Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 13, 2025. Open source and self hostable/private file converter https://vert.sh https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43663865 Nice things with SVG https://fuma-nama.vercel.app/blog/svg-art https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43666439 Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 12, 2025. But what if I want a faster horse? https://rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-i-really-want-a-faster-horse https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43652723 Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 11, 2025. Garfield Minus Garfield https://garfieldminusgarfield.net https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646095 Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/fintech-founder-charged-with-fraud-after-ai-shopping-app-found-to-be-powered-by-humans-in-the-philippines/ https:...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 10, 2025. How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1909741170953273353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631543 Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ironwood-tpu-age-of-inference/ https://news.ycombinator.com/...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 9, 2025. Apache ECharts https://echarts.apache.org/en/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624220 Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622719 Brazil's government-run payments system has become domin...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 8, 2025. Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615912 Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code https://browsermcp.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 7, 2025. Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover https://standardebooks.org https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599637 The “S” in MCP Stands for Security https://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands-for-security-91407b33ed6b https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600192 Recent AI mode...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 6, 2025. What if we made advertising illegal? https://simone.org/advertising/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595269 The Llama 4 herd https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595585 Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think? https://www.whatsit.to...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 5, 2025. Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/UnderstandingMachineLearning/copy.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586073 The blissful Zen of a good side project https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/the-blissful-zen-of-a-good-side-project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=435873...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 4, 2025. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573156 AnimeJs v4 Is Here https://animejs.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43570533 AI 2027 https://ai-2027.com/ https://news.ycomb...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 3, 2025. Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558671 TV Garden https://tv.garden/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43524461 US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43561253 Animals Made f...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 2, 2025. Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001) https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545917 Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd30ywv8o https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43546236 Glubux's Powerwall (2016) https://secondlifestorage...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 1, 2025. The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden https://www.goto80.com/the-demoscene-as-a-unesco-heritage-in-sweden https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533362 Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed https://9to5google.com/2025/03/31/honey-extension-users-dropped-chrome-march-2025/ https://news.ycombinat...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 31, 2025. Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room https://github.com/winblues/blue95 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43524937 Claim for a missing tooth https://tf230.matteason.co.uk/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43504514 Public secrets exposure leads to supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQL https://www.praetori...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 30, 2025. Everyone knows all the apps on your phone https://peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-use https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518866 Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software https://tedium.co/2025/03/29/severance-apple-remote-editing-weirdness/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43517301 V...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 29, 2025. xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1905731750275510312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509923 I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car https://cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rural-virginia-then-asked-police-to-send-me-their-public-sur...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 28, 2025. Tracing the thoughts of a large language model https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43495617 Apple needs a Snow Sequoia https://reviews.ofb.biz/safari/article/1300.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498984 I genuinely don't understand why some people are s...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 27, 2025. OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/mcp/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485566 Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-4/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489114 Debian bookworm live images now reproducible https://l...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 26, 2025. U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43462783 Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/stoop-coffee-how...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 25, 2025. I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-wont-connect-my-dishwasher-your-stupid-cloud https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43463200 Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops https://github.com/chadmed/triforce https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461701 Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 24, 2025. Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs https://eugeneyan.com/writing/recsys-llm/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43450732 Show HN: I built website for sharing Drum Patterns http://drumpatterns.onether.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452629 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself https://...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 23, 2025. Crabtime: Zig’s Comptime in Rust https://crates.io/crates/crabtime https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43415820 California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-urgently-issues-consumer-alert-23andme-customers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 22, 2025. France rejects backdoor mandate https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440513 Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015) https://kellblog.com/2015/03/08/career-development-what-it-really-means-to-be-a-manager-directo...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 21, 2025. Claude can now search the web https://www.anthropic.com/news/web-search https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43425655 The Burnout Machine https://unionize.fyi https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427002 The Frontend Treadmill https://polotek.net/posts/the-frontend-treadmill/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422162 OpenAI A...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 20, 2025. How fast the days are getting longer (2023) https://joe-antognini.github.io/astronomy/daylight https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43413935 AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding https://ezyang.github.io/ai-blindspots/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43414393 The Pain That Is GitHub Actions https://w...