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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. Ask HN: Are Squarespace and Wix sites worth it?

    6 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  2. Advertising Banned on All Sites Blocked in Russia Starting September

    6 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  3. Making OCaml Safe for Performance Engineering [video]

    6 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  4. Show HN: Aperture -Flip your phone case for a less distracting minimal interface

    6 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  5. America's Most Shocking Economic Defeat in 40 Years

    6 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  6. Welcome to the Semantic Apocalypse

    6 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  7. Dow futures tumble 1,100 points on fear Trump’s tariffs will spark trade war

    6 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  8. Oracle privately confirms Cloud breach to customers

    6 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  9. Apple's App Store used to host free VPN apps with ties to China military

    6 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  10. Taco Bell parent Yum Brands partners with Nvidia to speed up use of AI

    5 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  11. Discover European alternatives to popular SaaS

    5 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  12. Jumping Spiders Can Think Ahead, Plan Detours (2016)

    5 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  13. Parrots and humans share a brain mechanism for speech

    5 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  14. GitSummarize – Generate living documentation from any GitHub repo

    5 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  15. Chromophobia

    5 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  16. LightkeeperRM: Lightweight drop-in replacement for maintaining servers over SSH

    5 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  17. American shakedown: Police won't charge you, but they'll grab your money

    5 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  18. Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and lengthen lives

    5 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  19. Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans

    5 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  20. GitHub found 39M secret leaks in 2024. Here's what we're doing to help

    5 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  21. To hit one of your biggest military bases with tariffs

    5 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  22. Call for testing: OpenSSH 10.0 (DSA support removed)

    5 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  23. RC – the Plan 9 Shell (1990) [pdf]

    5 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  24. Mass layoffs hit workers at HHS: CDC, NIH, FDA

    5 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  25. Princeton Says Trump Administration Is Halting Research Grant Funding

    5 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  26. Compiling C to PowerPoint [video]

    5 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  27. The Dose Makes the Poison

    5 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  28. Easter Eggs Are So Expensive Americans Are Dyeing Potatoes

    5 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  29. RIP Val Kilmer: Celebrating cult classic Real Genius is now a moral imperative

    5 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  30. Did an LLM help write Trump's trade plan?

    5 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  31. What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

    5 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  32. Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows

    5 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  33. Thoughts on ISAs (income sharing agreements)

    5 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  34. RFK Jr.'s bloodbath at HHS: Blowback grows as losses become clearer

    5 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  35. The Nintendo Switch 2 arrives on June 5th for $449.99

    4 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  36. How Async/Await Works in C# (2023)

    4 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  37. April Cools Club

    4 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  38. Looking under the hood at the brain's language system

    4 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  39. European Commission pushes for encryption 'backdoors'

    4 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  40. DOGE Mandates Power Tool Manufacturers Use Single Battery Platform

    4 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  41. Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O'Reilly books

    4 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  42. Gitlab Bluesky Tips

    4 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  43. Neighborhood environmental exposures and incidence of ADHD

    4 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  44. Show HN: Fuck Lightroom and Fuck Adobe: How Adobe Is Systematically Predatory

    4 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  45. The Doge Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums

    4 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  46. A demanding work culture could be undermining efforts to raise birth rates

    4 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  47. Tips for Travelers Entering the U.S. Now: Check Your Visa, Turn Off Your Phone

    4 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  48. Show HN: VaporVibe – auto-generate video demos for vibe-coded projects

    4 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  49. Lowering bad cholesterol may cut risk of dementia by 26%, study suggests

    4 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  50. Proof or Bluff? Evaluating LLMs on 2025 USA Math Olympiad

    4 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  51. US markets' worst day since Covid pandemic: Apple and Nvidia lose combined $470B

    4 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  52. Countries apply lower tariffs on products by high-emitting "dirty" industries

    4 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  53. The NaNoWriMo organization is shutting down

    4 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  54. Why MCP Is Mostly Bullshit

    4 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  55. The Fourier Transform: A tutorial introduction

    4 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  56. Study: People select feedback to flatter others, except when they dislike them

    4 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  57. The Fifth Kind of Optimisation

    3 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  58. Fantastically Wrong: The Legendary Scientist Who Swore Our Planet Is Hollow

    3 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  59. Why Smartfood Popcorn Doesn't Hit Like It Used To

    3 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  60. Purple exists only in our brains

    3 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  61. With US absent, China steps in for earthquake-hit Myanmar

    3 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  62. Tell HN: Pocket (acquired by Moz) only works with FF now

    3 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  63. PayPal launches remote and local MCP servers

    3 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  64. Crimelords at Hunters International tell lackeys ransomware too 'risky'

    3 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  65. How generative AI is transforming developer workflows at Amazon

    3 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  66. Pink Skies

    3 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  67. What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing?

    3 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  68. AutoGDB: exploit a binary while sipping coffee

    3 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  69. The Demand Side of Democratic Backsliding

    3 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  70. YouTube Shorts Are Like Crack

    3 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  71. We Need to Rename ADHD (2021)

    3 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  72. Expect extra questions, take a burner phone: Lawyers weigh in on travel to US

    3 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  73. NASA cut $420M for climate science, moon modelling and more

    3 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  74. My Journey with Vibe Coding

    3 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  75. Global scam industry evolving at 'unprecedented scale' despite recent crackdown

    3 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  76. Best printer 2025: just buy a Brother laser printer, the winner is clear

    3 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  77. Porting is-odd NPM to OCaml using remelange compiler

    3 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  78. Addressing Burnout – Libera Chat

    3 points • comment • apr 01, 2025