Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 18, 2025.

GIMP 3.0
https://testing.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43393822

Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43390400

HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
https://httptoolkit.com/blog/http3-quic-open-source-support-nowhere/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360251

Archival Storage
https://blog.dshr.org/2025/03/archival-storage.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43391459

Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers
https://x.company/blog/posts/taara-graduation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43390467

The High Heel Problem
https://simonschreibt.de/gat/the-high-heel-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43392549

Moving away from US cloud services
https://martijnhols.nl/blog/moving-away-from-us-cloud-services
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43396795

Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/towards-extracting-content-from-an-lcp-protected-epub/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378627

Rippling sues Deel over spying
https://twitter.com/parkerconrad/status/1901615179718406276
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43388133

Show HN: OpenTimes – Free travel times between U.S. Census geographies
https://opentimes.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43392521