The best of Hacker News - March 28, 2025

1.
I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car

524 points

2.
xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B

455 points

3.
We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some)

426 points

4.
Architecture Patterns with Python

422 points

5.
Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

360 points

6.
Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter

357 points

7.
A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices

357 points

8.
How to write blog posts that developers read

334 points

9.
Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo

324 points

10.
How Kerala got rich

317 points

11.
LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

297 points

12.
Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust

291 points

13.
Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life

283 points

14.
7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand

260 points

15.
Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts

235 points

16.
Dagger: A shell for the container age

193 points

17.
Golang on the Playstation 2

192 points

18.
Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf]

192 points

19.
Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL

190 points

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