HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order What were the earliest laws like? 60 127 5mo +3d worldhistory.substack.com/p/what-were-the-earliest-laws-really 1YouTube Won the Battle for TV Viewers 29 25 5mo +42m wsj.com/business/media/how-youtube-won-the-battle-for-tv-viewers-346d05b8 2Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body (2024) 67 173 5mo +2d the-independent.com/tech/robot-mushroom-biohybrid-robotics-cornell-b2610411.html 3The U.K. closed a tax loophole for the global rich, now they're fleeing 201 88 5mo +7m wsj.com/world/uk/the-u-k-closed-a-tax-loophole-for-the-global-rich-now-theyre-fleeing-f078cce4 4Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras 189 372 5mo +6m eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance 5AMD's new 96-core Threadripper CPU 9 57 5mo +2h theverge.com/news/709005/amd-threadripper-9000-pro-wx-series-pricing-availability 6Enhancing COBOL Code Explanations: A Multi-Agents Approach Using LLMs 1 10 5mo +3d arxiv.org/abs/2507.02182 7The future of ultra-fast passenger travel 103 40 5mo +38m spaceambition.substack.com/p/beyond-the-sound-barrier 8Death by AI 210 559 5mo +6h davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai 9Trigon: Exploiting coprocessors for fun and for profit (part 2) 1 38 5mo +38m alfiecg.uk/2025/07/16/Trigon.html 10Show HN: Display Photos on a World Map 2 33 5mo +3d worldsnap.surge.sh 11Human programmer beats OpenAI's in marathon, wins World Coding Championship 2 4 5mo +13m tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/polish-programmer-beats-openais-custom-ai-in-10-hour-marathon-wins-world-coding-championship-possibly-the-last-human-winner 12Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts 115 354 5mo +31m it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/18/make-your-own-backup-system-part-1-strategy-before-scripts 13Postgres to ClickHouse: Data Modeling Tips 3 56 5mo +2h clickhouse.com/blog/postgres-to-clickhouse-data-modeling-tips-v2 14'Universal cancer vaccine' trains the immune system to kill any tumor 46 121 5mo +37m newatlas.com/cancer/universal-cancer-vaccine 15Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project (2024) 77 67 5mo +5h hamy.xyz/blog/2024-02_htmx-for-side-projects 16LLM Knows the Future: Uncovering Its Multi-Token Prediction Potential 0 23 5mo +3h arxiv.org/abs/2507.11851 17What the Fuck Python 184 206 5mo +57m colab.research.google.com/github/satwikkansal/wtfpython/blob/master/irrelevant/wtf.ipynb 18TSMC to start building four new plants with 1.4nm technology 153 195 5mo +6m taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2025/07/20/2003840583 19The tech that the US Post Office gave us 21 73 5mo +19m theverge.com/report/709749/usps-250th-anniversary-pioneer-modern-technology 20Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia 193 304 5mo +3h evanhahn.com/local-llms-versus-offline-wikipedia 21Piano Keys 68 73 5mo +3d mathpages.com/home/kmath043.htm 222025 Infrastructure Report Card 30 72 5mo +6m infrastructurereportcard.org 23The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust 437 253 5mo +12m viralinstruction.com/posts/borrowchecker 24Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk 34 27 5mo +54m theconversation.com/clawback-of-1-1b-for-pbs-and-npr-puts-rural-stations-at-risk-and-threatens-a-vital-source-of-journalism-255826 25Snack Prompt – Discover the best ChatGPT prompts 5 15 5mo +29m snackprompt.com 26MCP security vulnerabilities and attack vectors 19 158 5mo +37m forgecode.dev/blog/prevent-attacks-on-mcp 27How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression 10 188 5mo +1d datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/go-memory-regression 28Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments 31 59 5mo +2h github.com/ascorbic/am-i-vibing 29The curious case of the Unix workstation layout 43 100 5mo +2h thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-07-19 30What the Internet Was Like in 1998 49 89 5mo +3d cybercultural.com/p/internet-1998 31[dead] ? 16 5mo +5m techdirt.com 32[dead] ? 23 5mo +1h puck.news 33It's rude to show AI output to people 241 308 5mo +24m distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people 34Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org 143 111 5mo +8m xn--gckvb8fzb.com/giving-up-on-element-and-matrixorg 35Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI 84 201 5mo +14m notcheckmark.com/2025/07/rethinking-cli-interfaces-for-ai 36Wishes Upon My Demise 4 18 5mo +4h vale.rocks/posts/regarding-my-death 37How Claude Code Generates Status Messages 2 22 5mo +1h twitter.com/dmartincy/status/1941833382649864246 38North America's Oldest Known Pterosaur 4 15 5mo +3d si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smithsonian-led-team-discovers-north-americas-oldest-known-pterosaur 39Known Bad Email Clients 64 66 5mo +10m emailprivacytester.com/badClients 40What is the richest country in 2025? 70 43 5mo +23m economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/07/18/what-is-the-richest-country-in-the-world-in-2025 41Nobody knows how to build with AI yet 393 515 5mo +15m worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-how-to-build-with-ai 42Zig Interface Revisited 40 98 5mo +2d williamw520.github.io/2025/07/13/zig-interface-revisited.html 43Show HN: I wanted better book recommendations – so I made Lorekeep 11 19 5mo +2h lorekeep.io 44N78 band 5G NR recordings 3 82 5mo +2d destevez.net/2025/07/n78-band-5g-nr-recordings 45Evaluating publicly available LLMs on IMO 2025 89 78 5mo +17m matharena.ai/imo 46Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease 228 297 5mo +2d bbc.com/news/articles/cn8179z199vo 47Astronomers use colors of trans-Neptunian objects to track ancient stellar flyby 4 26 5mo +2d phys.org/news/2025-07-astronomers-trans-neptunian-track-ancient.html 48Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration 3 139 5mo +4h lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1029767/43b62a7a7408c2a9 49OpenAI achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 IMO 1 10 5mo +4m twitter.com/polynoamial/status/1946478249187377206 50[dead] ? 10 5mo +21m scheerpost.com 51Piramidal (YC W24) is hiring a full stack engineer 0 1 5mo +34s ycombinator.com/companies/piramidal/jobs/JfeI3uE-full-stack-engineer 52GPT-5-reasoning alpha found in the wild 49 63 5mo +13m twitter.com/btibor91/status/1946532308896628748 53I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer 129 171 5mo +58m lifehacky.net/prompt-0b953c089b44 54Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from stratosphere, dies in Italy 102 118 5mo +1h theinternational.at/felix-baumgartner-who-jumped-from-stratosphere-dies-in-italy 55A CarFax for Used PCs: Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life 46 47 5mo +3d spectrum.ieee.org/carfax-used-pcs 56An exponential improvement for Ramsey lower bounds 1 37 5mo +2h arxiv.org/abs/2507.12926 57Fstrings.wtf 132 428 5mo +44m fstrings.wtf 58YouTube No Translation 102 217 5mo +3h addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation 59Every part on a bicycle is safety critical 72 76 5mo +3h escapecollective.com/threaded-43-every-part-on-a-bike-is-safety-critical 60C# Language Design Meeting for June 30th, 2025 61 55 5mo +3d github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-06-30.md 61OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 694 475 5mo +1h twitter.com/alexwei_/status/1946477742855532918 62Fibonacci(50) as a Fractal Sequence Diagram 0 7 5mo +2d app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.Fibonacci%2520Sequence/Fib(50) 63US revokes visas of Brazilian judges after crack down on ex-president Bolsonaro 62 67 5mo +3h nypost.com/2025/07/18/world-news/us-revokes-visas-of-brazilian-justices-after-its-top-court-cracks-down-on-ex-president-bolsonaro 64[dead] ? 6 5mo +1h bdsmtest.pro 65When to make LODs (2021) 5 27 5mo +2d medium.com/@jasonbooth_86226/when-to-make-lods-c3109c35b802 66Pimping My Casio: Part Deux 58 190 5mo +45m blog.jgc.org/2025/07/pimping-my-casio-part-deux.html 67A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022) 308 489 5mo +16m endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-in-size 68The Bitter Lessons Behind Kimi Researcher's Taste 9 15 5mo +3d medium.com/@xinyijin715/maker-story-the-bitter-lessons-behind-kimi-researchers-ui-6654ec66662c 69Show HN: Mochi Invaders – Like Space Invaders but for Practicing Japanese Kana 6 13 5mo +3d xenodium.com/mochi-invaders-now-on-the-app-store 70Zig's New Writer 16 106 5mo +1d openmymind.net/Zigs-New-Writer 71Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors” 498 842 5mo +1h twitter.com/_ZachGriff/status/1945959030851035223 72The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter 23 27 5mo +19m stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/16/the-great-unracking-saying-goodbye-to-the-servers-at-our-physical-datacenter 73Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool 127 241 5mo +58m blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/18/artificially-complex-xml-schema-as-lock-in-tool 74Cats as Horror Movie Villains 39 32 5mo +3d gwern.net/cat-horror 75This Should Not Be Possible 12 14 5mo +1h ghuntley.com/no 76Show HN: OrioleDB Beta12 Features and Benchmarks 15 55 5mo +3d orioledb.com/blog/orioledb-beta12-benchmarks 77Advertising without signal: The rise of the grifter equilibrium 86 178 5mo +58m gojiberries.io/advertising-without-signal-whe-amazon-ads-confuse-more-than-they-clarify 78My Self-Hosting Setup 202 592 5mo +11m codecaptured.com/blog/my-ultimate-self-hosting-setup 79The Halo Effect 12 31 5mo +3d kwokchain.com/2025/07/15/the-halo-effect 80We do not break userspace (2012) 72 85 5mo +45m lore.kernel.org/all/CA+55aFy98A+LJK4+GWMcbzaa1zsPBRo76q+ioEjbx-uaMKH6Uw@mail.gmail.com 81Bun adds pnpm-style isolated installation mode 16 114 5mo +1h github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/20440 82Converting Integers to Floats Using Hyperfocus (2022) 0 13 5mo +1d blog.m-ou.se/floats 83Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux 25 72 5mo +1h phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-Clear-Linux 84Mr Browser – Macintosh Repository file downloader that runs directly on 68k Macs 20 87 5mo +32m macintoshrepository.org/44146-mr-browser 85Debcraft – Easiest way to modify and build Debian packages 27 88 5mo +38m optimizedbyotto.com/post/debcraft-easy-debian-packaging 86C++: Zero-cost static initialization 52 84 5mo +3d cofault.com/zero-cost-static.html 87I'm rebelling against the algorithm 49 72 5mo +1h varunraghu.com/im-rebelling-against-the-algorithm 88 More... 2025.07.18