HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers 44 36 8mo +1h npr.org/2025/04/25/nx-s1-5375820/big-brands-tariffs-us-spending-consumers 1Solar Orbiter's widest high-res view of the Sun 5 50 8mo +37m esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/04/Solar_Orbiter_s_widest_high-res_view_of_the_Sun 2SDR Television 9 30 8mo +38m sdr-radio.com/sdr-television-beta-1 3[dead] ? 18 8mo +3m techdirt.com 4Parity (YC S24) is hiring founding engineers to build an AI SRE (in-person, SF) 0 1 8mo +14s ycombinator.com/companies/parity/jobs 5Goenums: Type Safe Enum Generator for Go 44 32 8mo +6h github.com/zarldev/goenums 6TPSV, an Alternative to TSV (and CSV) 60 41 8mo +4h chtenb.dev/?page=tpsv 7BART's Anime Mascots 70 147 8mo +2h bart.gov/news/fun/anime 8Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS 81 225 8mo +9m popovicu.com/posts/bare-metal-printf 9The lost secrets of Palm webOS (2014) 6 18 8mo +7m theverge.com/2014/1/2/5264580/the-lost-secrets-of-webos 10Unauthorized experiment on r/changemyview involving AI-generated comments 164 233 8mo +38m old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving 11CosAE: Learnable Fourier Series for Image Restoration 17 68 8mo +17m sifeiliu.net/CosAE-page 12Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns 37 73 8mo +45m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01312-8 13The Passing of Ucbvax (1994) 21 66 8mo +48m ucbvax.berkeley.eduhttp:///passing-of-ucbvax.txt 14Dad and the Egg Controller (2018) 16 105 8mo +31m pentadact.com/2018-12-18-dad-and-the-egg-controller 15Slinky-Coil Dipole (2021) 9 46 8mo +11m nonstopsystems.com/radio/frank_radio_antenna.htm 16HTTP Feeds: a minimal specification for polling events over HTTP 34 71 8mo +3h http-feeds.org 17Show HN: Rocal UI – A simple template engine with Rust 2 16 8mo +2h github.com/rocal-dev/rocal/tree/main/rocal_ui 18Tilt: dev environment as code 63 133 8mo +1h github.com/tilt-dev/tilt 19Ask HN: Why do we celebrate AI-Copilots but reject AI–Generated art? 65 20 8mo +1h 20The record-breaking tunnel being built from Denmark to Germany 2 21 8mo +26m bbc.com/news/articles/cy70y2x3xj6o 21Bill Gates's Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC (2008) 32 128 8mo +26m pagetable.com/?p=43 22CONL: "Markdown" for your config files 10 25 8mo +4h cirw.in/blog/conl 23California's $20 fast-food minimum wage improves pay at small cost to consumers 79 82 8mo +3m axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/02/27/uc-berkeley-fast-food-worker-study-minimum-wage 24Tech Workers Are Just Like the Rest of Us: Miserable at Work 2 10 8mo +40m wsj.com/tech/tech-careers-job-market-changes 25Economists don't know what's going on 191 92 8mo +15m economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/04/24/economists-dont-know-whats-going-on 26Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends 9 35 8mo +11m arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/smells-like-teen-friendship-how-scent-influences-social-choices 27The Seven-Year Rule 80 92 8mo +2h macsparky.com/blog/2025/04/the-seven-year-rule 28[dead] ? 9 8mo +15m nola.com 29Robot Dexterity Still Seems Hard 41 70 8mo +57m construction-physics.com/p/robot-dexterity-still-seems-hard 30Barlow's Principles of Adult Behaviour 48 82 8mo +39m mail-archive.com/silklist@lists.hserus.net/msg08034.html 31[dead] ? 6 8mo +15m old.reddit.com 32University of Waterloo withholds coding contest results over suspected AI use 68 93 8mo +22m thelogic.co/news/waterloo-university-coding-competition-ai-cheating 33The True Size Of 9 28 8mo +35m thetruesize.com 34Fifteen new giant radio galaxies discovered with ASKAP 1 44 8mo +15h phys.org/news/2025-04-fifteen-giant-radio-galaxies-askap.html 35Why the Cassette Revival Is Thriving in Argentina's Music Scene 4 12 8mo +5m greenbook.org/insights/focus-on-latam/back-to-tape-why-the-cassette-revival-is-thriving-in-argentinas-music-scene 36Thank you for holding my duck (2021) 27 88 8mo +45m naml.us/post/thank-you-for-holding-my-duck 37Stuffed-Na(a)N: stuff your NaNs 57 153 8mo +32m github.com/si14/stuffed-naan-js 38Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? 67 43 8mo +3h newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence 39Catastrophic fires and soil degradation: possible link with Neolithic revolution 1 12 8mo +9h link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11368-025-04021-x 40Top employee monitoring app leaks 21M screenshots on users 6 42 8mo +1h techradar.com/pro/security/top-employee-monitoring-app-leaks-21-million-screenshots-on-thousands-of-users 41The NNCPNET Email Network 4 34 8mo +2h changelog.complete.org/archives/10768-announcing-the-nncpnet-email-network 42Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining 422 954 8mo +45m simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations 43Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad 115 549 8mo +53m github.com/joexbayer/RetrOS-32 44Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a $2 USB key 8 31 8mo +11m theregister.com/2025/04/26/dos_distraction_free_writing 45LLMs can see and hear without any training 66 209 8mo +3m github.com/facebookresearch/MILS 46Freshpaint (YC S19) is hiring back end and front end engineers (Remote, US only) 0 1 8mo +14s 47First and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in Oct 2025 69 81 8mo +41m arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/google-ending-support-for-older-nest-thermostats-will-stop-selling-nests-in-europe 48The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting 428 515 8mo +5m happiness.hks.harvard.edu/february-2025-issue/the-friendship-recession-the-lost-art-of-connecting 49Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling 158 262 8mo +14m morpheus-research.com/backblaze 50Inmates in ElSalvador tortured/strangled-hellish conditions in Bukele's prisons (2023) 65 99 8mo +44m english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-29/inmates-in-el-salvador-tortured-and-strangled-a-report-denounces-hellish-conditions-in-bukeles-prisons.html 51Commodore OS 3.0 Released 1 30 8mo +42m commodoreos.net/CommodoreOS.aspx 52Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case 97 234 8mo +11m pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky 53[dead] ? 9 8mo +17m politico.com 54Mike Lindell's lawyers used AI to write brief–judge finds nearly 30 mistakes 149 181 8mo +1h arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/mypillow-ceos-lawyers-used-ai-in-brief-citing-fictional-cases-judge-says 55An end to all this prostate trouble? 310 775 8mo +1h yarchive.net/blog/prostate 56Mobygratis – Free Moby music to empower your creative projects 61 245 8mo +7h mobygratis.com 57ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation 801 730 8mo +35m aclu.org/press-releases/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation 58Apparently Bluesky has one centralized service, the "relay" 78 106 8mo +37m mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/114399534536933573 59Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court 351 332 8mo +39m chemistryworld.com/news/australian-who-ordered-radioactive-materials-over-the-internet-walks-away-from-court/4021306.article 60MobileBoost (YC S21) Is Hiring a Founding Back End/Platform Engineer (Remote) 0 1 8mo +30s ycombinator.com/companies/mobileboost/jobs/v6gPgiZ-founding-backend-platform-engineer-remote 61Cloth 59 509 8mo +48m cloudofoz.com/verlet-test 62Amazon Japan ordered to pay 35M. yen for allowing listing of fakes 40 170 8mo +1h mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250425/p2g/00m/0bu/047000c 63A tuition-free school created by Zuckerberg and Chan will shutter next year 30 58 8mo +24m cnn.com/2025/04/25/tech/chan-zuckerberg-primary-school-closing/index.html 64Show HN: Empty Enter Expander – Type less in the terminal with this tool 21 48 8mo +45m github.com/waszabi/empty-enter-expander 65Colossal Cave Adventure (1976) 32 66 8mo +1h github.com/wh0am1-dev/adventure 66Mathematicians just solved a 125-year-old problem, uniting 3 theories in physics 12 110 8mo +38m scientificamerican.com/article/lofty-math-problem-called-hilberts-sixth-closer-to-being-solved 67ATS3 Xanadu Released 1 7 8mo +2h github.com/githwxi/XATSHOME 68Tech Workers are just like the rest of us: miserable at work 6 26 8mo +1h wsj.com/tech/tech-careers-job-market-changes-bfe36c1f 69Bankruptcy as Implicit Health Insurance 2 9 8mo +1h pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20131408 70Reading RSS content is a skilled activity 83 139 8mo +1h doliver.org/articles/rss-as-a-skill 71Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing 318 355 8mo +1h newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook 72ACM's flagship magazine seeks submissions by/for practitioners 2 55 8mo +2h cacm.acm.org/practice/call-for-papers-cacm-practice-section 73Berkeley Humanoid Lite – Open-source robot 35 277 8mo +15m lite.berkeley-humanoid.org 74I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time 309 390 8mo +31m samj.substack.com/p/that-joke-isnt-funny-any-more 75Parallel ./configure 182 216 8mo +1h tavianator.com/2025/configure.html 76An open letter to third-party suppliers 2 8 8mo +6m jpmorgan.com/technology/technology-blog/open-letter-to-our-suppliers 77Rockets, robots and supercars made in Greece 5 17 8mo +4h greekanalyst.substack.com/p/rockets-robots-and-supercars-made 78 More... 2025.04.25