Hacker News 100

ETH Zurich demonstrates 17,000 qubit array with 99.91% fidelity
Link: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/04/a-new-trick-brings-stability-to-quantum-operations.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713495

2026-03-28 01:40:09 CET

LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3096432/lgs-new-1hz-display-is-the-secret-behind-a-new-laptops-battery-life.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495245

2026-03-24 21:25:08 CET

Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls
Link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epic-games-said-tuesday-that-it-will-lay-off-more-than-1000-employees-2026-03-24/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503810

2026-02-27 02:00:09 CET

What does " 2>&1 " mean?
Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/818255/what-does-21-mean
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171233

2026-02-25 01:10:09 CET

Pi – a minimal terminal coding harness
Link: https://pi.dev
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143754

2026-01-15 20:40:09 CET

Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635345

2025-12-30 10:00:09 CET

Hacking Washing Machines [video]
Link: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46428496

2025-12-30 05:10:08 CET

Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything
Link: https://github.com/mutable-state-inc/ensue-skill
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426624

2025-10-29 08:20:07 CET

Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers
Link: https://blog.j11y.io/2025-10-29_stroke_tips_for_engineers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742419

2025-10-29 02:25:09 CET

Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste
Link: https://seated.ro/blog/tinkering-a-lost-art
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739499

2025-10-29 01:10:08 CET

Generative AI Image Editing Showdown
Link: https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739080

2025-10-28 03:35:09 CET

Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes
Link: https://theconversation.com/smartphones-manipulate-our-emotions-and-trigger-our-reflexes-no-wonder-were-addicted-265014
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45714348

2025-10-27 17:35:09 CET

Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions
Link: https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/microsoft-in-court-for-allegedly-misleading-millions-of-australians-over-microsoft-365-subscriptions
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721682

2025-10-27 13:10:09 CET

What Happened to Running What You Wanted on Your Own Machine?
Link: https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/what-happened-to-running-what-you-wanted-on-your-own-machine/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45718665

2025-10-27 12:05:08 CET

If Your Adversary Is the Mossad (2014) [pdf]
Link: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45718546

2025-10-27 11:20:08 CET

Recall for Linux
Link: https://github.com/rolflobker/recall-for-linux
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45718231

2025-04-17 07:30:07 CEST

Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks
Link: https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43710576

2025-04-17 07:05:08 CEST

Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank
Link: https://www.latimes.com/00000196-230a-d4c4-abd7-fb5a95770000-123
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677862

2025-04-17 06:50:08 CEST

Microsoft researchers developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/16/microsoft-researchers-say-theyve-developed-a-hyper-efficient-ai-model-that-can-run-on-cpus/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43711227

2025-04-17 06:30:11 CEST

eInk Mode: Making web pages easier to read
Link: https://jackscogito.blogspot.com/2025/04/e-ink-mode-making-web-pages-easier-to.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43690828

2025-04-17 04:35:08 CEST

Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/science/astronomy-exoplanets-habitable-k218b.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43711376

2025-04-17 04:15:12 CEST

Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain
Link: https://status.zoom.us/incidents/pw9r9vnq5rvk
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43711957

2025-04-17 04:06:41 CEST

Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
Link: https://coppolaemilio.com/entries/i-left-spotify-what-happened-next/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43711706

2025-04-17 04:05:56 CEST

Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
Link: https://coppolaemilio.com/entries/i-left-spotify-what-happened-next/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43711706

2025-04-17 01:55:08 CEST

Seth Rogen Speaks Truth to Billionaires, Gets Censored for It
Link: https://kottke.org/25/04/seth-rogan-speaks-truth-to-billionaires-gets-censored-for-it
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43711410

2025-04-17 01:10:09 CEST

Breaking the Llama Community License
Link: https://notes.victor.earth/youre-probably-breaking-the-llama-community-license/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676254

2025-04-17 00:25:09 CEST

Herb: Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling
Link: https://herb-tools.dev/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704853

2025-04-16 23:20:12 CEST

Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/man-who-built-isp-instead-of-paying-comcast-50k-expands-to-hundreds-of-homes/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43709770

2025-04-16 22:20:09 CEST

Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data
Link: https://blog.google/technology/developers/kaggle-wikimedia/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43707768

2025-04-16 22:10:10 CEST

12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications
Link: https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43699271

2025-04-16 22:05:09 CEST

Damn Vulnerable MCP Server
Link: https://github.com/harishsg993010/damn-vulnerable-MCP-server
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43707021

2025-04-16 22:05:09 CEST

OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
Link: https://github.com/openai/codex
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43708025

2025-04-16 20:40:10 CEST

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

2025-04-16 20:15:09 CEST

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

2025-04-16 19:45:09 CEST

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

2025-04-16 19:40:09 CEST

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

2025-04-16 19:00:09 CEST

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

2025-04-16 18:45:09 CEST

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

2025-04-16 18:40:11 CEST

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

2025-04-16 18:25:09 CEST

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

2025-04-16 18:10:12 CEST

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

2025-04-16 17:05:09 CEST

JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier
Link: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/04/16/jetbrains-ides-go-ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704579

2025-04-16 17:00:10 CEST

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

2025-04-16 15:00:08 CEST

CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program
Link: https://www.thecvefoundation.org/home
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704430

2025-04-16 14:55:08 CEST

European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
Link: https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43703949

2025-04-16 13:55:07 CEST

Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses
Link: https://trendsnewsline.com/2025/04/15/anonymous-leaks-10tb-of-data-on-russia-shocking-revelations/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43703812

2025-04-16 12:05:07 CEST

A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs
Link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ford-motor-mike-obrien-malaprops-6e560520
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43659814

2025-04-16 10:25:07 CEST

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without All the Bullshit (2015)
Link: https://www.jeremykun.com/2015/04/06/markov-chain-monte-carlo-without-all-the-bullshit/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43700633

2025-04-16 07:15:08 CEST

Fake images that fooled the world
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/12/28-fake-images-that-fooled-the-world
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43662339

2025-04-16 06:45:07 CEST

A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed
Link: https://alexharri.com/blog/webgl-gradients
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43663290

2025-04-16 05:20:09 CEST

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

2025-04-16 04:35:08 CEST

US abruptly turns off funding for CVE program
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/homeland_security_funding_for_cve/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43700258

2025-04-16 04:35:08 CEST

How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers
Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/lely-dairy-robots
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43699188

2025-04-16 04:10:08 CEST

The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call
Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250411-00/?p=111066
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695723

2025-04-16 03:40:08 CEST

JSX over the Wire
Link: https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43694681

2025-04-16 02:55:08 CEST

OpenAI is building a social network?
Link: https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43694877

2025-04-16 00:30:08 CEST

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

2025-04-15 23:50:08 CEST

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

2025-04-15 23:30:08 CEST

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

2025-04-15 23:25:08 CEST

What the hell is a target triple?
Link: https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/04/14/target-triples/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43696756

2025-04-15 22:20:09 CEST

It's easier than ever to de-censor videos
Link: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/its-easier-ever-de-censor-videos
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695701

2025-04-15 21:20:08 CEST

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

2025-04-15 21:10:09 CEST

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

2025-04-15 20:30:09 CEST

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

2025-04-15 20:10:10 CEST

Launch HN: mrge.io (YC X25) – Cursor for code review
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692476

2025-04-15 19:50:10 CEST

Hacking the Postgres Wire Protocol
Link: https://pgdog.dev/blog/hacking-postgres-wire-protocol
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693326

2025-04-15 19:35:09 CEST

45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved
Link: https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7507349
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43660419

2025-04-15 19:00:11 CEST

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

2025-04-15 17:45:10 CEST

How to Win an Argument with a Toddler
Link: https://seths.blog/2025/04/how-to-win-an-argument-with-a-toddler/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693402

2025-04-15 16:30:08 CEST

America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back
Link: https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692677

2025-04-15 15:40:08 CEST

Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03730
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43690955

2025-04-15 14:50:08 CEST

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

2025-04-15 14:35:07 CEST

4chan hacked. Hacker reopens /QA/ and leaks all admins emails
Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/1jzkjlg/4chan_hacked_hacker_reopens_qa_and_leaks_all/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691334

2025-04-15 14:30:07 CEST

Show HN: MCP-Shield – Detect security issues in MCP servers
Link: https://github.com/riseandignite/mcp-shield
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43689178

2025-04-15 13:40:08 CEST

Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684286

2025-04-15 13:40:07 CEST

Wait. HOW MANY supernova explode every year?
Link: https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-447-wait-how-many-supernova-explode
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43661954

2025-04-15 10:15:08 CEST

Simple Web Server
Link: https://simplewebserver.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684009

2025-04-15 09:55:07 CEST

JSLinux
Link: https://www.bellard.org/jslinux/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678590

2025-04-15 09:20:08 CEST

Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
Link: https://searchengineland.com/temu-pulls-us-google-shopping-ads-454260
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687495

2025-04-15 08:55:08 CEST

Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)
Link: https://jmswrnr.com/blog/hacking-a-smart-home-device
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43688658

2025-04-15 08:30:07 CEST

The problem with "vibe coding"
Link: https://dylanbeattie.net/2025/04/11/the-problem-with-vibe-coding.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687767

2025-04-15 07:55:08 CEST

Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch
Link: https://blog.dogac.dev/how-do-one-time-passwords-work/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43653322

2025-04-15 06:05:08 CEST

Tomb Engine
Link: https://tombengine.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43686936

2025-04-15 05:30:09 CEST

Show HN: Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript type inference from Protobufs
Link: https://github.com/nathanhleung/protobuf-ts-types
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43682547

2025-04-15 03:55:08 CEST

Podman Quadlets with Podman Desktop
Link: https://podman-desktop.io/blog/podman-quadlet
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683641

2025-04-15 02:10:08 CEST

AudioX: Diffusion Transformer for Anything-to-Audio Generation
Link: https://zeyuet.github.io/AudioX/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683907

2025-04-15 01:30:08 CEST

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

2025-04-15 01:10:08 CEST

The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world
Link: https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-cartographer-karen-wynn-fonstad-mapped-tolkien-fantasy-world-oshkosh
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43656267

2025-04-15 01:05:09 CEST

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

2025-04-14 22:45:10 CEST

Meilisearch – search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search
Link: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680699

2025-04-14 22:45:09 CEST

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

2025-04-14 22:45:09 CEST

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

2025-04-14 21:20:09 CEST

Hassabis Says Google DeepMind to Support Anthropic's MCP for Gemini and SDK
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/google-says-itll-embrace-anthropics-standard-for-connecting-ai-models-to-data/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646227

2025-04-14 20:55:09 CEST

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

2025-04-14 19:40:08 CEST

Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots [showcase]
Link: https://omnom.zone/?src=hn
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680232

2025-04-14 19:35:08 CEST

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

2025-04-14 19:25:09 CEST

How to Bike Across the Country
Link: https://www.brooks.team/posts/how-to-bike-across-the-country/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681936

2025-04-14 19:15:08 CEST

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