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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015)

    106 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  2. PaperBench

    106 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  3. PiDP-1, or the rebirth of an old machine

    106 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  4. Non-US-based alternatives to popular services

    105 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  5. How to Recognize Woodpeckers by Their Drumming Sounds

    105 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  6. Writing C for Curl

    104 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  7. Analytic Combinatorics – A Worked Example

    104 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  8. Show HN: Zxc – Rust TLS proxy with tmux and Vim as UI, BurpSuite alternative

    104 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  9. Monte Carlo Crash Course: Sampling

    103 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  10. Cargo-mutants:zombie: Inject bugs and see if your tests catch them

    103 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  11. Neural Graffiti – Liquid Memory Layer for LLMs

    103 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  12. Modern 6502

    103 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  13. AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital

    102 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  14. Compute's Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Yrs, Will Focus on Retro Computing

    102 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  15. Simulated Economy Tutorial

    102 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  16. Federal Government's letter to Harvard demanding changes [pdf]

    102 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  17. Half the men in Seattle are never-married singles, census data shows

    102 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  18. Design System Options for Rails

    101 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  19. Show HN: Clawtype v2.1 – a one-hand chorded USB keyboard and mouse [video]

    101 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  20. The DDA Algorithm, explained interactively

    101 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  21. Cell Phone OPSEC for Border Crossings

    100 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  22. Llama 4 Now Live on Groq

    100 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  23. Designing a low-cost high-performance 10 MHz – 15 GHz vector network analyzer

    99 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  24. How AI is creating a rift at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG

    99 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  25. Show HN: Obelisk – a WASM-based deterministic workflow engine

    99 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  26. Major Flaws in 2025 Meta-Analysis on Fluoride and Children IQ Scores

    99 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  27. 3D Army Land Navigation Courses

    99 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  28. Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL

    98 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  29. Deno Under TinyKVM in Varnish

    98 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  30. Every picture from Venus' surface, ever (2021)

    98 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  31. Serving Vector Tiles, Fast

    98 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  32. NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University

    98 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  33. The Difference Between Municipal Fire Trucks and Airport Fire Trucks

    97 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  34. Notion Mail is out

    97 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  35. Show HN: Terminal dashboard that throttles my PC during peak electricity rates

    97 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  36. Docker Model Runner

    96 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  37. US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back

    96 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  38. Decomposing factorial of 300K as the product of 300K factors larger than 100K

    96 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  39. Doge Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress

    95 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  40. MeshCore, a new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios

    95 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  41. Cohere Launches Embed 4

    95 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  42. The Whimsical Investor

    95 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  43. Hackers strike Australia's largest pension funds in coordinated attacks

    94 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  44. Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch

    94 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  45. LLM Benchmark for 'Longform Creative Writing'

    94 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  46. Science, the Endless Frontier (1945) [pdf]

    93 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  47. Hasochism: The pleasure and pain of dependently typed Haskell programming [pdf] (2013)

    93 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  48. A recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans

    93 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  49. Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty

    93 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  50. 7k-year-old skeletons from the green Sahara reveal a mysterious human lineage

    93 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  51. NTATV: Bringing Windows NT (Windows XP, Windows 2003) to the Original Apple TV

    93 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  52. eInk Mode: Making web pages easier to read

    93 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  53. OpenAI Is a Systemic Risk to the Tech Industry

    93 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  54. Smallest Pacemaker Is the Size of a Rice Grain

    93 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  55. Charts.css

    92 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  56. Nvidia on NixOS WSL – Ollama up 24/7 on your gaming PC

    92 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  57. Head of NSA and Cybercommand Is Ousted

    92 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  58. Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks'

    91 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  59. Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous fragments

    91 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  60. That groan you hear is users' reaction to Recall going back into Windows

    90 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  61. What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test

    90 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  62. How Airbnb measures listing lifetime value

    90 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  63. Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans

    89 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  64. Our New AI Website Builder

    89 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  65. Dual Kickstart ROM Replacement for Amiga

    89 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  66. On JavaScript's Weirdness

    89 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  67. Controlling Language and Diffusion Models by Transporting Activations

    88 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  68. A protein folding mystery solved: Study explains core packing fractions

    88 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  69. Mark Klein, a Whistleblower Who Revealed Domestic Spying, Dies at 79

    88 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  70. Show HN: Pets for Cursor

    88 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  71. Ace: Realtime Computer Autopilot

    87 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  72. Dead trees keep surprisingly large amounts of carbon out of atmosphere

    87 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  73. Microcomputers – The First Wave: Responding to Altair

    86 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  74. Making SNES ROMs using C#

    86 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  75. LLM-hacker-news: LLM plugin for pulling content from Hacker News

    86 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  76. Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst

    86 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  77. Investigating MacPaint's Source Code

    86 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  78. Calypso: LLMs as Dungeon Masters' Assistants [pdf]

    86 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  79. Systemd ParticleOS

    86 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  80. The narrowest escalator in New York City

    85 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  81. Why Lotus Domino? (2024)

    85 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  82. UK bans fake reviews and sneaky fees

    85 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  83. ChatGPT 4.1 Jailbreak Prompt

    85 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  84. Shadertoys Ported to Rust GPU

    85 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  85. What if we taxed advertising?

    85 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  86. The next generation of Bazel builds

    85 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  87. An Introduction to Modern CMake

    85 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  88. Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps

    84 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  89. Show HN: I built a tool to manage and compare credit card rewards

    84 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  90. Microsoft blocks VSCode-derived editors (like Cursor) from using MS extensions

    84 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  91. A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9

    84 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  92. Apache ECharts + Leaflet + shadcn for data viz

    84 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  93. The Columbian Orator taught nineteenth-century Americans how to speak

    84 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  94. Show HN: I built a tool to find devs based on code, not LinkedIn titles

    83 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  95. Stay on schedule with Raspberry Pi Pico W and an e-ink dashboard

    83 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  96. Mark Zuckerberg's failed negotiations with the FTC to end Meta's antitrust case

    83 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  97. 33-year-old AmigaOS for Commodore computers gets an unexpected update News

    83 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  98. The Manicule: The little hand that's everywhere

    83 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  99. Kmart lied to me, so I hacked their lamp [video]

    83 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  100. The Barium Experiment

    82 points • comment • apr 09, 2025