top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-23

You wouldn't steal a font

https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f

1 year ago

How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas-win11-24h2-bug/

1 year ago

DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/doge-workers-code-supports-nlrb-whistleblower/

1 year ago

AI Horseless Carriages

https://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/

1 year ago

Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250422-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html

1 year ago

Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-fined-570-million-meta-094701712.html

1 year ago

Advanced Python Features

https://blog.edward-li.com/tech/advanced-python-features/

1 year ago

Native visionOS platform support

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/105628

1 year ago

The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet

https://sebs.website/blog/the%20gruen-transfer-is-consuming-the-internet

1 year ago

America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/trump_us_security/

1 year ago

The hidden cost of AI coding

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/04/23/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-coding/

1 year ago

How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

https://ingau.me/blog/how-i-write-my-blogs-in-obsidian-and-publish-instantly/

1 year ago

YAGRI: You are gonna read it

https://www.scottantipa.com/yagri

1 year ago

Teaching LLMs how to solid model

https://willpatrick.xyz/technology/2025/04/23/teaching-llms-how-to-solid-model.html

1 year ago

They made computers behave like annoying salesmen

https://rakhim.exotext.com/they-made-computers-behave-like-annoying-salesmen

1 year ago

MinC Is Not Cygwin

https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Node.js video tutorials where you can edit and run the code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43771365

1 year ago

Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-23/perplexity-executive-says-google-blocked-motorola-s-use-of-ai-assistant

1 year ago

Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp

https://kevingal.com/blog/cl-livecoding.html

1 year ago

CubeCL: GPU Kernels in Rust for CUDA, ROCm, and WGPU

https://github.com/tracel-ai/cubecl

1 year ago

First Successful Lightning Triggering and Guiding Using a Drone

https://group.ntt/en/newsrelease/2025/04/18/250418a.html

1 year ago

The Future of MCPs

https://iamcharliegraham.substack.com/publish/post/161906169

1 year ago

Launch HN: Cua (YC X25) – Open-Source Docker Container for Computer-Use Agents

https://github.com/trycua/cua

1 year ago

More Everything Forever

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/books/review/more-everything-forever-adam-becker.html

1 year ago

OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/chatgpt-head-tells-court-openai-is-interested-in-buying-chrome/

1 year ago

Pixel is a unit of length and area

https://www.nayuki.io/page/pixel-is-a-unit-of-length-and-area

1 year ago

Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use

https://www.bitoff.org/geocoding-apis-comparison/

1 year ago

Projects for Old OS X

https://jonathanalland.com/old-osx-projects.html

1 year ago

Sail-Trim Simulator

https://simulator.atterwind.info/

1 year ago

Tarpit ideas: What they are and how to avoid them (2023) [video]

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Ij-tarpit-ideas-what-are-tarpit-ideas-how-to-avoid-them

1 year ago

I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective

https://varunraghu.com/why-i-wont-be-vibe-coding-anymore/

1 year ago

EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-fines-apple-meta-breaking-europe-digital-markets-act-dma/

1 year ago

MCP on AWS Lambda with MCPEngine

https://www.featureform.com/post/deploy-mcp-on-aws-lambda-with-mcpengine

1 year ago

How much math is knowable? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VplMHWSZf5c

1 year ago

Sixty Years On, We Still Dream of the Arrow (2021)

https://watershedmagazine.com/features/sixty-years-on-we-still-dream-of-the-arrow/

1 year ago

Why Does My eBPF Program Work on One Kernel but Fail on Another?

https://ebpfchirp.substack.com/p/why-does-my-ebpf-program-work-on

1 year ago

QEMU Version 10.0.0 Released

https://www.qemu.org/2025/04/23/qemu-10-0-0/

1 year ago

Collatz's Ant

https://gbragafibra.github.io/2025/01/08/collatz_ant2.html

1 year ago

Echo – Open Hardware Music Player

https://github.com/amachronic/echoplayer

1 year ago

Show HN: Index – New Open Source browser agent

https://github.com/lmnr-ai/index

1 year ago

C++26: more constexpr in the core language

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/04/23/cpp26-constexpr-language-changes

1 year ago

Spring 83: a draft protocol intended to suggest new ways of relating online

https://github.com/robinsloan/spring-83

1 year ago

Ninth Circuit Takes a Wrecking Ball to Internet Personal Jurisdiction Law

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/04/ninth-circuit-takes-a-wrecking-ball-to-internet-personal-jurisdiction-law-briskin-v-shopify.htm

1 year ago

How ZGC allocates memory for the Java heap

https://joelsiks.com/posts/zgc-heap-memory-allocation/

1 year ago

After 20 years, the globally optimal Boggle board

https://www.danvk.org/2025/04/23/boggle-solved.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Moose – OSS framework to build analytical back ends with ClickHouse

https://docs.fiveonefour.com/moose

1 year ago

Automated Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms [pdf] (2006)

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20060024675/downloads/20060024675.pdf

1 year ago

We Have Made No Progress Toward AGI

https://www.mindprison.cc/p/no-progress-toward-agi-llm-braindead-unreliable

1 year ago

Where did the false "equal transit-time" explanation of lift originate from?

https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/9931/where-did-the-false-equal-transit-time-explanation-of-lift-originate-from

1 year ago

Lucene University

https://github.com/msfroh/lucene-university

1 year ago

The Ghosts of Gaelic

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/ghosts-gaelic

1 year ago