HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Our Best Customers Are Now Robots 10 28 9mo +1h fly.io/blog/fuckin-robots 1Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch 336 326 9mo +1h hodinkee.com/articles/introducing-vacheron-constantin-les-cabinotiers-solaria 2Umberto Eco's List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism 5 36 9mo +13m openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html 3RFK Jr says Deep State 'is real,' called FDA employees 'sock puppet' of industry 43 61 9mo +34m politico.com/news/2025/04/11/rfk-jr-hhs-fda-deep-state-00286826 4You might not need WebSockets 263 405 9mo +45m hntrl.io/posts/you-dont-need-websockets 5This Bench Does Not Exist 6 8 9mo +3d doesnotexist.openbenches.org 6Solid (formerly Wise) files for bankruptcy 14 15 9mo +1d techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/solid-which-claimed-to-be-the-aws-of-fintech-files-for-bankruptcy-after-raising-nearly-81m-in-funding 7AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem 77 121 9mo +30m iamcharliegraham.substack.com/p/ai-coding-and-the-peanut-butter-and 8Generative AI in Servo 20 27 9mo +1h azabani.com/2025/04/11/generative-ai-in-servo.html 9Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU 54 63 9mo +39m tiendil.org/en/posts/eu-key-principles-on-in-game-virtual-currencies 10Once lush Sahara was home to a surprisingly unique group of humans 32 141 9mo +1d sciencealert.com/once-lush-sahara-was-home-to-a-surprisingly-unique-group-of-humans 11A recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans 89 95 9mo +45m smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/you-might-think-of-shrimp-as-bugs-of-the-sea-but-a-remarkable-discovery-shows-the-opposite-bugs-are-actually-shrimp-of-the-land-180986303 12Forward Email: Technical Whitepaper [pdf] 0 13 9mo +1h forwardemail.net/technical-whitepaper.pdf 13Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace 285 252 9mo +21m science.org/content/article/germany-creates-super-high-tech-ministry-research-technology-and-aerospace 14The Mystery of ICE's Unidentifiable Arrests 20 57 9mo +5m newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-mystery-of-ices-unidentifiable-arrests 15Intentionally Making Close Friends (2021) 110 323 9mo +3d neelnanda.io/blog/43-making-friends 16Stop using e for compound interest 27 23 9mo +48m blog.danielh.cc/blog/e 17Education Secretary Wants 'A1' in Classrooms 44 68 9mo +17m latintimes.com/education-secretary-wants-a1-classrooms-early-kindergarten-she-means-ai-580380 18Show HN: Lunon – Instant model switching across LLMs 16 7 9mo +1h lunon.com 19Mark Klein, a Whistleblower Who Revealed Domestic Spying, Dies at 79 15 89 9mo +6m wsj.com/us-news/mark-klein-whistleblower-dies-73f434c7 20Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece 113 184 9mo +2d mssv.net/2025/04/07/a-puzzle-designer-on-blue-prince-a-roguelike-puzzle-masterpiece 21Social Security Administration Moving Public Communications to X 176 222 9mo +6m wired.com/story/social-security-administration-regional-office-elon-musk-x 22A 32-bit processor made with an atomically thin semiconductor 40 221 9mo +3d arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/researchers-build-a-risc-v-processor-using-a-2d-semiconductor 23US President endorses bill to lock the clocks in current Daylight Savings Time 36 44 9mo +16m flvoicenews.com/trump-endorses-rick-scotts-bill-to-lock-the-clocks-in-current-daylight-savings-time 24Modern 6502 10 103 9mo +43m mikekohn.net/micro/modern_6502.php 25US tells government employees to report on one another for "anti-Christian bias" 30 74 9mo +3m politico.com/news/2025/04/11/state-report-anti-christian-bias-033535 26[dead] ? 28 9mo +3m bloomberg.com 27Datastar: Web Framework for the Future? 152 249 9mo +1h chrismalek.me/posts/data-star-first-impressions 28Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta 853 1134 9mo +1h dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta 29Titanic digital scan reveals new details of ship's final hours 29 45 9mo +2d bbc.com/news/articles/cwy6gjwd0g6o 30The PS3 Licked the Many Cookie 120 136 9mo +19m darkcephas.github.io/ps3_failed/ps3_failed.html 31WebRTC for the Curious 48 217 9mo +1h webrtcforthecurious.com 32Rust CUDA Project 44 143 9mo +1h github.com/Rust-GPU/Rust-CUDA 33Our New AI Website Builder 65 90 9mo +2h wordpress.com/blog/2025/04/09/ai-website-builder 34Mosaic (YC W25) is building a general purpose agent for video editing 0 1 9mo +21s ycombinator.com/companies/mosaic-2/jobs/ru8Nwdq-founding-engineer 35Ask HN: Has anyone quit their startup (VC-backed) over cofounder disagreements? 59 77 9mo +38m 36Agency vs. Control vs. Reliability in Agent Design 5 20 9mo +1h fin.ai/research/agency-control-reliability-the-tradeoffs-in-customer-support-agents 37Severance: A closer look into the mid-century, brutalist universe of Lumon 5 31 9mo +3d designboom.com/design/severance-closer-look-mid-century-brutalist-retro-futuristic-universe-lumon-03-21-2025 38Probiotics reduce negative mood over time: daily self-reports in detection 0 5 9mo +17m nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00123-z 39Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023) 192 324 9mo +55m stevana.github.io/erlangs_not_about_lightweight_processes_and_message_passing.html 40Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates 33 136 9mo +25m gpuopen.com/learn/bilinear-interpolation-quadrilateral-barycentric-coordinates 41Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans 120 188 9mo +3d newscientist.com/article/2474993-bonobos-use-a-kind-of-syntax-once-thought-to-be-unique-to-humans 42Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL 17 43 9mo +16h 43Evelyn Waugh’s Decadent Redemption 22 26 9mo +2m libertiesjournal.com/online-articles/evelyn-waughs-decadent-redemption 44Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft 311 214 9mo +2h theregister.com/2025/04/11/windows_2000_best_microsoft 45Understanding US Power Outages 3 12 9mo +4h construction-physics.com/p/understanding-us-power-outages 46Ask HN: What can I do as a U.S. citizen to stop this? 12 15 9mo +2h 47Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash 701 529 9mo +1h petapixel.com/2025/04/10/adobe-deletes-bluesky-posts-after-furious-backlash 48Crime is down, way down 8 7 9mo +14m growsf.org/news/2025-04-10-crime-is-down 49Mario Kart $80 price isn't that high, historically 14 9 9mo +2d arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/04/will-mario-kart-worlds-80-price-become-gamings-new-normal 50FreeBSD Jails Security 4 18 9mo +3h vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/freebsd-jails-security 51Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility 207 421 9mo +51m lwn.net/Articles/1014979 52Browser extensions put 4M users at risk of cookie exposure 6 13 9mo +27m secureannex.com/blog/searching-for-something-unknow 53She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her 71 166 9mo +7m nytimes.com/2025/04/11/science/russian-scientist-ice-detained-harvard.html 54Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked 50 90 9mo +18m cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/carnegie-mellon-student-visa-revoked-interview 55AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley 63 27 9mo +2d a16z.com/ai-avatars 56Show HN: Free TI-84 Plus Online (No Signup, Runs in Browser) 5 9 9mo +2h ti84-online.com 57Show HN: Building better base images 15 37 9mo +32m github.com/avkcode/container-tools 58No code is dead. Long live vibe coding 32 27 9mo +4m kenneth.io/post/no-code-is-dead-long-live-vibe-coding 59Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte 634 502 9mo +42m reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-terminate-51-billion-it-contracts-with-accenture-deloitte-others-2025-04-11 60We clone a running VM in 2 seconds (2022) 73 168 9mo +2d codesandbox.io/blog/how-we-clone-a-running-vm-in-2-seconds 61What's Wrong with Apple? 19 24 9mo +39m nytimes.com/2025/04/11/technology/apple-issues-trump-tariffs.html 62How to Make a Longbow 40 143 9mo +2h howtomakealongbow.co.uk 63But what if I want a faster horse? 599 1430 9mo +23m rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-i-really-want-a-faster-horse 64Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring: Founding Product Designer 0 1 9mo +20s ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/SaJ0TjL-founding-product-designer 65DDoS Mitigation Leak 2 50 9mo +2d kentik.com/blog/beyond-their-intended-scope-ddos-mitigation-leak 66Strengths Are Your Weaknesses 108 336 9mo +2h terriblesoftware.org/2025/03/31/your-strengths-are-your-weaknesses 67An unused nuclear power plant became home to a world-class acoustics lab 14 62 9mo +2d theverge.com/tech/644385/nuclear-power-plant-acoustics-lab 68Why I Program in Lisp 259 279 9mo +1h funcall.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/04/why-i-program-in-lisp.html 69Lead is still bad for your brain 176 214 9mo +1h neurofrontiers.blog/why-lead-is-still-bad-for-your-brain 70Remember FastCGI? 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