top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-04-01

Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button

https://nuejs.org/blog/large-scale-apps/

2 years ago

The April Fools joke that might have got me fired

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-april-fools-joke-that-might-have.html

2 years ago

Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd30ywv8o

2 years ago

Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news

https://app.fluentsubs.com/exercises/daily

2 years ago

Why F#?

https://batsov.com/articles/2025/03/30/why-fsharp/

2 years ago

Glubux's Powerwall (2016)

https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powerwall.126/

2 years ago

CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep

https://home.cern/news/news/physics/cern-scientists-find-evidence-quantum-entanglement-sheep

2 years ago

Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic

https://sgnt.ai/p/hell-out-of-llms/

2 years ago

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547611

2 years ago

The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst

https://glthr.com/myst-graph-1

2 years ago

Shared DNA in Music

https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/

2 years ago

Dave Täht has died

https://libreqos.io/2025/04/01/in-loving-memory-of-dave/

2 years ago

How Silica Gel Took Over the World

https://www.scopeofwork.net/silica-gel/

2 years ago

US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-el-salvador-abrego-garcia-b2725002.html

2 years ago

Self-Hosting like it's 2025

https://kiranet.org/self-hosting-like-its-2025/

2 years ago

Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model

https://github.com/getomni-ai/benchmark/blob/main/README.md

2 years ago

The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it

https://jangafx.com/insights/linux-binary-compatibility

2 years ago

Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547309

2 years ago