The best of Hacker News - March 28, 2025

1.
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

676 points

2.
Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

519 points

3.
I tried making artificial sunlight at home

313 points

4.
I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs

312 points

5.
How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)

311 points

6.
Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

243 points

7.
Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants

151 points

8.
A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices

139 points

9.
Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter

127 points

10.
Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf]

123 points

11.
Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025

92 points

12.
Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts

91 points

13.
A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C

86 points

14.
Golang on the Playstation 2

76 points

15.
Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life

67 points

16.
Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots

49 points

17.
Better Shell History Search

38 points

18.
Anti-Orbit Laser Submarines (2017)

34 points

19.
Every Flop Counts: Scaling a 300B LLM Without Premium GPUs

32 points

20.
Helpcare AI (YC F24) Is Hiring

1 points

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