Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 26, 2025.

A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794284

Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/25/wikipedia-nonprofit-ed-martin-letter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799302

Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor
https://scalewithlee.substack.com/p/when-etchsts-breaks-your-substack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793526

A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2025/04/a-love-letter-to-people-who-believe-in-people.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788255

Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11651
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43796935

Eurorack Knob Idea
https://mitxela.com/projects/euroknob
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793288

GCC 15.1
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43792248

I wrote a book called "Crap Towns". It seemed funny at the time
https://samj.substack.com/p/that-joke-isnt-funny-any-more
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799820

Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
https://clevercoloringbook.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43791992

Reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01266-x
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43795300