news, !paper 2025-04-17

1041 Gemini 2.5 Flash / developers.googleblog.com / 550

841 Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules / nytimes.com / 478

741 Making Software / makingsoftware.com / 103

610 An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system / maknee.github.io / 107

592 TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale / afterbabel.com / 677

502 Potatoes in the Mail / facts.usps.com / 254

446 Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers / prospect.org / 226

415 “Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System / skyatnightmagazine.com / 347

370 US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban / bbc.com / 421

325 Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' / bbc.com / 426

306 I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs / cantgetmuchhigher.com / 142

290 Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results / timsh.org / 65

268 HDR‑Infused Emoji / sharpletters.net / 143

233 This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops / wired.com / 225

220 Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering / quagmirerepair.com / 103

215 What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code? / blog.luden.io / 140

209 Encryption Is Not a Crime / privacyguides.org / 211

203 Passing planes and other whoosh sounds / windytan.com / 56

196 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Erlang/OTP SSH / nvd.nist.gov / 51

172 AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu / dwarkesh.com / 367

169 mIRC 7.81 / mirc.com / 138

167 ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser / flausch.social / 148

160 Oda Ujiharu: Why the ‘weakest Samurai warlord’ is admired / tokyoweekender.com / 64

158 Show HN: AgentAPI – HTTP API for Claude Code, Goose, Aider, and Codex / github.com/coder / 15

154 DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice / dhl.com / 71

153 Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale? / afterbabel.com / 137

152 Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of culture / theconversation.com / 74

143 Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates / feldera.com / 87

134 Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf] / uniforumchicago.org / 111

128 OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf / cnbc.com / 115

119 Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet / reuters.com / 40

117 What my stroke taught me (2017) / nautil.us / 71

114 Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching? / pwy.io / 46

109 BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report / arxiv.org / 30

106 The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder / buttondown.com / 110

106 Differentiable Programming from Scratch / thenumb.at / 18

104 Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research finds / theguardian.com / 104

103 AI-Designed Antivenoms: New Proteins to Block Deadly Snake Toxins / plentyofroom.beehiiv.com / 25

103 SQLite transactions and virtual tables / misfra.me / 9

102 Stainless steel strengthened: Twisting creates submicron 'anti-crash wall' / techxplore.com / 44

101 Development on Apple Silicon with UTM / rkiselenko.dev / 72

100 A cute proof that makes e natural / poshenloh.com / 42

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