Mar 12, 2025 | 10x faster TypeScript, Y Combinator's 20th birthday, Factorio Learning Environment with agents

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 12, 2025.A 10x Faster TypeScripthttps://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332830Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinatorhttps://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1899092996702048709https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332658Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factorieshttps://jackhopkins.github.io/factorio-learning-environment/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331582Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting libraryhttps://medium.com/@caitlin9165/fastplotlib-driving-scientific-discovery-through-data-visualization-418f8bff094chttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43334190What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)https://seeinglogic.com/posts/visual-readability-patterns/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43330900New tools for building agentshttps://openai.com/index/new-tools-for-building-agents/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43334644The Startup CTO's Handbookhttps://github.com/ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook/blob/main/StartupCTOHandbook.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337703The US island that speaks Elizabethan Englishhttps://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-englishhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332752NASA to launch space observatory that will map 450M galaxieshttps://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-spherex-space-observatory-launch-map-galaxies-universe-rcna190877https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296184Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/Gemma3Report.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340491