Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 8, 2025.

Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292820

Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI
https://techstartups.com/2025/03/07/microsoft-is-plotting-a-future-without-openai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292946

Introducing command And commandfor In HTML
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/command-and-commandfor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292056

Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/feds-link-150m-cyberheist-to-2022-lastpass-hacks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296656

Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment
https://github.com/directvt/vtm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43291946

Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43291922

Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/07/athena-spacecraft-mission-dead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292471

Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere
https://pola.rs/posts/polars-cloud-what-we-are-building/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43294566

Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics
https://www.mooncake.dev/blog/clickbench-v0.1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270712

Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/01/21/production-engineering/strobelight-a-profiling-service-built-on-open-source-technology/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43290555