The best of Hacker News - April 18, 2025

1.
Gemini 2.5 Flash

703 points

2.
An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system

512 points

3.
Potatoes in the Mail

265 points

4.
HDR‑Infused Emoji

225 points

5.
Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

191 points

6.
Decreased CO2 during breathwork: emergence of altered states of consciousness

189 points

7.
Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Erlang/OTP SSH

169 points

8.
Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering

165 points

9.
I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs

115 points

10.
What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?

86 points

11.
Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

79 points

12.
Shell-secrets – GPG-encrypted environment variables

68 points

13.
Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?

50 points

14.
Why Is Good Friday Called Good Friday?

34 points

15.
The Size of Packets

34 points

16.
Once banned, Poland's stately 18th century dance garners UNESCO honors (2024)

26 points

17.
1,700 Year Old Egg Never Broke

25 points

18.
A deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son

20 points

19.
Trying (and failing) to hack the Wall of Sheep (2022)

14 points

20.
Procedural Textures with Hash Functions

11 points

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