top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-04-21

Getting forked by Microsoft

https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/

2 years ago

Pope Francis has died

https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-francis-has-died-vatican-says-video-statement-2025-04-21/

2 years ago

Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue

https://github.com/nari-labs/dia

2 years ago

Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii

https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/

2 years ago

Python’s new t-strings

https://davepeck.org/2025/04/11/pythons-new-t-strings/

2 years ago

Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life

https://github.com/ericjenott/Evertop

2 years ago

The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state

https://www.nber.org/papers/w33697

2 years ago

FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/04/ftc-takes-action-against-uber-deceptive-billing-cancellation-practices

2 years ago

Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM

https://github.com/LukasOgunfeitimi/TikTok-ReverseEngineering

2 years ago

A new form of verification on Bluesky

https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification

2 years ago