top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-27

Internet in a Box

https://internet-in-a-box.org/

1 year ago

How a single line of code could brick your iPhone

https://rambo.codes/posts/2025-04-24-how-a-single-line-of-code-could-brick-your-iphone

1 year ago

Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43815523

1 year ago

Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think

https://verdikapuku.com/posts/business-founders-are-less-valuable-than-they-think/

1 year ago

CSS Zen Garden

https://csszengarden.com/

1 year ago

AI helps unravel a cause of Alzheimer’s and identify a therapeutic candidate

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/ai-helps-unravel-a-cause-of-alzheimers-disease-and-identify-a-therapeutic-candidate

1 year ago

Icônes

https://icones.js.org/

1 year ago

Show HN: Remote-Controlled IKEA Deathstar Lamp

https://gitlab.com/sephalon/deathstar_lamp

1 year ago

Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders

https://www.fastcompany.com/91323835/virginia-will-use-technology-to-slow-chronic-speeders-cars-and-other-states-are-rushing-to-join-in

1 year ago

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]

https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads

1 year ago

I just want to code (2023)

https://www.zachbellay.com/daily/i-just-want-to-code/

1 year ago

Boxie – an always offline audio player for my 3 year old

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-04-20-boxie/

1 year ago

Read the Obits

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-creativity-hack-no-one-told-you-about-read-the-obits/

1 year ago

Reverse geocoding is hard

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/reverse-geocoding-is-hard/

1 year ago

Did 5G kill the IMSI catcher?

https://zetier.com/5g-imsi-catcher/

1 year ago

How to program a text adventure in C

https://helderman.github.io/htpataic/htpataic01.html

1 year ago

The coming knowledge-work supply-chain crisis

https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/the-coming-knowledge-work-supply

1 year ago

Open-source interactive C tutorial in the browser

https://www.learn-c.org/

1 year ago

Shardines: SQLite3 Database-per-Tenant with ActiveRecord

https://blog.julik.nl/2025/04/a-can-of-shardines

1 year ago

U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/25/autism-registry-privacy-rfk-research/

1 year ago

Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-just-happens-to-hold-book-sale-during-independent-bookstore-day-2000594958

1 year ago

Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io

https://dbdiagram.io

1 year ago

Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2025/apr/27/chongqing-the-worlds-largest-city-in-pictures

1 year ago

ZFS: Apple's new filesystem that wasn't (2016)

https://ahl.dtrace.org/2016/06/15/apple_and_zfs/

1 year ago

Wikipedia: Database Download

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

1 year ago

Running Clojure in WASM with GraalVM

https://romanliutikov.com/blog/running-clojure-in-wasm

1 year ago

TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant

https://tmuxai.dev/

1 year ago

Libogc (Wii homebrew library) discovered to contain code stolen from RTEMS

https://github.com/fail0verflow/hbc/blob/80a80251f83f1993c272c58e471d040f3eb1dee9/README.md

1 year ago

Sigbovik Conference Proceedings 2025 [pdf]

https://sigbovik.org/2025/proceedings.pdf

1 year ago

Tiny Emulators

https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/

1 year ago

We need more optimistic science fiction

https://craig-russell.co.uk/blog/2024-10-24-optimistic-sci-fi/

1 year ago

OpenBSD 7.7 Released

https://www.openbsd.org/77.html

1 year ago

Mesmerizing Interlocking Geometric Patterns Produced with Japanese Woodworking

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/see-the-mesmerizing-interlocking-geometric-patterns-produced-with-this-ancient-japanese-woodworking-technique-180986494/

1 year ago

Show HN: Daily Jailbreak – Prompt Engineer's Wordle

https://www.vaultbreak.ai/daily-jailbreak

1 year ago

Show HN: Bhvr, a Bun and Hono and Vite and React Starter

https://bhvr.dev

1 year ago

The suburban office park that launched Silicon Valley

https://thehustle.co/originals/the-suburban-office-park-that-launched-silicon-valley

1 year ago

Show HN: I created snapDOM to capture DOM nodes as images with exceptional speed

https://github.com/zumerlab/snapdom

1 year ago

Show HN: I486SX_soft_FPU – Software FPU Emulator for NetBSD 10 on 486SX

https://github.com/mezantrop/i486SX_soft_FPU

1 year ago

My takeaways from DjangoCon EU 2025

https://www.zachbellay.com/posts/djangocon-eu-2025/

1 year ago

Watching o3 model sweat over a Paul Morphy mate-in-2

https://alexop.dev/posts/how-03-model-tries-chess-puzzle/

1 year ago

How NASA Is Using Graph Technology and LLMs to Build a People Knowledge Graph

https://memgraph.com/blog/nasa-memgraph-people-knowledge-graph

1 year ago

Here's how to get ChatGPT to stop being an overly flattering yes man

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1k8vomo/heres_how_to_get_chatgpt_to_stop_being_an_overly/

1 year ago

AI Coding assistants provide little value because a programmer's job is to think

https://www.doliver.org/articles/programming-is-a-thinkers-game

1 year ago

Walmart plans EV Charging network which will blanket the US within a few years

https://evchargingstations.com/chargingnews/exclusive-walmart-ev-charging-network/

1 year ago

Show HN: A Common Lisp implementation in development, supports ASDF

https://savannah.nongnu.org/p/alisp

1 year ago

YC founder points out that jobs exist outside of working for police state

https://bird.makeup/users/paulg/statuses/1913338841068404903

1 year ago

Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants

https://www.7shifts.com/blog/history-of-tipping-restaurants/

1 year ago

Time to quit your pointless job, become morally ambitious and change the world

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/19/no-youre-not-fine-just-the-way-you-are-time-to-quit-your-pointless-job-become-morally-ambitious-and-change-the-world

1 year ago

Computer Architects Can't Find the Average

https://dgsq.net/2025-04-27-averages/

1 year ago

How a Pipe Organ Works (2020)

https://www.pipedreams.org/page/how-a-pipe-organ-works

1 year ago

Musk Shutting Down Government Loan Office That Gave Him the Money to Grow Tesla

https://www.jalopnik.com/1843586/elon-musk-doe-cuts-tesla/

1 year ago

Unlocking Ractors: Object_id

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/04/26/unlocking-ractors-object-id.html

1 year ago

Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-Generated Comments

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/unauthorized-experiment-on-cmv/

1 year ago

'Tech entrepreneur took our money but failed to deliver our startup dreams'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy6nky0x89o

1 year ago

What's the deal with autism rates?

https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/whats-the-deal-with-autism-rates

1 year ago

CONL: "Markdown" for your config files

https://cirw.in/blog/conl

1 year ago

Ask HN: Memory-safe low level languages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811487

1 year ago

America's nuclear arsenal to cost $946B over next decade

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/04/americas-nuclear-arsenal-to-cost-946b-over-next-decade-government-report-reveals/

1 year ago

Path is a utility for working with paths

https://gitlab.com/SpyrjaGaldr/path

1 year ago

DMCA Notices Can Silence Critics but Complaints by the Public Put All at Risk

https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-notices-can-silence-critics-but-public-complaints-are-chaotic-250427/

1 year ago

Gold Is So Popular It's Making People Nervous

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-04-26/gold-is-so-popular-it-s-making-people-nervous-merryn-talks-money

1 year ago