top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-10

Garfield Minus Garfield

https://garfieldminusgarfield.net

1 year ago

Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/fintech-founder-charged-with-fraud-after-ai-shopping-app-found-to-be-powered-by-humans-in-the-philippines/

1 year ago

Hacker News Hug of Deaf

https://susam.net/hn-bell.html

1 year ago

PEP 750 – Template Strings

https://peps.python.org/pep-0750/

1 year ago

Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution

https://emilygorcenski.com/post/owning-my-own-data-part-1-integrating-a-self-hosted-calendar-solution/

1 year ago

The Story Behind “100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them”

https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/100-go-mistakes

1 year ago

How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured

https://www.404media.co/how-a-2-000-made-in-the-usa-liberty-phone-phone-is-manufactured/

1 year ago

Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)

http://www.modelshipsinthecinema.com/2016/12/hunt-for-red-october-1990.html

1 year ago

.localhost Domains

https://inclouds.space/localhost-domains

1 year ago

Busy Bar

https://busy.bar

1 year ago

Big Book of R

https://www.bigbookofr.com/

1 year ago

My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/mopb.html

1 year ago

Google to embrace MCP

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/google-says-itll-embrace-anthropics-standard-for-connecting-ai-models-to-data/

1 year ago

Usability Improvements in GCC 15

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/10/6-usability-improvements-gcc-15

1 year ago

Sleep is essential – researchers are trying to work out why

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00964-w

1 year ago

Colossus for Rapid Storage

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-the-colossus-stateful-protocol-benefits-rapid-storage

1 year ago

Learning to Program with Haiku

https://www.haiku-os.org/development/learning_to_program_with_haiku

1 year ago

Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese?

https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/cheese-wheel-tapping

1 year ago

Demystifying the (Shebang): Kernel Adventures

https://crocidb.com/post/kernel-adventures/demystifying-the-shebang/

1 year ago

Elliptical Python Programming

https://susam.net/elliptical-python-programming.html

1 year ago

Black Mirror's pessimism porn won't lead us to a better future

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/10/black-mirror-tv-show-pessimism

1 year ago

Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)

https://www.openculture.com/2025/04/isaac-asimov-describes-how-ai-will-liberate-humans-their-creativity.html

1 year ago

2025 AI Index Report

https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report

1 year ago

America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/air-pollution-trump-administration/682361/

1 year ago

Once lush Sahara was home to a surprisingly unique group of humans

https://www.sciencealert.com/once-lush-sahara-was-home-to-a-surprisingly-unique-group-of-humans

1 year ago

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system

https://azmirror.com/2025/04/08/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/

1 year ago

PHP Core Security Audit Results

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/04/10/php-core-security-audit-results/

1 year ago

Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/prime-video-rust/

1 year ago

No Pay, No Work; Early Career Lessons

https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-3-no-pay-no-work/

1 year ago

SDL2 for macOS 9 “rough draft”

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/sdl2-macos-9-rough-draft

1 year ago

NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-freezes-all-research-grants-columbia-university

1 year ago

Show HN: Koreo – A platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes

https://koreo.dev/

1 year ago

Arroyo (YC W23) has been acquired by Cloudflare

https://www.arroyo.dev/blog/arroyo-is-joining-cloudflare

1 year ago

Cargo-mutants:zombie: Inject bugs and see if your tests catch them

https://github.com/sourcefrog/cargo-mutants

1 year ago

Design System Options for Rails

https://businessclasskit.com/blog/design-system-options-for-rails

1 year ago

Docker Model Runner

https://www.docker.com/blog/introducing-docker-model-runner/

1 year ago

LLM Benchmark for 'Longform Creative Writing'

https://eqbench.com/creative_writing_longform.html

1 year ago

Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents

https://old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/1jw34qx/attorney_representing_a_student_protester/

1 year ago

Controlling Language and Diffusion Models by Transporting Activations

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/transporting-activations

1 year ago

Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5357455/attorney-detained-by-immigration-authorities

1 year ago

Systemd ParticleOS

https://github.com/systemd/particleos

1 year ago

Show HN: I built a tool to manage and compare credit card rewards

https://rewards.getonecard.io

1 year ago

The Columbian Orator taught nineteenth-century Americans how to speak

https://www.neh.gov/article/columbian-orator-taught-nineteenth-century-americans-how-speak

1 year ago

The Manicule: The little hand that's everywhere

https://www.messynessychic.com/2025/03/07/the-secret-history-of-the-manicule-little-hand-thats-everywhere/

1 year ago

That's a Lot of YAML

https://noyaml.com/

1 year ago

Suffering-Oriented Programming (2012)

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/suffering-oriented-programming.html

1 year ago

Neutrinos' maximum possible mass shrinks further

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neutrino-mass-shrinks-katrin-electron

1 year ago

France's new high-speed train has Americans asking: Why can't we have that?

https://grist.org/looking-forward/frances-new-high-speed-train-design-has-americans-asking-why-cant-we-have-that/

1 year ago

White House may seek binding control over Columbia through consent decree

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/trump-columbia-consent-decree

1 year ago

Learning Assembly for Fun, Performance and Profit

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/learning-assembly-for-fun-and-profit

1 year ago

Mistakes and cool things to do with arena allocators

https://zylinski.se/posts/dynamic-arrays-and-arenas/

1 year ago

What if your website had business hours? (2022)

https://bobbiechen.com/blog/2022/7/21/what-if-your-website-had-business-hours

1 year ago

Evidence suggesting Quasar Alpha is OpenAI's new model

https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/quasar-alpha-what-we-know-thus-far

1 year ago

Cure ID App Lets Clinicians Report Novel Uses of Existing Drugs

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/science-and-research-drugs/cure-id-app-lets-clinicians-report-novel-uses-existing-drugs

1 year ago

Blue Shield Data Breach (Google Ads)

https://news.blueshieldca.com/notice-of-data-breach

1 year ago

Roo or Cline? We're building a superset

https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/roo-or-cline-were-building-a-superset

1 year ago

Are .NET 4.x and JDK 8.x the "zombie" runtimes of enterprise software?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643028

1 year ago

Comparing economic inequality between the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-economic-inequality-roman-empire-han.html

1 year ago

Dice and Queues

https://justincartwright.com/2025/02/25/dice-and-queues.html

1 year ago

Nominal Aphasia: Problems in Name Retrieval

https://serendipstudio.org/exchange/darlene-forde/nominal-aphasia-problems-name-retrieval

1 year ago

National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers

https://apnews.com/article/weather-spanish-translation-noaa-nws-trump-71c727dbe2e4956247c9d9152494f1dc

1 year ago

Locating Stealth Fighters with Cheap Cameras Without Using AI or Radar [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b51C82-UE

1 year ago

ELD: A new open-source embedded linker tool for embedded systems

https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2025/04/eld-new-open-source-embedded-linker-tool-for-embedded-systems

1 year ago

ICE director wants to run deportations 'like Amazon Prime for human beings'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon

1 year ago

Ambient music on iOS 18.4 and the return to the Apple's Music app

https://manualdousuario.net/en/ambient-music-ios-18-4/

1 year ago

Lotka–Volterra Equations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equations

1 year ago

RNA interference and nanomedicine team up to fight dangerous fungal infections

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-rna-nanomedicine-dangerous-fungal-infections.html

1 year ago

Ames Shovel and Tool Catalog of Shovels, Spades and Scoops (1926) [pdf]

https://stonehill-website.s3.amazonaws.com/files/resources/1926-ames-catalog-2.pdf

1 year ago

MusiCoT, a chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting technique for music generation [pdf]

https://musicot.github.io/MusiCoT_paper.pdf

1 year ago

Delusional themes may be more varied than we thought

https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/delusional-themes-may-be-more-varied-we-thought

1 year ago

Are Americans Still Welcome in Europe?

https://blog.ricksteves.com/cameron/2025/03/americans-welcome-europe-2025/

1 year ago

Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013)

http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

1 year ago