top 50% 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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

★ 77.9k Rust Apache-2.0

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

1 year ago

CVE Foundation

https://www.thecvefoundation.org/home

1 year ago

Kermit: A typeface for kids

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

1 year ago

Attention K-Mart Shoppers

https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers

1 year ago

Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting

https://antirez.com/news/150

1 year ago

Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient

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

1 year ago

Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks

https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex

1 year ago

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without All the Bullshit (2015)

https://www.jeremykun.com/2015/04/06/markov-chain-monte-carlo-without-all-the-bullshit/

1 year ago

Damn Vulnerable MCP Server

https://github.com/harishsg993010/damn-vulnerable-MCP-server

1 year ago

European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/

1 year ago

Seth Rogen Speaks Truth to Billionaires, Gets Censored for It

https://kottke.org/25/04/seth-rogan-speaks-truth-to-billionaires-gets-censored-for-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

How Nintendo bled Atari games to death

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

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

An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus (2022)

https://bjlkeng.io/posts/an-introduction-to-stochastic-calculus/

1 year ago

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

Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (2019)

https://nurpax.github.io/posts/2019-08-18-dirty-tricks-6502-programmers-use.html

1 year ago

How a Forgotten Battle Created a More Peaceful World

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/how-a-forgotten-battle-created-a

1 year ago

Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?

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

1 year ago

A high-throughput parser for the Zig programming language

https://github.com/Validark/Accelerated-Zig-Parser

1 year ago

Microsoft researchers developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/16/microsoft-researchers-say-theyve-developed-a-hyper-efficient-ai-model-that-can-run-on-cpus/

1 year ago

Homeland Security funding for CVE program expires

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/homeland_security_funding_for_cve/

1 year ago

High time to tackle drug-resistant fungal infections

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01177-x

1 year ago

Why drinking coffee in Iran has become so complicated

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

1 year ago

Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data

https://blog.google/technology/developers/kaggle-wikimedia/

1 year ago

Show HN: We Put Chromium on a Unikernel (OSS Apache 2.0)

https://github.com/onkernel/kernel-images

1 year ago

Herb: Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling

https://herb-tools.dev/

1 year ago

Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?

https://pwy.io/posts/marching-events/

1 year ago

Science, the Endless Frontier (1945) [pdf]

https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/2023-04/EndlessFrontier75th_w.pdf

1 year ago

AI-Designed Antivenoms: New Proteins to Block Deadly Snake Toxins

https://plentyofroom.beehiiv.com/p/antivenoms-with-ai-designed-proteins

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

Principles for Building One-Shot AI Agents

https://edgebit.io/blog/automated-dependency-updates-with-ai/

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

ChatGPT 4.1 Jailbreak Prompt

https://github.com/elder-plinius/L1B3RT4S/blob/main/OPENAI.mkd

1 year ago

Attention Spans for Math and Stories (2019)

https://www.jeremykun.com/2019/03/26/attention-spans-for-math-and-stories/

1 year ago

Former cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs leaves SentinelOne after executive order

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/former-cisa-chief-krebs-leaves-sentinelone-after-trump-exec-order.html

1 year ago

The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-platform compatibility

https://markbessey.blog/2025/04/14/a-blast-from-the-past/

1 year ago

Bauplan – Git-for-data pipelines on object storage

https://docs.bauplanlabs.com/en/latest/

1 year ago

Vivarium: The keeper of a lab's animals stumbles onto a secret [fiction]

https://jsomers.net/vivarium/

1 year ago

Stop Conflating Genius with Asshole

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/stop-conflating-genius-with-asshole/

1 year ago

Future Chips Will Be Hotter Than Ever

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

1 year ago

Sponges, drill bits and wires: Surgeons mistakenly left objects inside thousands

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/hospitals-surgical-objects-patients/

1 year ago

OpenAI in Talks to Buy Windsurf for About $3B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-16/openai-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-windsurf-for-about-3-billion

1 year ago

Replacing CVE

https://gavinhoward.com/2025/04/replacing-cve

1 year ago

How to Optimize Rust for Slowness: Inspired by New Turing Machine Results

https://medium.com/@carlmkadie/how-to-optimize-your-rust-program-for-slowness-eb2c1a64d184

1 year ago

RakuAST Grant Report

https://niner.name/blog/rakuast_grant_report/index.html

1 year ago

Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250415183433.htm

1 year ago

AI Is Facing a Crisis

https://savethe.ai/

1 year ago

Get Out of My Head

https://getoutofmyhead.dev/

1 year ago