news, !paper 2025-04-02

1644 Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood / supernuclear.substack.com / 497

1080 Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator / news.ycombinator.com / 332

1061 Tracing the thoughts of a large language model / anthropic.com / 390

804 OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK / openai.github.io / 265

764 Debian bookworm live images now reproducible / lwn.net / 200

716 I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs / twitter.com/skdh / 1218

708 A love letter to the CSV format / github.com/medialab / 688

644 Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir / elixir-lang.org / 172

642 How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) / merriam-webster.com / 461

629 German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph / abstimmung.eu / 168

622 I tried making artificial sunlight at home / victorpoughon.fr / 233

591 Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops / github.com/chadmed / 210

484 The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News / refactoringenglish.com / 128

462 War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged / clientserver.dev / 187

395 Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 / spaceinafrica.com / 225

395 Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter / blog.autorouting.com / 116

388 Has the decline of knowledge work begun? / nytimes.com / 790

388 Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016) / dorithegiant.com / 78

381 A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices / devblogs.microsoft.com / 141

355 MCP server for Ghidra / github.com/LaurieWired / 70

352 Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019) / medium.com / 87

347 LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs / computerworld.com / 217

347 Oracle customers confirm data stolen in alleged cloud breach is valid / bleepingcomputer.com / 82

344 Waymos crash less than human drivers / understandingai.org / 448

342 Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo / inpractice.yimbyaction.org / 512

342 In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants / nytimes.com / 418

336 The role of developer skills in agentic coding / martinfowler.com / 194

329 AI models miss disease in Black and female patients / science.org / 230

315 RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015) / reactormag.com / 95

314 Porting Tailscale to Plan 9 / tailscale.com / 76

263 Blasting Past WebP - An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit / googleprojectzero.blogspot.com / 124

243 Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world / politico.com / 158

233 Malware found on NPM infecting local package with reverse shell / reversinglabs.com / 140

226 Where does air pollution come from? / ourworldindata.org / 132

225 Collapse OS / collapseos.org / 199

221 Why is the world losing color? / culture-critic.com / 214

217 Building a Linux Container Runtime from Scratch / edera.dev / 65

206 Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf] / di.ens.fr / 25

200 Golang on the Playstation 2 / rgsilva.com / 11

199 DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets / musicweek.com / 131

199 Dagger: A shell for the container age / dagger.io / 120

190 Take this on-call rotation and shove it / scottsmitelli.com / 148

188 They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo (1990) [video] / youtube.com / 90

177 Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants / hub.continue.dev / 110

175 First-of-its-kind trial enables paralysed man to stand via stem cell injection / nature.com / 34

167 Source code art in the Rivulet language / github.com/rottytooth / 29

165 Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers / pico.sh / 39

161 Asking good questions is harder than giving great answers / newsletter.dancohen.org / 23

158 Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds / unsw.edu.au / 165

158 Reflecting on WikiTok / aizk.sh / 46

156 The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California / supernuclear.substack.com / 210

156 A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test / blog.cloudflare.com / 66

153 Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365 / techradar.com / 114

153 Building a Firecracker-Powered Course Platform to Learn Docker and Kubernetes / iximiuz.com / 12

151 An Interview with Zen Chief Architect Mike Clark / computerenhance.com / 19

149 Val Kilmer has passed away / nytimes.com / 57

149 The mysterious flow of fluid in the brain / quantamagazine.org / 36

148 Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction / smithsonianmag.com / 102

143 Why is C the symbol for the speed of light? (2004) / math.ucr.edu / 121

131 My Favorite C++ Pattern: X Macros (2023) / danilafe.com / 75

131 Lumon Terminal Pro / apple.com / 27

129 Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure / spectrum.ieee.org / 28

127 What Killed Innovation? / shirleywu.studio / 112

120 Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS / matrix.org / 79

118 Optimizing Matrix Multiplication on RDNA3 / seb-v.github.io / 26

117 Emacs Solo: A Surprise System Crafters Live Demo / rahuljuliato.com / 9

116 Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app / recipeninja.ai / 228

114 Glider for Apple II / colino.net / 22

111 Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch / arstechnica.com / 139

110 US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU / bbc.com / 100

109 A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb / phys.org / 24

108 Converting a Go-Kart into a Deathtrap / matto.io / 42

105 Restructuring Announcement / automattic.com / 83

104 Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet? / theparisreview.org / 70

104 Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024) / citizenlab.ca / 57

102 How Google built its Gemini robotics models / blog.google / 39

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