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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad

    115 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  2. Show HN: AgenticSeek – Self-hosted alternative to cloud-based AI tools

    115 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  3. Herb: Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling

    115 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

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

    115 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  5. What is Local first development

    115 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  6. UML diagram for the DDD example in Evans' book

    115 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  7. Parser Combinators Beat Regexes

    115 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

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

    115 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  9. Show HN: I486SX_soft_FPU – Software FPU Emulator for NetBSD 10 on 486SX

    115 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  10. U.S. stock futures tumble indicating another plummet on Wall Street

    114 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  11. Why Do Domestic Prices Rise with Tarriffs?

    114 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

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

    114 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  13. Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own

    114 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  14. Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds data loss and performance issues

    114 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  15. Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source

    114 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  16. Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo

    114 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  17. Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?

    114 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  18. The campaign to subvert Africa's internet registry

    114 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  19. Show HN: Uncurl.dev – Convert curl commands to a shareable, executable UI

    114 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  20. I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective

    114 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  21. Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet

    113 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  22. Show HN: I built a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely

    113 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  23. How much math is knowable? [video]

    112 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  24. Yann LeCun, Pioneer of AI, Thinks Today's LLM's Are Nearly Obsolete

    112 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  25. A Supermarket Bag and a Truckload of FOMO

    112 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  26. The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

    112 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  27. Arroyo (YC W23) has been acquired by Cloudflare

    112 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  28. Show HN: ART – a new open-source RL framework for training agents

    112 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  29. How Servo Motors Work

    112 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  30. Reality Check

    112 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  31. Show HN: BugStalker - a modern Rust debugger

    111 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  32. Journey to Optimize Cloudflare D1 Database Queries

    111 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  33. Val Kilmer has passed away

    111 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  34. New atomic fountain clock joins group that keeps the world on time

    111 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  35. What my stroke taught me (2017)

    110 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  36. Show HN: uWrap.js – A faster and more accurate text wrapping util in < 2KB

    110 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  37. Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

    110 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  38. Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog

    110 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  39. Mass grave of Roman soldiers found under Vienna sports field

    110 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

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

    110 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  41. Scientists: Protein IL-17 fights infection, acts on the brain, inducing anxiety

    109 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  42. The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing

    109 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  43. Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?

    109 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  44. Database Protocols Are Underwhelming

    109 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  45. NASA's Project Scientist Faces Painful Choices as Voyager Mission Nears Its End

    109 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  46. Meaning Machine – Visualize how LLMs break down and simulate meaning

    109 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  47. Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB

    108 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  48. My takeaways from DjangoCon EU 2025

    108 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  49. Liverpool's title win has completed a mysterious Fibonacci sequence

    108 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  50. Scientists witness living plant cells generate cellulose and form cell walls

    107 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  51. Show HN: GS-Calc – A modern spreadsheet with Python integration

    107 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  52. Handwriting activates broader brain networks than typing

    107 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  53. Path Isn't Real on Linux

    107 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  54. You cannot have our user's data

    107 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  55. PiDP-1, or the rebirth of an old machine

    106 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  56. Show HN: An interactive demo of QR codes' error correction

    106 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

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

    106 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  58. Deterministic simulation testing for async Rust

    106 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  59. PaperBench

    106 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  60. The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder

    106 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  61. Ultrathink is a Claude Code a magic word

    106 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  62. David Tong Lectures on Theoretical Physics

    106 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  63. Why Momentum Works (2017)

    105 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  64. How NASA Is Using Graph Technology and LLMs to Build a People Knowledge Graph

    105 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  65. Non-US-based alternatives to popular services

    105 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  66. There are two types of dishwasher people

    105 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  67. Apparently Bluesky has one centralized service, the "relay"

    105 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  68. How to Recognize Woodpeckers by Their Drumming Sounds

    105 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  69. Mathematicians just solved a 125-year-old problem, uniting 3 theories in physics

    105 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  70. Libro: a command-line tool to track your books

    105 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  71. Watching o3 model sweat over a Paul Morphy mate-in-2

    105 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  72. OCaml's Wings for Machine Learning

    105 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  73. BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report

    105 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  74. Science, the Endless Frontier (1945) [pdf]

    104 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  75. Differentiable Programming from Scratch

    104 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  76. Dad and the Egg Controller (2018)

    104 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

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

    104 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  78. Analytic Combinatorics – A Worked Example

    104 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  79. Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

    104 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  80. Writing C for Curl

    104 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  81. Neural Graffiti – Liquid Memory Layer for LLMs

    103 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  82. AI-Designed Antivenoms: New Proteins to Block Deadly Snake Toxins

    103 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  83. Modern 6502

    103 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  84. Cargo-mutants:zombie: Inject bugs and see if your tests catch them

    103 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  85. Monte Carlo Crash Course: Sampling

    103 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  86. SQLite transactions and virtual tables

    102 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  87. Viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos

    102 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  88. Compute's Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Yrs, Will Focus on Retro Computing

    102 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  89. Half the men in Seattle are never-married singles, census data shows

    102 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  90. AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital

    102 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  91. White House slams Amazon tariff price display "hostile and political"

    102 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  92. Why Does My eBPF Program Work on One Kernel but Fail on Another?

    102 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  93. Federal Government's letter to Harvard demanding changes [pdf]

    102 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  94. Simulated Economy Tutorial

    102 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  95. Show HN: Clawtype v2.1 – a one-hand chorded USB keyboard and mouse [video]

    101 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  96. Taking Notes with Joplin

    101 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  97. Unikernel Linux (UKL) (2023)

    101 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  98. Stainless steel strengthened: Twisting creates submicron 'anti-crash wall'

    101 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  99. Sixty Years On, We Still Dream of the Arrow (2021)

    101 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  100. The DDA Algorithm, explained interactively

    101 points • comment • apr 01, 2025