Hacker News Highlights

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

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1909741170953273353
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631543

Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference
https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ironwood-tpu-age-of-inference/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631274

How University Students Use Claude
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-how-university-students-use-claude
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43633383

Photographs of 19th Century Japan
https://cosmographia.substack.com/p/photographs-of-old-japan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631251

SpacetimeDB
https://spacetimedb.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631822

The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems
https://livesys.se/posts/the-chroot-technique/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43632379

GPD Pocket 4 Speaker DSP: Configuring PipeWire so laptop speakers sound better
https://kittenlabs.de/blog/2025/04/06/gpd-pocket-4-speaker-dsp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43635295

Firebase Studio
https://firebase.studio
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43635783

Google Cloud Rapid Storage
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/whats-new-with-ai-hypercomputer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639642