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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. Doge 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  2. Cyber Forensic Expert in 2k Cases Faces FBI Probe

    13 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  3. Trump only simulates madness [Stock Insider Trading]

    13 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  4. Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship

    13 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  5. 7 Hour Introduction to Drawing for Programmers and Other Total Beginners [video]

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  6. Stack Overflow Is Down

    13 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  7. Canadian government freezes bank account of People's Party of Canada candidate

    13 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  8. Ask HN: How to Use "Deep Research"?

    13 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  9. Coffee Too Weak? Try This

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  10. Brain drain? Trump cutbacks force scientists to seek jobs in Europe

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  11. 4:3 Intermittent fasting shows greater weight loss than caloric restriction

    13 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  12. OCC Notifies Congress of Incident Involving Email System

    13 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  13. Longest human transplant of pig kidney suddenly stops working after 4 months

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  14. Microsoft workers fired after 50th anniversary protest over Israel contract

    13 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  15. A slow guide to confronting doom

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  16. Forward Email: Technical Whitepaper [pdf]

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  17. The new doping trick – and why scientists fear athletes are already using it

    13 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  18. Astrophotographers Help Scientists Solve Mystery of 'Sprite Fireworks'

    13 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  19. A New Proof Smooths Out the Math of Melting

    13 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  20. Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming

    13 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  21. Betty Webb never spoke about her work, until she had to

    13 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  22. Ask HN: Could tariffs be used as a reverse pump and dump?

    13 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  23. Exptv.org is a 24/7 curated, montage of vintage and obscure media

    13 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  24. Tesla's Plummeting Stock Just Hit a Level That Lutnick Said Would 'Never' Happen

    13 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  25. PDP-11/Hack de luxe

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  26. Top US Scientists Write Open Letter to the American People

    13 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  27. US tells European companies to comply with Donald Trump's anti-diversity order

    13 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  28. US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon thinks AI is "A One" (steak sauce)

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  29. Show HN: Wasp – the first full-stack framework powered by an LLM

    13 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  30. Decomposing Transactional Systems

    13 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  31. Shopify: Staffers to prove jobs can't be done by AI before asking for headcount

    13 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  32. 5 years on: Brexit's affects on scientists who had moved to the UK from Europe

    13 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  33. Trump unleashes 10% global tariffs, with higher reciprocal rates

    13 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  34. I can smell when people have cancer

    13 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  35. Trump Administration Freezes $1B for Cornell and $790M for Northwestern

    12 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  36. The rise of end times fascism

    12 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  37. Trump exempts smartphones and computers from new tariffs

    12 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  38. No code is dead. Long live vibe coding

    12 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  39. US Secretary of Education Referred to AI as a One

    12 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  40. Rauthy: OpenID Connect Single Sign-On Identity and Access Management

    12 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  41. Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June 5 at $449.99

    12 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  42. Universal photonic artificial intelligence acceleration

    12 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  43. Alberta introduces involuntary drug treatment act, first of its kind in Canada

    12 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  44. EGPU: Extending eBPF Programmability and Observability to GPUs

    12 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  45. Some features that every JavaScript developer should know in 2025

    12 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  46. MooseAgent: A LLM Based Multi-Agent Framework for Automating Moose Simulation

    12 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  47. Show HN: Calculation Hub: Every Calculation Tool You'll Ever Need

    12 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  48. Battle of Takur Ghar Controversy Continues

    12 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  49. General Strike

    12 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  50. UK founders grow frustrated over dearth of funding: 'problem is getting worse'

    12 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  51. Christine Lagarde wants EU to ditch Visa, Mastercard for own platform

    12 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  52. Japanese Typography Essentials: Japanese Type Between Japanese and Latin

    12 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  53. Brushing Up on Hardware Hacking – Reverse Engineering Electric Toothbrushes

    12 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  54. Show HN: Repo Roast – a real-time feed of the funniest comments on GitHub

    12 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  55. Trump's FCC chair threatens Comcast, demands changes to NBC news coverage

    12 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  56. The value of a dedicated data science approach in HR

    12 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  57. Amid NOAA Cuts, Scientists Warn of Weather and Climate Risks

    12 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  58. Introduction to Scientific Visualization with Blender

    12 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  59. In Your Face: The Brutal Aesthetics of MAGA

    12 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  60. We don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfold

    12 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  61. Doge 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

    12 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  62. Aircraft supplier Howmet may halt orders if hit by Trump tariffs, letter says

    12 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  63. North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500

    12 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  64. Boron-Based Flame Retardants: Enabling Everyday Safety

    12 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  65. The Precise Language of Good Management

    12 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  66. US auto tariffs apply to all computers and hard disks

    12 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  67. Google Is Winning on Every AI Front

    12 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  68. ICE Air: Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster "Only a Matter of Time"

    12 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  69. Are FreeBSD Jails a Containers?

    12 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  70. Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89

    12 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  71. I got rid of SMS loan spammers. (or "how I accidentally wrote sci-fi copypasta"

    12 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  72. Pregnant Women Are Losing Access to Care, Formula and Shelter

    12 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  73. Tenzing

    12 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  74. Doge Moves from Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records

    12 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  75. Java is dying and it paid off my mortgage

    12 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  76. Get on the Bus: Data Busses Used in Macs, 1984 to 2000 – Low End Mac

    12 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  77. New Color Is So Rare That Only Five People Have Seen It

    12 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  78. Remote Work's Long-Term Effects: Why Dell and Amazon Are Bringing Employees Back

    12 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  79. Emergency order to increase logging in California forests

    12 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  80. 65537-gon

    12 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  81. AWS S3 sync does not sync all the files

    12 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  82. Why are two TX senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?

    12 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  83. Thundermail and Thunderbird Pro Services

    12 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  84. A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

    12 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  85. Show HN: LiftmyCV – AI Job Search Agent and Auto-Apply Tool

    12 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  86. The Case for WebComponents with Lit

    12 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  87. MCP in production: the good, the bad and the ugly

    12 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  88. Sound therapy effectively reduces motion sickness by stimulating inner ear

    11 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  89. Leaked messages expose trade secrets of prolific Black Basta ransomware group

    11 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  90. China orders carriers to suspend Boeing jet deliveries amid trade war

    11 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  91. The McMurtry Spéirling is the first car in the world to DRIVE UPSIDE DOWN

    11 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  92. Rewriting my site in vanilla web

    11 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  93. Anti-Poverty Groups ID Property Taxes as Culprit in Affordable Housing Shortage

    11 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  94. Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and lengthen lives

    11 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  95. Two tipping points for officially becoming a dictatorship could occur this week

    11 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  96. Tesla loses another top talent: its long-time head of software

    11 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  97. CodeScientist: Automated scientific discovery system for code-based experiments

    11 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  98. Spoofing a Pokemon Trade

    11 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  99. FBI Denver Warns of Online File Converter Scam

    11 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  100. N. Korean smartphones add screenshot function with notable exceptions

    11 points • comment • apr 15, 2025