1076
560
Gemini 2.5 Flash
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/
1 year ago
863
486
Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/technology/google-ad-tech-antitrust-ruling.html
712
207
Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
https://whichyr.com/
634
303
Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain
https://status.zoom.us/incidents/pw9r9vnq5rvk
623
108
An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system
https://maknee.github.io/blog/2025/3FS-Performance-Journal-1/
606
690
TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-harm-tiktok
510
256
Potatoes in the Mail
https://facts.usps.com/mailing-potatoes/
458
482
Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
https://coppolaemilio.com/entries/i-left-spotify-what-happened-next/
417
351
“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/k2-18b-dimethyl-sulfide
377
426
US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1egdy24v7po
327
Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr75wypg0vo
318
70
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/
308
147
I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs
https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/i-analyzed-chord-progressions-in
300
345
First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd517z87o
274
146
HDR‑Infused Emoji
https://sharpletters.net/2025/04/16/hdr-emoji/
263
133
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/
235
227
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/
222
105
Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering
https://quagmirerepair.com/milwaukee-m18-battery-reverse-engineering
218
142
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
216
166
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
211
Encryption Is Not a Crime
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/
56
Passing planes and other whoosh sounds
https://www.windytan.com/2025/04/passing-planes-and-other-whoosh-sounds.html
199
51
Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Erlang/OTP SSH
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32433
178
82
Crows can recognize geometric regularity
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-crows-geometric-regularity.html
174
375
AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ege-tamay
138
mIRC 7.81
https://www.mirc.com/
171
148
ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser
https://flausch.social/@piegames/114352447253793517
163
15
Show HN: AgentAPI – HTTP API for Claude Code, Goose, Aider, and Codex
https://github.com/coder/agentapi
162
65
Oda Ujiharu: Why the ‘weakest Samurai warlord’ is admired
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/japanese-culture/oda-ujiharu-the-weakest-samurai-warlord/
158
78
Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of culture
https://theconversation.com/perus-ancient-irrigation-systems-succeeded-in-turning-deserts-into-farms-because-of-the-culture-without-it-the-systems-failed-251199
143
87
Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates
https://www.feldera.com/blog/cutting-down-rust-compile-times-from-30-to-2-minutes-with-one-thousand-crates
135
112
Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf]
http://uniforumchicago.org/slides/bash1.pdf
130
116
OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/17/openai-looked-at-cursor-before-considering-deal-with-rival-windsurf.html
126
61
A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/17/1114456/toy-armatron-modern-robotics-ai-nostalgia/
119
42
Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet
https://www.reuters.com/science/scientists-find-strongest-evidence-yet-life-an-alien-planet-2025-04-16/
115
55
Elon Musk shut down internal Tesla analysis showing Robotaxi would lose money
https://electrek.co/2025/04/16/elon-musk-shut-down-internal-tesla-analysis-that-showed-robotaxi-would-lose-money/
111
30
BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12285
114
The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/the-halting-problem-is-a-terrible-example-of-np/
20
Differentiable Programming from Scratch
https://thenumb.at/Autodiff/
106
Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research finds
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/toothpaste-lead-heavy-metals
104
9
SQLite transactions and virtual tables
https://misfra.me/2025/sqlite-transactions-and-virtual-tables/
102
72
Development on Apple Silicon with UTM
https://rkiselenko.dev/blog/development-on-mac-with-utm/development-on-mac-with-lima/
44
Stainless steel strengthened: Twisting creates submicron 'anti-crash wall'
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-stainless-steel-technique-submicron-anti.html
101
43
A cute proof that makes e natural
https://www.poshenloh.com/e/
93
Shell-secrets – GPG-encrypted environment variables
https://github.com/waj/shell-secrets
45
Building an AI that watches rugby
https://nickjones.tech/ai-watching-rugby/
49
The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death
https://nautil.us/the-animals-that-exist-between-life-and-death-1202592/
85
8
Zack: A Simple Backtesting Engine in Zig
https://github.com/zerotech-studio/zack
The Atari 1200XL fiasco
https://www.goto10retro.com/p/the-atari-1200xl-fiasco
81
19
Recursive LLM prompts
https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
77
144
As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond
https://voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/as-bot-students-continue-to-flood-in-community-colleges-struggle-to-respond/
75
GPT o3 frequently fabricates actions, then elaborately justifies these actions
https://xcancel.com/TransluceAI/status/1912552046269771985
73
21
Consistent Hash Ring
https://gallery.selfboot.cn/en/algorithms/hashring
6
Manga Guide To Databases (2004) [pdf]
https://oberstar.eu.org/share/Documents/The-Manga-guide-to-databases.pdf
94
I Cannot Be Technical
https://www.fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot-be-technical/
46
On Jane Jacobs (2017)
https://salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/75-on-jane-jacobs
Sony Unveils the Smallest and Lightest Lidar Depth Sensor
https://petapixel.com/2025/04/15/sony-unveils-the-worlds-smallest-and-lightest-lidar-depth-sensor/
58
AI is turning us into glue
https://lincoln.swaine-moore.is/writing-about/ai-and-glue
64
16
CN Tower, Behind the Scenes (2014)
https://site.roadwolf.ca/categories/ue/cntower/
63
Olympic Gold Medalist Dominates the 100M at Her Kid's Sports Day Event
https://kottke.org/25/04/olympic-gold-medalist-dominates-the-100m-at-her-kids-sports-day-event
Top OpenAI Catastrophic Risk Official Steps Down Abruptly
https://garrisonlovely.substack.com/p/breaking-top-openai-catastrophic
Micro Wheeled legged Robot
https://github.com/MuShibo/Micro-Wheeled_leg-Robot
60
11
Memory Size Matters to PostgreSQL
https://pgdba.org/post/2025/04/size_matter/
7
X-Ray Defence
https://lichess.org/@/Mcie/blog/x-ray-defence-hidden-resource-sudden-lifeline/HERaZrZg
57
26
U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-citizen-detained-ice-immigration-florida-rcna201800
Show HN: HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audio conversation
https://onetake-ai.github.io/hackernews-watercooler/
50
Kennedy promises to find environmental causes of autism
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/16/syndicate-kennedy-pledges-to-figure-out-which-environmental-toxins-are-causing-autism-00293583