HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order ⚙ Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat 101 183 8mo +3m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/pete-hegseth-signal-chat-yemen-attack 1Demystifying decorators: They don't need to be cryptic 15 29 8mo +2h thepythoncodingstack.com/p/demystifying-python-decorators 2TikZJax: Embedding LaTeX Drawings in HTML 29 134 8mo +1h tikzjax.com 3Efficient E-Matching for Super Optimizers 0 19 9mo +1d blog.vortan.dev/ematching 4Why the Ultrarich Are Unplugging from "Smart Homes" 61 44 8mo +54m hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/real-estate/tech-free-homes-luxury-trend-1236177909 5Mapping the half-billion connections that allow mice to see 0 16 9mo +1d engineering.princeton.edu/news/2025/04/09/scientists-map-vision-centers-mammalian-brain 6ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on 'please' and 'thank you' 14 15 8mo +8m techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-spends-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-on-people-playing-please-and-thank-you-but-sam-altman-says-its-worth-it 7Better Error Handling 96 70 8mo +1h meowbark.dev/Better-error-handling 8Decomposing Transactional Systems 7 130 8mo +1h transactional.blog/blog/2025-decomposing-transactional-systems 9What should third world dev do in this economy? 22 46 8mo +2m 10How encryption for Cinema Movies works 117 221 8mo +3h serverless.industries/2024/05/31/digital-cinema.en.html 11Show HN: JuryNow – Get an anonymous instant verdict from 12 real people 109 252 8mo +2h jurynow.app 12Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard using Estuary and Tinybird 44 41 8mo +2h 420.headset.io 13Crows can recognize geometric regularity 80 176 9mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-04-crows-geometric-regularity.html 14FurtherAI (YC W24) Is Hiring Software and AI Engineers 0 1 8mo +14s ycombinator.com/companies/furtherai/jobs 154Chan was hacked and has been down for 4 days 23 12 8mo +7m pcworld.com/article/2692719/infamous-site-4chan-taken-down-by-a-hacker-from-rival-community.html 16Voice Flight – A voice-controlled flying game 5 11 9mo +1d 17Falsify: Hypothesis-Inspired Shrinking for Haskell (2023) 17 89 8mo +3m well-typed.com/blog/2023/04/falsify 18kurzgesagt: South Korea's demographic issue is killing their country [video] 24 29 8mo +53m youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk 19Find the Odd Disk 116 188 8mo +6m colors2.alessandroroussel.com 20Syncing Keyhive 0 18 9mo +1d inkandswitch.com/keyhive/notebook/05 21Mike Wood, Whose LeapFrog Toys Taught a Generation, Dies at 72 1 13 8mo +48m nytimes.com/2025/04/19/business/michael-c-wood-dead.html 22Christianity was always for the poor (2024) 68 59 8mo +1h jacobin.com/2024/03/christianity-poor-debt-jesus-moses-wealth 23U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days 70 202 8mo +37m news.azpm.org/p/news-articles/2025/4/18/224512-us-citizen-in-arizona-detained-by-immigration-officials-for-10-days 24Pushing the Limits of LLM Quantization via the Linearity Theorem 2 95 8mo +3h arxiv.org/abs/2411.17525 25The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" 167 447 8mo +40m fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-movie-mistake-mystery-from-revenge.html 26New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks 20 90 8mo +17m quantamagazine.org/new-proof-settles-decades-old-bet-about-connected-networks-20250418 27First hormone-free male birth control pill enters human trials 307 221 8mo +3m scitechdaily.com/99-effective-first-hormone-free-male-birth-control-pill-enters-human-trials 28They Were Deactivated from Delivering. Their Finances Were Devastated. 28 31 8mo +41m nytimes.com/2025/03/29/business/uber-lyft-doordash-deactivation.html 29Signal Carnival 19 134 8mo +9m quiss.org/signal_carnival 30OAuth's Role in MCP Security 11 50 8mo +2h defensiblesystems.substack.com/p/oauths-role-in-mcp-security 31Researchers develop picosecond-level flash memory device 8 13 9mo +1d fudan.edu.cn/en/2025/0417/c344a145016/page.htm 32Weave (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer 0 1 8mo +22s ycombinator.com/companies/weave-3/jobs 33Show HN: A Standalone/GitHub CLI Extension to Preview GitHub Flavored Markdown 11 29 8mo +2h github.com/thiagokokada/gh-gfm-preview 34The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' 76 182 8mo +55m carette.xyz/posts/focus_will_be_the_skill_of_the_future 35Things Zig comptime won't do 232 455 8mo +25m matklad.github.io/2025/04/19/things-zig-comptime-wont-do.html 36Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after 333 259 8mo +1h oneusefulthing.org/p/on-jagged-agi-o3-gemini-25-and-everything 37Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada 50 82 8mo +15m cbc.ca/arts/home-galleries-are-hiding-in-plain-sight-across-canada-1.7503886 38Slouching towards San Francisco 91 94 8mo +1h rachdele.substack.com/p/slouching-towards-san-francisco 39Turing-Drawings 41 136 8mo +4m github.com/maximecb/Turing-Drawings 40The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers 76 186 8mo +2h blues.win/posts/joy-of-linux-theming 41Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs 14 69 9mo +1d lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2025/04/17/perplexingly-book-learned-emacs 42Tini: A tiny but valid `init` for containers 2 31 8mo +39m github.com/krallin/tini 43[dead] ? 8 8mo +3h thefarce.org 44Maybe Meta's Llama claims to be open source because of the EU AI act 14 28 8mo +1h simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/llama-eu-ai-act 45Meta's Monopoly Made It a Fair-Weather Friend 3 14 8mo +1h wired.com/story/plaintext-ftc-meta-trial-mark-zuckerberg 46[dead] ? 3 8mo +2h frame-pack.video 47Show HN: MCP Containers – Easily and securely run MCP servers locally 0 12 8mo +1h github.com/metorial/mcp-containers 48[dead] ? 20 8mo +32m theguardian.com 49A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics 61 124 9mo +2d technologyreview.com/2025/04/17/1114456/toy-armatron-modern-robotics-ai-nostalgia 50What's happening with Tesla's solar roof? 13 23 8mo +26m electrek.co/2025/04/19/whats-happening-with-tesla-solar-roof 51Three Felonies a Day (2013) 96 91 8mo +4h kottke.org/13/06/you-commit-three-felonies-a-day 52Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf? 220 237 8mo +23m theahura.substack.com/p/tech-things-openai-buys-windsurf 53Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient 136 255 9mo +3d nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01026-x 54Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs 271 588 8mo +54m developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-3-quantized-aware-trained-state-of-the-art-ai-to-consumer-gpus 55Ask HN: How do you talk about past jobs you regret in interviews? 107 85 9mo +3d 56'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race 6 18 8mo +9m bbc.com/future/article/20250417-biological-reality-what-genetics-has-taught-us-about-race 57Show HN: Lit.money – Ethically designed to be a private, simple way to see money 30 22 9mo +3d lit.money 58Attention Spans for Math and Stories (2019) 15 91 9mo +3d jeremykun.com/2019/03/26/attention-spans-for-math-and-stories 59What the hell is an elliptic curve? 34 65 8mo +41m onlynv.dev/blog/what-the-hell-is-an-elliptic-curve 60Models of Ice Skating for the Development of Robotic Ice Skating Gaits [pdf] (2020) 5 18 9mo +2d .eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2021/EECS-2021-162.pdf 61Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack, featuring Slirp-CK 12 89 8mo +2h oldvcr.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/04/lets-give-provenix-barely-adequate-pre.html 62Meteor Burst Communications 2 18 8mo +1h ronaldelliott.com/mbc.html 63Release: OLED Mode extension for Chrome 34 22 9mo +20h github.com/FreelanceProgrammingServices/Chrome-OLED-Mode 64The AI skeptic's guide to AI collaboration 58 46 9mo +1h hils.substack.com/p/the-ai-skeptics-guide-to-ai-collaboration 65Cache loop and memory loss in GPT – a user-side fix (tested with GPT itself) 6 15 9mo +2d github.com/sks38317/gpt-cache-optimization 66Which year: guess which year each photo was taken 204 693 9mo +2d whichyr.com 67Sparsely-Gated Mixture of Experts (MoE) 0 15 9mo +1h eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/sparsely-gated-mixture-of-experts-moe 68Eccfrog512ck2: An Enhanced 512-Bit Weierstrass Elliptic Curve [pdf] 16 44 9mo +3d arxiv.org/abs/2504.09584 69Preserving Ireland's Bogs– Memory, Identity, and the Path Forward 0 10 9mo +3d worldsensorium.com/breandan-ocaoimh-preserving-irelands-bogs-memory-identity-and-the-path-forward 70Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust (2016) 49 135 9mo +1h hoverbear.org/blog/rust-state-machine-pattern 71Layered Design in Go 38 137 9mo +1h jerf.org/iri/post/2025/go_layered_design 72100 Years to Solve an Integral (2020) 61 214 9mo +1m liorsinai.github.io/mathematics/2020/08/27/secant-mercator.html 73British rebellion against Roman legions caused by drought, research finds 21 29 9mo +2d theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/17/british-rebellion-against-roman-legions-caused-by-drought-research-finds 74Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale 81 181 9mo +23m science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052 75Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf] 51 109 9mo +41m storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Era-of-Experience%20/The%20Era%20of%20Experience%20Paper.pdf 76I just got an ad in VS Code 62 95 9mo +6h postimg.cc/G97psRDx 77Calypsi: A series of C compiler and assembly language cross compiler tool chains 4 24 9mo +3d github.com/hth313/Calypsi-tool-chains 78Can We Trust CVE? 17 58 9mo +2h opensourcesecurity.io/2025/04-can-we-trust-cve 79Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results 70 311 9mo +2d timsh.org/everyone-knows-your-location-part-2-try-it-yourself 80Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents 0 14 9mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840 81 More... 2025.04.19