HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order ⚙ Show HN: I made a math puzzle game. Hope you like it 18 33 9mo +2d madmonk13.github.io/addends 1Writing Cursor rules with a Cursor rule 46 156 9mo +2d adithyan.io/blog/writing-cursor-rules-with-a-cursor-rule 2How to speed up US passenger rail, without bullet trains 120 63 9mo +2d bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-10/how-to-speed-up-us-passenger-rail-without-bullet-trains 3Vertical Sharding Sucks 13 19 9mo +1d pgdog.dev/blog/vertical-sharding-sucks 4What can we take away from the ‘stochastic parrot’ saga? 101 41 9mo +2d inferencemagazine.substack.com/p/the-parrot-is-dead 5When Microsoft retired Clippy 7 20 9mo +2d dfarq.homeip.net/when-microsoft-retired-clippy 6A balanced review of Math Academy 23 52 9mo +2d newsletter.ozwrites.com/p/a-balanced-review-of-math-academy 7The Heir Conditioner 0 11 9mo +2d lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-heir-conditioner 8Unlocking Sudoku's Secrets 5 43 9mo +2d chalkdustmagazine.com/features/unlocking-sudokus-secrets 9Quick Primer on MCP Using Ollama and LangChain 20 129 9mo +1h polarsparc.com/xhtml/MCP.html 10Are Plants Farming Us? 56 77 9mo +21h inleo.io/@gentleshaid/are-plants-farming-us-a-thoughtful-look-at-natures-silent-masters-jx9 11GeoDeep's AI Detection on Maxar's Satellite Imagery 17 62 9mo +2d tech.marksblogg.com/geodeep-maxar-ai-detection.html 12Lotka–Volterra Equations 21 53 9mo +3d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equations 13Regime Change in the West 28 54 9mo +2h lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/perry-anderson/regime-change-in-the-west 14Microsoft Prepares for New Round of Layoffs in May 2025 15 31 9mo +4m thebridgechronicle.com/tech/microsoft-layoffs-may-2025 15What is GNU Radio? 3 34 9mo +11m wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php?title=What_Is_GNU_Radio 16Revolt brews against RFK Jr. as experts pen rally cries in top medical journal 3 47 9mo +18m arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/revolt-brews-against-rfk-jr-as-experts-pen-rally-cries-in-top-medical-journal 17Structural Optimization of I-Beams via Typographical Analysis 5 20 9mo +2d researchgate.net/publication/390635826_Structural_Optimization_of_I-Beams_via_Typographical_Analysis_A_Comparative_Study_of_Alphabetical_Cross-Sections 18Implementing DeepSeek R1's GRPO algorithm from scratch 3 189 9mo +2h github.com/policy-gradient/GRPO-Zero 19Math 13 – An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics [pdf] 9 181 9mo +53m math.uci.edu/~ndonalds/math13/notes.pdf 20Peering into the Linux Kernel with Trace 3 78 9mo +1d alexdowad.github.io/peering-in-the-kernel-with-trace 21South Korea Is over [video] 28 30 9mo +1h youtube.com/watch?v=Ufmu1WD2TSk 22Writing my own dithering algorithm in Racket 40 166 9mo +2m amanvir.com/blog/writing-my-own-dithering-algorithm-in-racket 23Open guide to equity compensation 290 630 9mo +31m github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation 24The self-castrated hatmaker who killed John Wilkes Booth (2015) 26 43 9mo +20m washingtonian.com/2015/04/12/the-man-who-killed-john-wilkes-booth 25Exwm: Emacs X Window Manager 34 116 9mo +2h github.com/emacs-exwm/exwm 26Show HN: Crystal, the most accurate U.S. gov't data search tool 8 23 9mo +1h askcrystal.info 27Mistakes and cool things to do with arena allocators 8 78 9mo +3d zylinski.se/posts/dynamic-arrays-and-arenas 28Few build Hypervisors. We're one of them 6 15 9mo +53m virtualize.sh/blog/few-build-hypervisors-were-one-of-them 29The Manicule: The little hand that's everywhere 6 83 9mo +3d messynessychic.com/2025/03/07/the-secret-history-of-the-manicule-little-hand-thats-everywhere 30How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look? 101 170 9mo +2h alexanderell.is/posts/orange 31Tesla Releases Stripped RWD Cybertruck: So Much Worse for Not Much Less Money 114 65 9mo +3h jalopnik.com/1832213/tesla-releases-cheaper-rwd-cybertruck 32Don't sell space in your homelab (2023) 100 119 9mo +33m grumpy.systems/2023/please-dont-sell-space-in-your-homelab 33More than 1,500 new fonts – including all-time favorites – come to Adobe Fonts 55 37 9mo +3d blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2025/04/08/more-than-1500-new-fonts-including-all-time-favorites-come-to-adobe-fonts 34Amazon Turned Drivers into First Responders in Europe Experiment 36 35 9mo +42m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-10/amazon-turned-drivers-into-first-responders-in-europe-experiment 35Christianity Was Borderline Illegal in Silicon Valley. Now It's the New Religion 5 13 9mo +24m vanityfair.com/news/story/christianity-was-borderline-illegal-in-silicon-valley-now-its-the-new-religion 36Show HN: Gatehouse-TS – TypeScript port of Rust's authorization policy framework 0 21 9mo +26m github.com/9Morello/gatehouse-ts 37Why Fennel? 154 276 9mo +1h fennel-lang.org/rationale 38A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips 24 69 9mo +41m righto.comhttp://www./2025/04/commodore-pet-repair.html 39Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands 1 15 9mo +1h nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08780-y 40Why Our Brains Crave Ideology 8 14 9mo +52m nautil.us/why-our-brains-crave-ideology-1203194 41Fake images that fooled the world 35 75 9mo +1d theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/12/28-fake-images-that-fooled-the-world 42Skywork-OR1: new SOTA 32B thinking model with open weight 28 145 9mo +1h github.com/SkyworkAI/Skywork-OR1 43School student uses AI to reveal 1.5M previously unknown objects in space 0 12 9mo +26m phys.org/news/2025-04-high-school-student-ai-reveal.html 44Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language (1981) [pdf] 81 70 9mo +1h doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/why_pascal/why_pascal_is_not_my_favorite_language.pdf 45[dead] ? 20 9mo +35m theguardian.com 46Using bad hardware: why I work in the terminal (2024) 57 55 9mo +39m colean.cc/journal/2024/08sep.html 47US tech tariff exemption may only be temporary, says Lutnick 55 71 9mo +22m ft.com/content/9038804f-cf69-4193-9332-8b5ea1f9af4b 48Cargo-mutants:zombie: Inject bugs and see if your tests catch them 17 104 9mo +2d github.com/sourcefrog/cargo-mutants 49Making SNES ROMs using C# 18 90 9mo +33m reddit.com/r/dotnet/s/fhm4TUNhlX 50Half the men in Seattle are never-married singles, census data shows 191 117 9mo +3m seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/half-the-men-in-seattle-are-never-married-singles-for-the-first-time 51Compute's Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Yrs, Will Focus on Retro Computing 36 103 9mo +3h computesgazette.com 52Telling the Bees 8 27 9mo +3d emergencemagazine.org/essay/telling-the-bees 53Wasting Inferences with Aider 104 136 9mo +34m worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/wasting-inferences-with-aider 54Osprey – Browser extension that protects you from malicious websites 26 22 9mo +2h github.com/Foulest/Osprey 55AMD NPU and Xilinx Versal AI Engines Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy (2024) [pdf] 30 67 9mo +2h git.astron.nl/RD/acap/-/raw/main/Presentation_FPL24_Vincent_Sprave.pdf 56The dark side of the Moomins 99 306 9mo +3m newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/04/dark-side-of-the-moomins-tove-jansson 57RNA interference and nanomedicine team up to fight dangerous fungal infections 0 51 9mo +2d phys.org/news/2025-03-rna-nanomedicine-dangerous-fungal-infections.html 58Facebook is just Craigslist now 35 41 9mo +1h theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/04/facebook-marketplace-craiglist-buy-sell/682420 59How I install personal versions of programs on Unix 32 58 9mo +1d utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/MyPersonalProgramsSetup 60A Reddit bot drove me insane 358 655 9mo +7m posthuman.blog/this-reddit-post-fried-my-brain 61DragonFlyBSD Lands "Next-Gen" Disk Encryption Code 1 19 9mo +20m phoronix.com/news/DragonFlyBSD-DM-Crypt-NG 62Nominal Aphasia: Problems in Name Retrieval 31 63 9mo +2d serendipstudio.org/exchange/darlene-forde/nominal-aphasia-problems-name-retrieval 63Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015) 202 267 9mo +1d culture.pl/en/article/philip-k-dick-stanislaw-lem-is-a-communist-committee 64Problems with Go channels (2016) 195 158 9mo +4h jtolio.com/2016/03/go-channels-are-bad-and-you-should-feel-bad 65Whenever: Typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python 142 285 9mo +24m github.com/ariebovenberg/whenever 66Numbers and Unicorns 2 11 9mo +3d freedommathdance.blogspot.com/2025/01/on-numbers-and-unicorns.html 67My imaginary children aren't using your streaming service 123 87 9mo +39m shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/04/my-imaginary-children-arent-using-your-streaming-service 68Universal basic income: German experiment bring surprising results 98 54 9mo +5m ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/article/a-german-experiment-gave-people-a-basic-monthly-income-the-effect-on-their-work-ethic-was-surprising 69"Adulting" courses in America 73 71 9mo +1h economist.com/culture/2025/04/10/too-many-adults-are-absolutely-clueless 70Microgravity 101 11 29 9mo +2d sparkgravity.com/journal/microgravity-101 71AI Action Figure Generator 2 3 9mo +3d ai-figure-generator.com 72Show HN: Chonky – a neural approach for text semantic chunking 35 160 9mo +1d github.com/mirth/chonky 73Why educational inequality runs in families: Genetics more than environment 3 24 9mo +9m osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/rehdj_v1 74Cross-Entropy and KL Divergence 11 69 9mo +2h eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/cross-entropy-and-kl-divergence 75Show HN: BSE – Semantic Zip Engine for Text, Image and Audio 8 11 9mo +24m 76ESA has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay? 43 33 9mo +2d arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/esa-finally-has-a-commercial-launch-strategy-but-will-member-states-pay 77How to repair the parts that explode in Lenovo Yoga laptops (2019) 18 56 9mo +2h adammunich.comhttp:///how-to-repair-the-parts-that-explode-in-lenovo-yoga-laptops 7833-year-old AmigaOS for Commodore computers gets an unexpected update News 13 86 9mo +20m tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/33-year-old-amigaos-for-commodore-computers-gets-an-unexpected-update 79A Farewell to the ArcoLinux University 12 79 9mo +1h arcolinux.info/a-farewell-to-the-arcolinux-university 80How Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend 104 163 9mo +3d bbc.com/culture/article/20250407-how-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-became-a-comedy-legend 81How to not build a two stage model rocket 46 124 9mo +1h knowone08.gitbook.io/vgecrocketry 82Dust in the wind: How cities alter natural airborne particles 1 46 9mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-04-cities-natural-airborne-particles.html 83Demystifying Development: Does It Pencil? 2 9 9mo +2d ternercenter.app/demystifying-development-math#simulation 84Ambient music on iOS 18.4 and the return to the Apple's Music app 39 52 9mo +2d manualdousuario.net/en/ambient-music-ios-18-4 85BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of 174 421 9mo +28m jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/bps-gps-alternative-nobodys-heard 86Minestom – An open-source, lightweight Minecraft server built from the ground up 6 21 9mo +2h minestom.net 87How to Structure a B2B Marketplace Venture 3 39 9mo +1h sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-to-structure-a-b2b-marketplace-venture 88Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a 256 369 9mo +17m grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114327666433966529 89Show HN: AI quiz generator from any topic or book in seconds 11 16 9mo +2d wiyomi.com 90WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser 142 319 9mo +3h webtui.ironclad.sh 91P2Panda: Building blocks for peer-to-peer applications 5 42 9mo +1h p2panda.org 92New urinal designs 121 97 9mo +31m livescience.com/technology/engineering/new-urinal-designs-could-prevent-up-to-265-000-gallons-of-urine-from-spilling-onto-the-floor-each-day 93Hunger shifts attention towards less healthy food options, study finds 19 66 9mo +7m medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-hunger-shifts-attention-healthy-food.html 94Mammoth genetic diversity throughout the last million years 2 23 9mo +3d sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250409114704.htm 95[dead] ? 16 9mo +11m npr.org 96 More... 2025.04.12