Mar 9, 2025 | AI tools detect research errors, Volkswagen brings back physical controls, DOJ pushes for Google to divest Chrome

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 9, 2025.AI tools are spotting errors in research papershttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00648-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43295692Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functionshttps://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volkswagen-reintroducing-physical-controls-vital-functionshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298271The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chromehttps://www.wired.com/story/the-doj-still-wants-google-to-divest-chrome/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299886My 16-month theanine self-experimenthttps://dynomight.net/theanine/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43305803Show HN: I built an app to get daily wisdom from Mr. Worldwidehttps://daale.club/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43304785Discworld Ruleshttps://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-ruleshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299815Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminalhttps://github.com/mfontanini/presentermhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43303752The program is the database is the interfacehttps://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-program-is-the-database-is-the-interface/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43300528Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCPhttps://glthr.com/discovering-errors-in-donald-knuths-taocphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301342Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failedhttps://tzx.notion.site/What-I-Learned-Building-a-Free-Semantic-Search-Tool-for-GitHub-and-Why-I-Failed-1a09b742c7918033b318f3a5d7dc9751https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299659