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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. The DDA Algorithm, explained interactively

    101 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  2. Design System Options for Rails

    101 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  3. Cell Phone OPSEC for Border Crossings

    100 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  4. Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained (2023)

    100 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  5. Llama 4 Now Live on Groq

    100 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  6. Query Engines: Push vs. Pull (2021)

    100 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  7. 'Immediate red flags': questions raised over 'expert' much quoted in UK press

    100 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  8. Exercise before bed is linked with disrupted sleep

    100 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  9. Designing a low-cost high-performance 10 MHz – 15 GHz vector network analyzer

    99 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  10. Major Flaws in 2025 Meta-Analysis on Fluoride and Children IQ Scores

    99 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  11. A cute proof that makes e natural

    99 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  12. 3D Army Land Navigation Courses

    99 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  13. I designed my LED matrix PCB with code

    99 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

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

    99 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  15. Show HN: Obelisk – a WASM-based deterministic workflow engine

    99 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  16. Deno Under TinyKVM in Varnish

    98 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  17. Data Compression Nerds Hate This One Trick [video]

    98 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  18. Serving Vector Tiles, Fast

    98 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

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

    98 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  20. Still standing

    98 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  21. Open Source DMR Modem Implementation in SDR with GNU Radio and Codec2

    98 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  22. Echo – Open Hardware Music Player

    98 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  23. NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University

    98 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  24. Every picture from Venus' surface, ever (2021)

    98 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  25. Notion Mail is out

    97 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  26. 1,700 year old egg never broke

    97 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  27. Collatz's Ant

    97 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  28. The Difference Between Municipal Fire Trucks and Airport Fire Trucks

    97 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

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

    97 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  30. Show HN: Heart Rate Zones Plus – The first iOS app I developed

    97 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  31. Finland is painting deer antlers with reflective paint (2014)

    97 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  32. Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī's Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)

    97 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  33. Here's how to get ChatGPT to stop being an overly flattering yes man

    97 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  34. Meta AI App built with Llama 4

    96 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  35. Show HN: Attune - Build and publish APT repositories in seconds

    96 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

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

    96 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  37. Docker Model Runner

    96 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  38. Development on Apple Silicon with UTM

    96 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  39. Decomposing factorial of 300K as the product of 300K factors larger than 100K

    96 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  40. Frankenstein's `__init__`

    96 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  41. The Size of Packets

    96 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  42. Show HN: Index – New Open Source browser agent

    95 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  43. Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check

    95 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  44. Cohere Launches Embed 4

    95 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  45. QEMU Version 10.0.0 Released

    95 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  46. The Whimsical Investor

    95 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  47. Doge Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress

    95 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  48. MeshCore, a new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios

    95 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  49. Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs

    94 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  50. LLM Benchmark for 'Longform Creative Writing'

    94 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  51. Hackers strike Australia's largest pension funds in coordinated attacks

    94 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  52. Exploiting Undefined Behavior in C/C++ Programs: The Performance Impact [pdf]

    94 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  53. Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch

    94 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  54. NTATV: Bringing Windows NT (Windows XP, Windows 2003) to the Original Apple TV

    93 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  55. DECtalk Archive

    93 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  56. Smallest Pacemaker Is the Size of a Rice Grain

    93 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  57. A Principled Approach to Querying Data – A Type-Safe Search DSL

    93 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  58. A recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans

    93 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  59. Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty

    93 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  60. Hasochism: The pleasure and pain of dependently typed Haskell programming [pdf] (2013)

    93 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  61. Pushing the Limits of LLM Quantization via the Linearity Theorem

    93 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  62. Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers' Story

    93 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  63. AI Coding assistants provide little value because a programmer's job is to think

    93 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  64. OpenAI Is a Systemic Risk to the Tech Industry

    93 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  65. 7k-year-old skeletons from the green Sahara reveal a mysterious human lineage

    93 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  66. C++26: more constexpr in the core language

    92 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  67. A protein folding mystery solved: Study explains core packing fractions

    92 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  68. Inmates in ElSalvador tortured/strangled-hellish conditions in Bukele's prisons (2023)

    92 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  69. Tech workers are leaving notes in robot taxis seeking workers and lovers

    92 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  70. Nvidia on NixOS WSL – Ollama up 24/7 on your gaming PC

    92 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  71. Head of NSA and Cybercommand Is Ousted

    92 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  72. Vision Transformers Need Registers

    92 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  73. Show HN: A Common Lisp implementation in development, supports ASDF

    92 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  74. Charts.css

    92 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  75. Whistleblower statement on anomalies at time of DOGE work at NLRB [pdf]

    91 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  76. Slouching towards San Francisco

    91 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  77. Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous fragments

    91 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  78. Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks'

    91 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  79. Windows RDP lets you log-in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is ok with that

    91 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  80. To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Collection of SciFi Stories

    90 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  81. University of Waterloo withholds coding contest results over suspected AI use

    90 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  82. New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks

    90 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  83. Surprises in Logic (2016)

    90 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

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

    90 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  85. Attention Spans for Math and Stories (2019)

    90 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  86. That groan you hear is users' reaction to Recall going back into Windows

    90 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  87. Principles for Building One-Shot AI Agents

    90 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  88. The Seven-Year Rule

    90 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  89. How Airbnb measures listing lifetime value

    90 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  90. Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back

    89 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  91. One-sixth of the planet's cropland has toxic levels of one or more metals

    89 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  92. Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym

    89 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  93. Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans

    89 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  94. Falsify: Hypothesis-Inspired Shrinking for Haskell (2023)

    89 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  95. Dual Kickstart ROM Replacement for Amiga

    89 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  96. Our New AI Website Builder

    89 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  97. On JavaScript's Weirdness

    89 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  98. Show HN: Infat – Declaritive application assocation manager for macOS

    88 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  99. Shell-secrets – GPG-encrypted environment variables

    88 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  100. Mark Klein, a Whistleblower Who Revealed Domestic Spying, Dies at 79

    88 points • comment • apr 11, 2025