top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-03

An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer

1 year ago

AnimeJs v4 Is Here

https://animejs.com/

1 year ago

AI 2027

https://ai-2027.com/

1 year ago

I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad

https://pilledtexts.com/why-i-use-a-17-year-old-thinkpad/

1 year ago

Microsoft’s original source code

https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/microsoft-original-source-code

1 year ago

Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers

https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate

1 year ago

A university president makes a case against cowardice

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-university-president-makes-a-case-against-cowardice

1 year ago

Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html

1 year ago

The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI

https://www.dutchosintguy.com/post/the-slow-collapse-of-critical-thinking-in-osint-due-to-ai

1 year ago

Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-developers-can-achieve-great-results-with-ai-coding-agents/

1 year ago

Reasoning models don't always say what they think

https://www.anthropic.com/research/reasoning-models-dont-say-think

1 year ago

Overengineered Anchor Links

https://thirty-five.com/overengineered-anchoring

1 year ago

An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

1 year ago

Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database

https://www.opennutrition.app/search

1 year ago

The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly

https://isomorphism.xyz/blog/2024/steam-deck/

1 year ago

The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenSSHConfigOrderMatters

1 year ago

Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres

https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet

1 year ago

Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo

https://gitmcp.io/

1 year ago

Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/31/immigration-h1b-fear-siliconvalley/

1 year ago

Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)

https://github.com/c3lang/c3c

1 year ago

InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux

https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare

1 year ago

DIY Synths Database

https://diy-synths.snnkv.com/

1 year ago

Blacksmithing and Lisp

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/04/blacksmithing-and-lisp.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters

https://monkeys.zip/

1 year ago

AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating

https://niila.fi/en/ai-cheats/

1 year ago

Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660

https://www.quadratichq.com/blog/cursed-excel-datetime-math

1 year ago

Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat

https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/north-korea-cryptocurrency-580d7d3f

1 year ago

Show HN: LocalScore – Local LLM Benchmark

https://www.localscore.ai/download

1 year ago

The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023)

https://idiallo.com/blog/code-for-hire

1 year ago

QVQ-Max: Think with Evidence

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qvq-max-preview/

1 year ago

Journey to Optimize Cloudflare D1 Database Queries

https://gist.github.com/rxliuli/be31cbded41ef7eac6ae0da9070c8ef8

1 year ago

Breaking computers taught me to build them

https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-1-the-foundation-years/

1 year ago

How Servo Motors Work

https://www.jameco.com/Jameco/workshop/Howitworks/how-servo-motors-work.html

1 year ago

I stopped using AI code editors

https://lucianonooijen.com/blog/why-i-stopped-using-ai-code-editors

1 year ago

Show HN: Zxc – Rust TLS proxy with tmux and Vim as UI, BurpSuite alternative

https://github.com/hail-hydrant/zxc

1 year ago

Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09516

1 year ago

On JavaScript's Weirdness

https://stack-auth.com/blog/on-javascripts-weirdness

1 year ago

2025 Recession Indicators Hit Fashion and Wall Street at Once

https://www.marieclaire.com/fashion/recession-2025-fashion-indicators/

1 year ago

Bikes in the age of tariffs

https://www.renehersecycles.com/bikes-in-the-age-of-tariffs/

1 year ago

Show HN: Offline JavaScript PubSub between browser tabs

https://simon-frey.com/tabsub/

1 year ago

AEgIS turns phone sensors into antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution

https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/aegis-transforms-smartphone-sensors-antimatter-camera-unprecedented

1 year ago

Declarative Schemas for simpler database management

https://supabase.com/blog/declarative-schemas

1 year ago

Show HN: Novanode, Global load balancing with Caddy, no vendor lock-in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43570749

1 year ago

How Big Is VMS?

https://vmssoftware.com/resources/blog/2025-03-31-how-big-is-vms/

1 year ago

The cultural evolution of distortion in music

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2024.0014

1 year ago

Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture

https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-tsmc-tentatively-agree-form-chipmaking-joint-venture-information-reports-2025-04-03/

1 year ago

Thomas Rattigan, short-lived Commodore CEO

https://dfarq.homeip.net/thomas-rattigan-short-lived-commodore-ceo/

1 year ago

Trump's new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT's

https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-ai-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok

1 year ago

Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/photo-calorie-app-cal-ai-downloaded-over-a-million-times-was-built-by-two-teenagers/

1 year ago

Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day

https://tenstorrent.com/vision/tenstorrent-launches-blackhole-developer-products-at-tenstorrent-dev-day

1 year ago

Space Debris: Is It a Crisis?

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris

1 year ago

Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access

https://www.matterrank.ai/mission

1 year ago