top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-08

Apache ECharts

https://echarts.apache.org/en/index.html

1 year ago

Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/

1 year ago

Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/04/03/brazils-government-run-payments-system-has-become-dominant

1 year ago

Tailscale has raised $160M

https://tailscale.com/blog/series-c

1 year ago

Obituary for Cyc

https://yuxi-liu-wired.github.io/essays/posts/cyc/

1 year ago

An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

https://aftermath.site/ai-video-game-development-art-vibe-coding-midjourney

1 year ago

Better typography with text-wrap pretty

https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619768

1 year ago

Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks

https://www.theverge.com/meta/645012/meta-llama-4-maverick-benchmarks-gaming

1 year ago

Intentionally Making Close Friends (2021)

https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/43-making-friends

1 year ago

India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops

https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops

1 year ago

Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell

https://yossarian.net/til/post/any-program-can-be-a-github-actions-shell/

1 year ago

Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals

https://www.quantamagazine.org/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals-20250407/

1 year ago

A 32-bit processor made with an atomically thin semiconductor

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/researchers-build-a-risc-v-processor-using-a-2d-semiconductor/

1 year ago

Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs

https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer/114297967333461078

1 year ago

Native frame transposition coming to Emacs 31

https://p.bauherren.ovh/blog/tech/new_window_cmds

1 year ago

'Unstoppable force' of solar power propels world to 40% clean electricity

https://news.sky.com/story/unstoppable-force-of-solar-power-propels-world-to-40-clean-electricity-report-finds-13344230

1 year ago

Clojure: Realtime collaborative web apps without ClojureScript

https://andersmurphy.com/2025/04/07/clojure-realtime-collaborative-web-apps-without-clojurescript.html

1 year ago

Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM

https://spectrum.ieee.org/building-the-system360-mainframe-nearly-destroyed-ibm

1 year ago

UK Effort to Keep Apple Encryption Fight Secret Is Blocked

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/uk-effort-to-keep-apple-encryption-fight-secret-is-blocked/ar-AA1CsokD

1 year ago

We clone a running VM in 2 seconds (2022)

https://codesandbox.io/blog/how-we-clone-a-running-vm-in-2-seconds

1 year ago

Less Htmx Is More

https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/less-htmx-is-more/

1 year ago

Show HN: Coroot – eBPF-based, open source observability with actionable insights

https://github.com/coroot/coroot

1 year ago

How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs

https://netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-accurately-attributes-ebpf-flow-logs-afe6d644a3bc

1 year ago

North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500

https://www.yahoo.com/news/thousands-north-korean-workers-infiltrated-110000417.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Connecting an IBM 3151 terminal to a mainframe [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14ac9cRi9Q

1 year ago

Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

https://badgeify.app/

1 year ago

Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/a48fce5b-8a05-4302-b620-9b26f057f145/

1 year ago

How to Recognize Woodpeckers by Their Drumming Sounds

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/how-to-recognize-woodpeckers-by-their-drumming-sounds/

1 year ago

Neural Graffiti – Liquid Memory Layer for LLMs

https://github.com/babycommando/neuralgraffiti

1 year ago

How Trump's second term just made digital sovereignty a European priority

https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/European-digital-sovereignty/

1 year ago

Analytic Combinatorics – A Worked Example

https://grossack.site/2025/04/08/analytic-combinatorics-example.html

1 year ago

Gazans tell BBC of torture in Israeli detention

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7vje365rno

1 year ago

What if we taxed advertising?

https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0177-what-if-we-taxed-advertising

1 year ago

3D Army Land Navigation Courses

https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/oegames/landnav/index.html

1 year ago

Decomposing factorial of 300K as the product of 300K factors larger than 100K

http://gus-massa.blogspot.com/2025/04/decomposing-factorial-of-300k-as.html

1 year ago

Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous fragments

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250407172923.htm

1 year ago

LLM-hacker-news: LLM plugin for pulling content from Hacker News

https://github.com/simonw/llm-hacker-news

1 year ago

Deep Research is now available on Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental

https://blog.google/products/gemini/deep-research-gemini-2-5-pro-experimental/

1 year ago

Show HN: I built a tool to find devs based on code, not LinkedIn titles

https://gitmatcher.com/

1 year ago

Doge using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/musks-doge-using-ai-snoop-us-federal-workers-sources-say-2025-04-08/

1 year ago

Tom and Jerry One-Minute Video Generation with Test-Time Training

https://test-time-training.github.io/video-dit/

1 year ago

Fuck Run Club, Join Sit Club

https://rawandferal.substack.com/p/fck-run-club-join-sit-club

1 year ago

Show HN: HNSW index for vector embeddings in approx 500 LOC

https://github.com/dicroce/hnsw

1 year ago

Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/04/pakistans-22-gw-solar-shock-how-a-fragile-state-went-full-clean-energy/

1 year ago

IBM Announces the Z17 Mainframe Powered by Telum II Processors

https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-z17-Telum-2-Announced

1 year ago

Smartfunc: Turn Docstrings into LLM-Functions

https://github.com/koaning/smartfunc

1 year ago

Yakread's Ranking Algorithm

https://obryant.dev/p/yakread-algorithm/

1 year ago

Listening habits and effects of background music in people with and without ADHD

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1508181/full

1 year ago

An unused nuclear power plant became home to a world-class acoustics lab

https://www.theverge.com/tech/644385/nuclear-power-plant-acoustics-lab

1 year ago

Sculptor: Catch and fix issues as you code

https://imbue.com/product/sculptor/

1 year ago

Cloudflare Acquires Outerbase

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-outerbase-database-dx/

1 year ago

Remember FastCGI? (2021)

https://brokenco.de/2021/06/27/remember-fastcgi.html

1 year ago