top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-29

Firefox tab groups are here

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community/

1 year ago

LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo

https://librelingo.app

1 year ago

Try Switching to Kagi

https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_switching_to_kagi

1 year ago

Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule

https://fuelarc.com/cars/only-tesla-exempt-from-new-auto-tariffs-thanks-to-85-domestic-content-rule/

1 year ago

Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4

https://jepsen.io/analyses/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-17.4

1 year ago

Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself

https://github.com/PhialsBasement/Chain-of-Recursive-Thoughts

1 year ago

O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data

https://sampatt.com/blog/2025-04-28-can-o3-beat-a-geoguessr-master

1 year ago

Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers

https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/amazon-display-tariff-costs/

1 year ago

Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices

https://github.com/freeman-jiang/beatsync

1 year ago

Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/indian-court-orders-blocking-of-proton-mail/

1 year ago

Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment

https://waymo.com/blog/2025/04/waymo-and-toyota-outline-strategic-partnership

1 year ago

Knowledge-based society, my ass

https://mihaiolteanu.me/knowledge-based-society-my-ass

1 year ago

Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/generative_ai_no_effect_jobs_wages/

1 year ago

A single line of code cost $8000

https://pietrasiak.com/one-line-of-code-that-did-cost-dollar8000

1 year ago

Performance optimization is hard because it's fundamentally a brute-force task

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/why-performance-optimization-is-hard-work/

1 year ago

Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies

https://blog.bymitch.com/posts/reject-cookies/

1 year ago

Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive

https://blog.tylerglaiel.com/p/programming-languages-should-have

1 year ago

Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-heart-disease-deaths-worldwide-linked.html

1 year ago

Congress passes Take It Down act despite major flaws

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-passes-take-it-down-act-despite-major-flaws

1 year ago

My sourdough starter has twins

https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/04/my-sourdough-starter-has-twins/

1 year ago

Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon

https://ai.meta.com/blog/llamacon-llama-news/?_fb_noscript=1

1 year ago

Bamba: An open-source LLM that crosses a transformer with an SSM

https://research.ibm.com/blog/bamba-ssm-transformer-model

1 year ago

How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the science

https://erringtowardsanswers.substack.com/p/intrinsic-motivation

1 year ago

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers

1 year ago

Show HN: Flowcode – Turing-complete visual programming platform

https://app.getflowcode.io/playground/example1

1 year ago

Oracle engineers caused five days software outage at U.S. hospitals

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/oracle-engineers-caused-days-long-software-outage-at-us-hospitals.html

1 year ago

Dear "Security Researchers"

https://ftp.bit.nl/pub/debian/

1 year ago

I can't pay rent because devs just don't care

https://happyfellow.bearblog.dev/i-cant-pay-rent-because-devs-just-dont-care/

1 year ago

ArkFlow: High-performance Rust stream processing engine

https://github.com/arkflow-rs/arkflow

1 year ago

What Is "Induced Atmospheric Vibration"?

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/848666/what-is-induced-atmospheric-vibration

1 year ago

Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it "hostile/political"

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/tariffs-amazon-prime-day-sellers-report

1 year ago

Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in Rust

https://pyrefly.org/

1 year ago

An illustrated guide to automatic sparse differentiation

https://iclr-blogposts.github.io/2025/blog/sparse-autodiff/

1 year ago

After 53 years, a failed Soviet Venus spacecraft is crashing back to Earth

https://gizmodo.com/after-53-years-a-failed-soviet-venus-spacecraft-is-crashing-back-to-earth-2000595234

1 year ago

AirBorne: Wormable zero-click remote code execution (RCE) in AirPlay protocol

https://www.oligo.security/blog/airborne

1 year ago

Spain is about to face the challenge of a "black start"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/why-restarting-a-power-grid-is-so-hard/

1 year ago

New atomic fountain clock joins group that keeps the world on time

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/04/new-atomic-fountain-clock-joins-elite-group-keeps-world-time

1 year ago

Path Isn't Real on Linux

https://blog.danielh.cc/blog/path

1 year ago

Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī's Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/arabic-machine-manuscript/

1 year ago

Meta AI App built with Llama 4

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/introducing-meta-ai-app-new-way-access-ai-assistant/

1 year ago

Chris Krebs Support Letter

https://www.eff.org/document/chris-krebs-support-letter-april-28-2025

1 year ago

DECtalk Archive

https://dectalk.nu/

1 year ago

Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE mistakenly raids their home

https://kfor.com/news/local/were-citizens-oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects/

1 year ago

One-sixth of the planet's cropland has toxic levels of one or more metals

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-04-17/one-sixth-of-the-planets-cropland-has-toxic-levels-of-one-or-more-metals.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Memex is a Claude Code alternative built on Rust+Tauri for vibe coding

https://memex.tech

1 year ago

Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?

https://newslttrs.com/why-is-ai-so-popular-when-nobody-wants-it/

1 year ago

Japan unveils first solar super-panel

https://www.japanenergyevent.com/media-insights-hub/industry-news/japan-unveils-world-s-first-solar-super-panel-more-powerful-than-20-nuclear-reactors/

1 year ago

Palantir's Justification for Building ICE's Master Database

https://www.404media.co/this-is-palantirs-justification-for-building-ices-master-database/

1 year ago

Canadians give Liberals 4th mandate as Carney leads party to minority win

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/canadians-give-liberals-4th-mandate-as-carney-leads-party-to-minority-win/

1 year ago

Mission Impossible: Managing AI Agents in the Real World

https://medium.com/gitconnected/mission-impossible-managing-ai-agents-in-the-real-world-f8e7834833af

1 year ago

Lessons from Building a Translator App That Beats Google Translate and DeepL

https://dingyu.me/blog/lessons-translator-app-beats-google-translate-deepl

1 year ago