The best of Hacker News - April 8, 2025

1.
Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town

849 points

2.
Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI

152 points

3.
Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell

113 points

4.
What Was Quartz?

85 points

5.
India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops

72 points

6.
Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs

71 points

7.
Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB

68 points

8.
Fuck Run Club, Join Sit Club

63 points

9.
A Supermarket Bag and a Truckload of FOMO

60 points

10.
Ancient Dagger Up to 2.5k Years Old W Stars/Moons/Geometric Patterns Unearthed

52 points

11.
Deleting multiplayer from the Unreal engine can save memory

51 points

12.
Show HN: Minimal MCP server in Go showcasing project architecture

45 points

13.
In the 1980s we also downloaded software from TV

39 points

14.
Listening habits and effects of background music in people with and without ADHD

38 points

15.
'Exploding' Tunnock's teacakes cleared by tests to fly again

33 points

16.
Drag racers are ditching superchargers for scuba-style tanks and compressed air

27 points

17.
An FPGA-based LGP-30 Replica

20 points

18.
Smallest Pacemaker Is the Size of a Rice Grain

19 points

19.
Unmasking EncryptHub: Help from ChatGPT and Opsec Blunders

18 points

20.
Ethically sourced "spare" human bodies could revolutionize medicine

17 points

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