Hacker News Highlights

How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas-win11-24h2-bug/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43772311

You wouldn't steal a font
https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775926

DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/doge-workers-code-supports-nlrb-whistleblower/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776476

AI Horseless Carriages
https://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43773813

Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea
https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/korea/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778105

Teaching LLMs how to solid model
https://willpatrick.xyz/technology/2025/04/23/teaching-llms-how-to-solid-model.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774990

Show HN: Node.js video tutorials where you can edit and run the code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43771365

YAGRI: You are gonna read it
https://www.scottantipa.com/yagri
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776967

Show HN: My from-scratch OS kernel that runs DOOM
https://github.com/UnmappedStack/TacOS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778081

Google blocked Motorola use of Perplexity AI, witness says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-23/perplexity-executive-says-google-blocked-motorola-s-use-of-ai-assistant
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776512

Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run
https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-runbooks-that-run/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766200

Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (Homebrew replacement)
https://github.com/alexykn/sapphire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43765011

ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization
https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-gets-lazier-and-faster-introducing-lazy-materialization
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763688

I should have loved biology too
https://nehalslearnings.substack.com/p/i-should-have-loved-biology-too
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764076

Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting
https://uwplse.org/2025/03/31/Algebraic-Knitting.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763614

Native visionOS platform support
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/105628
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43768421

Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building user interfaces
https://www.solidjs.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734911

Show HN: Morphik – Open-source RAG that understands PDF images, runs locally
https://github.com/morphik-org/morphik-core
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763814

π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization
https://pi.website/blog/pi05
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764439

Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250422-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769482

Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue
https://github.com/nari-labs/dia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754124

Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii
https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754953

Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
https://www.servethehome.com/synology-lost-the-plot-with-hard-drive-locking-move/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734706

Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
https://github.com/ericjenott/Evertop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43757037

A new form of verification on Bluesky
https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43753651

Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/04/pipelining/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43751076

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them
https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0178-why-llm-powered-programming-is-more-mech-suit-than-artificial-human
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752492

AI assisted search-based research works now
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752262

Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomers-lone-black-hole.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755017

Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752176

Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-3-quantized-aware-trained-state-of-the-art-ai-to-consumer-gpus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743337

Things Zig comptime won't do
https://matklad.github.io/2025/04/19/things-zig-comptime-wont-do.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43744591

The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users' Emotional State
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33697
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748486

I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a LICENSE to use their camera [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUOnQ_boqCw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748133

Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-jagged-agi-o3-gemini-25-and-everything
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43744173

Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01026-x
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43710451

Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM
https://github.com/LukasOgunfeitimi/TikTok-ReverseEngineering
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43747921

The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers
https://blues.win/posts/joy-of-linux-theming/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743784

Python's new t-strings
https://davepeck.org/2025/04/11/pythons-new-t-strings/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748512

Find the Odd Disk
https://colors2.alessandroroussel.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745868

Librarians are dangerous
https://bradmontague.substack.com/p/librarians-are-dangerous
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43736791

Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner
https://github.com/PiLiDAR/PiLiDAR
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738561

Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735550

Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2025/04/12/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-apparently-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669151

The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2
https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738603

Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/android-phones-will-soon-reboot-themselves-after-sitting-unused-for-3-days/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735902

Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials
https://github.com/The-Pocket/Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739456

First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd517z87o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43717513

Packing Input Frame Context in Next-Frame Prediction Models for Video Generation
https://lllyasviel.github.io/frame_pack_gitpage/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43736193

Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine
https://philwip.com/2025/04/14/galaxian-3-project-revival/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735239

Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code
https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/backdooms
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43729683

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

Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/cozy-video-games-can-quell-stress-anxiety-2025-01-27/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43733097

Defold: cross-platform game engine
https://defold.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43726051

15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
https://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/04/18/python.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43731165

Full Text Search of US Court records
https://www.judyrecords.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43731552

How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design
https://www.onemetre.net/Design/Design.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43698522

Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim
https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691020

Hypertext TV
https://hypertext.tv/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732805

A New ASN.1 API for Python
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/04/18/sneak-peek-a-new-asn.1-api-for-python/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728279

Gemini 2.5 Flash
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43720845

Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/technology/google-ad-tech-antitrust-ruling.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43717705

An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system
https://maknee.github.io/blog/2025/3FS-Performance-Journal-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716058

Potatoes in the Mail
https://facts.usps.com/mailing-potatoes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43722486

HDR‑Infused Emoji
https://sharpletters.net/2025/04/16/hdr-emoji/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43717606

Decreased CO2 during breathwork: emergence of altered states of consciousness
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00247-0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695093

Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr75wypg0vo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715884

Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
https://blog.kagi.com/assistant-for-all
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724941

Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Erlang/OTP SSH
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32433
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716526

Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering
https://quagmirerepair.com/milwaukee-m18-battery-reverse-engineering
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43718809

Attention K-Mart Shoppers
https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706706

TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days
https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693900

OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
https://openai.com/index/introducing-o3-and-o4-mini/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43707719

Kermit: A typeface for kids
https://microsoft.design/articles/introducing-kermit-a-typeface-for-kids/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704904

Darwin's children drew all over the "On the Origin of Species" manuscript (2014)
https://theappendix.net/posts/2014/02/darwins-children-drew-vegetable-battles-on-the-origin-of-species
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706037

A Postmortem of a Startup
https://buildwithtract.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43703682

Nintendo Bled Atari Games to Death
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-nintendo-bled-atari-games-to-death/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704596

An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus (2022)
https://bjlkeng.io/posts/an-introduction-to-stochastic-calculus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43703623

Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting
https://antirez.com/news/150
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705632

Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (2019)
https://nurpax.github.io/posts/2019-08-18-dirty-tricks-6502-programmers-use.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705649

Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
https://old.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1jyy5am/psa_cursor_now_restricts_logins_to_a_single/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683012

CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3963190/cve-program-faces-swift-end-after-dhs-fails-to-renew-contract-leaving-security-flaw-tracking-in-limbo.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43700607

Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691142

Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
https://filiph.github.io/unsure/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43690289

4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/april-2025-4chan-sharty-hack-and-janitor-email-leak
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691334

How the U.S. became a science superpower
https://steveblank.com/2025/04/15/how-the-u-s-became-a-science-superpower/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692360

Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2
https://blog.google/products/gemini/video-generation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695592

Clolog
https://github.com/bobschrag/clolog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695620

Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-math-prodigy-cryptocurrency-enforcement-united-states/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681658

Chroma: Ubisoft's internal tool used to simulate color-blindness
https://github.com/ubisoft/Chroma
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692089

Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684536

A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs
https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/04/12/how-i-made-a-useful-ai-assistant-with-one-sqlite-table-and-a-handful-of-cron-jobs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681287

GPT-4.1 in the API
https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683410

The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference engine
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index/tree/main/OpenSourcing_DeepSeek_Inference_Engine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43682088

Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court
https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025/04/14/ftc-meta-antitrust-trial-kicks-off-in-federal-court
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680957

DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication
https://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680899

Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation
https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/intel-partner-deal-news-april2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43686773

SQLite File Format Viewer
https://sqlite-internal.pages.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43682006

Google to embrace MCP
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/google-says-itll-embrace-anthropics-standard-for-connecting-ai-models-to-data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646227

What Is Entropy?
https://jasonfantl.com/posts/What-is-Entropy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684560