HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Predicting Competitive Pokémon VGC Leads Using Latent Semantic Analysis 7 18 6mo +2d jgeekstudies.org/2025/07/11/predicting-competitive-pokemon-vgc-leads-using-latent-semantic-analysis-a-data-driven-approach-to-team-matchups 1Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project 55 323 5mo +1h blenderstudio.itch.io/dogwalk 2DEWLine Museum – The Distant Early Warning Radar Line 19 76 5mo +8m dewlinemuseum.com 3Apple's MLX adding CUDA support 199 542 5mo +38m github.com/ml-explore/mlx/pull/1983 4Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 appears to be down 71 135 5mo +13m 5RFC: PHP license update 83 271 5mo +22m wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update 6Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built with HTML pages 15 54 5mo +54m htmlmaze.com 7[dead] ? 20 5mo +8m theverge.com 8Show HN: Bedrock – An 8-bit computing system for running programs anywhere 67 217 6mo +3d benbridle.com/projects/bedrock.html 9Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department 135 213 5mo +11m cnbc.com/2025/07/14/anthropic-google-openai-xai-granted-up-to-200-million-from-dod.html 10Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance 58 250 5mo +1h research.trychroma.com/context-rot 11Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text: "Hitler" 39 94 5mo +31m twitter.com/goodside/status/1944266466875826617 12Ralph Wiggum as a "Software Engineer" 5 18 5mo +14m ghuntley.com/ralph 13M.2 SSD Can Self-Destruct by Giving Itself a Burst of Voltage 9 16 5mo +26m uk.pcmag.com/storage/159074/this-m2-ssd-can-self-destruct-by-giving-itself-a-burst-of-voltage 14Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense 100 91 5mo +7m anthropic.com/news/anthropic-and-the-department-of-defense-to-advance-responsible-ai-in-defense-operations 15SQLite async connection pool for high-performance 82 195 6mo +3d github.com/slaily/aiosqlitepool 16NeuralOS: An operating system powered by neural networks 55 203 5mo +28m neural-os.com 17Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk 75 41 5mo +17m japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/01/markets/immigration-raids-california-farms 18LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date 193 359 5mo +9m caltech.edu/about/news/ligo-detects-most-massive-black-hole-merger-to-date 19The Corset X-Rays of Dr Ludovic O'Followell (1908) 2 46 6mo +3d publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-corset-x-rays-of-dr-ludovic-o-followell-1908 20Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform (2019) 9 61 5mo +1h jcs.org/2019/05/03/mailstation 21Inequality, decay of democratic institutions linked to accelerated ageing 8 44 5mo +13m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02181-x 22Replicube: 3D shader puzzle game, online demo 28 171 6mo +3d replicube.xyz/staging 23Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf 426 496 5mo +10m cognition.ai/blog/windsurf 24Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf 1 24 5mo +9m twitter.com/cognition_labs/status/1944819486538023138 25Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring in UK to redefine software dev 0 1 5mo +19s tinyurl.com/join-meticulous 26Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet 23 144 5mo +2m datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/07/14/user-defined-parquet-indexes 27It took 45 years, but spreadsheet legend Mitch Kapor finally got his MIT degree 25 198 6mo +2d bostonglobe.com/2025/06/24/business/mitch-kapor-mit-degree-bill-aulet 28Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020) 83 324 5mo +14m mymodernmet.com/totoro-sculpture-bus-stop 29Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE 286 535 5mo +9m eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/data-brokers-are-selling-your-flight-information-cbp-and-ice 30Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds 517 570 5mo +11m sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers 31Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions 297 349 5mo +35m assemblingamerica.substack.com/p/there-is-no-meritocracy-without-lottocracy 32Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 247 366 5mo +16m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/two-guys-hated-using-comcast-so-they-built-their-own-fiber-isp 33What happens when a brand built for sport loses some of its focus? 4 14 5mo +19m doinghandstands.substack.com/p/the-recovery-run 34NetBox Labs secures $35M as demand for network infrastructure management surges 2 15 5mo +11m networkworld.com/article/4021829/netbox-labs-secures-35m-as-demand-for-network-infrastructure-management-surges.html 35AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why 209 359 5mo +1h johnwhiles.com/posts/mental-models-vs-ai-tools 36Building Modular Rails Applications: A Deep Dive into Rails Engines 43 179 5mo +3m panasiti.me/blog/modular-rails-applications-rails-engines-active-storage-dashboard 37GM, LG to upgrade Tennessee plant to make low-cost EV batteries 29 78 5mo +6m cnbc.com/2025/07/14/gm-lg-ultium-spring-hill-tennessee-plant-ev-batteries.html 38Six Game Devs Speak to Computer Games Mag (1984) 18 61 6mo +2d computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/six-game-devs-speak-to-computer-games 39Kiro: A new agentic IDE 445 1028 5mo +1h kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro 40HoloMem's drop-in holographic tape drive for LTO tape libraries 4 20 5mo +4h blocksandfiles.com/2025/07/12/holomems-drop-in-holographic-tape-cartridge-for-lto-tape-libraries 41Lightning Detector Circuits 43 107 5mo +13m techlib.com/electronics/lightningnew.htm 42You Are in a Box 134 145 5mo +16m jyn.dev/you-are-in-a-box 43Lenovo Legion Go S: Windows 11 vs. SteamOS Performance, and General Availability 102 116 5mo +22m boilingsteam.com/lenovo-legion-go-s-windows-vs-steam-os-performance 44Strategies for Fast Lexers 78 179 5mo +21m xnacly.me/posts/2025/fast-lexer-strategies 45Self-imposed ban – a lightweight bash script to block commands 36 34 6mo +3d github.com/alex-moon/ban 46Show HN: TechBro Generator – Generate Satirical TechBro Posts 15 50 5mo +15m techbrogenerator.netlify.app 47Lossless Float Image Compression 14 116 6mo +3d aras-p.info/blog/2025/07/08/Lossless-Float-Image-Compression 48TIOBE Index for July 2025 0 12 5mo +54m tiobe.com/tiobe-index 49Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think 7 11 5mo +53s theconversation.com/why-recycling-solar-panels-is-harder-than-you-might-think-an-electrical-engineer-explains-259115 50putty.org is not run by the PuTTY developers 23 39 5mo +2h hachyderm.io/@simontatham/114846017785770922 51Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Happening 88 70 6mo +3d gizmodo.com/a-bold-mission-to-hunt-for-aliens-on-venus-is-actually-happening-2000627704 52Interview with Google's Android leader Sameer Samat 34 46 5mo +2h techradar.com/phones/android/i-think-you-see-the-future-first-on-android-googles-android-leader-sameer-samat 53Impacts of adding PV solar system to internal combustion engine vehicles 253 116 5mo +33m jstor.org/stable/26169128 54Lasagna Battery Cell 23 124 6mo +3d amazingribs.com/more-technique-and-science/more-cooking-science/reactive-pans 55Death by a Thousand Slops 137 254 5mo +10m daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops 56Google's widespread tracking across the web 101 89 5mo +49m simpleanalytics.com/blog/google-is-tracking-you-even-when-you-use-duck-duck-go 57"AI discourse" is a joke 25 13 5mo +12m purplesyringa.moe/blog/ai-discourse-is-a-joke 58East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to global warming 254 216 5mo +23m nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02527-3 59Bitcoin passes $120k milestone as US Congress readies for 'crypto week' 118 42 5mo +39m ft.com/content/1d4c5942-7190-45e1-9167-a5eacfd93982 60Concurrent Programming with Harmony 14 63 6mo +3d harmony.cs.cornell.edu/book 61Telefónica DE shifts VMware support to Spinnaker due to cost 46 55 5mo +27m theregister.com/2025/07/11/telefnica_germany_shifts_vmware_support 62Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection 56 40 6mo +3d organizer.flipfocus.nl 63How I build software quickly 200 371 5mo +1h evanhahn.com/how-i-build-software-quickly 64Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA 369 509 5mo +37m open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma 65Binding Application in Idris 5 86 6mo +3d andrevidela.com/blog/2025/binding-application 66[dead] ? 17 5mo +8m youtube.com 67Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993) 45 97 6mo +3d simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html 68[dead] ? 20 5mo +26m garymarcus.substack.com 69Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly 207 402 5mo +58m refine.sh 70A Century of Quantum Mechanics 93 123 6mo +3d home.cern/news/news/physics/century-quantum-mechanics 71Silicon Valley is racing to build the first $1T unicorn 3 11 5mo +31m economist.com/business/2025/07/10/silicon-valley-is-racing-to-build-the-first-1trn-unicorn 72Myanmar’s proliferating scam centers 68 140 5mo +16m asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata/infographics/myanmar-scam-centers 73How secure is your Bitcoin wallet's mnemonic seed phrase? 19 27 6mo +2d bennet.org/blog/how-secure-is-your-bitcoin-wallets-mnemonic-seed-phrase 74Chimpfluencers Stick Grass in Their Ears and Butts in Latest Viral Trend 11 27 6mo +3d sciencealert.com/chimpfluencers-are-sticking-grass-in-their-ears-and-butts-in-latest-viral-trend 75Stellantis declares bankruptcy in China, with $1B in debts 125 104 5mo +53m italpassion.fr/en/stellantis/stellantis-declares-bankruptcy-in-china-with-1-billion-in-debts 76Happy 20th Birthday, Django 181 569 6mo +8h djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jul/13/happy-20th-birthday-django 77James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations 125 170 5mo +39m astronomy.com/science/james-webb-hubble-space-telescopes-face-reduction-in-operations-over-funding-shortfalls 78A job queue in two lines of JavaScript 37 57 6mo +3d jameshfisher.com/2025/07/07/a-job-queue-in-two-lines-of-js 79The Scourge of Arial (2001) 48 56 5mo +56m marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-scourge-of-arial 80Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser 46 173 6mo +3d vidmix.app/ffmpeg-in-plain-english 81Black hole merger challenges our understanding of black hole formation 87 56 5mo +1m gizmodo.com/astronomers-detect-a-black-hole-merger-thats-so-massive-it-shouldnt-exist-2000628197 82Programming Language Theory has a public relations problem 21 39 6mo +3h happyfellow.bearblog.dev/programming-language-theory-has-a-public-relations-problem 83Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized 480 926 6mo +3d nodaysoff.run 84Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs 48 180 5mo +32m arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424 85 More... 2025.07.13