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Hacker News (Apr 2025)

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

    133 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  2. Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings

    132 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  3. Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code

    132 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  4. Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660

    132 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  5. Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter

    132 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  6. Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust

    132 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  7. Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers

    132 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  8. Show HN: Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript type inference from Protobufs

    131 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  9. SDL2 for macOS 9 “rough draft”

    131 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  10. Some __nonstring__ Turbulence

    131 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  11. OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience

    131 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  12. Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in Rust

    130 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  13. Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity

    130 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  14. DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice

    130 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  15. Projects for Old OS X

    130 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  16. Show HN: Create your own finetuned AI model using Google Sheets

    130 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  17. Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data

    129 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  18. The Art of Assembly Language (2010)

    128 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  19. After 53 years, a failed Soviet Venus spacecraft is crashing back to Earth

    128 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  20. Jumping Spiders

    128 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  21. CDC's top laboratory on STDs is shut by Trump administration

    128 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  22. The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition)

    128 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  23. Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)

    128 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  24. AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17

    128 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  25. Show HN: MCP-Shield – Detect security issues in MCP servers

    128 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  26. Is outbound going to die?

    128 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  27. Decomposing Transactional Systems

    128 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  28. Home washing machines fail to remove important pathogens from textiles

    128 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  29. Bill Gates's Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC (2008)

    127 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  30. Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf]

    127 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  31. Tilt: dev environment as code

    127 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  32. Benn Jordan's AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise

    127 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  33. The problem with "vibe coding"

    126 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  34. There's Life Inside Earth's Crust

    126 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  35. Quick Primer on MCP Using Ollama and LangChain

    126 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  36. Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on Himself (2019)

    125 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  37. Show HN: A Chrome extension to give you back control over short-form videos

    125 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  38. An update to our pricing

    125 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  39. OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf

    124 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  40. Crystal 1.16.0

    124 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  41. A guide to reduce screen time

    124 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  42. We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains

    124 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  43. PHP Core Security Audit Results

    124 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  44. Show HN: Daily Jailbreak – Prompt Engineer's Wordle

    124 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  45. Google won't ditch third-party cookies in Chrome after all

    124 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  46. How to not build a two stage model rocket

    123 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  47. Show HN: Connecting an IBM 3151 terminal to a mainframe [video]

    123 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  48. Claude's Max Plan

    123 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  49. Show HN: We Put Chromium on a Unikernel (OSS Apache 2.0)

    123 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  50. Show HN: Bhvr, a Bun and Hono and Vite and React Starter

    123 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  51. Baking the Y Combinator from Scratch

    122 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  52. The Curse of Ayn Rand's Heir

    122 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  53. The Mathematics of Crochet

    122 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  54. A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics

    122 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  55. Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator

    122 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  56. Show HN: LocalScore – Local LLM Benchmark

    122 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  57. Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat

    122 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  58. The suburban office park that launched Silicon Valley

    122 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  59. Dynamic Register Allocation on AMD's RDNA 4 GPU Architecture

    122 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  60. Show HN: Nerdlog – Fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram

    121 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  61. My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers

    121 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  62. LLMs for Engineering: Teaching Models to Design High Powered Rockets

    121 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  63. A year of Rust in ClickHouse

    121 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  64. AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem

    121 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  65. Sweetener saccharin shows surprise power against antibiotic resistance

    121 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  66. Show HN: Comparing product rankings by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity

    121 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  67. CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty

    120 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  68. EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M

    120 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  69. Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI Revealed

    120 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  70. The last RadioShack in Maryland is closing

    120 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  71. Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare)

    119 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  72. QVQ-Max: Think with Evidence

    119 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  73. Show HN: Koreo – A platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes

    119 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  74. 45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved

    119 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  75. AirBorne: Wormable zero-click remote code execution (RCE) in AirPlay protocol

    119 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  76. Observability 2.0 and the Database for It

    118 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  77. America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

    118 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  78. Show HN: I created snapDOM to capture DOM nodes as images with exceptional speed

    118 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  79. U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days

    118 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  80. The many ways tarrifs will hit electronics

    118 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  81. Baby Steps into Genetic Programming

    118 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  82. A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb

    118 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  83. Visual Reasoning Is Coming Soon

    117 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  84. Breaking computers taught me to build them

    117 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  85. Can we still recover the right to be left alone?

    117 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  86. Spain is about to face the challenge of a "black start"

    117 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  87. E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against X

    116 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  88. US abruptly turns off funding for CVE program

    116 points • comment • apr 16, 2025

  89. OpenBSD 7.7 Released

    116 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  90. Don't sell space in your homelab (2023)

    116 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  91. WEIRD – a way to be on the web

    116 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  92. East German Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung (2021)

    116 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  93. Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing

    116 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  94. Exwm: Emacs X Window Manager

    116 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  95. Fun with -fsanitize=undefined and Picolibc

    116 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  96. MCP on AWS Lambda with MCPEngine

    116 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  97. OpenAI's new reasoning AI models hallucinate more

    116 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  98. People say they’ll pay more for “made in the USA” so we ran a test

    115 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  99. Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates with 34% Tariffs

    115 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  100. Show HN: I486SX_soft_FPU – Software FPU Emulator for NetBSD 10 on 486SX

    115 points • comment • apr 27, 2025