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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

    1368 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  2. Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)

    889 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  3. Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button

    725 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  4. The April Fools joke that might have got me fired

    502 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  5. Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101

    489 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  6. Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)

    460 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  7. Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news

    451 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  8. Why F#?

    430 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  9. Glubux's Powerwall (2016)

    386 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  10. CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep

    333 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  11. Porting Tailscale to Plan 9

    332 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  12. Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers

    314 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  13. RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015)

    310 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  14. Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic

    308 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  15. DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

    281 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  16. Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365

    280 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  17. Why is the world losing color?

    275 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  18. The case against conversational interfaces

    268 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  19. Netflix’s Media Production Suite

    253 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  20. Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world

    250 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  21. The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst

    248 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  22. Shared DNA in Music

    244 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  23. Dave Täht has died

    239 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  24. Where does air pollution come from?

    226 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  25. Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline

    212 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  26. How Silica Gel Took Over the World

    196 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  27. Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model

    195 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  28. The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it

    194 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  29. Self-Hosting like it's 2025

    173 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  30. Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan

    172 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  31. Restructuring Announcement

    170 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  32. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)

    169 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  33. Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods

    164 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  34. RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components

    163 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  35. Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?

    162 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  36. Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?

    161 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  37. A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test

    161 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  38. Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS

    157 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  39. Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars

    156 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  40. Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds

    152 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  41. Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction

    151 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  42. Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure

    150 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  43. How Google built its Gemini robotics models

    134 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  44. Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S.

    124 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  45. We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains

    122 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  46. A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb

    117 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  47. Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare)

    117 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  48. Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat

    116 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  49. Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

    114 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  50. Val Kilmer has passed away

    111 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  51. When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI

    109 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  52. Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing

    109 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  53. Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015)

    106 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  54. Show HN: A Chrome extension to give you back control over short-form videos

    105 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  55. Simulated Economy Tutorial

    102 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  56. How AI is creating a rift at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG

    99 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  57. Show HN: Terminal dashboard that throttles my PC during peak electricity rates

    97 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  58. Hacking the call records of millions of Americans

    97 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  59. US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back

    96 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  60. Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch

    94 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  61. Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code

    91 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  62. Why I don't discuss politics with friends

    87 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  63. Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst

    86 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  64. PaperBench

    85 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  65. An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

    85 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  66. Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps

    83 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  67. UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test

    82 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  68. MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks

    82 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  69. LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite

    81 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  70. Ukrainian Soldiers Unearth Ancient Greek Burial

    80 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  71. An 'Administrative Error' Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison

    78 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  72. What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test

    78 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  73. New in Gmail: Making E2E encrypted emails easy to use for all organizations

    75 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  74. Multi-Token Attention

    75 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  75. Measuring Acceleration Structures

    75 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  76. Why Kagi launched "no use, no pay"

    74 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  77. Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers

    71 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  78. Location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding

    69 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  79. Show HN: Textcase: A Python Library for Text Case Conversion

    69 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  80. Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building

    68 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  81. Zero Day in Microchip SAM Microcontrollers

    62 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  82. Forking Work Simplification – Let's Bring Back Eisenhower's Process Improvement

    60 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  83. Ace: Realtime Computer Autopilot

    60 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  84. Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?

    60 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  85. The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023)

    59 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  86. 'A hostile state': Why some travellers are avoiding the US

    58 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  87. I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad

    57 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  88. White House says it's 'case closed' on the Signal group chat review

    55 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  89. Jargonic: Industry-Tunable ASR Model

    55 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  90. Prof. Sussman's Reading List (2016)

    52 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  91. Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave

    51 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  92. Show HN: Make SVGs interactive in React with 1 line

    49 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  93. Is Doge Securities Fraud?

    49 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  94. AR Computers to Terminate Eyestrain and Myopia

    47 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  95. Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers

    47 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  96. SSLyze – SSL configuration scanning library and CLI tool

    47 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  97. NYC New Subway Map

    47 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  98. Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy

    46 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  99. Gemini 2.5 gets 24.4% on MathArena USAMO beating previous top score of 4.7%

    46 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  100. An 'administrative error' sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison

    45 points • comment • apr 02, 2025