Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 6, 2025.

Apple M3 Ultra
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-reveals-m3-ultra-taking-apple-silicon-to-a-new-extreme/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266453

Tailscale is pretty useful
https://blog.6nok.org/tailscale-is-pretty-useful/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270835

MacBook Air M4
https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266537

Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/apple_reportedly_ipt_complaint/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270079

The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide
https://apnews.com/article/us-air-quality-monitors-8270927bbd0f166238243ac9d14bce03
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43274821

QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270843

Git without a forge
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/git-no-forge/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43272275

Things we've learned about building products
https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/50-things-weve-learned-about-building
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43267095

DeepSeek-R1-671B-Q4_K_M with 1 or 2 Arc A770 on Xeon
https://github.com/intel/ipex-llm/blob/main/docs/mddocs/Quickstart/llamacpp_portable_zip_gpu_quickstart.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43274613

There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-05/there-was-a-texas-lottery-arbitrage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43269846