Hacker News recap for week 16/2025

From 14/4/2025 to 20/4/2025

Articles #

• Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes 1493 comments in 2 discussions

• CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated] 1300 comments in 3 discussions

• America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back 975 comments in 1 discussion

• 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak 973 comments in 1 discussion

• Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads 691 comments in 1 discussion

• TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days 817 comments in 3 discussions

• Librarians are dangerous 633 comments in 1 discussion

• Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations 591 comments in 1 discussion

• TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale 569 comments in 1 discussion

• Gemini 2.5 Flash 552 comments in 1 discussion

• Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data 1087 comments in 9 discussions

• How to win an argument with a toddler 514 comments in 1 discussion

• OpenAI o3 and o4-mini 497 comments in 1 discussion

• How the U.S. became a science superpower 521 comments in 2 discussions

• GPT-4.1 in the API 489 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent? 221 comments

• Ask HN: How do you talk about past jobs you regret in interviews? 104 comments

• Ask HN: why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers? 74 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: A realization I've had about working with AIs and building software 15 comments

• Tell HN: Warning Google trains on your data when using aistudio.google.com 14 comments

Releases #

• Swift 6.1 Released 17 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal 280 comments in 1 discussion

• Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner 193 comments in 2 discussions

• Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language 213 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials 158 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code 138 comments in 2 discussions

• JavaScript Views, the Hard Way – A Pattern for Writing UI 129 comments in 1 discussion

• Less Slow C++ 144 comments in 2 discussions

• Chroma: Ubisoft's internal tool used to simulate color-blindness 111 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks 190 comments in 2 discussions

• 12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications

Videos #

• Show HN: LTE-connected IoT module with remote programming and NL data analysis 25 comments in 1 discussion

• kurzgesagt: South Korea's demographic issue is killing their country [video] 52 comments in 3 discussions

• The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours [video] 239 comments in 2 discussions

• Picocalc, a Modern Retro Computer? [video] 6 comments in 1 discussion

• How Long Can SSD Store Data Unpowered? Year 2 Update (2024) [video] 5 comments in 1 discussion

• 36'000 km range with a simple ESP32? For sure a world record 3 comments in 1 discussion

• AI ruined my life. [video] 2 comments in 1 discussion