top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-19

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

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

1 year ago

Librarians are dangerous

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

1 year ago

Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner

https://github.com/PiLiDAR/PiLiDAR

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

Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding

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

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

The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2

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

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

Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building user interfaces

https://www.solidjs.com/

1 year ago

Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay

https://github.com/JustAman62/undercut-f1

1 year ago

Packing Input Frame Context in Next-Frame Prediction Models for Video Generation

https://lllyasviel.github.io/frame_pack_gitpage/

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

Don't force your kids to do math

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

1 year ago

Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine

https://philwip.com/2025/04/14/galaxian-3-project-revival/

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

Making a smart bike dumb so it works again

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

1 year ago

A Map of British Dialects (2023)

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

1 year ago

Ssl.com: DCV bypass and issue fake certificates for any MX hostname

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1961406

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

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

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

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

1 year ago

Inside ArXiv

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/

1 year ago

Electromagnetism as a Purely Geometric Theory

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2987/1/012001

1 year ago

How to Write a Fast Matrix Multiplication from Scratch with Tensor Cores (2024)

https://alexarmbr.github.io/2024/08/10/How-To-Write-A-Fast-Matrix-Multiplication-From-Scratch-With-Tensor-Cores.html

1 year ago

Hands-On Large Language Models

https://github.com/HandsOnLLM/Hands-On-Large-Language-Models

1 year ago

The Icelandic Voting System (2024)

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

1 year ago

The Art of Assembly Language (2010)

https://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/www.artofasm.com/Linux/HTML/AoATOC.html

1 year ago

Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds data loss and performance issues

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups

1 year ago

Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/18/dumb-statistical-models-always-making-people-look-bad/

1 year ago

Demo "The Mind" by Haujobb and Sweet16

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=145596

1 year ago

Ultrathink is a Claude Code magic word

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/claude-code-best-practices/

1 year ago

Libro: a command-line tool to track your books

https://github.com/mkaz/libro

1 year ago

Taking Notes with Joplin

https://lwn.net/Articles/1016400/

1 year ago

'Immediate red flags': questions raised over 'expert' much quoted in UK press

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/apr/19/questions-raised-over-barbara-santini-expert-much-quoted-in-uk-press

1 year ago

Open Source DMR Modem Implementation in SDR with GNU Radio and Codec2

https://qradiolink.org/open-source-DMR-transceiver-implementation.html

1 year ago

Frankenstein's `__init__`

https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-04-19-frank/

1 year ago

I just got an ad in VS Code

https://postimg.cc/G97psRDx

1 year ago

The Illuminated Gospel of St John

https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/bibles/illuminated-gospel-of-st-john

1 year ago

Anxiety at US colleges as foreign students are detained and visas revoked

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20xq5nd8jeo

1 year ago

Against Transparency

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/19/gotcha/#known-to-the-state-of-california-to-cause-cancer

1 year ago

Neurite

https://github.com/satellitecomponent/Neurite

1 year ago

A star appears to have collapsed straight into a black hole without supernova (2017)

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/collapsing-star-gives-birth-to-a-black-hole/

1 year ago

Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning [pdf] (2003)

http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-complexity/ITA-software-travel-complexity.pdf

1 year ago

Pike – a dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C

https://pike.lysator.liu.se/

1 year ago

Can rotation solve the Hubble Puzzle?

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

1 year ago

Microsoft Copilot shows AI increasingly appears like an unwanted party guest

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

1 year ago

CaMeL: Defeating Prompt Injections by Design

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18813

1 year ago

Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2025/04/17/perplexingly-book-learned-emacs/

1 year ago

Inferring the Phylogeny of Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04671

1 year ago

The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)

https://blog.samizdata.co/p/how-a-british-sitcom-swept-through-the-balkans

1 year ago

China Can Have It All – China is currently winner of America's self-sabotage

https://minnalander.substack.com/p/china-can-have-it-all

1 year ago

Can We Trust CVE?

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/04-can-we-trust-cve/

1 year ago