news, !paper 2025-04-01

895 Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001) / pages.cs.wisc.edu / 397

730 Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button / nuejs.org / 560

635 Stop syncing everything / sqlsync.dev / 121

510 The April Fools joke that might have got me fired / oldvcr.blogspot.com / 249

496 Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 / bbc.com / 100

456 Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news / app.fluentsubs.com / 178

436 Why F#? / batsov.com / 404

386 Glubux's Powerwall (2016) / secondlifestorage.com / 272

333 CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep / home.cern / 107

304 Excitable cells / jenevoldsen.com / 48

285 DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit / github.com/dfd-tud / 97

252 The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst / glthr.com / 73

248 Shared DNA in Music / pudding.cool / 59

241 Dave Täht has died / libreqos.io / 49

231 Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025) / news.ycombinator.com / 342

221 US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back / independent.co.uk / 145

219 Self-Hosting like it's 2025 / kiranet.org / 228

214 How Silica Gel Took Over the World / scopeofwork.net / 168

208 Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model / github.com/getomni-ai / 47

196 The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it / jangafx.com / 140

183 Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative? / news.ycombinator.com / 186

174 Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan / goughlui.com / 81

166 Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods / queue.acm.org / 52

165 RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components / github.com/ruby-ui / 39

158 Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars / github.com/nizarmah / 87

124 We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains / asteriskmag.com / 111

118 Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare) / news.ycombinator.com / 36

111 Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015) / grantland.com / 100

110 AI image recognition detects bubble-like structures in the universe / phys.org / 76

110 Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing / github.com/williamw520 / 46

104 Simulated Economy Tutorial / jasonfantl.com / 64

102 How AI is creating a rift at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG / the-ken.com / 94

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