HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order ⚙ Translate Fortran to C++ with AI and RAG 44 43 9mo +3d lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/0125-llm-translation 1'The bomber's words sound mainstream. Like he won ' Oklahoma City's tragedy 26 31 9mo +10m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/timothy-mcveigh-oklahoma-bombing-far-right-1995 2Raw Loops for Performance? 18 26 9mo +3d sandordargo.com/blog/2025/04/16/raw-loops-for-performance 3Ultrathink is a Claude Code magic word 38 111 9mo +19m simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/claude-code-best-practices 4A unique sound alleviates motion sickness 92 206 9mo +7m nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result-en/2025/04/20250408-01.html 5Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning [pdf] (2003) 10 75 9mo +1h demarcken.orghttp://www./carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-complexity/ITA-software-travel-complexity.pdf 6Show HN: Vibe Coded Project Management System 5 8 9mo +1h github.com/JordanDalton/pm 7Monsky's Theorem 13 48 9mo +55m mathmondays.com/monskys-theorem 8Molecular clock: bacteria used oxygen long before widespread photosynthesis 3 13 9mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-04-molecular-clock-analysis-bacteria-oxygen.html 9Electromagnetism as a Purely Geometric Theory 64 148 9mo +27m iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2987/1/012001 10Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials 156 808 9mo +12m github.com/The-Pocket/Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge 11Popular CT Scans Could Account for 5% of All Cancer Cases a Year 9 26 9mo +26m ucsf.edu/news/2025/04/429791/popular-ct-scans-could-account-5-all-cancer-cases-year 12The Art of Assembly Language (2010) 19 128 9mo +18m plantation-productions.com/Webster/www.artofasm.com/Linux/HTML/AoATOC.html 13Notes on a claim that a mceliece348864 distinguisher uses only 2^529 operations [pdf] 1 13 9mo +2d classic.mceliece.org/mceliece-529-20250417.pdf 14Don't force your kids to do math 406 238 9mo +2h blog.avocados.ovh/posts/how-to-force-your-kids-to-do-math 15Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work 195 253 9mo +31m addyo.substack.com/p/vibe-coding-is-not-an-excuse-for 16Supreme Court Issues Unusual Order in Alien Enemies Act Deportation Case 3 24 9mo +7m reason.com/volokh/2025/04/19/supreme-court-issues-unusual-order-in-alien-enemies-act-deportation-case 17Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds data loss and performance issues 86 123 9mo +21m tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups 18The Icelandic Voting System (2024) 135 139 9mo +1h smarimccarthy.is/posts/2024-11-25-voting-system 19The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death 46 86 9mo +2d nautil.us/the-animals-that-exist-between-life-and-death-1202592 20[dead] ? 8 9mo +19m ihidefrommykids.substack.com 21An image of the Australian desert illuminates satellite pollution 122 192 9mo +2h thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/a-stunning-image-of-the-australian-desert-illuminates-the-growing-problem-of-satellite-pollution 22Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives 4 11 9mo +2m arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/synology-confirms-need-for-synology-branded-drives-in-newer-plus-series-nas 23The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2 262 406 9mo +10m jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2 24Ssl.com: DCV bypass and issue fake certificates for any MX hostname 62 215 9mo +18m bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1961406 25Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner 183 654 9mo +5m github.com/PiLiDAR/PiLiDAR 26Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices 147 482 9mo +6d paloaltoonline.com/technology/2025/04/12/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-apparently-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices 27Consistent Hash Ring 21 71 9mo +2d gallery.selfboot.cn/en/algorithms/hashring 28Inside ArXiv 27 155 9mo +1m wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science 29Why drinking coffee in Iran has become so complicated 146 136 9mo +3d adelbordbari.github.io/etc/2025-04-16-coffee 30OpenAI, Windsurf, and the Future of Work 4 15 9mo +24m subtle.so/openai-windsurf-and-the-future-of-ai-workspaces.html 31Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Design Engineer in San Francisco 0 1 9mo +29s ycombinator.com/companies/infisical/jobs/I8zvnRW-design-engineer-san-francisco 32First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb 330 298 9mo +2d bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd517z87o 33How to Write a Fast Matrix Multiplication from Scratch with Tensor Cores (2024) 16 145 9mo +2h alexarmbr.github.io/2024/08/10/How-To-Write-A-Fast-Matrix-Multiplication-From-Scratch-With-Tensor-Cores.html 34Bluesky may soon add blue check verification 1 12 9mo +15m techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/bluesky-may-soon-add-blue-check-verification 35'Immediate red flags': questions raised over 'expert' much quoted in UK press 7 27 9mo +21m theguardian.com/media/2025/apr/19/questions-raised-over-barbara-santini-expert-much-quoted-in-uk-press 36The Long History of Nitrous Oxide 16 19 9mo +3d smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-long-strange-history-of-nitrous-oxide-a-popular-drug-users-have-been-inhaling-for-hundreds-of-years-180986293 37Librarians are dangerous 633 668 9mo +20m bradmontague.substack.com/p/librarians-are-dangerous 38Zack: A Simple Backtesting Engine in Zig 8 85 9mo +2d github.com/zerotech-studio/zack 39Against Transparency 19 83 9mo +10m pluralistic.net/2025/04/19/gotcha/#known-to-the-state-of-california-to-cause-cancer 40Inferring the Phylogeny of Large Language Models 5 68 9mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2404.04671 41China Can Have It All – China is currently winner of America's self-sabotage 29 62 9mo +2h minnalander.substack.com/p/china-can-have-it-all 42Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding 245 589 9mo +3h anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices 43'Cosmic radio' detector could discover dark matter within 15 years 53 33 9mo +2d phys.org/news/2025-04-cosmic-radio-detector-dark-years.html 44Packing Input Frame Context in Next-Frame Prediction Models for Video Generation 27 267 9mo +26m lllyasviel.github.io/frame_pack_gitpage 45Ask HN: Why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers? 87 37 9mo +49m 46Frankenstein's `__init__` 66 98 9mo +1h ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-04-19-frank 47Microsoft C/C++ Extension appears no longer support unofficial forks of VS Code 2 11 9mo +16m github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/2300 48Open Source DMR Modem Implementation in SDR with GNU Radio and Codec2 17 101 9mo +28m qradiolink.org/open-source-DMR-transceiver-implementation.html 49USB Floppy Disk Striped RAID Under OS X (2004) 20 65 9mo +3d web.archive.orghttp:///web/20040202110812/http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm 50Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before 25 45 9mo +8m theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/18/scientists-claim-to-have-found-colour-no-one-has-seen-before 51Achieveing lower latencies with S3 object storage 23 30 9mo +2h spiraldb.com/post/so-you-want-to-use-object-storage 52[dead] ? 16 9mo +42m framepack.co 53Demo "The Mind" by Haujobb and Sweet16 13 115 9mo +1h lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=145596 54Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days 338 405 9mo +5m arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/android-phones-will-soon-reboot-themselves-after-sitting-unused-for-3-days 55Neurite 13 82 9mo +49m github.com/satellitecomponent/Neurite 56[dead] ? 21 9mo +27m theverge.com 57Micro Wheeled legged Robot 15 61 9mo +1d github.com/MuShibo/Micro-Wheeled_leg-Robot 58[dead] ? 15 9mo +2d medium.com 59Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine 51 247 9mo +1h philwip.com/2025/04/14/galaxian-3-project-revival 60Center Pieces and Lunch Sets in Crochet Work (1915) 2 24 9mo +2d gutenberg.org/cache/epub/75880/pg75880-images.html 61A star appears to have collapsed straight into a black hole without supernova (2017) 35 77 9mo +24m science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/collapsing-star-gives-birth-to-a-black-hole 62Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay 70 292 9mo +1h github.com/JustAman62/undercut-f1 63Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of culture 77 155 9mo +2d theconversation.com/perus-ancient-irrigation-systems-succeeded-in-turning-deserts-into-farms-because-of-the-culture-without-it-the-systems-failed-251199 64A Map of British Dialects (2023) 173 220 9mo +40m starkeycomics.com/2023/11/07/map-of-british-english-dialects 65The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023) 79 67 9mo +53m blog.samizdata.co/p/how-a-british-sitcom-swept-through-the-balkans 66Show HN: Goldbach Conjecture up to 4*10^18+7*10^13 134 242 9mo +1h medium.com/@jay_gridbach/grid-computing-shatters-world-record-for-goldbach-conjecture-verification-1ef3dc58a38d 67Texas school district bans Virginia state flag and seal over naked breast 16 35 9mo +33m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/texas-bans-virginia-flag-breast 68Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move 54 71 9mo +25m servethehome.com/synology-lost-the-plot-with-hard-drive-locking-move 69Investigating the Luna-Terra Collapse as a Temporal Multilayer Graph 7 27 9mo +3d dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3726869 70High time to tackle drug-resistant fungal infections 44 136 9mo +2d nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01177-x 71Serverless Is a Scam 21 28 9mo +31m sliplane.io/blog/serverless-is-a-scam 72AI-Designed Antivenoms: New Proteins to Block Deadly Snake Toxins 25 103 9mo +2d plentyofroom.beehiiv.com/p/antivenoms-with-ai-designed-proteins 73Sponges, drill bits and wires: Surgeons mistakenly left objects inside thousands 50 65 9mo +2d sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/hospitals-surgical-objects-patients 74Pahole: Analysing Memory Layout of Complex Data Structures with Ease 0 17 9mo +2h pramodkumbhar.com/2023/11/pahole-to-analyz-data-structure-memory-layouts-with-ease 75System Design of a Cellular APL Computer 15 38 9mo +1h ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1671509 76JavaScript Views, the Hard Way – A Pattern for Writing UI 129 186 9mo +1h github.com/matthewp/views-the-hard-way 77Ocean Iron Fertilization 93 85 9mo +3d whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/ocean-topics/climate-weather/ocean-based-climate-solutions/iron-fertilization 78Hands-On Large Language Models 17 146 9mo +32m github.com/HandsOnLLM/Hands-On-Large-Language-Models 79refern: Pinterest-like image organizer reimagined for creatives 1 3 9mo +2d refern.app 80Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check 189 96 9mo +2d cleantechnica.com/2025/04/14/hydrogen-vs-battery-buses-a-european-transit-reality-check 81Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety 345 579 9mo +13m reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/cozy-video-games-can-quell-stress-anxiety-2025-01-27 82Yale sells up to $6B of its PE portfolio amid federal funding challenge 16 42 9mo +6m secondariesinvestor.com/yale-sells-up-to-6bn-of-its-pe-portfolio-amid-federal-funding-challenge 83 More... 2025.04.18