HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars 240 194 6mo +3h blog.johnluttig.com/p/hypercapitalism-and-the-ai-talent 1Zig's new I/O: function coloring is inevitable? 77 61 6mo +7h blog.ivnj.org/post/function-coloring-is-inevitable 2Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford 349 230 5mo +4m abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/investors-snap-growing-share-us-homes-traditional-buyers-123560969 3LLMs show cultural theory was right about the death of the author 2 20 6mo +3d programmablemutter.com/p/cultural-theory-was-right-about-the 4Daily Notes Considered Harmful 21 38 6mo +1h literallythevoid.com/daily-notes-considered-harmful 5Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020) 98 411 6mo +8m gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-0.txt.html 6The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018) 61 159 6mo +3d bbc.com/future/article/20181129-the-underground-cathedral-protecting-tokyo-from-floods 7Big Data was used to see if TCM was scientific (2023) 120 121 6mo +26m mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/no-traditional-chinese-medicine-has-not-been-vindicated-science 8Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI? 62 66 6mo +1h 9APKLab: Android Reverse-Engineering Workbench for VS Code 11 150 6mo +23m github.com/APKLab/APKLab 10OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative 147 441 6mo +12m github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut 11Prompt Engineering: From Zero to Hero 19 12 6mo +4h promptz2h.com 12Boxtype–Devlog (Part 1) 0 12 6mo +3d inconvergent.net/2025/boxtype-devlog 13Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? 164 110 6mo +24m theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us 14Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market 328 290 6mo +17m marketsaintefficient.substack.com/p/five-companies-now-control-over-90 15Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations 3 33 6mo +3h bleuje.com/physarum-explanation 16Holographic ribbon aims to oust magnetic tape with 50-year life span and 200TB 28 32 6mo +19m tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/holographic-ribbon-aims-to-oust-magnetic-tape-with-50-year-life-span-and-200tb-capacity-per-cartridge-holomem-says-optical-ribbon-based-carts-work-with-some-components-of-existing-systems-reducing-fricition 17[dead] ? 7 6mo +3d sand-blast-block-puzzle.com 18The Gottorf Globe and its reconstruction 2 21 6mo +40m gottorfer-globus.de/en/the-gottorf-globe 19OpenICE: Open-Source US Immigration Detention Dashboard 128 173 6mo +6m openice.org 20'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley' 198 90 6mo +58m tilburguniversity.edu/magazine/overview/europe-must-ban-american-big-tech-and-create-a-european-silicon-valley 21An Attempt at Defining Consciousness 4 3 6mo +27m docs.google.com/document/d/1aO0cbXpgUWp9f7UjOpCjgl8GWzeiMJyrxcre8aaQN9w/edit?usp=drivesdk 22[dead] ? 6 6mo +4h dmf-archive.github.io 23How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs 6 80 6mo +2d blog.jxmo.io/p/how-to-scale-rl-to-1026-flops 24Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company's corporate workforce 118 85 6mo +11m cbsnews.com/news/amazon-ceo-generative-ai-corporate-workforce 25GLP-1s are breaking life insurance 598 431 6mo +17m glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-1s-are-breaking-life-insurance 26Chapeaugraphy 0 13 6mo +25m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapeaugraphy 27Most people who buy games on Steam never play them 211 207 6mo +53m howtomarketagame.com/2025/06/03/most-people-who-buy-your-game-wont-play-it 28Hungary's oldest library fighting to save 100k books from a beetle infestation 29 81 6mo +9m nbcnews.com/world/hungary/hungary-pannonhalma-archabbey-beetle-infestation-rcna218539 29A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns 120 251 6mo +1h zola.ink/blog/posts/a-technical-look-at-irans-internet-shutdown 30Strap In, Vision Pro Owners 7 13 6mo +16m spiral.spyglass.org/p/strap-in-vision-pro-owners 31Multi-Player Durable Stream Playground 4 9 6mo +3d s2.dev/playground 32An official Swedish AI service was misused to create a greeting for Adolf Hitler 3 13 6mo +50m iconofsweden.com/article/moderates-withdraw-ai-service-after-controversial-misuse 33Unidentified object might have just crashed into Saturn 5 13 6mo +33m bgr.com/science/an-unidentified-object-might-have-just-crashed-into-saturn 34Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power? 187 215 6mo +27m lttlabs.com/blog/2025/07/11/does-showing-seconds-in-the-system-tray-actually-use-more-power 35'I felt pure, unconditional love': the people who marry their AI chatbots 24 31 6mo +35m theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/12/i-felt-pure-unconditional-love-the-people-who-marry-their-ai-chatbots 36[dead] ? 8 6mo +33m economictimes.indiatimes.com 37The Polyhedral Perspective 1 9 6mo +3d publicdomainreview.org/essay/polyhedral-perspective 38Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux 60 189 6mo +12m github.com/ByteAtATime/raycast-linux 39Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring DevRel Engineers 0 1 6mo +15s ycombinator.com/companies/infisical/jobs/qCrLiJb-developer-relations 40Local Chatbot RAG with FreeBSD Knowledge 9 95 6mo +2h hackacad.net/post/2025-07-12-local-chatbot-rag-with-freebsd-knowledge 41The Robot Sculptors of Italy 17 65 6mo +3d bloomberg.com/features/2025-robot-sculptors-marble 42Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable 257 117 6mo +33m sfgate.com/food/article/data-deep-dives-bay-area-fine-dining-restaurants-20404434.php 43How does a screen work? 107 569 6mo +1h makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-a-screen-works 44[dead] ? 5 6mo +23m jpost.com 45A Mental Model for C++ Coroutine 19 30 6mo +1d uvdn7.github.io/cpp-coro 46Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style 22 175 6mo +1h github.com/Exorust/TorchLeet 47C3 solved memory lifetimes with scopes 157 142 6mo +1d c3-lang.org/blog/forget-borrow-checkers-c3-solved-memory-lifetimes-with-scopes 48[dead] ? 9 6mo +34m techdirt.com 49Show HN: ArchGW – An intelligent edge and service proxy for agents 15 113 6mo +13h github.com/katanemo/archgw 50Monitoring My Homelab, Simply 61 168 6mo +3d b.tuxes.uk/simple-homelab-monitoring.html 51The Decipherment of the Dhofari Script 18 64 6mo +2h science.org/content/article/mysterious-pre-islamic-script-oman-finally-deciphered 52Ursula K. Le Guin: Still Battling the Powers That Be 2 16 6mo +31m wired.com/2012/07/geeks-guide-ursula-k-le-guin 53Richard Sutton: The Era of Experience, The Age of Design 0 10 6mo +39m youtube.com/watch?v=FLOL2f4iHKA 54Lua beats MicroPython for embedded devs 77 90 6mo +4h embedded.com/why-lua-beats-micropython-for-serious-embedded-devs 55The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous 353 305 6mo +33m theregister.com/2025/07/13/fake_it_worker_problem 56Understanding Tool Calling in LLMs – Step-by-Step with REST and Spring AI 26 100 6mo +2h muthuishere.medium.com/understanding-tool-function-calling-in-llms-step-by-step-examples-in-rest-and-spring-ai-2149ecd6b18b 57Notes on Graham's ANSI Common Lisp (2024) 38 104 6mo +3d courses.cs.northwestern.edu/325/readings/graham/graham-notes.html 58Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions 64 56 6mo +49m prismharmony.com/chat 59AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster study finds 39 36 6mo +9m theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_down 60Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any 147 85 6mo +15m nytimes.com/2025/07/13/business/drones-us-military-manufacturing-lags.html 61Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency 165 251 6mo +2d eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/axons-draft-one-designed-defy-transparency 62Gaming cancer: How citizen science games could help cure disease 48 112 6mo +39m thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-citizen-science-games-could-help-cure-disease 63AGI Is Mathematically Impossible (3): Kolmogorov Complexity 80 39 6mo +1h 64The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL 97 231 6mo +3d mechanize.work/blog/the-upcoming-gpt-3-moment-for-rl 65Gmail AI hallucinates, distorts email contents 8 31 6mo +2h t-online.de/digital/aktuelles/id_100811852/gmail-fantasiert-googles-mail-programm-verfaelscht-fremde-inhalte.html 66Let me pay for Firefox 607 794 6mo +50m discourse.mozilla.org/t/let-me-pay-for-firefox/141297 67Capturing the International Space Station (2022) 4 33 6mo +3d cosmicbackground.io/blogs/learn-about-how-these-are-captured/capturing-the-international-space-station 68Hill Space: Neural nets that do perfect arithmetic (to 10⁻¹⁶ precision) 7 70 6mo +1h hillspace.justindujardin.com 69Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 386 429 6mo +39m mbh4h.substack.com/p/neuromancer-2025-review-william-gibson 70ISRO successfully conducts hot tests of Gaganyaan propulsion system 8 49 6mo +1m thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/isro-successfully-conducts-hot-tests-of-gaganyaan-propulsion-system/article69790839.ece 71Bayeux Tapestry Will Return to the U.K. for the First Time in 950 Years 46 29 6mo +1d news.artnet.com/art-world/bayeux-tapestry-british-museum-loan-2665313 72Turns out you can just hack any train in the USA 11 19 6mo +32m twitter.com/midwestneil/status/1943708133421101446 73C++: Maps on Chains 20 47 6mo +1d bannalia.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/07/maps-on-chains.html 74Experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine 12 67 6mo +3d github.com/renoise/pattrns 75Aeron: Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport 37 89 6mo +9h github.com/aeron-io/aeron 76Nuclear Explosion for Carbon Sequestration 64 43 6mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2501.06623 77New Windows 11 build adds self-healing "quick machine recovery" feature 38 37 6mo +1h arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/new-windows-11-build-adds-self-healing-quick-machine-recovery-feature 78Programming Affordances That Invite Mistakes 31 50 6mo +2d thetechenabler.substack.com/p/programming-affordance-when-a-languages 79Edward Burtynsky's monumental chronicle of the human impact on the planet 16 122 6mo +2h newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/earths-poet-of-scale 80Parse, Don’t Validate – Some C Safety Tips 73 130 6mo +3d lelanthran.com/chap13/content.html 81Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker 158 261 6mo +1d timsh.org/claude-inside-docker 82Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Atomic Clock Precision to GPS, Has Died 8 35 6mo +4h nytimes.com/2025/07/12/science/daniel-kleppner-dead.html 83Where are the right-wing scientists? Everyone's on the left like me 24 17 6mo +33m thetimes.com/uk/science/article/where-are-the-right-wing-scientists-everyones-a-leftie-like-me-g28qrglf0 84Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered 130 378 6mo +2d github.com/dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-header 85MoonPay executives may have sent $250k to Nigerian scammer 15 55 6mo +1h theblock.co/post/362339/moonpay-executives-may-have-sent-250000-to-nigerian-scammer-doj-filing-suggests 86A.I. Is Making Sure You Pay for That Ding on Your Rental Car 68 49 6mo +10m nytimes.com/2025/07/09/travel/rental-car-ai-scanner-hertz.html 87Startup just hit a big milestone for green steel production 9 29 6mo +34m technologyreview.com/2025/03/12/1113130/green-steel-boston-metal 88Banned Filipino fishermen documentary can be seen in NZ 4 43 6mo +16m rnz.co.nz/life/screens/movies/banned-filipino-fishermen-documentary-can-be-seen-in-nz 89Hacking Coroutines into C 42 159 6mo +2m wiomoc.de/misc/posts/hacking_coroutines_into_c.html 90HNSW as abstract data structure: video intro to Redis vector sets [video] 0 49 6mo +2d youtube.com/watch?v=kVApsFUeuEA 91Show HN: I made a JSFiddle-style playground to test and share prompts fast 17 49 6mo +6h langfa.st 92Zig's New Async I/O 276 379 6mo +1h kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-async-io 93Two-step system makes plastic from carbon dioxide, water and electricity 49 86 6mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-06-plastic-carbon-dioxide-electricity.html 94xAI issues apology for Grok's antisemitic posts 14 25 6mo +54m nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ai-chatbot-grok-issues-apology-antisemitic-posts-rcna218471 95 More... 2025.07.12