Top 20 Hacker News Stories for 2025-04-15

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Portland physics student flees Trump crackdown, months from earning his PhD

https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2025/04/portland-physics-student-flees-trump-crackdown-months-from-earning-his-doctorate.html

11 months ago

14 upvotes – 1 comments

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Mark Zuckerberg's failed negotiations with the FTC to end Meta's antitrust case

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/mark-zuckerberg-meta-antitrust-ftc-negotiations-a53b3382

11 months ago

89 upvotes – 93 comments

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Elite Pentagon Tech Unit Resigns En Masse After Clashing with Doge

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elite-pentagon-unit-resigns-en-masse-after-clashing-with-doge/

11 months ago

33 upvotes – 5 comments

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Why I support privacy

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/04/14/privacy.html

11 months ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

5

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More Americans Are Eyeing Jobs in UK

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/more-americans-are-eyeing-jobs-in-uk-amid-trump-funding-cuts

11 months ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

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Teaching keeps you young, or so says Professor Brian Kernighan

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/04/princeton-features-profiles-professor-brian-kernighan-bell-labs

11 months ago

24 upvotes – 7 comments

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New in Fedora: Running x86 programs on ARM systems

https://fedoramagazine.org/new-in-fedora-running-x86-programs-on-arm-systems/

11 months ago

9 upvotes – 0 comments

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234

Four Years of Jai (2024)

https://smarimccarthy.is/posts/2024-12-02-four-years-of-jai/

11 months ago

166 upvotes – 234 comments

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DOGE Is Collecting Federal Data to Remove Immigrants from Housing, Jobs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/15/doge-ssa-immigration-trump-housing/

11 months ago

21 upvotes – 1 comments

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Show HN: I made Python project template so you don't need to spend hours on it

https://github.com/akopdev/template-python-package

11 months ago

6 upvotes – 5 comments

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Multipaint: Draw pictures with color limitations of 8-bit and 16-bit platforms

http://multipaint.kameli.net/

11 months ago

40 upvotes – 19 comments

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ActiveX disabled by default in Microsoft 365

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/activex-disabled-by-default-in-microsoft-365/4403157

11 months ago

8 upvotes – 0 comments

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OpenAI announces nonprofit commission advisors

https://openai.com/index/nonprofit-commission-advisors/

11 months ago

19 upvotes – 4 comments

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'Mistakes were made,' Hope Florida charity leader tells lawmakers

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/04/15/desantis-casey-hope-florida-foundation-hearing-andrade-medicaid/

11 months ago

7 upvotes – 2 comments

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Company's Surveillance Tech Makes Immigrants 'Easy Pickings'

https://web.archive.org/web/20250415024529/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/technology/trump-immigration-tech-geo-group.html

11 months ago

8 upvotes – 1 comments

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USB Floppy Disk Striped RAID Under OS X (2004)

http://web.archive.org/web/20040202110812/http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

11 months ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

8

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Bukele and Co.: The New Landowning Family of El Salvador

https://www.elsalvadornow.org/2024/09/20/bukele-associates-the-new-landowning-family-of-el-salvador-bukele-cia-la-nueva-familia-terrateniente-de-el-salvador/

11 months ago

8 upvotes – 0 comments

475

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12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications

https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents

11 months ago

475 upvotes – 78 comments

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Company's Surveillance Tech Makes Immigrants 'Easy Pickings'

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/technology/trump-immigration-tech-geo-group.html

11 months ago

12 upvotes – 1 comments

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How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lely-dairy-robots

11 months ago

225 upvotes – 170 comments