Apr 7, 2025 | Standard Ebooks offers quality ebooks, MCP emphasizes security, recent AI model progress seems unconvincing

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 7, 2025.Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book loverhttps://standardebooks.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599637The “S” in MCP Stands for Securityhttps://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands-for-security-91407b33ed6bhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600192Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshithttps://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mvphwx5pdsZLMmpY/recent-ai-model-progress-feels-mostly-like-bullshithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43603453Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoiahttps://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/rsync-replaced-with-openrsync-on-macos-sequoia/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605003How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chathttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happenedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601213Glamorous Toolkithttps://gtoolkit.com//https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43606027Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlockhttps://old.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1jsr9jv/eavesdropping_on_smartphone_1356mhz_nfc_polling/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605576Data centers contain 90% crap datahttps://gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers-contain-90-crap-data/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605695We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusinghttps://www.theverge.com/tech/640119/camera-raw-spec-format-explained-adobe-dng-canon-nikon-sony-fujifilmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580815Breaking computers taught me to build themhttps://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-1-the-foundation-years/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564625