HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Battle of the Mallocators 11 25 9mo +1h smalldatum.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/04/battle-of-mallocators.html 1OmniSVG 2 43 9mo +14m github.com/OmniSVG/OmniSVG 2YAML: The Norway Problem (2022) 163 216 9mo +1h bram.us/2022/01/11/yaml-the-norway-problem 3I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses 213 338 9mo +1h tomsguide.com/computing/i-ditched-my-laptop-for-a-pocketable-mini-pc-and-a-pair-of-ar-glasses-heres-what-happened 4Royal Mail trials solar-powered postboxes with barcode scanners 12 26 9mo +2d eandt.theiet.org/2025/04/10/royal-mail-trials-solar-powered-postboxes-barcode-scanners 5Anubis Works 204 304 9mo +18m xeiaso.net/notes/2025/anubis-works 6Shadertoys Ported to Rust GPU 38 97 9mo +1h rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/04/10/shadertoys 7Learning Assembly for Fun, Performance and Profit 15 75 9mo +2d thechipletter.substack.com/p/learning-assembly-for-fun-and-profit 8WTF Is Botmetr? The First Platform That Rewards You for Hunting Chatbots 23 8 9mo +1h botmetr.com 9Transfer between Modalities with MetaQueries 12 25 9mo +50m arxiv.org/abs/2504.06256 10Why is there a “small house” in IBM's Code page 437? 49 223 9mo +3h blog.glyphdrawing.club/why-is-there-a-small-house-in-ibm-s-code-page-437 11Levels of configuration languages 67 74 9mo +1h beza1e1.tuxen.de/config_levels.html 12Ask HN: How do you monetize personal code if it's not an "app"? 59 163 9mo +54m 13Microsoft rolls out AI screenshot tool dubbed 'privacy nightmare' 7 18 9mo +24m bbc.com/news/articles/cj3xjrj7v78o 14Zod v4 Beta 45 174 9mo +25m v4.zod.dev/v4 15CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider 126 134 9mo +3d home.cern/news/news/accelerators/cern-releases-report-feasibility-possible-future-circular-collider 16Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs 860 400 9mo +7h bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-12/trump-exempts-phones-computers-chips-from-reciprocal-tariffs 17Apache ECharts + Leaflet + shadcn for data viz 7 84 9mo +6h docs.evidence.dev/components/all-components 18[dead] ? 9 9mo +47m bbc.com 19It never happened–but the picture says it did: 28 fake images that fooled world 1 24 9mo +14m theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/12/28-fake-images-that-fooled-the-world 20Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss' Retrofuturism 8 26 9mo +3d publicdomainreview.org/essay/modern-babylon-ziggurat-skyscrapers-and-hugh-ferriss-retrofuturism 21Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI into Operating Systems 21 38 9mo +13m howtogeek.com/dear-big-tech-stop-shoving-ai-into-operating-systems 22A Remarkable Newly Deciphered Hittite Tablet Sheds New Light on the Trojan War 10 34 9mo +17m anatolianarchaeology.net/a-remarkable-newly-deciphered-hittite-tablet-sheds-new-light-on-the-trojan-war 23CLP Calculus Textbooks 7 20 9mo +18m personal.math.ubc.ca/~CLP 24Show HN: memEx, a personal knowledge base inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode 45 188 9mo +18m gitea.bubbletea.dev/shibao/memex 25Stop Treating YAML Like a String 0 23 9mo +3d theyamlengineer.com/stop-treating-yaml-like-a-string 26Florida's New Social Media Bill Explicitly Demands an Encryption Backdoor 3 31 9mo +10m eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/floridas-new-social-media-bill-says-quiet-part-out-loud-and-demands-encryption 27China just approved flying taxis – no pilot needed 96 77 9mo +13m engineerine.com/chinas-flying-taxis 28The Solid-State Shift: Reinventing the Transformer for Modern Grids 24 58 9mo +2m powermag.com/the-solid-state-shift-reinventing-the-transformer-for-modern-grids 29A 3D mouse with 3D printed flexures and PCB coils 2 16 9mo +41m hackaday.com/2024/01/31/3d-mouse-with-3d-printed-flexures-and-pcb-coils 30Emacs Lisp Elements 54 346 9mo +3h protesilaos.com/emacs/emacs-lisp-elements 31Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly 44 135 9mo +2d infoq.com/presentations/prime-video-rust 32Dual Kickstart ROM Replacement for Amiga 28 89 9mo +43m github.com/cdhooper/kicksmash32 33'Paraparticles' Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle 9 54 9mo +1h quantamagazine.org/paraparticles-would-be-a-third-kingdom-of-quantum-particle-20250411 34Nice things with SVG 100 552 9mo +5m fuma-nama.vercel.app/blog/svg-art 35ArkType: Ergonomic TS validator 100x faster than Zod 71 190 9mo +1h arktype.io 36Retro Computing Artifacts Stream 4 10 9mo +2d retro-computing-stream.onrender.com 37Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Engineer #3 0 1 9mo +28s ycombinator.com/companies/artie/jobs/7kGvDVC-founding-product-engineer 38Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic 552 604 9mo +26m washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars 39Roo or Cline? We're building a superset 56 69 9mo +2d blog.kilocode.ai/p/roo-or-cline-were-building-a-superset 40Which countries would benefit most from an American brain drain? 78 44 9mo +48m economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/04/11/which-countries-would-benefit-most-from-an-american-brain-drain 41Tunarr: Create and configure live TV channels from media on your servers 61 204 9mo +16m tunarr.com 42[dead] ? 17 9mo +34m aljazeera.com 43Benefits of Apache Iceberg for geospatial data analysis 1 16 9mo +31m wherobots.com/blog/benefits-of-apache-iceberg-for-geospatial-data-analysis 44The AI magic behind Sphere's upcoming 'The Wizard of Oz' 45 53 9mo +3d blog.google/products/google-cloud/sphere-wizard-of-oz 45AI Hallucinations Are Fueling a New Class of Supply Chain Attacks 6 29 9mo +55m socket.dev/blog/slopsquatting-how-ai-hallucinations-are-fueling-a-new-class-of-supply-chain-attacks 46"Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay": Blue Cross Approved Surgeries Then Refused to Pay 221 167 9mo +32m propublica.org/article/blue-cross-blue-shield-louisiana-insurance-lawsuit-breast-cancer-doctors 47Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption Under New Rules 1 210 9mo +3m barrons.com/articles/tariffs-exclusions-exemptions-apple-nvidia-dell-smartphones-pcs-b2e069ff 48Apple was getting bid up like crazy yesterday, don't tell me this wasn't leaked 11 45 9mo +47s twitter.com/TradingThomas3/status/1911047516021281205 49One Bug Wasn't Enough: Escalating Twice Through SAP's Setuid Landscape 9 73 9mo +2d anvilsecure.com/blog/one-bug-wasnt-enough-escalating-twice-through-saps-setuid-landscape.html 50Why training AI can't be IP theft 92 45 9mo +41m blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/04/03/why-training-ai-cant-be-ip-theft 51Charts.css 23 101 9mo +46m chartscss.org 52Open source and self hostable/private file converter 110 581 9mo +31m vert.sh 53Delusional themes may be more varied than we thought 70 49 9mo +2d bps.org.uk/research-digest/delusional-themes-may-be-more-varied-we-thought 54AI can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything 168 185 9mo +5m theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain 55Show HN: Python at the Speed of Rust 40 68 9mo +2d blog.fxn.ai/python-at-the-speed-of-rust 56Instant (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding TypeScript Engineer 0 1 9mo +22s instantdb.com/hiring/ts-hacker 57Ames Shovel and Tool Catalog of Shovels, Spades and Scoops (1926) [pdf] 17 52 9mo +2d stonehill-website.s3.amazonaws.com/files/resources/1926-ames-catalog-2.pdf 58What a digital coup looks like [video] 1 14 9mo +17m ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like 59Yakread's Ranking Algorithm 13 67 9mo +3d obryant.dev/p/yakread-algorithm 60The Bitter Prediction 162 205 9mo +22m 4zm.org/2025/04/05/bitter-prediction.html 61C++: terser (shorter) lambda == SHORTY (ab-use?) 20 65 9mo +3d github.com/hanickadot/shorty 62Why Your 'Harmonious' Team Is Failing 63 79 9mo +2h terriblesoftware.org/2025/03/12/why-your-harmonious-team-is-actually-failing 63Google will let companies run Gemini models in their own data centers 182 506 9mo +2d cnbc.com/2025/04/09/google-will-let-companies-run-gemini-models-in-their-own-data-centers.html 64U.S. cites its power to deport people for beliefs 29 67 9mo +39m apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-trump-c60738368171289ae43177660def8d34 65Why 'Prince Rupert's Drop' Glass Is Strong Enough to Shatter a Bullet (2023) 31 63 9mo +2d popularmechanics.com/science/a40008994/why-the-prince-ruperts-drop-is-so-strong 66Every picture from Venus' surface, ever (2021) 11 99 9mo +2d planetary.org/articles/every-picture-from-venus-surface-ever 67The Coming Test of Sanity for the Administration 3 14 9mo +58m harrylitman.substack.com/p/the-coming-test-of-sanity-for-the 68$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money 445 776 9mo +8m data-and-politics.ghost.io/70-million-in-60-seconds-how-insider-information-helped-someone-28x-their-money 69Google is winning on every AI front 795 947 9mo +1h thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/google-is-winning-on-every-ai-front 70Soil from the moon's far side suggests drier conditions than side facing Earth 3 17 9mo +2d apnews.com/article/moon-far-side-near-side-water-18081418600ea93bac69ac6af86a761b 71Rust to C compiler – 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms 248 251 9mo +44m fractalfir.github.io/generated_html/cg_clr_odd_platforms.html 72In Guatemala, painted altar found at Tikal adds new context to Maya history 6 25 9mo +2d phys.org/news/2025-04-guatemala-altar-tikal-context-mysterious.html 73Procedural Generation of Mammals and Locomotion 0 17 9mo +1d blog.runevision.com/2025/01/procedural-creature-progress-2021-2024.html 74Recall going back into Windows 120 106 9mo +18m arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/microsoft-is-putting-privacy-endangering-recall-back-into-windows-11 75Grappling with Infinity in Constraint Solvers 0 26 9mo +2d tuzz.tech/blog/grappling-with-infinity 76Awe – Modern compiler for Algol W 2 20 9mo +1h github.com/glynawe/awe 77Show HN: Omiword – A daily, sector-based word puzzle 61 54 9mo +11h omiword.com 78Pinball Brothers – A Swedish-Italian Pinball Company 9 36 9mo +2d pinballbrothers.com 79Dev Tools Honeytrap: Why We Can't Stop Building Tools Nobody Buys 30 54 9mo +1h substack.com/home/post/p-161145826 80Firecracker Entropy for VM Clones 0 11 9mo +1h github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main/docs/snapshotting/random-for-clones.md 81PyReason: Explainable inference for annotated, real valued, graph based and tem 2 27 9mo +3d github.com/lab-v2/pyreason 82 More... 2025.04.11