top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-02

US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet

1 year ago

Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558671

1 year ago

Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)

https://www.dorithegiant.com/2016/05/13-animals-made-from-13-circles.html

1 year ago

Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers

https://pico.sh/

1 year ago

Why I don't discuss politics with friends

https://shwin.co/blog/why-i-dont-discuss-politics-with-friends

1 year ago

Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline

https://github.com/luskaner/ageLANServer

1 year ago

Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365

https://www.techradar.com/pro/mozilla-launching-thundermail-email-service-to-take-on-gmail-microsoft-365

1 year ago

Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

https://coolify.io/

1 year ago

Porting Tailscale to Plan 9

https://tailscale.com/blog/plan9-port

1 year ago

RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015)

https://reactormag.com/30-years-later-real-genius-is-still-the-geek-solidarity-film-that-nerd-culture-deserves/

1 year ago

Why is the world losing color?

https://www.culture-critic.com/p/why-is-the-world-losing-color

1 year ago

Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/waltzs-team-set-up-at-least-20-signal-group-chats-for-crises-across-the-world-00266845

1 year ago

Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/are-people-bad-at-their-jobsor-are

1 year ago

US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job

https://www.ft.com/content/ad7fcc22-343e-47e3-a6f3-58bfd4294c9d

1 year ago

Restructuring Announcement

https://automattic.com/2025/04/02/restructuring-announcement/

1 year ago

MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks

https://shd.mit.edu/home/

1 year ago

Where does air pollution come from?

https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution-sources

1 year ago

Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure

https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-archive

1 year ago

How Google built its Gemini robotics models

https://blog.google/products/gemini/how-we-built-gemini-robotics/

1 year ago

Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/04/matrix-auth-service/

1 year ago

Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point

https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amd.2022.0280.summary

1 year ago

Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-forgotten-bean-could-save-coffee-from-extinction-180986230/

1 year ago

A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test

https://blog.cloudflare.com/yarn-test-suffers-strange-derailment/

1 year ago

Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/03/sports-supplement-creatine-makes-no-difference-to-muscle-gains-trial-finds

1 year ago

When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/when-jorge-luis-borges-met-one-of

1 year ago

Hacking the call records of millions of Americans

https://evanconnelly.github.io/post/hacking-call-records/

1 year ago

Multi-Token Attention

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00927

1 year ago

Val Kilmer has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/movies/val-kilmer-dead.html

1 year ago

Why do we need modules at all? (2011)

https://groups.google.com/g/erlang-programming/c/LKLesmrss2k

1 year ago

Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble

https://www.ft.com/content/0ebcec51-2a5a-4820-99e8-1e500370fd68

1 year ago

Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat

https://potter-yachters.org/stories/teplow_to_hawaii.htm

1 year ago

Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust

https://github.com/ferronweb/ferron

1 year ago

Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code

https://docs.mermaidchart.com/blog/posts/mermaid-chart-vs-code-plugin-create-and-edit-mermaid-js-diagrams-in-visual-studio-code

1 year ago

An 'administrative error' sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison

https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-deportation-maryland-man-trump-error-818a0fa1218de714448edcb5be1f7347

1 year ago

Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

https://www.recipeninja.ai

1 year ago

Yann LeCun, Pioneer of AI, Thinks Today's LLM's Are Nearly Obsolete

https://www.newsweek.com/ai-impact-interview-yann-lecun-artificial-intelligence-2054237

1 year ago

A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-einstein-webb.html

1 year ago

Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/04/nintendo-offers-new-details-on-switch-2-hardware-software/

1 year ago

PaperBench

https://openai.com/index/paperbench

1 year ago

Cell Phone OPSEC for Border Crossings

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/cell-phone-opsec-for-border-crossings.html

1 year ago

Scientists witness living plant cells generate cellulose and form cell walls

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-scientists-witness-cells-generate-cellulose.html

1 year ago

Simulated Economy Tutorial

https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Simulated-Economy-(1)/

1 year ago

What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test

https://www.tines.com/blog/a-litmus-test-for-ai-agents/

1 year ago

Show HN: Pets for Cursor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555820

1 year ago

UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674

1 year ago

Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers

https://www.engadget.com/ai/wikipedia-is-struggling-with-voracious-ai-bot-crawlers-121546854.html

1 year ago

Tesla (TSLA) announces 336,681 deliveries, far worse than expected

https://electrek.co/2025/04/02/tesla-tsla-q1-deliveries-worse/

1 year ago

Ace: Realtime Computer Autopilot

https://generalagents.com/ace/

1 year ago

Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559733

1 year ago

Is Python Code Sensitive to CPU Caching? (2024)

https://lukasatkinson.de/2024/python-cpu-caching/

1 year ago

Measuring Acceleration Structures

https://zeux.io/2025/03/31/measuring-acceleration-structures/

1 year ago

Location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp5357

1 year ago

Zero Day in Microchip SAM Microcontrollers

https://wiki.recessim.com/view/ATSAM4C32

1 year ago

Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing

https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2025/03/25/rl-av-smoothing/

1 year ago

Show HN: Color palettes inspired by Mexican architecture

https://seis.pointlessprojects.com/

1 year ago

Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers

https://social.kernel.org/notice/AsgziNL6zgmdbta3lY

1 year ago

Diagnosing bugs preventing sleep on Windows

https://peteronprogramming.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/diagnosing-bugs-preventing-sleep-on-windows/

1 year ago

Forking Work Simplification – Let's Bring Back Eisenhower's Process Improvement

https://www.governance.fyi/p/forking-work-simplification-and-more

1 year ago