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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. Louisiana prison board uses algorithms to determine eligility for parole

    32 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  2. The psychology behind why children are hooked on Minecraft

    32 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  3. We ended up rewriting NuGet Restore in .NET 9

    32 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  4. LG TVs' integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions

    32 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  5. A $1M-per-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago is how you get AI chips to China

    32 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  6. ASCII Lookup Utility in Ada

    32 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  7. 'Why would he take such a risk?' My censor and me

    32 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  8. Photon: Rust/WebAssembly image processing library

    32 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  9. Keystone Pipeline spills estimated 3,500 barrels of crude oil

    32 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  10. Overuse of CT scans could cause 100k extra cancers in US

    32 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  11. Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

    32 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  12. Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

    32 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  13. MCP: The new "USB-C for AI" that's bringing fierce rivals together

    32 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  14. Trade, Tariffs, and Tech

    32 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  15. 'I Want to Make You Immortal' – How one woman confronted her deepfakes stalker

    32 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  16. M1: Towards Scalable Test-Time Compute with Mamba Reasoning Models

    32 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  17. Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble

    32 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  18. How Meta AI Staff Deemed More Than 7M Books to Have No "Economic Value"

    32 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  19. ESA has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay?

    31 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  20. Minecraft Server in FreeBSD Jails Container

    31 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  21. Rolex Caliber 7135: new indirect impulse escapement and high frequency movement

    31 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  22. True Romance (1993) – A 30th Anniversary Retrospective

    31 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  23. TVMC: Time-Varying Mesh Compression

    31 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  24. Kawasaki Reveals Four-Legged Robot You Can Ride Like a Horse

    31 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  25. Getting the Firmware of a VTech/LeapFrog LeapStart/Magibook

    31 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  26. Show HN: I made a math puzzle game. Hope you like it

    31 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  27. National security adviser Michael Waltz reportedly conducted business via Gmail

    31 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  28. The US has highest rate of pregnancy-related death among high-income countries

    31 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  29. Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation

    31 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  30. First confirmed footage of a colossal squid captured

    31 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  31. China to impose tariffs of 34% on all US goods from April 10

    31 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  32. The Industrialization of IT

    31 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  33. Show HN: Soundscapes and Lofi Player

    31 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  34. Show HN: val – An arbitrary precision calculator language

    31 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  35. Why do plastic containers always come out wet from the dishwasher?

    31 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  36. Phoenix 1.8.0-RC Released

    31 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  37. Lost City of the Samurai

    30 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  38. SDFs from Unoriented Point Clouds Using Neural Variational Heat Distances

    30 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  39. Ask HN: As a Founder, is this business model compelling?

    30 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  40. Ultrafast Optical Detector

    30 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  41. Don't Bother with Vibe Coding

    30 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  42. Space Station Flight Was 'Wilder' Than We Thought

    30 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  43. Cognitive abilities predict performance in everyday computer tasks

    30 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  44. South Korea's 'heartbreaking' wildfires expose superaged society

    30 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  45. Kristi Noem, Department of Homeland Security, vs. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia [pdf]

    30 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  46. ChatGPT can now remember and reference all your previous chats

    30 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  47. Library patterns: Why frameworks are evil

    30 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  48. NNCP

    30 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  49. A look back: WordPerfect on DOS (2023)

    30 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  50. Which countries would benefit most from an American brain drain?

    30 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  51. Intuiting TLS

    30 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  52. Prolog planner generation prompting guide

    30 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  53. Serious issues in Llama 4 training. I Have Submitted My Resignation to GenAI"

    30 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  54. Doing the Prospero-Challenge in RPython

    29 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  55. Virtual human – a living cadaver – pushes boundaries of anatomical science(2018)

    29 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  56. Monotype just hit us with a $30k/yr font license fee for one font

    29 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  57. Multi-threading is always the wrong design (2023)

    29 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  58. RAG Without Vectors – Reasoning-Based RAG using PageIndex

    29 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  59. Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs

    29 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  60. Amazfit activity tracker and watch face asset generation

    29 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  61. Using Token Sequences to Iterate Ranges

    29 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  62. This is how Apple’s big Siri shake-up happened, per report

    29 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  63. Trying (and failing) to hack the Wall of Sheep (2022)

    29 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  64. Low cost, high speed data acquisition over HDMI [video]

    29 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  65. BPF from Scratch in Rust

    29 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  66. The software engineers willing to pay $10k to help them land a coding job

    29 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  67. Vim is more useful in the age of LLMs

    29 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  68. Audiobooks vs. Printed Books: a debate as a reader and an author

    29 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  69. Ask HN: I feel pessimistic about the future – advice?

    29 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  70. Kamal Deployment: The Newest Form of Self-Torture

    29 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  71. What does it mean for a technology to follow Wright's Law?

    29 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  72. Show HN: ClipCapsule – A Clipboard Manager for Linux (Built with Go and Wails)

    29 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  73. Are Americans Still Welcome in Europe?

    29 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  74. Rust-IoT-Platform

    29 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  75. AI is the kill switch on the human imagination

    28 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  76. Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity

    28 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  77. We're Raising Kids to Prefer AI over People–and No One's Noticing

    28 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  78. LightlyTrain: Better Vision Models, Faster – No Labels Needed

    28 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  79. Protoplanetary Disks Are Smaller Than Expected

    28 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  80. Microsoft's Quake 2 AI experiment sparks negative reactions

    28 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  81. "Fiume O Morte " Brilliantly Dramatizes the Rise of a Demagogue

    28 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  82. The death of the middle-class restaurant

    28 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  83. Energy Department cuts university overhead rates to 15% on research grants

    28 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  84. The Fraudulence of "Waste, Fraud and Abuse"

    28 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  85. Colossal squid filmed in ocean for the first time

    28 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  86. The Mainframe Vocabulary Problem, and Why It Matters

    28 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  87. Trump's tariffs will tip America into recession, warns JP Morgan

    28 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  88. Meta II a syntax-oriented compiler writing language (1964)

    28 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  89. U.S. cites its power to deport people for beliefs

    28 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  90. Americans Are Obsessed with Protein and It's Driving Nutrition Experts Nuts

    28 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  91. US Supreme Court pauses order requiring return of deported man

    28 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  92. About 90% of Migrants Sent to Salvador Lacked US Criminal Record

    28 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  93. All-in-Memory Stochastic Computing Using ReRAM

    28 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  94. A Comparative Analysis of K3s, MicroK8s, and Alternatives

    28 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  95. Amazon Turned Drivers into First Responders in Europe Experiment

    28 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  96. Show HN: Particle - News, Organized

    28 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  97. Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't

    28 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  98. Soldiers in combat can kill without moral injury

    28 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  99. EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption

    28 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  100. Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish

    28 points • comment • apr 04, 2025