Hacker News with Generative AI: Technology

After Crash FAA Change Requires All Aircraft at Reagan to Broadcast Positions (nytimes.com)
All aircraft flying near Ronald Reagan National Airport will now be required to broadcast their positions to air traffic controllers, the acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration told a Senate subcommittee on Thursday.
Aviation, Safety, Technology, Government
19 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 6 comments
“Our kids are the least flourishing generation we know of” (nytimes.com)
The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses the “parents’ revolution” on smartphones that his book “The Anxious Generation” has ignited.
Generational Issues, Parenting, Mental Health, Social Psychology, Technology
5 points by dr_dshiv 8 hours ago | 5 comments
Interview with Vibe Coder in 2025 [video] (youtube.com)
Interviews, Future, Technology, Video
4 points by mempko 9 hours ago | 0 comments
AR Computers to Terminate Eyestrain and Myopia (eyewiki.org)
In humans, prolonged contraction of the ciliary and medial rectus muscles during close reading will result in eye strain.
Health, Vision, Technology, Artificial Intelligence
28 points by plun9 10 hours ago | 20 comments
Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan (goughlui.com)
As it turns out, “thrift shopping” in Japan via the internet can be both very enjoyable as well as very dangerous.
Technology, Reviews, Japan
88 points by csdvrx 11 hours ago | 42 comments
Commercial fusion power companies moving toward test systems (arstechnica.com)
A tokamak moves forward as two companies advance plans for stellarators.
Fusion Power, Energy, Science, Technology
16 points by bentobean 12 hours ago | 0 comments
A look back: WordPerfect on DOS (2023) (technicallywewrite.com)
There was a saying in the 1980s that if you knew how to use WordPerfect, you were guaranteed a job in any office.
Word Processors, Operating Systems, History, Technology
32 points by TMWNN 12 hours ago | 42 comments
Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015) (grantland.com)
Douglas Coupland’s novel Microserfs is about the spiritual yearnings and time-frittering activities of youngish coders immersed in the drudgery of the software-development process, and how those activities become an expression of those yearnings.
Silicon Valley, Books, Culture, Technology, Software Development
62 points by Apocryphon 12 hours ago | 25 comments
Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory (2020) (nature.com)
Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation devices and applications have become ubiquitous over the last decade. However, it is unclear whether using GPS affects our own internal navigation system, or spatial memory, which critically relies on the hippocampus.
Spatial Memory, Neuroscience, GPS, Technology
5 points by hubraumhugo 14 hours ago | 1 comments
Dave Täht has died (libreqos.io)
We’re devastated to announce that Dave Täht has passed away.
Obituaries, Technology, Open Source
207 points by mhandley 15 hours ago | 43 comments
Blocking mobile internet on phones improves sustained attention and mental healt (nlm.nih.gov)
Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being
Mental Health, Technology, Attention, Well-being
3 points by highfrequency 16 hours ago | 0 comments
How AI is creating a rift at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG (the-ken.com)
Clients’ increasing access to AI tools is transforming the way consulting firms operate
AI, Consulting, Business, Technology, Impact
58 points by rustoo 16 hours ago | 56 comments
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025) (ycombinator.com)
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option.
Jobs, Hiring, Technology, Remote
85 points by whoishiring 18 hours ago | 147 comments
Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough (theregister.com)
More doubt is being cast over the US CHIPS Act program with the Trump administration threatening to halt payments unless companies in line to receive funding commit to substantially expand their own investments.
Politics, Technology, Business, Government Funding
8 points by rntn 19 hours ago | 0 comments
MCP: The new "USB-C for AI" that's bringing fierce rivals together (arstechnica.com)
What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic—two competitors in the AI assistant market—to get along? Despite a fundamental difference in direction that led Anthropic's founders to quit OpenAI in 2020 and later create the Claude AI assistant, a shared technical hurdle has now brought them together: How to easily connect their AI models to external data sources.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Anthropic, Technology, Competition
34 points by CharlesW 21 hours ago | 6 comments
The Heat Death Company: Solving humanity's ultimate challenge (theheatdeathcompany.com)
Philosophy, Technology, Future
15 points by 1ewish 21 hours ago | 1 comments
An e-bike that charges off USB-C (theverge.com)
A fast three hours means the Ampler Nova is no April fool.
E-Bikes, Technology, Sustainability, Gadgets
22 points by thunderbong 22 hours ago | 14 comments
Self-Hosting like it's 2025 (kiranet.org)
In recent years, self-hosting has emerged as a popular alternative to data-collecting, big-brother services.
Self-Hosting, Privacy, Technology, Cloud Computing
208 points by finnlab 23 hours ago | 213 comments
LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite (theregister.com)
Gartner says the market for large language model (LLM) providers is on the cusp of an extinction phase as it grapples with the capital-intensive costs of building products in a competitive market.
Generative AI, Business, Technology, AI
84 points by abawany 1 day ago | 68 comments
Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news (fluentsubs.com)
Education, Language Learning, News, Technology
442 points by ph4evers 1 day ago | 171 comments
Netflix’s Media Production Suite (netflixtechblog.com)
The journey from script to screen is full of challenges in the ever-evolving world of film and television.
Netflix, Media Production, Film, Television, Technology
244 points by MattSayar 1 day ago | 134 comments
Microsoft redesigns BSOD, drops QR code, frowning face, blue colour (windowslatest.com)
Microsoft is killing off the Blue Screen of Death… and replacing it with Black Screen of Death. It’s also dropping the frowning face for some reason, and I am not sure I like it because the updated screen doesn’t have enough information. Let me show how it’s changing in newer builds of Windows 11 24H2 and what it means for the IT admins.
Windows 11, Microsoft, Operating Systems, User Interface, Technology
20 points by vo2maxer 2 days ago | 4 comments
Sam Altman: we added one million users in the last hour (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Social Media, User Growth, Technology
4 points by s-macke 2 days ago | 0 comments
Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed (9to5google.com)
Late last year the popular Chrome extension Honey (owned by PayPal) was revealed for employing a few shady tactics, and the extension has since lost around 4 million users on Google’s browser alone.
Chrome Extensions, Privacy, Business, Technology
646 points by tantalor 2 days ago | 311 comments
Is BIND9 suitable as a recursive resolver in 2025? (szafka.net)
Recently, we have been engaged in consulting work and providing DNS training for a major IT corporation, boasting an employee count exceeding 10,000. Thankfully, not every staff member attended the course.
DNS, Networking, Security, Technology
22 points by plagiat0r 2 days ago | 7 comments
Cuneiforms: New digital tool for translating ancient texts (sciencedaily.com)
Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: Researchers present an innovative tool that offers many new possibilities.
Ancient Languages, Archaeology, Digital Tools, Technology, History
30 points by docmechanic 2 days ago | 3 comments
Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life (newslttrs.com)
In 1995 three brave prognosticators set out to predict life in the 2020s. How did that work out for them?
Future Predictions, Technology, 1990s, 2020s
44 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 65 comments
Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid (theregister.com)
From smartphones to surveillance cameras to security snafus, there's no escape
Privacy, Surveillance, Security, Technology
24 points by LorenDB 2 days ago | 4 comments
Eco Cycles or How I Feel About Technology (maksimizmaylov.com)
Umberto Eco, the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (my personal favorite), wasn’t just a brilliant scholar—he was also a bit of a geek. He once wrote an essay comparing Macs to Catholicism and PCs to Protestantism. He thought about technology a lot.
Technology, Essays, Umberto Eco, Literature
59 points by Kvakes 2 days ago | 57 comments
Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore's Law is dead and buried (theregister.com)
As Jensen Huang is fond of saying, Moore's Law is dead – and at Nvidia GTC this month, the GPU-slinger's chief exec let slip just how deep in the ground the computational scaling law really is.
Nvidia, Moore's Law, Hardware, Technology, Computing
67 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 61 comments