top 10 hacker news stories for today

Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge84xqjg5lo

18 hours ago

295 upvotes – 189 comments

XML Is a Cheap DSL

https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/xml-cheap-dsl/

6 hours ago

189 upvotes – 195 comments

RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/fake-ram-bundled-with-real-ram-to-create-a-performance-illusion-for-amd-users-1-1-value-pack-offers-desperate-psychological-relief-as-the-memory-shortage-worsens

8 hours ago

189 upvotes – 136 comments

Montana Leads the Nation with Groundbreaking Right to Compute Act

https://www.westernmt.news/2025/04/21/montana-leads-the-nation-with-groundbreaking-right-to-compute-act/

4 hours ago

171 upvotes – 121 comments

What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/what-happens-when-us-economic-data-becomes-unreliable

1 hour ago

155 upvotes – 101 comments

An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062779/

17 hours ago

147 upvotes – 13 comments

Claude Code's binary reveals silent A/B tests on core features

https://backnotprop.com/blog/do-not-ab-test-my-workflow/

6 hours ago

146 upvotes – 182 comments

Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/philosoph-juergen-habermas-mit-96-jahren-gestorben-a-8be73ac7-e722-4543-8344-4515c4040363

4 hours ago

105 upvotes – 36 comments

AI Didn't Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier

https://robenglander.com/writing/ai-did-not-simplify/

3 hours ago

101 upvotes – 89 comments

Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware

https://github.com/drojaazu/megadev

9 hours ago

91 upvotes – 5 comments
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