Hacker News recap for week 18/2025

From 28/4/2025 to 4/5/2025

Articles #

• Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

• Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup 1305 comments in 2 discussions

• Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left 974 comments in 1 discussion

• Redis is open source again 1075 comments in 5 discussions

• Migrating away from Rust 1260 comments in 5 discussions

• Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule 1879 comments in 4 discussions

• Someone at YouTube needs glasses 684 comments in 1 discussion

• Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week 1120 comments in 4 discussions

• All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding 1186 comments in 2 discussions

• Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds 604 comments in 2 discussions

• U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter 536 comments in 1 discussion

• Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists 663 comments in 2 discussions

• Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order 470 comments in 1 discussion

• Try Switching to Kagi 469 comments in 2 discussions

• Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools 938 comments in 4 discussions

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025) 335 comments

• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025) 332 comments

• Ask HN: CS degrees, do they matter again? 203 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Incorporated my software company today 4 comments

• Tell HN: We've come a long way since GPT-3 days 0 comments

Releases #

• Csgrs rust CAD kernel v0.17.0 released

• Haskell Language Server 2.10.0.0 release

Projects #

• Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself 238 comments in 1 discussion

• Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model 189 comments in 1 discussion

• Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes 185 comments in 5 discussions

• Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE) 125 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction 92 comments in 2 discussions

• DeepSeek-Prover-V2 77 comments in 1 discussion

• QModem 4.51 Source Code 74 comments in 1 discussion

• OCaml's Wings for Machine Learning 68 comments in 1 discussion

• GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases 67 comments in 1 discussion

• Linux in Excel 72 comments in 2 discussions

Videos #

• I put sheet music into smart glasses [video] 65 comments in 1 discussion

• Making a game from scratch using only a guitar [video] 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Reanimation of the original Logic Theorist, the first AI, in IPL-V [video] 6 comments in 1 discussion

• The Danish language, even the Danes don't understand it [video] 56 comments in 7 discussions

• Fujitsu's New 2nm ARM Chip: Focused, Fast, and Unlike Anything Else [video] 4 comments in 1 discussion

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch in Julia (2019) 76 comments in 5 discussions

• Critical Program Reading (1975) [video] 29 comments in 3 discussions