HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order ⚙ What does it mean for a technology to follow Wright's Law? 1 30 9mo +3d ourworldindata.org/learning-curve 1Fundamental Development Gap Map v1.0 0 4 9mo +24m gap-map.org 2Unusual Shop Tips [video] 5 23 9mo +4d youtube.com/watch?v=OuZjjActWmQ 3OpenAI announces nonprofit commission advisors 4 19 9mo +7m openai.com/index/nonprofit-commission-advisors 4How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers 167 221 9mo +5m spectrum.ieee.org/lely-dairy-robots 5Show HN: Open Source AI App – Try on Any Outfit 2 4 9mo +10m github.com/oyeolamilekan/gemini-ai-tryon 6Mitre-backed cyber vulnerability program to lose funding 6 56 9mo +11m nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/04/mitre-backed-cyber-vulnerability-program-lose-funding-wednesday/404585 7A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed 41 217 9mo +3d alexharri.com/blog/webgl-gradients 8Somehash: A Blurhash-Inspired Exploration 0 10 9mo +1h travisbumgarner.dev/blog/somehash 9OpenAI is building a social network? 424 313 9mo +5h theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor 10Amazfit activity tracker and watch face asset generation 20 30 9mo +3d blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/04/11/amazfit-activity-tracker-and-watch-face-asset-generation 11Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations 584 1442 9mo +1d old.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1jyy5am/psa_cursor_now_restricts_logins_to_a_single 12Liquid: Language models are scalable and unified multi-modal generators 8 81 9mo +22m foundationvision.github.io/Liquid 13$3 Trader Joe's tote bags resell for more than $1,500 24 25 9mo +1d qz.com/trader-joes-mini-canvas-tote-bags-easter-resale-1851775664 14Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator 161 899 9mo +11h filiph.github.io/unsure 15It's easier than ever to de-censor videos 157 381 9mo +2h jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/its-easier-ever-de-censor-videos 16M1: Towards Scalable Test-Time Compute with Mamba Reasoning Models 3 34 9mo +2h arxiv.org/abs/2504.10449 17The unsolved death of Gloria Ramirez 12 19 9mo +3d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gloria_Ramirez 18Designing a low-cost high-performance 10 MHz – 15 GHz vector network analyzer 25 99 9mo +5m hforsten.com/designing-a-low-cost-high-performance-10-mhz-15-ghz-vector-network-analyzer.html 19What the hell is a target triple? 132 164 9mo +2m mcyoung.xyz/2025/04/14/target-triples 20An Introduction to Modern CMake 56 85 9mo +2h cliutils.gitlab.io/modern-cmake/README.html 21METS, the Middle English Texts Series 12 61 9mo +1m metseditions.org 22The last RadioShack in Maryland is closing 133 121 9mo +7m marylandmatters.org/2025/04/14/end-of-an-era-the-last-radioshack-in-maryland-is-closing-its-doors 23Post-Silicon Validation of Static Lockstep Mode 4 37 9mo +40m intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/851929/post-silicon-validation-of-static-lockstep-mode-on-intel-xeon-6-processor-e-core-architecture.html 24OCC Notifies Congress of Incident Involving Email System 1 23 9mo +9m occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2025/nr-occ-2025-30.html 25A Passion for Fruit 1 16 9mo +1d archaeology.org/collection/a-passion-for-fruit 26Whistleblower says DOGE may have caused 'significant cyber breach' 3 65 9mo +7m reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/whistleblower-org-says-doge-may-have-caused-significant-cyber-breach-us-labor-2025-04-15 27I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636 101 105 9mo +5m scottaaronson.blog/?p=8805 28The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call 46 142 9mo +19m devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250411-00/?p=111066 29Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2 132 347 9mo +8m blog.google/products/gemini/video-generation 30Clolog 44 256 9mo +3m github.com/bobschrag/clolog 31Japanese Typography Essentials: Japanese Type Between Japanese and Latin 2 13 9mo +18m researchgate.net/publication/383515797_JAPANESE_TYPOGRAPHY_ESSENTIALS_JAPANESE_TYPE_BETWEEN_JAPANESE_LATIN_CHARACTER 32Isolated Execution Environment for eBPF 2 20 9mo +1h ebpf.foundation/research-update-isolated-execution-environment-for-ebpf 33Benn Jordan's AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise 194 129 9mo +7m cdm.link/benn-jordan-ai-poison-pill 34Getting a Signal on the Moon: 4G network for lunar missions 4 15 9mo +2d spectrum.ieee.org/nokia-4g-cellular-network-moon 35Fun ways of deciding authorship order (2016) 34 70 9mo +3m dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/fun-ways-of-deciding-authorship-order 36JSX over the Wire 172 261 9mo +44m overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire 37Show HN: I made a tool to send a letter now people use it to just print 23 27 9mo +10m pieterpost.com 38Cohere Launches Embed 4 46 95 9mo +25m cohere.com/blog/embed-4 39RNG and Cosine in Nix 0 42 9mo +2d unnamed.website/posts/rng-cosine-nix 40Notion Mail is out 132 100 9mo +7m notion.com/product/mail 41"We have no bros and no oligarchs" 16 16 9mo +6m zeit.de/politik/2025-04/ursula-von-der-leyen-eu-usa-donald-trump-english 42Show HN: Resonate – real-time high temporal resolution spectral analysis 30 75 9mo +4m alexandrefrancois.org/Resonate 43MeshCore, a new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios 36 98 9mo +41m github.com/ripplebiz/MeshCore 44TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days 641 502 9mo +9m digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days 45JEP 506: Scoped Values final for Java 25 9 34 9mo +4h openjdk.org/jeps/506 46WEIRD – a way to be on the web 63 119 9mo +2h a.weird.one 4710k Times Faster, 10k Times Simpler 3 15 9mo +10m tailscale.com/blog/10000-times-faster 48LightlyTrain: Better Vision Models, Faster – No Labels Needed 11 30 9mo +2h github.com/lightly-ai/lightly-train 49Chroma: Ubisoft's internal tool used to simulate color-blindness 85 229 9mo +1h github.com/ubisoft/Chroma 50How the U.S. became a science superpower 490 463 9mo +1h steveblank.com/2025/04/15/how-the-u-s-became-a-science-superpower 51Philosophy Major Snatched by ICE During Citizenship Interview 105 139 9mo +20m dailynous.com/2025/04/15/philosophy-major-snatched-by-ice-during-citizenship-interview 52Doge Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress 40 118 9mo +5m nytimes.com/2025/04/13/us/politics/doge-contracts-savings.html 53How to win an argument with a toddler 509 699 9mo +16m seths.blog/2025/04/how-to-win-an-argument-with-a-toddler 54ICE Agents Realize They Arrested Wrong Teen, Say 'Take Him Anyway' 85 166 9mo +4m newsweek.com/merwil-gutierrez-ice-wrong-teen-el-salvador-2059783 55Rotatum of Light 9 20 9mo +2d science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr9092 56You cannot have our user's data 108 115 9mo +25m sourcehut.org/blog/2025-04-15-you-cannot-have-our-users-data 57Hacking the Postgres wire protocol 50 225 9mo +2m pgdog.dev/blog/hacking-postgres-wire-protocol 58Launch HN: mrge.io (YC X25) – Cursor for code review 107 219 9mo +32m 59I'm getting fed up of making the rich, richer 41 68 9mo +13m bell.bz/im-getting-fed-up-of-making-the-rich-richer 60America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back 906 714 9mo +10m molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back 61Two Years of Rust 66 86 9mo +1h borretti.me/article/two-years-of-rust 62One of the Most Egregious Ripoffs in the History of Science – The Race to DNA 11 38 9mo +3d nautil.us/one-of-the-most-egregious-ripoffs-in-the-history-of-science-238331 63CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty 142 124 9mo +5m arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/ct-scans-could-cause-5-of-cancers-study-finds-experts-note-uncertainty 64Show HN: Million Dollar Homepage Meets LinkedIn 4 11 9mo +5m 10000resumes.com 65Google Search to redirect its country level TLDs to Google.com 26 33 9mo +9m searchengineland.com/google-search-to-redirect-its-country-level-tlds-to-google-com-454289 667k-year-old skeletons from the green Sahara reveal a mysterious human lineage 30 95 9mo +3d smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/7000-year-old-skeletons-from-the-green-sahara-reveal-a-previously-unknown-human-lineage-180986403 674chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak 950 688 9mo +22m knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/april-2025-4chan-sharty-hack-and-janitor-email-leak 68Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs (2024) 95 246 9mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2410.03730 69In Its Purest Form 6 29 9mo +1d lareviewofbooks.org/article/in-its-purest-form 70Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data 508 1058 9mo +46m npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security 71GitHub suffers a cascading supply chain attack compromising CI/CD secrets 23 74 9mo +5m infoworld.com/article/3849245/github-suffers-a-cascading-supply-chain-attack-compromising-ci-cd-secrets.html 7245-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved 45 122 9mo +3d cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7507349 73Understanding US Power Outages – By Brian Potter 10 14 9mo +16m construction-physics.com/p/understanding-us-power-outages 74Kmart lied to me, so I hacked their lamp [video] 48 90 9mo +2d youtube.com/watch?v=E_6Y1iip3p0 75How many supernova explode every year? 180 367 9mo +3d badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-447-wait-how-many-supernova-explode 76EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits 11 35 9mo +26m theregister.com/2025/04/15/ec_burner_devices 77Show HN: Portable Giant File Viewer 11 35 9mo +3d github.com/sunny-chung/giant-log-viewer 78Japan antitrust watchdog hits Google with cease and desist order 4 15 9mo +27m asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Japan-antitrust-watchdog-hits-Google-with-cease-and-desist-order 79Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020) 69 68 9mo +5h unixdigest.com/articles/important-open-source-projects-should-not-use-github.html 80Typewise (YC S22) Is Hiring an ML Engineer (Zurich, Switzerland) 0 1 9mo +26s ycombinator.com/companies/typewise/jobs/u4OdKNh-machine-learning-engineer-f-m-x 81Laser Launch into Orbit 35 58 9mo +2d toughsf.blogspot.comhttp:///2017/03/laser-launch-into-orbit.html 82The Industrialization of IT 50 44 9mo +1h benn.substack.com/p/the-industrialization-of-it 83ASCII Lookup Utility in Ada 8 34 9mo +2d coniferproductions.com/ada/ohyes/ascii-lookup-utility 84Show HN: MCP-Shield – Detect security issues in MCP servers 39 133 9mo +22m github.com/riseandignite/mcp-shield 85Show HN: AES-256 brute force using structured logic (UUIDs and xy = x/y rule) 0 11 9mo +4h github.com/ElSolem/project_oceans 86JSLinux 117 386 9mo +22h bellard.org/jslinux 87The Post-Developer Era 67 76 9mo +6m joshwcomeau.com/blog/the-post-developer-era 88Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024) 76 313 9mo +32m jmswrnr.com/blog/hacking-a-smart-home-device 89Some features that every JavaScript developer should know in 2025 15 19 9mo +39m waspdev.com/articles/2025-04-06/features-that-every-js-developer-must-know-in-2025 90The problem with "vibe coding" 149 135 9mo +2h dylanbeattie.net/2025/04/11/the-problem-with-vibe-coding.html 91Show HN: USL - A Universal Scripting Language That Outputs to 111 Languages 17 15 9mo +24m townsendatomics.gumroad.com/l/usl 92Overuse of CT scans could cause 100k extra cancers in US 18 36 9mo +35m icr.ac.uk/about-us/icr-news/detail/overuse-of-ct-scans-could-cause-100-000-extra-cancers-in-us 93Discover Great Britain in Minecraft V2 (2025) 1 18 9mo +2d ordnancesurvey.co.uk/whats-new/minecraft-gb 94Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch 71 247 9mo +3d blog.dogac.dev/how-do-one-time-passwords-work 95Palestinian activist arrested by ICE while expecting U.S. citizenship interview 103 242 9mo +13m cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7510325 96How I Don't Use LLMs 18 60 9mo +16m gleech.org/llms 97Stripe's payment API: The first 10 years (2020) 2 24 9mo +2d stripe.com/blog/payment-api-design 98Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads 691 377 9mo +25m searchengineland.com/temu-pulls-us-google-shopping-ads-454260 99Hertz says customers' personal data and driver's licenses stolen in data breach 9 45 9mo +18m techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/hertz-says-customers-personal-data-and-drivers-licenses-stolen-in-data-breach 100 More... 2025.04.14