Apr 24, 2025 | GTA San Andreas bug in Windows 11, font theft analogy, DOGE worker aids NLRB whistleblower
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 24, 2025.How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas-win11-24h2-bug/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43772311You wouldn't steal a fonthttps://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0fhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775926DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblowerhttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/doge-workers-code-supports-nlrb-whistleblower/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776476AI Horseless Carriageshttps://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43773813Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Koreahttps://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/korea/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778105Teaching LLMs how to solid modelhttps://willpatrick.xyz/technology/2025/04/23/teaching-llms-how-to-solid-model.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774990Show HN: Node.js video tutorials where you can edit and run the codehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43771365YAGRI: You are gonna read ithttps://www.scottantipa.com/yagrihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776967Show HN: My from-scratch OS kernel that runs DOOMhttps://github.com/UnmappedStack/TacOShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778081Google blocked Motorola use of Perplexity AI, witness sayshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-23/perplexity-executive-says-google-blocked-motorola-s-use-of-ai-assistanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776512
--------
12:48
Apr 23, 2025 | Atuin Desktop enables automated runbooks, Sapphire is a Rust package manager for macOS, ClickHouse introduces lazy materialization for improved performance
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 23, 2025.Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Runhttps://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-runbooks-that-run/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766200Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (Homebrew replacement)https://github.com/alexykn/sapphirehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43765011ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materializationhttps://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-gets-lazier-and-faster-introducing-lazy-materializationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763688I should have loved biology toohttps://nehalslearnings.substack.com/p/i-should-have-loved-biology-toohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764076Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knittinghttps://uwplse.org/2025/03/31/Algebraic-Knitting.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763614Native visionOS platform supporthttps://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/105628https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43768421Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building user interfaceshttps://www.solidjs.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734911Show HN: Morphik – Open-source RAG that understands PDF images, runs locallyhttps://github.com/morphik-org/morphik-corehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763814π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalizationhttps://pi.website/blog/pi05https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764439Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internethttps://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250422-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769482
--------
11:45
Apr 22, 2025 | Dia TTS model for dialogue, Blog on Nintendo Wii, Synology's hard drive locking issue
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 22, 2025.Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialoguehttps://github.com/nari-labs/diahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754124Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wiihttps://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754953Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Movehttps://www.servethehome.com/synology-lost-the-plot-with-hard-drive-locking-move/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734706Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery lifehttps://github.com/ericjenott/Evertophttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43757037A new form of verification on Blueskyhttps://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verificationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43753651Pipelining might be my favorite programming language featurehttps://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/04/pipelining/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43751076LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing themhttps://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0178-why-llm-powered-programming-is-more-mech-suit-than-artificial-humanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752492AI assisted search-based research works nowhttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752262Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black holehttps://phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomers-lone-black-hole.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755017Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teamshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752176
--------
12:34
Apr 21, 2025 | Gemma 3 QAT Models for consumer GPUs, limitations of Zig comptime, impact of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on emotions
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 21, 2025.Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUshttps://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-3-quantized-aware-trained-state-of-the-art-ai-to-consumer-gpus/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743337Things Zig comptime won't dohttps://matklad.github.io/2025/04/19/things-zig-comptime-wont-do.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43744591The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users' Emotional Statehttps://www.nber.org/papers/w33697https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748486I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a LICENSE to use their camera [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUOnQ_boqCwhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748133Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything afterhttps://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-jagged-agi-o3-gemini-25-and-everythinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43744173Healthy soil is the hidden ingredienthttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01026-xhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43710451Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VMhttps://github.com/LukasOgunfeitimi/TikTok-ReverseEngineeringhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43747921The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containershttps://blues.win/posts/joy-of-linux-theming/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743784Python's new t-stringshttps://davepeck.org/2025/04/11/pythons-new-t-strings/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748512Find the Odd Diskhttps://colors2.alessandroroussel.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745868
--------
12:37
Apr 20, 2025 | Librarians pose risks, Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner, Claude Code's agentic coding best practices
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 20, 2025.Librarians are dangeroushttps://bradmontague.substack.com/p/librarians-are-dangeroushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43736791Raspberry Pi Lidar Scannerhttps://github.com/PiLiDAR/PiLiDARhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738561Claude Code: Best practices for agentic codinghttps://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practiceshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735550Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voiceshttps://www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2025/04/12/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-apparently-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669151The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738603Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three dayshttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/android-phones-will-soon-reboot-themselves-after-sitting-unused-for-3-days/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735902Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorialshttps://github.com/The-Pocket/Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739456First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted wombhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd517z87ohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43717513Packing Input Frame Context in Next-Frame Prediction Models for Video Generationhttps://lllyasviel.github.io/frame_pack_gitpage/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43736193Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machinehttps://philwip.com/2025/04/14/galaxian-3-project-revival/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735239