Hacker News Highlights

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.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571851

Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers
https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571099

Reasoning models don't always say what they think
https://www.anthropic.com/research/reasoning-models-dont-say-think
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43572374

Microsoft’s original source code
https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/microsoft-original-source-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43575884

Overengineered Anchor Links
https://thirty-five.com/overengineered-anchoring
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43570324

The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI
https://www.dutchosintguy.com/post/the-slow-collapse-of-critical-thinking-in-osint-due-to-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573465

Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age
https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-developers-can-achieve-great-results-with-ai-coding-agents/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573755

A university president makes a case against cowardice
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-university-president-makes-a-case-against-cowardice
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43568655

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 from 13 Circles (2016)
https://www.dorithegiant.com/2016/05/13-animals-made-from-13-circles.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43557873

Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers
https://pico.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560899

Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline
https://github.com/luskaner/ageLANServer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562860

Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43523220

I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
https://pilledtexts.com/why-i-use-a-17-year-old-thinkpad/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564111

Restructuring Announcement
https://automattic.com/2025/04/02/restructuring-announcement/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559855

Why I don't discuss politics with friends
https://shwin.co/blog/why-i-dont-discuss-politics-with-friends
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559605

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.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powerwall.126/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548217

Stop syncing everything
https://sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-syncing-everything/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43537272

Why F#?
https://batsov.com/articles/2025/03/30/why-fsharp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43546004

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit
https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551397

The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst
https://glthr.com/myst-graph-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549293

Shared DNA in Music
https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551352

Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518570

Where does air pollution come from?
https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution-sources
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43553663

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.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538113

The element can now be customized with CSS
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/a-customizable-select
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43532830

The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-the-guardian-us-flourishes-without-a-paywall.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43511529

AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please
https://www.sergey.fyi/articles/reliability-vs-capability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535653

It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018)
https://www.thephcheese.com/theres-white-stuff-growing-on-your-cheese-that-isnt-mold
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535688

Go Optimization Guide
https://goperf.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43539585

MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming
https://thelibertyline.com/2025/03/30/yankees-new-torpedo-bat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43536146

A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up
https://www.captrice.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512470

KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader
https://github.com/koreader/koreader
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43539103

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.praetorian.com/blog/codeqleaked-public-secrets-exposure-leads-to-supply-chain-attack-on-github-codeql/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527044

Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits (2020)
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/8/21051869/indoor-air-pollution-student-achievement
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529257

Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527452

Introduction to System Programming in Linux (Early Access)
https://nostarch.com/introduction-system-programming-linux
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43526763

BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
https://breezewiki.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529163

Win98-quickinstall: A framework and installer to quickly install Windows 98
https://github.com/oerg866/win98-quickinstall
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43530889

Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from c. 1300
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merlin-manuscript-discovered-cambridge
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529709

Oka.wiki
https://oka.wiki/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529104

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

Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing
https://veloren.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43517337

Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gmggp2y99o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43517833

Paged Out #6 [pdf]
https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_006.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43517375

Convert Linux to Windows
https://philipbohun.com/blog/0007.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518917

Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines
https://richardzach.org/2025/03/accessible-open-textbooks-in-math-heavy-disciplines/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43516733

Koto Programming Language
https://koto.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43514915

Atop 2.11 heap problems
https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/03/29/1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518560

Commercials that David Lynch directed (2018)
https://www.openculture.com/2018/07/watch-commercials-david-lynch-directed-big-30-minute-compilation.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518466

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-surveillance-footage-of-my-car-heres-what-i-learned/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43504413

We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some)
https://www.landh.tech/blog/20250327-we-hacked-gemini-source-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43508418

How to write blog posts that developers read
https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/write-blog-posts-developers-read/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43503872

Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
https://blog.startifact.com/posts/xee/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43502291

iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured?
https://www.mail-tester.com/test-p3tdhnk3o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43511464

Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account
https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/114242475168860209
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512660

OpenWrt Two Approval
https://openwrt.org/voting/2025-02-12-openwrt-two
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512495

Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds
https://www.chrbutler.com/digital-echoes-and-unquiet-minds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509548

The Real Book (2021)
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-real-book/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43507404

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 still bullish about LLMs
https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1905132853672784121
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498338

How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497719

I tried making artificial sunlight at home
https://victorpoughon.fr/i-tried-making-artificial-sunlight-at-home/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497394

Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi
https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43499045

Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo
https://inpractice.yimbyaction.org/p/abundance-isnt-going-to-happen-unless
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43495644

Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter
https://blog.autorouting.com/p/13-things-i-would-have-told-myself
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43499992

A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250325-00/?p=110993
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43499823

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43499860

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://lwn.net/Articles/1015402/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484520

A love letter to the CSV format
https://github.com/medialab/xan/blob/master/docs/LOVE_LETTER.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484382

Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
https://spaceinafrica.com/2025/03/15/botswana-successfully-launches-first-satellite-botsat-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43483660

Oracle customers confirm data stolen in alleged cloud breach is valid
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oracle-customers-confirm-data-stolen-in-alleged-cloud-breach-is-valid/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43486945

MCP server for Ghidra
https://github.com/LaurieWired/GhidraMCP
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43474490

Waymos crash less than human drivers
https://www.understandingai.org/p/human-drivers-keep-crashing-into
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43487231

Has the decline of knowledge work begun?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/business/economy/white-collar-layoffs.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473495

'Naive' science fan faces jail for plutonium import
https://au.news.yahoo.com/naive-science-fan-faces-jail-053025281.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43449645

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-a-simple-idea-transformed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473618

Gemini 2.5
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-model-thinking-updates-march-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473489

4o Image Generation
https://openai.com/index/introducing-4o-image-generation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43474112

The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News
https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43474505

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476337

Sell yourself, sell your work
https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SellYourselfSellYourWork.html?yc25hn
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476249

Open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH (OPKSSH): integrating single sign-on with SSH
https://blog.cloudflare.com/open-sourcing-openpubkey-ssh-opkssh-integrating-single-sign-on-with-ssh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43470906

Kylie Minogue song about a typeface
https://abcdinamo.com/news/german-bold-italic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473358

Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/03/25/cyanview-elixir-case/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43479094