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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks

    246 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  2. Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch

    245 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  3. Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++

    245 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  4. What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch?

    245 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  5. Rust to C compiler – 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms

    245 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  6. Shared DNA in Music

    244 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  7. Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine

    244 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  8. DeepMind program finds diamonds in Minecraft without being taught

    243 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  9. Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director

    243 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  10. Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs (2024)

    242 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  11. Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling

    242 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  12. Colossus for Rapid Storage

    242 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  13. Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production

    242 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  14. Mobygratis – Free Moby music to empower your creative projects

    242 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  15. Sleep is essential – researchers are trying to work out why

    242 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  16. Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day

    240 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  17. Dave Täht has died

    240 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  18. How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design

    240 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  19. Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction

    239 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  20. Show HN: Goldbach Conjecture up to 4*10^18+7*10^13

    239 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  21. Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting

    239 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  22. Show HN: JuryNow – Get an anonymous instant verdict from 12 real people

    238 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  23. Don't force your kids to do math

    238 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  24. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)

    237 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  25. Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

    236 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  26. Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals

    236 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  27. I bought a Mac

    236 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  28. Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io

    236 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  29. U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent

    236 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  30. Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole

    236 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  31. Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres

    235 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  32. How to bike across the country

    235 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  33. Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks

    234 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  34. Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlock

    233 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  35. DOJ will no longer prosecute cryptocurrency fraud

    233 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  36. Congress passes Take It Down act despite major flaws

    231 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  37. Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs (2021)

    230 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  38. Secret Deals, Foreign Investments: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm

    229 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  39. The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world

    229 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  40. Chroma: Ubisoft's internal tool used to simulate color-blindness

    229 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  41. New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot, Cursor: Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents

    229 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  42. American Disruption

    229 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  43. CSS Hell

    228 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  44. Basic Income Pilot Project: Study results

    228 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  45. Circuit breaker triggered in Japan for stock futures trading

    227 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  46. Linux Kernel Exploitation: Attack of the Vsock

    227 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  47. AI as Normal Technology

    227 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  48. Where does air pollution come from?

    226 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  49. How Silica Gel Took Over the World

    225 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  50. Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf?

    225 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  51. Damn Vulnerable MCP Server

    225 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  52. Hacking the Postgres wire protocol

    225 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  53. Hypertext TV

    224 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  54. Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market

    224 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  55. Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS

    224 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  56. Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures

    222 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  57. Zig's new LinkedList API (it's time to learn fieldParentPtr)

    222 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  58. Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without All the Bullshit (2015)

    221 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  59. Making a smart bike dumb so it works again

    220 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  60. Launch HN: mrge.io (YC X25) – Cursor for code review

    220 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  61. Data centers contain 90% crap data

    220 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  62. A 32-bit processor made with an atomically thin semiconductor

    220 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  63. arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud

    219 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  64. Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?

    219 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  65. Why is there a “small house” in IBM's Code page 437?

    219 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  66. How encryption for Cinema Movies works

    218 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  67. This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

    218 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  68. Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have been greatly exaggerated

    217 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  69. A Map of British Dialects (2023)

    217 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  70. Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering

    216 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  71. First hormone-free male birth control pill enters human trials

    216 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  72. Parallel ./configure

    216 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  73. Ssl.com: DCV bypass and issue fake certificates for any MX hostname

    215 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  74. I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil (2015)

    215 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  75. Learning to Program with Haiku

    215 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  76. How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers

    214 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  77. A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed

    214 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  78. Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft

    213 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  79. What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?

    213 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  80. My sourdough starter has twins

    212 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  81. How I use Kate editor

    212 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  82. Lead is still bad for your brain

    212 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  83. WebRTC for the Curious

    212 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  84. AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive

    212 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  85. JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

    211 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  86. Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case

    211 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  87. Mario Vargas Llosa has died

    211 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  88. 100 Years to Solve an Integral (2020)

    211 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  89. Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language

    209 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  90. Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon

    209 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  91. YAML: The Norway Problem (2022)

    208 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  92. The Bitter Prediction

    207 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  93. LLMs can see and hear without any training

    207 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  94. How Nintendo bled Atari games to death

    206 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  95. A unique sound alleviates motion sickness

    206 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  96. Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption Under New Rules

    205 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  97. CubeCL: GPU Kernels in Rust for CUDA, ROCm, and WGPU

    205 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  98. Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese?

    204 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  99. Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure

    204 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  100. Tomb Engine

    203 points • comment • apr 14, 2025