top 50% hacker news stories for today

Mathematicians just solved a 125-year-old problem, uniting 3 theories in physics

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lofty-math-problem-called-hilberts-sixth-closer-to-being-solved/

2 hours ago

33 upvotes – 1 comments

Berkeley Humanoid Lite – Open-source robot

https://lite.berkeley-humanoid.org/

3 hours ago

59 upvotes – 3 comments

I wrote a book called "Crap Towns". It seemed funny at the time

https://samj.substack.com/p/that-joke-isnt-funny-any-more

4 hours ago

105 upvotes – 51 comments

Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing

https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook/

4 hours ago

64 upvotes – 47 comments

M5 Stack no longer shipping to US

https://shop.m5stack.com/

4 hours ago

22 upvotes – 2 comments

Reading RSS content is a skilled activity

https://www.doliver.org/articles/rss-as-a-skill

4 hours ago

28 upvotes – 6 comments

Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/25/wikipedia-nonprofit-ed-martin-letter/

5 hours ago

308 upvotes – 259 comments

Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11651

10 hours ago

294 upvotes – 99 comments

FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-judge-arrested-7997186bbca5730e70a25f2347e631f6

13 hours ago

931 upvotes – 855 comments

A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos

13 hours ago

1045 upvotes – 927 comments

Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor

https://scalewithlee.substack.com/p/when-etchsts-breaks-your-substack

14 hours ago

499 upvotes – 282 comments

Eurorack Knob Idea

https://mitxela.com/projects/euroknob

15 hours ago

254 upvotes – 100 comments

The Policy Puppetry Prompt: Novel bypass for major LLMs

https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypass-for-all-major-llms/

15 hours ago

253 upvotes – 195 comments

Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI

https://addyo.substack.com/p/avoiding-skill-atrophy-in-the-age

20 hours ago

217 upvotes – 234 comments

DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/music-ai-sandbox-now-with-new-features-and-broader-access/

a day ago

291 upvotes – 414 comments

Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

a day ago

303 upvotes – 94 comments
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