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.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545917Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd30ywv8ohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43546236Glubux's Powerwall (2016)https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powerwall.126/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548217Stop syncing everythinghttps://sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-syncing-everything/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43537272Why F#?https://batsov.com/articles/2025/03/30/why-fsharp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43546004DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkithttps://github.com/dfd-tud/dedahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551397The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Mysthttps://glthr.com/myst-graph-1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549293Shared DNA in Musichttps://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551352Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518570Where does air pollution come from?https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution-sourceshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43553663
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Apr 1, 2025 | Demoscene recognized as UNESCO heritage, Honey loses 4M Chrome users, <select> element customizable with CSS
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 1, 2025.The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Swedenhttps://www.goto80.com/the-demoscene-as-a-unesco-heritage-in-swedenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533362Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealedhttps://9to5google.com/2025/03/31/honey-extension-users-dropped-chrome-march-2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538113The element can now be customized with CSShttps://developer.chrome.com/blog/a-customizable-selecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43532830The Guardian flourishes without a paywallhttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-the-guardian-us-flourishes-without-a-paywall.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43511529AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, pleasehttps://www.sergey.fyi/articles/reliability-vs-capabilityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535653It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018)https://www.thephcheese.com/theres-white-stuff-growing-on-your-cheese-that-isnt-moldhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535688Go Optimization Guidehttps://goperf.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43539585MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely cominghttps://thelibertyline.com/2025/03/30/yankees-new-torpedo-bat/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43536146A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level uphttps://www.captrice.io/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512470KOReader: Open-Source eBook Readerhttps://github.com/koreader/koreaderhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43539103
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 roomhttps://github.com/winblues/blue95https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43524937Claim for a missing toothhttps://tf230.matteason.co.uk/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43504514Public secrets exposure leads to supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQLhttps://www.praetorian.com/blog/codeqleaked-public-secrets-exposure-leads-to-supply-chain-attack-on-github-codeql/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527044Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits (2020)https://www.vox.com/2020/1/8/21051869/indoor-air-pollution-student-achievementhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529257Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527452Introduction to System Programming in Linux (Early Access)https://nostarch.com/introduction-system-programming-linuxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43526763BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readablehttps://breezewiki.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529163Win98-quickinstall: A framework and installer to quickly install Windows 98https://github.com/oerg866/win98-quickinstallhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43530889Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from c. 1300https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merlin-manuscript-discovered-cambridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529709Oka.wikihttps://oka.wiki/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529104
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Mar 30, 2025 | Apps on your phone are known, Apple's Severance edited over remote desktop, Veloren is a voxel RPG
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 30, 2025.Everyone knows all the apps on your phonehttps://peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-usehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518866Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop softwarehttps://tedium.co/2025/03/29/severance-apple-remote-editing-weirdness/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43517301Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playinghttps://veloren.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43517337Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its waterhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gmggp2y99ohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43517833Paged Out #6 [pdf]https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_006.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43517375Convert Linux to Windowshttps://philipbohun.com/blog/0007.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518917Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplineshttps://richardzach.org/2025/03/accessible-open-textbooks-in-math-heavy-disciplines/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43516733Koto Programming Languagehttps://koto.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43514915Atop 2.11 heap problemshttps://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/03/29/1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518560Commercials that David Lynch directed (2018)https://www.openculture.com/2018/07/watch-commercials-david-lynch-directed-big-30-minute-compilation.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518466
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 29, 2025.xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80Bhttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1905731750275510312https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509923I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my carhttps://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=43504413We 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=43508418How to write blog posts that developers readhttps://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/write-blog-posts-developers-read/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43503872Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rusthttps://blog.startifact.com/posts/xee/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43502291iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured?https://www.mail-tester.com/test-p3tdhnk3ohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43511464Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Accounthttps://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/114242475168860209https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512660OpenWrt Two Approvalhttps://openwrt.org/voting/2025-02-12-openwrt-twohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512495Digital Echoes and Unquiet Mindshttps://www.chrbutler.com/digital-echoes-and-unquiet-mindshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509548The Real Book (2021)https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-real-book/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43507404
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