top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-04-18

Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code

https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/backdooms

2 months ago

531 upvotes – 136 comments

Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional

https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-blanket-search-of-cell-tower-data-unconstitutional/

2 months ago

494 upvotes – 193 comments

Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

https://blog.kagi.com/assistant-for-all

2 months ago

491 upvotes – 282 comments

15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python

https://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/04/18/python.html

2 months ago

483 upvotes – 158 comments

Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers

https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-17-intuit-turbotax-wins-battle-against-taxpayers-irs-direct-file/

2 months ago

456 upvotes – 228 comments

Full Text Search of US Court records

https://www.judyrecords.com/

2 months ago

449 upvotes – 100 comments

Defold: cross-platform game engine

https://defold.com

2 months ago

391 upvotes – 172 comments

Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2025/04/16/deafening-silence-from-the-cybersecurity-industry/

2 months ago

334 upvotes – 253 comments

Hypertext TV

https://hypertext.tv/

2 months ago

234 upvotes – 39 comments

arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud

https://info.arxiv.org/hiring/index.html

2 months ago

225 upvotes – 162 comments

AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive

https://buttondown.com/blog/whatever-happened-to-amp-email

2 months ago

222 upvotes – 165 comments

IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/18/ibm_orders_us_sales_staff/

2 months ago

208 upvotes – 457 comments

Less Slow C++

https://github.com/ashvardanian/less_slow.cpp

2 months ago

198 upvotes – 97 comments

We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15B Miles Away [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcUycQoz0zg

2 months ago

194 upvotes – 18 comments

I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)

https://www.bugsink.com/blog/why-i-gave-up-on-self-hosted-sentry/

2 months ago

186 upvotes – 150 comments

I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype

https://unixdigest.com/articles/i-passionately-hate-hype-especially-the-ai-hype.html

2 months ago

182 upvotes – 218 comments

Haskelling My Python

https://unnamed.website/posts/haskelling-my-python/

2 months ago

172 upvotes – 70 comments

A New ASN.1 API for Python

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/04/18/sneak-peek-a-new-asn.1-api-for-python/

2 months ago

171 upvotes – 124 comments

DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice

https://www.dhl.com/au-en/home/important-information/2025/shipments-to-the-united-states-with-a-customs-value-exceeding-usd-800.html

2 months ago

155 upvotes – 72 comments

A Math Lesson From Hitler’s Germany (2017)

https://undark.org/2017/02/01/math-lesson-hitlers-germany/

2 months ago

152 upvotes – 43 comments
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