Hacker News recap for week 17/2025

From 21/4/2025 to 27/4/2025

Articles #

• A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen 6959 comments in 4 discussions

• Getting forked by Microsoft 1457 comments in 3 discussions

• Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over 2553 comments in 2 discussions

• FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities 942 comments in 3 discussions

• Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney 1549 comments in 5 discussions

• Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders 872 comments in 1 discussion

• Pope Francis has died 3544 comments in 5 discussions

• ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation 1015 comments in 3 discussions

• Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law 594 comments in 1 discussion

• I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) 622 comments in 3 discussions

• DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower 528 comments in 1 discussion

• The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state 498 comments in 1 discussion

• AI Horseless Carriages 478 comments in 2 discussions

• Python’s new t-strings 540 comments in 3 discussions

• The hidden cost of AI coding 537 comments in 2 discussions

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) 835 comments

• Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model 622 comments

• Ask HN: Memory-safe low level languages? 105 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Llama on WhatsApp will never delete your messages 1 comment

Releases #

• Nim versions 2.2.4 and 2.0.16 released 2 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS 321 comments in 3 discussions

• Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life 200 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue 189 comments in 1 discussion

• Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM 133 comments in 3 discussions

• Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad 237 comments in 3 discussions

• 101 BASIC Computer Games 105 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: My from-scratch OS kernel that runs DOOM 83 comments in 2 discussions

• Launch HN: Cua (YC X25) – Open-Source Docker Container for Computer-Use Agents 82 comments in 3 discussions

• LLMs can see and hear without any training 66 comments in 1 discussion

• Tilt: dev environment as code 63 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video] 227 comments in 1 discussion

• Bethesda announces remastered version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 35 comments in 1 discussion

• Next-Gen GPU Programming: Hands-On with Mojo and Max Modular HQ 16 comments in 1 discussion

• Moving Beyond Containers – Introducing Boxer by Daniel Phillips WASM I/O 2025 [video] 15 comments in 1 discussion

• How much math is knowable? [video] 12 comments in 1 discussion

• When Does the US Government Become a Ponzi Scheme? (Micheal Burry) 6 comments in 1 discussion

• DOGE Just Ended Nuclear in America [video] 6 comments in 1 discussion