Hacker News Highlights7 Apr 2025

Apr 7, 2025 | Standard Ebooks offers quality ebooks, MCP emphasizes security, recent AI model progress seems unconvincing

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 7, 2025.

Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
https://standardebooks.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599637

The “S” in MCP Stands for Security
https://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands-for-security-91407b33ed6b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600192

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mvphwx5pdsZLMmpY/recent-ai-model-progress-feels-mostly-like-bullshit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43603453

Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/rsync-replaced-with-openrsync-on-macos-sequoia/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605003

How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chat
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601213

Glamorous Toolkit
https://gtoolkit.com//
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43606027

Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlock
https://old.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1jsr9jv/eavesdropping_on_smartphone_1356mhz_nfc_polling/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605576

Data centers contain 90% crap data
https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers-contain-90-crap-data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605695

We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing
https://www.theverge.com/tech/640119/camera-raw-spec-format-explained-adobe-dng-canon-nikon-sony-fujifilm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580815

Breaking computers taught me to build them
https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-1-the-foundation-years/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564625

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8.17.26 | Firefox for iOS adblocker, Claude system prompts, third world engineer on RISC-V

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Firefox for iOS now...

17 Aug 14min

8.16.26 | AI's larger working memory, Semaglutide's potential to lower dementia risk, RISC-V's oversight issues

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - AI has access to a ...

16 Aug 12min

8.15.26 | Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities, Qwen 3.8 27B, Opus 5 usability issues

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - GLM-5.3: Frontier c...

15 Aug 13min

8.14.26 | Gemini 3.7 Flash, DeepSeek Harness developer preview, Spaghettifying DRAM

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Gemini 3.7 Flash (0...

14 Aug 13min

8.13.26 | Tracked 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, Qwen3.8-2.4T

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - We tracked down the...

13 Aug 13min

8.12.26 | Stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs, England aims to eliminate hepatitis C, compression is prediction

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Stealing Reasoning ...

12 Aug 13min

8.11.26 | Muse Glimmer optimized for local agent workflows, Mark Zuckerberg criticizes closed AI rivals as Meta reverts to open models, Sonic Pi v5

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Muse Glimmer: 30B-p...

11 Aug 13min

8.10.26 | Learning with LLMs, Windows 11 Weather app RAM usage, Recording of activities

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - How I use LLMs to l...

10 Aug 13min