Hacker News on Sunday, 6 April 2025

Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover(standardebooks.org)

1162 points by tosh 1 year ago | 238 comments

Homepage of Standard Ebooks, a volunteer project producing free, carefully formatted public-domain ebooks.

The “S” in MCP Stands for Security(elenacross7.medium.com)

668 points by skilldeliver 1 year ago | 165 comments

Medium article by Elena Cross arguing that the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for AI agents has significant security weaknesses.

Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia(derflounder.wordpress.com)

548 points by zdw 1 year ago | 430 comments

Blog post explaining that Apple replaced its old GPLv2 rsync 2.6.9 with openrsync in macOS Sequoia, due to GPLv3 licensing of newer rsync versions.

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit(lesswrong.com)

474 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 375 comments

LessWrong linkpost essay arguing recent AI model improvements feel overstated, based on experience building an AI codebase security-scanning startup.

Glamorous Toolkit(gtoolkit.com)

324 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 127 comments

Homepage of Glamorous Toolkit, a free, open-source moldable development environment for building contextual micro tools that make software systems explainable.

Capital Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians(capitoltrades.com)

271 points by gscott 1 year ago | 94 comments

Let's Ban Billboards(iambateman.com)

266 points by iambateman 1 year ago | 205 comments

Knowing where your engineer salary comes from(seangoedecke.com)

261 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 144 comments

How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chat(theguardian.com)

260 points by howard941 1 year ago | 209 comments

After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work(science.org)

255 points by pmags 1 year ago | 182 comments

Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other(fuelarc.com)

253 points by NotInOurNames 1 year ago | 238 comments

Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlock(old.reddit.com)

199 points by byry 1 year ago | 42 comments

Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play(tedium.co)

191 points by pier25 1 year ago | 73 comments

Data centers contain 90% crap data(gerrymcgovern.com)

165 points by billybuckwheat 1 year ago | 105 comments

The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer(0x1.pt)

165 points by vmsp 1 year ago | 194 comments

SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators(machinelearning.apple.com)

155 points by pizza 1 year ago | 36 comments

Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension(nautil.us)

155 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 60 comments

Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet(bleepingcomputer.com)

153 points by andy99 1 year ago | 66 comments

Deleting multiplayer from the Unreal engine can save memory(larstofus.com)

147 points by mariuz 1 year ago | 44 comments

Federal cuts disrupt repairs to iconic U.S. trails(apnews.com)

141 points by geox 1 year ago | 120 comments

Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected(michal.sapka.pl)

137 points by HypnoticOcelot 1 year ago | 41 comments

SciOp torrents: download, seed erased US Gov sites and datasets(sciop.net)

136 points by WarOnPrivacy 1 year ago | 12 comments

MonkeysPaw – A prompt-driven web framework in Ruby(worksonmymachine.substack.com)

110 points by daviducolo 1 year ago | 22 comments

My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers(motifanalytics.medium.com)

106 points by jjp 1 year ago | 23 comments

Show HN: I built a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely(github.com)

97 points by braxxox 1 year ago | 53 comments

Baby Steps into Genetic Programming(aerique.blogspot.com)

96 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 31 comments

Serving Vector Tiles, Fast(spatialists.ch)

95 points by altilunium 1 year ago | 17 comments

E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against X(nytimes.com)

95 points by dotcoma 1 year ago | 117 comments

Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on Himself (2019)(nytimes.com)

91 points by amarcheschi 1 year ago | 71 comments

U.S. stock futures tumble indicating another plummet on Wall Street(reuters.com)

83 points by pmags 1 year ago | 46 comments

The next generation of Bazel builds(blogsystem5.substack.com)

81 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 59 comments

Why Lotus Domino? (2024)(moohar.com)

80 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 45 comments

Microcomputers – The First Wave: Responding to Altair(technicshistory.com)

73 points by cfmcdonald 1 year ago | 11 comments

The narrowest escalator in New York City(doobybrain.com)

73 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 46 comments

Why Do Domestic Prices Rise with Tarriffs?(marginalrevolution.com)

66 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 65 comments

UK bans fake reviews and sneaky fees(theguardian.com)

63 points by charlieirish 1 year ago | 36 comments

The order of files in your ext4 filesystem does not matter(thewisenerd.com)

60 points by thewisenerd 1 year ago | 48 comments

Buffett: America's Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out from Under Us [pdf] (2003)(berkshirehathaway.com)

58 points by yeknoda 1 year ago | 42 comments

Hiding elements that require JavaScript without JavaScript(0xda.de)

57 points by mtlynch 1 year ago | 41 comments

Unmasking EncryptHub: Help from ChatGPT and Opsec Blunders(outpost24.com)

52 points by marcusb 1 year ago | 14 comments

Microphone Input Noise Comparison(avisoft.com)

49 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 10 comments

Show HN: I turned my kid's worksheet into a math game in 10 minutes with Claude(mattsayar.com)

49 points by MattSayar 1 year ago | 11 comments

The Treachery of Image Files (2020)(beyondloom.com)

48 points by appleorchard46 1 year ago | 5 comments

Hyundai to buy 'thousands' of Boston Dynamics robots(therobotreport.com)

45 points by ivewonyoung 1 year ago | 37 comments

We're back: How tuberculosis is set to surge globally once again(thebulletin.org)

41 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 6 comments

Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings(bbc.com)

36 points by r721 1 year ago | 3 comments

Show HN: I Built ImgFiber-Better Image Optimizer. Free No Limits(imgfiber.com)

35 points by iambavith 1 year ago | 21 comments

The Mensa Reading List for Grades 9-12(onepercentrule.substack.com)

34 points by drcwpl 1 year ago | 47 comments

'Minecraft Movie' Leaks Online: Full Unfinished Version Shared(variety.com)

33 points by austinallegro 1 year ago | 27 comments

SF Mayor Lurie to tech CEOs: 'How can we get you back?'(techcrunch.com)

33 points by rntn 1 year ago | 32 comments

UK Police Arrest 30 People Per Day for Internet Comments(thetimes.com)

33 points by A_D_E_P_T 1 year ago | 10 comments

Men's Weird Collections Inspired the Modern Museum: Cabinets of Curiosities(worldhistory.substack.com)

31 points by crescit_eundo 1 year ago | 10 comments

Space Station Flight Was 'Wilder' Than We Thought(science.slashdot.org)

30 points by pain_perdu 1 year ago | 14 comments

The death of the middle-class restaurant(nytimes.com)

28 points by lxm 1 year ago | 35 comments

US revokes all South Sudan visas over failure to repatriate citizens(reuters.com)

28 points by gpi 1 year ago | 11 comments

Jeff Geerling won't connect his dishwasher to your stupid cloud [video](youtube.com)

27 points by nikodunk 1 year ago | 17 comments

Arbitrage and equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 economy (2012)(web.archive.org)

27 points by iamacyborg 1 year ago | 3 comments

Make C string literals const?(gustedt.wordpress.com)

26 points by ingve 1 year ago | 38 comments

Why does JSON have commas?(simonsafar.com)

20 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 32 comments

Microsoft's Quake 2 AI experiment sparks negative reactions(videogameschronicle.com)

20 points by speckx 1 year ago | 18 comments