Hacker News on Thursday, 24 April 2025

Careless People(pluralistic.net)

907 points by Aldipower 1 year ago | 473 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic post about Sarah Wynn-Williams' Facebook memoir "Careless People" and Meta's attempts to suppress it.

I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)(code.mendhak.com)

762 points by ekiauhce 1 year ago | 546 comments

Blog post describing how the author mailed a letter to the address in the GPLv2 license notice and received a printed copy of the GPLv3 license in return.

Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over(newyorker.com)

468 points by FinnLobsien 1 year ago | 801 comments

New Yorker column by Kyle Chayka on Mark Zuckerberg's testimony at Meta's antitrust trial arguing that social media platforms are no longer what they used to be.

OpenAI releases image generation in the API(openai.com)

467 points by themanmaran 1 year ago | 273 comments

OpenAI product announcement from April 23, 2025 introducing its latest image generation model to developers via the API.

Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model

371 points by owendarko 1 year ago | 596 comments

Ask HN thread inviting users to share AI prompts that no current model can solve, aiming to build a crowdsourced collection of hard prompts.

On loyalty to Your Employer(talentstuff.com)

365 points by Peroni 1 year ago | 394 comments

Blog post by Stevie Buckley on Talent Stuff, republished from HackerNoon (2018), discussing whether employees owe loyalty to their employer.

Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI(motherduck.com)

355 points by ryguyrg 1 year ago | 117 comments

MotherDuck blog post announcing Instant SQL, a feature in the DuckDB UI that previews ad-hoc query results as you type.

A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People(swiss-miss.com)

352 points by NaOH 1 year ago | 104 comments

A personal essay on the Swissmiss blog by Tina Roth Eisenberg about the transformative power of enthusiasm and people who believe in others.

Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf, Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals(newscenter.lbl.gov)

275 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 112 comments

NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy(science.org)

243 points by detaro 1 year ago | 187 comments

One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm(bigthink.com)

242 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 150 comments

Manufactured consensus on x.com(rook2root.co)

235 points by cogitovirus 1 year ago | 160 comments

OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours(status.open-vsx.org)

234 points by aaronvg 1 year ago | 139 comments

You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown(chrbutler.com)

229 points by delaugust 1 year ago | 106 comments

Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs (2021)(web.stanford.edu)

212 points by Pikamander2 1 year ago | 176 comments

Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks(theregister.com)

200 points by Dotnaught 1 year ago | 256 comments

Show HN: Lemon Slice Live – Have a video call with a transformer model

172 points by lcolucci 1 year ago | 74 comments

National Airspace System Status(nasstatus.faa.gov)

170 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 23 comments

Creating your own federated microblog(fedify.dev)

169 points by dahlia 1 year ago | 36 comments

AMD Publishes Open-Source Driver for GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In the Roadmap"(phoronix.com)

158 points by davidlt 1 year ago | 50 comments

Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library(reverseui.com)

144 points by armedin 1 year ago | 89 comments

Fundamental flaws of SIMD ISAs (2021)(bitsnbites.eu)

141 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 115 comments

A Visual Journey Through Async Rust(github.com)

129 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 19 comments

Street address errors in Google Maps(randomascii.wordpress.com)

118 points by brucedawson 1 year ago | 112 comments

Daily driving a Linux phone, but why?(thefoggiest.dev)

99 points by ingve 1 year ago | 128 comments

Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained (2023)(ssp.sh)

92 points by sebg 1 year ago | 79 comments

Show HN: Colanode, open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative(github.com)

89 points by hakanshehu 1 year ago | 24 comments

Asymmetric Content Moderation in Search Markets: The Case of Adult Websites(papers.ssrn.com)

83 points by amadeuspagel 1 year ago | 56 comments

A Principled Approach to Querying Data – A Type-Safe Search DSL(claudiu-ivan.com)

82 points by kioku 1 year ago | 16 comments

Swift Container Plugin(github.com)

78 points by frizlab 1 year ago | 64 comments

Everyone Says They'll Pay More for "Made in the USA" So We Ran an A/B Test(afina.com)

75 points by ericzawo 1 year ago | 49 comments

PyGraph: Robust Compiler Support for CUDA Graphs in PyTorch(arxiv.org)

75 points by mfiguiere 1 year ago | 7 comments

Show HN: Infat – Declaritive application assocation manager for macOS(github.com)

75 points by philocalyst 1 year ago | 34 comments

Acquisitions, consolidation, and innovation in AI(frontierai.substack.com)

74 points by pfarago 1 year ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Faasta – A self-hosted Serverless platform for WASM-wasi-HTTP in Rust(github.com)

71 points by alexboehm 1 year ago | 27 comments

The VTech Socratic Method(leadedsolder.com)

70 points by zdw 1 year ago | 8 comments

EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025(energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu)

67 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 36 comments

A Tour Inside the IBM Z17(community.ibm.com)

64 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 77 comments

Show HN: Zev – Remember (or discover) terminal commands(github.com)

62 points by dtnewman 1 year ago | 25 comments

What happens at the end of 'Trading Places'? (2013)(npr.org)

59 points by austinallegro 1 year ago | 16 comments

Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers(arxiv.org)

52 points by reqo 1 year ago | 15 comments

Show HN: I made my own TRMNL e-ink device(stavros.io)

46 points by stavros 1 year ago | 19 comments

Alphabet Q1 2025 Earnings [pdf](abc.xyz)

41 points by simonpure 1 year ago | 8 comments

Why I Blog and How I Automate it (2023)(ryanwwest.com)

34 points by indigodaddy 1 year ago | 2 comments

Llama 4 Smells Bad(fastml.com)

33 points by alexmolas 1 year ago | 16 comments

You Need Customers to Succeed in Small Business(goodenough.us)

32 points by bjhess 1 year ago | 36 comments

Woman who tricked her way into men-only Magic Circle allowed in(bbc.com)

32 points by cmsefton 1 year ago | 2 comments

Show HN: I built Lovable for text bots and mini apps(plutonic.dev)

32 points by piotmni 1 year ago | 15 comments

Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?

30 points by throwaway778 1 year ago | 37 comments

America's reputation drops across the world(ipsos.com)

29 points by mrtksn 1 year ago | 2 comments

A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away(nytimes.com)

29 points by diodorus 1 year ago | 37 comments

io_uring based rootkit can bypass syscall-focused Linux security tools(armosec.io)

24 points by hexhu 1 year ago | 6 comments

Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess (2018)(nytimes.com)

24 points by ViktorRay 1 year ago | 12 comments

Efficient Code Search with Nvidia DGX(developer.nvidia.com)

23 points by simplesort 1 year ago | 1 comments

The tools I love are made by awful people(ankursethi.com)

23 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 17 comments

Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils(altusintel.com)

22 points by donnachangstein 1 year ago | 8 comments

Yaakov Kirschen’s other legacy(jns.org)

21 points by Kirkman14 1 year ago | 3 comments

Show HN: I Added Translation to My RSS Reader Project(rahuldshetty.github.io)

20 points by anonymousd3vil 1 year ago | 3 comments

News Is Blocked on Meta's Feeds in Canada. Here's What Fills the Void(nytimes.com)

19 points by bko 1 year ago | 20 comments

Norway's $1.7T Wealth Fund Reports $40B Tech-Driven Loss(bloomberg.com)

14 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 17 comments