Hacker News recap for week 15/2025

From 7/4/2025 to 13/4/2025

Articles #

• Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries 2039 comments in 4 discussions

• How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? 984 comments in 1 discussion

• Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta 1014 comments in 5 discussions

• Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs 2394 comments in 7 discussions

• Googler... ex-Googler 943 comments in 2 discussions

• Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant 776 comments in 3 discussions

• Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash 720 comments in 1 discussion

• Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte 1163 comments in 2 discussions

• But what if I want a faster horse? 606 comments in 2 discussions

• Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic 552 comments in 1 discussion

• How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured 462 comments in 1 discussion

• Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March 458 comments in 1 discussion

• $70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money 418 comments in 1 discussion

• An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force 408 comments in 1 discussion

• Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town 428 comments in 2 discussions

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Do you still use search engines? 569 comments

• Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends 199 comments

• Are .NET 4.x and JDK 8.x the "zombie" runtimes of enterprise software? 82 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: ChatGPT is giving me other people's conversation when uploading files 4 comments

• Tell HN: Amazon order info is getting sold 4 comments

Releases #

• Build better Golang release binaries [video]

Projects #

• Open guide to equity compensation 363 comments in 3 discussions

• Whenever: Typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python 134 comments in 1 discussion

• Systemd ParticleOS 67 comments in 1 discussion

• Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter 62 comments in 1 discussion

• LLM-hacker-news: LLM plugin for pulling content from Hacker News 52 comments in 1 discussion

• Rust CUDA Project 78 comments in 4 discussions

• Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs 43 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Chonky – a neural approach for text semantic chunking 35 comments in 1 discussion

• Exwm: Emacs X Window Manager 33 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Coroot – eBPF-based, open source observability with actionable insights 53 comments in 5 discussions

Videos #

• Locating Stealth Fighters with Cheap Cameras Without Using AI or Radar [video] 50 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Connecting an IBM 3151 terminal to a mainframe [video] 44 comments in 1 discussion

• South Korea Is over [video] 23 comments in 1 discussion

• Sabine Hossenfelder: How I Became Particle Physicists' Enemy #1 [video] 4 comments in 1 discussion

• How LLMs Think [video] 4 comments in 2 discussions

• China Is De-Dollarizing: China Launches $1.2T Digital Yuan System [video] 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Meta Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams Testifies to Senate Judiciary Committee 17 comments in 2 discussions