top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-04-30

Someone at YouTube needs glasses

https://jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses.html

1 year ago

1424 upvotes – 694 comments

Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools

https://yle.fi/a/74-20158886

1 year ago

790 upvotes – 472 comments

Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/port-of-los-angeles-sees-shipping-volume-down-35percent-next-week-as-tariffs-bite.html

1 year ago

724 upvotes – 643 comments

I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

https://habr.com/en/articles/905812/

1 year ago

721 upvotes – 402 comments

Sycophancy in GPT-4o

https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/

1 year ago

557 upvotes – 443 comments

Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left

https://fortune.com/article/retailers-weeks-of-inventory-left-trump-china-trade-war/

1 year ago

532 upvotes – 992 comments

Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model

https://github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo

1 year ago

482 upvotes – 193 comments

How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment

https://www.electrospaces.net/2025/04/how-us-defense-secretary-hegseth.html

1 year ago

472 upvotes – 433 comments

You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News

https://www.jasonthorsness.com/25

1 year ago

458 upvotes – 227 comments

U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter

https://www.wsj.com/economy/us-gdp-q1-2025-1f82f689

1 year ago

456 upvotes – 557 comments

DeepSeek-Prover-V2

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Prover-V2

1 year ago

396 upvotes – 77 comments

Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model

https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/introducing-mercury

1 year ago

385 upvotes – 180 comments

Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/google-play-sees-47-decline-in-apps-since-start-of-last-year/

1 year ago

355 upvotes – 269 comments

"AI-first" is the new Return To Office

https://www.anildash.com//2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/

1 year ago

335 upvotes – 216 comments

Pwning the Ladybird Browser

https://jessie.cafe/posts/pwning-ladybirds-libjs/

1 year ago

332 upvotes – 57 comments

NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages

https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-audio-overviews-50-languages/

1 year ago

328 upvotes – 96 comments

Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

1 year ago

289 upvotes – 102 comments

Legendary Bose Magic Carpet Suspension Is Finally Going Global

https://www.thedrive.com/news/legendary-bose-magic-carpet-suspension-is-finally-going-global

1 year ago

270 upvotes – 181 comments

Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32-C5_Mass_Production

1 year ago

250 upvotes – 183 comments

Secret Deals, Foreign Investments: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial.html

1 year ago

243 upvotes – 150 comments

Linux Kernel Exploitation: Attack of the Vsock

https://hoefler.dev/articles/vsock.html

1 year ago

237 upvotes – 86 comments

JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

https://devclass.com/2025/04/30/jetbrains-defends-removal-of-negative-reviews-for-unpopular-ai-assistant/

1 year ago

225 upvotes – 141 comments

Metagenomics test saves woman's sight after mystery infection

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx45vze0vyo

1 year ago

204 upvotes – 80 comments

Joining Sun Microsystems – 40 years ago (2022)

https://akapugs.blog/2022/05/03/674/

1 year ago

196 upvotes – 169 comments

Zhaoxin's KX-7000

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/zhaoxins-kx-7000

1 year ago

194 upvotes – 57 comments

Linux in Excel

https://github.com/NSG650/LinuxInExcel

1 year ago

186 upvotes – 65 comments

The Leaderboard Illusion

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20879

1 year ago

184 upvotes – 51 comments

What It Takes to Defend a Cybersecurity Company from Today's Adversaries

https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/top-tier-target-what-it-takes-to-defend-a-cybersecurity-company-from-todays-adversaries/

1 year ago

176 upvotes – 77 comments

I Found Malware in a BeamNG Mod

https://lemonyte.com/blog/beamng-malware

1 year ago

175 upvotes – 31 comments

Reversible computing with mechanical links and pivots

https://tennysontbardwell.com/blog/2025/04/30/mechanical-computing/index.html

1 year ago

163 upvotes – 68 comments

RustAssistant: Using LLMs to Fix Compilation Errors in Rust Code

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/rustassistant-using-llms-to-fix-compilation-errors-in-rust-code/

1 year ago

142 upvotes – 93 comments

In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use

https://news.mit.edu/2025/kids-eeg-monitoring-consciousness-safely-reduces-anesthetic-use-0429

1 year ago

139 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Create your own finetuned AI model using Google Sheets

https://promptrepo.com/finetune/

1 year ago

137 upvotes – 41 comments

Home washing machines fail to remove important pathogens from textiles

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-home-machines-important-pathogens-textiles.html

1 year ago

132 upvotes – 203 comments

LLMs for Engineering: Teaching Models to Design High Powered Rockets

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19394

1 year ago

124 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: ART – a new open-source RL framework for training agents

https://github.com/OpenPipe/ART

1 year ago

116 upvotes – 12 comments

Liverpool's title win has completed a mysterious Fibonacci sequence

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250425-the-fibonacci-sequence-hidden-in-liverpool-fcs-premier-league-football-title

1 year ago

112 upvotes – 55 comments

OCaml's Wings for Machine Learning

https://github.com/raven-ml/raven

1 year ago

108 upvotes – 69 comments

Windows RDP lets you log-in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is ok with that

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/windows-rdp-lets-you-log-in-using-revoked-passwords-microsoft-is-ok-with-that/

1 year ago

98 upvotes – 18 comments

Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers' Story

https://spectrum.ieee.org/commodore-64

1 year ago

96 upvotes – 7 comments

NYC home prices rise 10% in early 2025

https://qns.com/2025/04/home-prices-rise-early-2025-malba-highest-queens/

1 year ago

93 upvotes – 91 comments

The Mira Pro Color is Boox's first color E Ink monitor

https://www.theverge.com/news/658705/boox-mira-pro-color-e-ink-desktop-monitor

1 year ago

91 upvotes – 37 comments

Why can't Ivies cope with losing a few hundred million?

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/04/10/why-cant-stinking-rich-ivies-cope-with-losing-a-few-hundred-million

1 year ago

88 upvotes – 290 comments

The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025

https://www.epi.org/blog/the-federal-minimum-wage-is-officially-a-poverty-wage-in-2025/

1 year ago

86 upvotes – 73 comments

Amazon Rules Out Displaying Tariff Impact After White House Attack

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-considered-displaying-import-charges-on-its-ultracheap-site-f5cf7a8b

1 year ago

85 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Kexa.io – Open-Source IT Security and Compliance Verification

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43844665

1 year ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

Elvish – Scripting language and interactive shell

https://github.com/elves/elvish

1 year ago

80 upvotes – 60 comments

Wikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteers

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/04/30/our-new-ai-strategy-puts-wikipedias-humans-first/

1 year ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

Doge Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-college-student-ai-rewrite-regulations-deregulation/

1 year ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

Offline-First with CouchDB and PouchDB in 2025

https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03/26/offline-first-with-couchdb-and-pouchdb-in-2025

1 year ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

Study finds that budget cuts to public R&D would significantly hurt the economy

https://impa.american.edu/costs-of-cutting-scientific-research/

1 year ago

68 upvotes – 82 comments

New species of methane-producing archaea discovered in the human gut

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-microbiologists-species-methane-archaea-human.html

1 year ago

68 upvotes – 28 comments

Creating beautiful charts with JRuby and JFreeChart

https://blog.headius.com/2025/04/beautiful-charts-with-jruby-and-jfreechart.html

1 year ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

I've largely replaced Google with ChatGPT for looking things up

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1917320233955602540

1 year ago

65 upvotes – 99 comments

No as a Service

https://github.com/hotheadhacker/no-as-a-service

1 year ago

64 upvotes – 46 comments

A simple Common Lisp web app

https://www.scotto.me/blog/a-simple-common-lisp-web-app/

1 year ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments
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