Hacker News recap for week 12/2025

From 17/3/2025 to 23/3/2025

Articles #

• Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones 1508 comments in 2 discussions

• Google to buy Wiz for $32B 829 comments in 1 discussion

• I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks 1563 comments in 8 discussions

• Claude can now search the web 728 comments in 2 discussions

• The Frontend Treadmill 681 comments in 3 discussions

• The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available 658 comments in 1 discussion

• Crew-9 Returns to Earth 656 comments in 1 discussion

• The Burnout Machine 637 comments in 1 discussion

• FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 763 comments in 3 discussions

• Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri 558 comments in 1 discussion

• US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted 533 comments in 1 discussion

• Two new PebbleOS watches 635 comments in 4 discussions

• GIMP 3.0 488 comments in 1 discussion

• The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil 447 comments in 1 discussion

• Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022) 1195 comments in 4 discussions

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health? 217 comments

• Ask HN: Are you afraid to travel to US to tech conferences? 137 comments

• Ask HN: Difficulties with going back to school 108 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Browsers accept SSH:// protocol links 6 comments

• Tell HN: An update on your Google Maps Timeline 5 comments

Releases #

• Java 24 Released 5 comments in 1 discussion

• Zig's 0.14 release inches the project toward stability

Projects #

• fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' 896 comments in 15 discussions

• IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol 211 comments in 1 discussion

• Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers 193 comments in 3 discussions

• The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to exist 502 comments in 9 discussions

• Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming 125 comments in 1 discussion

• Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web 113 comments in 2 discussions

• Shift-to-Middle Array: A Faster Alternative to Std:Deque? 101 comments in 1 discussion

• argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go 89 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: A terminal emulator in pure PHP 116 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: FastOpenAPI – automated docs for many Python frameworks 76 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video] 27 comments in 1 discussion

• The smallest ESP32 drone you can fly with your phone Powered by XIAO ESP32S3 [video] 9 comments in 1 discussion

• How is a Bike Tunnel this Freak'n Great? [video] 4 comments in 1 discussion

• NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Re-Entry and Splashdown [video] 4 comments in 1 discussion

• The unexpected legend of WD-40 4 comments in 1 discussion

• ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Sabine Hossenfelder: Why I took down my climate science video [video] 2 comments in 1 discussion