HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Easy Mentalism Tricks You Can Do 0 8 8mo +1d vanishingincmagic.com/easy-magic-tricks/mentalism/articles/easy-mentalism-tricks 1Building our "native-AI newsroom" 5 16 8mo +31m regenerator1.com/p/building-our-native-ai-newsroom 2Cheating the Reaper in Go 31 182 8mo +1h mcyoung.xyz/2025/04/21/go-arenas 3The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping 117 141 8mo +35m mohitdagarwal.substack.com/p/from-dominance-to-dilemma-nvidia 4Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life 184 548 8mo +32m github.com/ericjenott/Evertop 5Pydrofoil: Accelerating Sail-based instruction set simulators 1 25 8mo +16m arxiv.org/abs/2503.04389 6Ultra-precision formation flying demonstration for space-based interferometry 23 70 8mo +27m arxiv.org/abs/2504.05001 7Ask HN: Writing an Interpreter in Go or Crafting Interpreters? 24 33 9mo +3d 8A M.2 HDMI capture card 88 168 8mo +2h interfacinglinux.com/2025/04/18/magewell-eco-m-2-hdmi-capture-card 9Visiting Us 126 138 8mo +28m epic.com/visiting 10Cekura (Formerly Vocera) (YC F24) Is Hiring 0 1 8mo +17s ycombinator.com/companies/cekura-2/jobs/xaoCPco-founding-engineer 11Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars 11 25 9mo +2d arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/lichens-can-survive-almost-anything-and-some-might-survive-mars 12Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back 106 101 8mo +33m washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/20/apple-stolen-iphone-lawsuit-theft 13Is 1 Prime, and Does It Matter? 151 90 8mo +38m mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/is-1-prime-and-does-it-matter 14No Robot Like Robot (2018) 0 11 9mo +3d slate.com/technology/2018/12/machine-learning-ai-annalee-newitz-when-robot-and-crow-saved-east-st-louis.html 15The Value of Differences: Jennifer Lindsay on Noticing Translation 26 29 8mo +7m sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/the-value-of-differences 16Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs 36 99 8mo +1h github.com/codingmoh/open-codex 17Optimizing Heap Allocations in Go: A Case Study 10 53 9mo +2d dolthub.com/blog/2025-04-18-optimizing-heap-allocations 18An update to our pricing 92 126 8mo +8m windsurf.com/blog/pricing-v2 19Whistleblower statement on anomalies at time of DOGE work at NLRB [pdf] 13 123 8mo +5m whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf 20Propositional Parlor Puzzle 4 27 8mo +14m buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/propositional-parlor-puzzle 21Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole 158 236 8mo +24m phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomers-lone-black-hole.html 22How I use Kate editor 76 220 8mo +22h akselmo.dev/posts/how-i-use-kate-editor 23Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii 102 605 8mo +24m blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii 24Local LLM inference – impressive but too hard to work with 58 83 8mo +1h medium.com/@aazo11/local-llm-inference-897a06cc17a2 25Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad 29 117 9mo +2d statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/18/dumb-statistical-models-always-making-people-look-bad 26A Science Project: "Make the 486 Great Again!" - Modern Linux in an ancient PC (2018) 3 12 8mo +22m yeokhengmeng.com/2018/01/make-the-486-great-again 27Show HN: Light like the Terminal – Meet GTK LLM Chat Front End 14 35 8mo +1h github.com/icarito/gtk-llm-chat 28[dead] ? 10 8mo +6m npr.org 29FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices 260 421 8mo +18m ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/04/ftc-takes-action-against-uber-deceptive-billing-cancellation-practices 30The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (1997) [video] 7 30 9mo +2d youtube.com/watch?v=aYT2se94eU0 31Decentralizing Schemes 17 37 8mo +6h tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/04/16/Decentralized-Schemes 32Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue 187 627 8mo +2m github.com/nari-labs/dia 33Coding Neon Kernels for the Cortex-A53 10 23 8mo +1h destevez.net/2025/02/coding-neon-kernels-for-the-cortex-a53 34The campaign to subvert Africa's internet registry 36 121 8mo +41m capeindependent.com/article/the-campaign-to-subvert-africas-internet-registry 35Spark AI (YC W24) is hiring a full-stack engineer in San Francisco 0 1 8mo +9s ycombinator.com/companies/spark/jobs/kDeJlPK-software-engineer-full-stack 36Adding keyword parameters to Tcl procs 17 58 8mo +3m world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2025/04/adding-keyword-parameters-to-tcl-procs.html 37A new form of verification on Bluesky 288 379 8mo +40m bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification 38Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" Takes Flight 26 24 8mo +33m techstrong.it/featured/ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-takes-flight 39Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing 44 117 8mo +3h sam.elborai.me/articles/tabular-programming 40Meta MCP: Chaining Tools via Prompt-Driven Arguments 3 16 9mo +3d cefboud.com/posts/XMCP-multiplexing-mcp 41WikiTree: The Free Family Tree 6 19 8mo +17m wikitree.com 42Experimenting is above all a process 1 26 8mo +3h 205.tf/articles/experimenting-is-above-all-a-process 43Gemini 2.5: The First LLM That Understands PDF Layouts 1 16 8mo +1h sergey.fyi/articles/using-gemini-for-precise-citations 44Handwriting activates broader brain networks than typing 44 110 8mo +1h psypost.org/handwriting-activates-broader-brain-networks-than-typing-study-shows 45LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them 238 341 8mo +44m matthewsinclair.com/blog/0178-why-llm-powered-programming-is-more-mech-suit-than-artificial-human 46PlanetMath 1 15 8mo +46m planetmath.org 47Inner Loop Agents 3 14 8mo +30m timkellogg.me/blog/2025/04/19/inner-loops 48Event-Hidden Architecture 3 14 8mo +15m skiplabs.io/blog/event-hidden-arch 49Show HN: I rewrote few of the common core string.h functions 10 9 9mo +2d github.com/deep-vinci/re-implement-c 50Out of the Fog 34 148 8mo +3m theverge.com/cs/features/651701/vietnam-operation-babylift-adoption-transnational 51AI assisted search-based research works now 142 273 8mo +28m simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search 52Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams 109 182 8mo +27m 53Show HN: Brainstorm.gg – Get ideas out of your head fast 15 18 8mo +44m brainstorm.gghttp:/ 542,031-HP Hennessey Venom F5 Evolution Claims 0 to 200 MPH in 10 Seconds 29 29 8mo +55m thedrive.com/news/2031-hp-hennessey-venom-f5-evolution-claims-0-to-200-mph-in-10-seconds 55The Tontine Coffee-House (2018) 24 48 8mo +13m tontinecoffeehouse.com/2018/10/15/the-tontine-coffee-house 56The great internet Baby Monitor Debate 10 5 9mo +3d blog.livenearfriends.com/the-great-internet-baby-monitor-debate 57Ref Butts and Slam Dunks: What It's Like Photographing an NBA Game 32 43 9mo +2d petapixel.com/2025/04/09/ref-butts-and-slam-dunks-what-its-like-photographing-an-nba-game 58Show HN: Nerdlog – Fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram 47 127 8mo +1h github.com/dimonomid/nerdlog 59Nerdlog: Fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram 0 8 8mo +15m dmitryfrank.com/projects/nerdlog/article 60Swill Milk Scandal 4 5 8mo +18m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swill_milk_scandal 61Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent 114 315 8mo +5h spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-energy-consumption 62[dead] ? 57 8mo +3h wsj.com 63Enlightenment desktop: Terminology 1.14.0 Release 2 11 8mo +1h enlightenment.org/news/2025-03-23-terminology-1.14.0 64Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 uses DLSS, making it the first Switch 2 game 7 11 8mo +30m videogameschronicle.com/news/cyberpunk-2077-on-switch-2-uses-dlss-making-it-the-first-switch-2-game-confirmed-to-use-it 65Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature 339 367 8mo +11m herecomesthemoon.net/2025/04/pipelining 66Why R the Critical Value and Emergent Behavior of Large Language Models Fake? 13 11 9mo +2d cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-are-the-critical-value-and-emergent-behavior-of-large-language-models-llms-fake 67Are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence? 82 68 8mo +2h theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/19/dont-ask-what-ai-can-do-for-us-ask-what-it-is-doing-to-us-are-chatgpt-and-co-harming-human-intelligence 68Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record 340 339 8mo +28m ember-energy.org/latest-updates/fossil-fuels-fall-below-50-of-us-electricity-for-the-first-month-on-record 69Getting forked by Microsoft 994 1806 8mo +11m philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft 70Haskelling My Python 67 164 9mo +2d unnamed.website/posts/haskelling-my-python 71[dead] ? 17 8mo +41m politico.eu 72How Tesla is replacing the age-old CAN bus 59 18 8mo +58m notateslaapp.com/news/2645/how-tesla-is-replacing-the-age-old-can-bus 73Android 16 lets the Linux Terminal use your phone's entire storage 24 44 8mo +38m androidauthority.com/android-16-terminal-disk-resize-3546144 74Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying 10 96 8mo +44m theregister.com/2025/04/14/opinion_secret_state_security/?td=rt-3a 75Regex Isn't Hard (2023) 95 74 8mo +8m timkellogg.me/blog/2023/07/11/regex 76Taking Notes with Joplin 58 105 9mo +2d lwn.net/Articles/1016400 77[dead] ? 21 8mo +19m beatofhawaii.com 78Molecules that fight infection also act on the brain 3 24 9mo +3d news.mit.edu/2025/molecules-fighting-infection-act-in-brain-inducing-anxiety-or-sociability-0407 79Pope Francis has died 760 901 8mo +1h reuters.com/world/pope-francis-has-died-vatican-says-video-statement-2025-04-21 80[dead] ? 46 8mo +14m vaticannews.va 81[dead] ? 6 8mo +26m apnews.com 82The Pour-igin of Species 1 9 9mo +3d pudding.cool/2025/04/wine-animals 83Pope Francis has died 18 221 8mo +1m bbc.co.uk/news/live/crknlnzlrzdt 84New ChatGPT Models Seem to Leave Watermarks on Text 27 19 8mo +2h rumidocs.com/newsroom/new-chatgpt-models-seem-to-leave-watermarks-on-text 85Fewer beans = great coffee if you get the pour height right 3 9 9mo +3d arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/the-trick-to-making-great-pour-over-coffee-with-fewer-beans 86Python’s new t-strings 461 601 8mo +2h davepeck.org/2025/04/11/pythons-new-t-strings 87Banana Pi BPI-RV2 RISC-V gateway board 28 44 9mo +1d docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI-RV2/BananaPi_BPI-RV2 88How to Run Python in Production 28 28 9mo +2d ashishb.net/programming/python-in-production-2 89The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state 483 478 8mo +30m nber.org/papers/w33697 90I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video] 235 347 8mo +1h youtube.com/watch?v=aUOnQ_boqCw 91Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM 117 403 8mo +2h github.com/LukasOgunfeitimi/TikTok-ReverseEngineering 92[dead] ? 21 8mo +1h highnoongame.com 93Regular Expression Derivatives in Python [pdf] [video] 5 41 9mo +3d archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/python_regex_derivatives/attachments/slides/2363/export/events/attachments/python_regex_derivatives/slides/2363/fosdem2018.pdf 94"Upgrade" has become the most frightening word in the English language (2016) 25 31 8mo +2h nytimes.com/2016/11/25/books/review/calvin-trillin-on-the-scariest-word.html 95[dead] ? 11 8mo +26m codeflash.ai 96X-Ray Defence 7 57 9mo +3d lichess.org/@/Mcie/blog/x-ray-defence-hidden-resource-sudden-lifeline/HERaZrZg 97Mistaking Mary Magdalene 3 12 8mo +37m newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/mistaking-mary-magdalene 98How Thai authorities use online doxxing to suppress dissent 178 205 8mo +3h citizenlab.ca/2025/04/how-thai-authorities-use-online-doxxing-to-suppress-dissent 99"Is This Tech Dead?" A snarky autopsy engine for your dead frameworks 55 47 8mo +1h isthistechdead.com 100US Government imposes license requirement on Nvidia H20 exports 4 13 8mo +7m techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/us-government-imposes-license-requirement-on-nvidia-h20-exports 101Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights 1 15 9mo +2d citiesandmemory.com/heritage 102Show HN: Keep your PyTorch model in VRAM by hot swapping code 7 76 8mo +1h github.com/valine/training-hot-swap 103[dead] ? 6 8mo +1h blog.gingerbeardman.com 104[dead] ? 14 8mo +22m axios.com 105Test Spies in Haskell 4 11 9mo +2d jezenthomas.com/2025/04/test-spies-in-haskell 106The appeal of serving your web pages with a single process 57 84 9mo +2d utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/SingleProcessServingAppeal 107 More... 2025.04.20