top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-24

Careless People

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf

1 year ago

I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)

https://code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-address-letter/

1 year ago

Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/mark-zuckerberg-says-social-media-is-over

1 year ago

OpenAI releases image generation in the API

https://openai.com/index/image-generation-api/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43782299

1 year ago

Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea

https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/korea/index.html

1 year ago

On loyalty to your employer (2018)

https://medium.com/hackernoon/on-loyalty-to-your-employer-c674c4b06b3a

1 year ago

A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2025/04/a-love-letter-to-people-who-believe-in-people.html

1 year ago

Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI

https://motherduck.com/blog/introducing-instant-sql/

1 year ago

Show HN: My from-scratch OS kernel that runs DOOM

https://github.com/UnmappedStack/TacOS

1 year ago

Manufactured consensus on x.com

https://rook2root.co/articles/20250424-manufacturing-consensus-on-x

1 year ago

NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy

https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-director-resign-amid-grant-terminations-job-cuts-and-controversy

1 year ago

Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf, Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/04/24/scientists-develop-artificial-leaf-that-uses-sunlight-to-produce-valuable-chemicals/

1 year ago

One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/21cm-magic-length/

1 year ago

You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown

https://www.chrbutler.com/you-can-be-a-great-designer-and-be-completely-unknown

1 year ago

OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours

https://status.open-vsx.org/

1 year ago

Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/microsoft_vs_code_subtracts_cc_extension/

1 year ago

Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs (2021)

https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee26n/Assignments/Assignment5.html

1 year ago

AMD Publishes Open-Source Driver for GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In the Roadmap"

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GIM-Open-Source

1 year ago

Show HN: Lemon Slice Live – Have a video call with a transformer model

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43785044

1 year ago

Creating your own federated microblog

https://fedify.dev/tutorial/microblog

1 year ago

National Airspace System Status

https://nasstatus.faa.gov/

1 year ago

People say they’ll pay more for “made in the USA” so we ran a test

https://afina.com/blogs/news/made-in-usa

1 year ago

Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library

https://reverseui.com

1 year ago

Fundamental flaws of SIMD ISAs (2021)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/three-fundamental-flaws-of-simd/

1 year ago

Show HN: Colanode, open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative

https://github.com/colanode/colanode

1 year ago

Daily driving a Linux phone, but why?

https://thefoggiest.dev/2025/04/24/daily-driving-a-linux-phone-but-why

1 year ago

Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04/24/protecting-nats-and-the-integrity-of-open-source-cncfs-commitment-to-the-community/

1 year ago

America's reputation drops across the world

https://www.ipsos.com/en/americas-reputation-drops-across-the-world

1 year ago

Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784656

1 year ago

Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained (2023)

https://www.ssp.sh/blog/why-using-neovim-data-engineer-and-writer-2023/

1 year ago

Show HN: Infat – Declaritive application assocation manager for macOS

https://github.com/philocalyst/infat

1 year ago

A Principled Approach to Querying Data – A Type-Safe Search DSL

https://www.claudiu-ivan.com/writing/search-dsl

1 year ago

EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025

https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en

1 year ago

A Tour Inside the IBM Z17

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2025/04/23/a-tour-inside-the-ibm-z17?communityKey=e7b7d299-8509-4572-8cf1-c1112684644f

1 year ago

Acquisitions, consolidation, and innovation in AI

https://frontierai.substack.com/p/acquisitions-consolidation-and-innovation

1 year ago

Show HN: Zev – Remember (or discover) terminal commands

https://github.com/dtnewman/zev

1 year ago

Asymmetric Content Moderation in Search Markets: The Case of Adult Websites

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5106235

1 year ago

Show HN: I made my own TRMNL e-ink device

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-a-trmnl-device/

1 year ago

PyGraph: Robust Compiler Support for CUDA Graphs in PyTorch

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19779

1 year ago

The VTech Socratic Method

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/04/22/vtech-socrates-pickup.html

1 year ago

The tools I love are made by awful people

https://ankursethi.com/blog/the-tools-i-love-are-made-by-awful-people/

1 year ago

Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09795

1 year ago

What happens at the end of 'Trading Places'? (2013)

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/07/19/201430727/what-actually-happens-at-the-end-of-trading-places

1 year ago

Clinical trial: novel nutritional formula treats gut microbial overgrowth

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-clinical-trial-nutritional-formula-effectively.html

1 year ago

Alphabet Q1 2025 Earnings [pdf]

https://abc.xyz/assets/34/fa/ee06f3de4338b99acffc5c229d9f/2025q1-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf

1 year ago

Like to play alone? Ubisoft is still watching you

https://noyb.eu/en/play-alone-ubisoft-still-watching-you

1 year ago