HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order ⚙ What a Hacker Stole from Me 118 383 6mo +1h mynoise.net/blog.php 1How to Network as an Introvert 134 361 6mo +2h aginfer.bearblog.dev/how-to-network-as-an-introvert 2Hidden interface controls that affect usability 426 553 6mo +35m interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2025/stop-hiding-my-controls-hidden-interface-controls-are-affecting-usability 37-Zip 25.00 69 97 6mo +1h github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.00 4RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry 114 77 6mo +43m livescience.com/health/flu/rfks-proposal-to-let-bird-flu-spread-through-poultry-could-set-us-up-for-a-pandemic-experts-warn 5Operators, Not Users and Programmers 41 86 6mo +40m jyn.dev/operators-not-users-and-programmers 6Yet Another Zip Trick 42 105 6mo +3d hackarcana.com/article/yet-another-zip-trick 7Solve high degree polynomials using Geode numbers 2 19 6mo +3d tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029890.2025.2460966 8Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming 36 122 6mo +1h viksit.substack.com/p/optimizing-tool-selection-for-llm 9WinUAE 6 Amiga Emulator 9 65 6mo +47m winuae.net 10The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015) 5 46 6mo +4h vintagecalculators.comhttp://www./html/the_calculator-on-a-chip.html 11Parametric shape optimization with differentiable FEM simulation 6 17 6mo +2d docs.pasteurlabs.ai/projects/tesseract-jax/latest/examples/fem-shapeopt/demo.html 12Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishing 89 272 6mo +2h smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-cod-have-been-shrinking-dramatically-for-decades-now-scientists-say-theyve-solved-the-mystery-180986920 13Holding Cellphone while driving is illegal, California court rules 73 53 6mo +5m latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-05/holding-your-cell-to-navigate-while-driving-is-illegal-court-says 14The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 206 214 6mo +11m blog.thenewoil.org/the-prime-reasons-to-avoid-amazon 15Atomic "Bomb" Ring from KiX, 1947 (2020) 31 83 6mo +3d toytales.ca/atomic-bomb-ring-from-kix-1947 16Pet ownership and cognitive functioning in later adulthood across pet types 35 85 6mo +38m nature.com/articles/s41598-025-03727-9 17Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials 6 28 6mo +2d nautil.us/is-it-cake-how-our-brain-deciphers-materials-1222193 18macOS Icon History 102 250 6mo +3h basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-icon-history 19How to not pay your taxes legally, apparently 131 114 6mo +37m mrsteinberg.com/how-to-not-pay-your-taxes-legally-apparently 20A new law in Sweden makes it illegal to buy custom adult content 104 85 6mo +7m euronews.com/next/2025/06/22/takes-away-our-safest-option-adult-creators-react-to-law-banning-online-sex-purchases-in-s 21AI winter is well on its way (2018) 6 12 6mo +20m blog.piekniewski.info/2018/05/28/ai-winter-is-well-on-its-way 22Two years ago today, Meta launched Threads. Does the world need this app? 7 10 6mo +36m stylestitches.substack.com/p/who-really-needs-threads 23Haskell, Reverse Polish Notation, and Parsing 13 72 6mo +3d mattwills.bearblog.dev/haskell-postfix 24Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban 80 146 6mo +29m lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/07/05/seine-reopens-to-paris-swimmers-after-century-long-ban_6743058_7.html 25Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots 39 147 6mo +1h xata.io/blog/behind-the-scenes-speeding-up-pgstream-snapshots-for-postgresql 26Optimizing typography of insect labels using free fonts and free software (2012) [pdf] 2 35 6mo +3d akentsoc.org/doc/Bowser_ML_2012.pdf 27Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale 77 171 6mo +1h elijahpotter.dev/articles/local-first_software_is_easier_to_scale 28Cops in [Spain] think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 65 96 6mo +17m androidauthority.com/google-pixel-organized-crime-preferred-phone-3573578 29ApplePay vs. Alternative Payment Services 30 56 6mo +9m taler.net/en/news/2025-05.html 30Just Ask for Generalization (2021) 4 38 6mo +1d evjang.com/2021/10/23/generalization.html 31Goodbye to All That – My Resignation from the FBI 27 81 6mo +11m lawfaremedia.org/article/goodbye-to-all-that 32[dead] ? 23 6mo +17m news.immunologic.org 33Heart attacks aren't as fatal as they used to be 82 83 6mo +32m vox.com/future-perfect/418849/heart-attack-deaths-cardiovascular-disease-progress-medicine 34How U.S. Tourists Are Dealing with a New Animosity Overseas 27 24 6mo +18m wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/american-international-travel-tips-0a70af73 35'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers 141 215 6mo +20m asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Positive-review-only-Researchers-hide-AI-prompts-in-papers 36Numerical Electromagnics Code (NEM) 9 26 6mo +2d nec2.org 37Musk and co should ask AI what defines intelligence. They may learn something 3 9 6mo +31m observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/musk-and-co-should-ask-an-ai-what-defines-intelligence-they-may-learn-something 38Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux – 16 years today 8 82 6mo +38m gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/happy-birthday-gamingonlinux-16-years-today 39Tell HN: You owe it to yourself to understand nutrition 52 17 6mo +8m 40Local-first software (2019) 289 842 6mo +22m inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first 41QSBS Limits Raised 33 67 6mo +3h mintz.com/insights-center/viewpoints/2906/2025-06-25-qsbs-benefits-expanded-under-senate-finance-proposal 42Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched 50 219 6mo +3m eumetsat.int/europes-first-geostationary-sounder-satellite-launched 43[dead] ? 8 6mo +16m twitter.com 44Will Scaling Solve Robotics? 10 15 6mo +1d nishanthjkumar.com/blog/2023/Will-Scaling-Solve-Robotics-Perspectives-from-CoRL-2023 45AI Hallucinations: ChatGPT Created a Fake Child Murderer 0 8 6mo +19m noyb.eu/en/ai-hallucinations-chatgpt-created-fake-child-murderer 46The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030 47 86 6mo +5m techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-wants-to-decrypt-your-private-data-by-2030 47What I learned building an AI coding agent for a year 10 30 6mo +2h jamesgrugett.com/p/what-i-learned-building-an-ai-coding 48What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate 106 71 6mo +2h blog.alexoglou.com/posts/database-decisions 49Build Systems à la Carte (2018) [pdf] 20 83 6mo +3d microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/build-systems.pdf 50X-Clacks-Overhead 68 252 6mo +3d xclacksoverhead.org/home/about 51Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems (2019) 14 73 6mo +3h gecode.org 52Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks 44 45 6mo +47m spectrum.ieee.org/large-language-model-performance 53Go, PET, Let Hen - Curious adventures in (Commodore) BASIC tokenizing 9 23 6mo +2h masswerk.at/nowgobang/2025/go-pet-let-hen 54We're all CTO now 104 84 6mo +3d jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/07/01/you%27re-all-cto-now 55Cars' Forward Blind Zones Are Worse Now Than 25 Years Ago 13 17 6mo +31m caranddriver.com/news/a65219830/car-blind-zones-study-iihs 56How AI on microcontrollers works: Operators and kernels 2 33 6mo +3d danielmangum.com/posts/ai-microcontrollers-operators-kernels 57Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately 232 215 6mo +14m thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/im-losing-all-trust-in-the-ai-industry 58Biosphere 2 experiment changed our understanding of the Earth 1 16 6mo +20m bbc.com/future/article/20250703-how-the-biosphere-2-experiment-changed-our-understanding-of-the-earth 59French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft 23 58 6mo +2h news.itsfoss.com/french-city-replaces-microsoft 60Impact of PCIe 5.0 Bandwidth on GPU Content Creation and LLM Performance 18 44 6mo +1d pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/impact-of-pcie-5-0-bandwidth-on-gpu-content-creation-performance 61The only time HN is this interested in Bitcoin is when there's a bubble (2017) 55 30 6mo +1h incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hacker-news-bitcoin.html 62Making My Own Hacktoberfest T-Shirts 2 13 6mo +59m shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/making-my-own-hacktoberfest-t-shirts 63A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science 171 163 6mo +46m initcoder.com/posts/37-year-old-learning-cs 64Stop Killing Games 142 181 6mo +2h jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/you-will-own-nothing-and-be-happy-stop-killing-games-0 65Show HN: Semcheck – AI Tool for checking implementation follows spec 0 19 6mo +3d github.com/rejot-dev/semcheck 66Scientists capture slow-motion earthquake in action 2 35 6mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-06-scientists-capture-motion-earthquake-action.html 67A new, faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab 24 76 6mo +17m venturebeat.com/ai/holy-smokes-a-new-200-faster-deepseek-r1-0528-variant-appears-from-german-lab-tng-technology-consulting-gmbh 68The messy reality of SIMD (vector) functions 77 114 6mo +1h johnnysswlab.com/the-messy-reality-of-simd-vector-functions 69N-Back – A Minimal, Adaptive Dual N-Back Game for Brain Training 26 91 6mo +2d n-back.net 70Telli (YC F24) Is Hiring Engineers [On-Site Berlin] 0 1 6mo +9s hi.telli.com/join-us 71Why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 78 136 6mo +23m theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/05/the-vehicle-suddenly-accelerated-with-our-baby-in-it-the-terrifying-truth-about-why-teslas-cars-keep-crashing 72Clarifying our pricing 88 82 6mo +1h cursor.com/en/blog/june-2025-pricing 73Operating system kernels could return multiple values from system calls 2 14 6mo +17m utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OSKernelsAndMultipleReturns 74I could not convince my k8s team to go AWS serverless 54 24 6mo +2d medium.com/@dnsearching/how-i-convinced-my-k8s-team-to-go-aws-serverless-5104e880e7a4 75Amiga Linux (1993) 22 36 6mo +2h groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.amiga.emulations/c/xUgrpylQOXk 76The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001) 44 122 6mo +2d openculture.com/2025/06/the-history-of-electronic-music-in-476-tracks.html 77Why AO3 Was Down 83 155 6mo +1h reddit.com/r/AO3/s/67nQid89MW 78Vortex (Véhicule Orbital Réutilisable de Transport Et D'Exploration) 11 26 6mo +2d dassault-aviation.com/en/space/aerospace-vehicles/vortex-vehicule-orbital-reutilisable-de-transport-et-dexploration 79Baba Is Eval 55 252 6mo +1d fi-le.net/baba 80ADXL345 (2024) 4 63 6mo +20m tinytransistors.net/2024/08/25/adxl345 81The Moat of Low Status 166 391 6mo +2d usefulfictions.substack.com/p/learn-to-love-the-moat-of-low-status 82Open Source and FPGA Maker Board for Networking 7 46 6mo +5h privateisland.tech/betsy 83Version Control for AI Coding 25 22 6mo +3d branching.app 84Homotopies in multiway (nondeterministic) rewriting systems as n-fold categories 0 9 6mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2105.10822 85OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D 364 422 6mo +10m kbkg.com/feature/house-passes-tax-bill-sending-to-president-for-signature 86The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor 12 50 6mo +23m blog.nelhage.com/post/ittage-branch-predictor 87Show HN: Flint – Write code your way while ensuring remote consistency 2 13 6mo +3d github.com/capsulescodes/flint 88Show HN: Tinykv – Minimal file-backed key-value store for Rust 7 24 6mo +1h crates.io/crates/tinykv 89 More... 2025.07.04