903
407
Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html
1 year ago
756
568
Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
https://nuejs.org/blog/large-scale-apps/
528
252
The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-april-fools-joke-that-might-have.html
504
101
Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd30ywv8o
472
184
Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
https://app.fluentsubs.com/exercises/daily
447
413
Why F#?
https://batsov.com/articles/2025/03/30/why-fsharp/
389
273
Glubux's Powerwall (2016)
https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powerwall.126/
338
107
CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/cern-scientists-find-evidence-quantum-entanglement-sheep
325
169
Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic
https://sgnt.ai/p/hell-out-of-llms/
286
99
DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit
https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
279
497
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547611
253
74
The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst
https://glthr.com/myst-graph-1
251
61
Shared DNA in Music
https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/
245
53
Dave Täht has died
https://libreqos.io/2025/04/01/in-loving-memory-of-dave/
231
174
How Silica Gel Took Over the World
https://www.scopeofwork.net/silica-gel/
224
146
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
221
229
Self-Hosting like it's 2025
https://kiranet.org/self-hosting-like-its-2025/
211
47
Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model
https://github.com/getomni-ai/benchmark/blob/main/README.md
201
143
The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it
https://jangafx.com/insights/linux-binary-compatibility
194
187
Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547309
186
130
The Importance of Fact-Checking
https://lithub.com/on-the-episode-that-changed-ira-glasss-this-american-life-forever/
177
81
Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan
https://goughlui.com/2025/03/23/optical-discs-from-japan-part-6-tdk-uv-guard-fuji-lg-sony-maxell-cmc/
54
Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3712057
168
39
RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components
https://github.com/ruby-ui/ruby_ui
163
89
Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars
https://github.com/nizarmah/igatha
139
82
Why Does Claude Speak Byzantine Music Notation?
https://fi-le.net/byzantine/
133
75
Jumping Spiders
https://digital.tnconservationist.org/publication/?i=663361&article_id=3697028&view=articleBrowser
116
We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/09/we-can-must-and-will-simulate-nematode-brains
128
58
Show HN: A Chrome extension to give you back control over short-form videos
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/seek-anywhere/opofkjlejjcjalcpaimnpmkmjlclgded
124
100
'A hostile state': Why some travellers are avoiding the US
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250328-the-people-boycotting-travel-to-the-us
122
36
Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548589
An 'Administrative Error' Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/
114
Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing
https://github.com/williamw520/toposort
111
113
Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015)
https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/silicon-valley-halt-catch-fire-microserfs-douglas-coupland/
108
16
The DDA Algorithm, explained interactively
https://aaaa.sh/creatures/dda-algorithm-interactive
106
Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5334415/doge-institute-of-museum-and-library-services
103
94
How AI is creating a rift at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG
https://the-ken.com/story/bcg-and-mckinsey-sell-speed-as-ai-shakes-up-consulting-so-why-arent-consultants-buying-it/
98
Show HN: Terminal dashboard that throttles my PC during peak electricity rates
https://www.naveen.ing/cli-for-smartplugs/
96
123
How Airbnb measures listing lifetime value
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/how-airbnb-measures-listing-lifetime-value-a603bf05142c
95
3
Starliner's flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of-what-flying-starliner-was-like-when-its-thrusters-failed/
90
Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547677
88
70
LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/llm_providers_extinction/
87
35
Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/
73
Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/01/donkey-kong-champion-billy-mitchell-wins-defamation-case-australia-youtuber-karl-jobst-ntwnfb
84
31
Why Kagi launched "no use, no pay"
https://getlago.substack.com/p/why-kagi-launched-no-use-no-pay
8
Ukrainian Soldiers Unearth Ancient Greek Burial
https://archaeology.org/news/2025/03/31/ukrainian-soldiers-unearth-ancient-greek-burial/
80
World's largest wildlife crossing reaches critical milestone. Now what?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/worlds-largest-wildlife-crossing-reaches-100046299.html
287
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547609
77
21
New in Gmail: Making E2E encrypted emails easy to use for all organizations
https://workspace.google.com/blog/identity-and-security/gmail-easy-end-to-end-encryption-all-businesses
71
41
Show HN: Textcase: A Python Library for Text Case Conversion
https://github.com/zobweyt/textcase
30
Is Doge Securities Fraud?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-04-01/is-doge-securities-fraud
65
51
White House says it's 'case closed' on the Signal group chat review
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5345865/white-house-signal-group-chat-review
9
Windows on ARM on a Smart Watch
https://gus33000.me/fish/
