top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-09

Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump-announces-90-day-tariff-pause-for-at-least-some-countries.html

2 years ago

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?

https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1909741170953273353

2 years ago

The best programmers I know

https://endler.dev/2025/best-programmers/

2 years ago

Google will let companies run Gemini models in their own data centers

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/google-will-let-companies-run-gemini-models-in-their-own-data-centers.html

2 years ago

Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference

https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ironwood-tpu-age-of-inference/

2 years ago

Photographs of 19th Century Japan

https://cosmographia.substack.com/p/photographs-of-old-japan

2 years ago

The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/

2 years ago

PostgreSQL Full-Text Search: Fast When Done Right (Debunking the Slow Myth)

https://blog.vectorchord.ai/postgresql-full-text-search-fast-when-done-right-debunking-the-slow-myth

2 years ago

Whistleblower tells senators that Meta undermined U.S. security, interests

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5241043-meta-executives-undermine-national-security/

2 years ago

How University Students Use Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-how-university-students-use-claude

2 years ago

SpacetimeDB

https://spacetimedb.com/

2 years ago

The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems

https://livesys.se/posts/the-chroot-technique/

2 years ago

Firebase Studio

https://firebase.studio

2 years ago

How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/27/cbp-cell-phones-devices-traveling-us/

2 years ago

DOJ will no longer prosecute cryptocurrency fraud

https://www.theverge.com/policy/645399/trump-doj-cryptocurrency-fraud-prosecutions-memo

2 years ago

Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)

https://www.drawdb.app/

2 years ago

GPD Pocket 4 Speaker DSP: Configuring PipeWire so laptop speakers sound better

https://kittenlabs.de/blog/2025/04/06/gpd-pocket-4-speaker-dsp/

2 years ago

American Disruption

https://stratechery.com/2025/american-disruption/

2 years ago

Basic Income Pilot Project: Study results

https://www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en

2 years ago

Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece

https://mssv.net/2025/04/07/a-puzzle-designer-on-blue-prince-a-roguelike-puzzle-masterpiece/

2 years ago

Whisky is no longer actively maintained

https://docs.getwhisky.app/maintenance-notice

2 years ago

Hardening the Firefox Front End with Content Security Policies

https://attackanddefense.dev/2025/04/09/hardening-the-firefox-frontend-with-content-security-policies.html

2 years ago

Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that are hiring for remote positions

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/fake-job-seekers-use-ai-to-interview-for-remote-jobs-tech-ceos-say.html

2 years ago

Antiviral chewing gum to reduce influenza and herpes simplex virus transmission

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-dental-antiviral-chewing-gum-reduce-influenza-and-herpes-simplex-virus-transmission

2 years ago

Tesla Solar Sales Declined for 4 Qtrs. Then Tesla Stopped Publishing the Numbers

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/07/tesla-solar-sales-declined-for-4-straight-quarters-then-tesla-stopped-publishing-the-numbers/

2 years ago

How Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250407-how-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-became-a-comedy-legend

2 years ago

Quality-of-Life in Tetris Games

https://jcarlosroldan.com/post/355

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs

https://github.com/herol3oy/austen

2 years ago

Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows

https://withaqua.com

2 years ago

Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01064-5

2 years ago

Man pages are great, man readers are the problem

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/04/09/man-pages-are-great-man-readers-are-the-problem/

2 years ago

Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter

https://github.com/reteps/dockerfmt

2 years ago

A guide to reduce screen time

https://speedbumpapp.com/en/blog/how-to-reduce-screen-time/

2 years ago

CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider

https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/cern-releases-report-feasibility-possible-future-circular-collider

2 years ago

Claude's Max Plan

https://www.anthropic.com/news/max-plan

2 years ago

Baking the Y Combinator from Scratch

https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/baking-the-y-combinator-from-scratch-part-1/

2 years ago

Show HN: Comparing product rankings by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity

https://productrank.ai/

2 years ago

Visual Reasoning Is Coming Soon

http://arcturus-labs.com/blog/2025/03/31/visual-reasoning-is-coming-soon/

2 years ago

Parser Combinators Beat Regexes

https://entropicthoughts.com/parser-combinators-beat-regexes

2 years ago

Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/08/trump-crypto-fraud-doj-enforcement

2 years ago

Show HN: Obelisk – a WASM-based deterministic workflow engine

https://obeli.sk/

2 years ago

Major Flaws in 2025 Meta-Analysis on Fluoride and Children IQ Scores

https://osf.io/preprints/osf/zhm54_v3

2 years ago

Every picture from Venus' surface, ever (2021)

https://www.planetary.org/articles/every-picture-from-venus-surface-ever

2 years ago

Ask HN: Where do you reliably find worldwide remote jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43629732

2 years ago

China raises tariffs on US goods to 84% as rift escalates

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-09/china-raises-tariffs-on-us-goods-to-84-as-trade-rift-escalates

2 years ago

Bond rout starting to sound market alarm bells

https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-markets-tariffs-bonds-2025-04-09/

2 years ago

NTATV: Bringing Windows NT (Windows XP, Windows 2003) to the Original Apple TV

https://github.com/DistroHopper39B/NTATV

2 years ago

The Barium Experiment

https://tomscii.sig7.se/2025/04/The-Barium-Experiment

2 years ago

AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink

https://leaddev.com/culture/ai-coding-mandates-are-driving-developers-to-the-brink

2 years ago

Keeping it Old-Tool: REPL habits of a grug-brained Clojure programmer

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/demo-clojure-workflow-scicloj/index.html

2 years ago

Toulouse University wants to host US researchers whose work is at risk

https://en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulouse-welcomes-us-researchers-facing-unprecedented-challenges

2 years ago

One Bug Wasn't Enough: Escalating Twice Through SAP's Setuid Landscape

https://www.anvilsecure.com/blog/one-bug-wasnt-enough-escalating-twice-through-saps-setuid-landscape.html

2 years ago

Do charity bookshops drive out other second-hand bookshops?

http://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2025/04/do-charity-bookshops-drive-out-other.html

2 years ago

Vit D supplementation to prevent acute resp infections: review and meta-analysis

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(24)00348-6/fulltext

2 years ago

Show HN: Python at the Speed of Rust

https://blog.fxn.ai/python-at-the-speed-of-rust/

2 years ago

C++: terser (shorter) lambda == SHORTY (ab-use?)

https://github.com/hanickadot/shorty

2 years ago

React for Two Computers

https://overreacted.io/react-for-two-computers/

2 years ago

EU member states agree first wave of retaliatory tariffs

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/09/eu-member-states-agree-first-wave-of-retaliatory-tariffs

2 years ago

Show HN: I built a Yahoo Messenger-inspired web chat app – pure nostalgia

https://buzzed.chat

2 years ago

Framework stops selling some laptops in the US in response to tariffs

https://liliputing.com/framework-stops-selling-some-laptops-in-the-us-in-response-to-tariffs/

2 years ago

'Sun-Like' Stars

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/04/08/on-sun-like-stars/

2 years ago

Why 'Prince Rupert's Drop' Glass Is Strong Enough to Shatter a Bullet (2023)

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a40008994/why-the-prince-ruperts-drop-is-so-strong/

2 years ago

Mississippi libraries ordered to delete research in response to state laws

https://mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/mississippi-libraries-ordered-to-delete-academic-research-in-response-to-state-laws/

2 years ago

Treasury's OCC Says Hackers Had Access to 150k Emails

https://www.securityweek.com/treasurys-occ-says-hackers-had-access-to-150000-emails/

2 years ago

The Dumbest Economic Policy in Modern History

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/04/economic-policy-trump-tariffs/682369/

2 years ago

Small Town America vs. Big Box Stores

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/4/1/small-town-america-vs-big-box-stores

2 years ago

Last Windows update creates C:\inetpub

https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/114308857330723919

2 years ago

About 90% of Migrants Sent to Salvador Lacked US Criminal Record

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-09/about-90-of-migrants-sent-to-salvador-lacked-us-criminal-record

2 years ago

Run RISC-V Binaries on AMD Zen-Series CPUs via Microcode Modification

https://rvspoc.org/en/S2502/

2 years ago

The AI magic behind Sphere's upcoming 'The Wizard of Oz'

https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/sphere-wizard-of-oz/

2 years ago

Who isn't a big fan of "impartial" news? People who don't have power

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/which-types-of-people-arent-big-fans-of-impartial-news-people-who-dont-have-power/

2 years ago

"It's not that bad" they told me – Coreboot

https://lilysthings.org/blog/coreboot/

2 years ago

Show HN: Fermi – A Wordle-style game for order-of-magnitude thinking

https://fermi-game.andrewnoble.me/

2 years ago

Show HN: Git Game Show – Multiplayer Game in Your Repo

https://justinpaulson.github.io/git_game_show/

2 years ago

The Consequences of Limiting the Tax Deductibility of R&D

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4998845

2 years ago