top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-04-17

Gemini 2.5 Flash

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

1 year ago

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

Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

https://whichyr.com/

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system

https://maknee.github.io/blog/2025/3FS-Performance-Journal-1/

1 year ago

TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale

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

1 year ago

Potatoes in the Mail

https://facts.usps.com/mailing-potatoes/

1 year ago

Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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

1 year ago

“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

US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results

https://timsh.org/everyone-knows-your-location-part-2-try-it-yourself/

1 year ago

I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs

https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/i-analyzed-chord-progressions-in

1 year ago

First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb

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

1 year ago

HDR‑Infused Emoji

https://sharpletters.net/2025/04/16/hdr-emoji/

1 year ago

U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law

https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/04/17/georgia-born-man-held-for-ice-under-floridas-new-anti-immigration-law/

1 year ago

This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

https://www.wired.com/story/massive-blue-overwatch-ai-personas-police-suspects/

1 year ago

Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering

https://quagmirerepair.com/milwaukee-m18-battery-reverse-engineering

1 year ago

What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?

https://blog.luden.io/what-do-i-think-about-lua-after-shipping-a-project-with-60-000-lines-of-code-bf72a1328733

1 year ago

US judge finds administration wilfully defied court order in deportation flights

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-17/judge-in-venezuelan-migrants-case-finds-trump-admin-probably-con/105186022

1 year ago