The best of Hacker News - April 28, 2025

1.
Internet in a Box

372 points

2.
How a single line of code could brick your iPhone

235 points

3.
Read the Obits

208 points

4.
Reverse geocoding is hard

198 points

5.
Did 5G kill the IMSI catcher?

178 points

6.
The coming knowledge-work supply-chain crisis

151 points

7.
AI helps unravel a cause of Alzheimer’s and identify a therapeutic candidate

134 points

8.
Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders

132 points

9.
I just want to code (2023)

123 points

10.
Show HN: I made a web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio

114 points

11.
New material gives copper superalloy-like strength

80 points

12.
Show HN: I486SX_soft_FPU – Software FPU Emulator for NetBSD 10 on 486SX

65 points

13.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

59 points

14.
The suburban office park that launched Silicon Valley

58 points

15.
How a Pipe Organ Works (2020)

46 points

16.
The hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain

40 points

17.
Show HN: Cleverb.ee – open-source agent that writes a cited research report

19 points

18.
Inference-Aware Fine-Tuning for Best-of-N Sampling in Large Language Models

16 points

19.
To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Collection of SciFi Stories

16 points

20.
East German Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung (2021)

8 points

Previous
Next