The best of Hacker News - April 27, 2025

1.
Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining

748 points

2.
An end to all this prostate trouble?

584 points

3.
Cloth

434 points

4.
Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad

396 points

5.
Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day

151 points

6.
Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS

131 points

7.
Tilt: dev environment as code

98 points

8.
BART's Anime Mascots

97 points

9.
Bill Gates's Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC (2008)

86 points

10.
Open-source interactive C tutorial in the browser

67 points

11.
Sigbovik Conference Proceedings 2025 [pdf]

61 points

12.
Anatomy of a SQL Engine

52 points

13.
Dad and the Egg Controller (2018)

51 points

14.
IcôNES

46 points

15.
Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io

39 points

16.
Gold Is So Popular It's Making People Nervous

39 points

17.
Path is a utility for working with paths

35 points

18.
CONL: "Markdown" for your config files

19 points

19.
CSS Zen Garden

15 points

20.
Parity (YC S24) is hiring founding engineers to build an AI SRE (in-person, SF)

1 points

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