Mar 8, 2025 | Age Verification Laws enable surveillance, Microsoft plans future without OpenAI, command and commandfor introduced in HTML

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 8, 2025.Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillancehttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-controlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292820Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAIhttps://techstartups.com/2025/03/07/microsoft-is-plotting-a-future-without-openai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292946Introducing command And commandfor In HTMLhttps://developer.chrome.com/blog/command-and-commandforhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292056Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hackshttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/feds-link-150m-cyberheist-to-2022-lastpass-hacks/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296656Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environmenthttps://github.com/directvt/vtmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43291946Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43291922Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moonhttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/07/athena-spacecraft-mission-deadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292471Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywherehttps://pola.rs/posts/polars-cloud-what-we-are-building/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43294566Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analyticshttps://www.mooncake.dev/blog/clickbench-v0.1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270712Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technologyhttps://engineering.fb.com/2025/01/21/production-engineering/strobelight-a-profiling-service-built-on-open-source-technology/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43290555