HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order ToyDB rewritten: a distributed SQL database in Rust, for education 14 138 8mo +3h github.com/erikgrinaker/toydb 1Monitoring my Minecraft server with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus 56 93 8mo +3d dash0.com/blog/monitoring-minecraft-with-opentelemetry 2Satellite will have to be turned off when it floats over the US 15 19 8mo +7m thecooldown.com/green-tech/biomass-satellite-carbon-capture-forests 3The surgeon who used F1 pitstop techniques to save lives of babies 11 62 8mo +36m thetimes.com/sport/formula-one/article/professor-martin-elliott-interview-surgeon-f1-pitstops-babies-ferrari-j3sbkjssk 4Why Bell Labs Worked 228 327 8mo +41m 1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-labs-worked 5SDFs and the Fast sweeping algorithm in Jax 5 39 8mo +3d rohangautam.github.io/blog/fast_sweeping/fastsweeping 6The Paradoxes of Feminine Muscle 12 14 8mo +57m newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-paradoxes-of-feminine-muscle 7The Myth of the Genius Hacker 6 22 8mo +21m ft.com/content/55221f2d-00b3-4856-9158-dfdd0263bd0c 8Burrito Now, Pay Later 332 167 8mo +16m enterprisevalue.substack.com/p/burrito-now-pay-later 9Show HN: AI-powered batch photo editor for real estate photographers 12 8 8mo +2d 4ditor.com 10Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper 86 254 8mo +52m github.com/jaypyles/Scraperr 11Why not object capability languages? 66 76 8mo +18m blog.plan99.net/why-not-capability-languages-a8e6cbdf9682 12An online exhibition of pretty software bugs 7 121 8mo +1h glitchgallery.org 13Ink and Algorithms: Techniques, tools and the craft of pen plotting 4 89 8mo +3d penplotter.art 142024 sea level 'report cards' map futures of U.S. coastal communities 100 103 8mo +2m news.wm.edu/2025/05/06/2024-sea-level-report-cards-map-futures-of-u-s-coastal-communities 15LSP client in Clojure in 200 lines of code 25 162 8mo +1h vlaaad.github.io/lsp-client-in-200-lines-of-code 16Rust Devs Think We're Hopeless; Let's Prove Them Wrong (With C++ Memory Leaks) 27 25 8mo +39m babaei.net/blog/rust-devs-think-we-are-hopeless-lets-prove-them-wrong-with-cpp-memory-leaks 17Let's Talk About the Bidet, the Bathroom's Best-Kept Secret 46 36 8mo +1h messynessychic.com/2024/11/27/lets-talk-about-the-bidet-the-bathrooms-best-kept-secret 18Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service 125 253 8mo +50m customerexperiencedive.com/news/klarna-reinvests-human-talent-customer-service-AI-chatbot/747586 19Coupling furfural oxidation for H2 production using silicon photoelectrodes 4 10 8mo +2d nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58000-4 20The Emacs Widget Toolkit 11 47 8mo +10h appetrosyan.github.io/posts/emacs-widget.html 21Booting the RP2350 from UART 21 86 8mo +3h pfister.dev/blog/2025/rp2350-uart-bl.html 22[dead] ? 4 8mo +2h wavespeed.ai 23I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks) 231 369 8mo +1h github.com/Efeckc17/simple-todo-c 24Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war 794 450 8mo +2m insideevs.com/features/759153/car-companies-software-companies 25Applications of Classical Physics 38 80 8mo +14m pmaweb.caltech.eduhttp:///Courses/ph136/yr2012 26An $18M grant would have drastically reduced food waste. Then the EPA cut it 43 75 8mo +1h grist.org/food-and-agriculture/trump-epa-community-change-grants-program-food-waste 27Elizabeth Holmes's partner raises millions for blood-testing startup 74 58 8mo +25m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/11/elizabeth-holmes-partner-blood-testing-startup 28How a Quiet American Cardinal Became Pope 9 28 8mo +13m nytimes.com/2025/05/11/world/europe/conclave-vote-pope-leo-robert-prevost.html 29Plain Vanilla Web 671 1441 8mo +45m plainvanillaweb.com/index.html 30How to (actually) prove it – New Frontiers of Mathematics and Computing in Lean 17 80 8mo +2d kirancodes.me/posts/log-how-to-prove-it-maths.html 31Synder (YC S21) Is Hiring 0 1 8mo +28s ycombinator.com/companies/synder/jobs/2Wnbc1f-business-development-representative 32Immunogenicity and Safety of Influenza and Covid-19 Multicomponent Vaccine 1 11 8mo +1h jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2833668 33JEP 515: Ahead-of-Time Method Profiling 10 99 8mo +1h openjdk.org/jeps/515 34Build iOS Apps on Linux and Windows 54 259 8mo +8h forums.swift.org/t/xtool-cross-platform-xcode-replacement-build-ios-apps-on-linux-and-more/79803 35Writing an LLM from scratch, part 13 – attention heads are dumb 65 346 8mo +2d gilesthomas.com/2025/05/llm-from-scratch-13-taking-stock-part-1-attention-heads-are-dumb 36DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently 159 180 8mo +18m torrentfreak.com/dns-piracy-blocking-orders-google-cloudflare-and-opendns-respond-differently-250511 37High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers 484 254 8mo +8m wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/skilled-trades-high-school-recruitment-fd9f8257 38Gonzalo Guerrero 27 97 8mo +40m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Guerrero 39Backdoor found in popular ecommerce components 6 42 8mo +1h sansec.io/research/license-backdoor 40What the hell are rare earth elements? 7 45 8mo +2h media.hubspot.com/what-the-hell-are-rare-earth-elements 41Is there a balance to be struck between simple hierarchical models and 7 40 8mo +3d statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/05/26/is-there-a-balance-to-be-struck-between-simple-hierarchical-models-and-more-complex-hierarchical-models-that-augment-the-simple-frameworks-with-more-modeled-interactions-when-analyzing-real-data 42Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping 117 235 8mo +32m finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/title-work-deciphered-sealed-herculaneum-scroll-digital-unwrapping 43In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more 254 275 8mo +10m pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/03/in-2025-venture-capital-cant-pretend-everything-is-fine-any-more 44How friction is being redistributed in today's economy 115 249 8mo +2d kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-valuable-commodity-in-the 45Show HN: GlassFlow – OSS streaming dedup and joins from Kafka to ClickHouse 31 76 8mo +1m github.com/glassflow/clickhouse-etl 46Sole maintainer of Linux distro AnduinOS turns out to be a Microsoft employee 5 24 8mo +2d neowin.net/news/the-sole-maintainer-of-linux-distribution-anduinos-turns-out-to-be-a-microsoft-employee 47Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market 85 267 8mo +4d maxrozen.com/on-four-years-running-saas-competitive-market 48A Rust Documentation Ecosystem Review 14 94 8mo +31m harudagondi.space/blog/rust-documentation-ecosystem-review 49A first successful factorization of RSA-2048 integer by D-Wave quantum computer 20 28 8mo +3h sciopen.com/article/10.26599/TST.2024.9010028 50Zig: A new direction for low-level programming? 2 48 8mo +2h bitshifters.cchttp:///2025/05/04/zig.html 51Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years? 84 58 8mo +28m 52Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Fullstack Engineer 0 1 8mo +25s ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/S7ytgrb-founding-full-stack-engineer 53An Introduction to Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails 54 124 8mo +3d blog.appsignal.com/2025/05/07/an-introduction-to-solid-queue-for-ruby-on-rails.html 54Insurers launch cover for losses caused by AI chatbot errors 38 103 8mo +1h ft.com/content/1d35759f-f2a9-46c4-904b-4a78ccc027df 55Jony Ive's next product is driven by the 'unintended consequences' of the iPhone 20 17 8mo +31m theverge.com/news/664131/jony-ive-unintended-consequences-iphone-new-product 56VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 24 74 8mo +3d arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/broadcom-sends-cease-and-desist-letters-to-subscription-less-vmware-users 57[dead] ? 22 8mo +45m ft.com 58The Epochalypse Project 87 195 8mo +17m epochalypse-project.org 59Crowd Sourcing Broken QR Codes 54 77 8mo +3d humanqr.com/news/qr-code-not-scanning-well-try-to-help 60Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-Play Reasoning with Zero Data 18 86 8mo +2h arxiv.org/abs/2505.03335 61Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM 25 58 8mo +54m theregister.com/2025/05/06/ibm_ai_investments 62The Ecstatic Swoon 2 8 8mo +2d aeon.co/essays/what-stendhal-says-about-the-purpose-and-promise-of-art 63On thinkers and doers (2022) 43 55 8mo +2h strangeloopcanon.com/p/on-thinkers-and-doers 64A brief history of the numeric keypad 19 73 8mo +2d doc.cc/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-numeric-keypad 65What is it like to be a thermostat? (1996) 53 28 8mo +39m organism.earth/library/document/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-thermostat 66One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software 240 509 8mo +2h mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub 67Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study app 125 81 8mo +36m notiv.app 68Lianas are taking over the rainforests, and it's visible from space 41 50 8mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-05-lianas-rainforests-visible-space.html 69Lazarus Release 4.0 164 275 8mo +3d forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=71050.0 70The AUCTUS A6: the chip enabling inexpensive DMR Radio (2021) 4 8 8mo +3h jhart99.com/auctus-a6 71NetBSD 10.x Kernel Math_emulation 11 56 8mo +3h mezzantrop.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/netbsd-10-x-kernel-math_emulation 72Engineers develop wearable heart attack detection technology 39 74 8mo +3d medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-wearable-heart-technology.html 73Fan Service 32 151 8mo +20m flak.tedunangst.com/post/fan-service 74Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk released from immigration detention 5 59 8mo +40m npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5393055/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-ordered-freed-from-immigration-detention 75When Suno covers my song (very useful) – a study with variations 8 71 8mo +2d rochus-keller.chhttp:///?p=1350 76Leaving Google 366 541 8mo +23m airs.com/blog/archives/670 77The AI jobs crisis is here, now 19 34 8mo +54m bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-jobs-crisis-is-here-now 78[dead] ? 10 8mo +14m verdaily.com 79Strain gauge made out of PCB 36 115 8mo +3d github.com/vapetrov/PCB_strain_gauge 80Dotless Domains 152 199 8mo +47m lab.avl.la/dotless 81Adaptive Hashing 8 55 8mo +2d quotenil.com/adaptive-hashing.html 82Ireland given two months to implement hate speech laws or face action from EU 148 47 8mo +1h thejournal.ie/ireland-given-two-months-to-start-implementing-hate-speech-laws-6697853-May2025 83The History and Legacy of Visual Basic 126 134 8mo +2h retool.com/visual-basic 84Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff 133 214 8mo +1h about.fandom.com/news/fandom-sells-giant-bomb-to-independent-creators 85Arduino is at work to make bio-based PCBs 20 71 8mo +2d blog.arduino.cc/2025/04/22/arduino-is-at-work-to-make-bio-based-pcbs 86[dead] ? 7 8mo +44m lesinskis.com 87[dead] ? 10 8mo +5m thefocalpoints.com 88The State of SSL Stacks 46 144 8mo +3d haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-stacks 89 More... 2025.05.10