The best of Hacker News - April 2, 2025

1.
Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)

784 points

2.
Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101

388 points

3.
Glubux's Powerwall (2016)

364 points

4.
Stop Syncing Everything

258 points

5.
DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

194 points

6.
The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst

189 points

7.
Shared DNA in Music

150 points

8.
Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11

149 points

9.
Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars

85 points

10.
Simulated Economy Tutorial

70 points

11.
Where does air pollution come from?

66 points

12.
Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

65 points

13.
Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan

62 points

14.
AI image recognition detects bubble-like structures in the universe

59 points

15.
Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models (Anthropic)

53 points

16.
Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink

48 points

17.
Show HN: Textcase: A Python Library for Text Case Conversion

46 points

18.
SSLyze – SSL configuration scanning library and CLI tool

26 points

19.
Forking Work Simplification – Let's Bring Back Eisenhower's Process Improvement

23 points

20.
A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports

22 points

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