HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order The Amiga 3000 Unix and Sun Microsystems: Deal or No Deal? 29 75 6mo +2h datagubbe.se/amix 1Who is Soham Parekh, the serial moonlighter Silicon Valley can't stop hiring? 64 45 6mo +13m techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/who-is-soham-parekh-the-serial-moonlighter-silicon-valley-startups-cant-stop-hiring 2Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding? 86 69 6mo +44m 3Chasing Lost Languages 5 18 6mo +3d nautil.us/chasing-lost-languages-1221167 4Nvidia won, we all lost 549 927 6mo +40m blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/posts/nvidia-is-full-of-shit 5Tesla's Cybertruck flop is historic. The brand collapse is even worse 56 80 6mo +19m dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/3/2331384/-Tesla-s-Cybertruck-flop-is-historic-The-brand-collapse-is-even-worse 6Robots move Shanghai city block [video] 52 148 6mo +1d youtube.com/watch?v=7ZccC9BnT8k 7Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage 202 712 6mo +38m maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-ambitious-is-a-clever-form 8Prompting LLMs is not engineering 77 101 6mo +6m dmitriid.com/prompting-llms-is-not-engineering 9Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking 341 290 6mo +8m dmitriid.com/everything-around-llms-is-still-magical-and-wishful-thinking 10America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life 8 26 6mo +25m theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/nasa-observatory-funding-trump-alien-life/683427 11VLLM: Easy, Fast, and Cheap LLM Serving with PagedAttention 5 20 6mo +2d blog.vllm.ai/2023/06/20/vllm.html 12Continue (YC S23) is hiring software engineers in San Francisco 0 1 6mo +34s ycombinator.com/companies/continue/jobs 13Show HN: AirBending – Hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller 22 88 6mo +25m nanassound.com/products/software/airbending 14OpenDrop – Electro-wetting technology to control small droplets of liquids 5 35 6mo +3d gaudishop.ch/index.php/product-category/opendrop 15The story behind Caesar salad 120 135 6mo +14m nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/story-behind-caesar-salad 16Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B 504 201 6mo +56m marketwatch.com/story/sleeping-beauty-bitcoin-wallets-wake-up-after-14-years-to-the-tune-of-2-billion-79f1f11f 17Air pollution may contribute to development of lung cancer in never-smokers 52 143 6mo +40m today.ucsd.edu/story/air-pollution-may-contribute-to-development-of-lung-cancer-in-never-smokers-new-study-finds 18The Novelty of the Arpanet 1 32 6mo +3d twobithistory.org/2021/02/07/arpanet.html 19Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated after 14 yrs 4 129 6mo +6m twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1941167512491864554 20ChatGPT creates phisher's paradise by serving the wrong URLs for major companies 26 191 6mo +13m theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_phishing_websites 21Gremllm 17 122 6mo +1h github.com/awwaiid/gremllm 22LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary 106 105 6mo +18m science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt3813 23Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022) 149 211 6mo +24m backlit.neocities.org/incapacitate-google-tag-manager 24[dead] ? 23 6mo +4m kottke.org 25Free as Air, Free as Water, Free as Knowledge (1992) 7 37 6mo +3d bactra.orghttp:///Sterling/Free_as_the_Air_Free_as_Water_Free_as_Knowledge.html 26Japan requires name change after marriage – big effects on female scientists 14 13 6mo +30m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02081-0 27EverQuest 155 269 6mo +1h filfre.net/2025/07/everquest 28UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring a Head of Ops to automate construction compliance 0 1 6mo +30s up.codes/careers?utm_source=HN 29Logging Shell Commands in BusyBox? Yes, You Can Now 3 29 6mo +3d carminatialessandro.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/06/logging-shell-commands-in-busybox-yes.html 30Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel 308 145 6mo +3h lwn.net/Articles/1027289 31Military leaders aghast as Zuck crashes classified Oval Office meeting 32 58 6mo +16m independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-oval-office-mark-zuckerberg-security-b2781215.html 32In a milestone for Manhattan, a pair of coyotes has made Central Park their home 181 184 6mo +3d smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/in-a-milestone-for-manhattan-a-pair-of-coyotes-has-made-central-park-their-home-180986892 33Compression Dictionary Transport 28 99 6mo +46m developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Compression_dictionary_transport 34Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip 235 443 6mo +23m jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme-intels-efficient-chip 35Is anybody using this private key? 52 90 6mo +31m isanybodyusingthisprivatekey.com 36We're not innovating, we're just forgetting slower 132 148 6mo +55m elektormagazine.com/articles/opinion-no-innovation-forgetting-slower 37Show HN: A cross-platform terminal emulator written in Java 20 63 6mo +3d github.com/sebkur/forceterm 38Rust and WASM for Form Validation 29 57 6mo +2h sebastian.lauwe.rs/blog/rust-wasm-form-validation 39Kepler.gl 19 171 6mo +44m kepler.gl 40Ask HN: I want to leave tech: what do I do? 177 154 6mo +11m write.as/conjure-utopia/lets-say-youre-working-in-tech-and-you-have-a-technical-role-youre-a 41phkmalloc 10 81 6mo +3d phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/phkmalloc 42Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin 82 168 6mo +14m jacob.gold/posts/serving-200-million-requests-with-cgi-bin 43Can Large Language Models Play Text Games Well? (2023) 52 68 6mo +2h arxiv.org/abs/2304.02868 44Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain 225 363 6mo +12m sailhealth.substack.com/p/why-i-left-my-tech-job-to-work-on 45Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process 150 302 6mo +24m github.com/maciej-trebacz/tower-of-time-game 46Is there a no-AI audience? 75 66 6mo +26m thatshubham.com/blog/ai 47Lens: Lenses, Folds and Traversals 48 87 6mo +3d hackage.haskell.org/package/lens 48Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? 256 296 6mo +44m jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/intel-n100-better-value-raspberry-pi 49A Rust-TypeScript integration 50 51 6mo +48m github.com/beeeeep54/rust-typescript 50Show HN: BunkerWeb – the open-source and cloud-native WAF 30 101 6mo +35m docs.bunkerweb.io/latest 51Larry (cat) 74 339 6mo +2h en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(cat) 52Demicrosofted and simplified UEFI Secure Boot (RC1 demo) [video] 1 10 6mo +4m youtube.com/watch?v=sCohCVvcp7E 53Show HN: Fast Thermodynamic Calculations in Python 11 58 6mo +18m dlr-institute-of-future-fuels.github.io/gaspype 54How to render a mesh gradient using RBF interpolation 4 16 6mo +22m notion.so/Smooth-Mesh-Gradients-with-RBF-Interpolation-1ba8eeb5a3e68046b34cf997fe67d3c1?source=copy_link 55Enhanced Radar (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer 0 1 6mo +6s 56How often is the query plan optimal? 26 32 6mo +3d vondra.me/posts/how-often-is-the-query-plan-optimal 57Batteries and Buildings 5 10 6mo +2d mtende.blog/batteries-vs-no-batteries 58DRM Panic QR code generator 37 79 6mo +2h rust-for-linux.com/drm-panic-qr-code-generator 59Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (2022) 67 256 6mo +59m linoscope.github.io/writing-a-game-boy-emulator-in-ocaml 60Developing with GitHub Copilot Agent Mode and MCP 64 90 6mo +3d austen.info/blog/github-copilot-agent-mcp 61[dead] ? 6 6mo +1h buildthatidea.com 62Man goes viral after working for four startups at the same time 3 35 6mo +4m nbcnews.com/tech/internet/man-goes-viral-working-four-startups-time-rcna216890 63Killer whales groom each other with pieces of kelp 52 97 6mo +3d science.org/content/article/killer-whales-groom-each-other-pieces-kelp 64When Your Exit Strategy Dream Is My Customer Nightmare 58 76 6mo +1h my-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/04/your-exit-strategy-dream-is-my-customer-nightmare 65One Billion Cells – Another Multiplayer Demo with Clojure 16 57 6mo +2h cells.andersmurphy.com 66As a Labrador swam by me out to sea his owner said I hope he doesn't meet a seal 69 117 6mo +28m irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irish-diary/2025/07/03/all-at-sea-with-a-lockdown-labrador 67Alternative Blanket Implementations for a Single Rust Trait 3 33 6mo +3d greyblake.com/blog/alternative-blanket-implementations-for-single-rust-trait 68The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history 177 124 6mo +18m semafor.com/article/07/03/2025/the-us-dollar-is-on-track-for-its-worst-year-in-modern-history 69Raphael discovery emerges from Vatican museum restoration 25 67 6mo +2d news.artnet.com/art-world/raphael-rooms-restoration-discovery-2662624 70What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature 4 13 6mo +24m utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ErrnoWhySoLimited 71Google says "not a security vulnerability", quickly fixes without attribution 30 45 6mo +1h groups.google.com/g/certificate-transparency/c/u8SsXgSFbz4/m/CThyzj-QBAAJ 72[dead] ? 22 6mo +5m werd.io 73How AI on Microcontrollers Works: Operators and Kernels 9 81 6mo +3d danielmangum.com/posts/ai-microcontrollers-operators-kernels 74WASM Agents: AI agents running in the browser 44 165 6mo +28m blog.mozilla.ai/wasm-agents-ai-agents-running-in-your-browser 75Zig breaking change – Initial Writergate 220 231 6mo +1h github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/24329 76The Rise of Whatever 471 598 6mo +23m eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever 77LooksMapping 58 117 6mo +1h looksmapping.com 78Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean 309 464 6mo +12m icm.csic.es/en/news/major-reversal-ocean-circulation-detected-southern-ocean-key-climate-implications 79Context Engineering for Agents 34 114 6mo +2d rlancemartin.github.io/2025/06/23/context_engineering 80Nintendo locked down the Switch 2's USB-C port and broke third-party docking 23 45 6mo +1h theverge.com/report/695915/switch-2-usb-c-third-party-docks-dont-work-authentication-encryption 81White House claims expansive power to nullify TikTok ban and other laws 58 100 6mo +13m nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/trump-bondi-tiktok-executive-power.html 82When will ad tech measurement not be a mess of fraud? 1 13 6mo +24m twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1934674533052764327 83Electronic Arts Leadership Are Out of Their Goddamned Minds 57 64 6mo +22m aftermath.site/ea-dice-battlefield-battle-royale-free-to-play-f2p 84Sound Chip, whisper me your secrets [video] 2 15 6mo +2d media.ccc.de/v/gpn23-302-sound-chip-whisper-me-your-secrets- 85Experiment: Colocating agent instructions with eng docs 2 21 6mo +3d technicalwriting.dev/ai/agents/colocate.html 86My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] 496 891 6mo +18m twitter.com/soham_btw/status/1940952786491027886 87Kubernetes is a symptom, not a solution 29 36 6mo +28m andreafortuna.org/2025/06/20/unpopular-opinion-kubernetes-is-a-symptom-not-a-solution 88You are what you launch: how software became a lifestyle brand 41 45 6mo +2d omeru.bearblog.dev/lifestyle 89CO2 sequestration through accelerated weathering of limestone on ships 69 66 6mo +34m science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr7250 90 More... 2025.07.03