Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 12, 2025.

A 10x Faster TypeScript
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332830

Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator
https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1899092996702048709
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332658

Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories
https://jackhopkins.github.io/factorio-learning-environment/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331582

Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library
https://medium.com/@caitlin9165/fastplotlib-driving-scientific-discovery-through-data-visualization-418f8bff094c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43334190

What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)
https://seeinglogic.com/posts/visual-readability-patterns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43330900

New tools for building agents
https://openai.com/index/new-tools-for-building-agents/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43334644

The Startup CTO's Handbook
https://github.com/ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook/blob/main/StartupCTOHandbook.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337703

The US island that speaks Elizabethan English
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332752

NASA to launch space observatory that will map 450M galaxies
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-spherex-space-observatory-launch-map-galaxies-universe-rcna190877
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296184

Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/Gemma3Report.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340491