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New top story on Hacker News: The Leaderboard Illusion

The Leaderboard Illusion 9 by pongogogo | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: I Created Perfect Wiki and Reached $250K in Annual Revenue Without Investors

I Created Perfect Wiki and Reached $250K in Annual Revenue Without Investors 51 by sochix | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Vibe Coding: Developer Slot Machines (Cursor, Windsurf)

Vibe Coding: Developer Slot Machines (Cursor, Windsurf) 18 by graylien | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists

Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists 30 by pseudolus | 20 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Flowcode – Turing-complete visual programming platform

Show HN: Flowcode – Turing-complete visual programming platform 13 by gabigrin | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! I’m Gabriel, and I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on for the last few years. Flowcode is a visual programming platform that tries to combine the best of both worlds (code and visual). Over the years I found myself repeatedly drawing architectures and logic. It was always my dream to just press “run” instead of having to write them in code afterwards. But none of the visual tools I found were flexible and transparent enough for building real products. I think that visual programming fits perfectly with modern backend dev tasks that revolve around connecting different services with basic logic. Flowcode is meant to speed up and simplify those tasks, leaving more time to think about design and solve design problems. Visual programming also works really well for developing workflows involving LLM calls that are non-deterministic and require a lot of debuggi...

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is there hope for Microsoft 365 support?

Ask HN: Is there hope for Microsoft 365 support? 13 by joaopbnogueira | 2 comments on Hacker News. The company I work for (25friday.com) has been hit with what seems to be a keyword blacklist on Microsoft 365 email. In short, if we send out any email to clients using Microsoft 365 as their email provider containing the textual content "25friday.com" anywhere on the email subject, body or readable attachment (e.g. pdf) the emails fall on a "blackhole" and are neither bounced nor reaching the recipient (they are not in spam or quarantine either). As you might imagine this is a huge problem for us as email is our primary means of communication with our clients and we need to be careful to never include any mention of our domain in any email we send to them. For recipients using personal Outlook emails, the emails are received and sent to spam with a spam score of 9 (maximum score). We've reached Microsoft support and they seem as clueless as we are. They have no...

New top story on Hacker News: Nationwide Power Outages Also Disrupt Internet Traffic in Portugal and Spain

Nationwide Power Outages Also Disrupt Internet Traffic in Portugal and Spain 20 by emot | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Full power outage in Spain and Portugal

Full power outage in Spain and Portugal 17 by lleims | 9 comments on Hacker News. All of Spain is without energy. All systems have shut down immediately and are not coming back. Apparently the same has happened in Portugal. https://ift.tt/BiMh5oX

New top story on Hacker News: Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and LLMs replacing human programmers

Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and LLMs replacing human programmers 3 by bertman | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: ZFS: Apple's New Filesystem that wasn't (2016)

ZFS: Apple's New Filesystem that wasn't (2016) 5 by jitl | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Meta's 'Digital Companions' Will Talk Sex with Users–Even Children

Meta's 'Digital Companions' Will Talk Sex with Users–Even Children 14 by impish9208 | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: 'Going to the cloud' could also mean locking into a forever sub-contractor

'Going to the cloud' could also mean locking into a forever sub-contractor 8 by genericlemon24 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent

U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent 61 by perihelions | 26 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Mike Lindell's lawyers used AI to write brief–judge finds nearly 30 mistakes

Mike Lindell's lawyers used AI to write brief–judge finds nearly 30 mistakes 25 by abacussh | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Mobygratis – Free Moby music to empower your creative projects

Mobygratis – Free Moby music to empower your creative projects 25 by thm | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Easily setup new MacBooks

Easily setup new MacBooks 16 by cmpit | 14 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI

Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI 8 by NotInOurNames | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Prepper Disk

Prepper Disk 9 by Timothee | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How much math is knowable? [video]

How much math is knowable? [video] 3 by diaphanous | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: "Careless People" the book that Meta tried to suppress

"Careless People" the book that Meta tried to suppress 84 by Aldipower | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Race That Turned to Ruin

The Race That Turned to Ruin 6 by mooreds | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience

OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience 22 by pseudolus | 19 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) [pdf]

A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) [pdf] 11 by justin_ | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Handheld detector for all types of ionizing radiation improves radiation safety

Handheld detector for all types of ionizing radiation improves radiation safety 3 by PaulHoule | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: LHC 2025 First Collisions

LHC 2025 First Collisions 5 by elashri | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Data Compression Nerds Hate This One Trick [video]

Data Compression Nerds Hate This One Trick [video] 16 by doener | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying 19 by pseudolus | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How Tesla Is Replacing the Age-Old Can Bus

How Tesla Is Replacing the Age-Old Can Bus 10 by KnuthIsGod | 10 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Pope Francis has died

Pope Francis has died 126 by phillipharris | 149 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Taking Notes with Joplin

Taking Notes with Joplin 19 by sohkamyung | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: You Commit Three Felonies a Day (2013)

You Commit Three Felonies a Day (2013) 18 by zekrioca | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs

Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs 70 by emrah | 40 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: What the hell is an elliptic curve?

What the hell is an elliptic curve? 34 by thecommieaxo | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Micro Wheeled legged Robot

Micro Wheeled legged Robot 7 by nill0 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine

Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine 10 by countrymile | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay

Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay 29 by deltaknight | 11 comments on Hacker News. undercutf1 is a F1 live timing app, built as a TUI. It contains traditional timing pages like a Driver Tracker, Timing Tower, Race Control, along with some more detailed analysis like lap and gap history, so that you can see strategies unfolding. I started to build undercutf1 almost two years ago, after becoming increasingly frustrated with the TV direction and lack of detailed information coming out of the live feed. Overtakes were often missed and strategies were often ill-explained or missed. I discovered that F1 live timing data is available over a simple SignalR stream, so I set out building an app that would let me see all the information I could dream of. Now undercutf1 serves as the perfect companion (like a second Martin Brundle) when I'm watching the sessions live. If you want to test it out, you replay the Suzuka race easily by downloading the t...

New top story on Hacker News: AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive

AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive 6 by maguay | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Free high-performance cross-platform game engine

Free high-performance cross-platform game engine 7 by xd | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Tracking types of non-parents in the United States

Tracking types of non-parents in the United States 5 by PaulHoule | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: AI as Normal Technology

AI as Normal Technology 15 by randomwalker | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Atari 1200XL Fiasco – By Paul Lefebvre

The Atari 1200XL Fiasco – By Paul Lefebvre 7 by rbanffy | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD) 18 by stefankuehnel | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses 146 by deepnet | 45 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus

An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus 11 by ibobev | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A Postmortem of a Startup

A Postmortem of a Startup 24 by jamierumbelow | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data

Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data 48 by rbanffy | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs

Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs 31 by doener | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: In Its Purest Form

In Its Purest Form 4 by lermontov | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Understanding US Power Outages – By Brian Potter

Understanding US Power Outages – By Brian Potter 8 by rbanffy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Zotero Fullscreen Mode by Script

Zotero Fullscreen Mode by Script 3 by HiPHInch | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language

Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language 5 by signa11 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Engineers Who Won't Commit

Engineers Who Won't Commit 9 by kiyanwang | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Zig's new LinkedList API (it's time to learn fieldParentPtr)

Zig's new LinkedList API (it's time to learn fieldParentPtr) 33 by todsacerdoti | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: DragonFlyBSD Lands "Next-Gen" Disk Encryption Code

DragonFlyBSD Lands "Next-Gen" Disk Encryption Code 4 by mikece | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee

Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee 17 by m-hodges | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Whenever – typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python

Whenever – typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python 15 by pkkm | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Open source and self hostable/private file converter

Open source and self hostable/private file converter 4 by sandybonks | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: AI can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

AI can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything 46 by cmsefton | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Instant (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding TypeScript Engineer

Instant (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding TypeScript Engineer 1 by stopachka | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Bitter Prediction

The Bitter Prediction 24 by jannesan | 9 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Strengths Are Your Weaknesses

Strengths Are Your Weaknesses 20 by kiyanwang | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Why I Program in Lisp

Why I Program in Lisp 29 by ska80 | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Why lead is still bad for your brain

Why lead is still bad for your brain 11 by lentoutcry | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Are .NET 4.x and JDK 8.x the "zombie" runtimes of enterprise software?

Are .NET 4.x and JDK 8.x the "zombie" runtimes of enterprise software? 44 by pyeri | 48 comments on Hacker News. I've noticed a strong parallel between Microsoft's .NET Framework 4.x and Oracle's JDK 8.x series. Even though newer versions keep rolling out — .NET Core, .NET 6/7/8, JDK 11/17/21 — these older versions just won’t die. A few reasons: - Heavy enterprise usage, especially in midcaps and MSMEs. - Industry inertia — teams hesitate to rewrite working systems without a compelling business reason. - In some cases, older stacks are more stable and “battle-tested”, especially for use cases like WinForms or thick-client apps. It's kind of ironic that even today, the default .NET version baked into fresh Windows installs is 4.6 (or nearby), not the shiny new .NET 8/9. Meanwhile, Oracle still offers JDK 8 — albeit behind a paid support wall — much like Microsoft continues to patch .NET 4.x via Windows Update. Eventually, these older branches will be sunset....

New top story on Hacker News: Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?

Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health? 34 by pmags | 9 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Linux on Samsung Chromebook Plus (Kevin) with Rockchip RK3399 ARM SoC (2024)

Linux on Samsung Chromebook Plus (Kevin) with Rockchip RK3399 ARM SoC (2024) 11 by transpute | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Hacker News Hug of Deaf

Hacker News Hug of Deaf 17 by susam | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The guide to reduce screen time

The guide to reduce screen time 3 by nullderef | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Mississippi libraries ordered to delete research in response to state laws

Mississippi libraries ordered to delete research in response to state laws 27 by Teever | 22 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Tom and Jerry One-Minute Video Generation with Test-Time Training

Tom and Jerry One-Minute Video Generation with Test-Time Training 17 by walterbell | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals

Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals 9 by rbanffy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft ends employment of 2 workers who protested complicity of Gaza genocide

Microsoft ends employment of 2 workers who protested complicity of Gaza genocide 7 by zoobab | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM

Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM 3 by rbanffy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Classic HN: ITAPPMONROBOT

Classic HN: ITAPPMONROBOT 15 by ColinWright | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Your Startup Doesn't Need to Be a Unicorn

Your Startup Doesn't Need to Be a Unicorn 68 by MattSWilliamson | 27 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The "S" in MCP Stands for Security

The "S" in MCP Stands for Security 29 by skilldeliver | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers

My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers 9 by jjp | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty

Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty 52 by robtherobber | 98 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Major endometriosis study reveals impact of gluten, coffee, dairy and alcohol

Major endometriosis study reveals impact of gluten, coffee, dairy and alcohol 5 by normie3000 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Protoplanetary Disks Are Smaller Than Expected

Protoplanetary Disks Are Smaller Than Expected 6 by JPLeRouzic | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: On JavaScript's Weirdness

On JavaScript's Weirdness 5 by n2d4 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Warren Buffett: growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us [pdf]

Warren Buffett: growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us [pdf] 61 by TaurenHunter | 48 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Steam Deck Is Software-Freedom Friendly

The Steam Deck Is Software-Freedom Friendly 56 by todsacerdoti | 27 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Type (YC W23) is hiring a senior software engineer

Type (YC W23) is hiring a senior software engineer 1 by stewfortier | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Space Debris: Is It a Crisis?

Space Debris: Is It a Crisis? 11 by defrost | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers

Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers 52 by bretpiatt | 36 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015)

RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015) 32 by MPSimmons | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Multi-threading is always the wrong design

Multi-threading is always the wrong design 6 by gw2 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Extend (YC W23) is hiring engineers to build LLM document processing

Extend (YC W23) is hiring engineers to build LLM document processing 1 by kbyatnal | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ukrainian Soldiers Unearth Ancient Greek Burial

Ukrainian Soldiers Unearth Ancient Greek Burial 17 by isaacfrond | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Self-Hosting like it's 2025

Self-Hosting like it's 2025 11 by finnlab | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The April Fools joke that might have got me fired

The April Fools joke that might have got me fired 9 by goldenskye | 0 comments on Hacker News.