HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020) 64 166 6mo +1h mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram 1The End of US Democracy 11 21 6mo +16m crookedtimber.org/2025/06/29/the-end-of-us-democracy 2Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in four African nations 116 179 6mo +5m dw.com/en/nearly-20-of-cancer-drugs-defective-in-4-african-nations/a-73062221 3Bitcoin's Security Budget Issue: Problems, Solutions and Myths Debunked 66 64 6mo +47m budget.day 4Raymond Laflamme (1960-2025) 2 27 6mo +2d scottaaronson.blog/?p=8949 5China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide 98 140 6mo +1h oceana.org/press-releases/china-dominates-44-of-visible-fishing-activity-worldwide 6Honda Joins Space Race by Launching Successful Reusable Rocket 8 49 6mo +40m forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2025/06/22/as-spacex-explodes-again-honda-successfully-launches-reusable-rocket 7Reverse Engineering the Microchip CLB 10 43 6mo +1h mcp-clb.markomo.mehttp:// 8Modelling API rate limits as diophantine inequalities 6 74 6mo +2d vivekn.dev/blog/rate-limit-diophantine 9Cell Towers Can Double as Cheap Radar Systems for Ports and Harbors (2014) 70 134 6mo +15m spectrum.ieee.org/cell-tower-signals-can-improve-port-security 10Tesla sales drop for fifth month in a row in Europe 172 151 6mo +7m abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/europeans-angry-musk-buying-cars-tesla-sales-drop-123203026 11EU to ban carry-on baggage fees 112 71 6mo +15m bbc.com/travel/article/20250627-the-big-change-affecting-european-travel 12Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) 1314 418 6mo +1h 13ZeroRISC Gets $10M Funding, Says Open-Source Silicon Security Inevitable 9 49 6mo +28m eetimes.com/zerorisc-gets-10-million-funding-says-open-source-silicon-security-inevitable 14Show HN: Summle – A little maths Game 10 26 6mo +3d summle.net 15Show HN: Rust -> WASM, K-Means Color Quantization Crate for Image-to-Pixel-Art 6 37 6mo +3d github.com/gametorch/image_to_pixel_art_wasm 16Error handling in Rust 143 157 6mo +1m felix-knorr.net/posts/2025-06-29-rust-error-handling.html 17Revisiting Knuth's “Premature Optimization” Paper 139 190 6mo +3d probablydance.com/2025/06/19/revisiting-knuths-premature-optimization-paper 18The Asymmetry of Destruction 3 17 6mo +7m passingtime.substack.com/p/the-asymmetry-of-destruction 19Unhooking from Amazon Ebooks 79 67 6mo +29m remysharp.com/2025/06/29/unhooking-from-amazon-ebooks 20CEOs say AI is just a tool to help workers, but our jobs are already on the line 71 47 6mo +3m gizmodo.com/ceos-are-quietly-telling-us-the-truth-ai-is-replacing-you-2000621907 21Show HN: Sharpe Ratio Calculation Tool 16 22 6mo +1h fundratios.com 22Tell HN: (dictionary|thesaurus).reference.com is now a spam site 13 51 6mo +28m 23Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021) 216 402 6mo +35m krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate 24Most ints are not floats 89 54 6mo +2d johndcook.com/blog/2025/06/27/most-ints-are-not-floats 25Agile Was Never Your Problem 9 14 6mo +30m thecynical.dev/posts/agile-was-never-your-problem 26Europe's First Exascale Supercomputer Powers Up 2 22 6mo +2h spectrum.ieee.org/jupiter-exascale-supercomputer-europe 27Tools I love: mise(-en-place) 48 173 6mo +19m blog.vbang.dk/2025/06/29/tools-i-love-mise 28Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades' 151 310 6mo +24m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/28/noaa-cuts-hurricane-forecasting-climate 29Show HN: A tool to benchmark LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, local/self-hosted) 9 52 6mo +2h llmapitest.com 30Web Numbers 52 34 6mo +2d ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers 31[dead] ? 8 6mo +56m henryjacksonsociety.org 32Public Lands Sell-Off Is Struck from the GOP Policy Bill 17 65 6mo +27m nytimes.com/2025/06/28/climate/public-lands-sell-off-dropped-mike-lee.html 33[dead] ? 13 6mo +4m nytimes.com 34America's Coming Smoke Epidemic 23 75 6mo +28m theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/06/wildfire-smoke-epidemic/683343 35Europe approves first saliva-based contraceptive – no pill required 56 74 6mo +3h thenextweb.com/news/europe-approves-first-saliva-based-contraceptive-no-pill-required 36Event – Fast, In-Process Event Dispatcher 37 168 6mo +2h github.com/kelindar/event 37Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field 153 202 6mo +3m science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads7908 38Why Go Rocks for Building a Lua Interpreter 59 90 6mo +3d zombiezen.com/blog/2025/06/why-go-rocks-for-building-lua-interpreter 39Beyond the Hook: A Technical Deep Dive into Modern Phishing Methodologies 1 14 6mo +42m blog.quarkslab.com/./technical-dive-into-modern-phishing.html 40[dead] ? 18 6mo +10m mastodon.social 41We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube 165 207 6mo +11m ksagar.bearblog.dev/vjepa 42Brad Woods Digital Garden 4 78 6mo +2d garden.bradwoods.io 43The Consciousness Gradient: When Machines Begin to Wonder 38 33 6mo +9m v1tali.com/ai-consciousness 44The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger 52 58 6mo +9m wired.com/story/generative-ai-backlash 45The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System [pdf] 28 115 6mo +26m interlisp.org/documentation/young-ccece2025.pdf 46AI might undermine Kobo, one of the better alternatives to the Kindle 1 8 6mo +5m engadget.com/ai/ai-might-undermine-one-of-the-better-alternatives-to-the-kindle-123039955.html 47Scientists Retrace 30k-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log 23 45 6mo +3d nytimes.com/2025/06/25/science/anthropology-ocean-migration-japan.html 48YouTube: Robotic translation annoys users and cannot be turned off 33 37 6mo +9m heise.de/en/news/YouTube-auto-dubbing-Robotic-translation-annoys-users-and-cannot-be-turned-off-10315551.html 49I made my VM think it has a CPU fan 182 658 6mo +11m wbenny.github.io/2025/06/29/i-made-my-vm-think-it-has-a-cpu-fan.html 50Performance Debugging with LLVM-mca: Simulating the CPU 6 22 6mo +24m johnnysswlab.com/performance-debugging-with-llvm-mca-simulating-the-cpu 51Show HN: SmartStepper – Multi-Step Form Library with Config-Based Flow 5 14 6mo +4m github.com/Miladxsar23/smartstepper 52What LLMs Know About Their Users 35 92 6mo +3d schneier.com 53Implementing fast TCP fingerprinting with eBPF 39 103 6mo +2h halb.it/posts/ebpf-fingerprinting-1 54Bloom Filters by Example 35 236 6mo +1h llimllib.github.io/bloomfilter-tutorial 55Mediterranean Water Crisis: The Math Behind Why "Simple" Solutions Won't Work 5 8 6mo +37m fromtheprism.com/behind-the-numbers.html 56Toyota RAV4 topples Tesla Model Y as best-selling car 29 21 6mo +1h carexpert.com.au/car-news/toyota-rav4-topples-tesla-model-y-as-worlds-best-selling-car 57How to leave the house 68 55 6mo +2d buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-leave-the-house 58Show HN: Octelium – FOSS Alternative to Teleport, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Ngrok 147 343 6mo +1h github.com/octelium/octelium 59On the capacity, performance, and reliability of microSD cards 1 13 6mo +51m bahjeez.com/the-great-microsd-card-survey 60AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of time, and many aren't AI at all 23 43 6mo +40m theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot 61A Framework for Recognizing Emergent Consciousness in AI 36 8 6mo +15m habr.com/en/articles/922894 62Bulgaria to Adopt the Euro 49 53 6mo +46m euronews.com/business/2025/06/05/bulgaria-to-adopt-the-euro-how-do-countries-join-the-eurozone 63Show HN: A different kind of AI Video generation 19 44 6mo +3d 64Abusing copyright strings to trick SW into thinking it's running competitor's PC 19 69 6mo +3d devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250624-00/?p=111299 65Shenzhou-20 astronauts complete second spacewalk to enhance Tiangong station 13 53 6mo +4m spacenews.com/chinas-shenzhou-20-astronauts-complete-second-spacewalk-to-enhance-tiangong-space-station 66Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers 83 58 6mo +59m newyorker.com/books/under-review/did-lead-poisoning-create-a-generation-of-serial-killers 67What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles/squares? 56 72 6mo +2d retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/31806/what-ui-first-distinguished-radio-buttons-from-checkboxes-with-circles-and-squar 68AI slop security reports submitted to curl 20 96 6mo +57m gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d1cd 69Sequence and first differences together list all positive numbers exactly once 29 81 6mo +3d oeis.org/A005228 70Magnetic Tape Storage Technology: usage, history, and future outlook 29 50 6mo +2h dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3708997 71Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity 129 292 6mo +21m jamesmcm.github.io/blog/no-ipv4 72G7 agrees to exempt U.S. multinationals from global minimum tax 70 62 6mo +1h thehindu.com/news/international/g7-agrees-to-exempt-us-multinationals-from-global-minimum-tax/article69749671.ece 73The Unsustainability of Moore's Law 123 140 6mo +1h bzolang.blog/p/the-unsustainability-of-moores-law 74[dead] ? 9 6mo +23m thetimes.com 75More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad 620 940 6mo +25m daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-eroding_f1_the_movie_wallet_ad 76Google Gemini is about to control your messages and calls, even if you say no 61 68 6mo +8m laptopmag.com/ai/gemini-phone-access-update 77[dead] ? 5 6mo +14m truthforge.substack.com 78Brave creates new TLD on the blockchain 71 40 6mo +1h brave.com/blog/brave-tld 79It's Known as 'The List'–and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses 21 32 6mo +17m wsj.com/tech/meta-ai-recruiting-mark-zuckerberg-openai-018ed7fc 80Douglas Hofstadter on Loops, Beauty, Free Will, AI, God, Utopia and Gaza 3 37 6mo +1h johnhorgan.org/cross-check/hofstadter-on-strange-loops-beauty-free-will-ai-god-utopia-and-gaza 81The Perils of 'Design Thinking' 63 51 6mo +2d theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/06/invention-of-design-maggie-gram-book-review/683302 82Improving River Simulation 2 82 6mo +3d undiscoveredworlds.blogspot.com/2025/04/improving-river-simulation.html 83Against AI: An Open Letter from Writers to Publishers 26 30 6mo +1h lithub.com/against-ai-an-open-letter-from-writers-to-publishers 84Show HN: SVG Lined Tile Generator 6 27 6mo +3d adpreese.github.io/svg-lined-tiles 85The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins 2 42 6mo +2d nytimes.com/2025/06/24/magazine/pigeons-city-nature.html 86[dead] ? 16 6mo +2m theregister.com 87Blackwell: Nvidia's GPU 31 109 6mo +2h chipsandcheese.com/p/blackwell-nvidias-massive-gpu 88Blackwell: Nvidia's GPU 1 9 6mo +1h old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/06/28/blackwell-nvidias-massive-gpu 89Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore 52 104 6mo +5h amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-06-00123-EN.html 90Tennis Scorigami 14 48 6mo +2d tennis-scorigami.com 91Vancouver man says institutions unable to recognize new Indigenous street name 4 20 6mo +25m globalnews.ca/news/11265368/vancouver-man-institutions-new-indigenous-street-name 92Universal pre-training by iterated random computation 6 36 6mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2506.20057 93Generative AI's failure to induce robust models of the world 81 74 6mo +1h garymarcus.substack.com/p/generative-ais-crippling-and-widespread 94Infrastructure at Roblox 67 77 6mo +3d corp.roblox.com/newsroom/2025/06/roblox-infrastructure-supporting-record-breaking-games 95Check out how AI is reshaping creator marketing with real data insights 1 5 6mo +22m old.reddit.com/r/IndiaBusiness/comments/1ln2jd2/hey_folks_ever_wondered_how_those_ancient_folk 96Satellites keep breaking up in space. Insurance won't cover them 13 36 6mo +36m space.com/space-exploration/satellites/satellites-keep-breaking-up-in-space-insurance-wont-cover-them 97Gradient Descent Visualiser 5 37 6mo +3d uclaacm.github.io/gradient-descent-visualiser 98Refurb weekend: Gremlin Blasto arcade board 2 36 6mo +9m oldvcr.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/06/refurb-weekend-gremlin-blasto-arcade.html 99 More... 2025.06.28