Hacker News recap for week 14/2025

From 31/3/2025 to 6/4/2025

Articles #

• US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU 3563 comments in 1 discussion

• Why I don't discuss politics with friends 1034 comments in 1 discussion

• An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip 890 comments in 1 discussion

• A university president makes a case against cowardice 828 comments in 1 discussion

• How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack 661 comments in 1 discussion

• The Llama 4 herd 642 comments in 1 discussion

• AI 2027 595 comments in 1 discussion

• Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout 592 comments in 1 discussion

• I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad 575 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button 566 comments in 1 discussion

• Bored of It 420 comments in 1 discussion

• Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia 419 comments in 2 discussions

• MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming 412 comments in 1 discussion

• Why F#? 495 comments in 5 discussions

• Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit 410 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025) 428 comments

• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025) 282 comments

• Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative? 179 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator 463 comments

• Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare) 36 comments

Releases #

• Swift 6.1 Released 17 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Gumroad’s source is available 219 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)

• Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers 216 comments in 3 discussions

• Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server 137 comments in 1 discussion

• Win98-quickinstall: A framework and installer to quickly install Windows 98 120 comments in 1 discussion

• InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux 135 comments in 3 discussions

• KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader 106 comments in 2 discussions

• DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit 105 comments in 2 discussions

• Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust 95 comments in 1 discussion

• Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline 92 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Fiber optic drones are changing combat operations 47 comments in 1 discussion

• I just want to serve 5 terabytes [video] 693 comments in 3 discussions

• Show HN: Clawtype v2.1 – a one-hand chorded USB keyboard and mouse [video] 26 comments in 1 discussion

• Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 10 comments in 1 discussion

• Dwarf Fortress Coming to Steam Changed Everything [video] 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Images trapped in a feedback loop and analog fractals create each other 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Text to Bark from ElevenLabs [video] 2 comments in 1 discussion