Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 8, 2025.

Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615912

Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
https://browsermcp.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613194

Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua
https://mrcjkb.dev/posts/2025-04-07-lux-announcement.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43614285

Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
https://www.kapwing.com/blog/what-its-like-to-interview-a-software-engineer-preparing-with-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43577490

Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell
https://yossarian.net/til/post/any-program-can-be-a-github-actions-shell/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617493

Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3722542
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43614199

India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops
https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43618105

Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)
https://www.botanica.software/post/decoding-the-90s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612102

What Was Quartz?
https://www.zachseward.com/what-was-quartz/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616604

Scaffold Level Editor
https://blog.littlepolygon.com/posts/scaffold/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615322