Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 2, 2025.

Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545917

Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd30ywv8o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43546236

Glubux's Powerwall (2016)
https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powerwall.126/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548217

Stop syncing everything
https://sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-syncing-everything/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43537272

Why F#?
https://batsov.com/articles/2025/03/30/why-fsharp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43546004

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit
https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551397

The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst
https://glthr.com/myst-graph-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549293

Shared DNA in Music
https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551352

Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518570

Where does air pollution come from?
https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution-sources
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43553663