top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-28

Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t

1 year ago

1560 upvotes – 1165 comments

I use zip bombs to protect my server

https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection

1 year ago

1076 upvotes – 448 comments

Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python

https://www.runpyxl.com/gpio

1 year ago

983 upvotes – 265 comments

Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3/

1 year ago

869 upvotes – 388 comments

Migrating away from Rust

https://deadmoney.gg/news/articles/migrating-away-from-rust

1 year ago

731 upvotes – 759 comments

All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding

https://danfabulich.medium.com/all-four-major-web-browsers-are-about-to-lose-80-of-their-funding-0e42ceb358f1

1 year ago

639 upvotes – 633 comments

Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250428-00/?p=111121

1 year ago

507 upvotes – 296 comments

Show HN: I made a web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio

https://www.screenrecorder.me

1 year ago

462 upvotes – 117 comments

The One-Person Framework in Practice

https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u001.5SRwDQ9qxPQW8vmD5Do73b3R4eTCi2vXqPyztEk6wMFC9_fqEAcDVx6xEJ96T4BSMXrPS7z5exEBSTF4pF48z8SqJkJnkAwMUW9LtYdd8lWmvkDinT92nsk5HmXOHdWgLsysm9FMGrqmu7dnG57cXpga8ZOe8X0IV8pyeC3AswdRMaitfT307y7naP-_6W5CiolKhXCKrEndMGCW2PftFUu9ieYOxpVJ_fhu82gAh-4/4g1/wA_MG-I5SVCyR3KY66oEaQ/h30/h001.kLDFZMgisudi21zmTPbd_O8U7X98d4UxYqZjQTb_D7o

1 year ago

399 upvotes – 165 comments

PhD Timeline

https://xkcd.com/3081/

1 year ago

355 upvotes – 105 comments

The side hustle from hell

https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/the-side-hustle-from-hell

1 year ago

349 upvotes – 143 comments

One Million Chessboards

https://onemillionchessboards.com/#199,276

1 year ago

337 upvotes – 76 comments

Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t

1 year ago

326 upvotes – 23 comments

The 12-bit rainbow palette

https://iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbow/

1 year ago

325 upvotes – 81 comments

Tiny-LLM – a course of serving LLM on Apple Silicon for systems engineers

https://github.com/skyzh/tiny-llm

1 year ago

297 upvotes – 35 comments

Presentation Slides with Markdown

https://sli.dev

1 year ago

273 upvotes – 91 comments

Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge

https://mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup.html

1 year ago

267 upvotes – 107 comments

Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director

https://substack.com/home/post/p-160039885

1 year ago

248 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction

https://github.com/xdadda/mini-photo-editor

1 year ago

243 upvotes – 86 comments

Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have been greatly exaggerated

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/10/reports-of-the-death-of-california-high-speed-rail-have-been-greatly-exaggerated

1 year ago

219 upvotes – 453 comments

Show HN: Sim Studio – Open-Source Agent Workflow GUI

https://github.com/simstudioai/sim

1 year ago

196 upvotes – 58 comments

It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle

https://samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle/

1 year ago

176 upvotes – 49 comments

New material gives copper superalloy-like strength

https://news.lehigh.edu/new-material-gives-copper-superalloy-like-strength-0

1 year ago

176 upvotes – 113 comments

China's Clinical Trial Boom

https://www.asimov.press/p/china-trials

1 year ago

160 upvotes – 107 comments

The group chats that changed America

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america

1 year ago

154 upvotes – 146 comments

The missteps that led to a fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/business/dc-plane-crash-reagan-airport.html

1 year ago

140 upvotes – 191 comments

The hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/22/palliative-care-denmark-hospital-death-dying

1 year ago

139 upvotes – 125 comments

WorldGen: Open-source 3D scene generator for Game/VR/XR

https://worldgen.github.io/

1 year ago

138 upvotes – 19 comments

East German Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung (2021)

https://www.maxhertzberg.co.uk/background/politics/stasi-tactics/

1 year ago

134 upvotes – 241 comments

Reality Check

https://www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

1 year ago

129 upvotes – 106 comments

Is outbound going to die?

https://rnikhil.com/2025/04/25/sales-outbound-ai-dead

1 year ago

129 upvotes – 116 comments

The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2025/04/28/book-club-2025-the-books-of-earthsea-by-ursula-k-le-guin/

1 year ago

118 upvotes – 49 comments

Why Momentum Works (2017)

https://distill.pub/2017/momentum/

1 year ago

108 upvotes – 27 comments

Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and LLMs replacing human programmers

https://ratfactor.com/cards/naur-vs-llms

1 year ago

108 upvotes – 129 comments

DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked from GitHub

https://torrentfreak.com/drm-free-onlyfans-downloads-see-widevine-project-nuked-from-github-250428/

1 year ago

104 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Heart Rate Zones Plus – The first iOS app I developed

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/heart-rate-zones-plus/id6744743232

1 year ago

100 upvotes – 93 comments

Vision Transformers Need Registers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16588

1 year ago

94 upvotes – 9 comments

Giving Software Away for Free

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/28/give-it-away-for-free/

1 year ago

92 upvotes – 52 comments

To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Collection of SciFi Stories

https://afteramazon.world/

1 year ago

91 upvotes – 81 comments

Ask HN: CS degrees, do they matter again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43816853

1 year ago

86 upvotes – 240 comments

Show HN: Web-eval-agent – Let the coding agent debug itself

https://github.com/Operative-Sh/web-eval-agent

1 year ago

84 upvotes – 12 comments

Reversing the fossilization of computer science conferences

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/reversing-the-fossilization-of-computer-science-conferences/

1 year ago

84 upvotes – 62 comments

Intel Removed All CPU information pages before 2nd generation processors

https://old.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/1k8aqe5/intel_removed_all_cpu_information_pages_before/

1 year ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

Packed Data Support in Haskell

https://arthi-chaud.github.io/posts/packed/

1 year ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

OpenAI adds shopping to ChatGPT

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-adds-shopping-to-chatgpt/

1 year ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

Requirements change until they don't

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/requirements-change-until-they-dont/

1 year ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Relational Graph Transformers

https://kumo.ai/research/relational-graph-transformers/

1 year ago

74 upvotes – 7 comments

We Found Insurance Fraud in Our Crash Data

https://www.levs.fyi/blog/we-found-insurance-fraud-in-our-crash-data/

1 year ago

74 upvotes – 73 comments

Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting", "customer backups at risk"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/backblaze-responds-to-claims-of-sham-accounting-customer-backups-at-risk/

1 year ago

71 upvotes – 54 comments

Inference-Aware Fine-Tuning for Best-of-N Sampling in Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15287

1 year ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments

Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/04/art-in-movies

1 year ago

69 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Cleverb.ee – open-source agent that writes a cited research report

https://github.com/SureScaleAI/cleverbee

1 year ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues

https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-war-anniversary-agent-orange-0829caefe48cc11fb88ab27982da922b

1 year ago

64 upvotes – 34 comments

National Archives Releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Records

https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2025/nr25-07

1 year ago

64 upvotes – 44 comments

Can LLMs do randomness?

https://rnikhil.com/2025/04/26/llm-coin-toss-odd-even

1 year ago

61 upvotes – 69 comments
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