HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees 44 185 6mo +2d dolthub.com/blog/2025-06-03-people-keep-inventing-prolly-trees 1GPEmu: A GPU emulator for rapid, low-cost deep learning prototyping [pdf] 12 79 6mo +47m vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p1919-wang.pdf 2Public Signal Backups Testing 39 74 6mo +3h community.signalusers.org/t/public-signal-backups-testing/69984 3Brazil's Supreme Court clears way to hold social media liable for user content 37 53 6mo +2h apnews.com/article/brazil-supreme-court-social-media-ruling-324b9d79caa9f9e063da8a4993e382e1 4AI is Anti-Human (and assorted qualifications) 10 33 6mo +2m njump.me/naddr1qqxnzde58yerxv3exycrsdpjqgsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgsrqsqqqa28nmz2vk 5My Database Is My Application: Rethinking Webhook Logic with DuckDB and SQL 5 29 6mo +2h hey.earth/posts/duckdb-webhook-gateway 6Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg 192 125 6mo +2h japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/24/japan/japan-rice-price-falls-below-4000 7Corruption Database – DJT 9 30 6mo +21m github.com/codeddarkness/taco_pardons 8Jim Boddie codeveloped the first successful DSP at Bell Labs 2 52 6mo +34m spectrum.ieee.org/dsp-pioneer-jim-boddie 9Making a $20 smart boombox [video] 3 8 6mo +2d youtube.com/watch?v=P3XCPywlXBI 10I got an ambulance ride, CT scan and ER care in Brazil. My bill: $0 15 18 6mo +10m washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/29/brazil-health-care-sus-hospitals 11CertMate – SSL Certificate Management System 22 37 6mo +1h github.com/fabriziosalmi/certmate 12Creating fair dice from random objects 25 40 6mo +2d arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/your-next-gaming-dice-could-be-shaped-like-a-dragon-or-armadillo 13Entropy of a Mixture 5 53 6mo +21m cgad.ski/blog/entropy-of-a-mixture.html 14End of an Era 53 211 6mo +1h erasmatazz.com/personal/self/end-of-an-era.html 15The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering 509 878 6mo +19m philschmid.de/context-engineering 16Show HN: We're two coffee nerds who built an AI app to track beans and recipes 52 58 6mo +2h beanbook.app 17The original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) compressor source code has been released 10 122 6mo +1h clownacy.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/the-original-lzexe-a-k-a-kosinski-compressor-source-code-has-been-released 18Jacobi Ellipsoid 8 34 6mo +2d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobi_ellipsoid 19Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion 493 650 6mo +1h xfinity.com/support/articles/wifi-motion 20Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi 7 40 6mo +7m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/senate-gop-budget-bill-has-little-noticed-provision-that-could-hurt-your-wi-fi 21'Generali' sign atop insurer's skyscraper offices collapses in Milan 6 16 6mo +13m reuters.com/en/generali-sign-atop-insurers-skyscraper-offices-collapses-milan-2025-06-30 22Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri 101 95 6mo +42m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30/apple-weighs-replacing-siri-s-ai-llms-with-anthropic-claude-or-openai-chatgpt 23Ask HN: 80s electronics book club; anyone remember this illustrator? 23 34 6mo +2d 24Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved 60 149 6mo +51m blog.pragmaticengineer.com/datadog-65m-year-customer-mystery 25The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port 35 241 6mo +27m linaro.org/blog/hidden-jtag-qualcomm-snapdragon-usb 26Why we should care about this war over the future of money 32 18 6mo +47m gizmodo.com/why-you-should-care-about-this-war-over-the-future-of-money-2000622009 27Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers 619 641 6mo +49m proton.me/blog/apple-lawsuit 28OpenTelemetry Is Great, but Who the Hell Is Going to Pay for It? 38 58 6mo +7m adatosystems.com/2025/02/10/who-the-hell-is-going-to-pay-for-this 29Researching LED Displays for the Time Circuits 8 29 6mo +2d partsnotincluded.com/researching-time-circuit-led-displays 30Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder 86 113 6mo +27m kevinboone.me/dtc-700.html 31Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI? 117 221 6mo +10m 32Therapy dogs: stop crafting loopholes to fair, reasonable laws 146 63 6mo +24m dirtamericana.com/2025/04/therapy-dogs-business-interior-violations 33Operation Gold Rush, largest health care fraud bust in U.S. history 10 29 6mo +13m washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/30/health-care-fraud-bust-largest-in-us-history 34Why are lefties more creative? Turns out, they're not 3 19 6mo +31m phys.org/news/2025-06-lefties-creative-theyre.html 35I write type-safe generic data structures in C 178 407 6mo +39m danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures 36Asynchronous Error Handling Is Hard 37 41 6mo +20h parallelprogrammer.substack.com/p/asynchronous-error-handling-is-hard 37A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life 105 96 6mo +55m spectrum.ieee.org/carmax-used-pcs 38Helix: A Modern, High-Performance Language 58 41 6mo +3h github.com/helixlang/helix-lang 3914.ai (YC W24) hiring founding engineers in SF to build a Zendesk alternative 0 1 6mo +4s 14.ai/careers 40Cloud-forming isoprene and terpenes from crops may drastically improve climate 40 65 6mo +3h smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-are-just-beginning-to-understand-how-life-makes-clouds-and-their-discoveries-may-drastically-improve-climate-science-180986872 41There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets 277 478 6mo +2h blog.jxmo.io/p/there-are-no-new-ideas-in-ai-only 42Bans on gas-powered leaf blowers are spreading around the US 22 23 6mo +9m usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/31/gas-powered-leaf-blowers-banned/83966488007 43Auth for B2B SaaS: it's not like auth for consumer software 44 73 6mo +1h tesseral.com/blog/b2b-auth-isnt-that-similar-to-b2c-auth 44Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027 11 54 6mo +30m dynomight.net/scribbles 45Shadow of a Doubt 8 18 6mo +2d harpers.org/archive/2025/07/shadow-of-a-doubt-ocd-andrew-kay 46The role of the University is to resist AI 46 67 6mo +3m danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html 47Make Fun of Them 38 53 6mo +52m wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-them 48The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia 165 76 6mo +26m sigops.org/2025/the-academic-pipeline-stall-why-industry-must-stand-for-academia 49Ubuntu: Introducing Debcrafters 47 56 6mo +59m discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-debcrafters/63674 50Data Centers, Temperature, and Power 14 60 6mo +2d backblaze.com/blog/data-centers-temperature-and-power 51New MacBook with A18 Pro Chip Spotted in Apple Code 10 17 6mo +13m macrumors.com/2025/06/30/new-macbook-with-a18-chip-spotted 52What's stopping America from going all-in on heat pumps? 40 19 6mo +6m climatedrift.substack.com/p/whats-stopping-america-from-going 53Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus 63 262 6mo +2m jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/dkc2-open-bus 54Reverse Engineering Vercel's BotID 18 109 6mo +2h nullpt.rs/reversing-botid 55How urea forms spontaneously 1 26 6mo +8m ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/06/how-urea-forms-spontaneously.html 56Printegrated Circuits: Merging 3D Printing and Electronics 31 79 6mo +3h spectrum.ieee.org/3d-printing-smart-objects 57Show HN: Open-Source International Space Station Tracker ESP32/Arduino for $20 18 71 6mo +2d github.com/GuitarML/SpaceStationTracker 58Congress might block state AI laws for a decade 21 23 6mo +31m techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/congress-might-block-state-ai-laws-for-a-decade-heres-what-it-means 59Oracle signed $30B per year cloud deal with mystery customer 14 24 6mo +13m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30/oracle-signed-cloud-services-deal-worth-30-billion-a-year 60If AI Lets Us Do More in Less Time–Why Not Shorten the Workweek? 185 72 6mo +4h sfg.media/en/a/if-ai-lets-us-do-more-in-less-time 61What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? 111 47 6mo +2h newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-end-of-the-english-paper 62Entry-level jobs down by a third since launch of ChatGPT 174 122 6mo +1h personneltoday.com/hr/fall-in-entry-level-jobs-linked-to-rise-of-ai-tools 63So you want to serialize some DER? 16 75 6mo +2d alexgaynor.net/2025/jun/20/serialize-some-der 64Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta 87 247 6mo +1h untested.sonnet.io/notes/new-enso-first-public-beta 65Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's Tiktoken 72 277 6mo +5m github.com/M4THYOU/TokenDagger 66Show HN: I built a daily sunlight tracker 33 44 6mo +3d lumehealth.io/products 67Positive link between cannabis use and 'Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events' 62 40 6mo +2h heart.bmj.com/content/early/2025/06/10/heartjnl-2024-325429 68[dead] ? 6 6mo +28m thecradle.co 691000 Days Without Drinking 29 40 6mo +11m andrew-quinn.me/1000-days-without-drinking 70Microsoft rolls out Windows security changes to prevent another CrowdStrike 1 7 6mo +3m zdnet.com/article/microsoft-rolls-out-windows-security-changes-to-prevent-another-crowdstrike-meltdown 71The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish 44 190 6mo +2d scottandrew.com/blog/2025/06/you-can-now-play-plot-of-the-phantom-the-text-adventure-game 72Gartner Predicts over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027 12 29 6mo +24m gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-25-gartner-predicts-over-40-percent-of-agentic-ai-projects-will-be-canceled-by-end-of-2027 73GOP Bill Adds Surprise Tax That Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power 10 36 6mo +31m nytimes.com/2025/06/29/climate/gop-bill-adds-surprise-tax-that-could-cripple-wind-and-solar-power.html 74OpenTyrian2000 – multi platform SDL3 version of Tyrian 2000 released 2 13 6mo +19m github.com/andyvand/opentyrian2000/releases/tag/3.0.0-SDL3 75Huawei Patents 3,000km Solid-State Battery with 5-Minute Charge 40 24 6mo +8m carnewschina.com/2025/06/18/huaweis-3000km-solid-state-battery-patent-with-5-minute-charge-ignites-industry-race 76The provenance memory model for C 142 222 6mo +1h gustedt.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/the-provenance-memory-model-for-c 77A rare asteroid flyby will happen soon, but NASA may be left on the sidelines 22 33 6mo +2m arstechnica.com/features/2025/06/trump-budget-kills-nasas-golden-opportunity-to-see-a-killer-asteroid-up-close 78Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel 62 96 6mo +3d theverge.com/news/692637/microsoft-windows-kernel-antivirus-changes 79Does Form Shape Function? 5 30 6mo +2d quantamagazine.org/does-form-really-shape-function-20250612 80Thousands in Norway told they had won life-changing sums in lottery error 44 45 6mo +13m theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/29/thousands-in-norway-told-they-had-won-life-changing-sums-in-lottery-error 81New proof dramatically compresses space needed for computation 96 188 6mo +2d scientificamerican.com/article/new-proof-dramatically-compresses-space-needed-for-computation 82Cross-Compiling Common Lisp for Windows 9 71 6mo +2d fosskers.ca/en/blog/cl-windows 83Louvre shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism 26 16 6mo +27m washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/16/louvre-museum-paris-closed-lines-delay/2b303a16-4a9f-11f0-8fff-262d6ec54ab9_story.html 84To the Postbox 0 9 6mo +2d literaryreview.co.uk/to-the-postbox 85Want to meet people, try charging them for it? 90 190 6mo +46m notes.eatonphil.com/2025-06-28-want-to-meet-people-charge-them.html 86LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended 137 178 6mo +1h letsencrypt.org/2025/06/26/expiration-notification-service-has-ended 87Jane Austen's Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood 16 96 6mo +2d nytimes.com/2025/06/27/books/review/jane-austen-mansfield-park.html 88LLM's Illusion of Alignment 38 56 6mo +3h systemicmisalignment.com 89That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose 64 80 6mo +5m theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/customer-service-sludge/683340 90Bought myself an Ampere Altra system 94 201 6mo +37m marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2025/06/27/bought-myself-an-ampere-altra-system 91Ultrasound toothbrush promises painless checks for hidden gum problems 77 93 6mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-06-ultrasound-toothbrush-painless-hidden-gum.html 92Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system 176 426 6mo +1h gridfinity.xyz 93Continuous Glucose Monitoring 114 114 6mo +2h imperialviolet.org/2025/06/29/cgm.html 94NativeJIT: A C++ expression –> x64 JIT (2018) 46 75 6mo +1h github.com/BitFunnel/NativeJIT 95Building untrusted container images safely at scale 27 27 6mo +3d depot.dev/blog/container-security-at-scale-building-untrusted-images-safely 96Ask HN: Is the header CSS broken for you? 13 45 6mo +2h 97Touching the back wall of the Apple store 211 252 6mo +3d blog.lauramichet.com/touching-the-back-wall-of-the-apple-store 98Use keyword-only arguments in Python dataclasses 52 95 6mo +2h chipx86.blog/2025/06/29/tip-use-keyword-only-arguments-in-python-dataclasses 99[dead] ? 9 6mo +2h github.com 100ICE test train reaches speeds of up to 405.0 km/h 147 111 6mo +4h deutschebahn.com/de/presse/pressestart_zentrales_uebersicht/ICE-Testzug-faehrt-bis-zu-405-0-km-h-und-sammelt-wichtige-Erkenntnisse-fuer-den-Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr-13428394 101My home servers are not a homelab 98 57 6mo +53m blog.nradk.com/posts/homelab 102A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly 66 126 6mo +3d cnn.com/2025/06/24/science/amber-insect-zombie-fungi-fossil 103The Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes 100 109 6mo +1h washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/29/mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan-school-closure 104She Got a Permit for Her Chickens. Now the City Is Fining Her $80k 69 50 6mo +12m reason.com/2025/06/28/she-got-a-permit-for-her-chickens-now-the-city-is-fining-her-80000 105WorldVLA: Towards Autoregressive Action World Model 2 25 6mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2506.21539 106Oldest boomerang doesn't come back 10 6 6mo +3d bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cren818q5x1o 107Anticheat Update Tracking 67 123 6mo +4h not-matthias.github.io/posts/anticheat-update-tracking 108The $25k car is going extinct? 1097 317 6mo +9h media.hubspot.com/why-the-25000-car-is-going-extinct 109Commodore acquired for a 'low seven figure' price – CEO from retro community 16 74 6mo +1h tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-acquired-for-a-low-seven-figure-price-new-acting-ceo-comes-from-the-retro-community 110The Book of Shaders (2015) 24 187 6mo +3d thebookofshaders.com 111Several Anker power bank models recalled: Supplier's batteries pose fire hazard 19 28 6mo +38m heise.de/en/news/Fire-hazard-Anker-recalls-several-power-bank-models-also-in-Germany-10463193.html 112 More... 2025.06.29