top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-20

Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-3-quantized-aware-trained-state-of-the-art-ai-to-consumer-gpus/

1 year ago

Things Zig comptime won't do

https://matklad.github.io/2025/04/19/things-zig-comptime-wont-do.html

1 year ago

The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"

https://fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-movie-mistake-mystery-from-revenge.html

1 year ago

Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-jagged-agi-o3-gemini-25-and-everything

1 year ago

Show HN: JuryNow – Get an anonymous instant verdict from 12 real people

https://jurynow.app/

1 year ago

Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf?

https://theahura.substack.com/p/tech-things-openai-buys-windsurf

1 year ago

How encryption for Cinema Movies works

https://serverless.industries/2024/05/31/digital-cinema.en.html

1 year ago

First hormone-free male birth control pill enters human trials

https://scitechdaily.com/99-effective-first-hormone-free-male-birth-control-pill-enters-human-trials/

1 year ago

How I use Kate editor

https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-i-use-kate-editor/

1 year ago

100 Years to Solve an Integral (2020)

https://liorsinai.github.io/mathematics/2020/08/27/secant-mercator.html

1 year ago

How Thai authorities use online doxxing to suppress dissent

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/04/how-thai-authorities-use-online-doxxing-to-suppress-dissent/

1 year ago

U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days

https://news.azpm.org/p/news-articles/2025/4/18/224512-us-citizen-in-arizona-detained-by-immigration-officials-for-10-days/

1 year ago

The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers

https://blues.win/posts/joy-of-linux-theming/

1 year ago

Find the Odd Disk

https://colors2.alessandroroussel.com/

1 year ago

Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/pete-hegseth-signal-chat-yemen-attack

1 year ago

The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus'

https://www.carette.xyz/posts/focus_will_be_the_skill_of_the_future/

1 year ago

Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052

1 year ago

Verus: Verified Rust for low-level systems code

https://github.com/secure-foundations/verus

1 year ago

Turing-Drawings

https://github.com/maximecb/Turing-Drawings

1 year ago

Layered Design in Go

https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/go_layered_design/

1 year ago

Signal Carnival

https://www.quiss.org/signal_carnival/

1 year ago

TikZJax: Embedding LaTeX Drawings in HTML

https://tikzjax.com/

1 year ago

Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust (2016)

https://hoverbear.org/blog/rust-state-machine-pattern/

1 year ago

Decomposing Transactional Systems

https://transactional.blog/blog/2025-decomposing-transactional-systems

1 year ago

Can we still recover the right to be left alone?

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lowry-pressley-right-to-oblivion/

1 year ago

Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Era-of-Experience%20/The%20Era%20of%20Experience%20Paper.pdf

1 year ago

Slouching towards San Francisco

https://rachdele.substack.com/p/slouching-towards-san-francisco

1 year ago

Pushing the Limits of LLM Quantization via the Linearity Theorem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17525

1 year ago

New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proof-settles-decades-old-bet-about-connected-networks-20250418/

1 year ago

Three Felonies a Day (2013)

https://kottke.org/13/06/you-commit-three-felonies-a-day

1 year ago

Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack, featuring Slirp-CK

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/04/lets-give-provenix-barely-adequate-pre.html

1 year ago

Falsify: Hypothesis-Inspired Shrinking for Haskell (2023)

https://www.well-typed.com/blog/2023/04/falsify/

1 year ago

Restoring Old Software for Child Learning Safety

https://rietta.com/blog/child-learning-with-old-software/

1 year ago

Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/home-galleries-are-hiding-in-plain-sight-across-canada-1.7503886

1 year ago

The Rise and Fall of Toys 'R' Us (2018)

https://www.history.com/articles/toys-r-us-closing-legacy

1 year ago

Better Error Handling

https://meowbark.dev/Better-error-handling

1 year ago

Mike Wood, Whose LeapFrog Toys Taught a Generation, Dies at 72

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/business/michael-c-wood-dead.html

1 year ago

How MOS 6502 Illegal Opcodes Work (2008)

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=39

1 year ago

What the hell is an elliptic curve?

https://onlynv.dev/blog/what-the-hell-is-an-elliptic-curve

1 year ago

Christianity was always for the poor (2024)

https://jacobin.com/2024/03/christianity-poor-debt-jesus-moses-wealth

1 year ago

If you use AI to write me that note, don't expect me to read it

https://www.fastcompany.com/91317959/if-you-use-ai-to-write-me-that-note-dont-expect-me-to-read-it

1 year ago

Get your Minitel back, the COMPUTEL videotex BBS is back

https://cq94.medium.com/get-your-minitels-back-the-computel-videotex-bbs-is-back-1d8c42f1ea17

1 year ago

Lessons learned operating petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters: Part II

https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/what-i-learned-operating-clickhouse-part-ii

1 year ago

'Nobody has done this before': Britain's beloved steam trains trial technology

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/19/nobody-has-done-this-before-britains-beloved-steam-trains-trial-pioneering-technology

1 year ago

Handheld detector for all types of ionizing radiation improves radiation safety

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-handheld-detector-ionizing-safety.html

1 year ago

Subnanosecond Flash Memory

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08839-w

1 year ago

My experience participating to a startup weekend competition in Italy

https://danielpetrica.com/my-experience-of-participating-to-a-startup-weekend-competition-in-italy/

1 year ago

Demystifying decorators: They don't need to be cryptic

https://www.thepythoncodingstack.com/p/demystifying-python-decorators

1 year ago

Tesla settles with worker who claimed employees told "welcome to the plantation"

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/musk-tesla-fremont-california-lawsuit-discrimination-b2735810.html

1 year ago

OAuth's Role in MCP Security

https://defensiblesystems.substack.com/p/oauths-role-in-mcp-security

1 year ago

What should third world dev do in this economy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43746782

1 year ago

There Are Many Threats to Humanity. A Low Birth Rate Isn't One of Them

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-are-many-threats-to-humanity.-a-low-birth-rate-isnt-one-of-them

1 year ago

The AI skeptic's guide to AI collaboration

https://hils.substack.com/p/the-ai-skeptics-guide-to-ai-collaboration

1 year ago

Living with Lab Mice

https://nautil.us/living-with-lab-mice-1202657/

1 year ago