top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-25

A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos

1 year ago

FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-judge-arrested-7997186bbca5730e70a25f2347e631f6

1 year ago

Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/25/wikipedia-nonprofit-ed-martin-letter/

1 year ago

Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor

https://scalewithlee.substack.com/p/when-etchsts-breaks-your-substack

1 year ago

Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11651

1 year ago

Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI

https://addyo.substack.com/p/avoiding-skill-atrophy-in-the-age

1 year ago

Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

1 year ago

Eurorack Knob Idea

https://mitxela.com/projects/euroknob

1 year ago

Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

https://clevercoloringbook.com/

1 year ago

The Policy Puppetry Attack: Novel bypass for major LLMs

https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypass-for-all-major-llms/

1 year ago

DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/music-ai-sandbox-now-with-new-features-and-broader-access/

1 year ago

GCC 15.1

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/

1 year ago

Reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01266-x

1 year ago

What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch?

https://www.morling.dev/blog/what-if-we-could-rebuild-kafka-from-scratch/

1 year ago

World Emulation via Neural Network

https://madebyoll.in/posts/world_emulation_via_dnn/

1 year ago

Parallel ./configure

https://tavianator.com/2025/configure.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Formalizing Principia Mathematica using Lean

https://github.com/ndrwnaguib/principia

1 year ago

Show HN: Magnitude – open-source, AI-native test framework for web apps

https://github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude

1 year ago

Curry: A functional logic programming language

https://curry-lang.org/

1 year ago

Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal

https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-chat-dirty-internet-line-6a64707f10ca553eb905e5a70e10bd9d

1 year ago

A Visual Journey Through Async Rust

https://github.com/alexpusch/rust-magic-patterns/blob/master/visual-journey-through-async-rust/Readme.md

1 year ago

Street address errors in Google Maps

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/google-maps-doesnt-know-how-street-addresses-work/

1 year ago

Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference

https://ddili.org/ders/d.en/

1 year ago

Tumor-derived erythropoietin acts as immunosuppressive switch in cancer immunity

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr3026

1 year ago

Large language models, small labor market effects [pdf]

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/BFI_WP_2025-56-1.pdf

1 year ago

Some __nonstring__ Turbulence

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1018486/1dcd29863655cb25/

1 year ago

Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17192

1 year ago

Observability 2.0 and the Database for It

https://greptime.com/blogs/2025-04-25-greptimedb-observability2-new-database

1 year ago

Show HN: An MCP server for understanding AWS costs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794120

1 year ago

Show HN: BugStalker - a modern Rust debugger

https://github.com/godzie44/BugStalker

1 year ago

Show HN: GS-Calc – A modern spreadsheet with Python integration

https://citadel5.com/gs-calc.htm

1 year ago

Exercise before bed is linked with disrupted sleep

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-bed-linked-disrupted.html

1 year ago

Show HN: An interactive demo of QR codes' error correction

https://qris.cool

1 year ago

I designed my LED matrix PCB with code

https://docs.tscircuit.com/tutorials/building-led-matrix

1 year ago

Show HN: Faasta – A self-hosted Serverless platform for WASM-wasi-HTTP in Rust

https://github.com/fourlexboehm/faasta

1 year ago

California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/business/california-japan-economy-tariffs-intl-hnk/index.html

1 year ago

Petition to the Open Source Initiative: Publish the Full 2025 Election Results

https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025#readme

1 year ago

Swift Container Plugin

https://github.com/apple/swift-container-plugin

1 year ago

A Scaled Down Look at Spending, Revenue, and What's Being Cut

https://www.debtinperspective.com/

1 year ago

Differential Coverage for Debugging

https://research.swtch.com/diffcover

1 year ago

A $20k electric truck with manual windows and no screens? Meet Slate Auto

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04/amazon-backed-startup-wants-to-sell-a-bare-bones-ev-truck-for-20000/

1 year ago

RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People

https://newrepublic.com/post/194245/rfk-jr-disease-registry-track-autistic-people

1 year ago

Finding Things the Government Might Know About You

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/insider/trump-musk-data-access.html

1 year ago

ACM's flagship magazine seeks submissions by/for practitioners

https://cacm.acm.org/practice/call-for-papers-cacm-practice-section/

1 year ago

I made a college punching bag for rejected highschoolers

https://ex.plor.ing/blog/post/college-punch

1 year ago

"Poetry City": Iowa City, Iowa

https://www.publicbooks.org/poetry-city-iowa-city-iowa/

1 year ago

How I set up new MacBooks

https://catalins.tech/how-i-setup-new-macbooks/

1 year ago

Write an Interpreter in Ruby

https://speakerdeck.com/marioariasc/write-an-interpreter-in-ruby

1 year ago