HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading? 111 129 5mo +7m hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/234-if-writing-is-thinking 1Losing language features: some stories about disjoint unions 71 117 5mo +3d graydon2.dreamwidth.org/318788.html 2Uv: Running a script with dependencies 170 502 5mo +11m docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#running-a-script-with-dependencies 3How to break the 'AI hype cycle' 18 42 5mo +31m mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/how-to-break-ai-hype-cycle-and-make-good-ai-decisions-your-organization 4LetsEncrypt Outage 107 185 5mo +53m letsencrypt.status.io 5[dead] ? 4 5mo +44m facecrime.io 6Show HN: Intercepting proxy for semantic search over visited pages 4 14 5mo +12h github.com/mlang/llm-embed-proxy 7Sutton SignWriting is a writing system for sign languages 10 34 5mo +2d en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting 8Show HN: MCP Jetpack – The easiest way to get started with MCP in Cursor 10 17 5mo +6h mcpjetpack.com 9Nine households control 15% of wealth in Silicon Valley as inequality widens 134 88 5mo +30m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/silicon-valley-income-wealth-gap 10Scholars solved a 130-year literary mystery and it hinged on one word 5 35 5mo +3d sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250716000855.htm 11Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Associate (New Grad) 0 1 5mo +8s ycombinator.com/companies/spice-data/jobs/RJz1peY-product-associate-new-grad 12In a major reversal, the world bank is backing mega dams (2024) 89 45 5mo +16m e360.yale.edu/features/world-bank-hydro-dams 13Africa's gigantic $80B dam could transform entire continent 13 24 5mo +41m en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/maior-que-a-barragem-tres-gargantas-da-china-o-gigantesco-megaprojeto-africano-de-us-80-bilhoes-que-pode-revolucionar-a-energia-e-transformar-um-continente-inteiro 14Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems 100 80 5mo +13m riskgaming.com/p/how-jane-jacobs-got-americans-stuck 151990 Networking: LAN Manager 2.0 0 24 5mo +2d os2museum.com/wp/1990-networking-lan-manager-2-0 16The special hell of Bolt, Europe's Uber clone 74 40 5mo +17m brandur.org/fragments/special-hell-of-bolt-app 17Erlang 28 on GRiSP Nano using only 16 MB 25 190 5mo +41m grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-11-grisp-nano-codebeam-sto 18Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say 426 791 5mo +22h washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/20/microsoft-sharepoint-hack 19The Krull dimension of the semiring of natural numbers is equal to 2 5 34 5mo +3d freedommathdance.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-krull-dimension-of-natural-numbers.html 20Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets 52 130 5mo +8m blog.getjetback.com/scarcity-inventory-and-inequity-a-deep-dive-into-airline-fare-buckets 21Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG 72 324 5mo +1h morphik.ai/blog/stop-parsing-docs 22I'm tired of talking about AI 62 70 5mo +1h paddy.carvers.com/posts/2025/07/ai 23Show HN: Lotas – Cursor for RStudio 28 79 5mo +55m lotas.ai 2412ft.io Taken Down 154 161 5mo +1m newsmediaalliance.org/takedown-of-12ftio 25I know genomes and I didn’t delete my data from 23andMe 129 87 5mo +9m stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/i-know-genomes-dont-delete-your-dna 26MIPS – The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture 27 74 5mo +25m thechipletter.substack.com/p/mips 27Work Life balance slows careers 113 64 5mo +40m pathtostaff.com/p/work-life-balance-slows-careers-e9 28What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks? 291 499 5mo +25m lumafield.com/article/what-went-wrong-inside-these-recalled-power-banks 29Improving End-to-End Tests to Reduce Flakiness: Tools and Strategies 0 16 5mo +3d blog.testresult.co/improving-end-to-end-tests-to-reduce-flakiness-tools-strategies 30A conceptual overview of asyncio 29 141 5mo +10m github.com/anordin95/a-conceptual-overview-of-asyncio/blob/main/readme.md 31What will become of the CIA? 294 170 5mo +4m newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/the-mission-the-cia-in-the-21st-century-tim-weiner-book-review 32Reverse Engineering the Mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo 3 46 5mo +1h righto.com/2025/07/reverse-engineering-mysterious-up-data.html 33Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 2 36 5mo +54m huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 34The Game Genie Generation 65 147 5mo +9m tedium.co/2025/07/21/the-game-genie-generation 35Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software 29 92 5mo +25m github.com/tidwall/pogocache 36Amazon and the “Profitless Business Model” Fallacy 36 102 5mo +2d eugenewei.com/blog/2013/10/25/amazon-and-the-profitless-business-model-narrative 37Germany's Fairytale Castles Added to UNESCO's World Heritage List 45 84 5mo +11m smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/germanys-stunning-fairytale-castles-added-to-unescos-world-heritage-list-180987007 38Make Map Icons with Orthographic Projections 3 62 5mo +32m esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/mapping/custom-orthographic-icons 39Jqfmt like gofmt, but for jq 49 158 5mo +15m github.com/noperator/jqfmt 40I deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – I'm a citizen 99 115 5mo +16m theregister.com/2025/07/21/column_social_media_entrapment 41Comparison of MGR, SunView, OpenWindows and X11R6 (2022) 20 26 5mo +1h oldvcr.blogspot.comhttp:///2022/10/if-one-guis-not-enough-for-your-sparc.html 42AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks 147 519 5mo +15m accounting.penrose.com 43Outdoor activity is better for cognition than indoor activity in young people 34 72 5mo +23m sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938425000897 44Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO 242 524 5mo +14m deepmind.google/discover/blog/advanced-version-of-gemini-with-deep-think-officially-achieves-gold-medal-standard-at-the-international-mathematical-olympiad 45The sadist assault on the 'Coldplay couple' 26 25 5mo +3m unherd.com/2025/07/the-sadist-assault-on-the-coldplay-couple/?us=1 46Writing your Clojure tests in EDN files 4 66 5mo +2d biffweb.com/p/edn-tests 47Modern Debian-based Window Maker distribution 50 104 5mo +5m wmlive.sourceforge.net 48Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly 293 187 5mo +5m volts.wtf/p/solarstorage-is-so-much-farther-along 49India: Income Tax Bill allows officials to forcibly access social media, email 76 116 5mo +26m thehindu.com/business/Economy/parliamentary-panel-retains-income-tax-bill-provisions-allowing-tax-officials-to-forcibly-access-social-media-private-email/article69837600.ece 50Memory Efficiency in iOS: Reducing footprint and beyond 24 62 5mo +14m antongubarenko.substack.com/p/memory-efficiency-in-ios-reducing 51How to Combine SwiftUI Views Without Getting Lost in Nesting and Complex Layouts 0 6 5mo +11m matteomanferdini.com/swiftui-views 52Delta pilot performs 'aggressive maneuver' to avoid a B-52 bomber 4 21 5mo +10m cnn.com/2025/07/20/us/delta-pilot-b-52-bomber-near-collision 53SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management 36 136 5mo +3m devenv.sh/blog/2025/07/21/announcing-secretspec-declarative-secrets-management 54Hiding messages in a deck playing cards 38 115 5mo +3d asherfalcon.com/blog/posts/3 55Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steams new censorship rules 162 178 5mo +5m pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/australian-anti-porn-group-claims-responsibility-for-steams-new-censorship-rules-in-victory-against-porn-sick-brain-rotted-pedo-gamer-fetishists-and-things-only-get-weirder-from-there 56New records on Wendelstein 7-X 108 243 5mo +1m iter.org/node/20687/new-records-wendelstein-7-x 57TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale 145 601 5mo +14m github.com/KrishKrosh/TrackWeight 58Shale Drillers Turn on Each Other as Toxic Water Leaks Hit Biggest US Oil Field 66 177 5mo +6m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/toxic-water-leaks-from-top-us-oil-field-ensnare-devon-dvn-in-texas-court-fight 59Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail 185 193 5mo +6m the418.substack.com/p/a-bug-in-the-mail 60Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS 116 58 5mo +18m theregister.com/2025/07/21/foss_chromeos_please 61UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US 418 546 5mo +5m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/uk-backing-down-on-apple-encryption-backdoor-after-pressure-from-us 62A circle and a hyperbola living in one plot 0 11 5mo +3d tobylam.xyz/2024/05/24/circle-hyperbola 63[dead] ? 27 5mo +1h theguardian.com 64You can now buy eggs from in-ovo sexed hens 121 86 5mo +15m optimistsbarn.substack.com/p/you-can-now-buy-eggs-from-in-ovo 65[dead] ? 17 5mo +15m techhq.com 66Spanish police arrest five over $542M crypto investment scheme 18 79 5mo +3m therecord.media/spain-europol-cryptocurrency-investment-scheme-takedown 67We made Postgres writes faster, but it broke replication 51 243 5mo +2h paradedb.com/blog/lsm_trees_in_postgres 68Ask HN: Why do Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Code dominate the conversation? 32 20 5mo +16m 69XML Summer School, Oxford. 14th to 19th Sept 2025 14 20 5mo +4m xmlsummerschool.org 70I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again 210 231 5mo +1h indiehackers.com/post/ive-launched-37-products-in-5-years-and-not-doing-that-again-0b66e6e8b3 71Show HN: I built an AI agent that helps me invest 21 32 5mo +1d github.com/lastmile-ai/mcp-agent/tree/main/examples/usecases/mcp_realtor_agent 72Liquid Glass Design or Kitsch? 12 9 5mo +25m ia.net/topics/liquid-glass 73Cryptocurrency exchanges begin offering tokenized securities 64 38 5mo +12m apnews.com/article/crypto-robinhood-openai-tokenization-sec-bfd41220717fe9b6ebcd0305005e0018 74What happens when housing prices go down? 330 153 5mo +1h clmarohn.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-housing-prices 75[dead] ? 12 5mo +6m suntechpulse.com 76[dead] ? 10 5mo +34m http1mustdie.com 77Ryanair may increase commission to staff identifying oversized cabin bags 75 43 5mo +20m rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0721/1524508-ryanair-baggage 78Quadratic forms beyond arithmetic 11 60 5mo +3d ams.org/journals/notices/202507/noti3192/noti3192.html 79XSLT: A Precision Tool for the Future of Structured Transformation 59 58 5mo +2h xml.com/articles/2025/07/19/xslt-precision-tool-future-structured-transformation 80Extend (YC W23) is hiring engineers to build SOTA document processing 0 1 5mo +26s jobs.ashbyhq.com/extend 81France launches criminal probe of X over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’ 150 42 5mo +37m ft.com/content/21818d23-71d7-45a4-ae8c-e7940f5d9e00 82Super-resolution microscopes reveal new details of cells and disease 13 82 5mo +2d knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2025/super-resolution-microscopes-reveal-new-details-cells 83Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS Takes Over, According to ProtonDB 17 14 5mo +25m boilingsteam.com/distro-for-gaming-cachy-os-takes-over 84The Missing Guide to Prompt Engineering 10 9 5mo +1h appetals.com/promptguide 85NIH limits scientists to six applications per year 86 85 5mo +27m science.org/content/article/fearful-ai-generated-grant-proposals-nih-limits-scientists-six-applications-year 86The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme 68 97 5mo +1d wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Perl/Version-Scheme 87[dead] ? 17 5mo +35m bbc.com 88Hexanitrogen Energies 6 23 5mo +2d science.org/content/blog-post/hexanitrogen-energies 89The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders 16 79 5mo +1d spillhistorie.no/2025/07/10/the-sumerian-game-the-ancestor-of-modern-city-builders 90Why Some Satellites Use NetBSD? 18 17 5mo +2h machaddr.substack.com/p/why-some-satellites-use-netbsd 91Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database, faked data, told fibs 68 112 5mo +36m theregister.com/2025/07/21/replit_saastr_vibe_coding_incident 92Structuring Arrays with Algebraic Shapes [video] 2 41 5mo +2d youtube.com/watch?v=3Lbs0pJ_OHI 93Debugging Bash Like a Sire (2023) 54 90 5mo +3d blog.brujordet.no/post/bash/debugging_bash_like_a_sire 94How to handle people dismissing io_uring as insecure? (2024) 105 121 5mo +6m github.com/axboe/liburing/discussions/1047 95The daily life of a medieval king 165 291 5mo +3d medievalists.net/2025/07/medieval-king-daily-life 96ESP32-Faikin: ESP32 based module to control Daikin aircon units 64 151 5mo +1h github.com/revk/ESP32-Faikin 97“Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming” 211 418 5mo +2d vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1172 98[dead] ? 28 5mo +21m news.sky.com 99Using the Matrix Cores of AMD RDNA 4 architecture GPUs 22 97 5mo +2d gpuopen.com/learn/using_matrix_core_amd_rdna4 100HTTP/1.1 Must Die – The Desync Endgame Begins 8 13 5mo +1h http1mustdie.com 101How slow motion became cinema’s dominant special effect 46 50 5mo +3d newrepublic.com/article/196262/slow-motion-became-cinema-dominant-special-effect-downtime 102[dead] ? 3 5mo +30m founder-hub-waitlist.vercel.app 103After effectively banning porn, Idaho state government shows visitors porn 2 32 5mo +4h thecrow.uk/after-effectively-banning-porn-idaho-state-government-shows-visitors-porn 104Log by time, not by count 106 237 5mo +35m johnscolaro.xyz/blog/log-by-time-not-by-count 105SIOF (Scheme in One File) – A Minimal R7RS Scheme System 11 74 5mo +1d github.com/false-schemers/siof 106Europe has more heat deaths per year than the United States loses to gun deaths 16 15 5mo +9m perplexity.ai/search/europe-has-more-heat-deaths-pe-BDS6xdorS4.4x2WrCC9mAQ 107Agents built from alloys 80 177 5mo +38m xbow.com/blog/alloy-agents 108Computational complexity of neural networks (2022) 4 22 5mo +43m lunalux.io/introduction-to-neural-networks/computational-complexity-of-neural-networks 109Claude jailbroken to mint unlimited Stripe coupons 49 80 5mo +12m generalanalysis.com/blog/imessage-stripe-exploit 110Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine 526 174 5mo +24m bbc.com/news/articles/cx2n39dvp0po 111Logical implication is a comparison operator 23 40 5mo +3d btdmaster.bearblog.dev/logical-implication-as-comparison 112IPv6 Based Canvas 25 91 5mo +1h canvas.openbased.org 113Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your network peers on a map 86 203 5mo +10m github.com/h2337/connmap 114What birdsong and back ends can teach us about magic 8 39 5mo +24m digitalseams.com/blog/what-birdsong-and-backends-can-teach-us-about-magic 115The Genius Device That Rocked F1 26 82 5mo +42m youtube.com/watch?v=FhmLb2DhNYM 116 More... 2025.07.20