HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell 122 300 6mo +57m jameshaydon.github.io/passport 1US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data 151 294 6mo +4m text.npr.org/nx-s1-5446120 2Community Is Motivation on Tap 48 114 6mo +3d alanwu.xyz/posts/community 3Exploring Trichromacy through Maxwell's Color Experiment (2023) 3 26 6mo +1h maxwell.kohterai.com 4An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall 97 181 6mo +6h keepingbackyardbees.com/an-indoor-beehive-zbwz1810zsau 5A literary magazine accessible only via telnet 13 28 6mo +3d 6[dead] ? 10 6mo +1h bloomberg.com 7The Death of the Middle-Class Musician 684 291 6mo +31m thewalrus.ca/the-death-of-the-middle-class-musician 8[dead] ? 10 6mo +23m en.wikipedia.org 9[dead] ? 16 6mo +42m 10The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World 64 68 6mo +2h desktoponfire.com/haiku_inc/782/the-great-illusion-when-we-believed-beos-would-save-the-world-and-maybe-it-was-right 11The Book Cover Trend of Text on Old Paintings 13 21 6mo +3d nytimes.com/2025/06/21/books/review/book-cover-trends.html 12Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff 383 252 6mo +8m psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophrenia-is-the-price-we-pay 13Show HN: AGL a toy language that compiles to Go 12 83 6mo +3d github.com/alaingilbert/agl 14H1-B visas hurt one type of worker and exploit another 47 62 6mo +2h sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/h1-b-visas-hurt-one-type-of-worker-and-exploit-another-this-mess-must-be-fixed 15Memory Safe Languages: Reducing Vulnerabilities in Modern Software Development [pdf] 49 98 6mo +2h media.defense.gov/2025/Jun/23/2003742198/-1/-1/0/CSI_MEMORY_SAFE_LANGUAGES_REDUCING_VULNERABILITIES_IN_MODERN_SOFTWARE_DEVELOPMENT.PDF 16Show HN: Vet – A tool for safely running remote shell scripts 37 80 6mo +23m getvet.sh 17Evaluating Long-Context Question and Answer Systems 1 15 6mo +3d eugeneyan.com/writing/qa-evals 18Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants 22 61 6mo +1h reuters.com/world/americas/sinaloa-cartel-hacked-phones-surveillance-cameras-find-fbi-informants-doj-says-2025-06-27 19Meta Spends $14B to Hire a Single Guy 71 73 6mo +1h theahura.substack.com/p/tech-things-meta-spends-14b-to-hire 20NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy 50 34 6mo +1h novacustom.com 21AI fakes duel over impeachment of Vice-President in Phillipines 59 52 6mo +15m factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.63ZF9CP 22JavaScript Trademark Update 341 877 6mo +34m deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle4 23Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale 21 170 6mo +37m ubicloud.com/blog/life-of-an-inference-request-vllm-v1 24Why the moon shimmers with shiny glass beads 2 18 6mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-06-moon-shimmers-shiny-glass-beads.html 252025 ARRL Field Day 38 131 6mo +10m arrl.org/field-day 26Use Plaintext Email (2019) 112 117 6mo +48m useplaintext.email 27BYU study: Why some people choose not to use artificial intelligence 44 31 6mo +45m news.byu.edu/intellect/byu-study-finds-the-real-reasons-why-some-people-choose-not-to-use-artificial-intelligence 28Show HN: A Go service that exposes a FIFO message queue in RAM 22 17 6mo +3d github.com/raiyanyahya/zapq 29US Justice Department settles antitrust case for HPE's $14B takeover of Juniper 10 41 6mo +10m reuters.com/business/us-doj-settles-antitrust-case-hpes-14-billion-takeover-juniper-2025-06-28 30Is being bilingual good for your brain? 171 161 6mo +1h economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/06/27/is-being-bilingual-good-for-your-brain 31Boeing uses potatoes to test wi-fi (2012) 12 27 6mo +8m bbc.com/news/technology-20813441 32No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office 110 154 6mo +22m wired.com/story/us-copyright-office-chaos-doge 33Lima Site 85: How a CIA Helicopter Defended a Secret U.S. Radar Facility 30 23 6mo +26m aviacionline.com/lima-site-85-how-a-cia-helicopter-defended-a-secret-us-radar-facility 34What makes Europe better than America? 22 24 6mo +1h thefp.com/p/what-makes-europe-better-than-america 35Arrests of scientists over smuggled samples add to US border anxiety 10 39 6mo +1h nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01958-4 36Why is every successful tech founder an Ivy League graduate 21 13 6mo +45m 37Sirius: A GPU-native SQL engine 18 140 6mo +3h github.com/sirius-db/sirius 38Engineered Addictions 439 693 6mo +2h masonyarbrough.substack.com/p/engineered-addictions 39BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large 215 270 6mo +21m scottaaronson.blog/?p=8972 40Verifiably Correct Lifting of Position-Independent x86-64 Binaries (2024) 6 33 6mo +3d dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3658644.3690244 41Republican governors oppose 10-year moratorium on state AI laws in GOP tax bill 26 59 6mo +18m politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/27/congress/gop-govs-urge-thune-to-nix-ai-moratorium-00430083 42Jane Street's sneaky retention tactic 80 57 6mo +27m economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/06/26/jane-streets-sneaky-retention-tactic 43Ask HN: From the MIT study, is it smarter to resign than to use forced AI? 18 12 6mo +56m 44People Are Being Involuntarily Committed After Spiraling into ChatGPT Psychosis 86 62 6mo +1h futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis 45LLMs Bring New Nature of Abstraction 57 68 6mo +3d martinfowler.com/articles/2025-nature-abstraction.html 46The American Dream Is Broken. This $50M Bet Could Help Rebuild It 4 7 6mo +14m denver-frederick.com/2025/06/24/the-american-dream-is-broken-this-50-million-bet-could-help-rebuild-it 47Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk 59 125 6mo +35m akr.am/blog/posts/parsing-json-in-forty-lines-of-awk 48Ask HN: What are you actually using LLMs for in production? 66 49 6mo +41m 49ZeQLplus: Terminal SQLite Database Browser 14 78 6mo +2h github.com/ZetloStudio/ZeQLplus 50Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026 153 90 6mo +3d arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/microsoft-extends-free-windows-10-security-updates-into-2026-with-strings-attached 51The Coming Storm: How Mediterranean Water Collapse Could Reshape Britain 72 35 6mo +36m fromtheprism.com/mediterranean-water-crisis-britain.html 52MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System 344 784 6mo +3m worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin 53Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared 16 91 6mo +9m techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/facebook-is-asking-to-use-meta-ai-on-photos-in-your-camera-roll-you-havent-yet-shared 54C++ Seeding Surprises (2015) 25 36 6mo +2d pcg-random.org/posts/cpp-seeding-surprises.html 55Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity 29 33 6mo +6m pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/#trustbusting 56After successfully entering Earth's atmosphere, a European spacecraft is lost 41 72 6mo +3d arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/a-european-spacecraft-company-flies-its-vehicle-then-loses-it-after-reentry 57We ran a Unix-like OS on our home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (2020) 27 302 6mo +47m fuel.edby.coffee/posts/how-we-ported-xv6-os-to-a-home-built-cpu-with-a-home-built-c-compiler 58Texas brothers buy abandoned Boeing 727 for $10k 14 18 6mo +20m popsci.com/diy/texas-brothers-buy-abandoned-boeing-727 59Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator 15 59 6mo +3h rfleury.com/p/untangling-lifetimes-the-arena-allocator 60Finding Peter Putnam 67 93 6mo +2h nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035 61Lossless LLM 3x Throughput Increase by LMCache 51 152 6mo +3d github.com/LMCache/LMCache 62Lago (Open-Source Usage Based Billing) is hiring for ten roles 0 1 6mo +23s ycombinator.com/companies/lago/jobs 63Swarms of robots could go up your nose, melt the mucus and clean your sinuses 17 15 6mo +33m zmescience.com/future/swarms-of-tiny-robots-could-go-up-your-nose-melt-the-mucus-and-clean-your-sinuses 64Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death 56 198 6mo +1h theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/26/unheard-works-by-erik-satie-to-premiere-100-years-after-his-death 65A short history of web bots and bot detection techniques 16 73 6mo +3d sinja.io/blog/bot-or-not 66History of Cycling Maps 9 77 6mo +47m cyclemaps.blogspot.com 67Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening 129 64 6mo +3d koreaherald.com/article/10515737 68Engineer creates ad block for the real world with augmented reality glasses 135 211 6mo +5d tomshardware.com/maker-stem/engineer-creates-ad-block-for-the-real-world-with-augmented-reality-glasses-no-more-products-or-branding-in-your-everyday-life 69An Introduction to Tribalism for the Modern World That Has Forgotten It 82 80 6mo +4h sustainableviews.substack.com/p/an-introduction-to-tribalism-for 70Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know 5 24 6mo +13m astralcodexten.com/p/missing-heritability-much-more-than 71We need to talk about Saudi Arabia 62 42 6mo +1h architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion/we-need-to-talk-about-saudi-arabia 72Show HN: La Touche Musicale PianoConvert 4 8 6mo +3d latouchemusicale.com/en/apps/pianoconvert 73I will fix your vibe-coded MVP – sgnt.ai 3 19 6mo +1h sgnt.ai/p/vibe-coded 74Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable 14 67 6mo +7h cekrem.github.io/posts/programming-as-theory-building-naur 75AlphaGenome: AI for Better Understanding the Genome 2 73 6mo +2d deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome 76DeepSeek R2 launch stalled as CEO balks at progress 178 139 6mo +23h reuters.com/world/china/deepseek-r2-launch-stalled-ceo-balks-progress-information-reports-2025-06-26 77DR Congo and Rawanda signs a peace deal 14 31 6mo +8m bbc.com/news/articles/c1e0ggw7d43o 78IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites 1068 1375 6mo +5m haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000 79LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways 55 54 6mo +3d martinfowler.com/articles/2025-nature-abstraction.html 80Quantum Physics Is on the Wrong Track, Says Breakthrough Prize Winner 21 18 6mo +1h scientificamerican.com/article/breakthrough-prize-winner-gerard-t-hooft-says-quantum-mechanics-is-nonsense 81Hurricane Forecasters Lose Crucial Satellite Data, with Serious Implications 4 22 6mo +11m scientificamerican.com/article/weather-forecasters-lose-crucial-hurricane-detection-microwave-satellite 82New projects contribute to digital commons 11 74 6mo +2d nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250624-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html 83I deleted my second brain 342 562 6mo +31m joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain 84Dubai Reality Check: An Indian VC's Year of Truth 46 48 6mo +15m dealflowiq.com/p/dubai-reality-check-an-indian-vcs 85London's largest ancient Roman fresco is “most difficult jigsaw puzzle” 9 59 6mo +3d thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/mola-liberty-roman-fresco 86Why does Kars4Kids sends most of its money to one town in New Jersey? (2023) 31 78 6mo +12m mossplanet.news/p/why-does-kars4kids-sends-most-of 87A CES-winning plasma-powered deodorant that neutralizes odor without chemicals 7 14 6mo +43m newatlas.com/medical-devices/pladeo-plasma-deodorant-alternative 88The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set 19 51 6mo +2d folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html 89What CSS length unit should you use? 2 10 6mo +3d whatunit.com 90Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared 367 506 6mo +1h theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll 91Does a Focus on Royalty Obscure British History? 19 41 6mo +3d historytoday.com/archive/head-head/does-focus-royalty-obscure-british-history 92Multi-Stage Programming with Splice Variables 12 53 6mo +1h tsung-ju.org/icfp25 93Ask HN: How do you learn Spanish guitar? 41 20 6mo +3d 94Theoretical Analysis of Positional Encodings in Transformer Models 3 36 6mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2506.06398 95 More... 2025.06.27