HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016) 62 395 9mo +3d eater.net/8bit 1Simple Denoising Diffusion 0 34 9mo +1d github.com/utkuozbulak/pytorch-simple-diffusion 2Microsoft’s original source code 312 582 9mo +16m gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/microsoft-original-source-code 3Was Houdini a Spy? (2021) 16 51 9mo +9m cia.gov/stories/story/was-houdini-a-spy 4The Mainframe Vocabulary Problem, and Why It Matters 16 29 9mo +42m mainframesociety.com/news/2588640 5Bonobos' calls may be the closest thing to animal language we've seen 10 45 9mo +1h arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/bonobos-calls-may-be-the-closest-thing-to-animal-language-weve-seen 6Show HN: Slipstream – A Python library for stateful stream processing 6 30 9mo +1h slipstream.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.1 7The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI 225 434 9mo +3h dutchosintguy.com/post/the-slow-collapse-of-critical-thinking-in-osint-due-to-ai 8The cultural evolution of distortion in music 38 74 9mo +18m royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2024.0014 9Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point 152 195 9mo +1d journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amd.2022.0280.summary 10Aviator (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build AI DevEx platform 0 1 9mo +18s ycombinator.com/companies/aviator/jobs 11How Big Is VMS? 71 76 9mo +2h vmssoftware.com/resources/blog/2025-03-31-how-big-is-vms 12How Servo Motors Work 26 112 9mo +1h jameco.com/Jameco/workshop/Howitworks/how-servo-motors-work.html 13Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters 31 139 9mo +2h monkeys.zip 14Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age 311 404 9mo +2h manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-developers-can-achieve-great-results-with-ai-coding-agents 15AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating 126 143 9mo +17m niila.fi/en/ai-cheats 16Installing AIX PS/2 v1.3 on a 486 13 24 9mo +1h hardwarehacks.org/blog/installing_aix_ps2_13_on_a_486 17Banked Memories for Soft SIMT Processors 0 9 9mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2503.24132 18Rewriting my site in vanilla web 1 14 9mo +18m leanrada.com/notes/vanilla-web-rewrite 19New nanoparticle therapies target two major killers 25 86 9mo +3d science.org/content/article/new-nanoparticle-therapies-target-two-major-killers 20The Algorithm Behind the Topological Sort Library TopoSort 1 7 9mo +1h github.com/williamw520/toposort/blob/master/Algorithm.md 21Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres 73 226 9mo +2h github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet 22Bikes in the age of tariffs 109 89 9mo +2h renehersecycles.com/bikes-in-the-age-of-tariffs 23An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip 877 1455 9mo +1h theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer 24Measuring Acceleration Structures 0 18 9mo +2d zeux.io/2025/03/31/measuring-acceleration-structures 25Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day 25 63 9mo +1h tenstorrent.com/vision/tenstorrent-launches-blackhole-developer-products-at-tenstorrent-dev-day 26Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture 18 73 9mo +1m reuters.com/technology/intel-tsmc-tentatively-agree-form-chipmaking-joint-venture-information-reports-2025-04-03 27[dead] ? 15 9mo +7m grist.org 282025 Recession Indicators Hit Fashion and Wall Street at Once 151 90 9mo +16m marieclaire.com/fashion/recession-2025-fashion-indicators 29Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo 58 177 9mo +4m gitmcp.io 30Declarative Web Push 69 80 9mo +3d webkit.org/blog/16535/meet-declarative-web-push 31Declarative Schemas for simpler database management 57 78 9mo +1h supabase.com/blog/declarative-schemas 32Android Isn't the Anti-iPhone Anymore 29 29 9mo +20m howtogeek.com/android-isnt-the-anti-iphone-anymore 33Trump's new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT's 26 67 9mo +3m theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-ai-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok 34Tell HN: Pocket (acquired by Moz) only works with FF now 18 13 9mo +32m 35Reasoning models don't always say what they think 264 405 9mo +38m anthropic.com/research/reasoning-models-dont-say-think 36Showcase: Working on a voice/text chat app in a cyberpunk style 32 67 9mo +3d static.mollohq.com/molly-0.0.1-showcase.mp4 37Onyx (YC W24) Is Hiring 0 1 9mo +21s ycombinator.com/companies/onyx/jobs/CUHpbpE-founding-devrel-engineer 38AI 2027 583 872 9mo +29m ai-2027.com 39Show HN: Benchi – A benchmarking tool written in Go 7 57 9mo +2h github.com/ConduitIO/benchi 40Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers 150 527 9mo +1h github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate 41AnimeJs v4 Is Here 146 906 9mo +1h animejs.com 42Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language) 154 168 9mo +1h github.com/c3lang/c3c 43Show HN: Novanode, Global load balancing with Caddy, no vendor lock-in 28 76 9mo +24m 44I Hired 5 People to Sit Behind Me and Make Me Productive for a Month 6 16 9mo +13m simonberens.com/p/i-hired-5-people-to-sit-behind-me 45Show HN: Offline JavaScript PubSub between browser tabs 37 79 9mo +51m simon-frey.com/tabsub 46Overengineered Anchor Links 153 387 9mo +15m thirty-five.com/overengineered-anchoring 47Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman's Revenge (1912) 2 29 9mo +3d publicdomainreview.org/collection/cameramans-revenge 48Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025) 255 72 9mo +1d 49Decapitation Strike 2 17 9mo +35m snyder.substack.com/p/decapitation-strike 50Show HN: Nix Ninja – open-source Ninja-compatible build system for Nix 15 26 9mo +3h github.com/pdtpartners/nix-ninja 51L.A. man stabbed, shot and pushed off cliff lives to testify about alleged hit 9 17 9mo +2h latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-21/sinaloa-cartel-sylmar-kidnapping 52An AlphaStation's SROM 6 79 9mo +3d thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-03-30 53InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux 113 167 9mo +1h github.com/InitWare/InitWare 54Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database 147 304 9mo +10m opennutrition.app/search 55Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat 142 125 9mo +24m wsj.com/world/asia/north-korea-cryptocurrency-580d7d3f 56New Windows 11 trick lets you bypass Microsoft Account requirement 39 35 9mo +10m bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/new-windows-11-trick-lets-you-bypass-microsoft-account-requirement 57AWS MCP Servers 4 11 9mo +1h github.com/awslabs/mcp 58A university president makes a case against cowardice 786 457 9mo +32m newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-university-president-makes-a-case-against-cowardice 59Show HN: Zxc – Rust TLS proxy with tmux and Vim as UI, BurpSuite alternative 13 104 9mo +19m github.com/hail-hydrant/zxc 60Looking under the hood at the brain's language system 2 4 9mo +6m news.mit.edu/2025/evelina-fedorenko-studies-brains-language-system-0402 61AI/Math Puzzle 22 48 9mo +2d aggressivelyparaphrasing.me/2025/03/31/can-you-solve-this-ai-math-puzzle-and-get-a-prize-i-couldnt 62The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly 258 301 9mo +1h isomorphism.xyz/blog/2024/steam-deck 63Type (YC W23) is hiring a senior software engineer 0 1 9mo +24s ycombinator.com/companies/type/jobs/m3GcN1t-senior-software-engineer 64AbletonMCP – Ableton Live Model Context Protocol Integration 11 56 9mo +3d github.com/ahujasid/ableton-mcp 65Space Debris: Is It a Crisis? 67 61 9mo +9m esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris 66Rust on the Ferris Sweep 6 43 9mo +3d gabevenberg.com/posts/rmk-ferris-sweep 67John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change 236 217 9mo +2d spectator.co.uk/article/what-were-we-all-doing-here-my-600-mile-trip-to-hear-an-organ-play-a-d-natural 68Preventing nearsightedness using AR glasses or projectors 7 8 9mo +3d nixon-development.comhttp:///fp/nearsightedness.htm 69Mirrors: The Blind Spot of Image and Video Generation Models 3 14 9mo +2d medium.com/@aliborji/mirrors-the-blind-spot-of-image-and-video-generation-models-de0f39310578 70.NET library MassTransit going commercial with V9 37 40 9mo +21m masstransit.io/introduction/v9-announcement 71Flame – BBS and MUD 20 56 9mo +2d ucc.asn.au/services/flame.ucc 72I stopped using AI code editors 80 104 9mo +7m lucianonooijen.com/blog/why-i-stopped-using-ai-code-editors 73Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming" 272 435 9mo +2h cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html 74XWine1 – Xbox One Translation Layer for Windows PCs 3 28 9mo +2h github.com/xwine1 75Calibrated Basic Income by Derek Van Gorder [pdf] 73 55 9mo +1h greshm.org/files/2025-04-01-calibrated-basic-income.pdf 76Reintroducing Capsul 5 37 9mo +2d capsul.bearblog.dev/reintroducing-capsul 77DIY Synths Database 24 159 9mo +9m diy-synths.snnkv.com 78US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU 3549 1841 9mo +8h bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet 79News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World 3 28 9mo +9m watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2025/Journalists 80Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses 7 36 9mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-03-efficient-meta-optics-conventional-lenses.html 81I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad 567 604 9mo +17m pilledtexts.com/why-i-use-a-17-year-old-thinkpad 82Search could be so much better. 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