top 50% 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

"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/

4 months ago

The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It

https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discovering-public-backlash

4 months ago

Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

https://github.com/nex-crm/wuphf

4 months ago

★ 818 Go MIT

Niri 26.04 was just released (scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor)

https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/releases/tag/v26.04

4 months ago

★ 23.6k Rust GPL-3.0

The Quiet Resurgence of RF Engineering

https://atempleton.bearblog.dev/quiet-resurgence-of-rf-engineering/

4 months ago

Mo RAM, Mo Problems

https://fabiensanglard.net/curse/

4 months ago

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/

4 months ago

Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

4 months ago

★ 3k C++

Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust

https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx

4 months ago

★ 4.6k Rust

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music

4 months ago

★ 349 Assembly GPL-3.0

Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do

https://alash3al.github.io/stash?_v01

4 months ago

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/

4 months ago

How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way

https://nbelakovski.substack.com/p/how-i-learned-what-a-decoupling-capacitor

4 months ago

America's Geothermal Breakthrough Could Unlock a 150-Gigawatt Energy Revolution

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-Unlock-a-150-Gigawatt-Energy-Revolution.html

4 months ago

Quirks of Human Anatomy

https://www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/lewheldquirk/figlegq6.htm

4 months ago

Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-reduce-bean-gas-tested-11883862

4 months ago

GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-bio-bug-bounty/

4 months ago

Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center

https://boilingsteam.com/framework-laptop-13-pro-announced/

4 months ago

Hokusai and Tesselations

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/

4 months ago

Education must go beyond the mere production of words

https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/schnell-repairing-the-ruins

4 months ago

Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-caused-extensive-damage-us-military-bases-publicly-known-rcna331853

4 months ago

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

https://github.com/nakagami/grdpwasm

4 months ago

★ 259 HTML GPL-3.0

Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI

https://victortaelin.github.io/lambench/

4 months ago

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp

https://coalton-lang.github.io/mine/

4 months ago

Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill

https://fosstodon.org/@carlrichell/116460505717380644

4 months ago

Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 2024

https://aschmelyun.com/blog/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/

4 months ago

(Blender) Cosmology with Geometry Nodes

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/cosmology-with-geometry-nodes/

4 months ago

Jumping into cold water can stop your heart

https://jorgenmelau.substack.com/p/the-first-sixty-seconds

4 months ago

Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x

https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/windows-2-gui-wonderland-12a/

4 months ago

Managing the Unmanaged Switch

https://watchmysys.com/blog/2026/03/managing-the-unmanaged-switch/

4 months ago

Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision

https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/adding-a-team-was-the-wrong-strategic

4 months ago

DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles

https://www.lmsys.org/blog/2026-04-25-deepseek-v4/

4 months ago

Behind-the-Scenes of MacBook Neo Introduction Video

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y4DnsCzJTRQ

4 months ago

Her Life Savings Mysteriously Disappeared After a Systems Glitch

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/your-money/fidelity-investments-fraud-alert.html

4 months ago

Radar Laboratory – Interactive Radar Phenomenology

https://radarlaboratory.com/

4 months ago

A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf]

https://allbrainsbelong.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CLINICIAN-GUIDE-Everything-is-Connected-to-Everything-Project-All-Brains-Belong-VT-8.15.23.pdf

4 months ago

AI Might Be Lying to Your Boss

https://williamoconnell.me/blog/post/ai-ide/

4 months ago

Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets

https://getkloak.io/

4 months ago

What's Missing in the 'Agentic' Story

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/04/24/agents_as_collective_bargains

4 months ago

Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting

https://slicker.me/rust/ownership_and_borrowing_vs_reference_counting.html

4 months ago

HEALPix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEALPix

4 months ago