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2025-04-19 23:25:09 GMT

Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work
Link: https://addyo.substack.com/p/vibe-coding-is-not-an-excuse-for
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739037

2025-04-19 17:20:09 GMT

Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of culture
Link: https://theconversation.com/perus-ancient-irrigation-systems-succeeded-in-turning-deserts-into-farms-because-of-the-culture-without-it-the-systems-failed-251199
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43712536

2025-04-18 20:10:09 GMT

Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional
Link: https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-blanket-search-of-cell-tower-data-unconstitutional/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43730545

2025-04-13 17:15:08 GMT

How to not build a two stage model rocket
Link: https://knowone08.gitbook.io/vgecrocketry
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669981

2025-04-10 04:25:08 GMT

Firebase Studio
Link: https://firebase.studio
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43635783

2025-04-09 19:25:10 GMT

Quality-of-Life in Tetris Games
Link: https://jcarlosroldan.com/post/355
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631656

2025-04-08 12:35:11 GMT

Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant
Link: https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/04/03/brazils-government-run-payments-system-has-become-dominant
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43620279

2025-04-08 12:15:09 GMT

PiDP-1, or the rebirth of an old machine
Link: https://hackaday.io/project/202541-replica-of-the-pdp-1-pidp-1/log/239666-finished-the-first-test-batch-of-5-machines
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595326

2025-04-08 12:10:10 GMT

No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
Link: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/no-elephants-breakthroughs-in-image
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43590569

2025-04-08 12:05:11 GMT

Less Htmx Is More
Link: https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/less-htmx-is-more/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619581

2025-04-08 11:35:09 GMT

UK Effort to Keep Apple Encryption Fight Secret Is Blocked
Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/uk-effort-to-keep-apple-encryption-fight-secret-is-blocked/ar-AA1CsokD
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619315

2025-04-08 10:10:09 GMT

Scaffold Level Editor
Link: https://blog.littlepolygon.com/posts/scaffold/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615322

2025-04-08 09:50:10 GMT

What Was Quartz?
Link: https://www.zachseward.com/what-was-quartz/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616604

2025-04-08 09:10:10 GMT

Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs
Link: https://idiallo.com/blog/companies-dont-fix-bugs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615346

2025-04-08 07:50:12 GMT

India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops
Link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43618105

2025-04-08 06:25:09 GMT

Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell
Link: https://yossarian.net/til/post/any-program-can-be-a-github-actions-shell/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617493

2025-04-08 05:55:09 GMT

North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500
Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/thousands-north-korean-workers-infiltrated-110000417.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617352

2025-04-08 02:50:09 GMT

The Mathematics of Crochet
Link: https://hellohartblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/the-mathematics-of-crochet/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585649

2025-04-08 02:30:09 GMT

Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)
Link: https://www.botanica.software/post/decoding-the-90s
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612102

2025-04-08 01:10:09 GMT

Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs
Link: https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer/114297967333461078
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617207

2025-04-08 00:40:09 GMT

Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security
Link: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3722542
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43614199

2025-04-07 21:45:08 GMT

Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town
Link: https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615912

2025-04-07 21:00:09 GMT

Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
Link: https://www.kapwing.com/blog/what-its-like-to-interview-a-software-engineer-preparing-with-ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43577490

2025-04-07 20:45:09 GMT

Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua
Link: https://mrcjkb.dev/posts/2025-04-07-lux-announcement.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43614285

2025-04-07 20:45:09 GMT

20 years of Git
Link: https://blog.gitbutler.com/20-years-of-git/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613305

2025-04-07 18:20:11 GMT

The Dire Wolf Is Back
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/the-dire-wolf-is-back
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43609661

2025-04-07 18:15:10 GMT

Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
Link: https://browsermcp.io/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613194

2025-04-07 17:40:11 GMT

Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660
Link: https://www.quadratichq.com/blog/cursed-excel-datetime-math
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571332

2025-04-07 17:35:09 GMT

LLMs understand nullability
Link: https://dmodel.ai/nullability-gentle/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612211

2025-04-07 16:20:11 GMT

Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game
Link: https://github.com/lechmazur/elimination_game
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586380

2025-04-07 15:15:09 GMT

MonkeysPaw – A prompt-driven web framework in Ruby
Link: https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/introducing-monkeyspaw-a-prompt-driven
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601624

2025-04-07 14:15:09 GMT

Charging electric vehicles 5x faster in subfreezing temps
Link: https://news.umich.edu/charging-electric-vehicles-5x-faster-in-subfreezing-temps/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589214

2025-04-07 13:55:14 GMT

Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March
Link: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/foreign-visits-american-airports-travel-warnings
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43610527

2025-04-07 12:55:10 GMT

Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US
Link: https://jasher.substack.com/p/how-fewer-foreign-passengers-flying
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43610246

2025-04-07 12:55:10 GMT

Knowing where your engineer salary comes from
Link: https://www.seangoedecke.com/where-the-money-comes-from/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43603646

2025-04-07 11:40:10 GMT

AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01019-w
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584015

2025-04-07 10:45:09 GMT

Your Startup Doesn't Need to Be a Unicorn
Link: https://mattgiustwilliamson.substack.com/p/your-startup-doesnt-need-to-be-a
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43609242

2025-04-07 08:30:09 GMT

We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing
Link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/640119/camera-raw-spec-format-explained-adobe-dng-canon-nikon-sony-fujifilm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580815

2025-04-07 07:25:09 GMT

CDC's top laboratory on STDs is shut by Trump administration
Link: https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/cdc-sexually-transmitted-diseases-laboratory-closed-by-trump-administration/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43607929

2025-04-07 06:05:10 GMT

Glamorous Toolkit
Link: https://gtoolkit.com//
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43606027

2025-04-07 06:05:10 GMT

Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted
Link: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-bill-that-would-have-blocked
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43607502

2025-04-07 05:40:10 GMT

Data centers contain 90% crap data
Link: https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers-contain-90-crap-data/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605695

2025-04-07 05:35:09 GMT

How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chat
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601213

2025-04-07 05:20:10 GMT

SciOp torrents: download, seed erased US Gov sites and datasets
Link: https://sciop.net/uploads/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605751

2025-04-07 04:45:09 GMT

Circuit Breaker Triggered in Japan for Stock Futures Trading
Link: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-trade-war-04-07-25/card/circuit-breaker-triggered-in-japan-for-stock-futures-trading-Q5iMfZyfPGBEslrIObgB
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43606713

2025-04-07 04:00:09 GMT

After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/after-coding-error-triggers-firings-top-nih-scientists-called-back-work
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43606315

2025-04-07 03:35:09 GMT

Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlock
Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1jsr9jv/eavesdropping_on_smartphone_1356mhz_nfc_polling/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605576

2025-04-07 01:35:10 GMT

Let's Ban Billboards
Link: https://iambateman.com/articles/billboards
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43606371

2025-04-07 00:45:08 GMT

Capital Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians
Link: https://www.capitoltrades.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43604052

2025-04-06 23:45:08 GMT

Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
Link: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/rsync-replaced-with-openrsync-on-macos-sequoia/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605003

2025-04-06 23:25:08 GMT

QVQ-Max: Think with Evidence
Link: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qvq-max-preview/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43570676

2025-04-06 22:50:09 GMT

My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers
Link: https://motifanalytics.medium.com/my-browser-wasmt-prepared-for-this-using-duckdb-apache-arrow-and-web-workers-in-real-life-e3dd4695623d
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599613

2025-04-06 21:55:08 GMT

Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected
Link: https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/gmail-e2e-is-as-terrible-as-expected/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43604308

2025-04-06 21:30:09 GMT

Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet
Link: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/max-severity-rce-flaw-discovered-in-widely-used-apache-parquet/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43603091

2025-04-06 21:30:08 GMT

Pitfalls of Safe Rust
Link: https://corrode.dev/blog/pitfalls-of-safe-rust/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585742

2025-04-06 21:10:09 GMT

Federal cuts disrupt repairs to iconic U.S. trails
Link: https://apnews.com/article/pacific-crest-appalachian-trail-federal-layoffs-934a5526570569b625f5d854ec339a04
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43603111

2025-04-06 21:10:08 GMT

Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension
Link: https://nautil.us/neutron-stars-hint-at-another-dimension-1202180/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600704

2025-04-06 20:10:08 GMT

Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play
Link: https://tedium.co/2025/04/06/gumroad-open-source-doge-drama/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43603999

2025-04-06 19:50:09 GMT

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit
Link: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mvphwx5pdsZLMmpY/recent-ai-model-progress-feels-mostly-like-bullshit
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43603453

2025-04-06 19:30:10 GMT

Blacksmithing and Lisp
Link: http://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/04/blacksmithing-and-lisp.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43566651

2025-04-06 16:35:09 GMT

SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators
Link: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/seedlm-compressing
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599967

2025-04-06 14:50:08 GMT

Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other
Link: https://fuelarc.com/news-and-features/self-driving-teslas-are-fatally-striking-motorcyclists-more-than-any-other-brand-new-analysis/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601421

2025-04-06 13:30:07 GMT

North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover
Link: https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04/north-america-is-dripping-from-below-geoscientists-discover/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596546

2025-04-06 12:45:07 GMT

The "S" in MCP Stands for Security
Link: https://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands-for-security-91407b33ed6b
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600192

2025-04-06 11:35:08 GMT

Lessons from open source in the Mexican government
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1013776/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43579104

2025-04-06 10:50:08 GMT

We are still using 88x31 buttons
Link: https://ultrasciencelabs.com/lab-notes/why-we-are-still-using-88x31-buttons
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596570

2025-04-06 10:05:08 GMT

Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
Link: https://standardebooks.org
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599637

2025-04-06 09:35:08 GMT

The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters
Link: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenSSHConfigOrderMatters
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573507

2025-04-06 09:30:09 GMT

What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested
Link: https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/how-much-toxic-heavy-metal-is-in-that-bright-red-fire-retardant-we-had-it-tested-to-find-out
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43578348

2025-04-06 06:30:09 GMT

The ADHD Body Double: A Unique Tool for Getting Things Done
Link: https://add.org/the-body-double/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43597425

2025-04-06 05:40:08 GMT

Dynamic Register Allocation on AMD's RDNA 4 GPU Architecture
Link: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/dynamic-register-allocation-on-amds
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595223

2025-04-06 02:30:08 GMT

Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595442

2025-04-06 01:35:09 GMT

Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++
Link: https://planetscale.com/blog/faster-interpreters-in-go-catching-up-with-cpp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595283

2025-04-06 01:25:08 GMT

Jumping Spiders
Link: https://digital.tnconservationist.org/publication/?i=663361&article_id=3697028&view=articleBrowser
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549469

2025-04-06 01:20:09 GMT

Apple's Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive
Link: https://tansanrao.com/blog/2025/04/xnu-kernel-and-darwin-evolution-and-architecture/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43597778

2025-04-06 00:30:09 GMT

Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
Link: https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596864

2025-04-05 23:35:08 GMT

Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'
Link: https://www.devonlive.com/whats-on/whats-on-news/exeters-unassuming-co-op-worker-10039941
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43594396

2025-04-05 23:30:09 GMT

Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly (2024)
Link: https://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/Compiler/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593088

2025-04-05 18:55:08 GMT

Llama4
Link: https://www.llama.com/llama4/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595585

2025-04-05 18:55:08 GMT

The Importance of Fact-Checking
Link: https://lithub.com/on-the-episode-that-changed-ira-glasss-this-american-life-forever/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549893

2025-04-05 18:35:09 GMT

What If We Made Advertising Illegal?
Link: https://simone.org/advertising/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595269

2025-04-05 17:45:10 GMT

Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
Link: https://www.whatsit.today/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593789

2025-04-05 17:05:10 GMT

Emulating an iPhone in QEMU
Link: https://eshard.com/posts/emulating-ios-14-with-qemu
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43592409

2025-04-05 16:55:09 GMT

A Vision for WebAssembly Support in Swift
Link: https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-a-vision-for-webassembly-support-in-swift/79060
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593596

2025-04-05 14:10:08 GMT

Earth's clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming
Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/earth-s-clouds-are-shrinking-boosting-global-warming
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43592756

2025-04-05 13:55:09 GMT

Show HN: OCR pipeline for ML training (tables, diagrams, math, multilingual)
Link: https://github.com/ses4255/Versatile-OCR-Program
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43590998

2025-04-05 13:25:10 GMT

OpenVertebrate Presents a Database of 13,000 3D Scans of Specimens
Link: https://www.openculture.com/2024/03/openvertebrate-presents-a-massive-database-of-13000-3d-scans-of-vertebrate-specimens.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589989

2025-04-05 13:05:12 GMT

Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us
Link: https://thoughts-and-things.ghost.io/recreating-daft-punks-something-about-us/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591050

2025-04-05 13:05:12 GMT

Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
Link: https://github.com/ferronweb/ferron
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555249

2025-04-05 11:35:10 GMT

Annotated Unix Magic Poster
Link: https://unixmagic.net/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589042

2025-04-05 08:40:09 GMT

Why Does Claude Speak Byzantine Music Notation?
Link: https://fi-le.net/byzantine/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545757

2025-04-05 08:20:09 GMT

Nebula Sans
Link: https://nebulasans.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591225

2025-04-05 07:40:12 GMT

AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17
Link: https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1061254/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589523

2025-04-05 07:20:10 GMT

The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition)
Link: https://www.magicsplat.com/ttpl/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586561

2025-04-05 05:40:11 GMT

Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on an Error
Link: https://www.aei.org/economics/president-trumps-tariff-formula-makes-no-economic-sense-its-also-based-on-an-error/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43590421

2025-04-05 04:45:08 GMT

Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course
Link: https://simonmonk.org/tyee7
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589776

2025-04-05 02:25:09 GMT

Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
Link: https://coolify.io/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555996

2025-04-05 01:35:09 GMT

The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans
Link: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/el-salvador-prisons-warning-americans-trump-1235309721/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43588970

2025-04-05 01:15:09 GMT

Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout
Link: https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/u-s-stock-futures-fall-further-after-china-retaliates-against-trump-tariffs-3be33fa7
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589231

2025-04-04 23:45:08 GMT

The blissful Zen of a good side project
Link: https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/the-blissful-zen-of-a-good-side-project
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43587380