Monthly Highlights
181.
Reasoning models don't always say what they think (anthropic.com)
182.
You might not need WebSockets (hntrl.io)
183.
“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System (skyatnightmagazine.com)
184.
You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News (jasonthorsness.com)
185.
Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM (github.com)
186.
Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI (kapwing.com)
187.
Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float (arxiv.org)
188.
The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2 (jan.wildeboer.net)
189.
Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days (arstechnica.com)
190.
Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs (bloomberg.com)
191.
Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail (techcrunch.com)
192.
Whistleblower tells senators that Meta undermined U.S. security, interests (thehill.com)
193.
Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course (simonmonk.org)
194.
Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US (jasher.substack.com)
195.
How University Students Use Claude (anthropic.com)
196.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
197.
A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People (swiss-miss.com)
198.
I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time (samj.substack.com)
199.
Overengineered Anchor Links (thirty-five.com)
200.
JSLinux (bellard.org)
201.
Defold: cross-platform game engine (defold.com)
202.
The One-Person Framework in Practice (link.mail.beehiiv.com)
203.
Glubux's Powerwall (2016) (secondlifestorage.com)
204.
Advanced Python Features (blog.edward-li.com)
205.
Attacking My Landlord's Boiler (blog.videah.net)
206.
Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment (waymo.com)
207.
It's easier than ever to de-censor videos (jeffgeerling.com)
208.
A new form of verification on Bluesky (bsky.social)
209.
Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative (coolify.io)
210.
Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution (emilygorcenski.com)