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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. Lenovo May Be Avoiding 'Windows Tax' via Cheaper Laptops with Preinstalled Linux

    45 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  2. Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software

    45 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  3. Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding

    44 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  4. Elon Musk Just Doesn't Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks

    44 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  5. Functional Programming Lessons Conclusion

    44 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  6. US tech tariff exemption may only be temporary, says Lutnick

    44 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  7. UniK3D: Universal Camera Monocular 3D Estimation

    44 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  8. New study of birds shows citizen science can be trusted

    44 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  9. ICE Agents Realize They Arrested Wrong Teen, Say 'Take Him Anyway'

    44 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  10. EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears

    44 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  11. Growing a Language [pdf] (1998)

    44 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  12. Mastodon Exit Interview

    44 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  13. Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands

    44 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  14. The Llama 4 Herd

    44 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  15. Ask HN: Why is uptalk intonation so prevalent in ChatGPT voices?

    44 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  16. YC founder points out that jobs exist outside of working for police state

    44 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  17. Bonobos' calls may be the closest thing to animal language we've seen

    44 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  18. The Colors of Her Coat

    44 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  19. Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones

    44 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  20. A Real-Time Algorithm for Non-Convex Powered Descent Guidance [pdf]

    44 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  21. WebAssembly: How to Allocate Your Allocator

    44 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  22. Eccfrog512ck2: An Enhanced 512-Bit Weierstrass Elliptic Curve [pdf]

    44 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  23. FTC's 'Tech Censorship' Investigation Is Censoring Comments About 'Censorship'

    44 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  24. The phony comforts of useful idiots

    43 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  25. Fifteen new giant radio galaxies discovered with ASKAP

    43 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  26. Cloudflare R2 Data Catalog: Managed Apache Iceberg tables with zero egress fees

    43 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  27. Men's Weird Collections Inspired the Modern Museum: Cabinets of Curiosities

    43 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  28. RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People

    43 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  29. „Fluoride reduces IQ" report needs to be retracted

    43 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  30. China just turned off us supplies of minerals critical for defense and cleantech

    43 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  31. Gaussian Splatting Alternative: WebGL Implementation of Nvidia's SVRaster

    43 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  32. Archeology of React (2016)

    43 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  33. Why Pale Blue Dot generates feelings of cosmic insignificance

    43 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  34. The Fifth Kind of Optimisation

    43 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  35. Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte

    43 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  36. BS 1363 British Plugs and Sockets

    43 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  37. AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%

    43 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  38. Erica Synths DIY Eurorack Modules

    43 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  39. Erlang Solutions' Blog round-up

    42 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  40. RNG and Cosine in Nix

    42 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  41. Meta's 'Digital Companions' Will Talk Sex with Users–Even Children

    42 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  42. Like to play alone? Ubisoft is still watching you

    42 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  43. Scientists pioneer chemical process to repurpose rubber waste

    42 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  44. Bethesda announces remastered version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

    42 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  45. Woman who tricked her way into men-only Magic Circle allowed in

    42 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  46. The movie that's different every time you watch it

    42 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  47. The AI skeptic's guide to AI collaboration

    42 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  48. Show HN: I built Lovable for text bots and mini apps

    42 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  49. The Mystery of ICE's Unidentifiable Arrests

    42 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  50. OpenAI would buy Google's Chrome, exec testifies at trial

    42 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  51. Major breakthroughs in UK munitions production

    42 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  52. The Curious Case of Jupiter Ace

    42 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  53. Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout

    42 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  54. EU member states agree first wave of retaliatory tariffs

    42 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  55. Ref Butts and Slam Dunks: What It's Like Photographing an NBA Game

    42 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  56. The tools I love are made by awful people

    42 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  57. Intel admits what we all knew: no one is buying AI PCs

    42 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  58. OpenAI in Talks to Buy Windsurf for About $3B

    42 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  59. Move fast, break things: A review of Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

    42 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  60. Food fermentation in space: Opportunities and challenges

    41 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  61. US revokes all South Sudan visas over failure to repatriate citizens

    41 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  62. Dissecting a British wartime night vision tank periscope [video]

    41 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  63. Amazon Submits Bid for TikTok with US Sale Deadline Nearing

    41 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  64. UN says scam call centers are epidemic and expanding globally

    41 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  65. Uber raises in-office requirement to 3 days, claws back remote workers

    41 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  66. EU's von der Leyen invites scientists, researchers to make Europe their home

    41 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  67. Tesla (TSLA) announces 336,681 deliveries, far worse than expected

    41 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  68. Amazon Wants to Be a Satellite-Internet Powerhouse. It Has a Long Way to Go

    41 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  69. Doge Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations

    41 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  70. My $6k Advance as a Self-Published Technical Author

    41 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  71. Mississippi libraries ordered to delete research in response to state laws

    41 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  72. Gold Is So Popular It's Making People Nervous

    41 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  73. Tesla settles with worker who claimed employees told "welcome to the plantation"

    41 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  74. Should We Respect LLMs? A Study on Influence of Prompt Politeness on Performance

    41 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  75. Kindle as a High-Contrast GPS

    41 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  76. YIMBYism as Industrial Policy

    41 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  77. New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120k people out of poverty

    41 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  78. Arbitrage and equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 economy (2012)

    41 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  79. Parcom: CL Parser Combinators

    41 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  80. Is Chrome Even a Sellable Asset?

    41 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  81. Regime Change in the West

    41 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  82. What can we take away from the ‘stochastic parrot’ saga?

    41 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  83. Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

    41 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  84. Elon Musk is wrong about GDP

    40 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  85. Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down

    40 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  86. Why I Blog and How I Automate it (2023)

    40 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  87. Show HN: Autarkie – Instant grammar fuzzing using Rust macros

    40 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  88. "It's not that bad" they told me – Coreboot

    40 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  89. AI Ambivalence

    40 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  90. A Small Violin Part Highlights Bigger Problems for the Global Economy

    40 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  91. Why training AI can't be IP theft

    40 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  92. Launch HN: Jasmine (YC S22) – Automating REC compliance and payouts for solar

    40 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  93. You Don't Have Time Not to Test

    40 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  94. EU says it will enforce digital rules irrespective of CEO and location

    40 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  95. Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard using Estuary and Tinybird

    40 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  96. Unlocking Sudoku's Secrets

    40 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  97. A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

    40 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  98. Using physics simulations to find targeting strategies in tenpin bowling

    40 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  99. We Chose Tauri over Electron for Our Performance-Critical Desktop App

    40 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  100. Russian Propaganda Campaign Targets France with AI-Fabricated Scandals

    40 points • comment • apr 17, 2025