news, !paper 2025-04-03

1065 Tracing the thoughts of a large language model / anthropic.com / 392

949 An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip / theaiunderwriter.substack.com / 603

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

798 xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B / twitter.com/elonmusk / 1266

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

742 AnimeJs v4 Is Here / animejs.com / 102

717 I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs / twitter.com/skdh / 1219

708 A love letter to the CSV format / github.com/medialab / 689

664 We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some) / landh.tech / 142

654 I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car / cardinalnews.org / 519

646 How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) / merriam-webster.com / 462

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

630 German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph / abstimmung.eu / 169

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

616 The Guardian flourishes without a paywall / nymag.com / 513

592 How to write blog posts that developers read / refactoringenglish.com / 153

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

539 AI 2027 / ai-2027.com / 346

487 Architecture Patterns with Python / cosmicpython.com / 140

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

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

404 Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming" / cs.utexas.edu / 248

400 Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers / github.com/lwthiker / 97

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 / 791

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

381 Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust / blog.startifact.com / 232

380 How Kerala got rich / aeon.co / 299

371 Reasoning models don't always say what they think / anthropic.com / 251

356 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

345 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

334 Microsoft’s original source code / gatesnotes.com / 165

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

319 The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI / dutchosintguy.com / 176

318 Overengineered Anchor Links / thirty-five.com / 136

310 Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life / livescience.com / 129

304 Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age / manuel.kiessling.net / 219

292 A university president makes a case against cowardice / newyorker.com / 368

289 Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database / opennutrition.app / 144

284 The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly / isomorphism.xyz / 244

275 7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand / twitter.com/TaraBull808 / 108

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

225 Collapse OS / collapseos.org / 199

221 Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL / ditto.com / 135

219 Madison Square Garden's surveillance banned this fan over his T-shirt design / theverge.com / 89

209 John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change / spectator.co.uk / 220

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

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

194 Japanese scientists create new plastic that dissolves in saltwater overnight / newatlas.com / 121

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

180 Swiftly 1.0 / swift.org / 82

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

171 Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds / chrbutler.com / 86

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

161 Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's? / nymag.com / 152

161 Asking good questions is harder than giving great answers / newsletter.dancohen.org / 24

160 InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux / github.com/InitWare / 90

158 Reflecting on WikiTok / aizk.sh / 46

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

156 The Real Book (2021) / 99percentinvisible.org / 41

154 DIY Synths Database / diy-synths.snnkv.com / 24

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

146 XAN: A Modern CSV-Centric Data Manipulation Toolkit for the Terminal / github.com/medialab / 25

143 Building Statically Linked Go Executables with CGO and Zig / calabro.io / 22

141 Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees / caryinstitute.org / 64

137 Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres / github.com/hatchet-dev / 41

136 Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo / gitmcp.io / 37

134 US Marines to get high-speed, radar-evading electric seagliders for rescue ops / interestingengineering.com / 94

134 Decomposing a Factorial into Large Factors / terrytao.wordpress.com / 27

131 AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating / niila.fi / 108

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

131 Lumon Terminal Pro / apple.com / 27

128 Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point / journals.aom.org / 85

127 What Killed Innovation? / shirleywu.studio / 112

121 MilliForth-6502: The smallest Forth real programming language for 6502 / github.com/agsb / 39

119 Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat / wsj.com / 132

118 Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language) / github.com/c3lang / 84

118 Show HN: Hexi – Modern header-only network binary serialisation for C++ / github.com/EmberEmu / 45

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

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

114 How I Choose What to Work On (2023) / tynan.com / 31

114 Glider for Apple II / colino.net / 23

113 Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents / krisp.ai / 45

109 Show HN: Cursor IDE now remembers your coding prefs using MCP / news.ycombinator.com / 39

106 Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions / depot.dev / 72

104 Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024) / citizenlab.ca / 58

104 Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters / monkeys.zip / 27

102 Entropy Attacks / blog.cr.yp.to / 32

100 I stopped using AI code editors / lucianonooijen.com / 76

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