HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS 105 196 6mo +1h github.com/kushalpandya/Petrichor 1An ambitious vision of a city built from lava 6 20 6mo +2d cnn.com/2025/07/03/style/lava-material-architecture-venice-biennale 2MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation 174 330 6mo +22m mcp-b.ai 3Vim Fugitive in Action (2021) 5 12 6mo +20m dzx.fr/blog/introduction-to-vim-fugitive 4Multi-Region Row Level Security in CockroachDB 16 50 6mo +1h cockroachlabs.com/blog/fine-grained-access-control-row-level-security 5White Noise – secure and private messenger 50 113 6mo +53m whitenoise.chat 6Why you should delete WhatsApp and install Signal 62 98 6mo +17m andrewsteele.co.uk/blog/2025/07/delete-whatsapp-install-signal 7Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better 27 76 6mo +3d chrisfeilbach.com/2025/07/05/understand-cpu-branch-instructions-better 8Memory-Level Parallelism: Apple M2 vs. Apple M4 7 51 6mo +59m lemire.me/blog/2025/07/09/memory-level-parallelism-apple-m2-vs-apple-m4 9A Typology of Canadianisms 315 251 6mo +3m dchp.arts.ubc.ca/how-to-use 10The death of partying in the USA 689 385 6mo +1h derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-partying-in-the-usaand 11Would You Like an IDOR With That? Leaking 64m McDonald's Job Applications 69 127 6mo +2h ian.sh/mcdonalds 12HyAB k-means for color quantization 17 46 6mo +2m 30fps.net/pages/hyab-kmeans 13Making Explainable Minesweeper 41 42 6mo +3d sublevelgames.github.io/blogs/2025-07-06-making-explainable-minesweeper 14Show HN: MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive 78 250 6mo +17m github.com/iosifache/annas-mcp 15QRS: Epsilon Wrangling 4 16 6mo +7m tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/07/Epsilon-Wrangling 16A Null Pointer Exception Brought Down Mighty Google;7 Hours of Downtime 9 9 6mo +10m getpanto.ai/blogs/09-07-2025/how-a-null-pointer-exception-brought-down-mighty-google-7-hours-of-downtime-explained 17Fun with flags: How Compilers Break and Fix Constant-Time Code 0 7 6mo +6m arxiv.org/abs/2507.06112 18Google fails to dismiss wiretapping claims on SJ, settles with app users 8 43 6mo +55m 19Let Kids Be Loud 186 124 6mo +41m afterbabel.com/p/let-kids-be-loud 20Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent 36 219 6mo +14m github.com/snap-stanford/Biomni 21TaIrTe₄ photodetectors show promise for sensitive room-temperature THz sensing 7 18 6mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-07-tairte-photodetectors-highly-sensitive-room.html 22Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022) 71 71 6mo +1h tedium.co/2022/10/12/forgotten-desktop-publishing-tools-history 23Perplexity Comet 55 43 6mo +2m comet.perplexity.ai/?a=b 24Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. 150 120 6mo +3h spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-waste-reprocessing-transmutation 25The jank programming language 129 413 6mo +3d jank-lang.org 26Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale 36 118 6mo +1h bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/configuring-pihole-to-serve-different-records-to-different-clients.html 27The Architecture Behind Lovable and Bolt 28 71 6mo +2h beam.cloud/blog/agentic-apps 28OpenAI's open language model is imminent 5 9 6mo +33m theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/702848/openai-open-language-model-o3-mini-notepad 29Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone 73 353 6mo +34m github.com/lraton/FlopperZiro 30Evolution Mail Users Easily Trackable 66 112 6mo +37m grepular.com/Evolution_Mail_Users_Easily_Trackable 31Solar becomes top source of electricity in California 20 53 6mo +3m pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/07/09/solar-becomes-top-source-of-electricity-in-california 32Five Things to Know About Record Copper Prices 0 6 6mo +8m wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/copper-prices-tariffs-explained-a6644db7 33"Just Fucking Ship It" (Or: On Vibecoding) 123 146 6mo +50m coal.sh/blog/pandu_bad 34[dead] ? 36 6mo +4m 35Splice: Cable Harness Design Made Simple 14 24 6mo +2d splice-cad.com 36Knowing Steam players are hoarders explains why you give Valve that 30% 46 33 6mo +27m pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/knowing-steam-players-are-hoarders-explains-why-you-give-valve-that-30-percent-analyst-tells-devs-you-get-access-to-a-bunch-of-drunken-sailors-who-spend-money-irresponsibly 37Skia Graphite: Chrome's rasterization back end for the future 2 5 6mo +2h blog.chromium.org/2025/07/introducing-skia-graphite-chromes.html 38The Largest Camera Captures 10⁷ Galaxies, Discovers 2,104 Asteroids 0 9 6mo +9m petapixel.com/2025/06/23/the-worlds-largest-camera-captures-10-million-galaxies-discovers-2104-asteroids-in-first-photos 39Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru 62 180 6mo +2d bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07dmx38kyeo 40The Wild West of Agentic AI – An Attack Surface CISOs Can't Afford to Ignore 1 8 6mo +15m securityweek.com/the-wild-wild-west-of-agentic-ai-an-attack-surface-cisos-cant-afford-to-ignore 41Jurisdiction Is Nearly Irrelevant to the Security of Encrypted Messaging Apps 11 24 6mo +2h soatok.blog/2025/07/09/jurisdiction-is-nearly-irrelevant-to-the-security-of-encrypted-messaging-apps 42That white guy who can't get a job at Tim Hortons? He's AI 34 57 6mo +1h cbc.ca/news/ai-generated-fake-marketing-1.7578772 43Galiliean-invariant cosmological hydrodynamical simulations on a moving mesh 8 23 6mo +2d pa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~volker/arepo 44Nvidia Becomes First Company to Reach $4T Market Cap 149 112 6mo +1h cnbc.com/2025/07/09/nvidia-4-trillion.html 45Linda Yaccarino is leaving X 1035 543 6mo +2m nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.html 46Tree Borrows 146 573 6mo +9m plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/pldi25-tree-borrows.html 47Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs 179 130 6mo +10m businessinsider.com/florida-made-it-harder-highly-paid-workers-to-swap-jobs-2025-7 48Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 107 105 6mo +6h blog.tjll.net/the-systemd-revolution-has-been-a-success 49A fast 3D collision detection algorithm 29 264 6mo +25m cairno.substack.com/p/improvements-to-the-separating-axis 50A Emoji Reverse Polish Notation Calculator Written in COBOL 9 33 6mo +3d github.com/ghuntley/cobol-emoji-rpn-calculator 51Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry 112 123 6mo +12m venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-just-launched-a-299-robot-that-could-disrupt-the-entire-robotics-industry 52Using MPC for Anonymous and Private DNA Analysis 18 37 6mo +1h vishakh.blog/2025/07/08/using-mpc-for-anonymous-and-private-dna-analysis 53Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system 569 341 6mo +14m newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment 54Serving a half billion requests per day with Rust and CGI 109 112 6mo +1d jacob.gold/posts/serving-half-billion-requests-with-rust-cgi 55Claude Pro Max hallucinated a $270 Notion feature that doesn't exist 68 23 6mo +31m gist.github.com/habonggil/f6130a68bbc4139c8066aa90c14c986f 56Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left 139 192 6mo +1d medium.com/@gabiteodoru/why-llms-cant-write-q-kdb-writing-code-right-to-left-ea6df68af443 57Million Times Million 78 90 6mo +12m susam.net/million-times-million.html 58Why I don't ride the AI Hype Train 99 85 6mo +23m mertbulan.com/2025/06/26/why-i-dont-ride-the-ai-hype-train 59Proposal: GUI-first, text-based mechanical CAD inspired by software engineering 53 29 6mo +3d 60IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes 260 404 6mo +1h theverge.com/smart-home/701697/ikea-matter-thread-new-products-new-smart-home-strategy 61Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know 126 237 6mo +3d prateekcodes.dev/ruby-34-frozen-string-literals-rails-upgrade-guide 62Show HN: Dev atrophy test – Can you still code without AI? 41 21 6mo +2h 63[dead] ? 18 6mo +1h rtrvr.ai 64From AI to Agents to Agencies 10 10 6mo +29m blog.nishantsoni.com/p/from-ai-to-agents-to-agencies-the 65Show HN: Agentic MCP Server Manager 1 4 6mo +17m ddfourtwo.github.io/install-mcp 66Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web 252 290 6mo +27m websmith.studio/blog/astro-is-a-developers-dream 67The Capacity, Performance, and Reliability of MicroSD Cards 9 55 6mo +3d bahjeez.com/the-great-microsd-card-survey 68ESIM Security 55 148 6mo +23m security-explorations.com/esim-security.html 69The Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 2 10 6mo +2d dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922 70SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty service to meet surging demand 60 138 6mo +1h zdnet.com/article/suse-launches-new-european-digital-sovereignty-support-service-to-meet-surging-demand 71PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download 13 39 6mo +45m php.net/archive/2025.php 72AI, power and sociolinguistics (2024) 7 35 6mo +12m researchgate.net/profile/Ico-Maly-2/publication/385703534_AI_power_and_sociolinguistics/links/6813618cdf0e3f544f502f05/AI-power-and-sociolinguistics.pdf 73I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years 87 67 6mo +35m gist.github.com/Kaldaien/c66bf3dca62a5ac63785714f686e60ad 74Is the doc bot docs, or not? 115 189 6mo +20m robinsloan.com/lab/what-are-we-even-doing-here 75Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations 53 137 6mo +55m retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations 76Bug Stories 11 37 6mo +28m 500mile.email 77Grow a Garden Calculator 6 12 6mo +31m growagardencalculators.net 78Show HN: I rewrote an outdated React Native map clustering library 7 31 6mo +47m github.com/suwi-lanji/rn-maps-clustering 79Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful 553 349 6mo +48m florian-kraemer.net//software-architecture/2025/07/07/Most-RESTful-APIs-are-not-really-RESTful.html 80Introduction to Indian English 53 46 6mo +1d oed.com/discover/introduction-to-indian-english 8140 Hot Swedish AI Startups 0 15 6mo +41m di.se/digital/here-are-the-swedish-ai-companies-everyone-is-talking-about 82iPod Linux (2017) 30 78 6mo +4h ipodlinux.orghttp://www. 837-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression 209 283 6mo +1d 7-zip.org/history.txt 84Comparing the Climate and Productivity Impacts of a Shrinking Population 26 20 6mo +1h nber.org/papers/w33932 85Helm local code execution via a malicious chart 94 171 6mo +23m github.com/helm/helm/security/advisories/GHSA-557j-xg8c-q2mm 86US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel 544 586 6mo +7h arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/us-court-cancels-ftc-rule-that-would-have-made-canceling-subscriptions-easier 87I'm Building LLM for Satellite Data EarthGPT.app 18 105 6mo +1d earthgpt.app 88Techniques to beat Arrays.hashCode(byte[]) using Java's own means 0 13 6mo +2d dynatrace.com/news/blog/java-arrays-hashcode-byte-efficiency-techniques 89Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today? 102 141 6mo +1h greatwavetoday.com 90Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? 218 297 6mo +13m quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2025/04/04/etymology-of-call 91Surfing on a Matchbox (1999) 13 35 6mo +2d news.bbc.co.ukhttp:///2/hi/science/nature/276762.stm 92Libpostal: C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world 34 101 6mo +1h github.com/openvenues/libpostal 93RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor 125 272 6mo +43m github.com/CyberTimon/RapidRAW 94At the frontier between two lives–the evolutionary origins of pregnancy 1 16 6mo +2d phys.org/news/2025-07-frontier-evolutionary-pregnancy.html 95US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy 31 227 6mo +19m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/court-click-to-cancel-ruling 96Choosing a Database Schema for Polymorphic Data (2024) 26 52 6mo +2h dolthub.com/blog/2024-06-25-polymorphic-associations 97Swahili on the Road 4 42 6mo +1h historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/swahili-road 98Ptar: Replacing .tgz for petabyte-scale S3 archives 63 57 6mo +1d plakar.io/posts/2025-06-30/technical-deep-dive-into-.ptar-replacing-.tgz-for-petabyte-scale-s3-archives 99OLMo 2 - a family of fully-open language models 4 33 6mo +33m allenai.org/olmo 100Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004 24 197 6mo +1h aresluna.org/frame-of-preference 101Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 325 274 6mo +13m ecb.europa.eu//press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr250708~b9676a9fa8.en.html 102New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation 5 51 6mo +2d newscientist.com/article/2486823-new-horizons-images-enable-first-test-of-interstellar-navigation 103 More... 2025.07.08