top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-06

Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover

https://standardebooks.org

2 weeks ago

1212 upvotes – 247 comments

The “S” in MCP Stands for Security

https://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands-for-security-91407b33ed6b

2 weeks ago

730 upvotes – 183 comments

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mvphwx5pdsZLMmpY/recent-ai-model-progress-feels-mostly-like-bullshit

2 weeks ago

578 upvotes – 458 comments

Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia

https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/rsync-replaced-with-openrsync-on-macos-sequoia/

2 weeks ago

562 upvotes – 463 comments

Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other

https://fuelarc.com/news-and-features/self-driving-teslas-are-fatally-striking-motorcyclists-more-than-any-other-brand-new-analysis/

2 weeks ago

346 upvotes – 423 comments

Glamorous Toolkit

https://gtoolkit.com//

2 weeks ago

343 upvotes – 190 comments

Knowing where your engineer salary comes from

https://www.seangoedecke.com/where-the-money-comes-from/

2 weeks ago

335 upvotes – 178 comments

How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chat

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened

2 weeks ago

327 upvotes – 266 comments

Capitol Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians

https://www.capitoltrades.com/

2 weeks ago

324 upvotes – 120 comments

The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer

https://0x1.pt/2025/04/06/the-insanity-of-being-a-software-engineer/

2 weeks ago

268 upvotes – 280 comments

Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlock

https://old.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1jsr9jv/eavesdropping_on_smartphone_1356mhz_nfc_polling/

2 weeks ago

243 upvotes – 56 comments

Data centers contain 90% crap data

https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers-contain-90-crap-data/

2 weeks ago

227 upvotes – 139 comments

Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play

https://tedium.co/2025/04/06/gumroad-open-source-doge-drama/

2 weeks ago

210 upvotes – 87 comments

Federal cuts disrupt repairs to iconic U.S. trails

https://apnews.com/article/pacific-crest-appalachian-trail-federal-layoffs-934a5526570569b625f5d854ec339a04

2 weeks ago

192 upvotes – 188 comments

Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension

https://nautil.us/neutron-stars-hint-at-another-dimension-1202180/

2 weeks ago

192 upvotes – 87 comments

U.S. stock futures tumble indicating another plummet on Wall Street

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-investors-braced-more-volatility-bumps-ahead-monday-trading-open-2025-04-06/

2 weeks ago

189 upvotes – 307 comments

Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2z103nqxo

2 weeks ago

188 upvotes – 83 comments

Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected

https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/gmail-e2e-is-as-terrible-as-expected/

2 weeks ago

186 upvotes – 66 comments

Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/max-severity-rce-flaw-discovered-in-widely-used-apache-parquet/

2 weeks ago

174 upvotes – 78 comments

SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/seedlm-compressing

2 weeks ago

171 upvotes – 36 comments

Deleting multiplayer from the Unreal engine can save memory

https://larstofus.com/2025/04/05/how-deleting-multiplayer-from-the-engine-can-save-memory/

2 weeks ago

163 upvotes – 52 comments

SciOp torrents: download, seed erased US Gov sites and datasets

https://sciop.net/uploads/

2 weeks ago

161 upvotes – 14 comments

E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against X

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/technology/eu-penalties-x-elon-musk.html

2 weeks ago

139 upvotes – 242 comments

MonkeysPaw – A prompt-driven web framework in Ruby

https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/introducing-monkeyspaw-a-prompt-driven

2 weeks ago

137 upvotes – 28 comments

Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on Himself (2019)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/us/politics/peter-navarro-ron-vara.html

2 weeks ago

135 upvotes – 103 comments

Why Do Domestic Prices Rise with Tarriffs?

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/04/why-do-domestic-prices-rise-with-tarriffs.html

2 weeks ago

128 upvotes – 200 comments

My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers

https://motifanalytics.medium.com/my-browser-wasmt-prepared-for-this-using-duckdb-apache-arrow-and-web-workers-in-real-life-e3dd4695623d

2 weeks ago

126 upvotes – 32 comments

Baby Steps into Genetic Programming

https://aerique.blogspot.com/2011/01/baby-steps-into-genetic-programming.html

2 weeks ago

122 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: I built a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely

https://github.com/brannondorsey/mem-isolate

2 weeks ago

113 upvotes – 70 comments

Serving Vector Tiles, Fast

https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04-05-serving-vector-tiles-fast/

2 weeks ago

103 upvotes – 17 comments

The next generation of Bazel builds

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/bazel-next-generation

2 weeks ago

89 upvotes – 88 comments

Why Lotus Domino? (2024)

http://www.moohar.com/blog/why_domino

2 weeks ago

89 upvotes – 62 comments

UK bans fake reviews and sneaky fees

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/apr/06/uk-bans-22bn-sneaky-fees-and-fake-reviews-for-online-products

2 weeks ago

88 upvotes – 57 comments

Microcomputers – The First Wave: Responding to Altair

https://technicshistory.com/2025/04/06/microcomputers-the-first-wave-responding-to-altair/

2 weeks ago

87 upvotes – 15 comments

The narrowest escalator in New York City

https://www.doobybrain.com/blog/the-narrowest-escalator-in-new-york

2 weeks ago

86 upvotes – 54 comments

We're back: How tuberculosis is set to surge globally once again

https://thebulletin.org/2025/03/were-back-how-tuberculosis-is-set-to-surge-globally-once-again/

2 weeks ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

Buffett: America's Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out from Under Us [pdf] (2003)

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/growing.pdf

2 weeks ago

81 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: I turned my kid's worksheet into a math game in 10 minutes with Claude

https://mattsayar.com/how-i-vibe-coded-a-math-game-in-ten-minutes/

2 weeks ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

'Minecraft Movie' Leaks Online: Full Unfinished Version Shared

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/minecraft-movie-leaks-online-unfinished-effects-1236360578/

2 weeks ago

74 upvotes – 45 comments

Doge's attack on social security causing 'complete, utter chaos', staff says

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/musk-doge-social-security

2 weeks ago

74 upvotes – 9 comments
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