top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-07

Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/

2 years ago

Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

https://browsermcp.io/

2 years ago

A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn

https://mattgiustwilliamson.substack.com/p/your-startup-doesnt-need-to-be-a

2 years ago

Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US

https://jasher.substack.com/p/how-fewer-foreign-passengers-flying

2 years ago

Let's Ban Billboards

https://iambateman.com/articles/billboards

2 years ago

20 years of Git

https://blog.gitbutler.com/20-years-of-git/

2 years ago

After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work

https://www.science.org/content/article/after-coding-error-triggers-firings-top-nih-scientists-called-back-work

2 years ago

Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua

https://mrcjkb.dev/posts/2025-04-07-lux-announcement.html

2 years ago

Circuit breaker triggered in Japan for stock futures trading

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-trade-war-04-07-25/card/circuit-breaker-triggered-in-japan-for-stock-futures-trading-Q5iMfZyfPGBEslrIObgB

2 years ago

Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/foreign-visits-american-airports-travel-warnings

2 years ago

Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612448

2 years ago

Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-bill-that-would-have-blocked

2 years ago

Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2474993-bonobos-use-a-kind-of-syntax-once-thought-to-be-unique-to-humans/

2 years ago

Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing capabilities

https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-live-android-tips/

2 years ago

The Dire Wolf Is Back

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/the-dire-wolf-is-back

2 years ago

Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3722542

2 years ago

Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs

https://idiallo.com/blog/companies-dont-fix-bugs

2 years ago

LLMs understand nullability

https://dmodel.ai/nullability-gentle/

2 years ago

Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI Revealed

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

2 years ago

CDC's top laboratory on STDs is shut by Trump administration

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/cdc-sexually-transmitted-diseases-laboratory-closed-by-trump-administration/

2 years ago

A surprising enum size optimization in the Rust compiler

https://jpfennell.com/posts/enum-type-size/

2 years ago

Ancient Dagger Up to 2.5k Years Old W Stars/Moons/Geometric Patterns Unearthed

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/metal-detectorists-unearth-ancient-dagger-decorated-with-tiny-stars-crescent-moons-and-geometric-patterns-180986369/

2 years ago

What Was Quartz?

https://www.zachseward.com/what-was-quartz/

2 years ago

Scaffold Level Editor

https://blog.littlepolygon.com/posts/scaffold/

2 years ago

Show HN: Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro

https://missile-command-game.centminmod.com/

2 years ago

Nix Derivations, Without Guessing

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/nix-by-hand/

2 years ago

Uncovering a 0-Click RCE in the SuperNote Nomad E-Ink Tablet

https://www.prizmlabs.io/post/remote-rootkits-uncovering-a-0-click-rce-in-the-supernote-nomad-e-ink-tablet

2 years ago

Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)

https://www.botanica.software/post/decoding-the-90s

2 years ago

Writing C for Curl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writing-c-for-curl/

2 years ago

A Supermarket Bag and a Truckload of FOMO

https://blog.julik.nl/2025/03/a-little-adventure-in-modern-frontend

2 years ago

Show HN: Uncurl.dev – Convert curl commands to a shareable, executable UI

https://uncurl.dev/

2 years ago

Shopify CEO: "AI usage is now a baseline expectation"

https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1909251946235437514

2 years ago

Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01157

2 years ago

The Difference Between Municipal Fire Trucks and Airport Fire Trucks

https://www.piercemfg.com/pierce/blog/difference-between-municipal-and-airport-fire-trucks

2 years ago

Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks'

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-gdpr-privacy-law-europe-president-ursula-von-der-leyen/

2 years ago

Hasochism: The pleasure and pain of dependently typed Haskell programming [pdf] (2013)

https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/pub/hasochism.pdf

2 years ago

Inside One of America's Last Pencil Factories (2018)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Minimal MCP server in Go showcasing project architecture

https://github.com/TuanKiri/weather-mcp-server

2 years ago

How new US tariffs are forcing Europe to rethink its entire tech stack

https://spark.temrel.com/p/the-great-unstacking

2 years ago

Open-Source Is Just That

https://vale.rocks/posts/open-source-entitlement

2 years ago

Dark Mirror Ideologies

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/dark-mirror-ideologies/

2 years ago

We Designed TigerBeetle's Docs from Scratch

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-02-27-why-we-designed-tigerbeetles-docs-from-scratch/

2 years ago

John Carmack on AI in game programming

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1909311174845329874

2 years ago

Why Catullus continues to seduce us

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/07/catullus-poems-book-review-stephen-mitchell-isobel-williams

2 years ago

"Final Usonian Home" by Frank Lloyd Wright Completed in Ohio

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/03/20/final-usonian-home-riverrock-frank-lloyd-wright-ohio-completed/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--nulJz0XJo1E-jQIojcqaZmWjd0eXJ-oC35zKHYZb1UL94JLh6t_QI1k9lehp4fxwHKjPjkNeM-iQJihX705oJ-Maqyw&_hsmi=355439130

2 years ago

ITAPPMONROBOT (2007)

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/ITAPPMONROBOT

2 years ago

US tax return filings drop by nearly 1M, extension requests rise

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/tax-return-filings-deadline-irs/index.html

2 years ago

Saturn's moon Titan could harbor life, but only a tiny amount

https://news.arizona.edu/news/saturns-moon-titan-could-harbor-life-only-tiny-amount-study-finds

2 years ago

Global Health Threat: Antibiotic-Resistant "Superbug" Spreading in Malaysia

https://scitechdaily.com/global-health-threat-deadly-antibiotic-resistant-superbug-spreading-in-malaysia/

2 years ago

It would take three years to install a speed bump. So I bought my own

https://substack.com/home/post/p-160523691

2 years ago

Variable duty cycle square waves with the Web Audio API

https://www.danblack.co/blog/variable-duty-cycle-square-wave

2 years ago

Framework pauses US sales of some laptops due to tariffs

https://bsky.app/profile/frame.work/post/3lmajsf6uws2p

2 years ago

GoboLinux 017.01: the most experimental Linux's first new release in about 5Y

https://gobolinux.org/release_notes_017.01.html

2 years ago

Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/blueskys-quest-to-build-nontoxic-social-media

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is Hacker News avoiding criticism of Trump?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43610207

2 years ago

Gaussian Splatting Alternative: WebGL Implementation of Nvidia's SVRaster

https://github.com/samuelm2/svraster-webgl

2 years ago