HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype 212 181 9mo +2h unixdigest.com/articles/i-passionately-hate-hype-especially-the-ai-hype.html 1Hypertext TV 39 225 9mo +16m hypertext.tv 2UI tip: maybe don't round percentages to 0% or 100% 15 44 9mo +3m evanhahn.com/maybe-dont-round-percentages-to-0-or-100-percent 3Show HN: Too Many Business Ideas? stop choosing, launch all of them, FAST&FREE 13 8 9mo +1h starterpilot.com 4Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down 12 54 9mo +2d sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250415183433.htm 5OpenAI's new reasoning AI models hallucinate more 94 118 9mo +3m techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/openais-new-reasoning-ai-models-hallucinate-more 6Im launching a community of dis-regulation hackers 5 5 9mo +53m app.unblend.me 7Principles for Building One-Shot AI Agents 29 91 9mo +2d edgebit.io/blog/automated-dependency-updates-with-ai 8Feds confuse the case of crypto Ponzi schemers 1 14 9mo +34m seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/estonia-or-prison-feds-confuse-the-case-of-crypto-ponzi-schemers 9Hextraction, a free and open source board game 13 76 9mo +28m playhextraction.com 10PDCurses – for environments that don't fit the termcap/terminfo model 2 37 9mo +2h github.com/wmcbrine/PDCurses 11Full Text Search of US Court records 92 434 9mo +48m judyrecords.com 12Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim 119 279 9mo +3d pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor 13Electric Propulsion's Dirty Secret: Why Lithium Can't Fly (Or Float) Profitably 198 64 9mo +57m kumarletter.com/posts/electric-propulsion-s-dirty-secret-why-lithium-can-t-fly-or-float-profitably 14There's Life Inside Earth's Crust 46 126 9mo +1h noemamag.com/theres-life-inside-earths-crust 1515,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python 154 466 9mo +40m jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/04/18/python.html 16UML diagram for the DDD example in Evans' book 73 116 9mo +24m github.com/takaakit/uml-diagram-for-ddd-example-in-evans-book 17The Good Karma Kit 16 56 9mo +58m archivebox.github.io/good-karma-kit 18Unique bacteria that survive by employing multicellular behavior 11 36 9mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-04-unique-bacteria-survive-employing-multicellular.html 19Loglan'82: programming language for object-oriented and distributed programming 9 59 9mo +35m lem12.uksw.edu.pl/wiki/Loglan%2782_project 20NASA's next space-telescope is almost ready to launch but may be killed by cuts 3 13 9mo +13m scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-next-major-space-telescope-is-ready-to-launch-trump-wants-to-kill-it 21Tesla brand damage is destroying used car value 6 18 9mo +9m electrek.co/2025/04/18/tesla-tsla-brand-damage-destroying-used-car-value 22Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional 191 474 9mo +37m 404media.co/judge-rules-blanket-search-of-cell-tower-data-unconstitutional 23Atypography – Art Movement Introduction 4 28 9mo +2d atypography.com 24Zig and GPUs 11 56 9mo +8h alichraghi.github.io/blog/zig-gpu 25Show HN: (bits) of a Libc, Optimized for Wasm 15 77 9mo +1m github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/tree/main/sqlite3/libc 26Ink and Switch Constraint System (2023) 13 87 9mo +44m inkandswitch.com/ink/notes/phase-2-constraint-system 27[dead] ? 7 9mo +4m old.reddit.com 28Cyberpunk 1958: The Early Days of the Polish IT Industry 34 180 9mo +2d culture.pl/en/article/cyberpunk-1958-the-early-days-of-the-polish-it-industry 29SDFs from Unoriented Point Clouds Using Neural Variational Heat Distances 5 38 9mo +2h arxiv.org/abs/2504.11212 30Dear Lewis, my CEO wants AI to do it all. How do I argue for humans? 98 26 9mo +41m lewislin.substack.com/p/dear-lewis-my-ceo-wants-ai-to-do 31College Towns: Urbanism from a Past Era 130 65 9mo +32m governance.fyi/p/college-towns-urbanism-from-a-past 32Dot (YC S21) is hiring a sales engineer to automate analytics (fully remote) 0 1 9mo +3s ycombinator.com/companies/dot/jobs/XSmklFa-customer-success-sales-engineer-remote 33Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code 133 516 9mo +14m github.com/Kuberwastaken/backdooms 34The most famous carbon dioxide absorber 70 172 9mo +3d howequipmentworks.com/apollo_13 35Show HN: Attune - Build and publish APT repositories in seconds 30 99 9mo +13m github.com/attunehq/attune 36Show HN: LTE-connected IoT module with remote programming and NL data analysis 25 27 9mo +1d youtube.com/watch?v=3L_OU-fMW_w 37As San Francisco car break-ins plunge, these businesses are suffering 12 16 9mo +39m sfchronicle.com/sf/article/bipping-car-break-in-glass-repair-20275993.php 38How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design 70 246 9mo +2d onemetre.net/Design/Design.htm 39Why Crypto Developer Activity Is Declining 13 16 9mo +12m stovetop.substack.com/p/why-crypto-developer-activity-is 40Growing a Language [pdf] (1998) 12 45 9mo +3d langev.com/pdf/steele99growing.pdf 41IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge 442 207 9mo +1h theregister.com/2025/04/18/ibm_orders_us_sales_staff 42Walled Gardens Can Kill 128 146 9mo +4h aneesiqbal.ai/2025-04-18-walled-gardens-can-kill 43A New ASN.1 API for Python 113 170 9mo +3m blog.trailofbits.com/2025/04/18/sneak-peek-a-new-asn.1-api-for-python 44A Math Lesson From Hitler’s Germany (2017) 43 151 9mo +13m undark.org/2017/02/01/math-lesson-hitlers-germany 45Americans Are Obsessed with Protein and It's Driving Nutrition Experts Nuts 43 40 9mo +50m wsj.com/lifestyle/protein-food-industry-trend-nutrition-8a2cf27b 46Less Slow C++ 97 194 9mo +46m github.com/ashvardanian/less_slow.cpp 47The Subjective Charms of Objective-C 53 76 9mo +3d wired.com/story/objective-c-programming-language-verbose 48NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review 73 103 9mo +1m science.org/content/article/nsf-halts-grant-awards-while-staff-do-second-review 49The Man Who Fought Chicago for His Cadillac–and Never Got It Back 0 6 9mo +33m reason.com/2025/04/16/the-man-who-fought-chicago-for-his-cadillac-and-never-got-it-back 50Ocean Tides and the Earth's Rotation (2001) 7 34 9mo +2d core2.gsfc.nasa.gov/ggfc/tides/intro.html 51[dead] ? 14 9mo +3m gelliottmorris.com 52Startup Exercise: What can't be solved with money? (2011) 12 15 9mo +20m longform.asmartbear.com/startup-money 53Curiosity rover finds large carbonate deposits on Mars 9 64 9mo +23m phys.org/news/2025-04-curiosity-rover-large-carbon-deposits.html 54Multipaint: Draw pictures with color limitations of 8-bit and 16-bit platforms 19 40 9mo +2d multipaint.kameli.nethttp:// 55A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it 6 23 9mo +41m nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236 56Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry 251 325 9mo +51m forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2025/04/16/deafening-silence-from-the-cybersecurity-industry 57How I created a real-time F1 circuit tracker that updates every second on iOS 7 10 9mo +3d apps.apple.com/es/app/pit-stop/id6743395104?l=en-GB 58arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud 156 222 9mo +20m info.arxiv.org/hiring/index.html 59AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive 158 214 9mo +2h buttondown.com/blog/whatever-happened-to-amp-email 60Unikernel Linux (UKL) (2023) 19 102 9mo +2h dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3552326.3587458 61Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse 191 87 9mo +1h architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion/waiting-100-years-for-a-home-isnt-a-housing-crisis-its-a-moral-collapse 62Defold: cross-platform game engine 169 383 9mo +1h defold.com 63All-in-Memory Stochastic Computing Using ReRAM 1 30 9mo +3d arxiv.org/abs/2504.08340 64Tracking types of non-parents in the United States 81 31 9mo +2h onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.13097 65Four Years of Jai (2024) 221 158 9mo +2d smarimccarthy.is/posts/2024-12-02-four-years-of-jai 66I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024) 146 181 9mo +48m bugsink.com/blog/why-i-gave-up-on-self-hosted-sentry 67Resist, eggheads Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be 3 25 9mo +1h arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/resist-eggheads-universities-are-not-as-weak-as-they-have-chosen-to-be 68Researcher proposes model replacing dark energy/matter to explain universe 81 64 9mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-04-dark-energy-nature-universe.html 69Viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos 54 108 9mo +22m techcrunch.com/2025/04/17/the-latest-viral-chatgpt-trend-is-doing-reverse-location-search-from-photos 70Aqua Tofana: The 17th Century Husband Killer 29 66 9mo +3d amusingplanet.com/2025/04/aqua-tofana-17th-century-husband-killer.html 71A deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son 3 38 9mo +1h theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/10/deep-cover-kgb-spy-recruited-son-peter-herrmann-illegals 72Kagi Assistant is now available to all users 278 484 9mo +1h blog.kagi.com/assistant-for-all 73Procedural Textures with Hash Functions 5 31 9mo +3d douglasorr.github.io/2025-04-hash-textures/article.html 74Why is Good Friday called Good Friday? 142 114 9mo +1h historyextra.com/period/general-history/good-friday-facts-why-called 751,700 year old egg never broke 35 99 9mo +3d atlasobscura.com/articles/liquid-inside-ancient-egg 76PDF Dimmer Bookmarklet 0 4 9mo +53m susam.net/pdf-dimmer-bookmarklet.html 77Once banned, Poland's stately 18th century dance garners UNESCO honors (2024) 38 69 9mo +2d apnews.com/article/poland-unesco-heritage-polonaise-dance-culture-be337d9a1941d404f6ef1a1cee364e22 78Soldiers in combat can kill without moral injury 75 37 9mo +1h bps.org.uk/research-digest/soldiers-combat-can-kill-without-moral-injury 79Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results 0 12 9mo +19m timsh.org/everyone-knows-your-location-part-2-try-it-yourself 80Trek tells retailers of immediate price increases 13 18 9mo +7m bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2025/04/17/trek-electra-retailers-informed-immediate-price-increases 81Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before 42 55 9mo +34m datagubbe.se/aficion 82Trying (and failing) to hack the Wall of Sheep (2022) 11 29 9mo +2d honeypot.net/2022/08/21/trying-and-failing.html 83[dead] ? 20 9mo +43m cnn.com 84Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers 226 445 9mo +22m prospect.org/power/2025-04-17-intuit-turbotax-wins-battle-against-taxpayers-irs-direct-file 85DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice 71 154 9mo +13m dhl.com/au-en/home/important-information/2025/shipments-to-the-united-states-with-a-customs-value-exceeding-usd-800.html 86Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025? 72 159 9mo +3d 87Kagi Assistant is now available to all users 7 37 9mo +17m blog.kagi.com/assistant-for-all 88The Size of Packets 67 97 9mo +26m potaroo.net/ispcol/2024-10/packet-sizes.html 89Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be 1 26 9mo +16m arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/resist-eggheads-universities-are-not-as-weak-as-they-have-chosen-to-be 90[dead] ? 34 9mo +12m newhampshirebulletin.com 91Olympic Gold Medalist Dominates the 100M at Her Kid's Sports Day Event 52 60 9mo +1h kottke.org/25/04/olympic-gold-medalist-dominates-the-100m-at-her-kids-sports-day-event 92'Enough Is Enuf' Review: A Dream of Simpler Spelling 23 20 9mo +2d wsj.com/arts-culture/books/enough-is-enuf-review-a-dream-of-simpler-spelling-6fadf4d2 93[dead] ? 5 9mo +32m isanybodyusingthisprivatekey.com 94ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser 148 167 9mo +46m flausch.social/@piegames/114352447253793517 95What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code? 140 215 9mo +1h blog.luden.io/what-do-i-think-about-lua-after-shipping-a-project-with-60-000-lines-of-code-bf72a1328733 96 More... 2025.04.17