Hacker News on Tuesday, 22 April 2025

Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data(krebsonsecurity.com)

584 points by whalesalad 1 year ago | 216 comments

KrebsOnSecurity article on an NLRB security architect's whistleblower claim that DOGE staff exfiltrated gigabytes of sensitive case data using short-lived accounts.

Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run(blog.atuin.sh)

523 points by freetonik 1 year ago | 138 comments

Announcement post for Atuin Desktop, a doc-like app for executable runbooks with script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and Prometheus charts.

Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS(github.com)

415 points by adamnemecek 1 year ago | 267 comments

GitHub repository for Sapphire, a Rust-based package manager for macOS positioned as a Homebrew alternative.

Attacking My Landlord's Boiler(blog.videah.net)

362 points by ericvolp12 1 year ago | 194 comments

A personal blog post describing reverse-engineering the wireless thermostat signals of a landlord-controlled boiler using an SDR and laptop.

ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization(clickhouse.com)

340 points by tbragin 1 year ago | 107 comments

ClickHouse engineering blog post by Tom Schreiber introducing lazy materialization, a query optimization that defers reading column data to speed up queries.

Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation(finance.yahoo.com)

288 points by baristaGeek 1 year ago | 260 comments

Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting(uwplse.org)

235 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 15 comments

I should have loved biology too(nehalslearnings.substack.com)

230 points by nehal96 1 year ago | 160 comments

CSS Hell(csshell.com)

216 points by gaws 1 year ago | 86 comments

I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil (2015)(bloomberg.com)

205 points by niklasbuschmann 1 year ago | 116 comments

Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of)(hey.earth)

183 points by tanelpoder 1 year ago | 31 comments

How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)(thelogicaloptimist.com)

174 points by rzk 1 year ago | 105 comments

π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization(pi.website)

171 points by lachyg 1 year ago | 41 comments

Show HN: Morphik – Open-source RAG that understands PDF images, runs locally(github.com)

168 points by Adityav369 1 year ago | 35 comments

Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)(alexshtf.github.io)

163 points by Areibman 1 year ago | 62 comments

Ping, You've Got Whale: AI detection system alerts ships of whales in their path(biographic.com)

154 points by Geekette 1 year ago | 66 comments

SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces(serenityos.org)

150 points by doener 1 year ago | 152 comments

Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems(github.com)

141 points by segmenta 1 year ago | 50 comments

The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great(technologizer.com)

140 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 36 comments

How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail(eb43.github.io)

129 points by uycyp 1 year ago | 63 comments

Sustain your creative drive in the face of technological change(thecreativeindependent.com)

129 points by adityaathalye 1 year ago | 11 comments

The complex origin story of domestic cats(phys.org)

121 points by gmays 1 year ago | 59 comments

Show HN: I open-sourced my AI toy company that runs on ESP32 and OpenAI realtime(github.com)

109 points by akadeb 1 year ago | 55 comments

Meaning Machine – Visualize how LLMs break down and simulate meaning(meaning-machine.streamlit.app)

94 points by jdspiral 1 year ago | 22 comments

David Tong Lectures on Theoretical Physics(damtp.cam.ac.uk)

86 points by alonfnt 1 year ago | 12 comments

Google won't ditch third-party cookies in Chrome after all(arstechnica.com)

83 points by jnord 1 year ago | 40 comments

Exploiting Undefined Behavior in C/C++ Programs: The Performance Impact [pdf](web.ist.utl.pt)

79 points by luu 1 year ago | 62 comments

Welcome to our website for the 1963 BBC MCR21 OB Van(mcr21.org.uk)

79 points by brudgers 1 year ago | 1 comments

Data Compression Nerds Hate This One Trick [video](media.ccc.de)

76 points by doener 1 year ago | 27 comments

Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym(cekrem.github.io)

75 points by codeman001 1 year ago | 55 comments

The Truth about Atlantis (2019)(talesoftimesforgotten.com)

70 points by gostsamo 1 year ago | 98 comments

Surprises in Logic (2016)(math.ucr.edu)

70 points by jxmorris12 1 year ago | 29 comments

FreeDOS 1.4 Is Here(freedos.org)

69 points by BSDobelix 1 year ago | 12 comments

Fujitsu and RIKEN develop world-leading 256-qubit sup quantum computer(fujitsu.com)

66 points by donutloop 1 year ago | 20 comments

Does RL Incentivize Reasoning in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?(limit-of-rlvr.github.io)

65 points by leodriesch 1 year ago | 22 comments

Classic Computer Replicas(obsolescence.dev)

61 points by dbelson 1 year ago | 16 comments

RISC-V RVA23 Profile: A major milestone(riscv.org)

58 points by fork-bomber 1 year ago | 17 comments

Can a single AI model advance any field of science?(lanl.gov)

54 points by LAsteNERD 1 year ago | 30 comments

The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product – A Review(madhavajay.com)

54 points by williamtrask 1 year ago | 3 comments

Detecting if an expression is constant in C(nrk.neocities.org)

51 points by ingve 1 year ago | 33 comments

Show HN: Durable Python Workflows(github.com)

51 points by itayd 1 year ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Dosidicus – A digital pet with a simple neural network(github.com)

50 points by vicioussquid 1 year ago | 12 comments

Join the W3C Exploration Interest Group: where standards start(w3.org)

50 points by pentagrama 1 year ago | 15 comments

Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022)(gwern.net)

48 points by james_impliu 1 year ago | 35 comments

Launch HN: Infra.new (YC W23) – DevOps copilot with guardrails built in

47 points by TankeJosh 1 year ago | 23 comments

AI for Network Engineers: Understanding Flow, Flowlet, and Packet-Based LB(nwktimes.blogspot.com)

44 points by ankitg12 1 year ago | 4 comments

A study of lightning fatalities inside buildings while using smartphones [pdf] (2024)(electricalsafetyworkshop.org)

44 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 47 comments

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers(theconversation.com)

40 points by greyadept 1 year ago | 11 comments

Show HN: I built a Ruby gem that handles memoization with a ttl(github.com)

40 points by hp_hovercraft84 1 year ago | 19 comments

The many ways tarrifs will hit your electronics(spectrum.ieee.org)

39 points by elashri 1 year ago | 31 comments

Forecaster reacts: METR's bombshell paper about AI acceleration(peterwildeford.substack.com)

38 points by nopinsight 1 year ago | 39 comments

'World War Zoos' Review: Of Bombs and Beasts(wsj.com)

36 points by pepys 1 year ago | 3 comments

Using physics simulations to find targeting strategies in tenpin bowling(pubs.aip.org)

36 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 10 comments

Dissecting a British wartime night vision tank periscope [video](youtube.com)

35 points by michalpleban 1 year ago | 4 comments

New study of birds shows citizen science can be trusted(ucdavis.edu)

31 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 6 comments

Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years – a study(cnn.com)

29 points by avodonosov 1 year ago | 36 comments

The Dauug House - Dauug|36 minicomputer documentation(dauug.cs.wright.edu)

28 points by kylebenzle 1 year ago | 4 comments

Parcom: CL Parser Combinators(github.com)

27 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 0 comments

Flat origami is Turing complete (2023)(arxiv.org)

27 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 8 comments

Windows File Manager (WinFile) repository archived on March 1, 2025(github.com)

26 points by wolpoli 1 year ago | 19 comments