Hacker News on Wednesday, 25 March 2026

The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos(fightchatcontrol.eu)

1371 points by MrBruh 7 months ago | 367 comments

Advocacy campaign site opposing the EU "Chat Control" proposal to scan private messages and photos, with action tools and an alert about an EPP push for a new vote.

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down(mariozechner.at)

1001 points by jdkoeck 7 months ago | 445 comments

Blog post by developer Mario Zechner, dated 2026-03-25, reflecting on slowing down in software development, illustrated with a tortoise-and-hare drawing.

Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)(bethmathews.substack.com)

983 points by Amorymeltzer 7 months ago | 198 comments

A Substack essay by Beth Mathews explaining the color theory and history behind seafoam green paint in industrial control rooms.

Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars(bugs.xdavidhu.me)

928 points by driesdep 7 months ago | 321 comments

Blog post describing how the author assembled a Tesla Model 3 car computer and touchscreen on a desk from salvaged parts to do bug bounty security research.

Personal Encyclopedias(whoami.wiki)

787 points by jrmyphlmn 7 months ago | 166 comments

Blog post on whoami.wiki about building a personal encyclopedia, starting from digitizing 1,351 old family photos found at the author's grandmother's house.

Flighty Airports(flighty.com)

535 points by skogstokig 7 months ago | 176 comments

Flighty's live dashboard of major North American airports showing departure and arrival delays and cancellations on a map.

Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote(wsj.com)

510 points by cramsession 7 months ago | 220 comments

Wall Street Journal article on how plotters, allegedly Israeli private intelligence firm Black Cube, used spies and fake investors to try to sway a Slovenian election.

Miscellanea: The War in Iran(acoup.blog)

508 points by decimalenough 7 months ago | 718 comments

A blog post on A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (ACOUP) by historian Bret Devereaux discussing the war in Iran.

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression(research.google)

495 points by ray__ 7 months ago | 134 comments

Google Research blog post introducing TurboQuant, a method for extreme compression to improve AI model efficiency.

ARC-AGI-3(arcprize.org)

481 points by lairv 7 months ago | 317 comments

ARC Prize page for ARC-AGI-3, an interactive game-based benchmark for testing AI reasoning, with a playable demo and grid of puzzle games.

Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed(lapcatsoftware.com)

418 points by zdw 7 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by developer Jeff Johnson complaining that Apple closes Feedback Assistant bug reports unless developers verify bugs persist in macOS betas.

Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case(nytimes.com)

418 points by mrjaeger 7 months ago | 201 comments

New York Times article on a verdict finding Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction trial; the page loaded a captcha instead.

Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety(bbc.com)

391 points by testrun 7 months ago | 205 comments

BBC News article reporting that Meta has been ordered to pay $375m for misleading users about child safety on its platforms.

Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music(nytimes.com)

382 points by oj2828 7 months ago | 305 comments

New York Times article on the Supreme Court ruling for Cox Communications in a copyright case over subscribers' music piracy.

Antimatter has been transported for the first time(nature.com)

381 points by leephillips 7 months ago | 173 comments

Nature news article reporting that CERN physicists transported antimatter by truck for the first time.

VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS(v-os.dev)

349 points by felixding 7 months ago | 211 comments

Homepage of VitruvianOS, a desktop Linux operating system inspired by BeOS that aims for a fast, low-latency, easy-to-use interface.

Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app(ente.com)

346 points by matthiaswh 7 months ago | 154 comments

Ente's blog post announcing the first release of Ensu, an offline app for running LLMs locally on your device with full privacy and control.

Apple Just Lost Me(andregarzia.com)

345 points by syx 7 months ago | 329 comments

Personal blog post by Andre Garzia explaining why he is leaving Apple and plans to migrate away from its devices.

90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars(claudescode.dev)

321 points by louiereederson 7 months ago | 199 comments

Claude's Code is a dashboard tracking GitHub commits made with Anthropic's Claude Code, showing growth rates, doubling time, and early adopter repositories.

Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC(spectrum.ieee.org)

302 points by jnord 7 months ago | 369 comments

Quantization from the Ground Up(ngrok.com)

299 points by samwho 7 months ago | 52 comments

Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy(github.blog)

286 points by prefork 7 months ago | 132 comments

The bee that everyone wants to save(naturalist.bearblog.dev)

263 points by nivethan 7 months ago | 82 comments

A nearly perfect USB cable tester(blog.literarily-starved.com)

260 points by birdculture 7 months ago | 141 comments

FreeCAD v1.1(blog.freecad.org)

255 points by sho_hn 7 months ago | 77 comments

Jury says Meta knowingly harmed children for profit, awarding landmark verdict(latimes.com)

248 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 7 months ago | 46 comments

Tracy Kidder has died(nytimes.com)

228 points by ghc 7 months ago | 61 comments

Why I forked httpx(tildeweb.nl)

216 points by roywashere 7 months ago | 156 comments

Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm(washington.edu)

206 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 111 comments

Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y(cbc.ca)

174 points by gnabgib 7 months ago | 103 comments

Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min charging and 450 km range(electrek.co)

174 points by breve 7 months ago | 119 comments

I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced(bbc.com)

156 points by dabinat 7 months ago | 176 comments

China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000(kdwalmsley.substack.com)

155 points by zdw 7 months ago | 108 comments

Ball Pit(codepen.io)

143 points by memalign 7 months ago | 40 comments

Sony V. Cox Decision Reversed(supreme.justia.com)

142 points by rileymichael 7 months ago | 80 comments

Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer(github.com)

131 points by rahen 7 months ago | 21 comments

Health NZ staff told to stop using ChatGPT to write clinical notes(rnz.co.nz)

129 points by billybuckwheat 7 months ago | 43 comments

US Army raises enlistment age to 42 and removes marijuana waiver requirement(armypubs.army.mil)

125 points by Jimmc414 7 months ago | 99 comments

Show HN: A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code(lab.puga.com.br)

114 points by marciopuga 7 months ago | 34 comments

Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video](youtube.com)

112 points by abadar 7 months ago | 82 comments

A Love Letter to 'Girl Games'(aftermath.site)

110 points by zdw 7 months ago | 103 comments

"Disregard That" Attacks(calpaterson.com)

92 points by leontrolski 7 months ago | 64 comments

Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church(bbc.co.uk)

87 points by xenocratus 7 months ago | 29 comments

21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains(jacobfilipp.com)

85 points by freediver 7 months ago | 105 comments

Show HN: DuckDB community extension for prefiltered HNSW using ACORN-1(github.com)

81 points by cigrainger 7 months ago | 5 comments

Building a coding agent in Swift from scratch(github.com)

78 points by vanyaland 7 months ago | 17 comments

A Eulogy for Vim(drewdevault.com)

75 points by mtts 7 months ago | 60 comments

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History(nybooks.com)

73 points by mitchbob 7 months ago | 63 comments

Meta ordered to pay $375M in New Mexico trial over child exploitation(reuters.com)

68 points by gostsamo 7 months ago | 26 comments

Meta and Google found liable in social media addiction trial(bbc.co.uk)

68 points by ColinWright 7 months ago | 13 comments

Show HN: Optio – Orchestrate AI coding agents in K8s to go from ticket to PR(github.com)

67 points by jawiggins 7 months ago | 40 comments

"Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video](youtube.com)

65 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 27 comments

Douglas Lenat's Automated Mathematician Source Code(github.com)

64 points by hydrolox 7 months ago | 10 comments

C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro(sandordargo.com)

62 points by jandeboevrie 7 months ago | 51 comments

Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer(geniecrate.com)

59 points by woktalk 7 months ago | 32 comments

How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports(theintercept.com)

57 points by cdrnsf 7 months ago | 48 comments

Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors(schilk.co)

56 points by voxadam 7 months ago | 13 comments

Comprehensive C++ Hashmap Benchmarks (2022)(martin.ankerl.com)

54 points by klaussilveira 7 months ago | 18 comments

A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs(github.com)

52 points by enduku 7 months ago | 37 comments

The 667MHz Machine(0xsid.com)

52 points by ssiddharth 7 months ago | 8 comments