HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order U.S. Army bringing in big tech executives as lieutenant colonels 2 78 7mo +19m taskandpurpose.com/military-life/army-reserve-lt-col-tech-execs 1RISC-V in AI and HPC Part 1: Per Aspera Ad Astra? 12 35 7mo +3d eetimes.com/risc-v-in-ai-and-hpc-part-1-per-aspera-ad-astra 2The Emperor's New LLM 62 92 7mo +1h dayafter.substack.com/p/the-emperors-new-llm 3Whatever Happened to Sandboxfs? 10 78 7mo +2d blogsystem5.substack.com/p/whatever-happened-to-sandboxfs 4The Claude Bliss Attractor 83 68 7mo +20h astralcodexten.com/p/the-claude-bliss-attractor 5Implementing Logic Programming 64 199 7mo +34m btmc.substack.com/p/implementing-logic-programming 6How the Alzheimer's Research Scandal Set Back Treatment 16 Years (2022) 62 83 7mo +4m discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/false-alzheimers-study-could-set-research-back-16-years 7We found a germ that 'feeds' on hospital plastic – new study 5 18 7mo +54m theconversation.com/we-found-a-germ-that-feeds-on-hospital-plastic-new-study-256945 8Introducing Sulka, the Hardened Yocto Distro 3 16 7mo +18m ejaaskel.dev/introducing-sulka-the-hardened-yocto-distro 9EDAN: Towards Understanding Memory Parallelism and Latency Sensitivity in HPC [pdf] 1 32 7mo +2d spcl.inf.ethz.ch/Publications/.pdf/shen-ics-2025-edan.pdf 10Wing and Walmart are bringing drone delivery to 100 new stores 20 16 7mo +11m theverge.com/news/680723/walmart-wing-drone-delivery-expand-cities-100-stores 11MUMPS 70 101 7mo +3m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS 12Anne Wojcicki Wins Bidding for 23andMe 25 58 7mo +20m wsj.com/tech/biotech/anne-wojcicki-wins-bidding-for-23andme-92dcfd5b 13Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman 141 192 7mo +2d wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2025/06/02/wvu-student-makes-long-awaited-discovery-of-mystery-fungus-sought-by-lsd-s-inventor 14Self-Adapting Language Models 75 233 7mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2506.10943 15Silicon Valley tech execs are joining the US Army Reserve 3 12 7mo +12m techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/silicon-valley-tech-execs-are-joining-the-us-army-reserve 16Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh 336 324 7mo +5m omc345.substack.com/p/from-skeuomorphic-to-liquid-glass 17The Claude Bliss Attractor 1 58 7mo +50m astralcodexten.com/p/the-claude-bliss-attractor 18Thiings 84 199 7mo +3d thiings.co/things 19Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica 26 79 7mo +53m psu.edu/news/research/story/strange-radio-pulses-detected-coming-ice-antarctica# 20Simulink (Matlab) Copilot 8 44 7mo +3m github.com/Kaamuli/Bloxi 21Ask HN: What is your fallback job if AI takes away your career? 170 82 7mo +2h 22The fastest way to detect a vowel in a string 63 46 7mo +32m austinhenley.com/blog/vowels.html 23High-speed fluorescence light field tomography of whole freely moving organisms 3 51 7mo +2d opg.optica.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-12-5-674&id=570897 24I'm the CTO of Palantir. Today I Join the Army 67 55 7mo +12m thefp.com/p/im-the-cto-of-palantir-today-i-join 25I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it 495 663 7mo +6m philmckinney.substack.com/p/i-convinced-hps-board-to-buy-palm 26Using computers more freely and safely (2023) 22 97 7mo +34m akkartik.name/freewheeling 27how hCaptcha stayed up when Cloudflare and Google went down 4 27 7mo +6m hcaptcha.com/post/how-hcaptcha-stayed-up 28Subtype Inference by Example 9 25 7mo +3d blog.polybdenum.com/2020/07/04/subtype-inference-by-example-part-1-introducing-cubiml.html 29When random people give money to random other people (2017) 83 124 7mo +3m quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/when-random-people-give-money-to-random-other-people 30Show HN: Job Compass – AI agents that help you find jobs, not replace you 56 30 7mo +3h jobcompass.ai 31Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem? 173 141 7mo +21m 32The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers (2024) 12 108 7mo +2m nhatcher.com/post/on-hats-and-sats 33Luxe Game Engine 68 178 7mo +3m luxeengine.com 34100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? (2006) 127 118 7mo +1m research.mietek.io/mi.MartinLof2006.html 35Anker is recalling over 1.1M power banks due to fire and burn risks 76 128 7mo +2h theverge.com/news/686084/anker-recall-uscpsc-power-bank-battery-powercore-a1263 36Some of the Oldest Living Creatures Are Getting Crushed by Cruise Ship Anchors 3 11 7mo +7m studyfinds.org/giant-antarctic-sponges-crushed-by-anchors 37OxCaml - a set of extensions to the OCaml programming language. 115 303 7mo +8m oxcaml.org 38Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections 26 109 7mo +1h simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/13/prompt-injection-design-patterns 39Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing? 198 384 7mo +38m 40Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor 63 197 7mo +3m tattoy.sh 41Geometry from Quantum Temporal Correlations 25 58 7mo +45m arxiv.org/abs/2502.13293 42Show HN: Qrkey – Offline private key backup on paper 44 73 7mo +8m github.com/Techwolf12/qrkey 43Here come the glassholes, part II 5 7 7mo +16m ft.com/content/9c21af68-28ba-489e-81a6-552aff61ddbb 44Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab 470 456 7mo +5m nytimes.com/2025/06/12/technology/meta-scale-ai.html 45Meta buys Scale AI in a $14.3B deal 8 21 7mo +3h cnbc.com/2025/06/12/scale-ai-founder-wang-announces-exit-for-meta-part-of-14-billion-deal.html 46Shooting the Moon: Art of Lunar Photography (2023) 13 14 7mo +18h astroimagery.com/astrophotography/shooting-the-moon 47The Missing Manual for Signals: State Management for Python Developers 35 84 7mo +37m bui.app/the-missing-manual-for-signals-state-management-for-python-developers 48Coming to Apple OSes: A seamless, secure way to import and export passkeys 10 23 7mo +11m arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/apple-previews-new-import-export-feature-to-make-passkeys-more-interoperable 49Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Technical Account Manager 0 1 7mo +18s ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/5kSq3Jd-technical-account-manager-tam 50When Google Sneezes, the Whole World Catches a Cold 0 9 7mo +46m forgecode.dev/blog/gcp-cloudflare-anthropic-outage 51The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer 106 126 7mo +2h dns0.eu 52They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling 91 52 7mo +52m nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html 53If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) 254 889 7mo +1h joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html 54xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer 16 55 7mo +43m politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memphis-gas-turbines-air-pollution-permits-00317582 55Andrew Ng says vibe coding is a bad name for a real and exhausting job 77 44 7mo +25m businessinsider.com/andrew-ng-vibe-coding-unfortunate-term-exhausting-job-2025-6 56Show HN: GetHooky – a language-agnostic Git hook manager 18 25 7mo +3h ezpieco.github.io/GetHooky 57Zero-Shot Forecasting: Our Search for a Time-Series Foundation Model 28 81 7mo +31m parseable.com/blog/zero-shot-forecasting 58Slow and steady, this poem will win your heart 37 102 7mo +3m nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/books/kay-ryan-turtle-poem.html 59Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch 55 206 7mo +2m github.com/piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client 60Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function 185 161 7mo +5h medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-major-sugar-substitute-impair-brain.html 61Three Algorithms for YSH Syntax Highlighting 20 49 7mo +51m github.com/oils-for-unix/oils.vim/blob/main/doc/algorithms.md 62Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU 129 411 7mo +10m osor.io/text 63Urban Design and Adaptive Reuse in North Korea, Japan, and Singapore 13 62 7mo +34m governance.fyi/p/adaptive-reuse-across-asia-singapores 64Jemalloc Postmortem 234 775 7mo +3m jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem 65Ask HN: Have you not accepted or left a job because it was immoral? 48 20 7mo +40m 66The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes 78 165 7mo +1h zed.dev/blog/software-craftsmanship-in-the-era-of-vibes 67Ask HN: Can anybody clarify why OpenAI reasoning now shows non-English thoughts? 40 22 7mo +44m 68Vibe Coding Is Coming for Engineering Jobs 4 9 7mo +3m wired.com/story/vibe-coding-engineering-apocalypse 69 More... 2025.06.12