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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants' Social Media

    13 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  2. UK creating 'murder prediction' tool to identify people most likely to kill

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  3. Google Chrome 136 automatically upgrades your accounts to use passkeys

    13 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  4. How to Flatpack Programs [video]

    13 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  5. Trump only simulates madness [Stock Insider Trading]

    13 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  7. Show HN: Owl, a Spaced Repetition App

    13 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  8. Starlink competition is ramping up in Ukraine

    13 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  9. Why California's dangerous drivers get to keep their licenses

    13 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  10. Russian spy infiltrates ASML and NXP to steal data to build 28nm-capable fabs

    13 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  11. Solve the hCaptcha challenge with multimodal large language model

    13 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  12. Old Nerds, New Nerds

    13 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  13. Oregon House passes bill to criminalize sharing AI-generated fake nude photos

    13 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  15. How Tesla Is Replacing the Age-Old Can Bus

    13 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  16. I can smell when people have cancer

    13 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  17. Welcome to the Era of Experience - Richard Sutton [pdf]

    13 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  18. In restaurants, We need a new way to signal that we're ready to pay

    13 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  19. I knew powerful men would burn the world – didn't think they'd be such losers

    13 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  20. Millions of Apple Airplay-Enabled Devices Can Be Hacked via Wi-Fi

    13 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  21. Musk's DOGE probed by top watchdog after poking around Uncle Sam's systems

    13 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  22. Meta's Monopoly Made It a Fair-Weather Friend

    13 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  23. Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term 'Dev Mode'

    13 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  24. Inner Loop Agents

    13 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  25. Coffee Too Weak? Try This

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  26. Go back to the Grid in TRON: Ares trailer

    13 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  27. Privacy folks – what's your take on using LLMs at work?

    13 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  28. Owner fills restaurant with fresh water to beat Kentucky flooding

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  30. New York state budget to include school cellphone ban

    13 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  31. Flyover Country: What a future where iPhones are made in America would look like

    13 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  32. Japan's big bet on stem-cell therapies might soon pay off

    13 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  34. Ontario schools begin suspending students who aren't fully vaccinated

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  35. Trump Reportedly to Do Away IRS Direct File Program for No Discernible Reason

    13 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  36. A slow guide to confronting doom

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  37. Microsoft Prepares for New Round of Layoffs in May 2025

    13 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  38. Whistleblower: Doge Siphoned NLRB Case Data

    13 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  41. Show HN: Document agent example that can parse and chat over unstructured data

    13 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  42. IBM Axes "Outdated" DEI Policies [video]

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  43. Show HN: Wiredoor – Securely expose private services

    13 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  44. Four private astronauts launch on first human mission to fly over the poles

    13 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  46. The coolest code I've ever written – Bill Gates

    13 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  47. U.S. military aims to turn island bird refuge into SpaceX rocket site

    13 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  48. A New Proof Smooths Out the Math of Melting

    13 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  49. China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative – GPMI up to 192 Gbps, 480W

    13 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  50. How Gen Z Became the Most Gullible Generation

    13 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  51. 5 years on: Brexit's affects on scientists who had moved to the UK from Europe

    13 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  53. When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe

    13 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  54. Ask HN: Why don't we have a functional DSL for data+embedding+API pipelines?

    13 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  55. Show HN: Sidekick, an open source Claude Code alternative

    13 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  56. PowerToys Command Palette Utility

    13 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  57. Ofcom announces new rules for tech firms to keep children safe online

    13 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  58. Self-Hosted RSS with FreshRSS, Docker, and Tailscale

    13 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  60. Molecular clock: bacteria used oxygen long before widespread photosynthesis

    13 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  61. Bundeswehr to remove all Microsoft software from its systems

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  62. 7 Hour Introduction to Drawing for Programmers and Other Total Beginners [video]

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  63. Show HN: I open-sourced a tool to compare Google Play apps side-by-side

    13 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  64. Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights

    13 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  67. Qwen3 0.6B now on HuggingFace (quantized)

    13 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  68. Decomposing Transactional Systems

    13 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  69. The Nvidia DGX Spark Is a Tiny 128GB AI Mini PC Made for Scale-Out Clustering

    13 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  70. Show HN: Elfconv – Linux Apps to High-Performance WASM Binary Translator

    13 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  72. Show HN: Temp.pw

    13 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  73. Windows "inetpub" security fix can be abused to block future updates

    13 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  74. PDP-11/Hack de luxe

    13 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  75. Gnirehtet provides reverse tethering for Android

    13 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  77. Xkcd: Notifications

    13 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  78. The Valley of My Dreams: Why Silicon Valley Left Boston's Route 128 in the Dust (2009)

    13 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  79. OCC Notifies Congress of Incident Involving Email System

    13 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  80. Microsoft turns 50: A look back at everything from the Altair to the Zune

    13 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  82. Tim Sweeney: "NO FEES on web transactions. Game over for the Apple Tax"

    13 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  83. Trump is setting us up for a cyber catastrophe

    13 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  84. Ask HN: Can vibe coding competitions be challenging and fair?

    13 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  85. PlanetMath

    13 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  86. Made-in-USA Wheelbarrows Are Now Made in China

    13 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  87. Expo EAS Local Build Docker Image

    13 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  88. Power Is Largely Restored in Spain After Widespread Outage

    13 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  89. Why does every site's search now insist on giving me what I don't search for?

    13 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  90. How the Merchants of Ifriqiya Coded Commerce Before Silicon

    13 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  92. I Do Not Recommend Proton Mail

    13 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  94. Silicon Valley got Trump completely wrong

    13 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

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

    13 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  96. Mushroom A.stiptica Bitter Compounds and Human Taste Receptor Activation

    13 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  97. Show HN: I turned GitHub contributions into a retro battle game

    13 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  98. The Populist Right Must Own Tariffs

    13 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

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

    12 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

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

    12 points • comment • apr 06, 2025