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/2025-04-12/trump-exempts-phones-computers-chips-from-reciprocal-tariffs https://news.ycombinator.com/it...
Apr 13, 2025•12 min•Ep. 82
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=43655603 $70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money https://data-and-polit...
Apr 12, 2025•13 min•Ep. 81
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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43648950 The Story Behind “100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them” htt...
Apr 11, 2025•12 min•Ep. 80
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/item?id=43631274 How University Students Use Claude https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-educati...
Apr 10, 2025•11 min•Ep. 79
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-bec...
Apr 09, 2025•13 min•Ep. 78
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=43613194 Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua https://mrcjkb.dev/posts/2025-04-07-lux...
Apr 08, 2025•12 min•Ep. 77
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 model progress feels mostly like bullshit https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mvphwx5pdsZLMmpY/recent-ai-mo...
Apr 07, 2025•13 min•Ep. 76
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.today/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593789 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016) https://...
Apr 06, 2025•12 min•Ep. 75
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=43587380 Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course https://simonmonk.o...
Apr 05, 2025•12 min•Ep. 74
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.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571851 Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major b...
Apr 04, 2025•12 min•Ep. 73
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 from 13 Circles (2016) https://www.dorithegiant.com/2016/05/13-animals-made-from-13-circles.html http...
Apr 03, 2025•11 min•Ep. 72
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.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powerwall.126/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548217 Stop syn...
Apr 02, 2025•12 min•Ep. 71
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.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538113 The element can now be customized with CSS https://developer.chrome.com/blog...
Apr 01, 2025•12 min•Ep. 70
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.praetorian.com/blog/codeqleaked-public-secrets-exposure-leads-to-supply-chain-attack-on-github-codeql/ https...
Mar 31, 2025•12 min•Ep. 69
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 Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing https://veloren.net/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...
Mar 30, 2025•11 min•Ep. 68
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-surveillance-footage-of-my-car-heres-what-i-learned/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43504413 We h...
Mar 29, 2025•12 min•Ep. 67
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 still bullish about LLMs https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1905132853672784121 https://news.ycombinator...
Mar 28, 2025•12 min•Ep. 66
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://lwn.net/Articles/1015402/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484520 A love letter to the CSV form...
Mar 27, 2025•12 min•Ep. 65
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-a-simple-idea-transformed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473618 Gemini 2.5 https://blog.goo...
Mar 26, 2025•12 min•Ep. 64
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 and Lighter https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-vl-32b/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43464...
Mar 25, 2025•12 min•Ep. 63
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://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/dna-testing-firm-23andme-files-chapter-11-bankru...
Mar 24, 2025•11 min•Ep. 62
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=43447421 Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers https://github.co...
Mar 23, 2025•8 min•Ep. 61
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-director-or-vp/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434093 IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's...
Mar 22, 2025•12 min•Ep. 60
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 Audio Models https://www.openai.fm/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426022 Understanding Solar...
Mar 21, 2025•12 min•Ep. 59
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://www.feldera.com/blog/the-pain-that-is-github-actions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43419701 Mu...
Mar 20, 2025•12 min•Ep. 58
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 19, 2025. Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43401245 Two new PebbleOS watches https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watches/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43400989 Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022) https://ericdraken.com/pfsense-d...
Mar 19, 2025•12 min•Ep. 57
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 18, 2025. GIMP 3.0 https://testing.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43393822 Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43390400 HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere https://httptoolkit.com/blog/http3-quic-open-source-support-nowhere/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360251 Archival Storage https://blog.dshr.org/202...
Mar 18, 2025•12 min•Ep. 56
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 17, 2025. Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378239 Sunsetting Whois https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-update-launching-rdap-sunsetting-whois-27-01-2025-en https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384069 The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enabled no longer available https://discuss.systems/@dev/1141618269262466...
Mar 17, 2025•11 min•Ep. 55
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 16, 2025. Milk Kanban https://brodzinski.com/2025/03/milk-kanban.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43373157 Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file https://keepworking.github.io/nash/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358914 Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by https://github.com/giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43376824 Show HN: ...
Mar 16, 2025•12 min•Ep. 54
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 15, 2025. Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Home-Theater/Samsung-Q990D-unresponsive-after-1020-firmware-update/td-p/3168571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364016 RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI https://github.com/crmne/ruby_llm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331847 A look at Firefox forks https://lwn.net/Articles/1012453/ https://news.ycombinator.com/it...
Mar 15, 2025•12 min•Ep. 53
