top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-11

But what if I want a faster horse?

https://rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-i-really-want-a-faster-horse

1 year ago

Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta

1 year ago

Googler... ex-Googler

https://nerdy.dev/ex-googler

1 year ago

Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash

https://petapixel.com/2025/04/10/adobe-deletes-bluesky-posts-after-furious-backlash/

1 year ago

Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-terminate-51-billion-it-contracts-with-accenture-deloitte-others-2025-04-11/

1 year ago

Live Map of the London Underground

https://www.londonunderground.live/

1 year ago

Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014979/

1 year ago

You might not need WebSockets

https://hntrl.io/posts/you-dont-need-websockets/

1 year ago

Default styles for h1 elements are changing

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/h1-element-styles/

1 year ago

Playing in the Creek

https://www.hgreer.com/PlayingInTheCreek/

1 year ago

Strengths Are Your Weaknesses

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/03/31/your-strengths-are-your-weaknesses/

1 year ago

Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/introducing-vacheron-constantin-les-cabinotiers-solaria

1 year ago

Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023)

https://stevana.github.io/erlangs_not_about_lightweight_processes_and_message_passing.html

1 year ago

Why I Program in Lisp

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/04/why-i-program-in-lisp.html

1 year ago

Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace

https://www.science.org/content/article/germany-creates-super-high-tech-ministry-research-technology-and-aerospace

1 year ago

Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?

https://chrismalek.me/posts/data-star-first-impressions/

1 year ago

Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch

https://blog.dogac.dev/how-do-one-time-passwords-work/

1 year ago

The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world

https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-cartographer-karen-wynn-fonstad-mapped-tolkien-fantasy-world-oshkosh

1 year ago

Social Security Administration Moving Public Communications to X

https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-administration-regional-office-elon-musk-x/

1 year ago

WebRTC for the Curious

https://webrtcforthecurious.com

1 year ago

Lead is still bad for your brain

https://neurofrontiers.blog/why-lead-is-still-bad-for-your-brain/

1 year ago

Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/11/windows_2000_best_microsoft/

1 year ago

Show HN: Chonky – a neural approach for text semantic chunking

https://github.com/mirth/chonky

1 year ago

She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/science/russian-scientist-ice-detained-harvard.html

1 year ago

The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now

https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/04/10/the-thing-about-europe-its-the-actual-land-of-the-free-now

1 year ago

Writing Cursor rules with a Cursor rule

https://www.adithyan.io/blog/writing-cursor-rules-with-a-cursor-rule

1 year ago

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

1 year ago

Rust CUDA Project

https://github.com/Rust-GPU/Rust-CUDA

1 year ago

How to Make a Longbow

https://www.howtomakealongbow.co.uk

1 year ago

Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates

https://gpuopen.com/learn/bilinear-interpolation-quadrilateral-barycentric-coordinates/

1 year ago

A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ford-motor-mike-obrien-malaprops-6e560520

1 year ago

The PS3 Licked the Many Cookie

https://darkcephas.github.io/ps3_failed/ps3_failed.html

1 year ago

Crystal 1.16.0

https://crystal-lang.org/2025/04/09/1.16.0-released/

1 year ago

AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem

https://iamcharliegraham.substack.com/p/ai-coding-and-the-peanut-butter-and

1 year ago

Modern 6502

https://www.mikekohn.net/micro/modern_6502.php

1 year ago

Deno Under TinyKVM in Varnish

https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/tinykvm-in-varnish-and-some-deno

1 year ago

A recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/you-might-think-of-shrimp-as-bugs-of-the-sea-but-a-remarkable-discovery-shows-the-opposite-bugs-are-actually-shrimp-of-the-land-180986303/

1 year ago

Nvidia on NixOS WSL – Ollama up 24/7 on your gaming PC

https://yomaq.github.io/posts/nvidia-on-nixos-wsl-ollama-up-24-7-on-your-gaming-pc/

1 year ago

Our New AI Website Builder

https://wordpress.com/blog/2025/04/09/ai-website-builder/

1 year ago

Mark Klein, a Whistleblower Who Revealed Domestic Spying, Dies at 79

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/mark-klein-whistleblower-dies-73f434c7

1 year ago

Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/carnegie-mellon-student-visa-revoked-interview/

1 year ago

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-seeks-end-climate-research-premier-u-s-climate-agency

1 year ago

A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9

https://github.com/bbenchoff/MacSSL

1 year ago

How Janet's PEG module works

https://bakpakin.com/writing/how-janets-peg-works.html

1 year ago

Evelyn Waugh’s Decadent Redemption

https://libertiesjournal.com/online-articles/evelyn-waughs-decadent-redemption/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Has anyone quit their startup (VC-backed) over cofounder disagreements?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655505

1 year ago

Mastodon Exit Interview

https://v.cx/2025/04/mastodon-exit-interview

1 year ago

US tells government employees to report on one another for "anti-Christian bias"

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/state-report-anti-christian-bias-033535

1 year ago

W65C832 in an FPGA

https://www.mikekohn.net/micro/w65c832_fpga.php

1 year ago

America's financial system came close to the brink

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/04/10/americas-financial-system-came-close-to-the-brink

1 year ago

Education Secretary Wants 'A1' in Classrooms

https://www.latintimes.com/education-secretary-wants-a1-classrooms-early-kindergarten-she-means-ai-580380

1 year ago

Palantir Is Helping Doge with a Massive IRS Data Project

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-doge-irs-mega-api-data/

1 year ago

How to speed up US passenger rail, without bullet trains

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-10/how-to-speed-up-us-passenger-rail-without-bullet-trains

1 year ago

GeoDeep's AI Detection on Maxar's Satellite Imagery

https://tech.marksblogg.com/geodeep-maxar-ai-detection.html

1 year ago

Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU

https://tiendil.org/en/posts/eu-key-principles-on-in-game-virtual-currencies

1 year ago

RFK Jr says Deep State 'is real,' called FDA employees 'sock puppet' of industry

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/rfk-jr-hhs-fda-deep-state-00286826

1 year ago

Eight or more drinks per week linked to brain lesions

https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/5251

1 year ago

The Mystery of ICE's Unidentifiable Arrests

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-mystery-of-ices-unidentifiable-arrests

1 year ago