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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 13, 2025.Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has diedhttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spyinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347662Gemini Roboticshttps://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-brings-ai-into-the-physical-world/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344082The DuckDB Local UIhttps://duckdb.org/2025/03/12/duckdb-ui.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43342712Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browserhttps://github.com/kern/filepizzahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43342361Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/Gemma3Report.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340491Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Googlehttps://mozillapetition.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340948The Future Is Nirihttps://ersei.net/en/blog/nirihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43342178Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its adherence and adoptionhttps://github.com/openui/open-uihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308278I stopped everything and started writing C againhttps://www.kmx.io/blog/why-stopped-everything-and-started-writing-C-againhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340731Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landedhttps://www.eggnog.ai/entertimeportalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347306