Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 22, 2025.

Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue
https://github.com/nari-labs/dia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754124

Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii
https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754953

Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
https://www.servethehome.com/synology-lost-the-plot-with-hard-drive-locking-move/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734706

Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
https://github.com/ericjenott/Evertop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43757037

A new form of verification on Bluesky
https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43753651

Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/04/pipelining/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43751076

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them
https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0178-why-llm-powered-programming-is-more-mech-suit-than-artificial-human
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752492

AI assisted search-based research works now
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752262

Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomers-lone-black-hole.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755017

Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752176