HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order ⚙ Switzerland's vinyl turntable roundabout: Unique road art (2019) 3 20 9mo +1h newlyswissed.com/turntable-roundabout-in-switzerland 1MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks 19 247 9mo +1h shd.mit.edu/home 2Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline 91 439 9mo +22m github.com/luskaner/ageLANServer 3Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball 49 117 9mo +3d blog.ploopy.co/the-classic-2-is-here-186 4Chronic ethanol produces sex-dependent impairments in striatum computations 32 41 9mo +19m science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt0200 5Apple's Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection 27 186 9mo +2d github.com/apple/ml-cubifyanything 6Multi-Token Attention 44 149 9mo +9m arxiv.org/abs/2504.00927 7Rustcraft: Clean slate POSIX shell, written in Rust 8 12 9mo +5m github.com/rustcoreutils/posixutils-rs/tree/main/sh 8Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad? 298 278 9mo +32m annehelen.substack.com/p/are-people-bad-at-their-jobsor-are 9Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers 86 60 9mo +17m social.kernel.org/notice/AsgziNL6zgmdbta3lY 10Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 45 48 9mo +15m bsky.app/profile/cameronwilson.bsky.social/post/3llt2a6b3bu2v 11The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) 1 20 9mo +24m newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news 12TV Garden 124 772 9mo +3d tv.garden 13Prof. Sussman's Reading List (2016) 7 54 9mo +54m aurellem.orghttp:///thoughts/html/sussman-reading-list.html 14In the Matter of the Commas 0 11 9mo +1d theamericanscholar.org/in-the-matter-of-the-commas 15What We Knew Without Knowing 4 41 9mo +7m newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/07/what-we-knew-without-knowing 16Henry James's American Journey 1 9 9mo +29m chronicle.com/article/henry-jamess-american-journey 17Show HN: Color palettes inspired by Mexican architecture 4 64 9mo +1h seis.pointlessprojects.com 18UpCodes (YC S17) Is Hiring SWEs and CSMs to make construction more productive 0 1 9mo +33s up.codes/careers?utm_source=HN 19Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025) 387 255 9mo +1d 20Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365 328 420 9mo +37m techradar.com/pro/mozilla-launching-thundermail-email-service-to-take-on-gmail-microsoft-365 21Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam 12 74 9mo +2d ewintr.nl/posts/2025/dipping-my-toes-in-openbsd-in-amsterdam 22It's Unreal Just How Awful 'Real ID' Is (2020) 50 16 9mo +25m zocalopublicsquare.org/real-id-is-awful 23Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers 139 606 9mo +7m pico.sh 24What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test 40 92 9mo +10m tines.com/blog/a-litmus-test-for-ai-agents 25Location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding 75 74 9mo +20m science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp5357 26Vets Who Code 51 63 9mo +2d vetswhocode.io 27Gemini 2.5 gets 24.4% on MathArena USAMO beating previous top score of 4.7% 9 51 9mo +10m matharena.ai 28Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world 213 295 9mo +19m politico.com/news/2025/04/02/waltzs-team-set-up-at-least-20-signal-group-chats-for-crises-across-the-world-00266845 29Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout 13 46 9mo +42m webkit.org/blog/16587/item-flow-part-1-a-new-unified-concept-for-layout 30Hacking the call records of millions of Americans 31 151 9mo +2h evanconnelly.github.io/post/hacking-call-records 31Prolog planner generation prompting guide 1 31 9mo +2h quantumprolog.sgml.net/llm-demo/part1.html#prolog-planner-generation-prompting-guide 32Restructuring Announcement 231 257 9mo +38m automattic.com/2025/04/02/restructuring-announcement 33Real-Time Introspective Compression for Transformers 11 13 9mo +1h github.com/Dicklesworthstone/llm_introspective_compression_and_metacognition 34Ace: Realtime Computer Autopilot 20 90 9mo +1h generalagents.com/ace 35PaperBench 29 107 9mo +1h openai.com/index/paperbench 36Tesla's Global Vehicle Deliveries Sank 13% in First Quarter 33 37 9mo +30s wsj.com/business/autos/teslas-global-vehicle-deliveries-sink-13-in-first-quarter-a1d6c1d4 37Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects? 65 79 9mo +28m 38Facebook Is Hiding Heather Cox Richardson's Posts 19 38 9mo +6h closertotheedge.substack.com/p/facebook-is-hiding-heather-cox-richardsons 39When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI 59 163 9mo +1h resobscura.substack.com/p/when-jorge-luis-borges-met-one-of 40Windows on ARM on a Smart Watch 9 58 9mo +1d gus33000.me/fish 41Why I don't discuss politics with friends 978 501 9mo +11m shwin.co/blog/why-i-dont-discuss-politics-with-friends 42'I Want to Make You Immortal' – How one woman confronted her deepfakes stalker 2 36 9mo +1h 404media.co/email/2933ae7f-3e4c-4b4c-ac97-992e68ee5956 43NYC New Subway Map 46 52 9mo +6m nytimes.com/2025/04/02/nyregion/nyc-new-subway-map.html 44Zero Day in Microchip SAM Microcontrollers 20 73 9mo +17m wiki.recessim.com/view/ATSAM4C32 45Waymo's Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving with Drago Anguelov [video] 0 5 9mo +6m youtube.com/watch?v=oNKt1yhY4GY 46Show HN: A Chrome extension to give you back control over short-form videos 56 127 9mo +1d chromewebstore.google.com/detail/seek-anywhere/opofkjlejjcjalcpaimnpmkmjlclgded 47Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code 52 132 9mo +1h docs.mermaidchart.com/blog/posts/mermaid-chart-vs-code-plugin-create-and-edit-mermaid-js-diagrams-in-visual-studio-code 48"Fiume O Morte " Brilliantly Dramatizes the Rise of a Demagogue 7 28 9mo +2h newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/fiume-o-morte-brilliantly-dramatizes-the-rise-of-a-demagogue 49How Google built its Gemini robotics models 85 200 9mo +2h blog.google/products/gemini/how-we-built-gemini-robotics 50Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat 88 140 9mo +1h potter-yachters.org/stories/teplow_to_hawaii.htm 51Publishers trial paying peer reviewers – what did they find? 27 31 9mo +3d nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00968-6 52Amazon Submits Bid for TikTok with US Sale Deadline Nearing 84 56 9mo +10m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-02/amazon-submits-bid-for-tiktok-with-us-sale-deadline-approaching 53Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator 462 1793 9mo +37m 54Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS 146 196 9mo +55m matrix.org/blog/2025/04/matrix-auth-service 55PayPal launches remote and local MCP servers 2 9 9mo +8m developer.paypal.com/limited-release/agents 56Pulse (YC S24) Is Hiring 0 1 9mo +37s ycombinator.com/companies/pulse-3/jobs/6o4mkAj-machine-learning-engineer 57Gitlab Bluesky Tips 0 5 9mo +15m handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-relations/developer-advocacy/social-media 58Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure 46 205 9mo +39m spectrum.ieee.org/digital-archive 59Bare: Run JavaScript Everywhere 24 41 9mo +21m pears.com/news/introducing-bare-actually-run-javascript-everywhere 60Why is the world losing color? 294 313 9mo +1h culture-critic.com/p/why-is-the-world-losing-color 61Certification Authority/Browser Forum adopts new security standards 23 60 9mo +2d security.googleblog.com/2025/03/new-security-requirements-adopted-by.html 62Show HN: Await-Tree – Visualize Async Rust Task Execution in Real-Time 2 27 9mo +7h github.com/risingwavelabs/await-tree 63A small violin part highlights bigger problems for the global economy 80 46 9mo +14m nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/trump-tariffs-canada-us.html 64We Need to Rename ADHD (2021) 2 5 9mo +26m scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-rename-adhd 65Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S. 9 20 9mo +8m nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/media/amazon-tiktok-bid.html 66Ask HN: Do You Take Protein Suppliments? Any Noticeable Benefits? 13 15 9mo +1h 67Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016) 107 635 9mo +6m dorithegiant.com/2016/05/13-animals-made-from-13-circles.html 68Porting Tailscale to Plan 9 92 367 9mo +6m tailscale.com/blog/plan9-port 69Global scam industry evolving at 'unprecedented scale' despite recent crackdown 3 7 9mo +10m cnn.com/2025/04/02/asia/myanmar-scam-center-crackdown-intl-hnk-dst/index.html 70The Secret History of the War in Ukraine 95 86 9mo +3d nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html 71Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch 170 120 9mo +11m arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/04/nintendo-offers-new-details-on-switch-2-hardware-software 72A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb 28 122 9mo +26m phys.org/news/2025-04-einstein-webb.html 73Show HN: Hot Notes – Fuzzy Search for Apple Notes (macOS) 7 9 9mo +2h hotmatcha.dev/hot-notes 74UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test 106 90 9mo +4h arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674 75Django 5.2 Released 22 57 9mo +31m djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/apr/02/django-52-released 76Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined 8 12 9mo +4m pluralistic.net/2025/04/01/doctor-robo-blabbermouth 77Tesla First Quarter 2025 Production, Deliveries and Deployments 18 39 9mo +7m ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-first-quarter-2025-production-deliveries-and-deployments 78American shakedown: Police won't charge you, but they'll grab your money 13 17 9mo +14m cbc.ca/news/world/american-shakedown-police-won-t-charge-you-but-they-ll-grab-your-money-1.2760736 79Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy 91 54 9mo +38m newsletter.manager.dev/p/using-fake-deadlines-without-driving 80Abusive AI Web Crawlers: Get Off My Lawn 22 23 9mo +17m mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/04/01/abusive-ai-web-crawlers-get-off-my-lawn 81Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction 136 168 9mo +3h smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-forgotten-bean-could-save-coffee-from-extinction-180986230 82Starlink sets up subsidiary in Faroe Islands 8 10 9mo +21m dimma.fo/grein/starlink-vil-veita-internet-i-foroyum-stovnadu-foroyskt-smapartafelag 83Tesla (TSLA) announces 336,681 deliveries, far worse than expected 32 90 9mo +4m electrek.co/2025/04/02/tesla-tsla-q1-deliveries-worse 84Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble 121 144 9mo +5m ft.com/content/0ebcec51-2a5a-4820-99e8-1e500370fd68 85What I would do if I was 18 now (2016) 24 13 9mo +13m levels.io/eighteen 86PowerToys Command Palette Utility 10 13 9mo +15m learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/command-palette/overview 87Kindle as a High-Contrast GPS 11 45 9mo +15m instructables.com/Use-Your-Kindle-or-Other-Ebook-As-a-High-Visibilit 88Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds 170 163 9mo +11m unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/03/sports-supplement-creatine-makes-no-difference-to-muscle-gains-trial-finds 89Vitodeploy: Self hosted Laravel Forge alternative 9 26 9mo +3d vitodeploy.com 90A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test 75 167 9mo +10m blog.cloudflare.com/yarn-test-suffers-strange-derailment 91Mike Waltz Used Personal Gmail for Government Communications: Report 14 31 9mo +6m newsweek.com/mike-waltz-used-personal-gmail-government-communications-report-2053863 92Measuring Acceleration Structures 6 78 9mo +36m zeux.io/2025/03/31/measuring-acceleration-structures 93Don't Bother with Vibe Coding 129 53 9mo +26m soeren.codes/articles/do-not-bother-with-vibe-coding 94Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers 98 91 9mo +7m engadget.com/ai/wikipedia-is-struggling-with-voracious-ai-bot-crawlers-121546854.html 95All estimations are wrong, but none are useful 70 49 9mo +2d newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/all-estimations-are-wrong-but-none 96An 'administrative error' sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison 148 132 9mo +23m apnews.com/article/el-salvador-deportation-maryland-man-trump-error-818a0fa1218de714448edcb5be1f7347 97(2016) Interactive Neural Network Art 6 44 9mo +2d otoro.net/ml/netart 98RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015) 105 325 9mo +10m reactormag.com/30-years-later-real-genius-is-still-the-geek-solidarity-film-that-nerd-culture-deserves 99The Tectonics Behind the Myanmar Quake 7 47 9mo +1d nautil.us/what-caused-the-devastating-earthquake-in-myanmar-1200737 100Multi-threading is always the wrong design (2023) 49 33 9mo +1h unetworkingab.medium.com/multi-threading-is-always-the-wrong-design-a227be57f107 101Ask HN: Code should be stored in a database. Who has tried this? 47 22 9mo +3d 102Show HN: I made Confetti: a configuration language file format 59 67 9mo +1d confetti.hgs3.me 103Travel Guide for Stateless People 43 31 9mo +1h taejun.substack.com/p/travel-guide-for-stateless-people 104Val Kilmer, star of Top Gun and The Doors, dies aged 65 15 33 9mo +22m theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/02/val-kilmer-death-age-65-pneumonia 105Scientists uncover key mechanism in evolution: Whole-genome duplication drives 24 76 9mo +3d sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250326221649.htm 106Open source, 3D-printable smart chess board 32 65 9mo +2d thangs.com/designer/Concept%20Bytes/3d-model/Open%20Chess%20-%20Smart%20Chess%20Board-1300202 107A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports 79 197 9mo +3d openculture.com/2025/03/a-6-hour-time-stretched-version-of-brian-enos-music-for-airports.html 108Where does air pollution come from? 136 231 9mo +56m ourworldindata.org/air-pollution-sources 109Converting a Go-Kart into a Deathtrap 42 113 9mo +2d matto.io/posts/converting-a-go-kart-into-a-deathtrap 110Val Kilmer has died 59 150 9mo +6m nytimes.com/2025/04/01/movies/val-kilmer-dead.html 111Call for testing: OpenSSH 10.0 (DSA support removed) 3 10 9mo +20m lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2025-April/041855.html 112Move fast, break things: A review of Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson 125 54 9mo +56m networked.substack.com/p/move-fast-and-break-things 113Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015) 111 111 9mo +5h grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/silicon-valley-halt-catch-fire-microserfs-douglas-coupland 114After Crash FAA Change Requires All Aircraft at Reagan to Broadcast Positions 10 19 9mo +24m nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/reagan-crash-faa-rule-change-broadcast-positions.html 115Forking Work Simplification – Let's Bring Back Eisenhower's Process Improvement 47 61 9mo +1h governance.fyi/p/forking-work-simplification-and-more 116Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models (Anthropic) 27 173 9mo +1d transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/methods.html 117[dead] ? 18 9mo +47m fucklightroom.com 118Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app 240 122 9mo +3m recipeninja.ai 119SSLyze – SSL configuration scanning library and CLI tool 5 48 9mo +1h github.com/nabla-c0d3/sslyze 120Stop syncing everything 125 648 9mo +1d sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-syncing-everything 121AR Computers to Terminate Eyestrain and Myopia 26 48 9mo +1h eyewiki.org/AR_Computers_To_Terminate_Eyestrain_And_Myopia 122Simulated Economy Tutorial 65 105 9mo +39m jasonfantl.com/posts/Simulated-Economy-(1) 123The March of the Vegetables Parade 2 8 9mo +1d marchofthevegetables.orghttp://www. 124Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan 81 175 9mo +2h goughlui.com/2025/03/23/optical-discs-from-japan-part-6-tdk-uv-guard-fuji-lg-sony-maxell-cmc 125 More... 2025.04.01