top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-04-19

Librarians are dangerous

https://bradmontague.substack.com/p/librarians-are-dangerous

1 year ago

Don't force your kids to do math

https://blog.avocados.ovh/posts/how-to-force-your-kids-to-do-math/

1 year ago

Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move

https://www.servethehome.com/synology-lost-the-plot-with-hard-drive-locking-move/

1 year ago

Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/cozy-video-games-can-quell-stress-anxiety-2025-01-27/

1 year ago

Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/android-phones-will-soon-reboot-themselves-after-sitting-unused-for-3-days/

1 year ago

The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/

1 year ago

Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices

1 year ago

Making a smart bike dumb so it works again

https://francisco.io/blog/making-a-smart-bike-dumb-work-again/

1 year ago

Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work

https://addyo.substack.com/p/vibe-coding-is-not-an-excuse-for

1 year ago

Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner

https://github.com/PiLiDAR/PiLiDAR

1 year ago

A Map of British Dialects (2023)

https://starkeycomics.com/2023/11/07/map-of-british-english-dialects/

1 year ago

Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building user interfaces

https://www.solidjs.com/

1 year ago

Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials

https://github.com/The-Pocket/Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge

1 year ago

The Icelandic Voting System (2024)

https://smarimccarthy.is/posts/2024-11-25-voting-system/

1 year ago

Show HN: Goldbach Conjecture up to 4*10^18+7*10^13

https://medium.com/@jay_gridbach/grid-computing-shatters-world-record-for-goldbach-conjecture-verification-1ef3dc58a38d

1 year ago

JavaScript Views, the Hard Way – A Pattern for Writing UI

https://github.com/matthewp/views-the-hard-way

1 year ago

An image of the Australian desert illuminates satellite pollution

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/a-stunning-image-of-the-australian-desert-illuminates-the-growing-problem-of-satellite-pollution/

1 year ago

Can rotation solve the Hubble Puzzle?

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/4/3038/8090496?login=false

1 year ago

A unique sound alleviates motion sickness

https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result-en/2025/04/20250408-01.html

1 year ago

Ask HN: Why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735969

1 year ago