The best of Hacker News - April 9, 2025

1.
Apache ECharts

1132 points

2.
Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant

523 points

3.
Tailscale has raised $160M

509 points

4.
No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation

401 points

5.
Obituary for Cyc

278 points

6.
Better typography with text-wrap pretty

235 points

7.
PostgreSQL Full-Text Search: Fast When Done Right (Debunking the Slow Myth)

197 points

8.
How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs

137 points

9.
Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)

102 points

10.
Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog

76 points

11.
Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter

74 points

12.
A Year of Rust in ClickHouse

66 points

13.
Linux Kernel Defence Map – Security Hardening Concepts

54 points

14.
Toulouse University wants to host US researchers whose work is at risk

41 points

15.
The order of files in your ext4 filesystem does not matter

35 points

16.
DIY experimental reactor harnesses the Birkeland-Eyde process

35 points

17.
The Barium Experiment

28 points

18.
A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers

13 points

19.
Bond rout starting to sound market alarm bells

10 points

20.
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete research in response to state laws

5 points

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