Hacker News on Wednesday, 16 April 2025

CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract(csoonline.com)

1827 points by healsdata 1 year ago | 972 comments

CSO Online news analysis on the CVE program facing an abrupt end after DHS failed to renew MITRE's contract, leaving vulnerability tracking uncertain.

Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain(status.zoom.us)

583 points by RVRX 1 year ago | 278 comments

Zoom status page incident report for an April 16 outage of multiple Zoom services after the zoom.us domain was accidentally shut down.

Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022)(arstechnica.com)

495 points by voxadam 1 year ago | 196 comments

Ars Technica article on Jared Mauch, who built his own fiber ISP in rural Michigan and got $2.6 million in government funds to expand to hundreds of homes.

OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal(github.com)

494 points by mfiguiere 1 year ago | 266 comments

GitHub repository for OpenAI Codex CLI, an Apache-2.0 licensed lightweight coding agent that runs in the terminal.

Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014)(theappendix.net)

470 points by arbesman 1 year ago | 127 comments

An article from The Appendix about drawings, such as pink birds and carrot soldiers, that Darwin's children made on the manuscript pages of On the Origin of Species.

Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative(coppolaemilio.com)

414 points by coppolaemilio 1 year ago | 437 comments

A personal blog post by Emi describing leaving Spotify and using self-hosted Jellyfin as a music streaming alternative.

CVE Foundation(thecvefoundation.org)

401 points by layer8 1 year ago | 71 comments

Press release dated April 16, 2025 announcing the launch of the CVE Foundation to secure the future of the CVE vulnerability identification program.

Kermit: A typeface for kids(microsoft.design)

329 points by nmcfarl 1 year ago | 158 comments

Microsoft Design article introducing Kermit, a typeface designed to help children learn to read and write.

Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting(antirez.com)

300 points by grep_it 1 year ago | 141 comments

Attention K-Mart Shoppers(archive.org)

230 points by rpmisms 1 year ago | 84 comments

Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient(nature.com)

230 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 116 comments

Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks(github.com)

223 points by danenania 1 year ago | 65 comments

Damn Vulnerable MCP Server(github.com)

210 points by mrxhacker99 1 year ago | 56 comments

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without All the Bullshit (2015)(jeremykun.com)

194 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 41 comments

Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses(trendsnewsline.com)

169 points by deepnet 1 year ago | 62 comments

European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD)(euvd.enisa.europa.eu)

162 points by stefankuehnel 1 year ago | 15 comments

OpenAI o3 and o4-mini(openai.com)

157 points by maheshrijal 1 year ago | 126 comments

How a Forgotten Battle Created a More Peaceful World(worldhistory.substack.com)

134 points by crescit_eundo 1 year ago | 55 comments

Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?(afterbabel.com)

133 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 100 comments

JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier(blog.jetbrains.com)

117 points by crummy 1 year ago | 54 comments

A Postmortem of a Startup(buildwithtract.com)

116 points by jamierumbelow 1 year ago | 84 comments

High time to tackle drug-resistant fungal infections(nature.com)

115 points by pmags 1 year ago | 40 comments

Nintendo Bled Atari Games to Death(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

108 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 93 comments

An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus (2022)(bjlkeng.io)

107 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 23 comments

Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (2019)(nurpax.github.io)

95 points by amichail 1 year ago | 27 comments

US abruptly turns off funding for CVE program(theregister.com)

94 points by dxs 1 year ago | 18 comments

Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?(pwy.io)

92 points by Patryk27 1 year ago | 40 comments

Principles for Building One-Shot AI Agents(edgebit.io)

84 points by robszumski 1 year ago | 18 comments

AI-Designed Antivenoms: New Proteins to Block Deadly Snake Toxins(plentyofroom.beehiiv.com)

81 points by Lol_arco 1 year ago | 20 comments

Why drinking coffee in Iran has become so complicated(adelbordbari.github.io)

79 points by imnitwit 1 year ago | 80 comments

Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check(cleantechnica.com)

76 points by xbmcuser 1 year ago | 146 comments

Attention Spans for Math and Stories (2019)(jeremykun.com)

74 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 12 comments

Herb: Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling(herb-tools.dev)

73 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 13 comments

Show HN: We Put Chromium on a Unikernel (OSS Apache 2.0)(github.com)

70 points by juecd 1 year ago | 20 comments

Vivarium: The keeper of a lab's animals stumbles onto a secret [fiction](jsomers.net)

62 points by jsomers 1 year ago | 13 comments

Science, the Endless Frontier (1945) [pdf](nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov)

60 points by otras 1 year ago | 5 comments

A high-throughput parser for the Zig programming language(github.com)

55 points by jedisct1 1 year ago | 4 comments

Sponges, drill bits and wires: Surgeons mistakenly left objects inside thousands(sfchronicle.com)

52 points by littlexsparkee 1 year ago | 38 comments

Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down(sciencedaily.com)

50 points by docmechanic 1 year ago | 12 comments

Bauplan – Git-for-data pipelines on object storage(docs.bauplanlabs.com)

46 points by barabbababoon 1 year ago | 17 comments

ChatGPT 4.1 Jailbreak Prompt(github.com)

41 points by maxloh 1 year ago | 8 comments

Archeology of React (2016)(legacy.reactjs.org)

39 points by goranmoomin 1 year ago | 3 comments

Translate Fortran to C++ with AI and RAG(lanl.gov)

37 points by LosAlamosNerd 1 year ago | 37 comments

The physics of bowling strike after strike(arstechnica.com)

37 points by noleary 1 year ago | 18 comments

How to Optimize Rust for Slowness: Inspired by New Turing Machine Results(medium.com)

33 points by carlkcarlk 1 year ago | 4 comments

Eccfrog512ck2: An Enhanced 512-Bit Weierstrass Elliptic Curve [pdf](arxiv.org)

33 points by bikenaga 1 year ago | 11 comments

Get Out of My Head(getoutofmyhead.dev)

30 points by edent 1 year ago | 7 comments

Ask HN: How do you talk about past jobs you regret in interviews

28 points by newacc250218 1 year ago | 35 comments

AI Is Facing a Crisis(savethe.ai)

23 points by n4ture 1 year ago | 11 comments

Future Chips Will Be Hotter Than Ever(spectrum.ieee.org)

23 points by voxadam 1 year ago | 29 comments

The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-platform compatibility(markbessey.blog)

21 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 4 comments

Raw Loops for Performance?(sandordargo.com)

20 points by ingve 1 year ago | 13 comments

Spotify Down(community.spotify.com)

19 points by whirlwin 1 year ago | 5 comments

Rust-IoT-Platform(github.com)

18 points by zenhuifer 1 year ago | 4 comments

Calypsi: A series of C compiler and assembly language cross compiler tool chains(github.com)

18 points by doener 1 year ago | 3 comments

Global, distributed and backwards compatible CVE alternative launched by CERT(gcve.eu)

18 points by Aissen 1 year ago | 1 comments

Launch HN: Jasmine (YC S22) – Automating REC compliance and payouts for solar

17 points by mmayberry 1 year ago | 7 comments

We're Raising Kids to Prefer AI over People–and No One's Noticing(substack.com)

17 points by softchaos 1 year ago | 5 comments

Can LLMs earn $1M from real freelance coding work?(newsletter.getdx.com)

14 points by nickwritesit 1 year ago | 8 comments

Atypography – Art Movement Introduction(atypography.com)

14 points by gessha 1 year ago | 2 comments