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Hacker News on Sunday, 16 March 2025

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

Screenshot of github.com: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline (github.com)

1778 points by maelito 1 year ago | 434 comments

GitHub repository for Docs, a collaborative note-taking, wiki and documentation platform built with Django and React by La Suite numérique.

notion-alternative django react wiki

Screenshot of twitter.com: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia

Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia (twitter.com)

427 points by aquir 1 year ago | 297 comments

A NEXTA post on X claiming Serbian security forces used an LRAD acoustic weapon against protesters in Belgrade, with video footage.

serbia lrad sonic-weapons protests

Screenshot of github.com: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by (github.com)

374 points by riidom 1 year ago | 103 comments

GitHub repository for rust-stakeholder, a Rust CLI tool that generates impressive-looking fake terminal output to appear busy.

rust terminal cli humor

Screenshot of trifectatech.org: Zlib-rs is faster than C

Zlib-rs is faster than C (trifectatech.org)

329 points by dochtman 1 year ago | 437 comments

Trifecta Tech Foundation blog post announcing zlib-rs 0.4.2 and benchmarking its decompression and compression speed against C implementations zlib-ng and zlib-chromium.

zlib-rs rust zlib data-compression

Screenshot of wattenberger.com: Our interfaces have lost their senses

Our interfaces have lost their senses (wattenberger.com)

303 points by me_smith 1 year ago | 144 comments

Screenshot of dfarq.homeip.net: When the Dotcom Bubble Burst

When the Dotcom Bubble Burst (dfarq.homeip.net)

278 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 323 comments

Screenshot of downtowndougbrown.com: Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found

Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found (downtowndougbrown.com)

267 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 88 comments

Screenshot of antirez.com: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

Big LLMs weights are a piece of history (antirez.com)

260 points by freeatnet 1 year ago | 184 comments

Screenshot of twitter.com: GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price

GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price (twitter.com)

239 points by decide1000 1 year ago | 173 comments

Screenshot of visualgo.net: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation (visualgo.net)

228 points by tharuntechie 1 year ago | 13 comments

Screenshot of readbunce.com: How I got 100% off my train travel

How I got 100% off my train travel (readbunce.com)

225 points by pavel_lishin 1 year ago | 210 comments

Screenshot of news.err.ee: Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia

Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia (news.err.ee)

217 points by Fethbita 1 year ago | 43 comments

Screenshot of dicedb.io: DiceDB

DiceDB (dicedb.io)

214 points by rainhacker 1 year ago | 114 comments

Screenshot of stevelosh.com: Teach, Don't Tell (2013)

Teach, Don't Tell (2013)(stevelosh.com)

198 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 69 comments

Screenshot of shkspr.mobi: Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub

Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub (shkspr.mobi)

183 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 62 comments

Screenshot of Hacker News post: Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained

Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained

182 points by jahnu 1 year ago | 82 comments

Screenshot of github.com: Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript

Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript (github.com)

154 points by ftr1200 1 year ago | 37 comments

Screenshot of tcl-lang.org: Tcl Tutorial

Tcl Tutorial (tcl-lang.org)

154 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 65 comments

Screenshot of dfarq.homeip.net: Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite

Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite (dfarq.homeip.net)

151 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 100 comments

Screenshot of thejpster.org.uk: Rust on the RP2350 (2024)

Rust on the RP2350 (2024)(thejpster.org.uk)

143 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 42 comments

Screenshot of drive.google.com: Show HN: My high school team’s space probe

Show HN: My high school team’s space probe (drive.google.com)

132 points by JohnOfOsgiliath 1 year ago | 26 comments

Screenshot of bye-tracker.net: Show HN: 10 teams are racing to build a pivotal tracker replacement

Show HN: 10 teams are racing to build a pivotal tracker replacement (bye-tracker.net)

123 points by jFriedensreich 1 year ago | 65 comments

Screenshot of reflector.dev: Breaking Up with On-Call

Breaking Up with On-Call (reflector.dev)

120 points by 0xlosh 1 year ago | 149 comments

Screenshot of emaculation.com: SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator

SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator (emaculation.com)

120 points by janandonly 1 year ago | 57 comments

Screenshot of seangoedecke.com: The good times in tech are over

The good times in tech are over (seangoedecke.com)

108 points by swah 1 year ago | 125 comments

Screenshot of artint.info: Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents

Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents (artint.info)

108 points by rramadass 1 year ago | 34 comments

Screenshot of dfarq.homeip.net: Microsoft's 1986 IPO

Microsoft's 1986 IPO (dfarq.homeip.net)

106 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 70 comments

Screenshot of eli.cx: AI Is Making Developers Dumb

AI Is Making Developers Dumb (eli.cx)

103 points by chronicom 1 year ago | 123 comments

Screenshot of thephd.dev: The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time

The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time (thephd.dev)

101 points by mattjhall 1 year ago | 55 comments

Screenshot of printedlabs.uni-bayreuth.de: PrintedLabs – 3D printable optical experiment equipment

PrintedLabs – 3D printable optical experiment equipment (printedlabs.uni-bayreuth.de)

99 points by aethertap 1 year ago | 8 comments

Screenshot of utcc.utoronto.ca: Some notes on Grafana Loki's new "structured metadata"

Some notes on Grafana Loki's new "structured metadata"(utcc.utoronto.ca)

99 points by valyala 1 year ago | 28 comments

Screenshot of citationneeded.news: "Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI

"Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI (citationneeded.news)

93 points by thinkingemote 1 year ago | 24 comments

Screenshot of shayon.dev: Selective async commits in PostgreSQL – balancing durability and performance

Selective async commits in PostgreSQL – balancing durability and performance (shayon.dev)

89 points by shayonj 1 year ago | 29 comments

Screenshot of theatlantic.com: How My Six Months Working on the Railway Changed My Life

How My Six Months Working on the Railway Changed My Life (theatlantic.com)

88 points by qkeast 1 year ago | 60 comments

Screenshot of reasonstobecheerful.world: For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower

For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower (reasonstobecheerful.world)

88 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 80 comments

Screenshot of chipsandcheese.com: Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580

Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580 (chipsandcheese.com)

88 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 60 comments

Screenshot of picolisp.com: Everything Picolisp can do, and more

Everything Picolisp can do, and more (picolisp.com)

86 points by damir 1 year ago | 8 comments

Screenshot of gl-inet.com: Comet open source remote KVM from GL-iNet

Comet open source remote KVM from GL-iNet (gl-inet.com)

86 points by noja 1 year ago | 49 comments

Screenshot of brainsteam.co.uk: Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder

Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder (brainsteam.co.uk)

86 points by edward 1 year ago | 5 comments

Screenshot of economist.com: The race is on to build the most complex machine

The race is on to build the most complex machine (economist.com)

83 points by _tk_ 1 year ago | 49 comments

Screenshot of learnyousomeerlang.com: Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good (2013)

Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good (2013)(learnyousomeerlang.com)

81 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 19 comments

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Male octopus injects female with venom during sex to avoid being eaten (newscientist.com)

74 points by delichon 1 year ago | 68 comments

Screenshot of jcgt.org: Compression of Spectral Images Using Spectral JPEG XL

Compression of Spectral Images Using Spectral JPEG XL (jcgt.org)

71 points by ksec 1 year ago | 12 comments

Screenshot of repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp: “QWERTY wasn't designed to solve type bar jamming” [pdf]

“QWERTY wasn't designed to solve type bar jamming” [pdf](repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp)

71 points by vishnuharidas 1 year ago | 38 comments

Screenshot of developer.mozilla.org: Implications of Global Privacy Control

Implications of Global Privacy Control (developer.mozilla.org)

61 points by danielskogly 1 year ago | 36 comments

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Tesla drives into Wile E. Coyote fake road wall in camera vs. Lidar test (electrek.co)

60 points by zfg 1 year ago | 46 comments

Screenshot pending…

Mlx-community/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-4bit (simonwillison.net)

59 points by mdp2021 1 year ago | 15 comments

Screenshot pending…

Microsoft paywalling features in Notepad and Paint (pcworld.com)

58 points by billybuckwheat 1 year ago | 45 comments

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Implementing Generic Types in C (btmc.substack.com)

55 points by sirwhinesalot 1 year ago | 21 comments

Screenshot of tanzer.io: Tänzer: The lovable web server framework for Tcl

Tänzer: The lovable web server framework for Tcl (tanzer.io)

52 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 9 comments

Screenshot of archaeology.org: Peru's Great Urban Experiment (2023)

Peru's Great Urban Experiment (2023)(archaeology.org)

51 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 25 comments

Screenshot of dw.com: Abuse of power at Germany's elite research institution [video]

Abuse of power at Germany's elite research institution [video](dw.com)

50 points by Koaisu 1 year ago | 9 comments

Screenshot of tante.cc: Who Is Free Software For?

Who Is Free Software For?(tante.cc)

48 points by NotInOurNames 1 year ago | 39 comments

Screenshot of theverge.com: Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation is

Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation is (theverge.com)

46 points by belter 1 year ago | 36 comments

Screenshot of nicolashery.com: Decoding JSON sum types in Go without panicking

Decoding JSON sum types in Go without panicking (nicolashery.com)

45 points by misonic 1 year ago | 19 comments

Screenshot of til.simonwillison.net: Styling an HTML dialog modal to take the full height of the viewport

Styling an HTML dialog modal to take the full height of the viewport (til.simonwillison.net)

45 points by maxloh 1 year ago | 41 comments

Screenshot of oldvcr.blogspot.com: More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX)

More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX)(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

42 points by classichasclass 1 year ago | 7 comments

Screenshot of github.com: Zest: a programming language for malleable and legible systems

Zest: a programming language for malleable and legible systems (github.com)

41 points by one-more-minute 1 year ago | 8 comments

Screenshot of github.com: Show HN: Quickly connect to WiFi by scanning text, no typing needed

Show HN: Quickly connect to WiFi by scanning text, no typing needed (github.com)

39 points by ylj 1 year ago | 33 comments

Screenshot of bbc.com: How our noisy world is seriously damaging our health

How our noisy world is seriously damaging our health (bbc.com)

35 points by ustad 1 year ago | 15 comments