HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order The Big Vitamin D Mistake (2017) 14 23 5mo +54m pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5541280 1ZUSE: IRC terminal client 69 106 5mo +42m github.com/babycommando/zuse 2When circumvention is more popular than compliance 21 44 5mo +16m da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/compliance-vs-circumvention.html 3Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks (2019) 24 38 5mo +6m nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html 4Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020) 75 124 5mo +3d utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/WhyRDParsersForMe 5Designing a flatpack bed 22 59 5mo +38m kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2025_07_flatpack 6EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 668 1009 5mo +14m reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/YxmPgFes8a 7Making Postgres slower 39 350 5mo +1h byteofdev.com/posts/making-postgres-slow 8A Retrospective on Paradigms of AI Programming (2002) 2 17 5mo +2h norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html 9As Women Take over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops (2016) 16 13 5mo +25m nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over-a-male-dominated-field-the-pay-drops.html 10Bits 0x02: switching to orion as a browser 27 60 5mo +2d andinfinity.eu/post/2025-07-24-bits-0x02 11Electrified dry reforming of methane on Ni-La2O3–loaded activated carbon 1 12 5mo +1h science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1585 12Formal specs as sets of behaviors 3 29 5mo +1h surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/07/26/formal-specs-as-sets-of-behaviors 13GPT might be an information virus (2023) 102 122 5mo +1h nonint.com/2023/03/09/gpt-might-be-an-information-virus 14IBM Keyboard Patents 15 84 5mo +53m sharktastica.co.uk/topics/patents 15Dual-Brain Challenge Tetris Game 3 12 5mo +3d splitris.online 16I hacked my washing machine 162 363 5mo +52m nexy.blog/2025/07/27/how-i-hacked-my-washing-machine 17Is Jeff Bezos killing The Washington Post on purpose or by accident? 66 74 5mo +1h thebulwark.com/p/the-washington-post-is-dying-jeff-bezos-will-lewis 18Boston Dynamics' Atlas does backflips (lesson and breakdown) 3 4 5mo +1h app.vidyaarthi.ai/ai-tutor?session_id=2YBSyF3WNzMNn_80jygEp&action=replay&shared=true 19The Evilization of Google–and What to Do About It 29 42 5mo +26m billdembski.substack.com/p/the-evilization-of-googleand-what 20The Bootstrap Load 2 26 5mo +13m intel4004.comhttp://www./btstrp.htm 21The JJ VCS workshop: A zero-to-hero speedrun 38 176 5mo +8h github.com/jkoppel/jj-workshop 22Britain's spies-for-hire are running wild 61 125 5mo +2d politico.eu/article/uk-british-spies-private-intelligence-government-ministers 23National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena 19 31 5mo +53m narcap.org 24Government-Funded Alchemy 13 24 5mo +3d thebsdetector.substack.com/p/government-funded-alchemy 25Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97 2 22 5mo +49m apnews.com/article/tom-lehrer-son-satirist-mathematician-dies-9caa7ee01faf4fbfb793d7ba984c179d 26Itch.io is the latest marketplace to crack down on adult games 3 25 5mo +42m techcrunch.com/2025/07/27/itch-io-is-the-latest-marketplace-to-crack-down-on-adult-games 27Into the co-ferment kingdom: A trip to Finca Monteblanco 2 14 5mo +2d robertasami.com/coffee/into-the-coferment-kingdom 28Instrumenting Next.js with runtime secret injection 26 20 5mo +1h phase.dev/blog/instrumenting-nextjs-with-runtime-secret-injection 29Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) 826 252 5mo +1h 30Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork 356 942 5mo +21m github.com/segmentationf4u1t/trae_telemetry_research 31Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack 170 275 5mo +2m techcrunch.com/2025/07/26/allianz-life-says-majority-of-customers-personal-data-stolen-in-cyberattack 32Tom Lehrer has died 113 631 5mo +27m nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html 33Show HN: Windows 7 GUI for the web 63 171 5mo +9m khang-nd.github.io/7.css 34Katharine Graham: The Washington Post 47 98 5mo +3d fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/outliers-katharine-graham 35The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade 96 252 5mo +2h buttondown.com/whatever_jamie/archive/the-many-many-many-javascript-runtimes-of-the-last-decade 36Claude Code is a slot machine 291 258 5mo +1h rgoldfinger.com/blog/2025-07-26-claude-code-is-a-slot-machine 37Grizzlies Were Raiding Montana Farms. Then Came Some Formidable Dogs 1 19 5mo +20m nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/montana-grizzly-bears-guard-dogs.html 38No 19 54 5mo +1h olu.online/no 39Book Review: Nixon's Memoirs 10 9 5mo +3d justismills.substack.com/p/book-review-nixons-memoirs 40Dumb Pipe 238 974 5mo +34m dumbpipe.dev 41Base58 versus Base85 Encoding 4 14 5mo +3d johndcook.com/blog/2025/07/23/base58-base85 42US Government takes $1B from nuclear modernization for gold-plated jet 39 93 5mo +11m nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/air-force-one-trump-cost.html 43StackSafe: Taming recursion in Rust without stack overflow 7 18 5mo +3d fast.github.io/blog/stacksafe-taming-recursion-in-rust-without-stack-overflow 44Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure by changing oral microbiome: study 156 213 5mo +39m news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-health-and-life-sciences/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome 45BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX 63 155 5mo +3d github.com/vivoblueos/kernel 46No AI Content 89 84 5mo +55m eclecticlight.co/2025/07/27/last-week-on-my-mac-%f0%9f%a6%89-no-ai-content 47Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees 222 406 5mo +3d livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/return-of-wolves-to-yellowstone-has-led-to-a-surge-in-aspen-trees-unseen-for-80-years 48Constrained languages are easier to optimize 72 71 5mo +1h jyn.dev/constrained-languages-are-easier-to-optimize 49Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree 92 54 5mo +16m texttoslides.ai/blog/amazon-not-using-powerpoint 50High-performance RISC-V processors: UltraRISC UR-DP1000, Zhihe A210, SpacemIT K3 31 101 5mo +3d cnx-software.com/2025/07/22/three-high-performance-risc-v-processors-to-watch-in-h2-2025-ultrarisc-ur-dp1000-zizhe-a210-and-spacemit-k3 51[dead] ? 8 5mo +21m perplexity.ai 52[dead] ? 11 5mo +39m abc.net.au 53Reading QR codes without a computer (2023) 13 92 5mo +3d qr.blinry.org 54When we get Komooted 264 456 5mo +1h bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted 55Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops 213 286 5mo +56m linaro.org/blog/linux-on-snapdragon-x-elite 56Hierarchical Reasoning Model 103 309 5mo +40m arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734 57Beyond Food and People 5 18 5mo +44m aeon.co/essays/nietzsches-startling-provocation-youre-edible-and-delicious 58Implementing dynamic scope for Fennel and Lua 1 38 5mo +3d andreyor.st/posts/2025-06-09-implementing-dynamic-scope-for-fennel-and-lua 594k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program 717 504 5mo +2h kcrw.com/news/shows/npr/npr-story/nx-s1-5481304 60The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign 194 236 5mo +2h robertmao.com/blog/en/the-future-is-not-self-hosted-but-self-sovereign 61Cable bacteria are living batteries 21 81 5mo +3d asimov.press/p/cable-bacteria 62Janet: Lightweight, Expressive, Modern Lisp 107 213 5mo +5h janet-lang.org 63A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation (2021) 49 124 5mo +3d github.com/pawl/raspberry-pi-1u-server 64Smallest particulate matter air quality sensor for ultra-compact IoT devices 54 167 5mo +2h bosch-sensortec.com/news/worlds-smallest-particulate-matter-sensor-bmv080.html 65Chemical process produces critical battery metals with no waste 29 236 5mo +39m spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-aspiring-materials 6616colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive 23 120 5mo +3d 16colo.rs 67Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs 84 217 5mo +46m quantum5.ca/2025/05/11/fast-cheap-bulk-storage-using-lvm-to-cache-hdds-on-ssds 68The Electron E1 Processor 1 6 5mo +47m efficient.computer/announcing-electron-e1-processor 69Consciousness and being: How humans and AI influence each other 19 14 5mo +14h habr.com/en/articles/930946 70Meta Unveils Wristband for Controlling Computers with Hand Gestures 23 43 5mo +3d nytimes.com/2025/07/23/science/meta-computer-wristband-reardon.html 71Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing 56 138 5mo +3d infineon.com/part/BGT60TR13C 72SV AI Startups Are Embracing China's Controversial '996' Work Schedule 67 48 5mo +3d wired.com/story/silicon-valley-china-996-work-schedule 73Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) 100 177 5mo +3h norvig.com/21-days.html 74We Revamped Our Docs for AI Driven Development 2 29 5mo +1h docs.freestyle.sh/blog/docs-revamp 75Algos and Code Performance: Your Code Works but Can It Handle Real Traffic? 14 25 5mo +3d beon.tech/blog/optimizing-algorithms-code-performance 76Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused 191 205 5mo +2h nytimes.com/2025/07/26/health/coronary-artery-calcium-heart.html 77Asyncio: A library with too many sharp corners 98 117 5mo +37m sailor.li/asyncio 78Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes 37 97 5mo +18m furnacecreek.org/quicktunes 79Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023) 146 159 5mo +56m elidourado.com/p/personal-aviation 80 More... 2025.07.26