Apr 8, 2025 | Viral trading cards in rural Japan, Browser MCP automates with Cursor, Claude, VS Code, Lux is a luxurious Lua package manager

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 townhttps://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615912Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Codehttps://browsermcp.io/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613194Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Luahttps://mrcjkb.dev/posts/2025-04-07-lux-announcement.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43614285Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AIhttps://www.kapwing.com/blog/what-its-like-to-interview-a-software-engineer-preparing-with-ai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43577490Any program can be a GitHub Actions shellhttps://yossarian.net/til/post/any-program-can-be-a-github-actions-shell/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617493Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Securityhttps://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3722542https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43614199India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptopshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptopshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43618105Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)https://www.botanica.software/post/decoding-the-90shttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612102What Was Quartz?https://www.zachseward.com/what-was-quartz/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616604Scaffold Level Editorhttps://blog.littlepolygon.com/posts/scaffold/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615322