The best of Hacker News - April 7, 2025

1.
Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia

493 points

2.
A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn

458 points

3.
We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing

301 points

4.
Glamorous Toolkit

275 points

5.
Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

224 points

6.
LLMs understand nullability

134 points

7.
Show HN: Lux – a luxurious package manager for Lua

98 points

8.
20 years of Git

98 points

9.
Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)

82 points

10.
Show HN: Uncurl.dev – Convert curl commands to a shareable, executable UI

69 points

11.
Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security

64 points

12.
Why Catullus continues to seduce us

47 points

13.
Hasochism: The pleasure and pain of dependently typed Haskell programming [pdf] (2013)

38 points

14.
Variable duty cycle square waves with the Web Audio API

33 points

15.
PiDP-1, or the rebirth of an old machine

29 points

16.
The Troll Hole Adventure

16 points

17.
Show HN: Kahuna, the IndexedDB-Manager Webextension

16 points

18.
Circling the Good

13 points

19.
Scaffold Level Editor

11 points

20.
W.G. Sebald and the Politics of Melancholy

8 points

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