Hacker News recap for week 13/2025

From 24/3/2025 to 30/3/2025

Articles #

• xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B 1244 comments in 1 discussion

• Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water 1338 comments in 2 discussions

• I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs 1204 comments in 1 discussion

• Has the decline of knowledge work begun? 830 comments in 2 discussions

• Apple needs a Snow Sequoia 774 comments in 2 discussions

• A love letter to the CSV format 685 comments in 1 discussion

• I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud 769 comments in 2 discussions

• 4o Image Generation 584 comments in 1 discussion

• I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car 559 comments in 2 discussions

• Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo 504 comments in 1 discussion

• Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood 494 comments in 1 discussion

• Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing? 474 comments in 1 discussion

• Gemini 2.5 491 comments in 2 discussions

• How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) 460 comments in 1 discussion

• Waymos crash less than human drivers 445 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) 871 comments

• Ask HN: Is Washington Post correct in saying Signal is unsecure? 76 comments

• Ask HN: Do programmers generally enjoy some amount of complexity? 39 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: OpenAI added heavy censorship on GPT4o image generation yesterday 6 comments

• Tell HN: Archive.is/ph/md/etc. is redirecting me to HTTPS:// rurtnews – com 5 comments

Projects #

• Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room 297 comments in 1 discussion

• Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops 208 comments in 1 discussion

• Rost – Rust Programming in German 131 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Cloud-Ready Postgres MCP Server 77 comments in 1 discussion

• MCP server for Ghidra 70 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen 67 comments in 1 discussion

• Postgres Language Server: Initial Release 56 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Hexi – Modern header-only network binary serialisation for C++ 44 comments in 1 discussion

• VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer 42 comments in 1 discussion

• Real Time Chess – A physical chess board without the concept of turns 42 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo (1990) [video] 90 comments in 1 discussion

• Huge Structures Discovered Under Pyramids? 7 comments in 1 discussion

• First Orbital Rocket Launched from European Soil, Rocket Crashes, but It's Cool [video] 7 comments in 1 discussion

• 21-year old dev destroys LeetCode, gets kicked out of school 3 comments in 1 discussion

• The AI Software Pulling Images Out of Brains [video] 3 comments in 1 discussion

• David Lynch Presents Interview Project 4 comments in 2 discussions

• 4o Image Generation in ChatGPT and Sora 2 comments in 1 discussion