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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. Passing planes and other whoosh sounds

    203 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  2. Tomb Engine

    203 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  3. Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp

    203 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  4. Annotated Unix Magic Poster

    203 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  5. Bamba: An open-source LLM that crosses a transformer with an SSM

    202 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  6. Metagenomics test saves woman's sight after mystery infection

    202 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  7. IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

    202 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  8. ZFS: Apple's new filesystem that wasn't (2016)

    201 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  9. How Google built its Gemini robotics models

    200 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  10. Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play

    200 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  11. A Vision for WebAssembly Support in Swift

    200 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  12. Palestinian activist arrested by ICE while expecting U.S. citizenship interview

    199 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  13. Tariff: A Python package that imposes tariffs on Python imports

    199 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  14. Tunarr: Create and configure live TV channels from media on your servers

    199 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  15. The Decline of the U.S. Machine-Tool Industry and Prospects for Recovery (1994)

    199 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  16. Pope Francis has died

    199 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  17. Running Clojure in WASM with GraalVM

    198 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  18. Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots

    197 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  19. How Thai authorities use online doxxing to suppress dissent

    197 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  20. European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

    195 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  21. Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model

    195 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  22. First Successful Lightning Triggering and Guiding Using a Drone

    195 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  23. Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS

    195 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  24. Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point

    195 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  25. The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it

    194 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  26. Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of)

    194 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  27. Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Erlang/OTP SSH

    192 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  28. Less Slow C++

    192 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  29. Show HN: Lemon Slice Live – Have a video call with a transformer model

    192 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  30. Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'

    192 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  31. Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game

    192 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  32. AMD Publishes Open-Source Driver for GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In the Roadmap"

    192 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  33. Show HN: Sim Studio – Open-Source Agent Workflow GUI

    191 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  34. How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)

    190 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  35. What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested

    190 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  36. Show HN: Morphik – Open-source RAG that understands PDF images, runs locally

    190 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  37. TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant

    190 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  38. We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15B Miles Away [video]

    189 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  39. Kerosene did not save the sperm whale (2024)

    188 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  40. Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans

    188 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  41. Find the Odd Disk

    188 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  42. Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing capabilities

    187 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  43. ArkType: Ergonomic TS validator 100x faster than Zod

    187 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  44. Implementing DeepSeek R1's GRPO algorithm from scratch

    187 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  45. The Dire Wolf Is Back

    187 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  46. An image of the Australian desert illuminates satellite pollution

    187 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  47. Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct

    186 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  48. Encryption Is Not a Crime

    185 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  49. Demystifying the (Shebang): Kernel Adventures

    185 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  50. Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension

    185 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  51. 101 BASIC Computer Games

    185 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  52. Joining Sun Microsystems – 40 years ago (2022)

    185 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  53. OpenVertebrate Presents a Database of 13K 3D Scans of Specimens

    184 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  54. Linux in Excel

    184 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  55. Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted

    184 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  56. Show HN: Formalizing Principia Mathematica using Lean

    183 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  57. Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

    183 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  58. Unauthorized experiment on r/changemyview involving AI-generated comments

    183 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  59. Zhaoxin's KX-7000

    183 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  60. Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)

    182 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  61. The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers

    182 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  62. Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece

    181 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  63. Cheating the Reaper in Go

    181 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  64. Creating your own federated microblog

    181 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  65. Wikipedia: Database Download

    181 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  66. PhD Timeline

    181 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  67. Elliptical Python Programming

    180 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  68. Show HN: memEx, a personal knowledge base inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode

    180 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  69. Math 13 – An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics [pdf]

    179 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  70. Libogc (Wii homebrew library) discovered to contain code stolen from RTEMS

    179 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  71. Native frame transposition coming to Emacs 31

    179 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  72. Hardening the Firefox Front End with Content Security Policies

    179 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  73. Antiviral chewing gum to reduce influenza and herpes simplex virus transmission

    178 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  74. Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale

    178 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  75. Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo

    178 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  76. The Future of MCPs

    178 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  77. Cyberpunk 1958: The Early Days of the Polish IT Industry

    178 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  78. Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security

    178 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  79. The Importance of Fact-Checking

    178 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  80. JavaScript Views, the Hard Way – A Pattern for Writing UI

    178 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  81. Federal cuts disrupt repairs to iconic U.S. trails

    176 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  82. The Leaderboard Illusion

    176 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  83. Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that are hiring for remote positions

    176 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  84. Podman Quadlets with Podman Desktop

    176 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  85. Mike Lindell's lawyers used AI to write brief–judge finds nearly 30 mistakes

    176 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  86. π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization

    175 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  87. I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)

    175 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  88. The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great

    175 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  89. Ping, You've Got Whale: AI detection system alerts ships of whales in their path

    175 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  90. Show HN: Magnitude – open-source, AI-native test framework for web apps

    174 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  91. How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the science

    174 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  92. The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus'

    174 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  93. New material gives copper superalloy-like strength

    174 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  94. Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

    173 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  95. Crows can recognize geometric regularity

    173 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  96. Self-Hosting like it's 2025

    173 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  97. National Airspace System Status

    173 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  98. What It Takes to Defend a Cybersecurity Company from Today's Adversaries

    172 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  99. Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected

    172 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  100. Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan

    172 points • comment • apr 01, 2025