Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 22, 2025.

France rejects backdoor mandate
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440513

Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)
https://kellblog.com/2015/03/08/career-development-what-it-really-means-to-be-a-manager-director-or-vp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434093

IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol
https://github.com/Devolutions/IronRDP
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43436894

The little book about OS development
https://littleosbook.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440473

Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning (2022)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13446
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440267

Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
https://www.oncontracts.com/monster-cables-picked-the-wrong-guy-to-threaten/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43442178

Liberapay
https://en.liberapay.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398539

‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/blueys-world-success-puppy-juggernaut-1236164905/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410874

George Foreman has died
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/george-foreman-boxer-infomercial-star-dies-1236345523/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43442917

Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1014002/580b8750bf02cf41/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43403821