HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive 176 465 9mo +9m tansanrao.com/blog/2025/04/xnu-kernel-and-darwin-evolution-and-architecture 1Getting the Firmware of a VTech/LeapFrog LeapStart/Magibook 6 32 9mo +2d leloubil.prose.sh/leapstart-1 2Christine Lagarde wants EU to ditch Visa, Mastercard for own platform 14 32 9mo +22m businesstoday.in/world/us/story/march-to-independence-christine-lagarde-wants-eu-to-ditch-visa-mastercard-for-own-platform-470816-2025-04-05 3Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016) 208 436 9mo +1h haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer 4Kawasaki Reveals Four-Legged Robot You Can Ride Like a Horse 25 35 9mo +2h greekreporter.com/2025/04/05/kawasaki-four-legged-robot-ride-horse 5You Don't Have Time Not to Test 70 46 9mo +2d medium.com/@DougDonohoe/you-dont-have-time-not-to-test-e82bda121d64 6Setup QEMU Output to Serial Console and Automate Tests with Shell Scripts (2019) 4 29 9mo +27m fadeevab.com/how-to-setup-qemu-output-to-console-and-automate-using-shell-script 7A chat with Gary Carlston of Brøderbund (2024) 1 21 9mo +16m spillhistorie.no/2024/06/19/a-chat-with-gary-carlston-of-broderbund 8We are still using 88x31 buttons 55 141 9mo +1h ultrasciencelabs.com/lab-notes/why-we-are-still-using-88x31-buttons 9Identifying a defective RAM IC on laptops with soldered memory 9 51 9mo +3d blog.piernov.org/identifying-defective-ram-ic 10Open Source Coalition Announces 'Model-Signing' to Strengthen ML Supply Chain 11 69 9mo +1h pypi.org/project/model-signing 11North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover 36 142 9mo +54m jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04/north-america-is-dripping-from-below-geoscientists-discover 12OpenAI's Motion to Dismiss Copyright Claims Rejected by Judge 12 79 9mo +20m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/judge-doesnt-buy-openai-argument-nyts-own-reporting-weakens-copyright-suit 13Llama 4 Now Live on Groq 47 109 9mo +29m groq.com/llama-4-now-live-on-groq-build-fast-at-the-lowest-cost-without-compromise 14Practical Binary Analysis 1 14 9mo +3d practicalbinaryanalysis.com 15Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator 53 128 9mo +2h 16A Hash160 Collision 4 6 9mo +1h lbc.cryptoguru.org/man/theory 17The Radio Broadcaster's Dream Mini Rack 9 39 9mo +2d github.com/geerlingguy/mini-rack/issues/181 18[dead] ? 17 9mo +33m trumpgolftrack.com 19Trade deficits do not make a country poorer 6 26 9mo +1h noahpinion.blog/p/trade-deficits-do-not-make-a-country 20The Llama 4 Herd 1 48 9mo +3m ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/?_fb_noscript=1 21Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++ 53 245 9mo +39m planetscale.com/blog/faster-interpreters-in-go-catching-up-with-cpp 22Database Protocols Are Underwhelming 29 112 9mo +4h byroot.github.io/performance/2025/03/21/database-protocols.html 23The Llama 4 herd 641 1218 9mo +2m ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence 24Rich Text, Poor Text (2013) 28 55 9mo +2d laemeur.sdf.org/words/D29.html 25NASA's Project Scientist Faces Painful Choices as Voyager Mission Nears Its End 37 112 9mo +25m gizmodo.com/keeping-voyager-alive-nasas-project-scientist-faces-painful-choices-as-the-iconic-mission-nears-its-end-2000580634 26What if we made advertising illegal? 1326 1845 9mo +11m simone.org/advertising 27Nissan eyes shifting Rogue production to U.S. due to tariffs 57 23 9mo +1m asia.nikkei.com/Business/Transportation/Nissan-eyes-shifting-Rogue-production-to-U.S.-due-to-Trump-tariffs 28Dynamic Register Allocation on AMD's RDNA 4 GPU Architecture 24 124 9mo +8m chipsandcheese.com/p/dynamic-register-allocation-on-amds 29Writing apps I used to start and finish my book 1 9 9mo +27m theverge.com/apps/642131/7-writing-apps-book-scrivener-bear-iawriter 30iRobot made Roomba into an icon. Now, it's in a mess 59 24 9mo +1h fastcompany.com/91302893/irobot-turned-roomba-into-a-brand-icon-now-its-in-a-huge-mess 31Tracking the international space station with an Arduino 6 63 9mo +2h faridrener.com/2025/04/04/tracking-iss.html 32Functors: Identity, Composition, and fmap 20 21 9mo +2d codehakase.com/blog/2025-03-26-on-functors 33Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Applied AI Engineers 0 1 9mo +21s ycombinator.com/companies/great-question/jobs/AtPa8pe-ai-engineer 34Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos' 72 193 9mo +57m devonlive.com/whats-on/whats-on-news/exeters-unassuming-co-op-worker-10039941 35Does the future of AI depend on glass? 1 3 9mo +2d schott.com/en-gb/solutions-magazine/edition-3-2024/unlocking-the-full-potential-of-ai-in-healthcare 36Loader's Number 10 63 9mo +12m googology.fandom.com/wiki/Loader%27s_number 37Baldness? UCLA's New Molecule Could Revolutionize Hair Growth 51 39 9mo +1h scitechdaily.com/did-scientists-just-cure-baldness-uclas-new-molecule-could-revolutionize-hair-growth 38Doge Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data 30 53 9mo +2m wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir 39Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think? 247 496 9mo +1h whatsit.today 40Yann LeCun, Pioneer of AI, Thinks Today's LLM's Are Nearly Obsolete 140 121 9mo +2d newsweek.com/ai-impact-interview-yann-lecun-artificial-intelligence-2054237 41Social media alt text for journalists, and why it matters 1 10 9mo +43m joemurph.com/article/detail/social-media-alt-text-for-journalists 42The Last Solo Programmers 16 25 9mo +1h cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the-last-solo-programmers 43SpacetimeDB v1.0: Multiplayer at the speed of light 21 60 9mo +19m github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB 44Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation 53 34 9mo +11m arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/editorial-mammoth-de-extinction-is-bad-conservation 45Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly (2024) 41 142 9mo +1h okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/Compiler/index.html 46A Comparative Analysis of K3s, MicroK8s, and Alternatives 12 31 9mo +1h htdocs.dev/posts/kubernetes-deployment-strategies-for-small-businesses-on-hetzner-cloud-a-comparative-analysis-of-k3s-microk8s-and-alternatives 47The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) geographic coordinate system 5 28 9mo +3d mibsar.comhttp://www./LandNav/UTM/UTM.htm 48A Vision for WebAssembly Support in Swift 100 201 9mo +32m forums.swift.org/t/pitch-a-vision-for-webassembly-support-in-swift/79060 49Making OCaml Safe for Performance Engineering [video] 3 12 9mo +43m youtube.com/watch?v=g3qd4zpm1LA 50I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled 15 32 9mo +15m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre 51America could end up making China great again 29 38 9mo +4m economist.com/leaders/2025/04/03/how-america-could-end-up-making-china-great-again 52Jumping Spiders 74 132 9mo +3d digital.tnconservationist.org/publication/?i=663361&article_id=3697028&view=articleBrowser 53[dead] ? 13 9mo +11m dropsitenews.com 54Reciprocal Tariff Calculations 62 42 9mo +37m ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations 55Anti-Poverty Groups ID Property Taxes as Culprit in Affordable Housing Shortage 18 13 9mo +14m thecity.nyc/2025/03/31/housing-crisis-property-taxes-rents 56Emulating an iPhone in QEMU 63 262 9mo +2h eshard.com/posts/emulating-ios-14-with-qemu 57Earth's clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming 124 156 9mo +45m science.org/content/article/earth-s-clouds-are-shrinking-boosting-global-warming 58Is Python Code Sensitive to CPU Caching? (2024) 36 80 9mo +3d lukasatkinson.de/2024/python-cpu-caching 59California now has more EV charging ports than gas nozzles 99 62 9mo +33m latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-26/california-now-has-more-ev-charging-ports-than-gas-nozzles 60Tariffs Can Help America 41 17 9mo +1h foreignaffairs.com/united-states/how-tariffs-can-help-america 61Interview Coder is an invisible AI for technical interviews 117 80 9mo +41m interviewcoder.co 62Are porn algorithms feeding a generation of paedophiles – or creating one? 64 43 9mo +1h theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/05/i-didnt-start-out-wanting-to-see-kids-are-porn-algorithms-feeding-a-generation-of-paedophiles-or-creating-one 63The Importance of Fact-Checking 126 182 9mo +3d lithub.com/on-the-episode-that-changed-ira-glasss-this-american-life-forever 64AdNauseam: Clicking ads so you don't have to 65 66 9mo +17m adnauseam.io 65Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty 180 108 9mo +14m mediascope.group/europe-needs-its-own-social-media-platforms-to-safeguard-sovereignty 66Major endometriosis study reveals impact of gluten, coffee, dairy and alcohol 25 52 9mo +11m theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/05/major-endometriosis-study-reveals-impact-of-gluten-coffee-dairy-and-alcohol 67World's largest wildlife crossing reaches critical milestone. Now what? 82 77 9mo +3d yahoo.com/news/worlds-largest-wildlife-crossing-reaches-100046299.html 68Protoplanetary Disks Are Smaller Than Expected 3 28 9mo +1h centauri-dreams.org/2025/04/04/protoplanetary-disks-are-smaller-than-expected 69Scientists witness living plant cells generate cellulose and form cell walls 3 107 9mo +2d phys.org/news/2025-03-scientists-witness-cells-generate-cellulose.html 70Public domain technical books published before 1964 6 93 9mo +13m tubebooks.orghttp://www./technical_books_online.htm 71Configuration Complexity Clock (2012) 15 49 9mo +2d mikehadlow.blogspot.comhttp:///2012/05/configuration-complexity-clock.html 72Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers 18 26 9mo +2h mohammed321.github.io/projects/corral_web/index.html 73Pytest for Neovim 20 73 9mo +2h github.com/richardhapb/pytest.nvim 74Cell Phone OPSEC for Border Crossings 36 108 9mo +2d schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/cell-phone-opsec-for-border-crossings.html 75Nebula Sans 100 346 9mo +52m nebulasans.com 76Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us 57 295 9mo +1h thoughts-and-things.ghost.io/recreating-daft-punks-something-about-us 77Show HN: Pets for Cursor 21 92 9mo +2d 78I don't like traveling anymore 84 72 9mo +27m sidverma.io/posts/i-dont-like-traveling-anymore 79Show HN: OCR pipeline for ML training (tables, diagrams, math, multilingual) 38 167 9mo +22m github.com/ses4255/Versatile-OCR-Program 80Sparks – A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code 28 52 9mo +2d github.com/aftertheflood/sparks 81Coqui TTS: Free Text-to-Speech 13 19 9mo +1h coquitts.com 82[dead] ? 18 9mo +1h blogaura.ai 83404s – gallery of error 404 page designs 13 74 9mo +4h 404s.design 84Message stuck in Kafka queue for months delivered, writes bestselling novel 6 10 9mo +46m nareal.substack.com/p/message-stuck-in-kafka-queue-for 85Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on an Error 190 251 9mo +1h aei.org/economics/president-trumps-tariff-formula-makes-no-economic-sense-its-also-based-on-an-error 86The DDA Algorithm, explained interactively 16 103 9mo +3d aaaa.sh/creatures/dda-algorithm-interactive 87Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust 95 137 9mo +2d github.com/ferronweb/ferron 88Investigating MacPaint's Source Code 16 87 9mo +2h ztoz.blog/posts/macpaint-source-code 89Minecraft Server in FreeBSD Jails Container 28 31 9mo +46m vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/minecraft-server-freebsd-jails-container 90OpenVertebrate Presents a Database of 13K 3D Scans of Specimens 18 186 9mo +35m openculture.com/2024/03/openvertebrate-presents-a-massive-database-of-13000-3d-scans-of-vertebrate-specimens.html 91The Soul of an Old Machine 24 56 9mo +2d thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-soul-of-an-old-machine 92Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course 119 402 9mo +30m simonmonk.org/tyee7 93Query GPT: Transform Natural Language into SQL 11 17 9mo +16m query-gpt.com 94Increasing Timber Production, an Emergency Situation on National Forest Lands [pdf] 45 68 9mo +1h usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/sm-1078-006.pdf 95Mercantilism 74 70 9mo +4m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism 96Annotated Unix Magic Poster 32 208 9mo +1h unixmagic.net 97AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17 102 130 9mo +16m att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1061254 98Intuiting TLS 9 33 9mo +2d kprotty.mehttp:///2025/04/01/intuiting-tls.html 99Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout 727 440 9mo +3m wsj.com/finance/stocks/u-s-stock-futures-fall-further-after-china-retaliates-against-trump-tariffs-3be33fa7 100Cashless society drives drop in children swallowing coins, researchers say 20 10 9mo +27m independent.co.uk/money/cashless-society-drives-drop-in-children-swallowing-coins-researchers-say-b2723046.html 101The Fifth Kind of Optimisation 46 44 9mo +2d tratt.net/laurie/blog/2025/the_fifth_kind_of_optimisation.html 102The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans 191 324 9mo +23m rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/el-salvador-prisons-warning-americans-trump-1235309721 103 More... 2025.04.04