Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 9, 2025.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00648-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43295692

Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volkswagen-reintroducing-physical-controls-vital-functions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298271

The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
https://www.wired.com/story/the-doj-still-wants-google-to-divest-chrome/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299886

My 16-month theanine self-experiment
https://dynomight.net/theanine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43305803

Show HN: I built an app to get daily wisdom from Mr. Worldwide
https://daale.club/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43304785

Discworld Rules
https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-rules
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299815

Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal
https://github.com/mfontanini/presenterm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43303752

The program is the database is the interface
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-program-is-the-database-is-the-interface/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43300528

Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP
https://glthr.com/discovering-errors-in-donald-knuths-taocp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301342

Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed
https://tzx.notion.site/What-I-Learned-Building-a-Free-Semantic-Search-Tool-for-GitHub-and-Why-I-Failed-1a09b742c7918033b318f3a5d7dc9751
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299659