top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-12

Google is winning on every AI front

https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/google-is-winning-on-every-ai-front

1 year ago

$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money

https://data-and-politics.ghost.io/70-million-in-60-seconds-how-insider-information-helped-someone-28x-their-money/

1 year ago

Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars/

1 year ago

Open source and self hostable/private file converter

https://vert.sh

1 year ago

Nice things with SVG

https://fuma-nama.vercel.app/blog/svg-art

1 year ago

Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-12/trump-exempts-phones-computers-chips-from-reciprocal-tariffs

1 year ago

How many supernova explode every year?

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-447-wait-how-many-supernova-explode

1 year ago

Emacs Lisp Elements

https://protesilaos.com/emacs/emacs-lisp-elements

1 year ago

I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/i-ditched-my-laptop-for-a-pocketable-mini-pc-and-a-pair-of-ar-glasses-heres-what-happened

1 year ago

WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser

https://webtui.ironclad.sh

1 year ago

Anubis Works

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/anubis-works/

1 year ago

Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015)

https://culture.pl/en/article/philip-k-dick-stanislaw-lem-is-a-communist-committee

1 year ago

Rust to C compiler – 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms

https://fractalfir.github.io/generated_html/cg_clr_odd_platforms.html

1 year ago

Why is there a “small house” in IBM's Code page 437?

https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/why-is-there-a-small-house-in-ibm-s-code-page-437/

1 year ago

A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed

https://alexharri.com/blog/webgl-gradients

1 year ago

YAML: The Norway Problem (2022)

https://www.bram.us/2022/01/11/yaml-the-norway-problem/

1 year ago

The Bitter Prediction

https://4zm.org/2025/04/05/bitter-prediction.html

1 year ago

Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption Under New Rules

https://www.barrons.com/articles/tariffs-exclusions-exemptions-apple-nvidia-dell-smartphones-pcs-b2e069ff

1 year ago

Tunarr: Create and configure live TV channels from media on your servers

https://tunarr.com/

1 year ago

Show HN: memEx, a personal knowledge base inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode

https://gitea.bubbletea.dev/shibao/memex

1 year ago

ArkType: Ergonomic TS validator 100x faster than Zod

https://arktype.io/

1 year ago

AI can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/

1 year ago

Zod v4 Beta

https://v4.zod.dev/v4

1 year ago

Ask HN: How do you monetize personal code if it's not an "app"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43667887

1 year ago

"Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay": Blue Cross Approved Surgeries Then Refused to Pay

https://www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-blue-shield-louisiana-insurance-lawsuit-breast-cancer-doctors

1 year ago

Transformer Lab

https://transformerlab.ai/

1 year ago

Fake images that fooled the world

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/12/28-fake-images-that-fooled-the-world

1 year ago

45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7507349

1 year ago

Recall going back into Windows

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/microsoft-is-putting-privacy-endangering-recall-back-into-windows-11/

1 year ago

AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd3ygd7mrno

1 year ago

Charts.css

https://chartscss.org/

1 year ago

Shadertoys Ported to Rust GPU

https://rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/04/10/shadertoys/

1 year ago

7k-year-old skeletons from the green Sahara reveal a mysterious human lineage

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/7000-year-old-skeletons-from-the-green-sahara-reveal-a-previously-unknown-human-lineage-180986403/

1 year ago

Kmart lied to me, so I hacked their lamp [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_6Y1iip3p0

1 year ago

Dual Kickstart ROM Replacement for Amiga

https://github.com/cdhooper/kicksmash32

1 year ago

Apache ECharts + Leaflet + shadcn for data viz

https://docs.evidence.dev/components/all-components/

1 year ago

Why Your 'Harmonious' Team Is Failing

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/03/12/why-your-harmonious-team-is-actually-failing/

1 year ago

Peering into the Linux Kernel with Trace

https://alexdowad.github.io/peering-in-the-kernel-with-trace/

1 year ago

China just approved flying taxis – no pilot needed

https://engineerine.com/chinas-flying-taxis/

1 year ago

Levels of configuration languages

https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/config_levels.html

1 year ago

U.S. cites its power to deport people for beliefs

https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-trump-c60738368171289ae43177660def8d34

1 year ago

Shadertoys Ported to Rust GPU

https://rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/04/10/shadertoys/

1 year ago

Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/8098745?login=false

1 year ago

How I install personal versions of programs on Unix

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/MyPersonalProgramsSetup

1 year ago

The Solid-State Shift: Reinventing the Transformer for Modern Grids

https://www.powermag.com/the-solid-state-shift-reinventing-the-transformer-for-modern-grids/

1 year ago

'Paraparticles' Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/paraparticles-would-be-a-third-kingdom-of-quantum-particle-20250411/

1 year ago