top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-04-26

Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/

1 year ago

An end to all this prostate trouble?

https://yarchive.net/blog/prostate/

1 year ago

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation

1 year ago

Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad

https://github.com/joexbayer/RetrOS-32

1 year ago

The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting

https://www.happiness.hks.harvard.edu/february-2025-issue/the-friendship-recession-the-lost-art-of-connecting

1 year ago

Cloth

https://www.cloudofoz.com/verlet-test/

1 year ago

I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time

https://samj.substack.com/p/that-joke-isnt-funny-any-more

1 year ago

Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing

https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook/

1 year ago

Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/australian-who-ordered-radioactive-materials-over-the-internet-walks-away-from-court/4021306.article

1 year ago

The True Size Of

https://thetruesize.com/

1 year ago

Berkeley Humanoid Lite – Open-source robot

https://lite.berkeley-humanoid.org/

1 year ago

Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling

https://www.morpheus-research.com/backblaze/

1 year ago

Mobygratis – Free Moby music to empower your creative projects

https://mobygratis.com/

1 year ago

Unauthorized experiment on r/changemyview involving AI-generated comments

https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving/

1 year ago

Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/

1 year ago

Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS

https://popovicu.com/posts/bare-metal-printf/

1 year ago

LLMs can see and hear without any training

https://github.com/facebookresearch/MILS

1 year ago

Mike Lindell's lawyers used AI to write brief–judge finds nearly 30 mistakes

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/mypillow-ceos-lawyers-used-ai-in-brief-citing-fictional-cases-judge-says/

1 year ago

Amazon Japan ordered to pay 35M. yen for allowing listing of fakes

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250425/p2g/00m/0bu/047000c

1 year ago

Anatomy of a SQL Engine

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2025-04-25-sql-engine-anatomy/

1 year ago