HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order LLMs for Engineering: Teaching Models to Design High Powered Rockets 44 123 8mo +1d arxiv.org/abs/2504.19394 1Google Wallet launches new age and identity verification features (ZK proofs) 93 109 8mo +1h blog.google/products/google-pay/google-wallet-age-identity-verifications 2Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack 272 340 8mo +8m fabulous.systems/posts/2025/05/anubis-saved-our-websites-from-a-ddos-attack 3Deno's Decline 151 201 8mo +29m dbushell.com/2025/04/28/denos-decline 4Tolkien Against the Grain 6 7 8mo +1d dissentmagazine.org/article/tolkien-against-the-grain 5Multiboard 3D Printed Storage System 3 18 8mo +2h multiboard.io 6Ancient DNA Unveils the Cosmopolitan Heart of the Phoenician-Punic Civilization 3 25 8mo +1h allthathistory.com/archaeology-discoveries/phoenician-punic-civilization/2622 7Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025) 314 247 8mo +7h 8Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025) 300 122 8mo +7h 9Blood droplets on inclined surfaces reveal new cracking patterns 3 41 8mo +20h phys.org/news/2025-04-blood-droplets-inclined-surfaces-reveal.html 10Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes 35 121 8mo +57s github.com/kubetail-org/kubetail 11DECtalk Archive 16 93 8mo +2d dectalk.nu 12The Art of Managing Skunks 8 55 8mo +15m maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2025/02/09/2025-skunks.html 13Creating beautiful charts with JRuby and JFreeChart 25 67 8mo +23h blog.headius.com/2025/04/beautiful-charts-with-jruby-and-jfreechart.html 14Trump's stablecoin chosen for $2B Abu Dhabi investment in Binance 19 52 8mo +2m kitco.com/news/off-the-wire/2025-05-01/trumps-stablecoin-chosen-2-billion-abu-dhabi-investment-binance-co 15C++26: more constexpr in the standard library 57 82 8mo +1h sandordargo.com/blog/2025/04/30/cpp26-constexpr-library-changes 16Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going? 229 257 8mo +8m oxide.computer/blog/oxides-compensation-model-how-is-it-going 17Making of Monkeys.zip 1 14 8mo +1h lukeschaefer.dev/posts/making-of-monkeys 18Hybrid AC/DC distribution system with a shared neutral (2020) 42 29 8mo +18h electrical-engineering-portal.com/download-center/books-and-guides/electricity-generation-t-d/hybrid-ac-dc-distribution 19New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer 393 372 8mo +25m waymo.com/blog/2025/05/waymo-making-streets-safer-for-vru 20How the Water System Works 24 64 8mo +3h thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-water-system-works 21Show HN: Robot Unlock – an open-ended programming game/zachlike 11 43 8mo +2h store.steampowered.com/app/3318050/Robot_Unlock 22The cat that wouldn't die 18 25 8mo +23h aeon.co/essays/no-schrodingers-cat-is-not-alive-and-dead-at-the-same-time 23AI code review: Should the author be the reviewer? 84 130 8mo +4h greptile.com/blog/ai-code-reviews-conflict 24Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un 84 184 8mo +1h theregister.com/2025/02/12/arizona_woman_laptop_farm_guilty 25Git Changesets 2 20 8mo +44m github.com/changesets/changesets 26'ProtectEU' security strategy: a step further towards a digital dystopian future 12 42 8mo +15m edri.org/our-work/protecteu-security-strategy-a-step-further-towards-a-digital-dystopian-future 27Millihertz 5 Mechanical Computer (2022) 18 94 8mo +42m srimech.com/MHZ5.html 28Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten 131 211 8mo +16m picower.mit.edu/news/dopamine-signals-when-fear-can-be-forgotten 29The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis 280 274 8mo +4m chris-martin.org/2025/the-gang-has-a-mid-life-crisis 30Llasa: Llama-Based Speech Synthesis 21 167 8mo +33m llasatts.github.io/llasatts 31Fivetran to acquire Census 50 81 8mo +27m fivetran.com/blog/why-fivetran-and-census-are-joining-forces 32Waypoint Transit (YC W25) is hiring a software engineer 0 1 8mo +18s workatastartup.com/jobs/75517 33Claude Integrations 256 713 8mo +46m anthropic.com/news/integrations 34A senior Apple exec could be jailed in Epic case 98 88 8mo +26m 9to5mac.com/2025/05/01/a-senior-apple-exec-could-be-jailed-in-epic-case-its-time-to-end-this-disaster 35When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history 170 273 8mo +8h quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt-broke-an-entire-field-an-oral-history-20250430 36Show HN: Roons – Mechanical Computer Kit 30 191 8mo +8m whomtech.com/show-hn 37Redis is open source again 736 1843 8mo +6m antirez.com/news/151 38Mac app launches slowed by malware scan (2024) 31 116 8mo +4m lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/2/3.html 39A new sign that AI is competing with college grads? 92 73 8mo +32m theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/04/job-market-youth/682641 40Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research 107 612 8mo +20m nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/accelerating-access-research-results-new-implementation-date-2024-nih-public-access-policy 41The term "vegetative electron microscopy" keeps showing up in scientific papers 32 120 8mo +9m sciencealert.com/a-strange-phrase-keeps-turning-up-in-scientific-papers-but-why 42We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job 287 376 8mo +19m blog.kraken.com/news/how-we-identified-a-north-korean-hacker 43In the US, not even $11,000 a month can buy you dignity at the end of your life 29 37 8mo +3m theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/may/01/nursing-home-assisted-living-costs-care 44All roses were once yellow 6 48 8mo +24m phys.org/news/2025-04-red-pink-white-roses-yellow.html 45Are you the same person you used to be? (2022) 107 84 8mo +4m newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/10/are-you-the-same-person-you-used-to-be-life-is-hard-the-origins-of-you 46Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what "vibe coding" means 112 84 8mo +19m simonwillison.net/2025/May/1/not-vibe-coding 47Show HN: Hyperparam: OSS tools for exploring datasets locally in the browser 21 75 8mo +41m hyperparam.app/about/opensource 48Maybe Zelenskiy Should Be Writing the Art of the Deal 8 57 8mo +13m bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-05-01/maybe-zelenskiy-should-be-writing-the-art-of-the-deal 49Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter 217 165 8mo +6m corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/articles/of-investor-by-investor-for-investor-since-1975.html 50RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory 73 179 8mo +1m arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-stance-is-rooted-in-a-disbelief-in-germ-theory 51NASA's Psyche spacecraft hits a speed bump on the way to a metal asteroid 2 31 8mo +38m arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/engineers-probe-pressure-drop-in-psyche-spacecrafts-propulsion-system 52If you're in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now 48 66 8mo +25m arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/e-ink-android-tablet-maker-onyx-boox-is-making-a-1900-color-e-ink-monitor 53International Workers' Day 149 398 8mo +44m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day 54Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival 109 297 8mo +21m linkwarden.app 55The Brief Origins of May Day 216 226 8mo +18m archive.iww.org/history/library/misc/origins_of_mayday 56Running Qwen3 on your macbook, using MLX, to vibe code for free 161 282 8mo +50m localforge.dev/blog/running-qwen3-macbook-mlx 57Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sandbox Escape 40 143 8mo +30m blog.extensiontotal.com/trust-me-im-local-chrome-extensions-mcp-and-the-sandbox-escape-1875a0ee4823 58Game preservationists say Switch2 GameKey Cards are disheartening but inevitable 107 63 8mo +42m videogameschronicle.com/news/game-preservationists-say-switch-2-game-key-cards-are-disheartening-but-inevitable 59Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral 353 997 8mo +11m thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rules-apple-executive-lied 60A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers 194 491 8mo +28m alexwlchan.net/2025/copying-sqlite-databases 61The Secret Services' involvement in the making of The Line of Fire (1993) [pdf] 9 26 8mo +5h governmentattic.org/58docs/USSSmovieInTheLineOfFireNoDate.pdf 62Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence 79 86 8mo +20m theregister.com/2025/04/30/microsoft_getting_nervous_about_europes 63Strings Just Got Faster 169 237 8mo +2h inside.java/2025/05/01/strings-just-got-faster 64Dropbox will require App Indicator support on Linux 78 30 8mo +42m help.dropbox.com/installs/dropbox-desktop-app-for-linux 65[dead] ? 7 8mo +4h beautytestai.com 66Phi Silica, small but mighty on-device SL 0 6 8mo +7m blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/12/06/phi-silica-small-but-mighty-on-device-slm 67A competing theory to 'dark energy' suggests universe has different time zones 64 73 8mo +3h cbc.ca/radio/quirks/dark-energy-time-zones-1.7465116 68Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights 143 168 8mo +1h twitter.com/WyzeCam/status/1917662183036706849 69An interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers 254 288 8mo +18m theregister.com/2025/04/29/north_korea_worker_interview_questions 70All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding 630 626 8mo +2d danfabulich.medium.com/all-four-major-web-browsers-are-about-to-lose-80-of-their-funding-0e42ceb358f1 71Milwaukee police considering trading mugshots for facial recognition tech 23 93 8mo +21m jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2025/04/25/milwaukee-police-considering-trading-mugshots-for-facial-recognition-tech/83084223007 72How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment 430 460 8mo +4h electrospaces.net/2025/04/how-us-defense-secretary-hegseth.html 73Show HN: Convert Large CSV/XLSX to JSON or XML in Browser 13 41 8mo +1h csvforge.com 74108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring 138 472 8mo +2h hirox-europe.com/gigapixel/girl-with-a-pearl-earring 75Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relying on trucks 56 130 8mo +5m fastcompany.com/91324241/this-company-built-an-entire-rail-terminal-in-queens-to-avoid-relying-on-trucks 76Windows RDP lets you log-in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is ok with that 18 97 8mo +1h arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/windows-rdp-lets-you-log-in-using-revoked-passwords-microsoft-is-ok-with-that 77Stockhausen: Sounds in Space 3 38 8mo +31m stockhausenspace.blogspot.com 78Phi-4 Reasoning Models 26 129 8mo +10m azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/one-year-of-phi-small-language-models-making-big-leaps-in-ai 79GroMo (YC W21) Is Hiring 0 1 8mo +25s ycombinator.com/companies/gromo/jobs/aP4JS9K-product-tech-business-ai-enthusiasts 80Republicans in Congress Want a Flat $200 Annual EV Tax 17 13 8mo +7m arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04/republicans-want-to-tax-ev-drivers-200-year-in-new-transport-bill 81Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104 15 169 8mo +43m nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/julia-parsons-dead.html 82I Found Malware in a BeamNG Mod 31 174 8mo +5h lemonyte.com/blog/beamng-malware 83RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research 34 71 8mo +4m wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-ebola-disease-research-stop 84Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds 593 1146 8mo +7m wsj.com/tech/apple-violated-antitrust-ruling-federal-judge-finds-66b85957 85Pwning the Ladybird Browser 57 326 8mo +11m jessie.cafe/posts/pwning-ladybirds-libjs 86Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup 999 783 8mo +2m pcworld.com/article/2651749/office-is-too-slow-so-microsoft-is-making-it-load-at-windows-startup.html 87 More... 2025.04.30