top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-13

A Reddit bot drove me insane

https://posthuman.blog/this-reddit-post-fried-my-brain/

1 year ago

Open guide to equity compensation

https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation

1 year ago

Everything wrong with MCP

https://blog.sshh.io/p/everything-wrong-with-mcp

1 year ago

Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2025/04/12/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-apparently-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/

1 year ago

BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/bps-gps-alternative-nobodys-heard

1 year ago

Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114327666433966529

1 year ago

The dark side of the Moomins

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/04/dark-side-of-the-moomins-tove-jansson

1 year ago

Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports

https://www.signalbloom.ai/news/

1 year ago

Whenever: Typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python

https://github.com/ariebovenberg/whenever

1 year ago

Why Fennel?

https://fennel-lang.org/rationale

1 year ago

Implementing DeepSeek R1's GRPO algorithm from scratch

https://github.com/policy-gradient/GRPO-Zero

1 year ago

Math 13 – An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics [pdf]

https://www.math.uci.edu/~ndonalds/math13/notes.pdf

1 year ago

How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

https://alexanderell.is/posts/orange/

1 year ago

Writing my own dithering algorithm in Racket

https://amanvir.com/blog/writing-my-own-dithering-algorithm-in-racket

1 year ago

Problems with Go channels (2016)

https://www.jtolio.com/2016/03/go-channels-are-bad-and-you-should-feel-bad/

1 year ago

Skywork-OR1: new SOTA 32B thinking model with open weight

https://github.com/SkyworkAI/Skywork-OR1

1 year ago

Breaking the Llama Community License

https://notes.victor.earth/youre-probably-breaking-the-llama-community-license/

1 year ago

Wasting Inferences with Aider

https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/wasting-inferences-with-aider

1 year ago

Quick Primer on MCP Using Ollama and LangChain

https://www.polarsparc.com/xhtml/MCP.html

1 year ago

How to not build a two stage model rocket

https://knowone08.gitbook.io/vgecrocketry

1 year ago

Don't sell space in your homelab (2023)

https://grumpy.systems/2023/please-dont-sell-space-in-your-homelab/

1 year ago

Half the men in Seattle are never-married singles, census data shows

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/half-the-men-in-seattle-are-never-married-singles-for-the-first-time/

1 year ago

Exwm: Emacs X Window Manager

https://github.com/emacs-exwm/exwm

1 year ago

Compute's Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Yrs, Will Focus on Retro Computing

https://www.computesgazette.com/

1 year ago

New urinal designs

https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/new-urinal-designs-could-prevent-up-to-265-000-gallons-of-urine-from-spilling-onto-the-floor-each-day

1 year ago

Making SNES ROMs using C#

https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/s/fhm4TUNhlX

1 year ago

Tech workers are leaving notes in robot taxis seeking workers and lovers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/12/waymo-handwritten-notes-jobs-ads/

1 year ago

My imaginary children aren't using your streaming service

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/04/my-imaginary-children-arent-using-your-streaming-service/

1 year ago

33-year-old AmigaOS for Commodore computers gets an unexpected update News

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/33-year-old-amigaos-for-commodore-computers-gets-an-unexpected-update

1 year ago

Are Plants Farming Us?

https://inleo.io/@gentleshaid/are-plants-farming-us-a-thoughtful-look-at-natures-silent-masters-jx9

1 year ago

A Farewell to the ArcoLinux University

https://www.arcolinux.info/a-farewell-to-the-arcolinux-university/

1 year ago

How refrigeration changed our food

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/books/review/frostbite-nicola-twilley.html

1 year ago

"Adulting" courses in America

https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/04/10/too-many-adults-are-absolutely-clueless

1 year ago

Cross-Entropy and KL Divergence

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/cross-entropy-and-kl-divergence/

1 year ago

US tech tariff exemption may only be temporary, says Lutnick

https://www.ft.com/content/9038804f-cf69-4193-9332-8b5ea1f9af4b

1 year ago

Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language (1981) [pdf]

https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/why_pascal/why_pascal_is_not_my_favorite_language.pdf

1 year ago

AMD NPU and Xilinx Versal AI Engines Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy (2024) [pdf]

https://git.astron.nl/RD/acap/-/raw/main/Presentation_FPL24_Vincent_Sprave.pdf

1 year ago

A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips

http://www.righto.com/2025/04/commodore-pet-repair.html

1 year ago

Tesla Releases Stripped RWD Cybertruck: So Much Worse for Not Much Less Money

https://www.jalopnik.com/1832213/tesla-releases-cheaper-rwd-cybertruck/

1 year ago

Hunger shifts attention towards less healthy food options, study finds

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-hunger-shifts-attention-healthy-food.html

1 year ago

Typographic Pictures Composed Entirely of Brass Rule (2024)

https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/typographic-pictures-composed-entirely-of-brass-rule/

1 year ago

Europe is trying to leave Starlink behind

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europe-eutelsat-elon-musk-starlink-c283c4c8

1 year ago

Significant performance improvements with Edge 134

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/04/10/significant-performance-improvements-with-edge-134/

1 year ago

Laser Launch into Orbit

http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2017/03/laser-launch-into-orbit.html

1 year ago

Tesla rival BYD launches five-minute battery in $30k model

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/byd-battery-charge-tesla-b2731603.html

1 year ago

Using bad hardware: why I work in the terminal (2024)

https://colean.cc/journal/2024/08sep.html

1 year ago

How to repair the parts that explode in Lenovo Yoga laptops (2019)

http://adammunich.com/how-to-repair-the-parts-that-explode-in-lenovo-yoga-laptops/

1 year ago

Universal basic income: German experiment bring surprising results

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/article/a-german-experiment-gave-people-a-basic-monthly-income-the-effect-on-their-work-ethic-was-surprising/

1 year ago

Regime Change in the West

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/perry-anderson/regime-change-in-the-west

1 year ago

The Trump Tariffs Just Got Even Worse

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-tariffs-just-got-even-worse

1 year ago

Revolt brews against RFK Jr. as experts pen rally cries in top medical journal

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/revolt-brews-against-rfk-jr-as-experts-pen-rally-cries-in-top-medical-journal/

1 year ago

Nix Trigonometric Math Library from Ground Zero

https://lantian.pub/en/article/modify-computer/nix-trigonometric-math-library-from-zero.lantian/

1 year ago