top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-04-16

CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3963190/cve-program-faces-swift-end-after-dhs-fails-to-renew-contract-leaving-security-flaw-tracking-in-limbo.html

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OpenAI o3 and o4-mini

https://openai.com/index/introducing-o3-and-o4-mini/

1 year ago

OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

https://github.com/openai/codex

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★ 77.9k Rust Apache-2.0

Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/man-who-built-isp-instead-of-paying-comcast-50k-expands-to-hundreds-of-homes/

1 year ago

Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/14/hydrogen-vs-battery-buses-a-european-transit-reality-check/

1 year ago

Kermit: A typeface for kids

https://microsoft.design/articles/introducing-kermit-a-typeface-for-kids/

1 year ago

Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting

https://antirez.com/news/150

1 year ago

How Nintendo bled Atari games to death

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-nintendo-bled-atari-games-to-death/

1 year ago

Why drinking coffee in Iran has become so complicated

https://adelbordbari.github.io/etc/2025-04-16-coffee/

1 year ago

Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01026-x

1 year ago

Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-snapchat

1 year ago

Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014)

https://theappendix.net/posts/2014/02/darwins-children-drew-vegetable-battles-on-the-origin-of-species

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A Postmortem of a Startup

https://buildwithtract.com/

1 year ago

Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/science/astronomy-exoplanets-habitable-k218b.html

1 year ago

JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/04/16/jetbrains-ides-go-ai/

1 year ago

Attention K-Mart Shoppers

https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers

1 year ago

Ask HN: How do you talk about past jobs you regret in interviews?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43708622

1 year ago

When College Might Not Be Worth It

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/04/when-college-might-not-be-worth-it/

1 year ago

Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

https://trendsnewsline.com/2025/04/15/anonymous-leaks-10tb-of-data-on-russia-shocking-revelations/

1 year ago

Future Chips Will Be Hotter Than Ever

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hot-chips

1 year ago