HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs 142 302 9mo +1h cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/i-analyzed-chord-progressions-in 1Memory Size Matters to PostgreSQL 11 59 9mo +1h pgdba.org/post/2025/04/size_matter 2Show HN: Stadium Crowd Scale Visualise Large Groups of People 0 9 9mo +3d davkap92.github.io/crowdscale 3Decomposing Transactional Systems 0 17 9mo +1h transactional.blog/blog/2025-decomposing-transactional-systems 4CN Tower, Behind the Scenes (2014) 16 64 9mo +27m site.roadwolf.ca/categories/ue/cntower 5Trump's FCC chair threatens Comcast, demands changes to NBC news coverage 10 48 9mo +9m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/trumps-fcc-chair-threatens-comcast-demands-changes-to-nbc-news-coverage 6AI is turning us into glue 58 65 9mo +5m lincoln.swaine-moore.is/writing-about/ai-and-glue 7XSS on using the legacy "Graphie To PNG" API 1 9 9mo +3d hackerone.com/reports/2846011 8Potatoes in the Mail 254 498 9mo +50m facts.usps.com/mailing-potatoes 9U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia 25 57 9mo +10m nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-citizen-detained-ice-immigration-florida-rcna201800 10Decreased CO2 during breathwork: emergence of altered states of consciousness 165 335 9mo +2d nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00247-0 11Digital nomads could create network states 9 12 9mo +12m elysian.press/p/digital-nomad-network-states 12Mux (YC W16) is hiring engineering managers for video at scale 0 1 9mo +4s mux.com/jobs?j=em 13What my stroke taught me (2017) 71 116 9mo +3d nautil.us/what-my-stroke-taught-me-236544 14Shell-secrets – GPG-encrypted environment variables 41 90 9mo +52m github.com/waj/shell-secrets 15DPRK IT Workers in Open Source and Freelance Platforms 8 11 9mo +6m ketman.org/dprk-it-workers-in-freelance-platform-onlyDust.html 16Show HN: val – An arbitrary precision calculator language 19 34 9mo +18m github.com/terror/val 17UniK3D: Universal Camera Monocular 3D Estimation 12 46 9mo +31m lpiccinelli-eth.github.io/pub/unik3d 18Recursive LLM prompts 0 6 9mo +20m github.com/andyk/recursive_llm 19U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law 131 260 9mo +6m georgiarecorder.com/2025/04/17/georgia-born-man-held-for-ice-under-floridas-new-anti-immigration-law 20Our quantum assembly parser got updated to the QASM 3.0 spec 0 19 9mo +3d arxiv.org/abs/2412.12578 21Show HN: HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audio conversation 56 50 9mo +27m onetake-ai.github.io/hackernews-watercooler 22Gemini 2.5 Flash 547 1030 9mo +15m developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash 23An experiment that turned back biological time 1 30 9mo +14h nehalslearnings.substack.com/p/the-experiment-that-turned-back-biological 24Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching? 45 112 9mo +1d pwy.io/posts/marching-events 25There are two types of dishwasher people 330 111 9mo +2d theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/04/how-to-load-dishwasher/682425 26N-Params vs. Single Param 43 37 9mo +7m carlos-menezes.com/single-param-functions 27Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale? 138 153 9mo +1d afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-snapchat 28Show HN: Zuni (YC S24) – AI Copilot for the Browser 11 17 9mo +3h zuni.app 29OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf 115 126 9mo +4h cnbc.com/2025/04/17/openai-looked-at-cursor-before-considering-deal-with-rival-windsurf.html 30Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering 102 217 9mo +1h quagmirerepair.com/milwaukee-m18-battery-reverse-engineering 31SQLite transactions and virtual tables 9 102 9mo +30m misfra.me/2025/sqlite-transactions-and-virtual-tables 32A cute proof that makes e natural 41 100 9mo +1h poshenloh.com/e 33On Jane Jacobs (2017) 45 69 9mo +3m salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/75-on-jane-jacobs 34AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu 361 171 9mo +43m dwarkesh.com/p/ege-tamay 35Show HN: AgentAPI – HTTP API for Claude Code, Goose, Aider, and Codex 15 155 9mo +18m github.com/coder/agentapi 36EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring 0 1 9mo +16s easypost.com/careers 37Top OpenAI Catastrophic Risk Official Steps Down Abruptly 49 60 9mo +16m garrisonlovely.substack.com/p/breaking-top-openai-catastrophic 38Ultrafast Optical Detector 13 32 9mo +2d tdk.com/en/about_tdk/innovation/spin-photo-detector/index.html 39The New Moat: Memory 22 17 9mo +3d jeffmorrisjr.substack.com/p/the-new-moat-memory 40HDR‑Infused Emoji 142 267 9mo +35m sharpletters.net/2025/04/16/hdr-emoji 41Stainless steel strengthened: Twisting creates submicron 'anti-crash wall' 44 102 9mo +25m techxplore.com/news/2025-04-stainless-steel-technique-submicron-anti.html 42Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules 462 831 9mo +1m nytimes.com/2025/04/17/technology/google-ad-tech-antitrust-ruling.html 43MCP Run Python 65 168 9mo +2d github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/tree/main/mcp-run-python 44New strategy may enable cancer monitoring from blood tests alone 1 7 9mo +4m medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-strategy-enable-cancer-blood.html 45Gut-brain link may affect behavior in children with autism 1 9 9mo +8m medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-gut-brain-link-affect-behavior.html 46Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet 39 118 9mo +1h reuters.com/science/scientists-find-strongest-evidence-yet-life-an-alien-planet-2025-04-16 47TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale 676 589 9mo +44m afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-harm-tiktok 48How the Federal Government Is Undermining Election Security 8 37 9mo +11m brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-federal-government-undermining-election-security 49[dead] ? 15 9mo +4m theregister.com 50Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers 2 23 9mo +26m theregister.com/2025/04/17/us_hyperscaler_alternatives 51Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Erlang/OTP SSH 51 192 9mo +42m nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32433 52Russian Propaganda Campaign Targets France with AI-Fabricated Scandals 15 45 9mo +34m newsguardtech.com/special-reports/russian-propaganda-campaign-targets-france-with-ai-fabricated-scandals 53This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops 227 232 9mo +6m wired.com/story/massive-blue-overwatch-ai-personas-police-suspects 54The Second Half 35 87 9mo +3d ysymyth.github.io/The-Second-Half 55Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research finds 100 103 9mo +20m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/toothpaste-lead-heavy-metals 56An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system 103 607 9mo +17m maknee.github.io/blog/2025/3FS-Performance-Journal-1 57Encryption Is Not a Crime 210 209 9mo +9m privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime 58Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 424 323 9mo +10m bbc.com/news/articles/cjr75wypg0vo 59A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence 9 37 9mo +2d github.com/ktr0731/go-mcp 60I Cannot Be Technical 93 70 9mo +8m fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot-be-technical 61mIRC 7.81 136 165 9mo +53m mirc.com 62Erlang Solutions' Blog round-up 0 43 9mo +1h erlang-solutions.com/blog/erlang-solutions-blog-round-up 63WordPress Feature API 1 23 9mo +4h github.com/Automattic/wp-feature-api 64Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring a Senior Back End Engineer in Latam (100% Remote) 0 1 9mo +3s tesorio.com/careers#job-openings 65[dead] ? 14 9mo +58m crookedtimber.org 66Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates 87 143 9mo +15m feldera.com/blog/cutting-down-rust-compile-times-from-30-to-2-minutes-with-one-thousand-crates 67Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols 0 17 9mo +2d johndcook.com/blog/2025/04/14/miscellaneous-mathematical-symbols 68Daily Pill May Work as Well as Ozempic for Weight Loss and Blood Sugar 69 32 9mo +35m nytimes.com/2025/04/17/health/pill-glp-1-eli-lilly.html 69As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond 143 77 9mo +26m voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/as-bot-students-continue-to-flood-in-community-colleges-struggle-to-respond 70US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban 413 370 9mo +36m bbc.com/news/articles/c1egdy24v7po 71Development on Apple Silicon with UTM 71 100 9mo +21m rkiselenko.dev/blog/development-on-mac-with-utm/development-on-mac-with-lima 72AI as Normal Technology 91 228 9mo +1d knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology 73Building an AI that watches rugby 42 87 9mo +14m nickjones.tech/ai-watching-rugby 74Oda Ujiharu: Why the ‘weakest Samurai warlord’ is admired 64 159 9mo +42m tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/japanese-culture/oda-ujiharu-the-weakest-samurai-warlord 75Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf] 110 132 9mo +14m uniforumchicago.orghttp:///slides/bash1.pdf 76The Atari 1200XL fiasco 79 83 9mo +37m goto10retro.com/p/the-atari-1200xl-fiasco 77Making Software 103 731 9mo +3d makingsoftware.com 78PolyThink: A Multi-Agent AI System to Eliminate Hallucinations 10 9 9mo +19m 79BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report 30 107 9mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2504.12285 80“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System 346 412 9mo +46m skyatnightmagazine.com/news/k2-18b-dimethyl-sulfide 81Differentiable Programming from Scratch 18 105 9mo +4h thenumb.at/Autodiff 82Clowning Around: On the Principles of Clowning 13 37 9mo +3d funnyhow.substack.com/p/clowning-around- 83'Why would he take such a risk?' My censor and me 14 39 9mo +46m theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/17/why-would-he-take-such-risk-my-censor-and-me-weibo-china 84Bring Back RSS Feeds to Browsers 12 39 9mo +15m jetgirl.art/bring-back-rss-feeds-to-browsers 85The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder 109 106 9mo +11m buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/the-halting-problem-is-a-terrible-example-of-np 86Scientists pioneer chemical process to repurpose rubber waste 15 43 9mo +2d phys.org/news/2025-03-cleaner-future-scientists-chemical-repurpose.html 87Astronomers claim strongest evidence of alien life yet 3 12 9mo +18m newscientist.com/article/2477008-astronomers-claim-strongest-evidence-of-alien-life-yet 88Manga Guide To Databases (2004) [pdf] 6 72 9mo +10m oberstar.eu.org/share/Documents/The-Manga-guide-to-databases.pdf 89Formance (YC S21) Is Hiring Engineers to Build OSS Financial Infrastructure 0 1 9mo +3s ycombinator.com/companies/formance/jobs 90Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss 311 254 9mo +3d nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08165-7 91Library patterns: Why frameworks are evil 16 36 9mo +4h tomasp.net/blog/2015/library-frameworks 92Passing planes and other whoosh sounds 56 203 9mo +36m windytan.com/2025/04/passing-planes-and-other-whoosh-sounds.html 93GPT o3 frequently fabricates actions, then elaborately justifies these actions 71 75 9mo +10m xcancel.com/TransluceAI/status/1912552046269771985 94Kennedy promises to find environmental causes of autism 49 49 9mo +3m politico.com/news/2025/04/16/syndicate-kennedy-pledges-to-figure-out-which-environmental-toxins-are-causing-autism-00293583 95How refrigeration changed our food 85 75 9mo +3d nytimes.com/2024/06/24/books/review/frostbite-nicola-twilley.html 96In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future (2016) 23 34 9mo +3d wired.com/2016/03/two-moves-alphago-lee-sedol-redefined-future 97C has its limits. If you know where to look 2 10 9mo +2d subethasoftware.com/2024/12/09/c-has-its-limits-if-you-know-where-to-look 98US judge finds administration wilfully defied court order in deportation flights 165 213 9mo +38m abc.net.au/news/2025-04-17/judge-in-venezuelan-migrants-case-finds-trump-admin-probably-con/105186022 99Why does everything look infantilized? 7 16 9mo +22m assemblagenyc.substack.com/p/why-does-everything-look-infantilized 100Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct 123 191 9mo +2d bitbashing.io/haskell-concurrency.html 101[dead] ? 9 9mo +18m chrishedges.substack.com 102Vivarium: The keeper of a lab's animals stumbles onto a secret [fiction] 15 69 9mo +4h jsomers.net/vivarium 103Warren Buffett holds enough cash to buy 476 companies in the S&P 500 10 44 9mo +4m mitrade.com/insights/news/live-news/article-3-762059-20250416 104Sony Unveils the Smallest and Lightest Lidar Depth Sensor 19 65 9mo +21m petapixel.com/2025/04/15/sony-unveils-the-worlds-smallest-and-lightest-lidar-depth-sensor 105Nix Trigonometric Math Library from Ground Zero 6 47 9mo +3d lantian.pub/en/article/modify-computer/nix-trigonometric-math-library-from-zero.lantian 106Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain 300 624 9mo +15m status.zoom.us/incidents/pw9r9vnq5rvk 107Kotlin 101: Type Classes Quickly Explained 2 24 9mo +2h rockthejvm.com/articles/kotlin-101-type-classes 108Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank 111 138 9mo +2d latimes.com/00000196-230a-d4c4-abd7-fb5a95770000-123 109Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative 474 446 9mo +1m coppolaemilio.com/entries/i-left-spotify-what-happened-next 110 More... 2025.04.16