987
433
Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/
4 months ago
791
315
An end to all this prostate trouble?
https://yarchive.net/blog/prostate/
743
816
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
575
116
Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad
https://github.com/joexbayer/RetrOS-32
535
446
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
519
59
Cloth
https://www.cloudofoz.com/verlet-test/
395
314
I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
https://samj.substack.com/p/that-joke-isnt-funny-any-more
369
327
Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing
https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook/
334
364
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
295
139
The True Size Of
https://thetruesize.com/
282
36
Berkeley Humanoid Lite – Open-source robot
https://lite.berkeley-humanoid.org/
271
162
Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling
https://www.morpheus-research.com/backblaze/
251
65
Mobygratis – Free Moby music to empower your creative projects
https://mobygratis.com/
248
174
Unauthorized experiment on r/changemyview involving AI-generated comments
https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving/
234
99
Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/
229
81
Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS
https://popovicu.com/posts/bare-metal-printf/
210
66
LLMs can see and hear without any training
https://github.com/facebookresearch/MILS
183
149
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/
170
41
Amazon Japan ordered to pay 35M. yen for allowing listing of fakes
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250425/p2g/00m/0bu/047000c
168
16
Anatomy of a SQL Engine
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2025-04-25-sql-engine-anatomy/
156
58
Stuffed-Na(a)N: stuff your NaNs
https://github.com/si14/stuffed-naan-js
150
71
BART's Anime Mascots
https://www.bart.gov/news/fun/anime
146
87
Reading RSS content is a skilled activity
https://www.doliver.org/articles/rss-as-a-skill
136
Tilt: dev environment as code
https://github.com/tilt-dev/tilt
129
32
Bill Gates's Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC (2008)
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=43
122
18
Show HN: AgenticSeek – Self-hosted alternative to cloud-based AI tools
https://github.com/Fosowl/agenticSeek
111
12
Mathematicians just solved a 125-year-old problem, uniting 3 theories in physics
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lofty-math-problem-called-hilberts-sixth-closer-to-being-solved/
110
Dad and the Egg Controller (2018)
https://www.pentadact.com/2018-12-18-dad-and-the-egg-controller/
106
80
Apparently Bluesky has one centralized service, the "relay"
https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/114399534536933573
101
62
Still standing
https://blog.4chan.org/post/781845918774394880/still-standing
100
Inmates in ElSalvador tortured/strangled-hellish conditions in Bukele's prisons (2023)
https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-29/inmates-in-el-salvador-tortured-and-strangled-a-report-denounces-hellish-conditions-in-bukeles-prisons.html
94
68
University of Waterloo withholds coding contest results over suspected AI use
https://thelogic.co/news/waterloo-university-coding-competition-ai-cheating/
92
82
The Seven-Year Rule
https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2025/04/the-seven-year-rule/
192
Economists don't know what's going on
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/04/24/economists-dont-know-whats-going-on
89
27
Thank you for holding my duck (2021)
https://naml.us/post/thank-you-for-holding-my-duck/
85
50
Barlow's Principles of Adult Behaviour
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08034.html
83
California's $20 fast-food minimum wage improves pay at small cost to consumers
https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/02/27/uc-berkeley-fast-food-worker-study-minimum-wage
72
First and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in Oct 2025
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/google-ending-support-for-older-nest-thermostats-will-stop-selling-nests-in-europe/
74
37
Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01312-8
73
14
Finding paths of least action with gradient descent (2023)
https://greydanus.github.io/2023/03/05/ncf-tutorial/
HTTP Feeds: a minimal specification for polling events over HTTP
https://www.http-feeds.org/
42
Robot Dexterity Still Seems Hard
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/robot-dexterity-still-seems-hard
69
17
CosAE: Learnable Fourier Series for Image Restoration
https://sifeiliu.net/CosAE-page/
33
Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)
https://github.com/wh0am1-dev/adventure