HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Show HN: uWrap.js – A faster and more accurate text wrapping util in < 2KB 21 110 9mo +8h github.com/leeoniya/uWrap 1Ask HN: Are Squarespace and Wix sites worth it? 45 25 9mo +3d 2Xlwings Lite – Python in Excel Using Pyodide 5 19 9mo +7h lite.xlwings.org 3Show HN: Clawtype v2.1 – a one-hand chorded USB keyboard and mouse [video] 25 101 9mo +9m youtube.com/watch?v=N2PSiOl-auM 4Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing 21 71 9mo +2d bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2025/03/25/rl-av-smoothing 5[dead] ? 3 9mo +1h repello.ai 6Show HN: SwiftHive – A Swift Package Registry for Faster Builds 0 9 9mo +40m swifthive.l18.dev 7Science Stopped Believing in Porn Addiction. You Should, Too 7 32 9mo +1h psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201808/science-stopped-believing-in-porn-addiction-you-should-too 8Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative 170 367 9mo +2d coolify.io 9Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market 410 259 9mo +31m finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-plunges-2200-points-nasdaq-enters-bear-market-as-trump-tariffs-spark-worst-meltdown-since-2020-200042876.html 10Wall Street Blew It 134 83 9mo +11m theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/wall-street-trump-tariffs/682304 11A Man Out to Prove How Dumb AI Still Is 62 64 9mo +6m theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/arc-agi-chollet-test/682295 12The blissful Zen of a good side project 130 532 9mo +38m joshcollinsworth.com/blog/the-blissful-zen-of-a-good-side-project 13Images trapped in a feedback loop and analog fractals create each other 8 16 9mo +26m youtube.com/watch?v=D3eHKI0nvKA 14The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition) 98 130 9mo +1h magicsplat.com/ttpl/index.html 15Why Does Claude Speak Byzantine Music Notation? 81 136 9mo +3d fi-le.net/byzantine 16Dark mode with almost no CSS 3 24 9mo +3h search.feep.dev/blog/post/2025-04-04-dark-mode 17Buffett no longer has to defend his massive $300B cash pile 9 27 9mo +11m finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-defended-his-massive-300-billion-cash-pile-in-february-now-he-doesnt-have-to-174312496.html 18An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips 139 429 9mo +43m dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=36.%208pinLinux 19Fedora CoreOS adds Hetzner provisioning 1 10 9mo +34m docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/provisioning-hetzner 20Germany's 'Deutschlandticket' helps environment – study 43 76 9mo +1h dw.com/en/germanys-deutschlandticket-helps-environment-study/a-72128647 21[dead] ? 17 9mo +18m aleasoft.com 22Google announces Sec-Gemini v1 a new experimental cybersecurity model 46 156 9mo +11m security.googleblog.com/2025/04/google-launches-sec-gemini-v1-new.html 23An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court 0 9 9mo +19m apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-courts-nyc-5c97cba3f3757d9ab3c2e5840127f765 24America's 'Tree of Life' is nearing the end of its life 1 9 9mo +41m sfgate.com/national-parks/article/olympic-national-park-tree-of-life-collapse-20240943.php 25Hyperinflation Heralded the Fall of German Democracy (2023) 37 51 9mo +8m smithsonianmag.com/history/how-hyperinflation-heralded-the-fall-of-german-democracy-180982204 26SpaceX's Fram2 returns from first-of-its-kind mission around Earth's poles 31 37 9mo +22m cnn.com/2025/04/04/science/spacex-fram2-mission-return-earth/index.html 27The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition 111 284 9mo +24m filfre.net/2025/04/the-end-of-sierra-as-we-knew-it-part-1-the-acquisition 28Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source 44 121 9mo +29m danb.me/blog/gumroad-is-not-open-source 29Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms 53 429 9mo +25m cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/UnderstandingMachineLearning/copy.html 30Yoko: A Biography 42 35 9mo +10m newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/03/the-yoko-ono-problem 31What satellite images reveal about Myanmar's quake [video] 3 49 9mo +3d bbc.com/news/videos/cn4wzyv21jvo 32Cyber Forensic Expert in 2k Cases Faces FBI Probe 1 21 9mo +6m krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/cyber-forensic-expert-in-2000-cases-faces-fbi-probe 33[dead] ? 4 9mo +6m foxnews.com 34[dead] ? 21 9mo +4m nypost.com 35CINC Is Not Chef 52 52 9mo +32m cinc.sh 36YIMBYism as Industrial Policy 89 45 9mo +11m slowboring.com/p/yimbyism-as-industrial-policy 37How the 2025 US Financial Crisis is Different than 2008 116 61 9mo +59m samhenrycliff.medium.com/how-the-2025-us-financial-crisis-is-different-than-2008-5b63bdd06067 38Show HN: I made a platform to load and performance test API's 7 27 9mo +2d buzzbench.io 39Ask HN: As a Founder, is this business model compelling? 40 33 9mo +1h 40Thunder Compute (YC S24) is hiring a GPU systems engineer 0 1 9mo +24s ycombinator.com/companies/thunder-compute/jobs/fRSS8JQ-systems-engineer 41DeepSeek: Inference-Time Scaling for Generalist Reward Modeling 33 158 9mo +11h arxiv.org/abs/2504.02495 42CSS Clicker – incremental game about making a personal web, written in pure CSS 6 27 9mo +23m lyra.horse/css-clicker 43Doge wants to modernize Social Security's tech: what could possibly go wrong? 10 16 9mo +5m computerworld.com/article/3953741/doge-wants-to-modernize-social-securitys-legacy-tech-what-could-possibly-go-wrong.html 44The Curse of Ayn Rand's Heir 251 124 9mo +1m theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/ayn-rand-peikoff-inheritance-battle/682219 45Growing Buffers to Avoid Copying Data 29 40 9mo +3d johnnysswlab.com/growing-buffers-to-avoid-copying-data 46Kerosene did not save the sperm whale (2024) 68 188 9mo +17m edconway.substack.com/p/no-kerosene-did-not-save-the-sperm 47Ask HN: Does Collapsing an HN Thread in a Popular story spike your CPU use? 22 11 9mo +1h 48Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans 83 117 9mo +3m arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/wealthy-americans-have-death-rates-on-par-with-poor-europeans 49Purple exists only in our brains 73 43 9mo +40m snexplores.org/article/color-purple-exists-only-in-brain 50Fantastically Wrong: The Legendary Scientist Who Swore Our Planet Is Hollow 16 40 9mo +2d wired.com/2014/07/fantastically-wrong-hollow-earth 51A number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled 207 93 9mo +10m washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/03/ev-factories-canceled 52Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA 189 450 9mo +1h thenewstack.io/nvidia-finally-adds-native-python-support-to-cuda 53Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants' Social Media 19 27 9mo +1h nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/student-visas-social-media.html 54End of Life for Akamai Identity Cloud 1 9 9mo +3d techdocs.akamai.com/identity-cloud/docs/product-status 55Dow Slides Another 1k Points. Nasdaq on Pace to Enter Bear Market 94 102 9mo +21m barrons.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-040425 56Show HN: 2x2 Generator (With Sound Effects) 2 10 9mo +3d 2x2-generator.com 57NOAA Weather will delete websites using Amazon, Google cloud services Saturday 95 99 9mo +15m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-04/us-weather-agency-websites-to-vanish-under-planned-contract-cuts 58Why does Britain feel so poor? 377 186 9mo +14m martinrobbins.substack.com/p/von-6-why-does-britain-feel-so-poor 59America's astonishing act of self-harm 23 47 9mo +1h ft.com/content/21454c08-8e1c-4335-84f9-ef2d0e1aeb14 60US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job 281 274 9mo +2d ft.com/content/ad7fcc22-343e-47e3-a6f3-58bfd4294c9d 61Mac Numbers now supports LAMBDA functions and MAP 51 73 9mo +4m support.apple.com/guide/functions/map-ffa7bf25643c/web 62Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates with 34% Tariffs 204 176 9mo +27m nytimes.com/2025/04/04/business/china-trump-tariffs-retaliation.html 63When I converted my home from gas to electric my utility bills nearly doubled 42 16 9mo +13m washingtonpost.com/home/2025/04/02/electric-power-home-conversion 64[dead] ? 7 9mo +31m nytimes.com 65The psychology behind why children are hooked on Minecraft 72 36 9mo +2d bbc.com/future/article/20250328-the-psychology-behind-why-your-childs-hooked-on-minecraft 66Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement 67 51 9mo +5m theregister.com/2025/03/11/microsoft_remote_desktop_support 67Bored of It 473 553 9mo +22m paulrobertlloyd.com/2025/087/a1/bored 68I just want to serve 5 terabytes [video] 34 77 9mo +23m youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI 69On JavaScript's Weirdness 79 93 9mo +15h stack-auth.com/blog/on-javascripts-weirdness 70Hackers strike Australia's largest pension funds in coordinated attacks 42 94 9mo +29m reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/multiple-australian-pension-funds-hit-by-coordinated-hacking-media-reports-say-2025-04-04 71How Silica Gel Took over the World 5 27 9mo +3d scopeofwork.net/silica-gel 72Gumroad’s source is available 201 478 9mo +19m github.com/antiwork/gumroad 73Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity 180 139 9mo +29m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/i-no-longer-hack-paypals-doge-staffers-hacker-past-raises-red-flags 74Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf] 183 159 9mo +19m faculty.washington.edu/ss1110/IF/Buffett%20Fortune%202003%20(6).pdf 75Study finds solo music listening boosts social well-being 120 283 9mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-03-solo-music-boosts-social.html 76Why do we need modules at all? (2011) 87 150 9mo +2d groups.google.com/g/erlang-programming/c/LKLesmrss2k 77EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption 13 42 9mo +34m theregister.com/2025/04/03/eu_backdoor_encryption 78.NET on Heroku Now Generally Available 7 17 9mo +2d blog.heroku.com/dotnet-now-generally-available 79[dead] ? 19 9mo +8m social.treehouse.systems 80My Rust experience after eight years 49 57 9mo +3d codecs.multimedia.cx/2025/03/my-rust-experience-after-eight-years 81Show HN: Transputer emulator in JavaScript (fast enough to be useful) 7 53 9mo +2h nanochess.org/transputer_emulator.html 82Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers 187 67 9mo +1d techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/photo-calorie-app-cal-ai-downloaded-over-a-million-times-was-built-by-two-teenagers 83New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden 295 416 9mo +3d nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00945-z 84Head of NSA and Cybercommand Is Ousted 80 111 9mo +7m nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/nsa-cyber-command-chief-fired.html 85Anduril banned from recruiting on NixOS forums 75 125 9mo +4m discourse.nixos.org/t/anduril-industries-electromagnetic-warfare-team-is-hiring/62569 86Sample Size [in Baseball] 0 6 9mo +3d library.fangraphs.com/principles/sample-size 87What is Local first development 54 116 9mo +2h alexop.dev/posts/what-is-local-first-web-development 88Bash-ini-parser: Advanced bash INI parser library 32 35 9mo +3d github.com/lsferreira42/bash-ini-parser 89Building Gearbox Dynamometer 3 23 9mo +9m thriftybuilder.dev/post/gearbox-dynamometer 90Microsoft employees recall their early years 129 162 9mo +3d seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-turns-50-4-employees-recall-their-early-years 91Why does every site's search now insist on giving me what I don't search for? 18 33 9mo +1h 92Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture 22 79 9mo +18m finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-tsmc-tentatively-agree-form-185938022.html 93Microsoft reports several bootloader vulnerabilities 59 89 9mo +3d microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/31/analyzing-open-source-bootloaders-finding-vulnerabilities-faster-with-ai 94Binary Distribution Rebuilds 5 30 9mo +3d blog.josefsson.org/2025/03/31/on-binary-distribution-rebuilds 95 More... 2025.04.03