Mar 4, 2025 | Apple's software issues, Repairable flatpack toaster, Japanese pencils' golden age

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 4, 2025.

Apple's Software Quality Crisis
https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-03-02-apple-quality
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243075

Repairable Flatpack Toaster
https://www.kaseyhou.com/#/repairable-flatpack-toaster/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43246892

The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils (2022)
https://notes.stlartsupply.com/the-golden-age-of-japanese-pencils-1952-1967/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243716

SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale
https://rivet.gg/blog/2025-02-16-sqlite-on-the-server-is-misunderstood
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43244307

The power of interning: making a time series database smaller
https://gendignoux.com/blog/2025/03/03/rust-interning-2000x.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243914

Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit
https://icode4.coffee/?p=1081
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43244739

TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-chip-maker-tsmc-expected-to-announce-100-billion-investment-in-u-s-02a44399
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243580

Let’s code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet and ARP (2016)
https://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-1-ethernet-arp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43250093

Show HN: Knowledge graph of restaurants and chefs, built using LLMs
https://theophilecantelob.re/blog/2025/foudinge/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43242818

Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers [video]
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5381-comparing-fuchsia-components-and-linux-containers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43246703

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