top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-04-17

TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-harm-tiktok

1 year ago

606 upvotes – 690 comments

Gemini 2.5 Flash

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/

1 year ago

1076 upvotes – 560 comments

Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/technology/google-ad-tech-antitrust-ruling.html

1 year ago

863 upvotes – 486 comments

Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

https://coppolaemilio.com/entries/i-left-spotify-what-happened-next/

1 year ago

458 upvotes – 482 comments

Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr75wypg0vo

1 year ago

327 upvotes – 426 comments

US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1egdy24v7po

1 year ago

377 upvotes – 426 comments

AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ege-tamay

1 year ago

174 upvotes – 375 comments

“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/k2-18b-dimethyl-sulfide

1 year ago

417 upvotes – 351 comments

First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd517z87o

1 year ago

300 upvotes – 345 comments

Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain

https://status.zoom.us/incidents/pw9r9vnq5rvk

1 year ago

634 upvotes – 303 comments
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