news, !paper 2025-04-21

1820 Getting forked by Microsoft / philiplaine.com / 995

1214 Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta / dropsitenews.com / 962

1114 Googler... ex-Googler / nerdy.dev / 988

902 Pope Francis has died / reuters.com / 767

636 Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue / github.com/nari-labs / 188

610 Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii / blog.infected.systems / 103

605 Python’s new t-strings / davepeck.org / 461

554 Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life / github.com/ericjenott / 188

489 The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state / nber.org / 494

422 FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices / ftc.gov / 263

407 Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM / github.com/LukasOgunfeitimi / 119

382 A new form of verification on Bluesky / bsky.social / 292

370 Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature / herecomesthemoon.net / 345

348 I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video] / youtube.com / 235

342 LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them / matthewsinclair.com / 238

340 Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record / ember-energy.org / 343

316 Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent / spectrum.ieee.org / 115

274 AI assisted search-based research works now / simonwillison.net / 144

268 Google to embrace MCP / techcrunch.com / 52

238 Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole / phys.org / 159

224 How I use Kate editor / akselmo.dev / 79

191 101 BASIC Computer Games / github.com/maurymarkowitz / 105

184 Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams / news.ycombinator.com / 114

184 Cheating the Reaper in Go / mcyoung.xyz / 32

173 A M.2 HDMI capture card / interfacinglinux.com / 89

167 Haskelling My Python / unnamed.website / 70

162 Prolog Adventure Game / github.com/stefanrodrigues2 / 26

154 Verus: Verified Rust for low-level systems code / github.com/secure-foundations / 46

149 Out of the Fog / theverge.com / 34

143 Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates / gpuopen.com / 34

142 The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping / mohitdagarwal.substack.com / 119

139 Visiting Us / epic.com / 126

131 Show HN: Nerdlog – Fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram / github.com/dimonomid / 49

127 An update to our pricing / windsurf.com / 92

123 Whistleblower statement on anomalies at time of DOGE work at NLRB [pdf] / whistlebloweraid.org / 13

122 The campaign to subvert Africa's internet registry / capeindependent.com / 36

118 Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing / sam.elborai.me / 44

118 Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad / statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu / 29

111 Handwriting activates broader brain networks than typing / psypost.org / 44

105 Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs / github.com/codingmoh / 36

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

103 'Immediate red flags': questions raised over 'expert' much quoted in UK press / theguardian.com / 42

101 Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back / washingtonpost.com / 110

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