HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing 119 111 9mo +14m metacast.app/blog/engineering/postmortem-llm-bots-image-optimization 1TTRPG Roots in the Game Battleship 2 10 9mo +2d playingattheworld.blogspot.comhttp:///2018/10/subterranean-chainmail-mines-and.html 2Lost City of the Samurai 1 30 9mo +2d archaeology.org/issues/may-june-2025/features/lost-city-of-the-samurai 3Tomb Engine 49 203 9mo +21m tombengine.com 4Show HN: ClipCapsule – A Clipboard Manager for Linux (Built with Go and Wails) 8 31 9mo +33m github.com/Victor-Evogor/clipcapsule 5Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation 225 309 9mo +12m newsroom.intel.com/corporate/intel-partner-deal-news-april2025 6W65C832 in an FPGA 12 74 9mo +3d mikekohn.net/micro/w65c832_fpga.php 7Understanding Aggregate Trends for Apple Intelligence Using Differential Privacy 27 50 9mo +1h machinelearning.apple.com/research/differential-privacy-aggregate-trends 8Harvard redesigned homepage to focus on research 2 16 9mo +4m harvard.edu 9Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind's Katzensymphonie (1868) 0 8 9mo +2d publicdomainreview.org/collection/katzensymphonie 10Censors Ignore Unencrypted HTTP/2 Traffic (2024) 14 61 9mo +2h upb-syssec.github.io/blog/2024/http2 11Why Is Africa Poor? Economic unfreedom, not slavery or colonialism 12 13 9mo +6m freeblackthought.substack.com/cp/156391441 12[dead] ? 34 9mo +2m math.columbia.edu 13Watermark segmentation 21 32 9mo +25m github.com/Diffusion-Dynamics/watermark-segmentation 14The Whimsical Investor 13 95 9mo +12h fi-le.net/stonks 15MooseAgent: A LLM Based Multi-Agent Framework for Automating Moose Simulation 0 13 9mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2504.08621 16AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital 86 103 9mo +2d bbc.com/news/articles/czd3ygd7mrno 17Will Peak Demand Roil Global Oil Markets? 2 10 9mo +31m libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/04/will-peak-demand-roil-global-oil-markets 18Shame and Revolution: Vietnam’s potent and storied anticolonialism 35 51 9mo +8m aeon.co/essays/how-vietnam-earned-its-world-renowned-anticolonial-standing 19Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court 318 430 9mo +5h axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025/04/14/ftc-meta-antitrust-trial-kicks-off-in-federal-court 20Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent? 216 218 9mo +1h 21Mathematical Reasoning and Proofs [pdf] 0 13 9mo +8m alistairsavage.ca/mat1362/notes/MAT1362-Mathematical_reasoning_and_proofs.pdf 22The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world 48 230 9mo +3d wpr.org/news/wisconsin-cartographer-karen-wynn-fonstad-mapped-tolkien-fantasy-world-oshkosh 23What Is Entropy? 112 284 9mo +9m jasonfantl.com/posts/What-is-Entropy 24Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes 1383 1346 9mo +11m harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education 25Podman Quadlets with Podman Desktop 80 179 9mo +1h podman-desktop.io/blog/podman-quadlet 26FEMA to end coverage for North Carolina recovery efforts 9 23 9mo +17m accuweather.com/en/weather-news/fema-ends-100-coverage-for-north-carolina-recovery-efforts/1765416 27Federal Government's letter to Harvard demanding changes [pdf] 109 166 9mo +13m harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf 28Simple Web Server 129 171 9mo +31m simplewebserver.org 29Monte Carlo Crash Course: Sampling 16 104 9mo +3h thenumb.at/Sampling 30KaiPod Learning (YC S21) Is Hiring a PM 0 1 9mo +33s ycombinator.com/companies/kaipod-learning/jobs/TgR2OZg-senior-product-manager 31AudioX: Diffusion Transformer for Anything-to-Audio Generation 19 148 9mo +23m zeyuet.github.io/AudioX 32Deciphering the spectra of flowers to map landscape-scale blooming dynamics 0 10 9mo +3d esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.70127 33[dead] ? 9 9mo +26m nihilismisnotenough.com 34SSD1306 display drivers and font rendering 33 76 9mo +15m subalpinecircuits.com/ssd1306-and-font-rendering 35AES and ChaCha 10 39 9mo +1h phase.dev/blog/chacha-and-aes-simplicity-in-cryptography 36U.S. and El Salvador Say They Won't Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported 250 271 9mo +4m nytimes.com/live/2025/04/14/us/trump-news-tariffs 37GPT-4.1 in the API 485 672 9mo +1m openai.com/index/gpt-4-1 38GPT 4.1 2 14 9mo +9m platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4.1 39Functional Programming Lessons Conclusion 47 49 9mo +1h jerf.org/iri/post/2025/fp_lessons_conclusion 40How Janet's PEG module works 14 80 9mo +3d bakpakin.com/writing/how-janets-peg-works.html 41OpenAI is a systemic risk to the tech industry 121 118 9mo +10m wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the-tech-industry-2 42Socketcluster: Highly scalable pub/sub and RPC SDK 5 21 9mo +52m socketcluster.io 43Show HN: Single-Header Profiler for C++17 11 66 9mo +4h github.com/DmitriBogdanov/UTL/blob/master/docs/module_profiler.md 44SQLite File Format Viewer 40 266 9mo +1h sqlite-internal.pages.dev 45Show HN: Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript type inference from Protobufs 69 135 9mo +29m github.com/nathanhleung/protobuf-ts-types 46Scientists: Protein IL-17 fights infection, acts on the brain, inducing anxiety 46 110 9mo +10m medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-scientists-protein-il-infection-brain.html 47Some Love for Interoperable Apps 3 9 9mo +10m blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/love-for-interoperability 48Google to embrace MCP 52 267 9mo +3d techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/google-says-itll-embrace-anthropics-standard-for-connecting-ai-models-to-data 49Target suffers 10th consecutive week of foot traffic decline since caving on DEI 39 39 9mo +1m retailbrew.com/stories/2025/04/11/target-suffers-10th-consecutive-week-of-foot-traffic-declines-sinking-stock-prices-since-caving-on-dei 50DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication 137 321 9mo +2h blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma 51The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference engine 63 544 9mo +19m github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index/tree/main/OpenSourcing_DeepSeek_Inference_Engine 52How to bike across the country 124 236 9mo +30m brooks.team/posts/how-to-bike-across-the-country 53Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg's voices 3 20 9mo +18m techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices 54Cure ID App Lets Clinicians Report Novel Uses of Existing Drugs 43 70 9mo +3d fda.gov/drugs/science-and-research-drugs/cure-id-app-lets-clinicians-report-novel-uses-existing-drugs 55Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto 335 273 9mo +14m theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-math-prodigy-cryptocurrency-enforcement-united-states 56Dead trees keep surprisingly large amounts of carbon out of atmosphere 83 90 9mo +12m phys.org/news/2025-03-dead-trees-large-amounts-carbon.html 57A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs 168 768 9mo +31m geoffreylitt.com/2025/04/12/how-i-made-a-useful-ai-assistant-with-one-sqlite-table-and-a-handful-of-cron-jobs 58Gleam v1.10.0 Released 5 35 9mo +25m gleam.run/news/global-rename-and-find-references 59The Moho is in reach of ocean drilling with the Meng Xiang 13 28 9mo +15m nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01675-7 60SSH Keys Don't Scale. SSH Certificates Do 23 20 9mo +2h infisical.com/blog/ssh-keys-dont-scale 61One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy 0 27 9mo +14m nbcnews.com/health/health-news/one-countrys-leading-alzheimers-projects-jeopardy-rcna199788 62Meilisearch – search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search 73 149 9mo +1h github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch 63I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won 95 50 9mo +1h mikekasberg.com/blog/2025/04/13/i-fought-the-irs-for-over-12k-and-won.html 64AWS announces 85% price reductions for S3 Express One Zone 15 27 9mo +48m aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/up-to-85-price-reductions-for-amazon-s3-express-one-zone 65EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears 46 82 9mo +1h ft.com/content/20d0678a-41b2-468d-ac10-14ce1eae357b 66I built an app to organize Kindle highlights (and physical book quotes too) 14 27 9mo +3d apps.apple.com/es/app/book-highlights/id6504406544 67Political beliefs affect patients' trust in doctors, study finds 88 26 9mo +15m news.uoregon.edu/political-beliefs-affect-patients-trust-doctors-study-finds 68Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity 79 44 9mo +19m infoworld.com/article/3956262/kotlin-swift-and-ruby-losing-popularity-tiobe-index.html 69Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots 57 205 9mo +29m omnom.zone/?src=hn 70Zotero Fullscreen Mode by Script 5 21 9mo +1h github.com/windingwind/zotero-actions-tags/discussions/385 71Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language 177 209 9mo +1h github.com/codr7/hacktical-c 72Engineers who won't commit 59 50 9mo +4h seangoedecke.com/taking-a-position 73A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs 161 130 9mo +2d wsj.com/lifestyle/ford-motor-mike-obrien-malaprops-6e560520 74She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said 82 97 9mo +22m cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lyft-conversation-transcribed-1.7508106 75Delete All IP Law 8 9 9mo +12m twitter.com/jack/status/1910829254214115681 76A multilayered approach: what's next for carton packaging? 1 4 9mo +1d ft.com/partnercontent/tetra-pak/a-multilayered-approach-whats-next-for-carton-packaging.html 77Zig's new LinkedList API (it's time to learn fieldParentPtr) 171 221 9mo +27m openmymind.net/Zigs-New-LinkedList-API 78Bicycle riders' knowledge and experience of structural weakness in bicycles 63 36 9mo +3d injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2025/03/31/ip-2024-045518 79Kezurou-Kai #39 28 268 9mo +55m bigsandwoodworking.com/kezurou-kai-39 80Why Microgravity Helps Crystals Grow Better 2 8 9mo +2d sparkgravity.com/journal/microgravity-crystals 81Tariffs, Saving, and Investment 75 91 9mo +2h grumpy-economist.com/p/tariffs-saving-and-investment 82Comparing economic inequality between the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty 71 66 9mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-04-economic-inequality-roman-empire-han.html 83Gas boilers now biggest source of air pollution in central London, study shows 3 14 9mo +15m ianvisits.co.uk/articles/gas-boilers-now-biggest-source-of-air-pollution-in-central-london-study-shows-80417 84Organised gangs behind rise in QR 'quishing' scams 48 29 9mo +2d bbc.com/news/articles/cq6yznmv3gzo 85Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999) 128 239 9mo +51m muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html 86Emily Dickinson's Playful Letterlocking 3 27 9mo +2d thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/emily-dickinsons-playful-letterlocking 87Wiz's $32B GTM Playbook 63 74 9mo +44m cybersecuritypulse.net/p/wizs-32b-gtm-playbook-unpacking-the 88Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained 19 35 9mo +21m theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/14/australian-academics-refuse-to-attend-us-conferences-for-fear-of-being-detained 89Neutrinos' maximum possible mass shrinks further 31 81 9mo +3d sciencenews.org/article/neutrino-mass-shrinks-katrin-electron 90Mario Vargas Llosa has died 79 211 9mo +32m nytimes.com/2025/04/13/books/review/mario-vargas-llosa-appraisal.html 91Super Rat: the record-setting rodent sniffing out landmines and saving lives 14 35 9mo +4d cnn.com/2025/04/07/asia/cambodia-rat-ronin-guinness-record-intl-hnk/index.html 92Googler... ex-Googler 967 1031 9mo +2d nerdy.dev/ex-googler 93New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot, Cursor: Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents 133 231 9mo +3h pillar.security/blog/new-vulnerability-in-github-copilot-and-cursor-how-hackers-can-weaponize-code-agents 94Show HN: Resurrecting Infocom's Unix Z-Machine with Cosmopolitan 50 153 9mo +5m christopherdrum.github.io/posts/2025/04/porting-infocom-with-cosmo 95Small Towns in Japan 32 69 9mo +1h japanstartshere.com/2020/04/06/small-towns-in-japan 96PHP Core Security Audit Results 68 135 9mo +3d thephp.foundation/blog/2025/04/10/php-core-security-audit-results 97Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own 96 119 9mo +4m kevintechnology.com/posts/leaf-widget 98Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations 15 62 9mo +2d academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/8098745?login=false 99Cognitive abilities predict performance in everyday computer tasks 19 32 9mo +1h sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S107158192400137X 100Calypso: LLMs as Dungeon Masters' Assistants [pdf] 33 90 9mo +49m andrewhead.info/assets/pdf/calypso.pdf 101Local CI. Sign off on your own work 45 48 9mo +52m github.com/basecamp/gh-signoff 102Transformer Lab 14 168 9mo +1d transformerlab.ai 103Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex 97 145 9mo +4m quantamagazine.org/why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex-20250402 104I bought a Mac 132 237 9mo +11m loganius.org/2025/04/i-bought-a-mac 105Access to future AI models in OpenAI's API may require a verified ID 5 14 9mo +20m techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/access-to-future-ai-models-in-openais-api-may-require-a-verified-id 106Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports 85 285 9mo +5h signalbloom.ai/news 107Docker Model Runner 47 100 9mo +3d docker.com/blog/introducing-docker-model-runner 108NoProp: Training neural networks without back-propagation or forward-propagation 47 159 9mo +37m arxiv.org/abs/2503.24322 109Everything wrong with MCP 222 503 9mo +30m blog.sshh.io/p/everything-wrong-with-mcp 110Shadertoys Ported to Rust GPU 2 65 9mo +1d rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/04/10/shadertoys 111 More... 2025.04.13