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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet

    171 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  2. The most famous carbon dioxide absorber

    171 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  3. AI can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

    171 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  4. I Found Malware in a BeamNG Mod

    171 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  5. Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)

    170 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  6. Launch HN: Cua (YC X25) – Open-Source Docker Container for Computer-Use Agents

    170 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  7. Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

    170 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  8. AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu

    170 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  9. A New ASN.1 API for Python

    170 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  10. Zod v4 Beta

    169 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  11. SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators

    169 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  12. It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle

    169 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  13. Simple Web Server

    169 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  14. Sigbovik Conference Proceedings 2025 [pdf]

    169 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  15. Curry: A functional logic programming language

    168 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  16. MCP Run Python

    168 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  17. Dear "Security Researchers"

    168 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  18. Show HN: Flowcode – Turing-complete visual programming platform

    168 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  19. Why does Britain feel so poor?

    168 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  20. Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs

    168 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  21. Clojure: Realtime collaborative web apps without ClojureScript

    167 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  22. An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus (2022)

    167 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  23. Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods

    166 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  24. LLMs understand nullability

    166 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  25. A M.2 HDMI capture card

    166 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  26. Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM

    166 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  27. What Is "Induced Atmospheric Vibration"?

    166 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  28. Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction

    166 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  29. Whisky is no longer actively maintained

    165 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  30. Black Mirror's pessimism porn won't lead us to a better future

    165 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  31. 2025 AI Index Report

    165 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  32. Show HN: OCR pipeline for ML training (tables, diagrams, math, multilingual)

    165 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  33. Amazon Japan ordered to pay 35M. yen for allowing listing of fakes

    165 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  34. We clone a running VM in 2 seconds (2022)

    165 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  35. RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components

    165 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  36. ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser

    164 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  37. Transformer Lab

    164 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  38. Show HN: I open-sourced my AI toy company that runs on ESP32 and OpenAI realtime

    164 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  39. Inside ArXiv

    164 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  40. mIRC 7.81

    164 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  41. Writing my own dithering algorithm in Racket

    164 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  42. InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux

    164 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  43. ArkFlow: High-performance Rust stream processing engine

    164 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  44. Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)

    164 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  45. How Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend

    163 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  46. How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

    163 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  47. When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI

    163 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  48. Oracle engineers caused five days software outage at U.S. hospitals

    163 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  49. Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on an Error

    162 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  50. Pitfalls of Safe Rust

    162 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  51. A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test

    162 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  52. Haskelling My Python

    162 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  53. What the hell is a target triple?

    162 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  54. Tesla Solar Sales Declined for 4 Qtrs. Then Tesla Stopped Publishing the Numbers

    161 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  55. 'Unstoppable force' of solar power propels world to 40% clean electricity

    161 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  56. Reversible computing with mechanical links and pivots

    161 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  57. Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?

    161 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  58. Prolog Adventure Game

    160 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  59. Deleting multiplayer from the Unreal engine can save memory

    160 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  60. Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (2019)

    160 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  61. Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?

    159 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  62. Quality-of-Life in Tetris Games

    159 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  63. DeepSeek: Inference-Time Scaling for Generalist Reward Modeling

    159 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  64. Anatomy of a SQL Engine

    159 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  65. eInk Mode: Making web pages easier to read

    158 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  66. How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs

    158 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  67. Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems

    157 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  68. Show HN: Chonky – a neural approach for text semantic chunking

    157 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  69. How a Forgotten Battle Created a More Peaceful World

    157 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  70. I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype

    157 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  71. Oda Ujiharu: Why the ‘weakest Samurai warlord’ is admired

    157 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  72. Problems with Go channels (2016)

    156 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  73. SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces

    156 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  74. Four Years of Jai (2024)

    156 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  75. Hyperwood – Open-Source Furniture

    156 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  76. Blacksmithing and Lisp

    156 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  77. China's Clinical Trial Boom

    156 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  78. Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars

    156 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  79. A Postmortem of a Startup

    156 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  80. Show HN: AgentAPI – HTTP API for Claude Code, Goose, Aider, and Codex

    155 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  81. Linux Kernel Defence Map – Security Hardening Concepts

    155 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  82. Tiny Emulators

    155 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  83. Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of culture

    155 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  84. She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her

    154 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  85. Google announces Sec-Gemini v1 a new experimental cybersecurity model

    154 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  86. Writing Cursor rules with a Cursor rule

    154 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  87. More Everything Forever

    153 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  88. Verus: Verified Rust for low-level systems code

    153 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  89. DIY Synths Database

    153 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  90. Stuffed-Na(a)N: stuff your NaNs

    153 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  91. NoProp: Training neural networks without back-propagation or forward-propagation

    152 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  92. Charging electric vehicles 5x faster in subfreezing temps

    152 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  93. Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds

    152 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  94. Ask HN: How do you monetize personal code if it's not an "app"?

    151 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  95. Hacking the call records of millions of Americans

    151 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  96. I can't pay rent because devs just don't care

    151 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  97. Show HN: Coroot – eBPF-based, open source observability with actionable insights

    151 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  98. Why do we need modules at all? (2011)

    150 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  99. "Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay": Blue Cross Approved Surgeries Then Refused to Pay

    150 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  100. Show HN: Resurrecting Infocom's Unix Z-Machine with Cosmopolitan

    150 points • comment • apr 14, 2025