top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-04-21

Getting forked by Microsoft

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

1 year ago

Pope Francis has died

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii

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

1 year ago

Python’s new t-strings

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

1 year ago

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

https://github.com/ericjenott/Evertop

1 year ago

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

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

1 year 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

1 year ago

Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM

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

1 year ago

A new form of verification on Bluesky

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

1 year ago

Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature

https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/04/pipelining/

1 year ago

I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUOnQ_boqCw

1 year ago

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them

https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0178-why-llm-powered-programming-is-more-mech-suit-than-artificial-human

1 year ago

Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record

https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/fossil-fuels-fall-below-50-of-us-electricity-for-the-first-month-on-record/

1 year ago

Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-energy-consumption

1 year ago

AI assisted search-based research works now

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/

1 year ago

Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomers-lone-black-hole.html

1 year ago

Pope Francis has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/crknlnzlrzdt

1 year ago

101 BASIC Computer Games

https://github.com/maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games

1 year ago

Cheating the Reaper in Go

https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/04/21/go-arenas/

1 year ago