The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2025

1

What if we made advertising illegal? simone.org · smnrg · 5 Apr 2025

2k pts 1.4k comments

2

CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated] csoonline.com · healsdata · 16 Apr 2025

1.9k pts 1.1k comments

3

US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU bbc.com · belter · 2 Apr 2025

1.9k pts 3.6k comments

4

Getting forked by Microsoft philiplaine.com · phillebaba · 21 Apr 2025

1.9k pts 998 comments

5

Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator dang · 2 Apr 2025

1.8k pts 462 comments

6

Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town tokyoweekender.com · PaulHoule · 7 Apr 2025

1.8k pts 403 comments

7

Apache ECharts echarts.apache.org · tomtomistaken · 8 Apr 2025

1.7k pts 250 comments

8

Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal bbc.com · lleims · 28 Apr 2025

1.6k pts 1.2k comments

9

But what if I want a faster horse? rakhim.exotext.com · saeedesmaili · 11 Apr 2025

1.5k pts 609 comments

10

Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations old.reddit.com · scaredpelican · 14 Apr 2025

1.5k pts 606 comments

11

An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip theaiunderwriter.substack.com · participant3 · 3 Apr 2025

1.5k pts 898 comments

12

A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen theverge.com · kwindla · 25 Apr 2025

1.5k pts 1.3k comments

13

Someone at YouTube needs glasses jayd.ml · jaydenmilne · 30 Apr 2025

1.4k pts 694 comments

14

You wouldn't steal a font fedi.rib.gay · todsacerdoti · 23 Apr 2025

1.4k pts 394 comments

15

Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes harvard.edu · impish9208 · 14 Apr 2025

1.4k pts 1.4k comments

16

How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 cookieplmonster.github.io · yett · 23 Apr 2025

1.4k pts 298 comments

17

The Llama 4 herd ai.meta.com · georgehill · 5 Apr 2025

1.2k pts 658 comments

18

Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta dropsitenews.com · jbegley · 11 Apr 2025

1.2k pts 960 comments

19

Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover standardebooks.org · tosh · 6 Apr 2025

1.2k pts 247 comments

20

Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data npr.org · rbanffy · 15 Apr 2025

1.2k pts 542 comments

21

Googler... ex-Googler nerdy.dev · namuorg · 11 Apr 2025

1.1k pts 989 comments

22

Gemini 2.5 Flash developers.googleblog.com · meetpateltech · 17 Apr 2025

1.1k pts 560 comments

23

I use zip bombs to protect my server idiallo.com · foxfired · 28 Apr 2025

1.1k pts 448 comments

24

Careless People pluralistic.net · Aldipower · 24 Apr 2025

1.1k pts 537 comments

25

DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower krebsonsecurity.com · todsacerdoti · 23 Apr 2025

1k pts 530 comments

26

Google is winning on every AI front thealgorithmicbridge.com · vinhnx · 12 Apr 2025

1k pts 819 comments

27

FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities apnews.com · eterps · 25 Apr 2025

1k pts 940 comments

28

Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining simonwillison.net · simonw · 26 Apr 2025

987 pts 433 comments

29

Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python runpyxl.com · hwpythonner · 28 Apr 2025

983 pts 265 comments

30

Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic theatlantic.com · brgross · 8 Apr 2025

981 pts 169 comments

31

AnimeJs v4 Is Here animejs.com · adrianvoica · 3 Apr 2025

973 pts 155 comments

32

AI 2027 ai-2027.com · Tenoke · 3 Apr 2025

949 pts 621 comments

33

Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator filiph.github.io · filiph · 15 Apr 2025

930 pts 162 comments

34

Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney washingtonpost.com · coloneltcb · 25 Apr 2025

923 pts 906 comments

35

Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials github.com · zh2408 · 19 Apr 2025

923 pts 172 comments

36

Pope Francis has died reuters.com · phillipharris · 21 Apr 2025

916 pts 769 comments

37

Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001) pages.cs.wisc.edu · tux3 · 1 Apr 2025

903 pts 407 comments

38

Internet in a Box internet-in-a-box.org · homebrewer · 27 Apr 2025

897 pts 247 comments

39

Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster qwenlm.github.io · synthwave · 28 Apr 2025

869 pts 388 comments

40

AI Horseless Carriages koomen.dev · petekoomen · 23 Apr 2025

864 pts 478 comments

41

Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules nytimes.com · IdealeZahlen · 17 Apr 2025

863 pts 486 comments

42

America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back molsonhart.com · putzdown · 15 Apr 2025

842 pts 992 comments

43

Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data krebsonsecurity.com · whalesalad · 22 Apr 2025

818 pts 452 comments

44

$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money data-and-politics.ghost.io · pulisse · 12 Apr 2025

809 pts 454 comments

45

Firefox tab groups are here blog.mozilla.org · TangerineDream · 29 Apr 2025

807 pts 441 comments

46

LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo librelingo.app · hyperific · 29 Apr 2025

804 pts 363 comments

47

A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs geoffreylitt.com · stevekrouse · 14 Apr 2025

800 pts 174 comments

48

I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) code.mendhak.com · ekiauhce · 24 Apr 2025

796 pts 559 comments

49

An end to all this prostate trouble? yarchive.net · bondarchuk · 26 Apr 2025

791 pts 315 comments

50

Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools yle.fi · freetonik · 30 Apr 2025

790 pts 472 comments

51

Garfield Minus Garfield garfieldminusgarfield.net · mike1o1 · 10 Apr 2025

780 pts 246 comments

52

Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button nuejs.org · tipiirai · 1 Apr 2025

756 pts 568 comments

53

Making Software makingsoftware.com · calme_toi · 14 Apr 2025

752 pts 103 comments

54

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation aclu.org · mandmandam · 26 Apr 2025

743 pts 827 comments

55

Migrating away from Rust deadmoney.gg · rc00 · 28 Apr 2025

731 pts 759 comments

56

The “S” in MCP Stands for Security elenacross7.medium.com · skilldeliver · 6 Apr 2025

730 pts 183 comments

57

How to win an argument with a toddler seths.blog · herbertl · 15 Apr 2025

728 pts 520 comments

58

Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week cnbc.com · perihelions · 30 Apr 2025

724 pts 643 comments

59

I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors habr.com · sochix · 30 Apr 2025

721 pts 402 comments

60

Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries cnbc.com · bhouston · 9 Apr 2025

720 pts 1.4k comments