The best of Hacker News - March 31, 2025

1.
The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden

526 points

2.
Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

512 points

3.
Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed

455 points

4.
Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison

411 points

5.
The <select> element can now be customized with CSS

365 points

6.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

338 points

7.
It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018)

316 points

8.
AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please

311 points

9.
Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits (2020)

294 points

10.
James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise

284 points

11.
In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio

266 points

12.
ToS;DR

263 points

13.
MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

222 points

14.
Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

221 points

15.
France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking

218 points

16.
How IMAP works under the hood

203 points

17.
Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

203 points

18.
Win98-quickinstall: A framework and installer to quickly install Windows 98

200 points

19.
Introduction to System Programming in Linux (Early Access)

199 points

20.
The Guardian flourishes without a paywall

191 points

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