top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-22

Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/whistleblower-doge-siphoned-nlrb-case-data/

1 year ago

Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run

https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-runbooks-that-run/

1 year ago

Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS

https://github.com/alexykn/sapphire

1 year ago

Attacking My Landlord's Boiler

https://blog.videah.net/attacking-my-landlords-boiler/

1 year ago

ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization

https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-gets-lazier-and-faster-introducing-lazy-materialization

1 year ago

Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-supabase-raises-200-million-112154867.html

1 year ago

I should have loved biology too

https://nehalslearnings.substack.com/p/i-should-have-loved-biology-too

1 year ago

Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting

https://uwplse.org/2025/03/31/Algebraic-Knitting.html

1 year ago

CSS Hell

https://csshell.com/

1 year ago

I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil (2015)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/that-time-i-tried-to-buy-some-crude-oil

1 year ago

Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of)

https://www.hey.earth/posts/duckdb-doom

1 year ago

Show HN: Morphik – Open-source RAG that understands PDF images, runs locally

https://github.com/morphik-org/morphik-core

1 year ago

How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)

https://thelogicaloptimist.com/index.php/2015/10/25/the-21-day-myth-create-new-habit/

1 year ago

Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)

https://alexshtf.github.io/2024/01/21/Bernstein.html

1 year ago

The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great

https://technologizer.com/home/2025/04/22/pc-connection-ads-raccoons/

1 year ago

SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces

https://serenityos.org/

1 year ago

Ping, You've Got Whale: AI detection system alerts ships of whales in their path

https://www.biographic.com/ping-youve-got-whale/

1 year ago

Show HN: I open-sourced my AI toy company that runs on ESP32 and OpenAI realtime

https://github.com/akdeb/ElatoAI

1 year ago

π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization

https://pi.website/blog/pi05

1 year ago

Hyperwood – Open-Source Furniture

https://hyperwood.org/

1 year ago

Prolog Adventure Game

https://github.com/stefanrodrigues2/Prolog-Adventure-game

1 year ago

Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems

https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat

1 year ago

How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail

https://eb43.github.io/articles/fast-charging-technologies-in-detail.html

1 year ago

Sustain your creative drive in the face of technological change

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/multi-disciplinary-artist-jack-rusher-on-the-need-to-sustain-your-creative-drive-in-the-face-of-technological-change/

1 year ago

The complex origin story of domestic cats

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-complex-story-domestic-cats-tunisia.html

1 year ago

Google won't ditch third-party cookies in Chrome after all

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/google-wont-ditch-third-party-cookies-in-chrome-after-all/

1 year ago

The many ways tarrifs will hit electronics

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tariffs-electronics-prices

1 year ago

David Tong Lectures on Theoretical Physics

https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/books.html

1 year ago

Meaning Machine – Visualize how LLMs break down and simulate meaning

https://meaning-machine.streamlit.app

1 year ago

Data Compression Nerds Hate This One Trick [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/eh22-8-more-than-just-quite-ok-data-compression-nerds-hate-this-one-trick

1 year ago

Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym

https://cekrem.github.io/posts/coding-as-craft-going-back-to-the-old-gym/

1 year ago

Exploiting Undefined Behavior in C/C++ Programs: The Performance Impact [pdf]

https://web.ist.utl.pt/nuno.lopes/pubs/ub-pldi25.pdf

1 year ago

Surprises in Logic (2016)

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/surprises.html

1 year ago

FreeDOS 1.4 Is Here

https://www.freedos.org/download/announce.html

1 year ago

Welcome to our website for the 1963 BBC MCR21 OB Van

https://mcr21.org.uk/

1 year ago

The Truth about Atlantis (2019)

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/03/26/the-truth-about-atlantis/

1 year ago

Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022)

https://gwern.net/improvement

1 year ago

Does RL Incentivize Reasoning in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?

https://limit-of-rlvr.github.io/

1 year ago

Classic Computer Replicas

https://obsolescence.dev/index.html

1 year ago

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers

https://theconversation.com/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463

1 year ago

RISC-V RVA23 Profile: A major milestone

https://riscv.org/ecosystem-news/2025/04/risc-v-rva23-a-major-milestone/

1 year ago

The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product – A Review

https://madhavajay.com/the-cold-start-problem-using-network-effects-to-scale-your-product/

1 year ago

Fujitsu and RIKEN develop world-leading 256-qubit sup quantum computer

https://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2025/0422-01.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Dosidicus – A digital pet with a simple neural network

https://github.com/ViciousSquid/Dosidicus

1 year ago

Can a single AI model advance any field of science?

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/1269-earl-lawrence-ai

1 year ago

AI for Network Engineers: Understanding Flow, Flowlet, and Packet-Based LB

https://nwktimes.blogspot.com/2025/04/ai-for-network-engineers-understanding.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Durable Python Workflows

https://github.com/autokitteh/autokitteh

1 year ago

Windows File Manager (WinFile) repository archived on March 1, 2025

https://github.com/microsoft/winfile

1 year ago

Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive

https://blog.archive.org/2025/04/17/take-action-defend-the-internet-archive/

1 year ago

Detecting if an expression is constant in C

https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/c-constexpr-macro

1 year ago

Tesla Q1 2025 Update [pdf]

https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/IR/IR/TSLA-Q1-2025-Update.pdf

1 year ago

Join the W3C Exploration Interest Group: where standards start

https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/join-the-w3c-exploration-interest-group-where-standards-start/

1 year ago

Offical XRP NPM package has been compromised and key stealing malware introduced

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/xrp-supplychain-attack-official-npm-package-infected-with-crypto-stealing-backdoor

1 year ago

Launch HN: Infra.new (YC W23) – DevOps copilot with guardrails built in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763026

1 year ago

Deepseek Unmasked [pdf]

https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/DeepSeek%20Final.pdf

1 year ago

Bethesda announces remastered version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_E2crglcw

1 year ago

A study of lightning fatalities inside buildings while using smartphones [pdf] (2024)

https://electricalsafetyworkshop.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/255/ESW2024-19.pdf

1 year ago

Forecaster reacts: METR's bombshell paper about AI acceleration

https://peterwildeford.substack.com/p/forecaster-reacts-metrs-bombshell

1 year ago

Show HN: I built a Ruby gem that handles memoization with a ttl

https://github.com/mishalzaman/memo_ttl

1 year ago

Tesla Profits Drop 71% Amid Backlash to Elon Musk's Role Under Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/tesla-earnings-elon-musk.html

1 year ago

Should We Respect LLMs? A Study on Influence of Prompt Politeness on Performance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14531

1 year ago

Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Dept of Ed says

https://apnews.com/article/student-loan-debt-default-collection-fa6498bf519e0d50f2cd80166faef32a

1 year ago

Major breakthroughs in UK munitions production

https://www.baesystems.com/en/article/major-breakthroughs-in-uk-munitions-production

1 year ago

PaulG on building the infrastructure of the police state

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1913338841068404903

1 year ago

Dissecting a British wartime night vision tank periscope [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlguQYJqs-E

1 year ago

Parcom: CL Parser Combinators

https://github.com/fosskers/parcom

1 year ago

Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years – a study

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/health/marijuana-dementia-wellness/index.html

1 year ago

Introduction to Graph Transformers

https://kumo.ai/research/introduction-to-graph-transformers/

1 year ago

OpenAI would buy Google's Chrome, exec testifies at trial

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/google-contemplated-exclusive-gemini-ai-deals-with-android-makers-2025-04-22/

1 year ago

Internal MS email to managers details new policies to cull low performers

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-email-details-new-policies-cull-low-performers-2025-4

1 year ago

I started a devblog about mixing SwiftUI and C++ to make a Twitch app

https://www.kulve.org/blog/tech_stack

1 year ago

Using physics simulations to find targeting strategies in tenpin bowling

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/15/4/045222/3344017/Using-physics-simulations-to-find-targeting

1 year ago

Flat origami is Turing complete (2023)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07932

1 year ago