Mar 13, 2025 | Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower dies, Gemini Robotics, The DuckDB Local UI

Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347662

Gemini Robotics
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-brings-ai-into-the-physical-world/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344082

The DuckDB Local UI
https://duckdb.org/2025/03/12/duckdb-ui.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43342712

Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
https://github.com/kern/filepizza
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43342361

Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/Gemma3Report.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340491

Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
https://mozillapetition.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340948

The Future Is Niri
https://ersei.net/en/blog/niri
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43342178

Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its adherence and adoption
https://github.com/openui/open-ui
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308278

I stopped everything and started writing C again
https://www.kmx.io/blog/why-stopped-everything-and-started-writing-C-again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340731

Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
https://www.eggnog.ai/entertimeportal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347306