news, !paper 2025-04-18

1205 Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta / dropsitenews.com / 955

1081 Googler... ex-Googler / nerdy.dev / 985

992 Google is winning on every AI front / thealgorithmicbridge.com / 815

774 Garfield Minus Garfield / garfieldminusgarfield.net / 247

624 Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic / washingtonpost.com / 563

597 Open source and self hostable/private file converter / vert.sh / 111

569 Nice things with SVG / fuma-nama.vercel.app / 106

551 Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash / petapixel.com / 726

512 Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte / reuters.com / 641

506 Live Map of the London Underground / londonunderground.live / 115

499 Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines / techcrunch.com / 230

468 Kagi Assistant is now available to all users / blog.kagi.com / 267

433 Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility / lwn.net / 214

428 BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of / jeffgeerling.com / 174

417 You might not need WebSockets / hntrl.io / 266

407 Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs / bloomberg.com / 883

391 Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional / 404media.co / 151

390 Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code / github.com/Kuberwastaken / 112

378 The Story Behind “100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them” / thecoder.cafe / 130

376 How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured / 404media.co / 465

371 Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a / grapheneos.social / 263

367 How many supernova explode every year? / badastronomy.beehiiv.com / 184

366 Default styles for h1 elements are changing / developer.mozilla.org / 264

353 Defold: cross-platform game engine / defold.com / 148

349 Emacs Lisp Elements / protesilaos.com / 56

347 I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses / tomsguide.com / 222

331 Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch / hodinkee.com / 342

330 Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023) / stevana.github.io / 197

321 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python / jonathan.protzenko.fr / 82

320 WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser / webtui.ironclad.sh / 152

313 Anubis Works / xeiaso.net / 208

311 Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry / forbes.com / 240

301 .localhost Domains / inclouds.space / 196

288 Big Book of R / bigbookofr.com / 107

286 Why I Program in Lisp / funcall.blogspot.com / 273

267 Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015) / culture.pl / 206

267 Google to embrace MCP / techcrunch.com / 52

258 Full Text Search of US Court records / judyrecords.com / 49

255 Datastar: Web Framework for the Future? / chrismalek.me / 154

225 Why is there a “small house” in IBM's Code page 437? / blog.glyphdrawing.club / 50

219 YAML: The Norway Problem (2022) / bram.us / 164

214 The Bitter Prediction / 4zm.org / 177

209 Tunarr: Create and configure live TV channels from media on your servers / tunarr.com / 64

208 arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud / info.arxiv.org / 154

202 IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge / theregister.com / 403

199 AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive / buttondown.com / 139

192 ArkType: Ergonomic TS validator 100x faster than Zod / arktype.io / 71

191 Show HN: memEx, a personal knowledge base inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode / gitea.bubbletea.dev / 45

189 Demystifying the (Shebang): Kernel Adventures / crocidb.com / 36

184 Less Slow C++ / github.com/ashvardanian / 92

176 I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024) / bugsink.com / 141

169 2025 AI Index Report / hai.stanford.edu / 110

165 Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim / pikuma.com / 67

152 A New ASN.1 API for Python / blog.trailofbits.com / 75

149 Fake images that fooled the world / theguardian.com / 74

146 Rust CUDA Project / github.com/Rust-GPU / 47

144 Walled Gardens Can Kill / aneesiqbal.ai / 120

144 How to Make a Longbow / howtomakealongbow.co.uk / 41

143 Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates / gpuopen.com / 33

140 A Math Lesson From Hitler’s Germany (2017) / undark.org / 42

137 Four Years of Jai (2024) / smarimccarthy.is / 171

135 SDL2 for macOS 9 “rough draft” / macintoshgarden.org / 60

129 Cyberpunk 1958: The Early Days of the Polish IT Industry / culture.pl / 12

124 45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved / cbc.ca / 52

121 AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem / iamcharliegraham.substack.com / 79

106 Why is Good Friday called Good Friday? / historyextra.com / 135

105 Cargo-mutants:zombie: Inject bugs and see if your tests catch them / github.com/sourcefrog / 17

102 Viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos / techcrunch.com / 52

100 Unikernel Linux (UKL) (2023) / dl.acm.org / 14

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