HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order In the 1980s we also downloaded software from TV 27 69 9mo +3d newslttrs.com/in-the-1980s-we-also-downloaded-software-from-tv 1A Supermarket Bag and a Truckload of FOMO 66 113 9mo +2h blog.julik.nl/2025/03/a-little-adventure-in-modern-frontend 2What Was Quartz? 64 139 9mo +30m zachseward.com/what-was-quartz 3Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB 15 108 9mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2504.01157 4Machine learning helps construct an evolutionary timeline of bacteria 2 6 9mo +3d sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250403143647.htm 5"Final Usonian Home" by Frank Lloyd Wright Completed in Ohio 34 65 9mo +22m dezeen.com/2025/03/20/final-usonian-home-riverrock-frank-lloyd-wright-ohio-completed/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--nulJz0XJo1E-jQIojcqaZmWjd0eXJ-oC35zKHYZb1UL94JLh6t_QI1k9lehp4fxwHKjPjkNeM-iQJihX705oJ-Maqyw&_hsmi=355439130 6Show HN: Minimal MCP server in Go showcasing project architecture 12 76 9mo +3h github.com/TuanKiri/weather-mcp-server 7The software engineers willing to pay $10k to help them land a coding job 71 31 9mo +3d businessinsider.com/software-engineer-offers-thousands-job-referral-linkedin-2025-4 8Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town 397 1741 9mo +11m tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan 9[dead] ? 17 9mo +13m seattletimes.com 10In React {Transitions} = F(state) 54 37 9mo +12m jordaneldredge.com/blog/transitions-f-of-state 11W.G. Sebald and the Politics of Melancholy 3 26 9mo +2d newrepublic.com/article/193177/wg-sebald-politics-melancholy 12Scaffold Level Editor 29 135 9mo +4m blog.littlepolygon.com/posts/scaffold 13It would take three years to install a speed bump. So I bought my own 44 58 9mo +57m substack.com/home/post/p-160523691 14Choviva: Chocolate replacement with less CO2 emissions 64 23 9mo +49m choviva.com/details 15Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI Revealed 57 155 9mo +35m motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump 16PiDP-1, or the rebirth of an old machine 32 107 9mo +2d hackaday.io/project/202541-replica-of-the-pdp-1-pidp-1/log/239666-finished-the-first-test-batch-of-5-machines 17John Carmack on AI in game programming 105 71 9mo +30m twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1909311174845329874 18North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500 10 32 9mo +12m fortune.com/2025/04/07/north-korean-it-workers-infiltrating-fortune-500-companies 1920 years of Git 226 304 9mo +1h blog.gitbutler.com/20-years-of-git 20Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI 682 400 9mo +3d kapwing.com/blog/what-its-like-to-interview-a-software-engineer-preparing-with-ai 21Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua 128 260 9mo +1m mrcjkb.dev/posts/2025-04-07-lux-announcement.html 22Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security 70 179 9mo +1m queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3722542 23Hasochism: The pleasure and pain of dependently typed Haskell programming [pdf] (2013) 13 93 9mo +21m personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/pub/hasochism.pdf 24The Troll Hole Adventure 12 39 9mo +3m bluerenga.blog/2025/04/03/the-troll-hole-adventure-1980 25Show HN: Kahuna, the IndexedDB-Manager Webextension 4 19 9mo +5m github.com/hummingme/kahuna 26Drag racers are ditching superchargers for scuba-style tanks and compressed air 93 56 9mo +3d thedrive.com/news/drag-racers-are-ditching-superchargers-for-scuba-style-tanks-and-compressed-air 27Open Source Is Geopolitical Now 15 27 9mo +21m openpioneers.com/p/open-source-is-geopolitical-now 28Circling the Good 1 34 9mo +3m nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/circling-the-good-thomas-nagel 29Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code 212 598 9mo +44m browsermcp.io 30Global Health Threat: Antibiotic-Resistant "Superbug" Spreading in Malaysia 13 58 9mo +38m scitechdaily.com/global-health-threat-deadly-antibiotic-resistant-superbug-spreading-in-malaysia 31Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends 203 182 9mo +1h 32Variable duty cycle square waves with the Web Audio API 63 56 9mo +6m danblack.co/blog/variable-duty-cycle-square-wave 33Show HN: Copy Folder to ChatGPT in 0.6s – OpenRepoPrompt 8 9 9mo +3d github.com/wildberry-source/open-repoprompt 34Mass grave of Roman soldiers found under Vienna sports field 51 111 9mo +3d gizmodo.com/mass-grave-of-150-roman-soldiers-found-under-vienna-sports-field-2000584946 35Why Catullus continues to seduce us 34 70 9mo +1m newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/07/catullus-poems-book-review-stephen-mitchell-isobel-williams 36Show HN: Uncurl.dev – Convert curl commands to a shareable, executable UI 59 114 9mo +11h uncurl.dev 37GoboLinux 017.01: the most experimental Linux's first new release in about 5Y 6 53 9mo +3h gobolinux.org/release_notes_017.01.html 38Tesla celebrates key milestone for 4680 battery cell production cost 7 13 9mo +3m teslarati.com/tesla-milestone-4680-battery-cell 39GitMCP: Transforms any GitHub project into an MCP endpoint 2 18 9mo +1h github.com/idosal/git-mcp 40Study: Even richest Americans face shorter lifespans than European counterparts 6 13 9mo +11m brown.edu/news/2025-04-02/wealth-mortality-gap 41LLMs understand nullability 133 167 9mo +21m dmodel.ai/nullability-gentle 42Watch Antimatter Fall: Scientists Capture Gravity's Pull with a 3840MP Camera 23 41 9mo +2h scitechdaily.com/watch-antimatter-fall-scientists-capture-gravitys-pull-with-a-3840mp-camera 43The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCC's news distortion policy 0 18 9mo +1h arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/trumps-fcc-chair-invokes-rarely-enforced-news-distortion-policy-to-punish-media 44Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023) 39 129 9mo +4m botanica.software/post/decoding-the-90s 45Git's initial commit 3 20 9mo +38m github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290 46AI usage is now a baseline expectation 11 30 9mo +7m twitter.com/tobi/status/1909231499448401946 47Incompatibility of Membership 4 11 9mo +2m ccc.de/en/club/unvereinbarkeitserklaerung-des-ccc 48Ask HN: What books have been worth your time? 52 34 9mo +11m 49Why Software Consultants Benefit from Liberal Arts Education 3 6 9mo +11m spin.atomicobject.com/liberal-arts-software-consultant 50How new US tariffs are forcing Europe to rethink its entire tech stack 39 78 9mo +25m spark.temrel.com/p/the-great-unstacking 51Privacy at the Border: A Technical Guide to Securing Your Data and Devices 1 16 9mo +31m consciousdigital.org/privacy-at-the-border-the-ultimate-technical-guide-to-securing-your-data-and-devices-at-boarder-crossings 52It's Official, Switch 2 Joy-Con Will Not Feature Hall Effect Sticks 3 10 9mo +49m nintendolife.com/news/2025/04/its-official-switch-2-joy-con-will-not-feature-hall-effect-sticks 53The Best Programmers I Know 6 20 9mo +39m endler.dev/2025/best-programmers 54Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660 135 133 9mo +3d quadratichq.com/blog/cursed-excel-datetime-math 55Mark Cuban: Global tariffs with DOGE cuts 'risk far worse situation than 2008' 0 17 9mo +33m fortune.com/2025/04/07/trump-tariffs-doge-cuts-mark-cuban-2008-economic-crash 56[dead] ? 29 9mo +1h bsky.app 57Trade, Tariffs, and Tech 35 40 9mo +1h stratechery.com/2025/trade-tariffs-and-tech 58Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March 540 219 9mo +28m axios.com/2025/04/04/foreign-visits-american-airports-travel-warnings 59Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks' 177 98 9mo +5m politico.eu/article/eu-gdpr-privacy-law-europe-president-ursula-von-der-leyen 60The Dire Wolf Is Back 188 187 9mo +2h newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/the-dire-wolf-is-back 61The Untold Mystery Upending Egon Schiele's Legacy 8 27 9mo +3d wsj.com/style/egon-schiele-artist-history-eb2480e8 62Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US 2 402 9mo +31m jasher.substack.com/p/how-fewer-foreign-passengers-flying 63Inside One of America's Last Pencil Factories (2018) 43 88 9mo +25m nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html 64Ask HN: Is Hacker News avoiding criticism of Trump? 25 48 9mo +8m 65Deterministic simulation testing for async Rust 10 106 9mo +2d s2.dev/blog/dst 66Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 105 48 9mo +1h newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/blueskys-quest-to-build-nontoxic-social-media 67ITAPPMONROBOT (2007) 13 68 9mo +1h thedailywtf.com/articles/ITAPPMONROBOT 68The Mathematics of Crochet 11 122 9mo +2d hellohartblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/the-mathematics-of-crochet 69I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today 43 79 9mo +2d codeberg.org/luciofstars/altabasic 70A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn 352 592 9mo +35m mattgiustwilliamson.substack.com/p/your-startup-doesnt-need-to-be-a 71Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game 59 193 9mo +2d github.com/lechmazur/elimination_game 72Writing C for Curl 87 123 9mo +1h daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writing-c-for-curl 73Knowing where your engineer salary comes from 175 329 9mo +13h seangoedecke.com/where-the-money-comes-from 74Stay on schedule with Raspberry Pi Pico W and an e-ink dashboard 15 91 9mo +2d raspberrypi.com/news/stay-on-schedule-with-raspberry-pi-pico-w-and-an-e-ink-dashboard 752025 Stock Market Crash 5 22 9mo +20m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_stock_market_crash 76A Multiwavelength Look at Proxima Centauri's Flares 13 57 9mo +3d centauri-dreams.org/2025/04/01/a-multiwavelength-look-at-proxima-centauris-flares 77DeepMind program finds diamonds in Minecraft without being taught 161 247 9mo +2d nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01019-w 78Refutations to Roko's Basilisk 13 8 9mo +52m substack.com/home/post/p-160751863 79PHP isn't dead. Laravel is just bloated. Here's what I made instead 27 14 9mo +37m github.com/jeremie5/dataphyre 80CDC's top laboratory on STDs is shut by Trump administration 95 157 9mo +27m statnews.com/2025/04/05/cdc-sexually-transmitted-diseases-laboratory-closed-by-trump-administration 81Open-Source Is Just That 119 78 9mo +13m vale.rocks/posts/open-source-entitlement 82[dead] ? 30 9mo +16m old.reddit.com 83Food fermentation in space: Opportunities and challenges 9 43 9mo +2h cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)00450-X 84Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted 39 200 9mo +35m garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-bill-that-would-have-blocked 85Dark Mirror Ideologies 90 74 9mo +57m fortressofdoors.com/dark-mirror-ideologies 86We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing 244 359 9mo +2d theverge.com/tech/640119/camera-raw-spec-format-explained-adobe-dng-canon-nikon-sony-fujifilm 87[dead] ? 11 9mo +14m twitter.com 88Circuit breaker triggered in Japan for stock futures trading 318 247 9mo +1h wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-trade-war-04-07-25/card/circuit-breaker-triggered-in-japan-for-stock-futures-trading-Q5iMfZyfPGBEslrIObgB 89Anagram Word Game 17 55 9mo +2d codingjlu.github.io/anagram 90Journey to Optimize Cloudflare D1 Database Queries 27 115 9mo +3d gist.github.com/rxliuli/be31cbded41ef7eac6ae0da9070c8ef8 91Apple's mouse is so bad Tim Cook uses another brand at work (2024) 82 38 9mo +3m glassalmanac.com/apples-mouse-is-so-bad-tim-cook-uses-another-brand-at-work 92After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work 297 284 9mo +53m science.org/content/article/after-coding-error-triggers-firings-top-nih-scientists-called-back-work 93Let's Ban Billboards 296 354 9mo +6m iambateman.com/articles/billboards 94SciOp torrents: download, seed erased US Gov sites and datasets 13 160 9mo +1h sciop.net/uploads 95AEgIS turns phone sensors into antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution 17 81 9mo +3d home.cern/news/news/experiments/aegis-transforms-smartphone-sensors-antimatter-camera-unprecedented 96Why Lotus Domino? (2024) 62 87 9mo +42m moohar.comhttp://www./blog/why_domino 97Baby Steps into Genetic Programming 39 120 9mo +1h aerique.blogspot.com/2011/01/baby-steps-into-genetic-programming.html 98Visual Perception in the Brain of a Jumping Spider(2014) 1 18 9mo +1h cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(14)01150-6 99Glamorous Toolkit 185 341 9mo +24m gtoolkit.com/ 100 More... 2025.04.06