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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. How MOS 6502 Illegal Opcodes Work (2008)

    64 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  2. C++: terser (shorter) lambda == SHORTY (ab-use?)

    64 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  3. As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond

    64 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  4. A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers

    64 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  5. Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?

    64 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  6. College Towns: Urbanism from a Past Era

    64 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  7. Blue Shield Data Breach (Google Ads)

    64 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  8. Typographic Pictures Composed Entirely of Brass Rule (2024)

    64 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  9. USB Floppy Disk Striped RAID Under OS X (2004)

    64 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  10. Creating beautiful charts with JRuby and JFreeChart

    64 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  11. Offline-First with CouchDB and PouchDB in 2025

    64 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  12. Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)

    64 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  13. Clinical trial: novel nutritional formula treats gut microbial overgrowth

    64 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  14. Future Chips Will Be Hotter Than Ever

    64 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  15. Show HN: Single-Header Profiler for C++17

    63 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  16. Palantir's Justification for Building ICE's Master Database

    63 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  17. Why 'Prince Rupert's Drop' Glass Is Strong Enough to Shatter a Bullet (2023)

    63 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  18. Nominal Aphasia: Problems in Name Retrieval

    63 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  19. How to speed up US passenger rail, without bullet trains

    63 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  20. Former cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs leaves SentinelOne after executive order

    63 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  21. Mercantilism

    63 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  22. Lucene University

    63 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  23. Hiding elements that require JavaScript without JavaScript

    63 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  24. Researchers are studying how to minimize human impact on public lands

    63 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  25. Show HN: Cleverb.ee – open-source agent that writes a cited research report

    62 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  26. What's the Deal with Autism Rates?

    62 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  27. Are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?

    62 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  28. Comparing economic inequality between the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty

    62 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  29. GeoDeep's AI Detection on Maxar's Satellite Imagery

    62 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  30. Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU

    62 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  31. How new US tariffs are forcing Europe to rethink its entire tech stack

    62 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  32. Loader's Number

    62 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  33. What the hell is an elliptic curve?

    62 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  34. US tax return filings drop by nearly 1M, extension requests rise

    62 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  35. Hunger shifts attention towards less healthy food options, study finds

    62 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  36. Microphone Input Noise Comparison

    62 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  37. Researcher proposes model replacing dark energy/matter to explain universe

    62 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  38. Electric Propulsion's Dirty Secret: Why Lithium Can't Fly (Or Float) Profitably

    62 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  39. The order of files in your ext4 filesystem does not matter

    62 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  40. Curiosity rover finds large carbonate deposits on Mars

    62 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  41. Dice and Queues

    62 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  42. 'Sun-Like' Stars

    62 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  43. Tracking the international space station with an Arduino

    61 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  44. Show HN: I built a Yahoo Messenger-inspired web chat app – pure nostalgia

    61 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  45. AdNauseam: Clicking ads so you don't have to

    61 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  46. France's new high-speed train has Americans asking: Why can't we have that?

    61 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  47. Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting", "customer backups at risk"

    61 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  48. Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse

    61 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  49. Censors Ignore Unencrypted HTTP/2 Traffic (2024)

    61 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  50. Sponges, drill bits and wires: Surgeons mistakenly left objects inside thousands

    61 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  51. Get your Minitel back, the COMPUTEL videotex BBS is back

    61 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  52. National Archives Releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Records

    61 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  53. Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi is free after judge orders his release

    60 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  54. Micro Wheeled legged Robot

    60 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  55. GPT o3 frequently fabricates actions, then elaborately justifies these actions

    60 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  56. CN Tower, Behind the Scenes (2014)

    60 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  57. Space Debris: Is It a Crisis?

    60 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  58. A simple Common Lisp web app

    60 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  59. The Ghosts of Gaelic

    60 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  60. Listening habits and effects of background music in people with and without ADHD

    60 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  61. Greek Particles (1990)

    60 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  62. Where did the false "equal transit-time" explanation of lift originate from?

    60 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  63. Detecting if an expression is constant in C

    60 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

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

    60 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  65. Roo or Cline? We're building a superset

    60 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  66. Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns

    59 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  67. Sony Unveils the Smallest and Lightest Lidar Depth Sensor

    59 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  68. IBM Announces the Z17 Mainframe Powered by Telum II Processors

    59 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  69. Top OpenAI Catastrophic Risk Official Steps Down Abruptly

    59 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  70. Saturn's moon Titan could harbor life, but only a tiny amount

    59 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  71. Olympic Gold Medalist Dominates the 100M at Her Kid's Sports Day Event

    59 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  72. Canadians give Liberals 4th mandate as Carney leads party to minority win

    59 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  73. METS, the Middle English Texts Series

    59 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  74. Join the W3C Exploration Interest Group: where standards start

    59 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  75. Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations

    59 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  76. Loglan'82: programming language for object-oriented and distributed programming

    59 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  77. We Have Made No Progress Toward AGI

    59 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  78. 'Nobody has done this before': Britain's beloved steam trains trial technology

    59 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  79. An unused nuclear power plant became home to a world-class acoustics lab

    59 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  80. The Homebrew Channel repository is archived (Apr 28, 2025)

    59 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  81. Can LLMs do randomness?

    59 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  82. If you use AI to write me that note, don't expect me to read it

    59 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  83. Sculptor: Catch and fix issues as you code

    59 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  84. Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access

    58 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  85. Beer on Board in the Age of Sail (2017)

    58 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  86. Show HN: Durable Python Workflows

    58 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  87. U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law

    58 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  88. Stop Conflating Genius with Asshole

    58 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  89. The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025

    58 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  90. Path is a utility for working with paths

    58 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  91. No as a Service

    58 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  92. What a refugee camp reveals about economics

    58 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  93. Significant performance improvements with Edge 134

    58 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  94. Diagnosing bugs preventing sleep on Windows

    58 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

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

    58 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  96. AI is turning us into glue

    57 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  97. Adding keyword parameters to Tcl procs

    57 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  98. Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day

    57 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  99. Framework stops selling some laptops in the US in response to tariffs

    57 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  100. Memory Size Matters to PostgreSQL

    57 points • comment • apr 17, 2025