Hacker News on Wednesday, 26 March 2025

OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK(openai.github.io)

766 points by gronky_ 1 year ago | 238 comments

OpenAI Agents SDK documentation page describing support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to provide tools and context to agents.

Debian bookworm live images now reproducible(lwn.net)

719 points by bertman 1 year ago | 187 comments

LWN brief noting that Debian 12.10 bookworm live images are now 100% reproducible, per an announcement by Roland Clobus on the Reproducible Builds list.

A love letter to the CSV format(github.com)

652 points by Yomguithereal 1 year ago | 630 comments

A markdown document in the medialab/xan GitHub repository arguing in defense of the CSV format against claims it is obsolete.

Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir(elixir-lang.org)

593 points by lawik 1 year ago | 142 comments

Elixir blog case study on how Cyanview uses Elixir to coordinate camera shading across hundreds of cameras for live broadcasts like the Super Bowl.

Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9(spaceinafrica.com)

376 points by vinnyglennon 1 year ago | 204 comments

Space in Africa news article reporting Botswana's successful launch of its first satellite, BOTSAT-1, on March 15, 2025.

The role of developer skills in agentic coding(martinfowler.com)

304 points by BerislavLopac 1 year ago | 169 comments

Oracle customers confirm data stolen in alleged cloud breach is valid(bleepingcomputer.com)

297 points by el_duderino 1 year ago | 63 comments

Waymos crash less than human drivers(understandingai.org)

285 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 335 comments

Good-bye core types; Hello Go as we know and love it(go.dev)

270 points by ingve 1 year ago | 189 comments

Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week(9to5google.com)

217 points by josephcsible 1 year ago | 145 comments

Airline Demand Between Canada and United States Collapses, Down 70%+(onemileatatime.com)

211 points by amichail 1 year ago | 196 comments

Malware found on NPM infecting local package with reverse shell(reversinglabs.com)

203 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 116 comments

Building a Linux Container Runtime from Scratch(edera.dev)

202 points by curmudgeon22 1 year ago | 52 comments

Bringing Record and Replay debugging everywhere on Linux(github.com)

191 points by sidkshatriya 1 year ago | 26 comments

Problems with the heap(rachelbythebay.com)

186 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 76 comments

Dagger: A shell for the container age(dagger.io)

182 points by gk1 1 year ago | 105 comments

Hyperlight WASM: Fast, secure, and OS-free(opensource.microsoft.com)

179 points by yoshuaw 1 year ago | 65 comments

Collapse OS(collapseos.org)

169 points by kaycebasques 1 year ago | 146 comments

How to Delete Your 23andMe Data(eff.org)

167 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 91 comments

Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility(zdnet.com)

149 points by CrankyBear 1 year ago | 91 comments

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf](microsoft.com)

147 points by greybox 1 year ago | 100 comments

You should know this before choosing Next.js(eduardoboucas.com)

147 points by tobr 1 year ago | 64 comments

Rost – Rust Programming in German(github.com)

140 points by miniBill 1 year ago | 82 comments

Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases(arstechnica.com)

137 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 64 comments

Playwright Tools for MCP(github.com)

136 points by alex_hirner 1 year ago | 24 comments

The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California(supernuclear.substack.com)

128 points by simonebrunozzi 1 year ago | 167 comments

Building a Firecracker-Powered Course Platform to Learn Docker and Kubernetes(iximiuz.com)

127 points by fazkan 1 year ago | 8 comments

The disappearance of Gaia, ESA spacecraft will be turned off on 27 March 2025(cosmos.esa.int)

116 points by croes 1 year ago | 43 comments

Europe's Largest Makerspace(berlin-partner.de)

113 points by doener 1 year ago | 77 comments

Gemini 2.5 Pro reasons about task feasibility(everything.intellectronica.net)

103 points by intellectronica 1 year ago | 39 comments

Conquest of the Incas(mattlakeman.org)

84 points by remarkEon 1 year ago | 72 comments

Low responsiveness of ML models to critical or deteriorating health conditions(nature.com)

80 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 45 comments

CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers(theintercept.com)

80 points by jbegley 1 year ago | 56 comments

Kilo Code: Speedrunning open source coding AI(blog.kilocode.ai)

77 points by ofou 1 year ago | 43 comments

Sharding Pgvector(pgdog.dev)

77 points by levkk 1 year ago | 10 comments

AI will change the world but not in the way you think(thomashunter.name)

74 points by tlhunter 1 year ago | 95 comments

Firefox Is Finally (Re)Adding Support for Web Apps(omgubuntu.co.uk)

71 points by pahbloo 1 year ago | 62 comments

How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border(theguardian.com)

69 points by beardyw 1 year ago | 54 comments

You Need Subtyping(blog.polybdenum.com)

64 points by speckx 1 year ago | 68 comments

Testing the latest AI tools for prototyping and building simple websites(blog.codeyam.com)

53 points by nadis 1 year ago | 28 comments

Postel's Law and the Three Ring Circus(alexgaynor.net)

52 points by zdw 1 year ago | 30 comments

Just Write a Test for It(kobzol.github.io)

51 points by dmit 1 year ago | 42 comments

Stockpile 72 hours of supplies in case of disaster or attack, EU tells citizens(theguardian.com)

49 points by speckx 1 year ago | 27 comments

DOGE staffer,'Big Balls', provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show(reuters.com)

46 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 4 comments

Show HN: I implemented Snake in a tmux config file(willhbr.net)

42 points by willhbr 1 year ago | 3 comments

German electrical engineer with green card stripped and 'violently interrogated'(theguardian.com)

41 points by KnuthIsGod 1 year ago | 3 comments

Why Is It Lovely(solipsys.co.uk)

40 points by akbarnama 1 year ago | 36 comments

Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity(mcwhittemore.com)

36 points by mcwhittemore 1 year ago | 16 comments

The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab(xeiaso.net)

31 points by zdw 1 year ago | 10 comments

I Quit Google Search for AI–and I'm Not Going Back(wsj.com)

30 points by Bostonian 1 year ago | 21 comments

Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts(nytimes.com)

29 points by breadwinner 1 year ago | 17 comments

Supreme Court takes up $8B phone and internet subsidy for rural areas(apnews.com)

29 points by voxadam 1 year ago | 30 comments

The Mysterious Flow of Fluid in the Brain(quantamagazine.org)

28 points by isaacfrond 1 year ago | 4 comments

Introduction to Open Source Laptop Project (2023)(resources.altium.com)

27 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 8 comments

Servo vs. Ladybird(thelibre.news)

26 points by speckx 1 year ago | 8 comments

SplitQuantV2: Enhancing Low-Bit Quantization of LLMs Without GPUs(arxiv.org)

25 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 5 comments

Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor(nature.com)

24 points by wahsmail 1 year ago | 9 comments

The Gang of Four is wrong and you don't understand delegation (2012)(saturnflyer.com)

24 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 34 comments

Michael Waltz's Venmo Is Public, and It's Full of Journalists(prospect.org)

24 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: Is Washington Post correct in saying Signal is unsecure?

17 points by killjoywashere 1 year ago | 26 comments