HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Names are not type safety (2020) 75 55 5mo +1h lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/11/01/names-are-not-type-safety 1CloudGazing 1 29 5mo +2d cloudgazing.online 2[dead] ? 15 5mo +10m texastribune.org 3So you want to parse a PDF? 220 401 5mo +42m eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pdf-parsing-xref 4How to grow almost anything 61 201 5mo +10m howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site/htgaa25 5A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022) 104 149 5mo +4m economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/09/29/a-study-of-lights-at-night-suggests-dictators-lie-about-economic-growth 6Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme 3 47 5mo +2d github.com/rolandoam/schematra 7'A black hole': New graduates discover a dismal job market 116 79 5mo +57m nbcnews.com/business/economy/job-market-report-college-student-graduates-ai-trump-tariffs-rcna221693 8Everything to know about UniFi OS Server 10 73 5mo +1h deluisio.com/networking/unifi/2025/08/03/everything-you-need-to-know-about-unifi-os-server-before-you-waste-time-testing-it 9US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam 2 9 5mo +33m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/ninety-laptops-millions-of-dollars-us-woman-jailed-for-role-in-north-korea-remote-work-scam 10Google has dropped more than 50 DEI-related orgs from one of its funding lists 85 61 5mo +18m cnbc.com/2025/08/01/google-dropped-50-dei-groups-from-funding-list-.html 11Tell HN: I'm tired of formulaic, "LLM house style" show HN submissions 30 62 5mo +5m 12Show HN: Spatial Web Browser Engine 22 20 5mo +2h m-creativelab.github.io/jsar-runtime 13The Worst Programmer I Know (2023) 4 3 5mo +2h dannorth.net/blog/the-worst-programmer 14In the future all food will be cooked in a microwave 26 43 5mo +1h colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen 15Welcome to url.town, population 465 87 212 5mo +1d url.town 16[dead] ? 22 5mo +18m shop.bouldervalleyhoney.com 17Critcl – C Runtime in Tcl 9 30 5mo +1h andreas-kupries.github.io/critcl 18Writing a good design document 141 564 5mo +43m grantslatton.com/how-to-design-document 19Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation 83 210 5mo +1d acoup.blog/2025/08/01/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-iiia-family-formation 20[dead] ? 28 5mo +2h leavesubstack.com 21AI hallucinations will be solvable within a year (2024) 17 11 5mo +42m fortune.com/2024/04/16/ai-hallucinations-solvable-year-ex-google-researcher 22Gabe Newell on AI, Gaming, and Success [video] 1 17 5mo +1h youtube.com/watch?v=oFHXIW37NBM 23Show HN: Turn impulse buys into dream investments 24 14 5mo +2h nopeit.app 24The US Relies on 51 Forty-five-year-old ships to Transport its Military Overseas [video] 31 41 5mo +1h youtube.com/watch?v=tDHsfDCWWcE 25Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise 52 147 5mo +18m news.asu.edu/20250725-environment-and-sustainability-new-global-study-shows-freshwater-disappearing-alarming 26The Dollar Is Dead 346 251 5mo +14m mathmeetsmoney.substack.com/p/the-dollar-is-dead 27A 3D model of the human airways via a digital light processing bioprinter 2 29 5mo +3d analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bit.29013 28The AI Mirage: July Jobs Report vs. Tech Hiring Truths 11 26 5mo +1h layoffnation.substack.com/p/the-ai-mirage-july-jobs-report-vs 29Caracas on the Potomac 2 25 5mo +20m paulkrugman.substack.com/p/caracas-on-the-potomac 30Modern Node.js Patterns 417 841 5mo +4m kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2025 31This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series (1996) 33 103 5mo +3h archive.irixnet.org/thisoldsgi 32ChatGPT chats were indexed then removed from search but still remain online 66 89 5mo +50s growtika.com/chatgpt-shared-chats-seo-indexing-privacy-leak 33Ex-Barclays VP who completed a PhD in prison: "All my former colleagues ignore" 35 55 5mo +3m efinancialcareers.com/news/carlo-palombo 34Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura 5 14 5mo +3d publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-early-modern-camera-obscura 35We Paid Users $300K to Upload Their Camera Rolls, Homework, and Dashcam Footage 38 13 5mo +15m kled.ai 36Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization 61 115 5mo +54m theconversation.com/yosemite-embodies-the-long-war-over-us-national-park-privatization-261133 37The Subway Game (1980) 19 44 5mo +3d gricer.com/subway_game/subway_game.html 38Time Theft at the Terminal 7 12 5mo +14m marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/08/time-theft-at-the-terminal.html 39EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor's office 66 69 5mo +7h spectrum.ieee.org/electronic-health-records 40Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models 136 405 5mo +28m anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors 41UN report finds UN reports are not widely read 141 350 5mo +14m reuters.com/world/un-report-finds-united-nations-reports-are-not-widely-read-2025-08-01 42Converge (YC S23) well-capitalized New York startup seeks product developers 0 1 5mo +12s runconverge.com/careers 43Palantir: The Most Evil Company 110 115 5mo +39m politicaleconomist.substack.com/p/palantir-the-worlds-most-evil-company 44My bytecode optimizer beats Copilot by 2x 35 47 5mo +2d deviantabstraction.com/2025/07/29/how-my-bytecode-optimizer-beats-copilot-by-2x 45How OpenAI Is Turning Monopoly Money into Real Debt 10 32 5mo +17m saturn.land/monopoly-money.html 46Apple lacks strategic vision 185 79 5mo +24m unherd.com/2025/08/time-is-running-out-for-tim-cook/?lang=us 47Show HN: Implementation of DDPM (Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models) 0 10 5mo +3d github.com/alenMangattu/DDPM-Denoising-Diffusion-Probabilistic-Models 48Falcon-H1: A Family of Hybrid-Head Models Redefining Efficiency and Performance 0 19 5mo +2h arxiv.org/abs/2507.22448 49The Ski Rental Problem 90 89 5mo +3d lesves.github.io/articles/ski-rental 50$83B Wasted: Showing up at the airport 3 hours before your flight 111 73 5mo +1h viewfromthewing.com/83-billion-wasted-showing-up-at-the-airport-3-hours-before-your-flight-is-a-system-failure-no-ones-trying-to-fix 51The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas 14 70 5mo +56m bastian.rieck.me/blog/2025/fulbright 52One Third of the Web Will Stop Working in 4 Days 26 58 5mo +3m lowendbox.com/blog/one-third-of-the-web-will-stop-working-in-4-days-massive-scale-cdn-compromise-starts-wednesday 53Flipping Bits in the World 6 15 5mo +3d opuslabs.substack.com/p/how-to-flip-bits-in-the-world 54How to make almost anything (2019) 25 230 5mo +2h fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.19/CBA/people/dsculley/index.html 55[dead] ? 13 5mo +1h thehustle.co 56Descent of Inanna into the Underworld 10 36 5mo +3d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_of_Inanna_into_the_Underworld 57Tokens are getting more expensive 251 360 5mo +1h ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscriptions-get-short-squeezed 582,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals 70 241 5mo +2d bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzx0zm68vo 59Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329M verdict 1 32 5mo +33m arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08/tesla-loses-autopilot-wrongful-death-case-in-329-million-verdict 60If you're remote, ramble 451 945 5mo +4m stephango.com/ramblings 61Self-employed, self-exhausted 59 82 5mo +58m theisolationjournals.substack.com/p/self-employed-self-exhausted 62Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches 16 79 5mo +3d nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09317-z 63The Algebra Gatekeepers 56 60 5mo +5h educationprogress.org/p/the-algebra-gatekeepers 64A Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Parser 0 24 5mo +20h abhinavsarkar.net/posts/arithmetic-bytecode-vm-parser 65People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers 57 90 5mo +3d utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/LoginServersStillUsed 66A Real PowerBook: The Macintosh Application Environment on a Pa-RISC Laptop 36 142 5mo +54m oldvcr.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/08/a-real-powerbook-macintosh-application.html 67Build Your Own Minisforum N5 Inspired Mini NAS 54 153 5mo +3d jackharvest.com/index.php/2025/07/27/build-your-own-minisforum-n5-inspired-mini-nas-a-comprehensive-guide 68A Quantum Gravimeter for GPS Backup 2 16 5mo +3d spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-gravity-sensor 69How I use Claude Code to implement new features in an existing complex codebase 55 73 5mo +39m sabrina.dev/p/ultimate-ai-coding-guide-claude-code 70Seed7 – Extensible Programming Language 20 96 5mo +1h seed7.net 71Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest 102 357 5mo +25m ioccc.org/2024/index.html 72Writing a basic service for GNU Guix 28 99 5mo +1h tannerhoelzel.com/gnu-shepherd-simple-service.html 73Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and stability 104 139 5mo +3d blocksandfiles.com/2025/07/30/micron-three-276-layer-ssds 74Parsing without ASTs and Optimizing with Sea of Nodes [video] 3 27 5mo +1h youtube.com/watch?v=NxiKlnUtyio 75Neural networks that learn non-linearity without activation functions [pdf] 7 22 5mo +3d tahabouhsine.com/nmn/assets/deep_learning_two_point_o_point_one.pdf 76Show HN: AI Physics Tutor with Free Body Diagrams 0 7 5mo +4h physicsviewer.com 77Super-resolution of Sentinel-2 images (10M –> 5M) 5 30 5mo +2d github.com/Topping1/L1BSR-GUI 78The Crisis of Professional Skepticism 69 64 5mo +3h mitchhorowitz.substack.com/p/the-crisis-of-professional-skepticism 79Show HN: Voltpeek – Vim-inspired oscilloscope software 1 14 5mo +1h github.com/schuyler4/voltpeek 80LangExtract: Python library for extracting structured data from language models 14 160 5mo +3d github.com/google/langextract 81C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML 110 136 5mo +1h reachablecode.com/2025/07/31/c26-reflections-adventures-compile-time-uml 82Speed up suspend/resume for FreeBSD 5 21 5mo +2d eugene-andrienko.com/it/2025/07/28/speed-up-suspend-resume-freebsd.html 83When Did Apple's Obsession with Design Stagnate? 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