HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Manipulating trapped air bubbles in ice for message storage in cold regions 24 64 6mo +3d cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(25)00221-8 1Show HN: I rewrote my notepad calculator as a local-first app with CRDT syncing 19 44 6mo +3d numpad.io 2Michael Madsen has died 36 117 6mo +13m nytimes.com/2025/07/03/movies/michael-madsen-dead.html 3Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements 45 124 6mo +2d omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-riscv-rva23-support 4[dead] ? 24 6mo +50m theguardian.com 5High-fidelity simultaneous speech-to-speech translation 56 112 6mo +36m arxiv.org/abs/2502.03382 6Converge (YC S23) well-capitalized New York startup seeks product developers 0 1 6mo +33s runconverge.com/careers 7A Molecule with a Ring to It 3 14 6mo +3d nature.com/articles/nchem.2136.epdf?sharing_token=hRx0lE9vx6IFSD8RNjlkt9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NkK8XuUq3ovPVrg0CNW6qYCGw36QcUXFlo2avOxUtCSNAsbMSBPX8wFBlZv8P860KSW4WO92WlnMeaFn-hvLogqvIMMh4rfXEfTbGiPDApjw%3D%3D 8Yurei – Open source social media researcher powered by Exa AI API and YouTube v3 3 38 6mo +13m github.com/KasPeR0990/yurei-app 9Wind Knitting Factory 60 261 6mo +7m merelkarhof.nl/work/wind-knitting-factory 10Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work 81 320 6mo +5h joincolossus.com/article/flounder-mode 11An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf 14 113 6mo +2d cacm.acm.org/news/an-algorithm-for-a-better-bookshelf 12Samsung delays $44B Texas chip fab – sources: 'there are no customers' 2 19 6mo +26m tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/samsung-delays-usd44-billion-texas-chip-fab-sources-say-completion-halted-because-there-are-no-customers 13Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization 124 133 6mo +2d buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/caching-is-an-abstraction-not-an-optimization 14Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland 51 86 6mo +43m cleveland.com/news/2025/07/mysterious-life-form-found-on-ship-that-docked-in-cleveland.html 15The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning 73 113 6mo +24m sutro.sh/blog/the-end-of-moore-s-law-for-ai-gemini-flash-offers-a-warning 16Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology 186 327 6mo +11m blog.google/technology/safety-security/opening-up-zero-knowledge-proof-technology-to-promote-privacy-in-age-assurance 17Stalking the Statistically Improbable Restaurant with Data 38 79 6mo +4m ethanzuckerman.com/2025/07/03/stalking-the-statistically-improbable-restaurant-with-data 18EBAF – eBPF Based Ad Firewall 47 39 6mo +1h github.com/Kazedaa/eBAF 19ViscaCamLink – Camera control application for PTZ cameras 11 29 6mo +2d github.com/misorrek/ViscaCamLink 20Postcard is now open source 33 120 6mo +15m contraption.co/postcard-open-source 21AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening 212 252 6mo +17m netflixtechblog.com/av1-scale-film-grain-synthesis-the-awakening-ee09cfdff40b 22Launch HN: K-Scale Labs (YC W24) – Open-Source Humanoid Robots 95 223 6mo +1m 23AI for Scientific Search 31 122 6mo +58m arxiv.org/abs/2507.01903 24Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) 19 64 6mo +5m ednamode.xyz/blogs/2.html 25Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase 125 200 6mo +21m github.com/zserge/pennybase 26Copper is Faster than Fiber (2017) [pdf] 74 84 6mo +1d arista.com/assets/data/pdf/Copper-Faster-Than-Fiber-Brief.pdf 27Parallelizing SHA256 Calculation on FPGA 31 65 6mo +22m controlpaths.com/2025/06/29/parallelizing_sha256-calculation-fpga 28Introducing tmux-rs 284 835 6mo +3m richardscollin.github.io/tmux-rs 29Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent 176 152 6mo +2d allenpike.com/2025/coding-agents 30Peasant Railgun 191 279 6mo +45m knightsdigest.com/what-exactly-is-the-peasant-railgun-in-dd-5e 31Where is my von Braun wheel? 123 178 6mo +1h angadh.com/wherevonbraunwheel 32Doom Didn't Kill the Amiga (2024) 112 62 6mo +35m datagubbe.se/afb 33Locality of Behaviour (2020) 60 106 6mo +2m htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour 34Importance of context management in AI NPCs 26 58 6mo +2d walterfreedom.com/post.html?id=ai-context-management 35Head in the Clouds 2 16 6mo +3m commonwealmagazine.org/head-clouds 36Show HN: HomeBrew HN – Generate personal context for content ranking 48 122 6mo +29m hackernews.coffee 37The uv build back end is now stable 74 129 6mo +1h docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/build-backend 38Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland 26 155 6mo +2d arxiv.org/abs/2404.17625 39US agencies' science journal subscriptions canceled 5 14 6mo +32m semafor.com/article/07/03/2025/us-agencies-scientific-journal-subscriptions-canceled 40How I keep up with AI progress (and why you must too) 2 15 6mo +2h blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/06/23/how-i-keep-up-with-ai-progress 41Tools: Code Is All You Need 221 302 6mo +1h lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/3/tools 42[dead] ? 15 6mo +13m thegrayzone.com 43CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app 55 75 6mo +38m comaps.app/news/2025-07-03/Announcing-Navigate-with-Privacy-Discover-more-of-your-journey 44Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring Enterprise BDRs 0 1 6mo +29s ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/F1XERLm-enterprise-business-development-representative 45The story of Max, a real programmer 93 129 6mo +2d incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/the-story-of-max.html 46Building Linux kernel on macOS natively 6 26 6mo +1h seiya.me/blog/building-linux-on-macos-natively 47[dead] ? 8 6mo +1h gnet-research.org 48[dead] ? 13 6mo +24m timesofisrael.com 49About AI Evals 43 186 6mo +2d hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals-faq 50What's the difference between named functions and arrow functions in JavaScript? 20 46 6mo +3d jrsinclair.com/articles/2025/whats-the-difference-between-named-functions-and-arrow-functions 51Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck 382 753 6mo +2d ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneck 52Serenading Cells with Audible Sound Alters Gene Activity 5 27 6mo +2d scientificamerican.com/article/cells-can-hear-sounds-and-respond-genetically 53There's no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) (2021) 55 47 6mo +2d eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree 54I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets 110 199 6mo +3m trufflesecurity.com/blog/guest-post-how-i-scanned-all-of-github-s-oops-commits-for-leaked-secrets 55We reimagined Transformer architectures inspired by nature's hidden structures 9 10 6mo +23m ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10754699 56Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say 75 115 6mo +20m nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-trump-deportation.html 57Demonstration of Algorithmic Quantum Speedup for an Abelian Hidden Subgroup 13 36 6mo +2h journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.15.021082 58I'm a physicist by trade, not by training, and that matters 1 12 6mo +1d csferrie.medium.com/im-a-physicist-by-trade-not-by-training-and-that-matters-70cd0e66b2c8 59NIH Scientists Link Air Pollution and Lung Cancer Mutations in Non-Smokers 1 32 6mo +1h insideclimatenews.org/news/02072025/air-pollution-linked-to-lung-cancer-mutations 60LLMs as Compilers 55 34 6mo +3h resync-games.com/blog/engineering/llms-as-compiler 61Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System 171 307 6mo +1h abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-03/3i-atlas-a11pl3z-interstellar-object-in-our-solar-system/105489180 62Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video] 152 290 6mo +1d youtube.com/watch?v=_PioN-CpOP0 63Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app 354 183 6mo +2d cnet.com/tech/microsoft-will-delete-your-passwords-in-one-month-do-this-asap 64Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON 32 141 6mo +3h github.com/c4pt0r/gmailtail 65The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful 195 87 6mo +1h jonmagic.com/posts/the-uncertain-future-of-coding-careers-and-why-im-still-hopeful 66Conversations with a hit man 21 145 6mo +1d magazine.atavist.com/confessions-of-a-hit-man-larry-thompson-jim-leslie-george-dartois-louisiana-shreveport-cold-case 67[dead] ? 75 6mo +40m theguardian.com 68Trans-Taiga Road (2004) 91 153 6mo +1h jamesbayroad.com/ttr/index.html 69A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel 52 226 6mo +7h blog.janestreet.com/a-higgs-bugson-in-the-linux-kernel 70Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling 60 119 6mo +2d jhuapl.edu/news/news-releases/250521-apl-thermoelectrics-enable-compressor-free-cooling 71Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian 103 149 6mo +55m nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09195-5 72The "personal computer" model scales better than the "terminal" model 20 33 6mo +1d utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/ScalingTerminalsVsPCs 73What to build instead of AI agents 116 233 6mo +37m decodingml.substack.com/p/stop-building-ai-agents 74 More... 2025.07.02