HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras 48 272 5mo +1h thingino.com 1EconTeen – Financial literacy lessons and tools for teens 50 81 5mo +19m econteen.com 2Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years 153 305 5mo +1h github.com/crbnos/carbon 3Tesla Diner 18 22 5mo +22m tesla.com/tesla-diner 4ShWiM: Peer-to-peer terminal sharing 3 17 5mo +2d github.com/meejah/shwim 5What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like? 94 78 5mo +1h whatdoesonebilliondollarslooklike.website 6An Investigation into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine 7 28 5mo +23m data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation 7AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens 81 71 5mo +1h aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/aws-european-sovereign-cloud-to-be-operated-by-eu-citizens 8Projects evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised 66 158 5mo +49m isitreallyfoss.com 9Hiroshima (1946) 256 119 5mo +2d newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima 10Show HN: I made a competitive debating game(like chess.com but for debating) 21 17 5mo +34m crs-prod-rankeddebate-l4dnggfaca-nn.a.run.app 11I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class 283 295 5mo +2d lithub.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-to-replace-myself-with-chatgpt-in-my-english-classroom 12Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable 34 149 5mo +6m nytimes.com/2025/08/04/well/cardiac-amyloidosis.html 13Content-Aware Spaced Repetition 65 180 5mo +39m giacomoran.com/blog/content-aware-sr 14How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast 163 447 5mo +5h v8.dev/blog/json-stringify 15NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills 52 156 5mo +48m jpl.nasa.gov/news/marking-13-years-on-mars-nasas-curiosity-picks-up-new-skills 16Cellular Starlink expands to support IoT devices 76 87 5mo +3d me.pcmag.com/en/networking/31452/spacexs-cellular-starlink-expands-to-support-iot-devices 17Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn? 628 353 5mo +2h 18Show HN: Sidequest.js – Background jobs for Node.js using your database 27 84 5mo +4h docs.sidequestjs.com/quick-start 19What Can a Cell Remember? 12 78 5mo +4d quantamagazine.org/what-can-a-cell-remember-20250730 20Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering 157 535 5mo +3h qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image 21CureMD 3 5 5mo +5m curemd.com/avalon.asp 22Belgium's Arrest of IDF Soldiers Could Be a Watershed Moment 31 73 5mo +11m jacobin.com/2025/08/belgium-israeli-soldiers-arrest-gaza 23Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft 42 213 5mo +2d bl.ag/indian-sign-painting-a-typeface-designers-take-on-the-craft 24Europe is breaking its reliance on American science 64 101 5mo +7m reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/europe-is-breaking-its-reliance-american-science-2025-08-01 25US links $1.9B in state disaster funds to Israel boycott stance 12 25 5mo +17m reuters.com/world/us/us-links-19-billion-state-disaster-funds-israel-boycott-stance-2025-08-04 26Fine-tuned small LLMs can beat large ones with programmatic data curation 11 51 5mo +2h tensorzero.com/blog/fine-tuned-small-llms-can-beat-large-ones-at-5-30x-lower-cost-with-programmatic-data-curation 27Circadian justice (2022) 22 58 5mo +19m eprints.lse.ac.uk/112431 28Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids 71 131 5mo +51m offline.kids 29Show HN: Mathpad – Physical keypad for typing math symbols 26 77 5mo +1d crowdsupply.com/summa-cogni/mathpad 30I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking (2023) 109 154 5mo +27m vogue.com/article/reconnecting-with-ex-friends 31Customizing tmux 150 179 5mo +2h evgeniipendragon.com/posts/customizing-tmux-and-making-it-less-dreadful 32Show HN: Kimu – Open-Source Video Editor 33 102 5mo +1h trykimu.com 33The Revolution of Token-Level Rewards 4 23 5mo +2h levroai.com/blog/revolution-of-token-rewards-08-01-2025 34Why Greptile just does code reviews and doesn't also generate code 9 53 5mo +2h greptile.com/blog/auditor 351981 BASIC adventure game comes to a new platform, the TRS-80 MC-10 6 24 5mo +1h arctic81.com/arctic-adventure-mc10.html 36Qwen Image 3 54 5mo +1h huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image 37Gigabyte removes PCIe 5.0 support from B650 motherboards in latest BIOS update 49 76 5mo +1d videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-removes-unofficial-pcie-5-0-support-from-b650-motherboards-in-latest-bios-update 38Ask HN: What change enabled you to consistently finish your side projects? 36 44 5mo +30m 39Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display 139 1104 5mo +11m benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel 40Microsoft tops $4T in valuation: Great news for MSFT, not so great for workers 85 96 5mo +14m computerworld.com/article/4032921/microsoft-tops-4t-in-valuation-great-news-for-the-company-not-so-great-for-its-workers.html 41DrawAFish.com Postmortem 103 386 5mo +4h aldenhallak.com/blog/posts/draw-a-fish-postmortem.html 42Rethinking how we measure AI intelligence 4 6 5mo +8m blog.google/technology/ai/kaggle-game-arena 43AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder 145 173 5mo +1h afterburnout.co/p/ai-promised-to-make-us-more-efficient 44Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash 261 493 5mo +4m electrek.co/2025/08/04/tesla-withheld-data-lied-misdirected-police-plaintiffs-avoid-blame-autopilot-crash 45Lidar-based GIS map of New Hampshire stone walls 24 63 5mo +1h nhgranit.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=25930044fe2b4d8fb5cab3ec07565e83 46Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi 81 166 5mo +2d hegemon.substack.com/p/facts-will-not-save-you 47Show HN: Tiny logic and number games I built for my kids 35 86 5mo +9m quizmathgenius.com 48Every visual workflow tool is just Excel for developers who gave up 65 75 5mo +4m medium.com/@mohamedalibenothmen1/every-visual-workflow-tool-is-just-excel-for-developers-who-gave-up-f7261090fbc8 49A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability 78 151 5mo +2m notashes.me/blog/part-1-memory-management 50Mozilla Firefox's extension store being flooded with malware 25 63 5mo +23m theregister.com/2025/08/04/mozilla_add_on_phishing 51ScreenCoder: An intelligent UI-to-code generation system 15 60 5mo +1h github.com/leigest519/ScreenCoder 52OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware 146 300 5mo +2d openipc.org 53Objects should shut up 355 473 5mo +17m dustri.org/b/objects-should-shut-the-fuck-up.html 54PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming 189 184 5mo +14m deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-toyota-corolla-of-programming 55Read your code 108 188 5mo +21m etsd.tech/posts/rtfc 56Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives 739 1270 5mo +14m blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives 57Do LLMs identify fonts? 30 64 5mo +3d maxhalford.github.io/blog/llm-font-identification 58Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year? 47 38 5mo +1h rugu.dev/en/blog/leaving-nixos 59My Ideal Array Language 71 144 5mo +41m ashermancinelli.com/csblog/2025-7-20-Ideal-Array-Language.html 60Scientists shine a laser through a human head 47 107 5mo +23m spectrum.ieee.org/optical-brain-imaging 61Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015) 60 151 5mo +30m smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnings-against-tsunamis-dot-japans-coastline-180956448 62Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain (2019) [pdf] 58 61 5mo +30m research.vu.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/127420931/Genetic_correlates_of_social_stratification_in_Great_Britain.pdf 63Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf] 230 143 5mo +17m lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/HCL25.pdf 64KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland 76 145 5mo +1h neowin.net/news/kde-plasma-prepares-crackdown-on-focus-stealing-window-behavior-under-wayland 65How we built Bluey’s world 173 378 5mo +3d itsnicethat.com/features/how-we-built-bluey-s-world-cartoon-background-scenery-art-director-catriona-drummond-animation-090725 66Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too 53 54 5mo +32m malwaretech.com/2025/08/every-reason-why-i-hate-ai.html 67Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models 0 6 5mo +3h momentsingraphics.de/HPG2025.html 68Palantir is extending its reach even further into government 291 297 5mo +37m wired.com/story/palantir-government-contracting-push 69The US military’s on-base slot machines 81 78 5mo +27m wired.com/story/us-military-on-base-slot-machines-gambling-addiction 70Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions 21 111 5mo +1h blog.pkh.me/p/44-perfecting-anti-aliasing-on-signed-distance-functions.html 71Nonogram: Complexity of Inference and Phase Transition Behavior 2 16 5mo +3d arxiv.org/abs/2507.07283 72GHz spiking neuromorphic photonic chip with in-situ training 18 115 5mo +29m arxiv.org/abs/2506.14272 73[dead] ? 10 5mo +1h bbc.com 74Show HN: Gmap: Explore Git Repos Visually from the CLI 10 26 5mo +3d github.com/seeyebe/gmap 75Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down 576 581 5mo +1h pcgamer.com/games/mastercard-deflects-blame-for-nsfw-games-being-taken-down-but-valve-says-payment-processors-specifically-cited-a-mastercard-rule-about-damaging-the-brand 76Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space 6 60 5mo +39m livescience.com/physics-mathematics/lightning-on-earth-is-sparked-by-a-powerful-chain-reaction-from-outer-space-simulations-show 77ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop 71 85 5mo +17m theverge.com/reviews/717491/lenovo-thinkbook-plus-gen-6-rollable-laptop-review 78HTMX is hard, so let's get it right 135 141 5mo +1h github.com/BookOfCooks/blog/blob/master/htmx-is-hard-so-lets-get-it-right.md 79How I configure BorgBackup and borgmatic (2023) 8 39 5mo +3d justus.pw/garden/borgbackup.html 80Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers 866 589 5mo +1h fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai-interviewers-job-seekers-unemployment-hiring-hr-teams 81Survival at High Altitudes: Wheel-Well Passengers (1996) 7 19 5mo +2d rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/57536 82Rising young worker despair in the United States 252 136 5mo +4h nber.org/papers/w34071 83The first lunar road trip 0 7 5mo +2d nautil.us/the-first-lunar-road-trip-1227738 84C++: "model of the hardware" vs. "model of the compiler" (2018) 30 32 5mo +3d ithare.comhttp:///c-model-of-the-hardware-vs-model-of-the-compiler 85New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials 24 142 5mo +2d phys.org/news/2025-07-quantum-state-interface-exotic-materials.html 86A dedicated skin-to-brain circuit for cool sensation in mice 0 26 5mo +2d sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250730030354.htm 87The Demon that Wears my Face 3 16 5mo +55m mirawelner.com/posts/demon.html 88A parser for TypeScript types, written in TypeScript types 38 77 5mo +1h github.com/easrng/tsints 89Cube: Packing a 5x5x5 cube with Y-pentominoes 3 13 5mo +2d kociemba.org/themen/125puzzle/index.html 90How Python grew from a language to a community 85 123 5mo +10h thenewstack.io/how-python-grew-from-a-language-to-a-community 91Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range (2018) 6 50 5mo +1d pcg-random.org/posts/bounded-rands.html 92Human speech may have a universal transmission rate (2019) 56 70 5mo +3h science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-have-universal-transmission-rate-39-bits-second 93Camera Genealogica 0 8 5mo +3d engineersneedart.com/blog/camera/camera.html 94Why doctors hate their computers (2018) 216 118 5mo +1h newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers 95Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth 330 201 5mo +45m ft.com/content/cfb77a53-fef8-4382-b102-c217e0aa4b25 96Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding 228 273 5mo +1h solmaz.io/typed-languages-are-better-suited-for-vibecoding 97Learnable Programming (2012) 7 53 5mo +1h worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming 98System-Wide Safety Project 4 20 5mo +1d nasa.gov/directorates/armd/aosp/sws 99New Aging Clock Forecasts Dementia, Disease Risk from Single MRI Scan 1 14 5mo +12m insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/patient-care/new-aging-clock-forecasts-dementia-disease-risk-from-single-mri-scan 100 More... 2025.08.03