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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

  1. Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet

    148 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  2. A Visual Journey Through Async Rust

    148 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  3. Fundamental flaws of SIMD ISAs (2021)

    148 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  4. Out of the Fog

    148 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  5. Multi-Token Attention

    148 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  6. BART's Anime Mascots

    147 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  7. How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail

    147 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  8. Meilisearch – search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search

    147 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  9. Fake images that fooled the world

    147 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  10. Earth's clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming

    146 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  11. Electromagnetism as a Purely Geometric Theory

    145 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  12. A surprising enum size optimization in the Rust compiler

    145 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  13. Less Htmx Is More

    144 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  14. Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

    144 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  15. Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library

    144 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  16. AudioX: Diffusion Transformer for Anything-to-Audio Generation

    144 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  17. How to Write a Fast Matrix Multiplication from Scratch with Tensor Cores (2024)

    144 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  18. Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf]

    144 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  19. Sustain your creative drive in the face of technological change

    144 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  20. Skywork-OR1: new SOTA 32B thinking model with open weight

    144 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  21. Daily driving a Linux phone, but why?

    144 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  22. Walled Gardens Can Kill

    143 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  23. Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference

    143 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  24. How to Make a Longbow

    143 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  25. UK Effort to Keep Apple Encryption Fight Secret Is Blocked

    143 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  26. Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?

    143 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  27. Tumor-derived erythropoietin acts as immunosuppressive switch in cancer immunity

    143 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  28. Pixel is a unit of length and area

    143 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  29. Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs

    143 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  30. JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier

    143 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  31. The group chats that changed America

    143 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  32. Breaking the Llama Community License

    142 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  33. Hands-On Large Language Models

    142 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  34. Ancient Dagger Up to 2.5k Years Old W Stars/Moons/Geometric Patterns Unearthed

    142 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  35. The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call

    142 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  36. Large language models, small labor market effects [pdf]

    142 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  37. AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating

    141 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  38. RustAssistant: Using LLMs to Fix Compilation Errors in Rust Code

    141 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  39. Rust CUDA Project

    141 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  40. Show HN: Colanode, open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative

    140 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  41. Once lush Sahara was home to a surprisingly unique group of humans

    140 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  42. Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

    140 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  43. Seth Rogen Speaks Truth to Billionaires, Gets Censored for It

    140 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  44. Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S.

    139 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  45. What Was Quartz?

    139 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  46. SciOp torrents: download, seed erased US Gov sites and datasets

    139 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  47. The Icelandic Voting System (2024)

    139 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  48. Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly (2024)

    139 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  49. Visiting Us

    138 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  50. North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover

    138 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  51. A high-throughput parser for the Zig programming language

    138 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  52. A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs

    138 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  53. Microsoft researchers developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs

    138 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  54. Reading RSS content is a skilled activity

    138 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  55. The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping

    138 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  56. Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs

    137 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  57. The missteps that led to a fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport

    137 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  58. Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat

    137 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  59. Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot

    137 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  60. A Math Lesson From Hitler’s Germany (2017)

    137 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  61. Street address errors in Google Maps

    137 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  62. Wasting Inferences with Aider

    136 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  63. We are still using 88x31 buttons

    136 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  64. The hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain

    136 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  65. Tarpit ideas: What they are and how to avoid them (2023) [video]

    136 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  66. Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use

    136 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  67. Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex

    136 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  68. Sail-Trim Simulator

    136 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  69. Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters

    136 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  70. An illustrated guide to automatic sparse differentiation

    136 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  71. Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows

    136 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  72. In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use

    136 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  73. Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates

    136 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  74. WorldGen: Open-source 3D scene generator for Game/VR/XR

    135 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  75. North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500

    135 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  76. Scaffold Level Editor

    135 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  77. Layered Design in Go

    135 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  78. US judge finds administration wilfully defied court order in deportation flights

    135 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  79. Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank

    135 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  80. Turing-Drawings

    135 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  81. Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates

    135 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  82. Why Does Claude Speak Byzantine Music Notation?

    135 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  83. Mesmerizing Interlocking Geometric Patterns Produced with Japanese Woodworking

    134 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  84. The PS3 Licked the Many Cookie

    134 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  85. We need more optimistic science fiction

    134 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  86. High time to tackle drug-resistant fungal infections

    134 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  87. CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider

    134 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  88. Nix Derivations, Without Guessing

    134 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  89. Uncovering a 0-Click RCE in the SuperNote Nomad E-Ink Tablet

    134 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  90. The Greatest Motorcycle Photo

    134 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  91. Why drinking coffee in Iran has become so complicated

    134 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  92. Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly

    134 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  93. Signal Carnival

    134 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  94. MonkeysPaw – A prompt-driven web framework in Ruby

    134 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  95. Show HN: Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro

    134 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  96. TikZJax: Embedding LaTeX Drawings in HTML

    134 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  97. Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust (2016)

    134 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  98. Man pages are great, man readers are the problem

    133 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  99. The complex origin story of domestic cats

    133 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  100. No Pay, No Work; Early Career Lessons

    133 points • comment • apr 10, 2025