The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2025
We track 1,189 stories from March 2025, averaging 272 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 96 stories. Together they drew 192,052 comments.
1
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat
theatlantic.com · _tk_ · 24 Mar 2025
2.3k pts
1.3k comments
2
uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
chromewebstore.google.com · non- · 10 Mar 2025
2k pts
987 comments
3
Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline
github.com · maelito · 16 Mar 2025
2k pts
454 comments
4
A 10x Faster TypeScript
devblogs.microsoft.com · DanRosenwasser · 11 Mar 2025
1.8k pts
907 comments
5
Mistral OCR
mistral.ai · littlemerman · 6 Mar 2025
1.8k pts
417 comments
6
Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
ericmigi.com · griffinli · 18 Mar 2025
1.7k pts
1.1k comments
7
Two new PebbleOS watches
ericmigi.com · griffinli · 18 Mar 2025
1.7k pts
525 comments
8
Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
supernuclear.substack.com · surprisetalk · 25 Mar 2025
1.7k pts
498 comments
9
Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
eff.org · leotravis10 · 12 Mar 2025
1.6k pts
354 comments
10
Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
twitter.com · btilly · 11 Mar 2025
1.4k pts
276 comments
11
GIMP 3.0
testing.gimp.org · wicket · 17 Mar 2025
1.3k pts
508 comments
12
Claude can now search the web
anthropic.com · meetpateltech · 20 Mar 2025
1.2k pts
726 comments
13
Apple's Software Quality Crisis
eliseomartelli.it · ajdude · 3 Mar 2025
1.2k pts
1.2k comments
14
Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
peabee.substack.com · gniting · 29 Mar 2025
1.2k pts
482 comments
15
US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
ukrainetoday.org · ctack · 9 Mar 2025
1.2k pts
2.2k comments
16
How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack
krebsonsecurity.com · todsacerdoti · 31 Mar 2025
1.2k pts
916 comments
17
A Letter to the American People
18f.org · erentz · 1 Mar 2025
1.1k pts
535 comments
18
Apple M3 Ultra
apple.com · ksec · 5 Mar 2025
1.1k pts
1k comments
19
4o Image Generation
openai.com · meetpateltech · 25 Mar 2025
1.1k pts
599 comments
20
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
anthropic.com · Philpax · 27 Mar 2025
1.1k pts
394 comments
21
France rejects backdoor mandate
eff.org · hn_acker · 21 Mar 2025
1k pts
301 comments
22
I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
jeffgeerling.com · HieronymusBosch · 24 Mar 2025
1k pts
663 comments
23
I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
theguardian.com · n1b0m · 19 Mar 2025
1k pts
826 comments
24
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
arstechnica.com · JaimeThompson · 30 Mar 2025
1k pts
467 comments
25
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
thelibre.news · todsacerdoti · 20 Mar 2025
1k pts
619 comments
26
Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
reviews.ofb.biz · trbutler · 27 Mar 2025
992 pts
780 comments
27
Gemini 2.5
blog.google · meetpateltech · 25 Mar 2025
973 pts
485 comments
28
The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available
discuss.systems · luu · 17 Mar 2025
957 pts
666 comments
29
Gemini Robotics
deepmind.google · meetpateltech · 12 Mar 2025
933 pts
561 comments
30
The DuckDB Local UI
duckdb.org · xnx · 12 Mar 2025
926 pts
188 comments
31
Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
icann.org · radeeyate · 17 Mar 2025
886 pts
347 comments
32
The Burnout Machine
unionize.fyi · flxfxp · 20 Mar 2025
853 pts
664 comments
33
It is as if you were on your phone
pippinbarr.com · bookofjoe · 9 Mar 2025
852 pts
132 comments
34
Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar
reuters.com · boguscoder · 3 Mar 2025
847 pts
140 comments
35
Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think
usher.dev · tom_usher · 8 Mar 2025
837 pts
313 comments
36
Repairable Flatpack Toaster
kaseyhou.com · t-3 · 3 Mar 2025
836 pts
263 comments
37
My 16-month theanine self-experiment
dynomight.net · dynm · 9 Mar 2025
817 pts
435 comments
38
Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool
blender.org · appleaday1 · 27 Mar 2025
811 pts
283 comments
39
OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK
openai.github.io · gronky_ · 26 Mar 2025
807 pts
267 comments
40
xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
twitter.com · rvz · 28 Mar 2025
806 pts
1.3k comments
41
Tailscale is pretty useful
blog.6nok.org · thm · 5 Mar 2025
804 pts
404 comments
42
TV Garden
tv.garden · vkdelta · 30 Mar 2025
789 pts
126 comments
43
OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules
finance.yahoo.com · jonbaer · 13 Mar 2025
780 pts
782 comments
44
The average college student today
hilariusbookbinder.substack.com · Jyaif · 30 Mar 2025
777 pts
984 comments
45
Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
cnn.com · complexpass · 2 Mar 2025
768 pts
204 comments
46
Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
science.org · nabla9 · 6 Mar 2025
766 pts
451 comments
47
Debian bookworm live images now reproducible
lwn.net · bertman · 26 Mar 2025
766 pts
200 comments
48
US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted
reuters.com · rvz · 18 Mar 2025
765 pts
538 comments
49
The Frontend Treadmill
polotek.net · Kerrick · 20 Mar 2025
756 pts
681 comments
50
Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)
ericdraken.com · udev4096 · 18 Mar 2025
756 pts
426 comments
51
Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories
jackhopkins.github.io · noddybear · 11 Mar 2025
749 pts
209 comments
52
Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
seven39.com · mklyons · 11 Mar 2025
735 pts
349 comments
53
Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard
graz.io · sgraz · 4 Mar 2025
735 pts
247 comments
54
Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
revolt.chat · OuterVale · 6 Mar 2025
729 pts
539 comments
55
I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
twitter.com · ksec · 27 Mar 2025
718 pts
1.2k comments
56
fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
github.com · tosh · 19 Mar 2025
718 pts
294 comments
57
MacBook Air M4
apple.com · tosh · 5 Mar 2025
716 pts
945 comments
58
A love letter to the CSV format
github.com · Yomguithereal · 26 Mar 2025
708 pts
689 comments
59
The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
feldera.com · qianli_cs · 20 Mar 2025
704 pts
562 comments
60
Go European: Discover European products and services
goeuropean.org · doener · 10 Mar 2025
688 pts
383 comments