top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-04-25

An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem–by asking AI

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/

4 months ago

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/

4 months ago

Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board

4 months ago

USB Cheat Sheet

https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html

4 months ago

Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/

4 months ago

The World's Most Complex Machine

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-worlds-most-complex-machine/

4 months ago

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md

4 months ago

★ 24 MIT

It's OK to Use Agentic to Revive the Projects You Never Were Going to Finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you-never-were-going-to-finish/

4 months ago

Three constraints before I build anything

https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/

4 months ago

Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico

https://github.com/WeebLabs/DSPi

4 months ago

★ 817 C GPL-3.0