The best of Hacker News - April 4, 2025

1.
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

448 points

2.
Reasoning models don't always say what they think

309 points

3.
Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers

263 points

4.
Overengineered Anchor Links

246 points

5.
A university president makes a case against cowardice

175 points

6.
Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

122 points

7.
Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code

107 points

8.
The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT Due to AI

91 points

9.
AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating

84 points

10.
Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point

51 points

11.
Show HN: Hatchet v1 – a task orchestration platform built on Postgres

50 points

12.
Build an 8-bit computer from scratch

48 points

13.
How Servo Motors Work

45 points

14.
Bonobos' calls may be the closest thing to animal language we've seen

41 points

15.
New nanoparticle therapies target two major killers

41 points

16.
Was Houdini a Spy? (2021)

30 points

17.
How Big Is VMS? – VMS Software, Inc

29 points

18.
The cultural evolution of distortion in music

27 points

19.
Binary Distribution Rebuilds

4 points

20.
Aviator (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build AI DevEx platform

1 points

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