Mar 29, 2025 | xAI acquires X, valued at $80B, police surveillance footage request, hacked Gemini's Python sandbox leaked source code

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 29, 2025.xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80Bhttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1905731750275510312https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509923I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my carhttps://cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rural-virginia-then-asked-police-to-send-me-their-public-surveillance-footage-of-my-car-heres-what-i-learned/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43504413We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some)https://www.landh.tech/blog/20250327-we-hacked-gemini-source-code/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43508418How to write blog posts that developers readhttps://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/write-blog-posts-developers-read/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43503872Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rusthttps://blog.startifact.com/posts/xee/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43502291iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured?https://www.mail-tester.com/test-p3tdhnk3ohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43511464Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Accounthttps://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/114242475168860209https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512660OpenWrt Two Approvalhttps://openwrt.org/voting/2025-02-12-openwrt-twohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512495Digital Echoes and Unquiet Mindshttps://www.chrbutler.com/digital-echoes-and-unquiet-mindshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509548The Real Book (2021)https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-real-book/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43507404