top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-04-18

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/

1 year ago

Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

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

1 year ago

Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype

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

1 year ago

Electric Propulsion's Dirty Secret: Why Lithium Can't Fly (Or Float) Profitably

https://kumarletter.com/posts/electric-propulsion-s-dirty-secret-why-lithium-can-t-fly-or-float-profitably

1 year ago

Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse

https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion/waiting-100-years-for-a-home-isnt-a-housing-crisis-its-a-moral-collapse

1 year ago

Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional

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

1 year ago

Defold: cross-platform game engine

https://defold.com

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud

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

1 year ago

15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python

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

1 year ago

I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)

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

1 year ago

Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?

https://www.historyextra.com/period/general-history/good-friday-facts-why-called/

1 year ago

College Towns: Urbanism from a Past Era

https://www.governance.fyi/p/college-towns-urbanism-from-a-past

1 year ago

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

https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/backdooms

1 year ago

★ 624 HTML MIT

Walled Gardens Can Kill

https://aneesiqbal.ai/2025-04-18-walled-gardens-can-kill

1 year ago

A New ASN.1 API for Python

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

1 year ago

Dear Lewis, my CEO wants AI to do it all. How do I argue for humans?

https://lewislin.substack.com/p/dear-lewis-my-ceo-wants-ai-to-do

1 year ago

Full Text Search of US Court records

https://www.judyrecords.com/

1 year ago