top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-15

Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

1 year ago

Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator

https://filiph.github.io/unsure/

1 year ago

America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back

https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back

1 year ago

How to win an argument with a toddler

https://seths.blog/2025/04/how-to-win-an-argument-with-a-toddler/

1 year ago

4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/april-2025-4chan-sharty-hack-and-janitor-email-leak

1 year ago

TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days

https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days

1 year ago

How the U.S. became a science superpower

https://steveblank.com/2025/04/15/how-the-u-s-became-a-science-superpower/

1 year ago

12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications

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

1 year ago

★ 19.4k TypeScript

It's easier than ever to de-censor videos

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/its-easier-ever-de-censor-videos

1 year ago

Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2

https://blog.google/products/gemini/video-generation/

1 year ago

Decreased CO2 during breathwork: emergence of altered states of consciousness

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00247-0

1 year ago

Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)

https://jmswrnr.com/blog/hacking-a-smart-home-device

1 year ago

OpenAI is building a social network?

https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor

1 year ago

Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim

https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor

1 year ago

JSX over the Wire

https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/

1 year ago

Clolog

https://github.com/bobschrag/clolog

1 year ago

★ 271 Clojure EPL-2.0

How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design

https://www.onemetre.net/Design/Design.htm

1 year ago

Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03730

1 year ago

Palestinian activist arrested by ICE while expecting U.S. citizenship interview

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7510325

1 year ago

AI as Normal Technology

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology

1 year ago

Chroma: Ubisoft's internal tool used to simulate color-blindness

https://github.com/ubisoft/Chroma

1 year ago

★ 950 C Apache-2.0

Hacking the Postgres wire protocol

https://pgdog.dev/blog/hacking-postgres-wire-protocol

1 year ago

How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers

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

1 year ago

Launch HN: mrge.io (YC X25) – Cursor for code review

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692476

1 year ago

Cyberpunk 1958: The Early Days of the Polish IT Industry

https://culture.pl/en/article/cyberpunk-1958-the-early-days-of-the-polish-it-industry

1 year ago

MCP Run Python

https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/tree/main/mcp-run-python

1 year ago

★ 16.6k Python MIT

What the hell is a target triple?

https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/04/14/target-triples/

1 year ago

ICE Agents Realize They Arrested Wrong Teen, Say 'Take Him Anyway'

https://www.newsweek.com/merwil-gutierrez-ice-wrong-teen-el-salvador-2059783

1 year ago

Four Years of Jai (2024)

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

1 year ago

eInk Mode: Making web pages easier to read

https://jackscogito.blogspot.com/2025/04/e-ink-mode-making-web-pages-easier-to.html

1 year ago

The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250411-00/?p=111066

1 year ago

Philosophy Major Snatched by ICE During Citizenship Interview

https://dailynous.com/2025/04/15/philosophy-major-snatched-by-ice-during-citizenship-interview/

1 year ago

The problem with "vibe coding"

https://dylanbeattie.net/2025/04/11/the-problem-with-vibe-coding.html

1 year ago

Show HN: MCP-Shield – Detect security issues in MCP servers

https://github.com/riseandignite/mcp-shield

1 year ago

★ 553 TypeScript MIT

Benn Jordan's AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise

https://cdm.link/benn-jordan-ai-poison-pill/

1 year ago

CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/ct-scans-could-cause-5-of-cancers-study-finds-experts-note-uncertainty/

1 year ago

The last RadioShack in Maryland is closing

https://marylandmatters.org/2025/04/14/end-of-an-era-the-last-radioshack-in-maryland-is-closing-its-doors/

1 year ago

WEIRD – a way to be on the web

https://a.weird.one

1 year ago

Doge Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/us/politics/doge-contracts-savings.html

1 year ago

You cannot have our user's data

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2025-04-15-you-cannot-have-our-users-data/

1 year ago

I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8805

1 year ago

Designing a low-cost high-performance 10 MHz – 15 GHz vector network analyzer

https://hforsten.com/designing-a-low-cost-high-performance-10-mhz-15-ghz-vector-network-analyzer.html

1 year ago

Notion Mail is out

https://www.notion.com/product/mail

1 year ago

MeshCore, a new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios

https://github.com/ripplebiz/MeshCore

1 year ago

★ 2.6k C MIT

Cohere Launches Embed 4

https://cohere.com/blog/embed-4

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

Two Years of Rust

https://borretti.me/article/two-years-of-rust

1 year ago

An Introduction to Modern CMake

https://cliutils.gitlab.io/modern-cmake/README.html

1 year ago

Ocean Iron Fertilization

https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/ocean-topics/climate-weather/ocean-based-climate-solutions/iron-fertilization/

1 year ago

Liquid: Language models are scalable and unified multi-modal generators

https://foundationvision.github.io/Liquid/

1 year ago

The Post-Developer Era

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/the-post-developer-era/

1 year ago

Show HN: Torque – A lightweight meta-assembler for any processor

https://benbridle.com/projects/torque.html

1 year ago

The Subjective Charms of Objective-C

https://www.wired.com/story/objective-c-programming-language-verbose/

1 year ago

Show HN: Resonate – real-time high temporal resolution spectral analysis

https://alexandrefrancois.org/Resonate/

1 year ago

GitHub suffers a cascading supply chain attack compromising CI/CD secrets

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3849245/github-suffers-a-cascading-supply-chain-attack-compromising-ci-cd-secrets.html

1 year ago

Fun ways of deciding authorship order (2016)

https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/fun-ways-of-deciding-authorship-order/

1 year ago

Once banned, Poland's stately 18th century dance garners UNESCO honors (2024)

https://apnews.com/article/poland-unesco-heritage-polonaise-dance-culture-be337d9a1941d404f6ef1a1cee364e22

1 year ago

Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)

https://unixdigest.com/articles/important-open-source-projects-should-not-use-github.html

1 year ago

I'm getting fed up of making the rich, richer

https://bell.bz/im-getting-fed-up-of-making-the-rich-richer/

1 year ago

Whistleblower says DOGE may have caused 'significant cyber breach'

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/whistleblower-org-says-doge-may-have-caused-significant-cyber-breach-us-labor-2025-04-15/

1 year ago

Figma says we can't use the word "dev mode" in lovable

https://twitter.com/antonosika/status/1912147137728589915

1 year ago

USB Floppy Disk Striped RAID Under OS X (2004)

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

1 year ago

Pentagon's 'SWAT team of nerds' resigns en masse

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930

1 year ago

METS, the Middle English Texts Series

https://metseditions.org

1 year ago

How I Don't Use LLMs

https://www.gleech.org/llms

1 year ago

Trump Administration Will Freeze $2B After Harvard Refuses Demands

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/harvard-trump-reject-demands.html

1 year ago