top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-14

Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations

https://old.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1jyy5am/psa_cursor_now_restricts_logins_to_a_single/

1 year ago

Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes

https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/

1 year ago

A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/04/12/how-i-made-a-useful-ai-assistant-with-one-sqlite-table-and-a-handful-of-cron-jobs

1 year ago

Making Software

https://www.makingsoftware.com/

1 year ago

GPT-4.1 in the API

https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/

1 year ago

The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference engine

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index/tree/main/OpenSourcing_DeepSeek_Inference_Engine

1 year ago

Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court

https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025/04/14/ftc-meta-antitrust-trial-kicks-off-in-federal-court

1 year ago

JSLinux

https://www.bellard.org/jslinux/

1 year ago

Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

https://searchengineland.com/temu-pulls-us-google-shopping-ads-454260

1 year ago

DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication

https://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/

1 year ago

Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation

https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/intel-partner-deal-news-april2025

1 year ago

What Is Entropy?

https://jasonfantl.com/posts/What-is-Entropy/

1 year ago

Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-math-prodigy-cryptocurrency-enforcement-united-states/

1 year ago

U.S. and El Salvador Say They Won't Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/14/us/trump-news-tariffs

1 year ago

SQLite File Format Viewer

https://sqlite-internal.pages.dev

1 year ago

Kezurou-Kai #39

https://www.bigsandwoodworking.com/kezurou-kai-39/

1 year ago

Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08165-7

1 year ago

How to bike across the country

https://www.brooks.team/posts/how-to-bike-across-the-country/

1 year ago

Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)

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

1 year ago

I bought a Mac

https://loganius.org/2025/04/i-bought-a-mac/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684286

1 year ago

New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot, Cursor: Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents

https://www.pillar.security/blog/new-vulnerability-in-github-copilot-and-cursor-how-hackers-can-weaponize-code-agents

1 year ago

Zig's new LinkedList API (it's time to learn fieldParentPtr)

https://www.openmymind.net/Zigs-New-LinkedList-API/

1 year ago

Tariff: A Python package that imposes tariffs on Python imports

https://pypi.org/project/tariff/

1 year ago

Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language

https://github.com/codr7/hacktical-c

1 year ago

Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots

https://omnom.zone/?src=hn

1 year ago

Tomb Engine

https://tombengine.com/

1 year ago

Mario Vargas Llosa has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/books/review/mario-vargas-llosa-appraisal.html

1 year ago

Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct

https://bitbashing.io/haskell-concurrency.html

1 year ago

Podman Quadlets with Podman Desktop

https://podman-desktop.io/blog/podman-quadlet

1 year ago

The most famous carbon dioxide absorber

https://www.howequipmentworks.com/apollo_13/

1 year ago

Simple Web Server

https://simplewebserver.org/

1 year ago

Federal Government's letter to Harvard demanding changes [pdf]

https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf

1 year ago

NoProp: Training neural networks without back-propagation or forward-propagation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.24322

1 year ago

Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43682984

1 year ago

Show HN: Resurrecting Infocom's Unix Z-Machine with Cosmopolitan

https://christopherdrum.github.io/posts/2025/04/porting-infocom-with-cosmo

1 year ago

Meilisearch – search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search

https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch

1 year ago

Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex-20250402/

1 year ago

AudioX: Diffusion Transformer for Anything-to-Audio Generation

https://zeyuet.github.io/AudioX/

1 year ago

Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot

https://probablydance.com/2018/06/16/fibonacci-hashing-the-optimization-that-the-world-forgot-or-a-better-alternative-to-integer-modulo/

1 year ago

Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank

https://www.latimes.com/00000196-230a-d4c4-abd7-fb5a95770000-123

1 year ago

Show HN: Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript type inference from Protobufs

https://github.com/nathanhleung/protobuf-ts-types

1 year ago

OpenAI is a systemic risk to the tech industry

https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the-tech-industry-2/

1 year ago

Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own

https://kevintechnology.com/posts/leaf-widget/

1 year ago

Fun with -fsanitize=undefined and Picolibc

https://keithp.com/blogs/sanitizer-fun/

1 year ago

What my stroke taught me (2017)

https://nautil.us/what-my-stroke-taught-me-236544/

1 year ago

There are two types of dishwasher people

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/04/how-to-load-dishwasher/682425/

1 year ago

Scientists: Protein IL-17 fights infection, acts on the brain, inducing anxiety

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-scientists-protein-il-infection-brain.html

1 year ago

The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing

https://metacast.app/blog/engineering/postmortem-llm-bots-image-optimization

1 year ago

Monte Carlo Crash Course: Sampling

https://thenumb.at/Sampling/

1 year ago

Query Engines: Push vs. Pull (2021)

https://justinjaffray.com/query-engines-push-vs.-pull/

1 year ago

1,700 year old egg never broke

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/liquid-inside-ancient-egg

1 year ago

She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lyft-conversation-transcribed-1.7508106

1 year ago

The Whimsical Investor

https://fi-le.net/stonks/

1 year ago

A protein folding mystery solved: Study explains core packing fractions

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-protein-mystery-core-fractions.html

1 year ago

Calypso: LLMs as Dungeon Masters' Assistants [pdf]

https://andrewhead.info/assets/pdf/calypso.pdf

1 year ago

Dead trees keep surprisingly large amounts of carbon out of atmosphere

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-dead-trees-large-amounts-carbon.html

1 year ago

Tariffs, Saving, and Investment

https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/tariffs-saving-and-investment

1 year ago

The Second Half

https://ysymyth.github.io/The-Second-Half/

1 year ago

White House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways to 'Deport' U.S. Citizens

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-confirms-trump-is-exploring-ways-to-deport-us-citizens_n_67f580abe4b0a5ea5c7608d2

1 year ago

EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears

https://www.ft.com/content/20d0678a-41b2-468d-ac10-14ce1eae357b

1 year ago

Show HN: ActorCore – Stateful serverless framework that runs anywhere

https://github.com/rivet-gg/actor-core

1 year ago

How I use audio journaling and AI to improve my trading decisions

https://www.fractiz.com/how-i-use-audio-journaling-and-ai-to-improve-my-trading-decisions/

1 year ago

SSD1306 display drivers and font rendering

https://subalpinecircuits.com/ssd1306-and-font-rendering/

1 year ago

Wiz's $32B GTM Playbook

https://www.cybersecuritypulse.net/p/wizs-32b-gtm-playbook-unpacking-the

1 year ago

Small Towns in Japan

https://japanstartshere.com/2020/04/06/small-towns-in-japan/

1 year ago

Show HN: Single-Header Profiler for C++17

https://github.com/DmitriBogdanov/UTL/blob/master/docs/module_profiler.md

1 year ago

Unix files have (at least) two sizes

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixFilesTwoSizes

1 year ago

Aqua Tofana: The 17th Century Husband Killer

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2025/04/aqua-tofana-17th-century-husband-killer.html

1 year ago