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Hacker News (Apr 2025)
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Photons, neutrinos, and gravitational-wave astronomy
50 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
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Remember FastCGI? (2021)
50 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
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Former Disney employee who hacked Disney World menus sentenced to 3 years
50 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
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Big Tech May Have Fielded a New Weapon Against the Small Internet: AI
50 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
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Show HN: Omiword – A daily, sector-based word puzzle
50 points • comment • apr 11, 2025
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Replacing CVE
50 points • comment • apr 16, 2025
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Top Colleges Are Too Costly Even for Parents Making $300k
50 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
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More details for London's new Roman Basilica museum revealed
50 points • comment • apr 18, 2025
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Levitating Bugs with Sound Could Transform Scientific Photography
50 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
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CINC Is Not Chef
50 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
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GPU Price Tracker
50 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
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DDoS Mitigation Leak
50 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
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Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive
50 points • comment • apr 22, 2025
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A Man Out to Prove How Dumb AI Still Is
50 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
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Neurotoxic worms growing up to 3ft long are in Ontario, Canada
50 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
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Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture
50 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
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Write an Interpreter in Ruby
49 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
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Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon
49 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
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AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western
49 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
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Is Doge Securities Fraud?
49 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
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I made a college punching bag for rejected highschoolers
49 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
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Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement
49 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
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Ames Shovel and Tool Catalog of Shovels, Spades and Scoops (1926) [pdf]
49 points • comment • apr 10, 2025
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Understanding Aggregate Trends for Apple Intelligence Using Differential Privacy
49 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
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Was Houdini a Spy? (2021)
49 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
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White House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways to 'Deport' U.S. Citizens
49 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
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'Paraparticles' Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle
49 points • comment • apr 12, 2025
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Empty Calories of AI: A Cure for Loneliness Worse Than the Disease?
49 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
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America's financial system came close to the brink
49 points • comment • apr 11, 2025
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Organ Trafficking: How Germans Buy New Kidneys in Kenya
49 points • comment • apr 15, 2025
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ICE director wants to run deportations 'like Amazon Prime for human beings'
49 points • comment • apr 10, 2025
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Moving Beyond Containers – Introducing Boxer by Daniel Phillips WASM I/O 2025 [video]
49 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
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The Consequences of Limiting the Tax Deductibility of R&D
49 points • comment • apr 09, 2025
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The lost secrets of Palm webOS (2014)
49 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
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Solar Orbiter's widest high-res view of the Sun
49 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
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Doge using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
49 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
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I Cannot Be Technical
49 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
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Show HN: Make SVGs interactive in React with 1 line
49 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
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MusiCoT, a chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting technique for music generation [pdf]
48 points • comment • apr 10, 2025
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An FPGA-based LGP-30 Replica
48 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
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The Tontine Coffee-House (2018)
48 points • comment • apr 21, 2025
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AR Computers to Terminate Eyestrain and Myopia
48 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
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Show HN: HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audio conversation
48 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
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Using bad hardware: why I work in the terminal (2024)
48 points • comment • apr 13, 2025
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Monsky's Theorem
48 points • comment • apr 19, 2025
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Shame and Revolution: Vietnam’s potent and storied anticolonialism
48 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
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Amazon says displaying tariffs 'not going to happen' after White House blowback
48 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
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A balanced review of Math Academy
48 points • comment • apr 11, 2025
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Configuration Complexity Clock (2012)
48 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
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Show HN: Empty Enter Expander – Type less in the terminal with this tool
48 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
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Don't make it "like Google"
47 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
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Hyperscaling Have I Been Pwned with Cloudflare Workers and Caching
47 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
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The physics of bowling strike after strike
47 points • comment • apr 16, 2025
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Help ChatGPT discover your products
47 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
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Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers
47 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
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Show HN: Git Game Show – Multiplayer Game in Your Repo
47 points • comment • apr 09, 2025
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The Darkest Timeline – how I see the 54% tariff impacting the game industry
47 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
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The best – but not good – way to limit string length
47 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
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NYC New Subway Map
47 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
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It would take three years to install a speed bump. So I bought my own
47 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
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GitHub Copilot Pro+
47 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
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GoboLinux 017.01: the most experimental Linux's first new release in about 5Y
47 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
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Ambient music on iOS 18.4 and the return to the Apple's Music app
47 points • comment • apr 10, 2025
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Kilmar Garcia et al. vs. US Department of Homeland Security et al.
47 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
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SSLyze – SSL configuration scanning library and CLI tool
47 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
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OAuth's Role in MCP Security
47 points • comment • apr 20, 2025
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'Parkinson's is a man-made disease'
46 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
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Gemini 2.5 gets 24.4% on MathArena USAMO beating previous top score of 4.7%
46 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
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Tesla Releases Stripped RWD Cybertruck: So Much Worse for Not Much Less Money
46 points • comment • apr 13, 2025
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Run RISC-V Binaries on AMD Zen-Series CPUs via Microcode Modification
46 points • comment • apr 09, 2025
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Slinky-Coil Dipole (2021)
46 points • comment • apr 26, 2025
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The Danglepoise
46 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
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Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy
46 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
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Show HN: I built a Ruby gem that handles memoization with a ttl
46 points • comment • apr 22, 2025
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Delusional themes may be more varied than we thought
46 points • comment • apr 10, 2025
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Universal basic income: German experiment bring surprising results
46 points • comment • apr 13, 2025
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Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before
46 points • comment • apr 18, 2025
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New Theoretical Research Trends in Cartography (2001)
46 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
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Major endometriosis study reveals impact of gluten, coffee, dairy and alcohol
46 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
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It's Not the Incentives (2018)
46 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
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Show HN: A fast, minimal and offline-friendly web playground
46 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
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Ask HN: Memory-safe low level languages?
46 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
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John Carmack on AI in game programming
46 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
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Dwarf Fortress Coming to Steam Changed Everything [video]
46 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
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Why do electrons not fall into the nucleus?
45 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
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Local CI. Sign off on your own work
45 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
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Who isn't a big fan of "impartial" news? People who don't have power
45 points • comment • apr 09, 2025
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An 'administrative error' sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison
45 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
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A study of lightning fatalities inside buildings while using smartphones [pdf] (2024)
45 points • comment • apr 22, 2025
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Jeff Geerling won't connect his dishwasher to your stupid cloud [video]
45 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
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Titanic digital scan reveals new details of ship's final hours
45 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
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"Hands off working COBOL code" –protest sign in NYC
45 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
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Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites in bid to take on Starlink
45 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
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Dust in the wind: How cities alter natural airborne particles
45 points • comment • apr 09, 2025
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Tesla delays new 'affordable EV/stripped down Model Y' in the US
45 points • comment • apr 19, 2025
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Hyperinflation Heralded the Fall of German Democracy (2023)
45 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
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Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software
45 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
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Lenovo May Be Avoiding 'Windows Tax' via Cheaper Laptops with Preinstalled Linux
45 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
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Django 5.2 Released
45 points • comment • apr 02, 2025
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A new record for California's highest tree
45 points • comment • apr 19, 2025