HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (2010) 1 26 8mo +2d pearlab.icrl.org/theory.html 1Path Isn't Real on Linux 109 111 8mo +49m blog.danielh.cc/blog/path 2Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment 376 387 8mo +6m waymo.com/blog/2025/04/waymo-and-toyota-outline-strategic-partnership 3Show HN: An MCP server for understanding AWS costs 23 115 8mo +4d 4Finding paths of least action with gradient descent (2023) 14 70 8mo +3d greydanus.github.io/2023/03/05/ncf-tutorial 5[dead] ? 22 8mo +59m wsj.com 6Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule 673 626 8mo +1h fuelarc.com/cars/only-tesla-exempt-from-new-auto-tariffs-thanks-to-85-domestic-content-rule 7We need more optimistic science fiction 195 135 8mo +2d craig-russell.co.uk/blog/2024-10-24-optimistic-sci-fi 8Modern Realty (YC S24) Is Hiring 0 1 8mo +22s workatastartup.com/jobs/66546 9Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 143 591 8mo +6h jepsen.io/analyses/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-17.4 10The last masters of Afro-Colombian machete fencing 20 57 8mo +5h globalvoices.org/2025/04/19/the-last-masters-of-afro-colombian-machete-fencing-fight-to-save-their-tradition 11[dead] ? 19 8mo +4m theverge.com 12Amazon says displaying tariffs 'not going to happen' after White House blowback 12 62 8mo +1h cnbc.com/2025/04/29/amazon-considers-displaying-tariff-surcharge-on-low-cost-haul-products.html 13FTC's 'Tech Censorship' Investigation Is Censoring Comments About 'Censorship' 9 50 8mo +1h techdirt.com/2025/04/29/ftcs-tech-censorship-investigation-is-censoring-comments-about-censorship 14Show HN: An interactive demo of QR codes' error correction 11 107 8mo +4d qris.cool 15A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 49 48 8mo +50m simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/29/chatgpt-is-not-bad-for-the-environment 16Show HN: AgenticSeek – Self-hosted alternative to cloud-based AI tools 18 117 8mo +3d github.com/Fosowl/agenticSeek 17It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle 47 169 8mo +1d samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle 18I use zip bombs to protect my server 432 1012 8mo +21h idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection 19Show HN: Neurox – GPU Observability for AI Infra 22 25 8mo +1h github.com/neuroxhq/helm-chart-neurox-control 20ART·E: how we built an email research agent that beats o3 2 3 8mo +1h openpipe.ai/blog/art-e-mail-agent 21I can't pay rent because devs just don't care 138 171 8mo +30m happyfellow.bearblog.dev/i-cant-pay-rent-because-devs-just-dont-care 22Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it? 116 83 8mo +34m newslttrs.com/why-is-ai-so-popular-when-nobody-wants-it 23Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE mistakenly raids their home 18 92 8mo +1h kfor.com/news/local/were-citizens-oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects 24Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices 125 430 8mo +1h github.com/freeman-jiang/beatsync 25Beyond Performance: Measuring the environmental impact of analytical databases 4 17 8mo +55m arxiv.org/abs/2504.18980 26Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself 238 531 8mo +29m github.com/PhialsBasement/Chain-of-Recursive-Thoughts 27Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon 118 209 8mo +12m ai.meta.com/blog/llamacon-llama-news/?_fb_noscript=1 28Bamba: An open-source LLM that crosses a transformer with an SSM 68 206 8mo +2m research.ibm.com/blog/bamba-ssm-transformer-model 29Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 213 413 8mo +33m techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/indian-court-orders-blocking-of-proton-mail 30Hestus, Inc. (YC S24) Is Hiring an ML Engineer to Revolutionize CAD 0 1 8mo +27s ycombinator.com/companies/hestus-inc/jobs/WQVdwX8-machine-learning-engineer 31O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data 307 442 8mo +9m sampatt.com/blog/2025-04-28-can-o3-beat-a-geoguessr-master 32What Happens When There Are No Deals? – Paul Krugman 35 46 8mo +50m paulkrugman.substack.com/p/terror-and-embarrassment 33AirBorne: Wormable zero-click remote code execution (RCE) in AirPlay protocol 19 122 8mo +3h oligo.security/blog/airborne 34Firefox tab groups are here 434 777 8mo +14m blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community 35Meta AI App built with Llama 4 107 97 8mo +8m about.fb.com/news/2025/04/introducing-meta-ai-app-new-way-access-ai-assistant 36ArkFlow: High-performance Rust stream processing engine 33 164 8mo +20m github.com/arkflow-rs/arkflow 37Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in Rust 74 135 8mo +2h pyrefly.org 38Performance optimization is hard because it's fundamentally a brute-force task 144 295 8mo +2h purplesyringa.moe/blog/why-performance-optimization-is-hard-work 39One-sixth of the planet's cropland has toxic levels of one or more metals 51 91 8mo +25m english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-04-17/one-sixth-of-the-planets-cropland-has-toxic-levels-of-one-or-more-metals.html 40Elon Musk is wrong about GDP 112 57 8mo +41m timharford.com/2025/04/elon-musk-is-wrong-about-gdp 41How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the science 39 177 8mo +3h erringtowardsanswers.substack.com/p/intrinsic-motivation 42Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas (2024) 13 43 8mo +4m newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas 43[dead] ? 12 8mo +49m newrepublic.com 44My new Alpine-Linux kiosk miniPC (€189) boots in ~3 seconds 2 10 8mo +7m giuliomagnifico.blog/post/2025-24-04-minipc-kiosk 45Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it "hostile/political" 172 160 8mo +55s axios.com/2025/04/29/tariffs-amazon-prime-day-sellers-report 46Amazon Wants to Be a Satellite-Internet Powerhouse. It Has a Long Way to Go 55 45 8mo +13m wsj.com/business/telecom/amazon-wants-to-be-a-satellite-internet-powerhouse-it-has-a-long-way-to-go-63554c28 47Gaussian Splatting Meets ROS2 15 59 8mo +1h github.com/shadygm/ROSplat 48Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive 195 279 8mo +55m blog.tylerglaiel.com/p/programming-languages-should-have 49Show HN: Memex is a Claude Code alternative built on Rust+Tauri for vibe coding 86 86 8mo +17m memex.tech 50Uber raises in-office requirement to 3 days, claws back remote workers 92 54 8mo +24m cnbc.com/2025/04/28/uber-raises-in-office-requirement-to-3-days-claws-back-remote-workers.html 51After 53 years, a failed Soviet Venus spacecraft is crashing back to Earth 46 130 8mo +31m gizmodo.com/after-53-years-a-failed-soviet-venus-spacecraft-is-crashing-back-to-earth-2000595234 52Japan unveils first solar super-panel 42 79 8mo +19m japanenergyevent.com/media-insights-hub/industry-news/japan-unveils-world-s-first-solar-super-panel-more-powerful-than-20-nuclear-reactors 53What Is "Induced Atmospheric Vibration"? 88 163 8mo +13m physics.stackexchange.com/questions/848666/what-is-induced-atmospheric-vibration 54Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies 165 290 8mo +33m blog.bymitch.com/posts/reject-cookies 55Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics 163 254 8mo +37m medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-heart-disease-deaths-worldwide-linked.html 56Ask HN: AI Replacing Engineers – Firsthand Stories? 86 45 8mo +38m 57Cybercriminals Take Responsibility for Spain and Portugal Power Outages 11 21 8mo +38m leakd.com/cyber-security/massive-power-outage-hits-spain-and-portugal-amid-claims-by-pro-russian-hacker-groups 58Vibe Coding: Developer Slot Machines (Cursor, Windsurf) 31 37 8mo +2h prototypr.io/note/vibe-coding-cursor-windsurf-slot-machine 59Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers 429 448 8mo +13m punchbowl.news/article/tech/amazon-display-tariff-costs 60Spain and Portugal power outage: what caused it, and was there a cyber-attack? 61 34 8mo +17m theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/28/spain-and-portugal-power-outage-cause-cyber-attack-electricity 61Canadians give Liberals 4th mandate as Carney leads party to minority win 45 73 8mo +41m ctvnews.ca/politics/article/canadians-give-liberals-4th-mandate-as-carney-leads-party-to-minority-win 62Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists 486 341 8mo +27m theregister.com/2025/04/29/generative_ai_no_effect_jobs_wages 63Ask HN: Is there hope for Microsoft 365 support? 54 63 8mo +1h 64Show HN: Flowcode – Turing-complete visual programming platform 80 172 8mo +41m app.getflowcode.io/playground/example1 65Implement Flash Attention Back End in SGLang – Basics and KV Cache 5 35 8mo +2h hebiao064.github.io/fa3-attn-backend-basic 66Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī's Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century) 38 99 8mo +5h publicdomainreview.org/collection/arabic-machine-manuscript 67Dear "Security Researchers" 101 172 8mo +1h ftp.bit.nl/pub/debian 68Try Switching to Kagi 461 694 8mo +9m daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_switching_to_kagi 69How the April 28, 2025 power outage in Portugal/Spain impacted Internet traffic 3 38 8mo +10m blog.cloudflare.com/how-power-outage-in-portugal-spain-impacted-internet 70Spain is about to face the challenge of a "black start" 145 119 8mo +9m arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/why-restarting-a-power-grid-is-so-hard 71Oracle engineers caused five days software outage at U.S. hospitals 105 173 8mo +1h cnbc.com/2025/04/28/oracle-engineers-caused-days-long-software-outage-at-us-hospitals.html 72The Homebrew Channel repository is archived (Apr 28, 2025) 30 60 8mo +31m github.com/fail0verflow/hbc 73GenZ grads say college degrees a waste of time/money as AI gets into workplaces 23 25 8mo +1h nypost.com/2025/04/21/tech/gen-z-grads-say-their-college-degrees-are-worthless-thanks-to-ai 74The latest executive order creates a police state 20 58 8mo +7m whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-and-unleashing-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens 75LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo 355 783 8mo +21m librelingo.app 76A single line of code cost $8000 410 301 8mo +25m pietrasiak.com/one-line-of-code-that-did-cost-dollar8000 77CNCF tells main NATS contributor Synadia that it's free to fork off 4 15 8mo +6m theregister.com/2025/04/28/cncf_synadia_nats_dispute 78Drinking champagne could reduce risk of sudden cardiac arrest, study suggests 15 22 8mo +12m theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/29/drink-champagne-reduce-risk-sudden-cardiac-arrest-study-suggests 79Knowledge-based society, my ass 99 368 8mo +11m mihaiolteanu.me/knowledge-based-society-my-ass 80Congress passes Take It Down act despite major flaws 102 246 8mo +18m eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-passes-take-it-down-act-despite-major-flaws 81Greek Particles (1990) 39 60 8mo +1h specgram.com/Babel.I.2/07.sriyatha.greek.html 82An Ode to the Thigh (2024) 7 27 8mo +2h ponnekanti.net/posts/an-ode-to-the-thigh 83Hunting for dark nights and wishing on stars 5 23 8mo +5h hcn.org/articles/hunting-for-dark-nights-and-wishing-on-stars 84Show HN: Rad Type - Can we make gamepad typing fast? 37 41 8mo +41m tyleo.com/projects/rad-type 85One Million Chessboards 1 7 8mo +6h onemillionchessboards.com/#199,276 86Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI 115 171 8mo +15m theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers 87Forensic Fandom 3 15 8mo +4h exiledfan.substack.com/p/introducing-forensic-fandom 88Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background? 292 500 8mo +2h devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250428-00/?p=111121 89Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting", "customer backups at risk" 54 69 8mo +31m arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/backblaze-responds-to-claims-of-sham-accounting-customer-backups-at-risk 90 More... 2025.04.28