Hacker News on Saturday, 29 March 2025

Everyone knows all the apps on your phone(peabee.substack.com)

1035 points by gniting 1 year ago | 415 comments

Substack post explaining how Android apps can still see which other apps are installed on a phone despite Google's 2022 package visibility policy.

The Guardian flourishes without a paywall(nymag.com)

558 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 424 comments

New York Magazine Intelligencer article by Charlotte Klein on how The Guardian's US edition thrives financially without a paywall.

Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software(tedium.co)

526 points by shortformblog 1 year ago | 319 comments

Tedium article explaining why Apple TV+'s show Severance is edited using remote desktop software rather than local workstations.

Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water(bbc.com)

435 points by Jimmc414 1 year ago | 1019 comments

BBC News article reporting that Utah has become the first US state to ban fluoride in its public water supply.

A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up(captrice.io)

434 points by adityaathalye 1 year ago | 131 comments

Landing page for Captrice, a free browser-based guitar practice app with a smart metronome that tracks metrics for speed, endurance, and accuracy.

Convert Linux to Windows(philipbohun.com)

326 points by pbohun 1 year ago | 386 comments

Blog post arguing for a Linux distribution that runs Windows binaries by default via Wine, citing Linux userland binary compatibility problems with libc.

Postgres Language Server: Initial Release(github.com)

317 points by steinroe 1 year ago | 50 comments

GitHub repository for the Supabase community's Postgres Language Server, an MIT-licensed LSP implementation for PostgreSQL and SQL tooling.

Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing(veloren.net)

311 points by tete 1 year ago | 78 comments

Self-contained Python scripts with uv(blog.dusktreader.dev)

306 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 93 comments

Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen(github.com)

282 points by rukenshia 1 year ago | 63 comments

Paged Out #6 [pdf](pagedout.institute)

279 points by pcfwik 1 year ago | 47 comments

Plain – a web framework for building products with Python(plainframework.com)

274 points by brylie 1 year ago | 149 comments

What to Do(paulgraham.com)

236 points by npalli 1 year ago | 225 comments

Et Tu, Grammarly?(dbushell.com)

233 points by dbushell 1 year ago | 54 comments

Real Time Chess – A physical chess board without the concept of turns(github.com)

226 points by dschuessler 1 year ago | 36 comments

Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines(richardzach.org)

216 points by volemo 1 year ago | 70 comments

Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11(schneegans.de)

202 points by nixass 1 year ago | 62 comments

Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension(cloudisland.nz)

197 points by robin_reala 1 year ago | 40 comments

Koto Programming Language(koto.dev)

196 points by virtualritz 1 year ago | 142 comments

How IMAP works under the hood(blog.lohr.dev)

195 points by michidk 1 year ago | 62 comments

Lvgl: Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs(github.com)

181 points by tosh 1 year ago | 31 comments

OpenWrt Two Approval(openwrt.org)

174 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 89 comments

When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed(theguardian.com)

172 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 138 comments

iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured?(mail-tester.com)

168 points by wildekek 1 year ago | 64 comments

Towards fearless SIMD, 7 years later(linebender.org)

164 points by raphlinus 1 year ago | 102 comments

Matrix Calculus (For Machine Learning and Beyond)(arxiv.org)

160 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 27 comments

Atop 2.11 heap problems(openwall.com)

157 points by baggy_trough 1 year ago | 70 comments

Commercials that David Lynch directed (2018)(openculture.com)

154 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 34 comments

Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account(infosec.exchange)

154 points by tech234a 1 year ago | 144 comments

Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores(christinapagel.substack.com)

134 points by nickcotter 1 year ago | 59 comments

Show HN: I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight(knightride.rakhim.org)

125 points by freetonik 1 year ago | 39 comments

Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink(sambroner.com)

122 points by tosh 1 year ago | 26 comments

Experimental Tauri Verso Integration(v2.tauri.app)

118 points by stareatgoats 1 year ago | 35 comments

The Candid Naivety of Geeks(ploum.net)

115 points by SlackingOff123 1 year ago | 58 comments

Vramfs: Vram Based Filesystem for Linux(github.com)

111 points by signa11 1 year ago | 37 comments

Madison Square Garden's surveillance banned this fan over his T-shirt design(theverge.com)

93 points by helloworld 1 year ago | 30 comments

Sales Compensation Simulator(exec.com)

90 points by seanlinehan 1 year ago | 12 comments

Scammers Steal $1T a Year – Mostly from Americans(wired.com)

89 points by vinni2 1 year ago | 81 comments

Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown(cnn.com)

88 points by ndr42 1 year ago | 80 comments

Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices(blog.container-solutions.com)

82 points by saikatsg 1 year ago | 51 comments

Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job(hackread.com)

79 points by CHEF-KOCH 1 year ago | 11 comments

Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected(phys.org)

77 points by terminalbraid 1 year ago | 23 comments

Typed Japanese(github.com)

74 points by Philpax 1 year ago | 25 comments

Mathematical Compact Models of Advanced Transistors [pdf](www2.eecs.berkeley.edu)

74 points by nill0 1 year ago | 20 comments

One Last Ride for Antarctica's 'Ivan the Terra Bus'(atlasobscura.com)

73 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 17 comments

Why America now eats a crazy number of avocados(wsj.com)

66 points by fortran77 1 year ago | 71 comments

Scientists uncover key mechanism in evolution: Whole-genome duplication drives(sciencedaily.com)

65 points by docmechanic 1 year ago | 18 comments

The Real Story Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI(wsj.com)

63 points by Philpax 1 year ago | 33 comments

Show HN: Appear as anyone in video calls like zoom or Google meets(phazr.ai)

61 points by michaelphi 1 year ago | 33 comments

OSS-SEC: Three bypasses of Ubuntu's unprivileged user namespace restrictions(seclists.org)

57 points by birdculture 1 year ago | 11 comments

Canoeing on the Danube(jameswarnersmith.co.uk)

57 points by karagenit 1 year ago | 19 comments

New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft sign-in even more mandatory(arstechnica.com)

56 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 25 comments

The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning(explained.ai)

52 points by Anon84 1 year ago | 1 comments

Decline of cash credited for drop in surgery for children swallowing objects(theguardian.com)

52 points by geox 1 year ago | 43 comments

ASML's boss has a warning for Europe(economist.com)

49 points by ksec 1 year ago | 49 comments

The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor(diurnal.st)

46 points by diurnalist 1 year ago | 11 comments

Unmasking a slow and steady password spray attack(petrasecurity.substack.com)

46 points by noleary 1 year ago | 27 comments

I don't think I can trust Google as my search engine anymore(androidpolice.com)

46 points by sundaybsunday 1 year ago | 39 comments

Nick Cave's thoughts on a ChatGPT poem (2023)(theredhandfiles.com)

43 points by hansmayer 1 year ago | 36 comments

Body Doubling(en.wikipedia.org)

42 points by tosh 1 year ago | 7 comments