 1 year ago | 73 comments

Xata Agent: AI agent expert in PostgreSQL(github.com)

83 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 14 comments

How Pi Almost Wasn't(mathenchant.wordpress.com)

72 points by jamespropp 1 year ago | 48 comments

Artificial photosynthesis directed toward organic synthesis(nature.com)

70 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 20 comments

The long flight to teach an endangered ibis species to migrate(newyorker.com)

67 points by FinnLobsien 1 year ago | 17 comments

A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)(blog.regehr.org)

66 points by GarethX 1 year ago | 45 comments

Interprocedural Sparse Conditional Type Propagation(railsatscale.com)

63 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 11 comments

Functional Tests as a Tree of Continuations (2010)(evanmiller.org)

60 points by amenghra 1 year ago | 27 comments

Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book(cnbc.com)

54 points by SirLJ 1 year ago | 13 comments

Tiny changes in gene expression make big difference in eye size of fruit flies(phys.org)

52 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 15 comments

Hexagon Spiral Coordinates(redblobgames.com)

51 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 9 comments

Game Boy Advance Architecture – A Practical Analysis(copetti.org)

47 points by chw9e 1 year ago | 2 comments

"Have Quotes About Salieri"(contingentmagazine.org)

41 points by tintinnabula 1 year ago | 10 comments

The failure of the land value tax(worksinprogress.co)

41 points by eamag 1 year ago | 38 comments

Carefully but Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu(discourse.ubuntu.com)

41 points by wicket 1 year ago | 39 comments

Doge Privacy Act Requests(jamieraskin.com)

36 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 2 comments

Laplacian Mesh Smoothing by Throwing Vertices(nosferalatu.com)

33 points by nosferalatu123 1 year ago | 5 comments

Mercedes-Benz Drives Toward Solid-State EV Batteries(spectrum.ieee.org)

31 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 23 comments

Rembrandt to Picasso: Five ways to spot a fake masterpiece(bbc.com)

28 points by Vigier 1 year ago | 21 comments

Would {word1} beat {word2} • Ranked AI game(word-battle.com)

27 points by benlirio 1 year ago | 35 comments

Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice(newscientist.com)

26 points by adrianhon 1 year ago | 25 comments

A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words(deconstructor.ayush.digital)

26 points by hyusap 1 year ago | 34 comments

A 62M-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal(sciencedaily.com)

22 points by docmechanic 1 year ago | 7 comments

Swedish Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström dies in plane crash(thelocal.se)

19 points by Jerry2 1 year ago | 2 comments

Show HN: I built AI agents with CrewAI to automate my entire Gmail workflow(github.com)

18 points by Tonykip 1 year ago | 11 comments

Sketch-Programming: A Minimalist Paradigm for Code Design(github.com)

17 points by DmitryO 1 year ago | 8 comments

Toni Morrison's Lost Play(vulture.com)

16 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: How to study for system design that doesn't include front end/back end?

16 points by 3a2d29 1 year ago | 12 comments

DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find(nytimes.com)

15 points by jbegley 1 year ago | 2 comments

Hours in a Hurricane, on a Race with No Course(nytimes.com)

11 points by elemeno 1 year ago | 5 comments

Beware tech career advice from old heads – Jacob Kaplan-Moss(jacobian.org)

6 points by raybb 1 year ago | 8 comments

Are There Opportunities to Use OODA Loops in Your Software Project?(spin.atomicobject.com)

4 points by philk10 1 year ago | 2 comments

For Better or for Worse, the Overload (2024)(consteval.ca)

4 points by HeliumHydride 1 year ago | 0 comments