HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Cursed Knowledge 150 489 5mo +6m immich.app/cursed-knowledge 1Touch Mapper – open-source 3D printed tactile maps for the visually impaired 4 23 5mo +3d touch-mapper.org 2Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels 29 153 5mo +1h research.google/blog/achieving-10000x-training-data-reduction-with-high-fidelity-labels 3Squashing my dumb bugs and why I log build IDs 6 14 5mo +3d rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/08/03/scope 4Vibechart 187 849 5mo +18m vibechart.net 5Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security 298 472 5mo +30m rtl-sdr.com/flipperzero-darkweb-firmware-bypasses-rolling-code-security 6The Bus Station That Didn't Exist, and Other Data Epiphanies 1 17 5mo +1d nightingaledvs.com/bus-station-didnt-exist 7Spatio-temporal indexing the Bluesky firehose 0 42 5mo +1h joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-08-07/spatio-temporal-indexing-the-bluesky-firehose 8Cursor CLI 260 374 5mo +28m cursor.com/cli 979% of OpenBSD kernel source is AMD DRM 38 82 5mo +14m marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=175313564329081 10What makes Israel's starvation of Gaza stand apart 22 45 5mo +25m vox.com/policy/422622/israel-famine-gaza-history-weaponizing-starvation-war 11The Q Programming Language 28 81 5mo +3d git.urbach.dev/cli/q 12OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5 212 394 5mo +1h seangoedecke.com/gpt-oss-is-phi-5 13GPT-5 Hot Take 10 40 5mo +32m garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-hot-take 14Open music foundation models for full-song generation 74 120 5mo +3d map-yue.github.io 15GPT-5 Demo Mistake About Bernoulli Effect 23 59 5mo +13m bren.blog/gpt-5-demo-mistake-about-bernoulli-effect 16Historical Tech Tree 124 521 5mo +57s historicaltechtree.com 17Historical Tech Tree 1 7 5mo +1h historicaltechtree.com 18Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked 150 223 5mo +52m wired.com/story/encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked-researchers-find 19DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest (2024) 100 135 5mo +1h theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/03/dna-tests-incest/677791 20Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big 523 386 5mo +1h eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-germany-before-your-business-gets-big 21Show HN: Octofriend, a cute coding agent that can swap between GPT-5 and Claude 30 99 5mo +20m github.com/synthetic-lab/octofriend 22A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction 3 36 5mo +3d nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09255-w 23GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card 286 630 5mo +31m simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5 24Lightweight LSAT 39 74 5mo +10m lightweightlsat.com 25Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster 85 200 5mo +4m github.com/geerlingguy/ollama-benchmark/issues/21 26GPT-5 for Developers 265 463 5mo +29m openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-for-developers 27Italy's pizza detectives 96 70 5mo +3d bbc.com/travel/article/20250801-italys-undercover-pizza-detectives 28Show HN: Browser AI agent platform designed for reliability 32 72 5mo +13m github.com/nottelabs/notte 29GPT-5 System Card [pdf] 5 81 5mo +3m cdn.openai.com/pdf/8124a3ce-ab78-4f06-96eb-49ea29ffb52f/gpt5-system-card-aug7.pdf 30GPT-5 2437 2027 5mo +1m openai.com/gpt-5 31Foundry (YC F24) is hiring staff-level product engineers 0 1 5mo +26s ycombinator.com/companies/foundry/jobs/jwdYx6v-founding-product-engineer 32The Sunlight Budget of Earth 28 65 5mo +41m asimov.press/p/sunlight-budget 33Jepsen: Capela dda5892 14 80 5mo +1h jepsen.io/analyses/capela-dda5892 34Preventing ZIP parser confusion attacks on Python package installers 15 48 5mo +17m blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-08-07-wheel-archive-confusion-attacks 35Koalas vs. Crows: An evolutionary theory of software 3 38 5mo +3d ajmoon.com/posts/koalas-vs-crows-an-evolutionary-theory-of-software 36Ditching GitHub (2024) 62 51 5mo +10m tomscii.sig7.se/2024/01/Ditching-GitHub 37Live: GPT-5 8 170 5mo +7m youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_VJeVVfo 38Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study 99 154 5mo +1h hms.harvard.edu/news/could-lithium-explain-treat-alzheimers-disease 39Moreshell tricks: first class lists, jq, and the es shell 14 39 5mo +1h alurm.github.io/blog/2025-08-07-first-class-lists-in-shells.html 40SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to the Perl and Raku Foundation 40 105 5mo +1h perl.com/article/suse-donates-to-tprf 41Building Bluesky comments for my blog 139 370 5mo +4m natalie.sh/posts/bluesky-comments 42Budget Car Buyers Want Automakers to K.I.S.S 95 35 5mo +24m thedrive.com/news/budget-car-buyers-want-automakers-to-k-i-s-s 43[dead] ? 24 5mo +3m forbes.com 44Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity 86 137 5mo +1h baldurbjarnason.com/2025/disingenuous-discourse 45AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference 87 102 5mo +22m seuros.com/blog/aws-restored-account-plot-twist 46Hopfield Networks Is All You Need (2020) 6 40 5mo +2d arxiv.org/abs/2008.02217 47How to sell if your user is not the buyer 95 201 5mo +10m writings.founderlabs.io/p/how-to-sell-if-your-user-is-not-the 48Open AI announces $1.5M bonus for every employee 161 138 5mo +18m medium.com/activated-thinker/breaking-open-ai-announces-1-5-million-bonus-for-every-employee-29d057b9d590 49No One Is Working 49 58 5mo +34m humaninvariant.com/blog/working 50Monte Carlo Crash Course: Quasi-Monte Carlo 14 139 5mo +3d thenumb.at/QMC 51Honesty Boxes in Scotland (2024) 59 37 5mo +14m awayfromtheordinary.com/2024/07/29/honesty-boxes-in-scotland 52Windows XP Professional 220 406 5mo +24m win32.run 53Sweatshop Data Is Over 24 56 5mo +22m mechanize.work/blog/sweatshop-data-is-over 54Global Trade Dynamics 8 46 5mo +6m alhadaqa.github.io/globaltradedynamics 55Laptop Support and Usability (LSU): July 2025 Report 95 96 5mo +18m github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/monthly-updates/2025-07.md 56United Airlines grounds flights after system meltdown 98 60 5mo +2m allchronology.com/2025/08/07/outdated-software-nationwide-chaos-united-airlines-grounds-flights-after-system-meltdown 57Arm desktop: emulation 50 96 5mo +1h marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2025/07/22/arm-desktop-emulation 58Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight–and How We Can Fix It 103 65 5mo +1h progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/how-baltimore-assessments-accidentally 59Fastmail breaks UI in production 51 34 5mo +24m twitter.com/licyeus/status/1953438985381974493 60Synthetic Biology for Space Exploration 1 13 5mo +2d nature.com/articles/s41526-025-00488-7 61Infinite Pixels 56 246 5mo +8m meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/08/07/infinite-pixels 62An LLM does not need to understand MCP 101 134 5mo +15m hackteam.io/blog/your-llm-does-not-care-about-mcp 63Maybe we should do an updated Super Cars 3 22 5mo +36m spillhistorie.no/2025/07/31/maybe-we-should-do-an-updated-version 64You Don't Need Monads 16 23 5mo +20m muratkasimov.art/Ya/Articles/You-don%27t-really-need-monads 65The Whispering Earring 91 114 5mo +2h croissanthology.com/earring 66PastVu: Historical Photographs on Current Maps 3 36 5mo +2d pastvu.com/?_nojs=1 67How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ 227 281 5mo +2h derekthompson.org/p/how-ai-conquered-the-us-economy-a 68Photographer spends years on street corner capturing same commuters daily (2017) 21 47 5mo +58m mymodernmet.com/peter-funch-candid-photographs-commuters 69Show HN: Aura – Like robots.txt, but for AI actions 33 40 5mo +22h github.com/osmandkitay/aura 70Ultra-processed foods make up more than 60% of us kids' diets 97 46 5mo +14m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-07/sugar-snacks-and-ultra-processed-foods-are-majority-of-us-diet 71Show HN: Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, no server, no trust 54 71 5mo +18m github.com/stasher-dev/stasher-cli 72AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was 124 174 5mo +43m nimishg.substack.com/p/ai-ethics-is-being-narrowed-on-purpose 73GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) Is Hiring Back End and Full-Stack Engineers 0 1 5mo +9s 74"AI hype" is the true AI product 18 40 5mo +7m hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/machine-learning-expert-ai-hype-is 75[dead] ? 22 5mo +28m paulkrugman.substack.com 76School AI surveillance can lead to false alarms, arrests 153 92 5mo +25m apnews.com/article/ai-school-surveillance-gaggle-goguardian-bark-8c531cde8f9aee0b1ef06cfce109724a 77Gaybreaking 16 46 5mo +8m twitter.com/AlexReibman/status/1953229500973740058 78Children's movie leads art historian to long-lost Hungarian masterpiece (2014) 7 46 5mo +3d theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/27/stuart-little-art-historian-long-lost-hungarian-masterpiece 79About AI 64 65 5mo +1h priver.dev/blog/ai/about-ai 80Gemini CLI GitHub Actions 96 248 5mo +53m blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-github-actions 81Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG 202 214 5mo +10m leonardo.chiariglione.org 82Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality 48 52 5mo +3d poynter.org/business-work/2025/did-craigslist-kill-newspapers-poynter-50 83Scientists have recreated the Universe's first molecule 11 27 5mo +2d sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250803011840.htm 84OpenAI's new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub 72 78 5mo +18m theverge.com/news/752091/openai-gpt-5-model-announcement-github-leak 85Israel is reportedly storing Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft servers 31 33 5mo +38m engadget.com/big-tech/israel-is-reportedly-storing-millions-of-palestinian-phone-calls-on-microsoft-servers-161127912.html 8640 Years of the Amiga 37 81 5mo +14m goto10retro.com/p/40-years-of-the-amiga-from-commodore 87"I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI" 97 45 5mo +59m twitter.com/paulg/status/1953289830982664236 88Debounce 100 149 5mo +2d developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Debounce 89Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault 93 276 5mo +13m cyata.ai/blog/cracking-the-vault-how-we-found-zero-day-flaws-in-authentication-identity-and-authorization-in-hashicorp-vault 90Tech for Palestine 1 11 5mo +21m techforpalestine.org 91Researchers Uncover RCE Attack Chains in HashiCorp Vault and CyberArk Conjur 7 28 5mo +12m csoonline.com/article/4035274/researchers-uncover-rce-attack-chains-in-popular-enterprise-credential-vaults.html 92Herbie detects inaccurate expressions and finds more accurate replacements 8 78 5mo +3d herbie.uwplse.org 93SQLite offline sync for Android quick start 19 45 5mo +2d github.com/sqliteai/sqlite-sync/tree/main/examples/android-integration 94How ChatGPT spoiled my semester (2024) 62 79 5mo +16m benborgers.com/chatgpt-semester 95Show HN: Rust framework for advanced file recognition and identification 7 44 5mo +1h crates.io/crates/magical_rs 96What is the average length of a queue of cars? (2023) 11 37 5mo +2d e-dorigatti.github.io/math/2023/11/01/queue-length.html 97FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses 99 128 5mo +48m newatlas.com/aging/age-related-near-sighted-drops-vizz 98Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs 171 245 5mo +1h baseten.co/blog/sota-performance-for-gpt-oss-120b-on-nvidia-gpus 99More than two hard disks in DOS 3 18 5mo +3d os2museum.com/wp/more-than-two-hard-disks-in-dos 100Show HN: HMPL – Small Template Language for Rendering UI from Server to Client 7 16 5mo +16h github.com/hmpl-language/hmpl 101Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords 768 937 5mo +45m blog.danielh.cc/blog/passwords 102Apple announces American Manufacturing Program 146 102 5mo +3h apple.com/newsroom/2025/08/apple-increases-us-commitment-to-600-billion-usd-announces-ambitious-program 103Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems 64 144 5mo +23m tenfourfox.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/08/mac-history-echoes-in-mac-operating.html 104[dead] ? 15 5mo +53m app.radicle.xyz 105Coursera’s Preview Mode 59 71 5mo +3d classcentral.com/report/coursera-preview-mode-paywall 106I'm tired of stupid people treating me like I'm an idiot 3 8 5mo +1h whatwelost.substack.com/p/im-tired-of-stupid-people-treating 107[dead] ? 5 5mo +24m racialterms.com 108A candidate giant planet imaged in the habitable zone of α Cen A 43 117 5mo +16m arxiv.org/abs/2508.03814 109VIN: The 17-character code that runs the automotive world 18 47 5mo +13m cardog.app/blog/whats-a-vin 110Wake-on-LAN Using Cloud Functions 3 14 5mo +2d mihai.fm/wake-on-lan-using-cloud-functions 111Why Building Billing Systems Is So Painful (2024) 14 42 5mo +2h dmitry.ie/2024/why-building-billing-systems-is-so-painful 112The Inkhaven Blogging Residency 78 61 5mo +24m inkhaven.blog 113Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773) 173 280 5mo +1h founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-20-02-0213 114That Squiggly, Treacherous Line 1 8 5mo +3d fi-le.net/squiggly 115 More... 2025.08.06