HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Deep Research is now available on Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental 24 88 9mo +49m blog.google/products/gemini/deep-research-gemini-2-5-pro-experimental 1[dead] ? 14 9mo +42m mbc.ca.gov 2Reflections on the Mirror Stage 2 10 9mo +2d lareviewofbooks.org/blog/essays/reflections-mirror-stage 3Trump, Doge Are Trying to Get Around Privacy Laws to Gather Your Personal Info 13 39 9mo +13m rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-musk-doge-privacy-personal-info-data-social-security-1235312853 4Boron-Based Flame Retardants: Enabling Everyday Safety 2 15 9mo +2d borax.com/news-events/november-2022/boron-flame-retardant-history 5Built an app that solved our grocery budget issues - saves us $200/month 7 16 9mo +2d apps.apple.com/us/app/plateful-meal-plan-budget/id6743173309 6Preparation Kept Bomb Threats from Disrupting the 2024 Elections 7 23 9mo +2h brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/preparation-kept-bomb-threats-disrupting-2024-elections 7How to Recognize Woodpeckers by Their Drumming Sounds 31 107 9mo +1m allaboutbirds.org/news/how-to-recognize-woodpeckers-by-their-drumming-sounds 8Obituary for Cyc 274 437 9mo +11m yuxi-liu-wired.github.io/essays/posts/cyc 9Using Token Sequences to Iterate Ranges 0 29 9mo +3d brevzin.github.io/c++/2025/04/03/token-sequence-for 10Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog 28 110 9mo +8m buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/a48fce5b-8a05-4302-b620-9b26f057f145 11How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs 57 158 9mo +21m netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-accurately-attributes-ebpf-flow-logs-afe6d644a3bc 12Decomposing factorial of 300K as the product of 300K factors larger than 100K 9 96 9mo +15m gus-massa.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/04/decomposing-factorial-of-300k-as.html 13A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 7 12 9mo +2m 404media.co/a-us-made-iphone-is-pure-fantasy 14Sweetener saccharin shows surprise power against antibiotic resistance 118 126 9mo +3d brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/Sweetener-saccharin-shows-surprise-power-against-antibiotic-resistance 15Ask HN: Do you still use search engines? 569 334 9mo +8h 16[dead] ? 1 9mo +3m forbes.com 17Better typography with text-wrap pretty 152 355 9mo +2h webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty 18Show HN: A website/app to help manage your game library 39 25 9mo +3m gamenode.app 19Show HN: Coroot – eBPF-based, open source observability with actionable insights 30 152 9mo +46m github.com/coroot/coroot 20Can reinforcement learning for LLMs scale beyond math and coding tasks? Probably 4 6 9mo +21m arxiv.org/abs/2503.23829 21Apache ECharts 241 1596 9mo +12m echarts.apache.org/en/index.html 22Analytic Combinatorics – A Worked Example 52 105 9mo +1m grossack.site/2025/04/08/analytic-combinatorics-example.html 23Sculptor: Catch and fix issues as you code 3 61 9mo +1h imbue.com/product/sculptor 24Show HN: A tool for creating blackout poetry 12 52 9mo +3d bobbiec.github.io/blackout-poetry.html 25Show HN: HNSW index for vector embeddings in approx 500 LOC 12 71 9mo +1h github.com/dicroce/hnsw 26Tailscale has raised $160M 319 634 9mo +6h tailscale.com/blog/series-c 27The narrowest escalator in New York City 54 86 9mo +1d doobybrain.com/blog/the-narrowest-escalator-in-new-york 28Nearly $13M stolen from Abracadabra Finance in crypto heist 38 39 9mo +54m therecord.media/nearly-thirteen-million-stolen-abracadabra 29[deleted] 0 9mo +4m forbes.com 30Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic 167 955 9mo +9m theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city 31The Greatest Motorcycle Photo 84 137 9mo +2d life.com/arts-entertainment/the-greatest-motorcycle-photo-ever 32Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks 161 344 9mo +3h theverge.com/meta/645012/meta-llama-4-maverick-benchmarks-gaming 33'Unstoppable force' of solar power propels world to 40% clean electricity 199 175 9mo +4h news.sky.com/story/unstoppable-force-of-solar-power-propels-world-to-40-clean-electricity-report-finds-13344230 34How Trump's second term just made digital sovereignty a European priority 53 105 9mo +5h xwiki.com/en/Blog/European-digital-sovereignty 35The Decline of the U.S. Machine-Tool Industry and Prospects for Recovery (1994) 494 199 9mo +3d rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB1500.html 36Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy 35 68 9mo +2h cleantechnica.com/2025/04/04/pakistans-22-gw-solar-shock-how-a-fragile-state-went-full-clean-energy 37Show HN: I built a tool to find devs based on code, not LinkedIn titles 71 86 9mo +38m gitmatcher.com 38Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar 51 114 9mo +1h badgeify.app 39Hyundai to buy 'thousands' of Boston Dynamics robots 64 57 9mo +2d therobotreport.com/hyundai-purchase-tens-of-thousands-boston-dynamics-robots 40Show HN: Connecting an IBM 3151 terminal to a mainframe [video] 44 125 9mo +14m youtube.com/watch?v=V14ac9cRi9Q 41What if we taxed advertising? 75 100 9mo +1h matthewsinclair.com/blog/0177-what-if-we-taxed-advertising 42Doge using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say 92 85 9mo +18m reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/musks-doge-using-ai-snoop-us-federal-workers-sources-say-2025-04-08 43LLM-hacker-news: LLM plugin for pulling content from Hacker News 55 92 9mo +1h github.com/simonw/llm-hacker-news 44Arbitrage and equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 economy (2012) 3 41 9mo +2d web.archive.org/web/20130530084230/http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/arbitrage-and-equilibrium-in-the-team-fortress-2-economy 45An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force 406 431 9mo +2h aftermath.site/ai-video-game-development-art-vibe-coding-midjourney 46Tom and Jerry One-Minute Video Generation with Test-Time Training 18 80 9mo +6h test-time-training.github.io/video-dit 47Cloudflare Acquires Outerbase 12 59 9mo +38m blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-outerbase-database-dx 48Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant 756 655 9mo +28m economist.com/the-americas/2025/04/03/brazils-government-run-payments-system-has-become-dominant 49IBM Announces the Z17 Mainframe Powered by Telum II Processors 54 69 9mo +27m phoronix.com/news/IBM-z17-Telum-2-Announced 50What a refugee camp reveals about economics 20 58 9mo +3d economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/04/03/what-a-refugee-camp-reveals-about-economics 51Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals 182 241 9mo +2h quantamagazine.org/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals-20250407 52A wild 'freakosystem' has been born in Hawaii 104 86 9mo +3d bbc.com/future/article/20250403-the-new-hawaiian-freakosystem-emerging-on-oahu-accidentally-created-by-humans 53[dead] ? 13 9mo +41m msn.com 54Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM 93 167 9mo +2h spectrum.ieee.org/building-the-system360-mainframe-nearly-destroyed-ibm 55No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation 362 436 9mo +3d oneusefulthing.org/p/no-elephants-breakthroughs-in-image 56American academic faces years in jail after charged with insulting Thai monarchy 5 14 9mo +36m cnn.com/2025/04/08/asia/thailand-lese-majeste-paul-chambers-intl-hnk/index.html 57Less Htmx Is More 116 167 9mo +23m unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/less-htmx-is-more 58UK Effort to Keep Apple Encryption Fight Secret Is Blocked 139 170 9mo +1h msn.com/en-us/money/other/uk-effort-to-keep-apple-encryption-fight-secret-is-blocked/ar-AA1CsokD 59Flying Saucers: An Opening Salvo of the Cold War? 2 11 9mo +3d tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2024.2436673 60Gazans tell BBC of torture in Israeli detention 24 102 9mo +37m bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7vje365rno 61Paradigm (YC W24) Hiring Founding Engineers in SF 0 1 9mo +28s ycombinator.com/companies/paradigm/jobs/nFNWweP-founding-engineer 62String Theorists Say Black Holes Are Multidimensional String 'Supermazes' 26 16 9mo +56m scientificamerican.com/article/string-theorists-say-black-holes-are-multidimensional-string-supermazes 63Critical Vulnerability: US Constitution v1.0 3 20 9mo +42m upbeatmoon.com/cve-1789-0304 64Neural Graffiti – Liquid Memory Layer for LLMs 25 105 9mo +3h github.com/babycommando/neuralgraffiti 65Pebbles Form Planets 2 18 9mo +3d nautil.us/how-pebbles-form-planets-1201205 66Ethically sourced "spare" human bodies could revolutionize medicine 58 28 9mo +3d technologyreview.com/2025/03/25/1113611/ethically-sourced-spare-human-bodies-could-revolutionize-medicine 67EU offered 'zero-for-zero' deal to US weeks before tariff announcement 54 38 9mo +4m theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/07/eu-offered-zero-for-zero-deal-to-us-weeks-before-tariff-announcement 68The Modern Struggle Is Fighting Weaponized Addiction (2020) 16 39 9mo +14m nav.al/addiction 69Smallest Pacemaker Is the Size of a Rice Grain 14 95 9mo +3d sciencealert.com/breakthrough-worlds-smallest-pacemaker-is-the-size-of-a-rice-grain 70India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops 190 318 9mo +1h theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops 71Social Security Website Crashes Blamed on Doge Software Update 4 21 9mo +6m gizmodo.com/social-security-website-crashes-blamed-on-doge-software-update-2000586092 72Lecture_diffusion_models.pdf 3 5 9mo +2h dropbox.com/scl/fi/gmwhx7jfi2nvm8pudn5it/lecture_diffusion_models.pdf?dl=0&e=2&noscript=1&rlkey=8w5rey4dubtnbdqitper0ab4l 73Unmasking EncryptHub: Help from ChatGPT and Opsec Blunders 16 55 9mo +1d outpost24.com/blog/unmasking-encrypthub-chatgpt-partner-crime 74Listening habits and effects of background music in people with and without ADHD 26 65 9mo +24m frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1508181/full 75Deep Learning, Deep Scandal 19 37 9mo +11m garymarcus.substack.com/p/deep-learning-deep-scandal 76Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs 116 174 9mo +7h idiallo.com/blog/companies-dont-fix-bugs 77'Exploding' Tunnock's teacakes cleared by tests to fly again 34 67 9mo +2d bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20x5x0g3kqo 78An FPGA-based LGP-30 Replica 8 49 9mo +1h e-basteln.de/computing/lgp30/lgp30 79Fuck Run Club, Join Sit Club 56 75 9mo +2h rawandferal.substack.com/p/fck-run-club-join-sit-club 80Gene-edited cane toad that never grows up created to eat its siblings 8 27 9mo +52m abc.net.au/news/science/2025-04-08/cane-toad-created-that-never-grows-up-and-eats-its-siblings/105100286 81North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500 153 145 9mo +1h yahoo.com/news/thousands-north-korean-workers-infiltrated-110000417.html 82Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell 101 280 9mo +59m yossarian.net/til/post/any-program-can-be-a-github-actions-shell 83Deleting multiplayer from the Unreal engine can save memory 52 162 9mo +1d larstofus.com/2025/04/05/how-deleting-multiplayer-from-the-engine-can-save-memory 84Clean energy powered 40% of global electricity in 2024, report finds 5 15 9mo +50m theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/08/clean-energy-powered-40-of-global-electricity-in-2024-report-finds 85Why are Japan streets devoid of US cars? It's no mystery, theyre not good enough 12 18 9mo +52m bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-04-07/the-japan-tariff-myth-that-just-won-t-die-in-trump-s-head 86[dead] ? 12 9mo +14m offthefrontpage.com 87Are FreeBSD Jails a Containers? 8 13 9mo +20m vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/are-freebsd-jails-containers 88The Precise Language of Good Management 1 17 9mo +47m staysaasy.com/management/2025/04/06/precise-language.html 89Ancient Dagger Up to 2.5k Years Old W Stars/Moons/Geometric Patterns Unearthed 35 144 9mo +4h smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/metal-detectorists-unearth-ancient-dagger-decorated-with-tiny-stars-crescent-moons-and-geometric-patterns-180986369 90Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon 58 50 9mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-04-odds-asteroid-briefly-threatened-earth.html 91[dead] ? 23 9mo +7m npr.org 92[dead] ? 4 9mo +43m nmn.gl 93[dead] ? 14 9mo +53m cnbc.com 94Silicon Valley 'nepo baby' publishes scathing first novel about growing up rich 15 23 9mo +16m sfstandard.com/2025/04/07/jim-breyer-son-daniel-breyer-novel-smokebirds 95Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 44 193 9mo +3m fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer/114297967333461078 96Cardiac arrest deaths among marathoners have decreased, study finds 56 69 9mo +2d washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/05/marathon-running-cardiac-arrest-cpr 97 More... 2025.04.07