Hacker News Highlights

Googler... ex-Googler
https://nerdy.dev/ex-googler
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43658089

Open guide to equity compensation
https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675126

The dark side of the Moomins
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/04/dark-side-of-the-moomins-tove-jansson
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672593

Why Fennel?
https://fennel-lang.org/rationale
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673551

Everything wrong with MCP
https://blog.sshh.io/p/everything-wrong-with-mcp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676771

I bought a Mac
https://loganius.org/2025/04/i-bought-a-mac/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677165

Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports
https://www.signalbloom.ai/news/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675248

Math 13 – An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics [pdf]
https://www.math.uci.edu/~ndonalds/math13/notes.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675310

How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?
https://alexanderell.is/posts/orange/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673761

Implementing DeepSeek R1's GRPO algorithm from scratch
https://github.com/policy-gradient/GRPO-Zero
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674825

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/2025-04-12/trump-exempts-phones-computers-chips-from-reciprocal-tariffs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43664121

Emacs Lisp Elements
https://protesilaos.com/emacs/emacs-lisp-elements
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665046

Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114327666433966529
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669185

BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/bps-gps-alternative-nobodys-heard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669308

Anubis Works
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/anubis-works/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43668433

Tunarr: Create and configure live TV channels from media on your servers
https://tunarr.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665201

I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/i-ditched-my-laptop-for-a-pocketable-mini-pc-and-a-pair-of-ar-glasses-heres-what-happened
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43668192

WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser
https://webtui.ironclad.sh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43668250

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=43655603

$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money
https://data-and-politics.ghost.io/70-million-in-60-seconds-how-insider-information-helped-someone-28x-their-money/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43661680

Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash
https://petapixel.com/2025/04/10/adobe-deletes-bluesky-posts-after-furious-backlash/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43653885

Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
https://lwn.net/Articles/1014979/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43653672

You might not need WebSockets
https://hntrl.io/posts/you-dont-need-websockets/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43659370

Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023)
https://stevana.github.io/erlangs_not_about_lightweight_processes_and_message_passing.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655221

Google Is Winning on Every AI Front
https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/google-is-winning-on-every-ai-front
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43661235

Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace
https://www.science.org/content/article/germany-creates-super-high-tech-ministry-research-technology-and-aerospace
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43658060

Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?
https://chrismalek.me/posts/data-star-first-impressions/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655914

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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43648950

The Story Behind “100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them”
https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/100-go-mistakes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647880

.localhost Domains
https://inclouds.space/localhost-domains
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644043

Big Book of R
https://www.bigbookofr.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646219

Default styles for h1 elements are changing
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/h1-element-styles/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43649853

How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured
https://www.404media.co/how-a-2-000-made-in-the-usa-liberty-phone-phone-is-manufactured/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646920

Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese?
https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/cheese-wheel-tapping
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644970

My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules
https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/mopb.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647294

Demystifying the (Shebang): Kernel Adventures
https://crocidb.com/post/kernel-adventures/demystifying-the-shebang/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646698

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/item?id=43631274

How University Students Use Claude
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-how-university-students-use-claude
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43633383

Photographs of 19th Century Japan
https://cosmographia.substack.com/p/photographs-of-old-japan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631251

SpacetimeDB
https://spacetimedb.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631822

The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems
https://livesys.se/posts/the-chroot-technique/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43632379

GPD Pocket 4 Speaker DSP: Configuring PipeWire so laptop speakers sound better
https://kittenlabs.de/blog/2025/04/06/gpd-pocket-4-speaker-dsp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43635295

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

Google Cloud Rapid Storage
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/whats-new-with-ai-hypercomputer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639642

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

Tailscale has raised $160M
https://tailscale.com/blog/series-c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43620141

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

An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force
https://aftermath.site/ai-video-game-development-art-vibe-coding-midjourney
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619759

Obituary for Cyc
https://yuxi-liu-wired.github.io/essays/posts/cyc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625474

Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619768

Better typography with text-wrap pretty
https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622703

PostgreSQL Full-Text Search: Fast When Done Right (Debunking the Slow Myth)
https://blog.vectorchord.ai/postgresql-full-text-search-fast-when-done-right-debunking-the-slow-myth
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43627646

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=43613194

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Breaking computers taught me to build them
https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-1-the-foundation-years/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564625

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.today/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593789

Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)
https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596864

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

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

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

The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done
https://add.org/the-body-double/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43597425

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

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

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=43587380

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

An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips
https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=36.%208pinLinux
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586654

The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition
https://www.filfre.net/2025/04/the-end-of-sierra-as-we-knew-it-part-1-the-acquisition/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586157

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

Kerosene did not save the sperm whale (2024)
https://edconway.substack.com/p/no-kerosene-did-not-save-the-sperm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584303

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

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

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