The best of Hacker News - April 15, 2025

1.
A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs

580 points

2.
GPT-4.1 in the API

536 points

3.
The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference engine

438 points

4.
Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court

323 points

5.
DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication

280 points

6.
Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation

247 points

7.
What Is Entropy?

186 points

8.
The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world

176 points

9.
AudioX: Diffusion Transformer for Anything-to-Audio Generation

127 points

10.
Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch

126 points

11.
Tomb Engine

121 points

12.
Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)

101 points

13.
Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

95 points

14.
Simple Web Server

84 points

15.
JSLinux

76 points

16.
Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?

44 points

17.
Show HN: MCP-Shield – Detect security issues in MCP servers

37 points

18.
The Industrialization of IT

12 points

19.
ASCII Lookup Utility in Ada

10 points

20.
Laser Launch into Orbit

4 points

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