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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

    1793 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  2. Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

    1784 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  3. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

    1162 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

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

    897 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  5. AnimeJs v4 Is Here

    794 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

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

    729 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  7. AI 2027

    658 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  8. Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)

    632 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  9. Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers

    598 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  10. I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad

    583 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

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

    502 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  12. Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101

    496 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  13. Bored of It

    492 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  14. Why I don't discuss politics with friends

    488 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

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

    451 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

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

    439 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  17. Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers

    438 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  18. Why F#?

    432 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

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

    419 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  20. Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"

    415 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  21. Glubux's Powerwall (2016)

    386 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  22. Reasoning models don't always say what they think

    382 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  23. Microsoft’s original source code

    380 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  24. The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI

    361 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  25. Porting Tailscale to Plan 9

    360 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  26. Overengineered Anchor Links

    346 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  27. A university president makes a case against cowardice

    342 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  28. Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

    338 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  29. CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep

    333 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

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

    323 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  31. Why is the world losing color?

    311 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

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

    310 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

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

    308 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  34. Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database

    293 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  35. The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly

    291 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

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

    285 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  37. Gumroad is now open source

    279 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

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

    273 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  39. The case against conversational interfaces

    268 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  40. Restructuring Announcement

    256 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  41. Netflix’s Media Production Suite

    255 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

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

    250 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  43. The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst

    249 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

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

    247 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

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

    245 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  46. Shared DNA in Music

    244 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  47. Dave Täht has died

    240 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  48. Where does air pollution come from?

    226 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  49. How Silica Gel Took Over the World

    223 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  50. Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure

    204 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  51. How Google built its Gemini robotics models

    200 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

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

    195 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  53. Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS

    195 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

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

    194 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  55. Self-Hosting like it's 2025

    173 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

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

    172 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  57. US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after US picks group's lawyer for top job

    170 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  58. Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres

    170 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

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

    166 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

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

    166 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

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

    165 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

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

    162 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  63. A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test

    162 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  64. InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux

    161 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

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

    161 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

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

    156 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  67. Why does Britain feel so poor?

    155 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  68. DIY Synths Database

    153 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  69. Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point

    153 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

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

    152 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  71. Multi-Token Attention

    148 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  72. Hacking the call records of millions of Americans

    147 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  73. Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo

    144 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

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

    139 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  75. Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)

    138 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

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

    137 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  77. AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating

    134 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

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

    131 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  79. Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf]

    131 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  80. Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity

    126 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

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

    125 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

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

    124 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  83. Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat

    122 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  84. Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare)

    119 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  85. A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb

    118 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  86. Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters

    116 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

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

    115 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  88. Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates with 34% Tariffs

    115 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

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

    114 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  90. Val Kilmer has passed away

    111 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

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

    110 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

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

    106 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  93. PaperBench

    106 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  94. How Servo Motors Work

    102 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  95. Simulated Economy Tutorial

    102 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

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

    99 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  97. Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL

    98 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  98. What is Local first development

    98 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  99. Show HN: Zxc – Rust TLS proxy with tmux and Vim as UI, BurpSuite alternative

    97 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

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

    97 points • comment • apr 01, 2025