Getting forked by Microsoft(philiplaine.com)
1706 points by phillebaba | 900 comments
Blog post by Philip Laine describing how Microsoft forked his open-source Kubernetes image mirroring project Spegel.
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Pope Francis has died(reuters.com)
772 points by phillipharris | 538 comments
Reuters news article reporting that Pope Francis has died aged 88, according to a Vatican statement, on April 21, 2025.
Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue(github.com)
584 points by toebee | 170 comments
GitHub repository for Dia, an Apache-2.0 licensed open-weights text-to-speech model by Nari Labs that generates realistic dialogue in one pass.
Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii(blog.infected.systems)
575 points by edent | 101 comments
Blog post by Alex Haydock describing how his blog is served from a real Nintendo Wii running NetBSD, with a link to a live status page.
Python’s new t-strings(davepeck.org)
544 points by tambourine_man | 409 comments
Blog post by Dave Peck explaining template strings (t-strings), a feature accepted for Python 3.14 that enables safer, more flexible string processing.
Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life(github.com)
524 points by harryvederci | 168 comments
GitHub repository for Evertop, an open-source E-ink IBM XT clone with solar power, ultra-low power consumption, and very long battery life.
The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state(nber.org)
419 points by imakwana | 413 comments
NBER working paper by Allcott, Gentzkow and others studying how deactivating Facebook and Instagram affects users' emotional state.
FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices(ftc.gov)
373 points by pinewurst | 219 comments
FTC press release announcing action against Uber for enrolling consumers in its Uber One subscription without consent and making cancellation difficult.
Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM(github.com)
366 points by xfeeefeee | 103 comments
GitHub repository with tools and notes for deobfuscating and decompiling the JavaScript virtual machine TikTok uses in its web client.
A new form of verification on Bluesky(bsky.social)
365 points by ink_13 | 251 comments
Bluesky blog post from April 21, 2025 announcing a new form of account verification on the platform.
Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature(herecomesthemoon.net)
355 points by Mond_ | 317 comments
A blog post on Mond←Tech Magazine arguing that pipelining (method-chaining-style syntax) is a favorite programming language feature over free-standing function calls.
LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them(matthewsinclair.com)
323 points by matthewsinclair | 214 comments
Blog post by Matthew Sinclair arguing that LLM-powered programming tools act like a mech suit amplifying developers rather than replacing them.
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Pope Francis has died(bbc.co.uk)
199 points by rowanajmarshall | 70 comments
Cheating the Reaper in Go(mcyoung.xyz)
165 points by ingve | 23 comments
101 BASIC Computer Games(github.com)
152 points by sohkamyung | 80 comments
A M.2 HDMI capture card(interfacinglinux.com)
147 points by Venn1 | 63 comments
Prolog Adventure Game(github.com)
142 points by shakna | 18 comments
Out of the Fog(theverge.com)
132 points by wapasta | 31 comments
An update to our pricing(windsurf.com)
119 points by mefengl | 70 comments
Visiting Us(epic.com)
116 points by tobr | 98 comments
Regex Isn't Hard (2023)(timkellogg.me)
58 points by asicsp | 67 comments
Mistaking Mary Magdalene(newyorker.com)
25 points by benbreen | 14 comments
Decentralizing Schemes(tbray.org)
24 points by NotInOurNames | 5 comments
Experimenting is above all a process(205.tf)
22 points by tobr | 1 comments
Propositional Parlor Puzzle(buttondown.com)
20 points by foldU | 1 comments
Inner Loop Agents(timkellogg.me)
12 points by tkellogg | 2 comments
WikiTree: The Free Family Tree(wikitree.com)
11 points by bigjimmyk3 | 1 comments