HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Someone made a 128k line PR to OpenCut 91 107 5mo +13m github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/pull/479 1JavaScript decided my day starts at 9am 43 34 5mo +3d senhongo.com/blog/when-javaScript-decided-my-day-starts-at-9am 2URL-Driven State in HTMX 176 296 5mo +50m lorenstew.art/blog/bookmarkable-by-design-url-state-htmx 3Phenome-wide analysis of diseases in relation to sleep traits 9 35 5mo +8m spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/hds.0161 4ACM Transitions to Full Open Access 58 389 5mo +5h acm.org/publications/openaccess 5USB-C for Lightning iPhones 125 222 5mo +2d obsoless.com/products/iph0n3-usb-c-protection-case 6Webflow Down for >31 Hours 70 117 5mo +4m status.webflow.com 7Placing Functions 7 17 5mo +1d blog.yoshuawuyts.com/placing-functions 8Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal 100 222 5mo +19m neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-developers-account-without-warning-rejects-appeal 9CodeCrafters (YC S22) is hiring first Marketing Person 0 1 5mo +31s ycombinator.com/companies/codecrafters/jobs/7ATipKJ-1st-marketing-hire 10RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession 88 418 5mo +30m japanesenostalgiccar.comJapaneseNostalgicCar.com/rip-shunsaku-tamiya-plastic-model-kits 11The Making of Dario Amodei 14 54 5mo +2h bigtechnology.com/p/the-making-of-dario-amodei 122D to 3D model and 3D print it 18 21 5mo +3d amodeling.com 13Supervised fine tuning on curated data is reinforcement learning 19 70 5mo +22m arxiv.org/abs/2507.12856 14How the brain increases blood flow on demand 82 160 5mo +1h hms.harvard.edu/news/how-brain-increases-blood-flow-demand 15[dead] ? 31 5mo +10m news.un.org 16Delta’s new AI-powered pricing strategy 66 43 5mo +45m blog.getjetback.com/delta-engineered-a-pricing-system-that-sorts-you-by-economic-value 17More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves 159 227 5mo +24m news.uoguelph.ca/2025/07/more-honey-bees-dying-even-as-antibiotic-use-halves 18Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC 205 260 5mo +22m maruos.com 19FoundationDB: From idea to Apple acquisition [video] 55 220 5mo +3d youtube.com/watch?v=C1nZzQqcPZw 20Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering 30 49 5mo +49m poetsandquants.com/2025/07/28/the-secret-stanford-program-no-ones-heard-about 21The half-life of tech skills 36 27 5mo +2m haraldagterhuis.substack.com/p/the-great-skills-decay 22Show HN: Monchromate – Smart greyscale browser extension 10 40 5mo +21m monochromate.lirena.in 23Playing with Open Source LLMs 52 84 5mo +16m alicegg.tech//2025/07/29/open-source-llm.html 24[dead] ? 15 5mo +6m deepdocs.dev 25A grand tour through the essays of Lewis H. Lapham 3 37 5mo +3d laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/motet-record 26Stochastic Transparency [pdf] 3 16 5mo +1h luebke.us/publications/StochasticTransparency_I3D2010.pdf 27Show HN: A GitHub Action that quizzes you on a pull request 33 93 5mo +12m github.com/dkamm/pr-quiz 28A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023) 94 134 5mo +7m neilzone.co.uk/2023/08/a-month-using-xmpp-using-snikket-for-every-call-and-chat 29YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens 22 34 5mo +11m techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/youtube-rolls-out-age-estimatation-tech-to-identify-u-s-teens-and-apply-additional-protections 30Playing with more user-friendly methods for multi-factor authentication 80 76 5mo +20h tesseral.com/blog/i-designed-some-more-user-friendly-methods-for-multi-factor-authentication 31Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support 49 159 5mo +12m zdnet.com/article/linux-6-16-brings-faster-file-systems-improved-confidential-memory-support-and-more-rust-support 32Elements of System Design 37 154 5mo +30m github.com/jarulraj/periodic-table 33Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK 115 151 5mo +3d docs.flightsimulator.com/msfs2024/html/6_Programming_APIs/WASM/WebAssembly.htm 34Peacock feathers can be lasers 12 25 5mo +2h science.org/content/article/peacock-feathers-can-be-lasers 35Futurehome smart hub owners must pay new $117 subscription or lose access 78 86 5mo +9m arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/bankrupt-futurehome-suddenly-makes-its-smart-home-hub-a-subscription-service 36[dead] ? 37 5mo +5m theguardian.com 37Learning basic electronics by building fireflies 78 315 5mo +12m a64.inhttp:///posts/learning-basic-electronics-by-building-fireflies 38Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300% 256 478 5mo +2h science.org/content/article/scienceadviser-cats-confuse-ai 39Study mode 791 1092 5mo +4m openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode 40PAX Markets (YC W25) is hiring a founding principal hardware (RTL) engineer 0 1 5mo +29s ycombinator.com/companies/pax-markets/jobs/qv4p3Al-founding-principal-hardware-engineer 41The Convenience Trap: Why Seamless Banking Access Can Turn 2FA into 1FA 60 66 5mo +1h blog.opencore.ch/posts/the-convenience-trap-2fa 42[dead] ? 18 5mo +7m theguardian.com 43Now I Lay Me (1927) 4 25 5mo +3d storyoftheweek.loa.org/2025/07/now-i-lay-me.html 44Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game 108 276 5mo +16m kathaaverse.com 45Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker 174 249 5mo +5m 46Microsoft Introduces 'Copilot Mode' in Edge 106 66 5mo +10m blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/07/28/introducing-copilot-mode-in-edge-a-new-way-to-browse-the-web 47KernelScript eBPF-centric programming language 2 43 5mo +3h github.com/multikernel/kernelscript 48The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe 144 127 5mo +14m theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/29/late-shift-swiss-hospital-nurses-overworked-healthcare 49The IPCC: Can it regain its credibility? 8 16 5mo +26m meer.com/en/91051-the-ipcc-can-it-regain-its-credibility 50The Saltgator: A Desktop SoftGel Injection Molding Machine 21 59 5mo +2d core77.com/posts/137875/The-Saltgator-A-Desktop-SoftGel-Injection-Molding-Machine 51Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI 11 36 5mo +22m github.com/xorq-labs/xorq 52Cucumber lets you write automated tests in plain language 73 71 5mo +1h cucumber.io 53Structuring large Clojure codebases with Biff 8 95 5mo +54m biffweb.com/p/structuring-large-codebases 54Project Zero – Policy and Disclosure: 2025 Edition 39 98 5mo +10m googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/07/reporting-transparency.html 55Show HN: ELF Injector 13 38 5mo +8m github.com/dillstead/elf_injector 56Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview 56 230 5mo +23m observablehq.com/notebook-kit 572025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 70 67 5mo +29m survey.stackoverflow.co/2025 58Claude finds contradictions in my thinking 65 56 5mo +8m angadh.com/contradictions-1 59Do variable names matter for AI code completion? (2025) 58 53 5mo +3d yakubov.org/blogs/2025-07-25-variable-naming-impact-on-ai-code-completion 60Learning Is Slower Than You Think 100 117 5mo +7m nisheethvishnoi.substack.com/p/learning-is-slower-than-you-think 61iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras 494 500 5mo +20m candid9.com/phone-camera 62RP2350 A4, RP2354, and a New Hacking Challenge 17 88 5mo +34m raspberrypi.com/news/rp2350-a4-rp2354-and-a-new-hacking-challenge 63My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air) 391 569 5mo +10m simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/space-invaders 64Coverage.py Regex Pragmas 2 35 5mo +22m nedbatchelder.com/blog/202507/coveragepy_regex_pragmas.html 65Linux Performance Analysis (2015) 40 179 5mo +23m netflixtechblog.com/linux-performance-analysis-in-60-000-milliseconds-accc10403c55 66Can a Country Be Too Rich? Norway Is Finding Out 125 71 5mo +4m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-25/can-a-country-be-too-rich-norway-is-finding-out-essay 67Optimi-Zi(n)g Sudoku-Solving 5 20 5mo +2d log.pfad.fr/2025/optimi-zig-sudoku-solving 68Iron Law of Oligarchy 11 26 5mo +1h en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy 69Ask HN: How will the OSA affect small Mastodon instances? 15 29 5mo +52m 70Detached Point Arithmetic 26 12 5mo +20m github.com/Pedantic-Research-Limited/DPA 71Wish you could escape the planet? Too bad life in space would suck (2024) 75 42 5mo +20m salon.com/2024/11/22/wish-you-could-escape-the-planet-too-life-in-space-would-suck 72Anthropic Faces Potentially "Business-Ending" Copyright Lawsuit 68 65 5mo +1h obsolete.pub/p/anthropic-faces-potentially-business 73Union Pacific to buy Norfolk in $85B mega U.S. railroad deal 95 80 5mo +3m cnbc.com/2025/07/29/union-pacific-to-buy-norfolk.html 74Anker is no longer selling 3D Printers 71 50 5mo +3d theverge.com/report/714006/anker-stop-selling-3d-printer-m5-m5c-parts-eufymake 75UK Online Safety Act sends VPN use soaring 3 184 5mo +55m wired.com/story/vpn-use-spike-age-verification-laws-uk 76Sendblue (YC S23) is hiring senior engineers 0 1 5mo +4s ycombinator.com/companies/sendblue/jobs/VP7cA0F-senior-backend-engineer 77Amazon's AI Coding Revealed a Dirty Little Secret 25 32 5mo +1h bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-29/amazon-ai-coding-revealed-a-dirty-little-secret 78Show HN: CUDA Fractal Renderer 18 43 5mo +3d github.com/tripplyons/cuda-fractal-renderer 79Palestinian who helped make Oscar-winning No Other Land killed in West Bank 20 74 5mo +48m theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/palestinian-awdah-hathaleen-oscar-winning-no-other-land-killed-in-west-bank 80Show HN: Terminal-Bench-RL: Training long-horizon terminal agents with RL 12 124 5mo +19m github.com/Danau5tin/terminal-bench-rl 81Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds” 341 355 5mo +2h blog.kilocode.ai/p/ai-pricing-playbook-strikes-again 82Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters 75 139 5mo +58m nothing-to-watch.port80.ch 83Félix Nadar: the first celebrity photographer (2019) 1 9 5mo +3d bbc.com/culture/article/20190114-flix-nadar-the-worlds-first-celebrity-photographer 84Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations 184 390 5mo +22m wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/07/17/wikimedia-foundation-challenges-uk-online-safety-act-regulations 85Modernising the Amiga at Forty 36 52 5mo +4h benjamin.computer/posts/2025-07-28-amiga40.html 86Exploiting zero days in abandoned hardware 35 112 5mo +3d blog.trailofbits.com/2025/07/25/exploiting-zero-days-in-abandoned-hardware 87Hologram v0.5.0 50 82 5mo +3d hologram.page/blog/hologram-v0-5-0-released 88EU Commission finds Temu in breach of online platform rules 88 68 5mo +30m euronews.com/next/2025/07/28/eu-commission-finds-temu-in-breach-of-online-platform-rules 89The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025 244 254 5mo +11m techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/the-eu-could-be-scanning-your-chats-by-october-2025-heres-everything-we-know 90Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language 264 282 5mo +1h ponylang.io 91Truchet Tiles 27 121 5mo +3d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truchet_tiles 92Built a rickroll machine that rickrolls you with microservices 12 24 5mo +3d github.com/nabbonoushad/Chaotic-Rickroll-Machine 93Florida’s attorney general targets a restaurant over an LGBTQ Pride event 23 83 5mo +38m eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/you-went-drag-show-now-state-florida-wants-your-name 94The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken 91 125 5mo +2h tushardadlani.com/the-leverage-arbitrage-why-everything-feels-broken 95Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen 200 189 5mo +3d shellshore.com/review-rotring-600-ballpoint-pen 96LLMs can now identify public figures in images 8 44 5mo +7h minimaxir.com/2025/07/llms-identify-people 97NSF plans end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker 73 96 5mo +55m science.org/content/article/nsf-plans-abrupt-end-lone-u-s-antarctic-research-icebreaker 98Every American Is Bilingual 35 15 5mo +19m justevilenough.com/every-american-is-bilingual 99AV-Racer Devlog (1): Getting a functional car model 1 19 5mo +1d wassimulator.com/blog/programming/av-racer/devlog_1.html 100Fintech dystopia 267 260 5mo +28m fintechdystopia.com 101AI is wrecking a fragile job market for college graduates 80 57 5mo +55m wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-entry-level-jobs-graduates-b224d624 102Show HN: Color Me Same – A new kind of logic game 33 34 5mo +2d color-me-same.franzai.com 103Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or other health conditions 129 162 5mo +1h en.ssi.dk/news/news/2025/large-danish-study-no-link-between-vaccines-and-autism-or-49-other-health-conditions 104Show HN: 433 – How to make a font that says nothing 11 48 5mo +3d untested.sonnet.io/notes/433-how-to-make-a-font-that-says-nothing 105Structural-Demographic Theory 7 33 5mo +2h peterturchin.com/structural-demographic-theory 106 More... 2025.07.28