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

Bored of It

https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2025/087/a1/bored/

2 weeks ago

573 upvotes – 478 comments

The blissful Zen of a good side project

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/the-blissful-zen-of-a-good-side-project

2 weeks ago

567 upvotes – 136 comments

Gumroad’s source is available

https://github.com/antiwork/gumroad

2 weeks ago

486 upvotes – 205 comments

Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA

https://thenewstack.io/nvidia-finally-adds-native-python-support-to-cuda/

2 weeks ago

460 upvotes – 192 comments

Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms

https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/UnderstandingMachineLearning/copy.html

2 weeks ago

449 upvotes – 53 comments

An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=36.%208pinLinux

2 weeks ago

441 upvotes – 147 comments

Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI

https://www.kapwing.com/blog/what-its-like-to-interview-a-software-engineer-preparing-with-ai/

2 weeks ago

415 upvotes – 708 comments

We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing

https://www.theverge.com/tech/640119/camera-raw-spec-format-explained-adobe-dng-canon-nikon-sony-fujifilm

2 weeks ago

361 upvotes – 254 comments

Lessons from open source in the Mexican government

https://lwn.net/Articles/1013776/

2 weeks ago

328 upvotes – 95 comments

The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/el-salvador-prisons-warning-americans-trump-1235309721/

2 weeks ago

327 upvotes – 193 comments

The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition

https://www.filfre.net/2025/04/the-end-of-sierra-as-we-knew-it-part-1-the-acquisition/

2 weeks ago

286 upvotes – 115 comments

Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-plunges-2200-points-nasdaq-enters-bear-market-as-trump-tariffs-spark-worst-meltdown-since-2020-200042876.html

2 weeks ago

265 upvotes – 416 comments

DeepMind program finds diamonds in Minecraft without being taught

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01019-w

2 weeks ago

247 upvotes – 163 comments

The Decline of the U.S. Machine-Tool Industry and Prospects for Recovery (1994)

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB1500.html

2 weeks ago

204 upvotes – 505 comments

Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game

https://github.com/lechmazur/elimination_game

2 weeks ago

194 upvotes – 60 comments

What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested

https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/how-much-toxic-heavy-metal-is-in-that-bright-red-fire-retardant-we-had-it-tested-to-find-out

2 weeks ago

193 upvotes – 127 comments

Kerosene did not save the sperm whale (2024)

https://edconway.substack.com/p/no-kerosene-did-not-save-the-sperm

2 weeks ago

190 upvotes – 69 comments

Why does Britain feel so poor?

https://martinrobbins.substack.com/p/von-6-why-does-britain-feel-so-poor

2 weeks ago

186 upvotes – 389 comments

Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates with 34% Tariffs

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/business/china-trump-tariffs-retaliation.html

2 weeks ago

178 upvotes – 204 comments

Pitfalls of Safe Rust

https://corrode.dev/blog/pitfalls-of-safe-rust/

2 weeks ago

168 upvotes – 139 comments

DeepSeek: Inference-Time Scaling for Generalist Reward Modeling

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02495

2 weeks ago

163 upvotes – 35 comments

Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf]

https://faculty.washington.edu/ss1110/IF/Buffett%20Fortune%202003%20(6).pdf

2 weeks ago

162 upvotes – 188 comments

Google announces Sec-Gemini v1 a new experimental cybersecurity model

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/04/google-launches-sec-gemini-v1-new.html

2 weeks ago

161 upvotes – 47 comments

Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/i-no-longer-hack-paypals-doge-staffers-hacker-past-raises-red-flags/

2 weeks ago

141 upvotes – 182 comments

The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition)

https://www.magicsplat.com/ttpl/index.html

2 weeks ago

134 upvotes – 103 comments

Anduril banned from recruiting on NixOS forums

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/anduril-industries-electromagnetic-warfare-team-is-hiring/62569

2 weeks ago

132 upvotes – 75 comments

The Curse of Ayn Rand's Heir

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/ayn-rand-peikoff-inheritance-battle/682219/

2 weeks ago

127 upvotes – 254 comments

The Mathematics of Crochet

https://hellohartblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/the-mathematics-of-crochet/

2 weeks ago

125 upvotes – 11 comments

Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source

https://danb.me/blog/gumroad-is-not-open-source/

2 weeks ago

121 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: uWrap.js – A faster and more accurate text wrapping util in < 2KB

https://github.com/leeoniya/uWrap

2 weeks ago

121 upvotes – 21 comments

Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/wealthy-americans-have-death-rates-on-par-with-poor-europeans/

2 weeks ago

120 upvotes – 84 comments

What is Local first development

https://alexop.dev/posts/what-is-local-first-web-development/

2 weeks ago

119 upvotes – 55 comments

Head of NSA and Cybercommand Is Ousted

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/nsa-cyber-command-chief-fired.html

2 weeks ago

112 upvotes – 82 comments

Mass grave of Roman soldiers found under Vienna sports field

https://gizmodo.com/mass-grave-of-150-roman-soldiers-found-under-vienna-sports-field-2000584946

2 weeks ago

111 upvotes – 52 comments

Microsoft blocks VSCode-derived editors (like Cursor) from using MS extensions

https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/2976

2 weeks ago

110 upvotes – 34 comments

Deterministic simulation testing for async Rust

https://s2.dev/blog/dst

2 weeks ago

107 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Clawtype v2.1 – a one-hand chorded USB keyboard and mouse [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2PSiOl-auM

2 weeks ago

106 upvotes – 27 comments

Dow Slides Another 1k Points. Nasdaq on Pace to Enter Bear Market

https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-040425

2 weeks ago

103 upvotes – 94 comments

NOAA Weather will delete websites using Amazon, Google cloud services Saturday

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-04/us-weather-agency-websites-to-vanish-under-planned-contract-cuts

2 weeks ago

103 upvotes – 101 comments

Smallest Pacemaker Is the Size of a Rice Grain

https://www.sciencealert.com/breakthrough-worlds-smallest-pacemaker-is-the-size-of-a-rice-grain

2 weeks ago

95 upvotes – 14 comments

A number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/03/ev-factories-canceled/

2 weeks ago

94 upvotes – 207 comments

Hackers strike Australia's largest pension funds in coordinated attacks

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/multiple-australian-pension-funds-hit-by-coordinated-hacking-media-reports-say-2025-04-04/

2 weeks ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Stay on schedule with Raspberry Pi Pico W and an e-ink dashboard

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/stay-on-schedule-with-raspberry-pi-pico-w-and-an-e-ink-dashboard/

2 weeks ago

92 upvotes – 15 comments

A wild 'freakosystem' has been born in Hawaii

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250403-the-new-hawaiian-freakosystem-emerging-on-oahu-accidentally-created-by-humans

2 weeks ago

86 upvotes – 105 comments

Wall Street Blew It

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/wall-street-trump-tariffs/682304/

2 weeks ago

83 upvotes – 144 comments

The booming, high-stakes arms race of airline safety videos

https://thehustle.co/originals/the-booming-high-stakes-arms-race-of-airline-safety-videos

2 weeks ago

80 upvotes – 65 comments

Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-tsmc-tentatively-agree-form-185938022.html

2 weeks ago

80 upvotes – 23 comments

I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today

https://codeberg.org/luciofstars/altabasic

2 weeks ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

I just want to serve 5 terabytes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI

2 weeks ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

Germany's 'Deutschlandticket' helps environment – study

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-deutschlandticket-helps-environment-study/a-72128647

2 weeks ago

77 upvotes – 43 comments

Mac Numbers now supports LAMBDA functions and MAP

https://support.apple.com/guide/functions/map-ffa7bf25643c/web

2 weeks ago

76 upvotes – 51 comments

Use the Gemini API with OpenAI Fallback in TypeScript

https://sometechblog.com/posts/try-gemini-api-with-openai-fallback/

2 weeks ago

72 upvotes – 33 comments

In the 1980s we also downloaded software from TV

https://newslttrs.com/in-the-1980s-we-also-downloaded-software-from-tv/

2 weeks ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Reinventing Feathering for the Vectorian Era

https://rive.app/blog/how-rive-reinvented-feathering-for-the-vectorian-era

2 weeks ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

A Man Out to Prove How Dumb AI Still Is

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/arc-agi-chollet-test/682295/

2 weeks ago

64 upvotes – 63 comments

How the 2025 US Financial Crisis is Different than 2008

https://samhenrycliff.medium.com/how-the-2025-us-financial-crisis-is-different-than-2008-5b63bdd06067

2 weeks ago

61 upvotes – 116 comments
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