top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-05

What if we made advertising illegal?

https://simone.org/advertising/

1 year ago

The Llama 4 herd

https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/

1 year ago

Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

https://www.whatsit.today/

1 year ago

Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive

https://tansanrao.com/blog/2025/04/xnu-kernel-and-darwin-evolution-and-architecture/

1 year ago

Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)

https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/

1 year ago

Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/u-s-stock-futures-fall-further-after-china-retaliates-against-trump-tariffs-3be33fa7

1 year ago

No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/no-elephants-breakthroughs-in-image

1 year ago

Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course

https://simonmonk.org/tyee7

1 year ago

The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done

https://add.org/the-body-double/

1 year ago

Nebula Sans

https://nebulasans.com/

1 year ago

Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us

https://thoughts-and-things.ghost.io/recreating-daft-punks-something-about-us/

1 year ago

Emulating an iPhone in QEMU

https://eshard.com/posts/emulating-ios-14-with-qemu

1 year ago

Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on an Error

https://www.aei.org/economics/president-trumps-tariff-formula-makes-no-economic-sense-its-also-based-on-an-error/

1 year ago

Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++

https://planetscale.com/blog/faster-interpreters-in-go-catching-up-with-cpp

1 year ago

Annotated Unix Magic Poster

https://unixmagic.net/

1 year ago

A Vision for WebAssembly Support in Swift

https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-a-vision-for-webassembly-support-in-swift/79060

1 year ago

Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'

https://www.devonlive.com/whats-on/whats-on-news/exeters-unassuming-co-op-worker-10039941

1 year ago

OpenVertebrate Presents a Database of 13K 3D Scans of Specimens

https://www.openculture.com/2024/03/openvertebrate-presents-a-massive-database-of-13000-3d-scans-of-vertebrate-specimens.html

1 year ago

Show HN: OCR pipeline for ML training (tables, diagrams, math, multilingual)

https://github.com/ses4255/Versatile-OCR-Program

1 year ago

Linux Kernel Defence Map – Security Hardening Concepts

https://github.com/a13xp0p0v/linux-kernel-defence-map

1 year ago

Earth's clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming

https://www.science.org/content/article/earth-s-clouds-are-shrinking-boosting-global-warming

1 year ago

Charging electric vehicles 5x faster in subfreezing temps

https://news.umich.edu/charging-electric-vehicles-5x-faster-in-subfreezing-temps/

1 year ago

North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover

https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04/north-america-is-dripping-from-below-geoscientists-discover/

1 year ago

Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly (2024)

https://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/Compiler/index.html

1 year ago

We are still using 88x31 buttons

https://ultrasciencelabs.com/lab-notes/why-we-are-still-using-88x31-buttons

1 year ago

The Greatest Motorcycle Photo

https://www.life.com/arts-entertainment/the-greatest-motorcycle-photo-ever/

1 year ago

AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17

https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1061254/

1 year ago

Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595442

1 year ago

Sweetener saccharin shows surprise power against antibiotic resistance

https://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/Sweetener-saccharin-shows-surprise-power-against-antibiotic-resistance

1 year ago

Dynamic Register Allocation on AMD's RDNA 4 GPU Architecture

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/dynamic-register-allocation-on-amds

1 year ago

A year of Rust in ClickHouse

https://clickhouse.com/blog/rust

1 year ago

Non-US-based alternatives to popular services

https://github.com/anitwek/alternatives-to-us

1 year ago

Database Protocols Are Underwhelming

https://byroot.github.io/performance/2025/03/21/database-protocols.html

1 year ago

NASA's Project Scientist Faces Painful Choices as Voyager Mission Nears Its End

https://gizmodo.com/keeping-voyager-alive-nasas-project-scientist-faces-painful-choices-as-the-iconic-mission-nears-its-end-2000580634

1 year ago

Llama 4 Now Live on Groq

https://groq.com/llama-4-now-live-on-groq-build-fast-at-the-lowest-cost-without-compromise/

1 year ago

Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty

https://mediascope.group/europe-needs-its-own-social-media-platforms-to-safeguard-sovereignty/

1 year ago

PiDP-1, or the rebirth of an old machine

https://hackaday.io/project/202541-replica-of-the-pdp-1-pidp-1/log/239666-finished-the-first-test-batch-of-5-machines

1 year ago

Public domain technical books published before 1964

http://www.tubebooks.org/technical_books_online.htm

1 year ago

Investigating MacPaint's Source Code

https://ztoz.blog/posts/macpaint-source-code/

1 year ago

Interview Coder is an invisible AI for technical interviews

https://www.interviewcoder.co/

1 year ago

OpenAI's Motion to Dismiss Copyright Claims Rejected by Judge

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/judge-doesnt-buy-openai-argument-nyts-own-reporting-weakens-copyright-suit/

1 year ago

404s – gallery of error 404 page designs

https://www.404s.design/

1 year ago

DIY experimental reactor harnesses the Birkeland-Eyde process

https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/03/17/this-diy-experimental-reactor-harnesses-the-birkeland-eyde-process/

1 year ago

I don't like traveling anymore

https://sidverma.io/posts/i-dont-like-traveling-anymore/

1 year ago

Pytest for Neovim

https://github.com/richardhapb/pytest.nvim

1 year ago

Increasing Timber Production, an Emergency Situation on National Forest Lands [pdf]

https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/sm-1078-006.pdf

1 year ago

Mercantilism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism

1 year ago

Open Source Coalition Announces 'Model-Signing' to Strengthen ML Supply Chain

https://pypi.org/project/model-signing/

1 year ago

Cardiac arrest deaths among marathoners have decreased, study finds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/05/marathon-running-cardiac-arrest-cpr/

1 year ago

Tracking the international space station with an Arduino

https://faridrener.com/2025/04/04/tracking-iss.html

1 year ago

AdNauseam: Clicking ads so you don't have to

https://adnauseam.io/

1 year ago

'Exploding' Tunnock's teacakes cleared by tests to fly again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20x5x0g3kqo

1 year ago