Hacker News top 30 - 2025-03-19

1. Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones ericmigi.com - 808 comments 1323 points
2. Two new PebbleOS watches ericmigi.com - 387 comments 1219 points
3. Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf - 2022 ericdraken.com - 404 comments 673 points
4. Moving away from US cloud services martijnhols.nl - 355 comments 557 points
5. US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted www.reuters.com - 367 comments 536 points
6. Google to buy Wiz for $32B www.reuters.com - 648 comments 452 points
7. Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud www.theregister.com - 116 comments 434 points
8. Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow freedom.press - 68 comments 433 points
9. Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival’s degree, preventing run for president www.reuters.com - 256 comments 432 points
10. Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date bluemigrate.com - 131 comments 342 points
11. FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies www.wired.com - 99 comments 284 points
12. Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them gist.github.com - 156 comments 261 points
13. Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health? news.ycombinator.com - 135 comments 222 points
14. The model is the product vintagedata.org - 80 comments 220 points
15. Google announces agreement to acquire Wiz blog.google - 4 comments 220 points
16. Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face drewdevault.com - 107 comments 202 points
17. Designing Electronics That Work www.hscott.net - 70 comments 182 points
18. Stamina Is a Quiet Advantage kupajo.com - 85 comments 180 points
19. Show HN: I made a live multiplayer Minesweeper game www.minesweeperpro.com - 66 comments 178 points
20. Fedora 42 Beta www.redhat.com - 88 comments 170 points
21. PeerTube v7.1 Is Out joinpeertube.org - 42 comments 164 points
22. Show HN: “Git who” – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming github.com - 80 comments 156 points
23. Preview: Amazon S3 Tables and Lakehouse in DuckDB duckdb.org - 39 comments 149 points
24. HTTrack Website Copier www.httrack.com - 40 comments 141 points
25. Half-Life 2 RTX store.steampowered.com - 80 comments 134 points
26. North Korea Launders Billions in Stolen Crypto www.coindesk.com - 55 comments 134 points
27. Java 24 jdk.java.net - 91 comments 120 points
28. ‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by Doge www.wired.com - 63 comments 114 points
29. BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank www.theguardian.com - 184 comments 108 points
30. Underrated Soft Skills: Charisma utopianengineeringsociety.substack.com - 96 comments 106 points