Apr 15, 2025 | Harvard's response to federal letter, hackable AI assistant with SQLite and cron jobs, GPT-4.1 in API

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 15, 2025.Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changeshttps://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684536A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobshttps://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/04/12/how-i-made-a-useful-ai-assistant-with-one-sqlite-table-and-a-handful-of-cron-jobshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681287GPT-4.1 in the APIhttps://openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683410The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference enginehttps://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index/tree/main/OpenSourcing_DeepSeek_Inference_Enginehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43682088Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal courthttps://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025/04/14/ftc-meta-antitrust-trial-kicks-off-in-federal-courthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680957DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communicationhttps://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680899Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuationhttps://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/intel-partner-deal-news-april2025https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43686773SQLite File Format Viewerhttps://sqlite-internal.pages.devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43682006Google to embrace MCPhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/google-says-itll-embrace-anthropics-standard-for-connecting-ai-models-to-data/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646227What Is Entropy?https://jasonfantl.com/posts/What-is-Entropy/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684560