HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order AI helps unravel a cause of Alzheimer’s and identify a therapeutic candidate 159 319 8mo +1h today.ucsd.edu/story/ai-helps-unravel-a-cause-of-alzheimers-disease-and-identify-a-therapeutic-candidate 1[dead] ? 14 8mo +4m sfchronicle.com 2I wouldn't get into a Tesla Robotaxi 31 48 8mo +6m substack.com/@theahura/note/c-112383923 3Restoring a Sinclair C5 17 54 8mo +17m woof.tech/@crashtestdev/114411537491626882 4The suburban office park that launched Silicon Valley 35 123 8mo +1h thehustle.co/originals/the-suburban-office-park-that-launched-silicon-valley 5Here's how to get ChatGPT to stop being an overly flattering yes man 60 103 8mo +43m old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1k8vomo/heres_how_to_get_chatgpt_to_stop_being_an_overly 6Computer Architects Can't Find the Average 31 88 8mo +1h dgsq.net/2025-04-27-averages 7Tiny Emulators 19 160 8mo +1h floooh.github.io/tiny8bit 8Still standing 62 100 8mo +1d blog.4chan.org/post/781845918774394880/still-standing 9Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) 1122 374 8mo +26m 10I just want to code (2023) 172 285 8mo +2h zachbellay.com/daily/i-just-want-to-code 11Cut: Chattanooga Civic User Testing 4 39 8mo +1h cut.chattanooga.gov 12Why "Learn to code" Failed [PolyMatter] [video] 12 16 8mo +48m youtube.com/watch?v=bThPluSzlDU 13Show HN: I486SX_soft_FPU – Software FPU Emulator for NetBSD 10 on 486SX 39 115 8mo +54m github.com/mezantrop/i486SX_soft_FPU 14Thoughts Upon Slavery (1774) 19 35 8mo +54m msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5300/sc5339/000091/000000/000001/restricted/2002_09_10/wesley/thoughtsuponslavery.html#1 15AI Coding assistants provide little value because a programmer's job is to think 197 100 8mo +55m doliver.org/articles/programming-is-a-thinkers-game 16How the idea of stripping citizenship for crimes spread across Europe 4 17 8mo +2m theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/26/how-idea-of-stripping-citizenship-for-crimes-spread-across-europe 17How a Pipe Organ Works (2020) 18 83 8mo +39m pipedreams.org/page/how-a-pipe-organ-works 18Do Large Language Models know who did what to whom? 5 39 8mo +3h arxiv.org/abs/2504.16884 19What Air Defenses Do the Houthis in Yemen Have? 5 16 8mo +15m twz.com/news-features/what-air-defenses-do-the-houthis-in-yemen-actually-have 20Suicide reverberates among young doctors 22 40 8mo +42m wsj.com/health/medical-residents-working-conditions-young-doctor-suicide-3dc61495 21How a single line of code could brick your iPhone 116 494 8mo +1h rambo.codes/posts/2025-04-24-how-a-single-line-of-code-could-brick-your-iphone 22Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-Generated Comments 35 76 8mo +6h simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/unauthorized-experiment-on-cmv 23Clean energy manufacturers cancel projects as Trump-era policies take hold 1 13 8mo +1h manufacturingdive.com/news/inflation-reduction-act-canceled-projects-q1-2025-kore-freyr/745966 24Internet in a Box 243 869 8mo +52m internet-in-a-box.org 25Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think 244 332 8mo +36m verdikapuku.com/posts/business-founders-are-less-valuable-than-they-think 26The woman who saved Toy Story 2 from deletion 5 10 8mo +33m roughcut.heyeddie.ai/p/the-hidden-hand-galyn-susman-the 27[dead] ? 15 8mo +1m gizmodo.com 28MIT Committee Report on the Changing Nature of Information (1983) [pdf] 5 31 8mo +23m archive.org/details/1983-03-09-27-27_202504 29[dead] ? 13 8mo +20m cnn.com 30Show HN: Flow.diy – a super duper simple flowchart maker 2 20 8mo +13m flow.diy 31[dead] ? 23 8mo +43m timesofsandiego.com 32Walmart plans EV Charging network which will blanket the US within a few years 94 97 8mo +3m evchargingstations.com/chargingnews/exclusive-walmart-ev-charging-network 33DMCA Notices Can Silence Critics but Complaints by the Public Put All at Risk 3 59 8mo +1h torrentfreak.com/dmca-notices-can-silence-critics-but-public-complaints-are-chaotic-250427 34Show HN: Daily Jailbreak – Prompt Engineer's Wordle 64 126 8mo +12m vaultbreak.ai/daily-jailbreak 35OpenBSD 7.7 Released 27 135 8mo +16m openbsd.org/77.html 36Show HN: Logchef – Schema-agnostic log viewer for ClickHouse 3 39 8mo +2h github.com/mr-karan/logchef 37What's the deal with autism rates? 57 72 8mo +27m cremieux.xyz/p/whats-the-deal-with-autism-rates 38NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Completes Asteroid Donaldjohanson Flyby 2 26 8mo +45m science.nasa.gov/blogs/lucy/2025/04/20/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-completes-asteroid-donaldjohanson-flyby 39California is nearly out of license plate numbers 29 21 8mo +20m sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-new-license-plate-format-20293230.php 40Calibrations Have a Context-Collapse Problem 6 40 8mo +1h oldschoolburke.com/011-calibrations-have-a-context-collapse-problem 41Unlocking Ractors: Object_id 0 75 8mo +1h byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/04/26/unlocking-ractors-object-id.html 42TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant 63 194 8mo +1h tmuxai.dev 43Watching o3 model sweat over a Paul Morphy mate-in-2 67 106 8mo +55m alexop.dev/posts/how-03-model-tries-chess-puzzle 44The coming knowledge-work supply-chain crisis 163 256 8mo +2h worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/the-coming-knowledge-work-supply 45YC founder points out that jobs exist outside of working for police state 48 94 8mo +10m bird.makeup/users/paulg/statuses/1913338841068404903 46Show HN: I created snapDOM to capture DOM nodes as images with exceptional speed 40 119 8mo +4m github.com/zumerlab/snapdom 47Extend (YC W23) is hiring engineers to build LLM document processing 0 1 8mo +35s jobs.ashbyhq.com/extend/9d4d8974-bd9b-432d-84ec-8268e5a8ed37 48Read the Obits 120 277 8mo +14m thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-creativity-hack-no-one-told-you-about-read-the-obits 49Did 5G kill the IMSI catcher? 119 267 8mo +26m zetier.com/5g-imsi-catcher 50Libogc (Wii homebrew library) discovered to contain code stolen from RTEMS 146 189 8mo +35m github.com/fail0verflow/hbc/blob/80a80251f83f1993c272c58e471d040f3eb1dee9/README.md 51Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders 907 286 8mo +42m fastcompany.com/91323835/virginia-will-use-technology-to-slow-chronic-speeders-cars-and-other-states-are-rushing-to-join-in 52Disney worker who hacked menus gets 3 years in prison 13 24 8mo +41m nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/disney-worker-prison-hacking.html 53How NASA Is Using Graph Technology and LLMs to Build a People Knowledge Graph 53 107 8mo +4m memgraph.com/blog/nasa-memgraph-people-knowledge-graph 54Former Disney employee who hacked Disney World menus sentenced to 3 years 41 55 8mo +2h databreaches.net/2025/04/24/former-disney-employeedwho-hacked-disney-world-restaurant-menus-in-revenge-sentenced-to-3-years-in-federal-prison 55What Porn Did to American Culture? 97 38 8mo +40m theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/04/what-porn-did-to-american-culture/682610 56Earth's oceans used to be green, and they could turn purple next 3 30 8mo +23m newatlas.com/science/earths-oceans-used-to-be-green-and-they-could-turn-purple-next 57Show HN: Lil digi – play a platformer game as yourself 21 28 8mo +2h lildigi.me 58Reverse geocoding is hard 129 272 8mo +27m shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/reverse-geocoding-is-hard 59We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video] 265 285 8mo +13m ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads 60Time to quit your pointless job, become morally ambitious and change the world 102 88 8mo +14m theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/19/no-youre-not-fine-just-the-way-you-are-time-to-quit-your-pointless-job-become-morally-ambitious-and-change-the-world 61Show HN: Rplyr – send emails to AI 3 7 8mo +35m rplyr.com 62Show HN: A Common Lisp implementation in development, supports ASDF 58 93 8mo +2h savannah.nongnu.org/p/alisp 63Musk Shutting Down Government Loan Office That Gave Him the Money to Grow Tesla 14 78 8mo +24m jalopnik.com/1843586/elon-musk-doe-cuts-tesla 64Irishman's universal evolution theory challenges accepted cosmology 11 13 8mo +46m irishtimes.com/science/space/2025/04/24/beyond-the-big-bang-irishmans-universal-evolution-theory-challenges-accepted-cosmology 65Wikipedia: Database Download 97 200 8mo +22m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download 66New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable 83 51 8mo +5h archaeologymag.com/2025/04/study-reveals-inequality-was-never-inevitable 67[dead] ? 22 8mo +1h cnn.com 68Ask HN: Memory-safe low level languages? 109 49 8mo +25m 69Accidentally Turing-Complete 7 25 8mo +6m beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complete.html 70Shardines: SQLite3 Database-per-Tenant with ActiveRecord 73 248 8mo +39m blog.julik.nl/2025/04/a-can-of-shardines 71America's nuclear arsenal to cost $946B over next decade 80 60 8mo +21m breakingdefense.com/2025/04/americas-nuclear-arsenal-to-cost-946b-over-next-decade-government-report-reveals 72Top Patenting Powerhouses of 2024 8 5 8mo +1h spectrum.ieee.org/patent-power-2025 73Show HN: Bhvr, a Bun and Hono and Vite and React Starter 95 124 8mo +1h bhvr.dev 74[dead] ? 4 8mo +25m thestreet.com 75Microsoft Word 5.5 And 6.0 In-depth DOS Review With Pics (2018) 3 31 8mo +38m shot97retro.blogspot.com/2018/07/microsoft-word-55-and-60-in-depth-dos.html 76Windows "inetpub" security fix can be abused to block future updates 0 16 8mo +1h bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-inetpub-security-fix-can-be-abused-to-block-future-updates 77ZFS: Apple's new filesystem that wasn't (2016) 197 203 8mo +2h ahl.dtrace.org/2016/06/15/apple_and_zfs 78GPU Price Tracker 44 53 8mo +31m unitedcompute.ai/gpu-price-tracker 79Wanted: Manly jobs for manly men 3 16 8mo +10m vpostrel.substack.com/p/wanted-manly-jobs-for-manly-men 80Compiler Reminders 6 38 8mo +3h jfmengels.net/compiler-reminders 81Mesmerizing Interlocking Geometric Patterns Produced with Japanese Woodworking 34 134 8mo +1h smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/see-the-mesmerizing-interlocking-geometric-patterns-produced-with-this-ancient-japanese-woodworking-technique-180986494 82Meta's 'Digital Companions' Will Talk Sex with Users–Even Children 51 49 8mo +11m wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chatbots-sex-a25311bf 83'Going to the cloud' could also mean locking into a forever sub-contractor 4 20 8mo +1h berthub.eu/articles/posts/beware-cloud-is-part-of-the-software 84U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent 305 252 8mo +48s washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/25/autism-registry-privacy-rfk-research 85Why Sedans Disappeared 25 21 8mo +50m twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1916120249176358950 86'Tech entrepreneur took our money but failed to deliver our startup dreams' 63 76 8mo +52m bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy6nky0x89o 87Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures 207 227 8mo +1h theguardian.com/world/gallery/2025/apr/27/chongqing-the-worlds-largest-city-in-pictures 88How to program a text adventure in C 49 260 8mo +2h helderman.github.io/htpataic/htpataic01.html 89Show HN: Remote-Controlled IKEA Deathstar Lamp 54 288 8mo +1h gitlab.com/sephalon/deathstar_lamp 90Taxonomy of Failure Mode in Agentic AI Systems [pdf] 1 11 8mo +21m cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcorp/microsoft/final/en-us/microsoft-brand/documents/Taxonomy-of-Failure-Mode-in-Agentic-AI-Systems-Whitepaper.pdf 91Moving Beyond Containers – Introducing Boxer by Daniel Phillips WASM I/O 2025 [video] 16 52 8mo +1h youtube.com/watch?v=rHOwhkHv21U 92Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea 93 43 8mo +1h cnn.com/2025/04/25/asia/south-korea-deepfake-crimes-intl-hnk-dst/index.html 934chan was still running on a version of FreeBSD from 2019 9 18 8mo +2h securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/4chan-was-still-running-on-a-version-of-freebsd-from-2019 94Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants 144 90 8mo +31m 7shifts.com/blog/history-of-tipping-restaurants 959front "clause 15 common elements of maus and star type" released 7 27 8mo +2h 9front.org/releases/2025/04/26/0 96CSS Zen Garden 164 317 8mo +40m csszengarden.com 97The End of Programming 16 14 8mo +22m cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-end-of-programming 98Gold Is So Popular It's Making People Nervous 83 58 8mo +49m bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-04-26/gold-is-so-popular-it-s-making-people-nervous-merryn-talks-money 99Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 18 48 8mo +44m the-independent.com/tech/smartphone-apps-listening-privacy-alphonso-shazam-advertising-pool-3d-honey-quest-a8139451.html 100CONL: "Markdown" for your config files 50 70 8mo +2h cirw.in/blog/conl 101[dead] ? 24 8mo +41m brettterpstra.com 102Open-source interactive C tutorial in the browser 49 253 8mo +32m learn-c.org 103Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io 69 240 8mo +1h dbdiagram.io 104Icônes 42 298 8mo +2h icones.js.org 105Sigbovik Conference Proceedings 2025 [pdf] 26 173 8mo +1h sigbovik.org/2025/proceedings.pdf 106Prime Number Mystery Is Key to Magic: The Gathering Game Strategy 3 12 8mo +39m scientificamerican.com/article/magic-the-gathering-fans-harness-prime-number-puzzle-as-a-game-strategy 107[dead] ? 39 8mo +2h youtube.com 108Are these chimps having a fruity booze-up in the wild? 3 11 8mo +15m arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/are-these-chimps-having-a-fruity-booze-up-in-the-wild 109Path is a utility for working with paths 16 60 8mo +24m gitlab.com/SpyrjaGaldr/path 110I tried Windows gaming on a Mac 93 43 8mo +52m andrewethanzeng.com/i-tried-windows-gaming-on-a-macand-its-amazing 111Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day 186 252 8mo +30m gizmodo.com/amazon-just-happens-to-hold-book-sale-during-independent-bookstore-day-2000594958 112Anatomy of a SQL Engine 15 165 8mo +2h dolthub.com/blog/2025-04-25-sql-engine-anatomy 113 More... 2025.04.26