Hacker News on Saturday, 25 April 2026

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem(scientificamerican.com)

733 points by pr337h4m 6 months ago | 508 comments

Scientific American article about an amateur who used ChatGPT to prove a 60-year-old Erdős conjecture with a novel method.

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper(jeffgeerling.com)

575 points by calcifer 6 months ago | 340 comments

Jeff Geerling blog post reviewing new RTL8159-based 10 GbE USB 3.2 adapters that are smaller, cooler, and cheaper than Thunderbolt 10 GbE adapters.

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

516 points by _-x-_ 6 months ago | 178 comments

Tell HN discussion where a user reports the Headspace app silently installing itself daily on their iPhone despite automatic downloads being off.

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)(fabiensanglard.net)

479 points by gwerbret 6 months ago | 82 comments

Fabien Sanglard's cheat sheet table mapping USB marketing names to version aliases, signal speeds, wire counts, and maximum cable lengths.

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?(freakonomics.com)

406 points by chiefalchemist 6 months ago | 282 comments

A Freakonomics Radio podcast episode on why research into Alzheimer's disease has made so little progress; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.

Trump fires NSF's oversight board(science.org)

356 points by skullone 6 months ago | 177 comments

Science magazine news article reporting that President Trump fired the National Science Foundation's oversight board, the National Science Board.

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish(blog.matthewbrunelle.com)

336 points by speckx 6 months ago | 216 comments

Blog post arguing it's fine to use AI coding tools like Claude Code to finish abandoned side projects, describing building a YouTube Music to OpenSubsonic connector.

ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips(worksinprogress.co)

322 points by mellosouls 6 months ago | 197 comments

A Works in Progress magazine article on how ASML and its EUV lithography machines became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chip production.

Three constraints before I build anything(jordanlord.co.uk)

311 points by nervous_north 6 months ago | 48 comments

Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico(github.com)

311 points by BoingBoomTschak 6 months ago | 85 comments

Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine(itsfoss.com)

308 points by nreece 6 months ago | 161 comments

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay(unsung.aresluna.org)

277 points by rbanffy 6 months ago | 138 comments

The quiet resurgence of RF engineering(atempleton.bearblog.dev)

226 points by merlinq 6 months ago | 131 comments

Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)(github.com)

213 points by najmuzzaman 6 months ago | 97 comments

Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor(github.com)

194 points by nickjj 6 months ago | 59 comments

Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025)(fabiensanglard.net)

185 points by blfr 6 months ago | 34 comments

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games(github.com)

174 points by ingve 6 months ago | 25 comments

Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port(github.com)

172 points by andsoitis 6 months ago | 46 comments

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work(blog.happyfellow.dev)

170 points by thehappyfellow 6 months ago | 67 comments

Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust(github.com)

161 points by luu 6 months ago | 15 comments

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s(fabiensanglard.net)

158 points by adunk 6 months ago | 29 comments

Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do(alash3al.github.io)

155 points by alash3al 6 months ago | 65 comments

The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It(newrepublic.com)

153 points by chirau 6 months ago | 182 comments

The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024)(fabiensanglard.net)

146 points by offbyone42 6 months ago | 19 comments

Quirks of Human Anatomy(sdbonline.org)

143 points by gurjeet 6 months ago | 83 comments

America's Geothermal Breakthrough(oilprice.com)

142 points by sleepyguy 6 months ago | 153 comments

GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty(openai.com)

140 points by Murfalo 6 months ago | 99 comments

How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way(nbelakovski.substack.com)

133 points by actinium226 6 months ago | 72 comments

Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI(victortaelin.github.io)

132 points by marvinborner 6 months ago | 39 comments

Hokusai and Tesselations(dl.ndl.go.jp)

123 points by srean 6 months ago | 15 comments

Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center(boilingsteam.com)

122 points by ekianjo 6 months ago | 96 comments

Can you stop beans from making you gassy?(seriouseats.com)

118 points by jstrieb 6 months ago | 91 comments

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp(github.com)

117 points by mariuz 6 months ago | 45 comments

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp(coalton-lang.github.io)

90 points by varjag 6 months ago | 39 comments

Cosmology with Geometry Nodes(blender.org)

90 points by shankysingh 6 months ago | 4 comments

Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill(fosstodon.org)

78 points by terminalbraid 6 months ago | 26 comments

Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 2024(aschmelyun.com)

76 points by xupybd 6 months ago | 12 comments

Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision(learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev)

70 points by milkglass 6 months ago | 21 comments

Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x(blisscast.wordpress.com)

69 points by keepamovin 6 months ago | 57 comments

Radar Laboratory – Interactive Radar Phenomenology(radarlaboratory.com)

58 points by jonbaer 6 months ago | 6 comments

A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)(allbrainsbelong.org)

57 points by AndrewDucker 6 months ago | 38 comments

What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role(mnot.net)

54 points by ingve 6 months ago | 50 comments

Jumping into cold water can stop your heart(jorgenmelau.substack.com)

53 points by fanf2 6 months ago | 13 comments

Managing the Unmanaged Switch(watchmysys.com)

52 points by luu 6 months ago | 24 comments

HEALPix(en.wikipedia.org)

50 points by hyperific 6 months ago | 6 comments

DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles(lmsys.org)

50 points by mji 6 months ago | 5 comments

Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting(slicker.me)

47 points by vinhnx 6 months ago | 38 comments

Her Life Savings Mysteriously Disappeared After a Systems Glitch(nytimes.com)

46 points by danso 6 months ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets(getkloak.io)

46 points by neo2006 6 months ago | 38 comments

Revocation of X.509 Certificates(blog.apnic.net)

44 points by jandeboevrie 6 months ago | 21 comments

Oxford All Souls College General Examination (2025) [pdf](asc.ox.ac.uk)

43 points by gregsadetsky 6 months ago | 33 comments

Magic by return of post: How mail order delivered the occult(publicdomainreview.org)

42 points by Vigier 6 months ago | 5 comments

Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software(feldera.com)

37 points by gz09 6 months ago | 16 comments

Understanding the short circuit in solid-state batteries(mpie.de)

36 points by hhs 6 months ago | 6 comments

Boats crash/break and can kill their passengers when falling certain distances(bugs.mojang.com)

31 points by zdw 6 months ago | 9 comments

Mystery Cpuid Bit(os2museum.com)

27 points by userbinator 6 months ago | 3 comments

Escrow Security for iCloud Keychain(support.apple.com)

21 points by gurjeet 6 months ago | 4 comments

Music of the BBC Microcomputer System(acornelectron.co.uk)

15 points by eightb 6 months ago | 1 comments

The Last of the Lost Generation(porticoquarterly.com)

13 points by benbreen 6 months ago | 4 comments

Europe to burned American scientists: We'll take you in(politico.eu)

12 points by vrganj 6 months ago | 1 comments