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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. The blissful Zen of a good side project

    548 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  2. Sycophancy in GPT-4o

    541 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  3. The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference engine

    541 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  4. OpenAI o3 and o4-mini

    537 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  5. Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers

    533 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  6. Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself

    528 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  7. Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash

    528 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  8. Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over

    522 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  9. TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale

    520 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  10. Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code

    516 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  11. Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left

    509 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  12. Cloth

    509 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  13. Google will let companies run Gemini models in their own data centers

    506 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  14. Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014)

    506 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  15. OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

    506 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  16. Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

    505 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  17. Why I don't discuss politics with friends

    505 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  18. TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days

    504 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  19. The April Fools joke that might have got me fired

    502 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  20. Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte

    499 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  21. The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting

    498 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  22. Potatoes in the Mail

    498 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  23. Everything wrong with MCP

    497 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  24. Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?

    496 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  25. Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101

    496 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  26. How a single line of code could brick your iPhone

    494 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  27. The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state

    493 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  28. Bored of It

    492 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  29. Live Map of the London Underground

    486 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  30. Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

    481 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  31. OpenAI releases image generation in the API

    481 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  32. Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive

    480 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  33. Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines

    479 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  34. Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

    478 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  35. Gumroad’s source is available

    472 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  36. Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional

    471 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  37. Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model

    471 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  38. 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python

    469 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  39. A university president makes a case against cowardice

    459 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  40. How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment

    458 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  41. How the U.S. became a science superpower

    457 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  42. Things Zig comptime won't do

    454 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  43. Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news

    451 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  44. Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet

    451 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  45. CVE Foundation

    448 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  46. Show HN: I made a web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio

    447 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  47. Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA

    446 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  48. Hacker News Hug of Deaf

    446 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  49. The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"

    444 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  50. You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News

    443 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  51. Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law

    441 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  52. Full Text Search of US Court records

    440 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  53. Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

    439 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  54. Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline

    439 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  55. Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference

    439 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  56. The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI

    436 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  57. O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data

    436 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  58. The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)

    434 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  59. No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation

    434 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  60. Photographs of 19th Century Japan

    433 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  61. Obituary for Cyc

    433 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  62. Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)

    433 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  63. U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter

    432 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  64. Why F#?

    432 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  65. Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms

    432 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  66. Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"

    432 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  67. An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips

    429 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  68. Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS

    426 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  69. Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court

    425 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  70. Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices

    424 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  71. 12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications

    422 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  72. Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea

    422 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  73. Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility

    421 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  74. Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365

    420 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  75. Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model

    417 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  76. An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

    417 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  77. Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers

    415 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  78. FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices

    415 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  79. BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of

    414 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  80. On loyalty to your employer (2018)

    410 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  81. Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail

    407 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  82. PostgreSQL Full-Text Search: Fast When Done Right (Debunking the Slow Myth)

    406 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  83. Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float

    406 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  84. You might not need WebSockets

    404 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  85. Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

    404 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  86. Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

    404 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  87. Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

    404 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  88. Reasoning models don't always say what they think

    402 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  89. The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2

    402 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  90. PEP 750 – Template Strings

    400 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  91. Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI

    399 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  92. Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

    398 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  93. Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers

    397 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  94. “Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System

    395 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  95. Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM

    394 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  96. I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time

    389 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  97. How University Students Use Claude

    388 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  98. Overengineered Anchor Links

    387 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  99. Glubux's Powerwall (2016)

    386 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  100. DeepSeek-Prover-V2

    386 points • comment • apr 30, 2025