HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Quantum machine learning via vector embeddings 0 11 5mo +32m arxiv.org/abs/2508.00024 1Cow vs. Water Buffalo Mozzarella (2011) 52 54 5mo +3d itscheese.comhttp:///reviews/mozzarella 2OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are good 5 69 5mo +1h simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/gpt-oss 3HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA 128 134 5mo +3m hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-winds-down-mrna-development-under-barda.html 4Trouble with Elections: Everything We Thought We Knew About Democracy Is Wrong 6 11 5mo +48m democracycreative.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-elections 5Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app 70 193 5mo +36m blog.google/products/gemini/storybooks 6Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928) 5 29 5mo +2d publicdomainreview.org/collection/manifesto-antropofago 7The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved 11 56 5mo +2d bbc.com/news/articles/cglzl1ez283o 8Under the Hood of AFD.sys Part 1: Investigating Undocumented Interfaces 10 41 5mo +2d leftarcode.com/posts/afd-reverse-engineering-part1 9What's wrong with the JSON gem API? 15 47 5mo +21m byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2025/08/02/whats-wrong-with-the-json-gem-api.html 10Kyber (YC W23) is hiring enterprise account executives 0 1 5mo +20s ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/6RvaAVR-enterprise-account-executive-ae 11Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time 94 100 5mo +24m washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/05/germany-trains-delays-broken-railroad 12A Danish zoo is asking owners of pets nearing life’s end to donate them as food 14 19 5mo +1h nytimes.com/2025/08/04/science/zoos-denmark-food-pets.html 13A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California 57 137 5mo +43m journalism.berkeley.edu/police-records-access 14Create space-saving clones on macOS with Python 4 19 5mo +2d alexwlchan.net/2025/cloning-with-python 15AI is propping up the US economy 432 315 5mo +34m bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-bubble-is-so-big-its-propping 16[dead] ? 13 5mo +19m leavesubstack.com 17Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys 132 339 5mo +6m ergaster.org/til/base64-encoded-json 18Ollama Turbo 235 421 5mo +35m ollama.com/turbo 19The X11 Security extension from the 1990s 37 53 5mo +3d uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-08-02/0/POSTING-en.html 20Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C 7 56 5mo +3h nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/ioccc-intel-4004-in-4004-bytes-c.html 21[dead] ? 23 5mo +11m theguardian.com 22Show HN: I built a tool to replace capcut audio transcription 10 26 5mo +35m meetcosmos.com/free-audio-transcription 23Show HN: Tambo – build generative UX web apps 0 9 5mo +30m github.com/tambo-ai/tambo 24The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy 33 27 5mo +26m self.com/story/contrarian-friend-trend 25Small changes that made our daily stand-ups more useful 46 47 5mo +1h progractivity.com/flow/revolutionize-your-daily-stand-ups 26Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? 406 261 5mo +3d 27Show HN: Whittle – A shrinking word game 55 130 5mo +15m playwhittle.com 28US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief 510 450 5mo +4m notebookcheck.net/Desperate-measures-to-save-Intel-US-reportedly-forcing-TSMC-to-buy-49-stake-in-Intel-to-secure-tariff-relief-for-Taiwan.1079424.0.html 29Introducing gpt-oss 11 175 5mo +46m openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss 30Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate 117 188 5mo +20m github.com/w3c/png/issues/39 31Renaming this file changes what it does [video] 1 21 5mo +2d youtube.com/watch?v=o7qx-wgl3jo 32Open models by OpenAI 860 2096 5mo +1m openai.com/open-models 33Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial 814 412 5mo +2h trial.medpath.com/news/5c43f09ebb6d0f8e/ozempic-shows-anti-aging-effects-in-first-clinical-trial-reversing-biological-age-by-3-1-years 34Eleven Music 268 203 5mo +58m elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-music-is-here 35Claude Opus 4.1 325 824 5mo +6m anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-1 36Google agrees to pause AI workloads when power demand spikes 27 54 5mo +15m theregister.com/2025/08/04/google_ai_datacenter_grid 37Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases 49 46 5mo +1h github.com/stagewise-io/stagewise 38SAML Shield: Drop-in protection that works for any stack 9 53 5mo +16m samlshield.com 39Harmony: OpenAI's response format for its open-weight model series 50 374 5mo +9m github.com/openai/harmony 40Why is GitHub UI getting slower? 111 204 5mo +7m yoyo-code.com/why-is-github-ui-getting-so-much-slower 41FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable 231 260 5mo +15m techdirt.com/2025/08/05/trump-fcc-abandons-efforts-to-make-u-s-broadband-fast-and-affordable 42AI Teammates for for Revenue Teams 0 7 5mo +3d 43GitHub pull requests were down 171 128 5mo +11m githubstatus.com/incidents/6swp0zf7lk8h 44I dumped Google for Kagi 241 348 5mo +1h arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi 45EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy 150 111 5mo +13m nytimes.com/2025/08/05/climate/epa-cancels-solar-energy-grants.html 46GitHub pull requests are down 3 202 5mo +1m github.com/github/site-policy/pull/582 47US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible 179 173 5mo +28m news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/4265651/coast-guard-marine-board-of-investigation-releases-report-on-titan-submersible 48The Age of Bronze and Steel 2 21 5mo +1d blog.zarfhome.com/2025/08/age-of-bronze-and-steel 49Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second 96 131 5mo +13m lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/dynamics-of-dynamic-imaging 50[dead] ? 20 5mo +7m msnbc.com 51No Comment (2010) 56 72 5mo +6m prog21.dadgum.com/57.html 52Lack of intent is what makes reading LLM-generated text exhausting 115 186 5mo +34m lambdaland.org/posts/2025-08-04_artifical_inanity 53Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome 634 915 5mo +8m colton.dev/blog/curing-your-ai-10x-engineer-imposter-syndrome 54Genie 3: A new frontier for world models 484 1472 5mo +9m deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models 55Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be 84 117 5mo +3d 56Show HN: I built a text-based birthday reminder app 31 46 5mo +10m birthdays.app 57Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released 77 187 5mo +8m proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-9-0 58Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2025 20 75 5mo +28m backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2025 59Itch.io seeks payment processors who work with with adult material 123 104 5mo +22m rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-are-seeking-out-new-payment-processors-who-are-more-comfortable-with-adult-material 60SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core 78 59 5mo +7m github.com/stratdev3/SimpleW 61More than two hard disks in DOS 47 58 5mo +2h os2museum.com/wp/more-than-two-hard-disks-in-dos 62Swarm robotics could spell the end of the assembly line 13 10 5mo +7m therobotreport.com/swarm-robotics-could-spell-end-aerospace-assembly-line 63Can you block it? A simple Ad Block Tester 22 71 5mo +26m canyoublockit.com 64Chris Curry interviewed by Your Computer magazine (1981) 2 27 5mo +3d computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/your-computer-interviewed-chris-curry 65TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process 197 260 5mo +5m 9to5mac.com/2025/08/05/tsmc-says-employees-tried-to-steal-trade-secrets-on-iphone-18-chip-process 66GitHub CEO Warns Developers: "Either Embrace AI or Get Out of This Career" 57 27 5mo +6m finalroundai.com/blog/github-ceo-thomas-dohmke-warns-developers-embrace-ai-or-quit 67Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds 378 415 5mo +1h science.org/content/article/scientific-fraud-has-become-industry-alarming-analysis-finds 68C10kday 12 57 5mo +15m daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/05/c10kday 69The Disappearance of Saturday Morning (2003) 53 66 5mo +3d awn.com/animationworld/disappearance-saturday-morning 70Decades of Blunders Put a Lethal Wall at the End of a South Korean Runway 2 12 5mo +47m nytimes.com/2025/08/05/world/asia/jeju-air-crash-south-korea-investigation.html 71Build Your Own Lisp 73 268 5mo +8m buildyourownlisp.com 72A Carnival Attraction That Saved Premature Babies (2016) 19 119 5mo +2d smithsonianmag.com/history/man-who-pretended-be-doctor-ran-worlds-fair-attraction-saved-lives-thousands-premature-babies-180960200 73Rust, Python, and TypeScript: the new trifecta 28 17 5mo +9m smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/07/31/rs-py-ts-trifecta 74Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash 15 58 5mo +2d space.com/astronomy/earth/new-world-record-weather-satellites-detect-515-mile-long-lightning-flash 75Apache ECharts 6 34 272 5mo +3h echarts.apache.org/handbook/en/basics/release-note/v6-feature 76[dead] ? 7 5mo +15m youtube.com 77uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari 444 1120 5mo +13m apps.apple.com/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698 78As a linguist, I want to find the words to measure chronic illness 23 38 5mo +2d thesicktimes.org/2025/08/01/as-a-linguist-i-want-to-find-the-words-to-measure-chronic-illness 79Welcome to the IPv4 Games 29 54 5mo +2h ipv4.games 80Where to find ideas 41 120 5mo +1h howtogrow.substack.com/p/where-to-find-ideas 81Clojure Civitas – Publish Clojure Ideas and Explorations 10 63 5mo +3d github.com/ClojureCivitas/clojurecivitas.github.io 82Lamport's Byzantine Generals Algorithm in Python 1 28 5mo +2d bytepawn.com/lamport-byzantine-generals.html 83Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI 253 584 5mo +15m frigate.video 84PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator 272 430 5mo +51m thephp.foundation/blog/2025/07/11/php-85-adds-pipe-operator 85Using drone imagery and AI to rapidly assess damage after hurricanes and floods 32 48 5mo +3d stories.tamu.edu/news/2025/07/28/ai-turns-drone-footage-into-disaster-response-maps-in-minutes 86Kyoto University team develops pain reliever comparable to morphine 24 78 5mo +39m japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/05/japan/japan-new-painkiller-comparable-to-morphine 87The creative tension between developer and language 1 18 5mo +2d krishna.github.io/posts/creative-tension-between-developer-and-language 88Oxmiq Labs Inc.: Re-Architecting the GPU Stack: From Atoms to Agents 1 5 5mo +12m oxmiq.ai/press 89Before Sebald Was Great 1 6 5mo +2d thenation.com/article/culture/wg-sebald-silent-catastrophes 90Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year 130 267 5mo +45m 91The history of the Schwartzian Transform (2016) 19 53 5mo +3d perl.com/article/the-history-of-the-schwartzian-transform 92Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager 214 156 5mo +5h danfabulich.medium.com/passkeys-are-just-passwords-that-require-a-password-manager-ebb7f2fdcadf 93Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines 6 39 5mo +3d polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/07/08/dst-rust 943D Line Drawings 24 313 5mo +1h amritkwatra.com/experiments/3d-line-drawings 95What'll happen if we spend nearly $3T on data centres no one needs? 90 39 5mo +2d ft.com/content/7052c560-4f31-4f45-bed0-cbc84453b3ce 96 More... 2025.08.04