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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent

    303 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  2. Anubis Works

    302 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  3. 20 years of Git

    301 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  4. I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs

    301 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  5. A single line of code cost $8000

    299 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  6. First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb

    297 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  7. The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly

    296 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  8. Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database

    295 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  9. Icônes

    294 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  10. .localhost Domains

    293 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  11. Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay

    292 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  12. Performance optimization is hard because it's fundamentally a brute-force task

    292 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  13. Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other

    291 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  14. Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us

    290 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  15. DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model

    289 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  16. Big Book of R

    288 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  17. Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf, Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals

    287 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  18. Show HN: Remote-Controlled IKEA Deathstar Lamp

    287 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  19. The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems

    286 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  20. Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies

    286 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  21. DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

    285 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  22. Tiny-LLM – a course of serving LLM on Apple Silicon for systems engineers

    285 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  23. The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition

    284 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  24. Manufactured consensus on x.com

    284 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  25. I just want to code (2023)

    282 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  26. NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy

    282 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  27. The True Size Of

    281 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  28. Boxie – an always offline audio player for my 3 year old

    281 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  29. What Is Entropy?

    280 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  30. America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside

    280 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  31. Firebase Studio

    279 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  32. Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders

    279 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  33. Busy Bar

    278 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  34. Whenever: Typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python

    278 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  35. MinC Is Not Cygwin

    278 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  36. Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim

    277 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  37. Berkeley Humanoid Lite – Open-source robot

    277 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  38. Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive

    277 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  39. Why I Program in Lisp

    277 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  40. Read the Obits

    277 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  41. Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell

    277 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  42. Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?

    275 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  43. GCC 15.1

    275 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  44. We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]

    274 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  45. They made computers behave like annoying salesmen

    274 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  46. Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports

    274 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  47. Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy

    274 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  48. Why Fennel?

    273 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  49. Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto

    273 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  50. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)

    273 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  51. Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

    273 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  52. How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

    272 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  53. US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job

    271 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  54. Reverse geocoding is hard

    271 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  55. Kezurou-Kai #39

    268 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  56. The case against conversational interfaces

    268 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  57. After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work

    267 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  58. Did 5G kill the IMSI catcher?

    267 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  59. Packing Input Frame Context in Next-Frame Prediction Models for Video Generation

    267 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  60. AI assisted search-based research works now

    266 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  61. HDR‑Infused Emoji

    266 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  62. Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015)

    266 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  63. My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules

    266 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  64. Legendary Bose Magic Carpet Suspension Is Finally Going Global

    265 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  65. Google to embrace MCP

    264 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  66. Reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies

    263 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  67. SQLite File Format Viewer

    262 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  68. I should have loved biology too

    261 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  69. Presentation Slides with Markdown

    260 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  70. Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge

    259 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  71. Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua

    259 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  72. Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after

    259 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  73. The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer

    259 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  74. Emulating an iPhone in QEMU

    258 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  75. How to program a text adventure in C

    258 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  76. Restructuring Announcement

    256 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  77. Usability Improvements in GCC 15

    256 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  78. Netflix’s Media Production Suite

    255 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  79. Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss

    254 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  80. One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm

    253 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  81. Clolog

    253 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  82. Show HN: Node.js video tutorials where you can edit and run the code

    253 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  83. Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)

    253 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  84. GPD Pocket 4 Speaker DSP: Configuring PipeWire so laptop speakers sound better

    253 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  85. Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient

    252 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  86. JSX over the Wire

    251 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  87. Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant

    251 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  88. The coming knowledge-work supply-chain crisis

    250 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  89. Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics

    250 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  90. Open-source interactive C tutorial in the browser

    250 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  91. Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world

    250 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  92. The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters

    250 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  93. The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst

    249 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  94. Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?

    249 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  95. Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace

    249 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  96. Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work

    249 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  97. Shardines: SQLite3 Database-per-Tenant with ActiveRecord

    248 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  98. World Emulation via Neural Network

    248 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  99. You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown

    248 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  100. OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours

    246 points • comment • apr 24, 2025