top 50% 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

Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752176

1 year ago

A M.2 HDMI capture card

https://interfacinglinux.com/2025/04/18/magewell-eco-m-2-hdmi-capture-card/

1 year ago

Out of the Fog

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/651701/vietnam-operation-babylift-adoption-transnational

1 year ago

The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping

https://mohitdagarwal.substack.com/p/from-dominance-to-dilemma-nvidia

1 year ago

Visiting Us

https://www.epic.com/visiting/

1 year ago

Show HN: Nerdlog – Fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram

https://github.com/dimonomid/nerdlog

1 year ago

An update to our pricing

https://windsurf.com/blog/pricing-v2

1 year ago

The campaign to subvert Africa's internet registry

https://www.capeindependent.com/article/the-campaign-to-subvert-africas-internet-registry

1 year ago

Whistleblower statement on anomalies at time of DOGE work at NLRB [pdf]

https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-HELP-and-Oversight-with-Exhibits.pdf

1 year ago

Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing

https://sam.elborai.me/articles/tabular-programming/

1 year ago

Handwriting activates broader brain networks than typing

https://www.psypost.org/handwriting-activates-broader-brain-networks-than-typing-study-shows/

1 year ago

Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs

https://github.com/codingmoh/open-codex

1 year ago

Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/20/apple-stolen-iphone-lawsuit-theft/

1 year ago

Finland is painting deer antlers with reflective paint (2014)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/avoid-deer-strikes-finland-painting-deer-antlers-reflective-paint-180949792/

1 year ago

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/14/opinion_secret_state_security/?td=rt-3a

1 year ago

Is 1 Prime, and Does It Matter?

https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/is-1-prime-and-does-it-matter/

1 year ago

Local LLM inference – impressive but too hard to work with

https://medium.com/@aazo11/local-llm-inference-897a06cc17a2

1 year ago

Show HN: Keep your PyTorch model in VRAM by hot swapping code

https://github.com/valine/training-hot-swap/

1 year ago

Regex Isn't Hard (2023)

https://timkellogg.me/blog/2023/07/11/regex

1 year ago

Ultra-precision formation flying demonstration for space-based interferometry

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05001

1 year ago

Are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/19/dont-ask-what-ai-can-do-for-us-ask-what-it-is-doing-to-us-are-chatgpt-and-co-harming-human-intelligence

1 year ago