Hacker News on Monday, 17 March 2025

GIMP 3.0(testing.gimp.org)

1152 points by wicket 1 year ago | 403 comments

Official GIMP news post announcing the release of GIMP 3.0, the first major version after seven years of volunteer development since 2.10.

The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available(discuss.systems)

894 points by luu 1 year ago | 623 comments

A Mastodon post sharing an Amazon email saying the Alexa 'Do Not Send Voice Recordings' option on Echo devices ends March 28, 2025.

Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS(icann.org)

844 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 331 comments

ICANN announcement about launching the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) and sunsetting the WHOIS service for domain registration data.

Rippling sues Deel over spying(twitter.com)

501 points by amacneil 1 year ago | 125 comments

An X post by Rippling CEO Parker Conrad announcing that Rippling is suing competitor Deel over alleged corporate spying.

Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different(arxiv.org)

445 points by wuubuu 1 year ago | 112 comments

arXiv paper by Andrew Gordon Wilson arguing deep learning generalization phenomena like benign overfitting and double descent are explainable by soft inductive biases.

Archival Storage(blog.dshr.org)

339 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 165 comments

David Rosenthal's blog post giving the text and slides of his Berkeley I-school talk on archival storage, debunking conventional wisdom about long-term data preservation.

The High Heel Problem(simonschreibt.de)

282 points by lehi 1 year ago | 35 comments

Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers(x.company)

271 points by tadeegan 1 year ago | 252 comments

Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office(blog.cloudflare.com)

241 points by jgrahamc 1 year ago | 112 comments

Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly(techstartups.com)

207 points by 05bmckay 1 year ago | 184 comments

Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests(theintercept.com)

206 points by jbegley 1 year ago | 174 comments

Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table(wired.com)

200 points by robin_reala 1 year ago | 94 comments

Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design(datagubbe.se)

191 points by sedboyz 1 year ago | 91 comments

uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users(wagtail.org)

190 points by ThibWeb 1 year ago | 153 comments

Show HN: OpenTimes – Free travel times between U.S. Census geographies(opentimes.org)

187 points by dfsnow 1 year ago | 44 comments

Underware 2.0 – Open Source Infinite Cable Management(makerworld.com)

180 points by reimertz 1 year ago | 51 comments

Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’(bloomberg.com)

170 points by SirLJ 1 year ago | 168 comments

Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable(liu.se)

157 points by geox 1 year ago | 123 comments

Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition(map.koljapluemer.com)

156 points by blackbrokkoli 1 year ago | 61 comments

Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available for Purchase, Stacked Memory Variant Coming(phoronix.com)

142 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 58 comments

Conducting forensics of mobile devices to find signs of a potential compromise(github.com)

135 points by 34679 1 year ago | 45 comments

'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scientists(phys.org)

128 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 99 comments

McLaren invented new carbon fiber tape to build even more complex parts(thedrive.com)

125 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 83 comments

Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours(tomshardware.com)

119 points by Ozarkian 1 year ago | 34 comments

Stupid Smart Pointers in C(blog.kevinalbs.com)

111 points by seansh 1 year ago | 139 comments

Napkin Math Tool(taylor.town)

106 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 30 comments

The exceptional Jordan algebra (2020)(cp4space.hatsya.com)

105 points by gone35 1 year ago | 11 comments

Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee(theguardian.com)

105 points by j_maffe 1 year ago | 38 comments

Genomic study: our capacity for language emerged at least 135k years ago(phys.org)

101 points by wglb 1 year ago | 60 comments

After 47 years, OpenVMS gets a package manager (VSP)(raymii.org)

90 points by jandeboevrie 1 year ago | 30 comments

Help Identify the Photographer Who Captured Many Images of 1960s San Francisco(smithsonianmag.com)

88 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 37 comments

Lock Contention(maksimkita.com)

79 points by stacyz 1 year ago | 1 comments

History of Null Pointer Dereferences on macOS(afine.com)

73 points by voxadam 1 year ago | 11 comments

But how to get to that European cloud?(berthub.eu)

72 points by zdw 1 year ago | 47 comments

Converting C to ASM to specs and then to a working Z/80 Speccy tape(ghuntley.com)

72 points by ghuntley 1 year ago | 66 comments

Let's knock down social media's walled gardens – Tim Berners-Lee(ft.com)

71 points by walthamstow 1 year ago | 62 comments

Database management in a single PHP file(github.com)

69 points by ustad 1 year ago | 29 comments

A Facebook Insider's Exposé Alleges Bad Behavior at the Top(web.archive.org)

66 points by nabla9 1 year ago | 44 comments

Harvard says tuition will be free for families making $200K or less(abcnews.go.com)

62 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 58 comments

Show HN: I Built an iOS app to locate stray animals(apps.apple.com)

61 points by Ic3creaM 1 year ago | 18 comments

Show HN: EnkiTask: Lightweight Project Management for Freelancers(enkitask.com)

61 points by booper 1 year ago | 42 comments

Quantum Speedup Found for Class of Hard Problems(quantamagazine.org)

60 points by EA-3167 1 year ago | 24 comments

Show HN: Localscope–Limit scope of Python functions for reproducible execution(localscope.readthedocs.io)

57 points by tillahoffmann 1 year ago | 27 comments

Show HN: A bi-directional, persisted KV store that is faster than Redis(hpkv.io)

50 points by mehrant 1 year ago | 60 comments

Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator(economist.com)

49 points by jdaw0 1 year ago | 40 comments

Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale

48 points by travisleestreet 1 year ago | 38 comments

Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B(bloomberg.com)

47 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 32 comments

Occupry your next lease to negotiate a better deal(occupry.com)

44 points by jason_archmint 1 year ago | 73 comments

Pine64's RISC-V tablet now ships with a Debian-based Linux and improved hardware(liliputing.com)

41 points by ndsipa_pomu 1 year ago | 5 comments

France plots tax on super-rich to rearm – and Britain could be next(telegraph.co.uk)

40 points by Teever 1 year ago | 30 comments

Dioxus – Fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust(dioxuslabs.com)

36 points by linkdd 1 year ago | 3 comments

22% Drop in Programming Jobs(washingtonpost.com)

33 points by talkingtab 1 year ago | 38 comments

Restoring Faith: Crete's Ancient Minoan Civilisation (2009)(historytoday.com)

30 points by diodorus 1 year ago | 5 comments

The mistakes and missed opportunities in the design of IPv6(ipv6.hanazo.no)

26 points by marolafm 1 year ago | 39 comments

Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website(bbc.com)

25 points by duxup 1 year ago | 1 comments

Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge's Order(nytimes.com)

24 points by apical_dendrite 1 year ago | 7 comments

BCX Basic(bcxbasiccoders.com)

24 points by shakna 1 year ago | 3 comments

Leprechauns of Software Engineering(markgreville.ie)

23 points by gHeadphone 1 year ago | 0 comments

Technical Mathematics (1954) [pdf](sliderulemuseum.com)

22 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 3 comments

Looking for beta testers for my GPS based game(cityquizler.com)

20 points by ipinak 1 year ago | 13 comments