HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order My DIY modular charging station 19 35 5mo +2d arun.is/blog/diy-modular-charging-station 1Backpropagating through a maze with candle and WASM 3 12 5mo +2d yberreby.com/discrete-maze-backprop-candle-wasm 2Little-known leguminous plant can increase beef production by 60% (2022) 53 87 5mo +17m embrapa.br/en/busca-de-noticias/-/noticia/75361634/little-known-leguminous-plant-can-increase-beef-production-by-60 3Why building a self-hosted SaaS is harder 19 52 5mo +3d getlago.com/blog/self-hosted-saas 4Motif-Index of Folk-Literature (1958) [pdf] 1 6 5mo +3d ia600301.us.archive.org/18/items/Thompson2016MotifIndex/Thompson_2016_Motif-Index.pdf 5Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge 19 124 5mo +3d matthewnewton.com/blog/arc-challenge-diffusion 6Unmasking the Sea Star Killer 21 81 5mo +3d biographic.com/unmasking-the-sea-star-killer 7Must democracy "deliver the goods" to beat autocracy? 43 27 5mo +1h democracyorbust.bearblog.dev/must-democracy-deliver-the-goods 8Trump threatens Harvard patents worth hundreds of millions 2 15 5mo +22m politico.com/news/2025/08/08/trump-harvard-patents-00500814 9Imaging reveals 2k-year-old ice mummy's 'incredibly impressive' tattoos 3 28 5mo +3d cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/ice-mummy-tattooos-1.7601132 10Texas politicians warn Smithsonian it must not lobby to retain its space shuttle 25 42 5mo +18m arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/texas-politicians-warn-smithsonian-it-must-not-lobby-to-retain-its-space-shuttle 11Administration seeking $1B settlement from UCLA 41 44 5mo +29m cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/ucla-trump-administration-settlement 12[dead] ? 9 5mo +53m splx.ai 13Poltergeist: File watcher with auto-rebuild for any language or build system 8 34 5mo +3d github.com/steipete/poltergeist 14ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 20 31 5mo +16m gizmodo.com/chatgpt-is-still-a-bullshit-machine-2000640488 15Study finds flavor bans cut youth vaping but slow decline in cigarette smoking 29 23 5mo +12m medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-flavor-youth-vaping-decline-cigarette.html 16Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs 34 145 5mo +1h github.com/steveyegge/efrit 17Disney 1985 film The Black Cauldron was an experiment that failed 44 44 5mo +33m bbc.com/culture/article/20250807-the-radical-film-that-became-a-disaster-for-disney 18GPU-rich labs have won: What's left for the rest of us is distillation 48 87 5mo +31m inference.net/blog/what-s-left-is-distillation 19My ancestors fought in WWII. Hiroshima is plagued by shallow reading 37 18 5mo +6m washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/08/world-war-ii-hiroshima-history-memories 20The Anatomy of the Most Affordable Travel T-Shirt 0 5 5mo +3d carryology.com/travel/the-anatomy-of-the-worlds-most-affordable-travel-t-shirt 21Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died 113 573 5mo +32m nasa.gov/news-release/acting-nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-astronaut-jim-lovell 22Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally? 340 528 5mo +11m 23Gold futures jump to record high after US tariffs on cast bars – Gold 13 24 5mo +14m theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/08/gold-futures-soar-to-record-high-after-reports-of-us-tariffs-on-swiss-bars 24Build durable workflows with Postgres 55 156 5mo +2m dbos.dev/blog/why-postgres-durable-execution 25OpenAI bringing back GPT-4o to ChatGPT Plus users 12 18 5mo +7m old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkae1l/comment/n7nelhh 26ChatGPT users hate GPT-5's overworked secretary energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy 2 17 5mo +29m arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/chatgpt-users-outraged-as-gpt-5-replaces-the-models-they-love 27Json2dir: a JSON-to-directory converter, a fast alternative to home-manager 20 48 5mo +24m github.com/alurm/json2dir 28M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025 171 112 5mo +26m macrumors.com/2025/07/10/no-m5-macbook-pro-2025 29Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why 102 78 5mo +2m stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/job-growth-has-slowed-sharply-the 30A robust, open-source framework for Spiking Neural Networks on low-end FPGAs 7 69 5mo +3d arxiv.org/abs/2507.07284 31AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 59 73 5mo +39m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified 32Lurk – A Turing-complete programming language for ZK-SNARKs 2 32 5mo +1h github.com/lurk-lab/lurk 33A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees 247 171 5mo +32m newsroom.intel.com/corporate/my-commitment-to-you-and-our-company 34I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace 274 1043 5mo +58s instavm.io/blog/building-my-offline-ai-workspace 35The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers 406 417 5mo +4m simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/8/surprise-deprecation-of-gpt-4o 36Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna 133 115 5mo +11m latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-08/mystery-plane-thief 37Why the Far Right Hates Churchill 7 14 5mo +27m wsj.com/politics/why-the-far-right-hates-churchill-20fdc710 38Programming with AI: You're Probably Doing It Wrong 11 21 5mo +2h devroom.io/2025/08/08/programming-with-ai-youre-probably-doing-it-wrong 39Docker for Developers: Essential Commands in One Cheatsheet 7 41 5mo +4h jsdev.space/docker-commands-cheatsheet 40I clustered four Framework Mainboards to test LLMs 5 49 5mo +12m jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-clustered-four-framework-mainboards-test-huge-llms 41Voice Controlled Swarms 10 33 5mo +3d jasonfantl.com/posts/Voice-Controlled-Swarms 42Open SWE: An open-source asynchronous coding agent 26 108 5mo +21m blog.langchain.com/introducing-open-swe-an-open-source-asynchronous-coding-agent 43HRT's Python fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for faster imports 97 95 5mo +20m hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/inside-hrts-python-fork 44AWS's sudden removal of a 10-year account and all of its data: lessons learned 8 59 5mo +17m suramya.com/blog/2025/08/lessons-learnt-from-aws-deleting-a-10-year-account-and-all-that-data-without-warning 45Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy 188 394 5mo +21m thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-history-of-tor-how-a-military-project-became-a-lifeline-for-privacy 46[dead] ? 12 5mo +29m theverge.com 47Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5 79 205 5mo +1h theahura.substack.com/p/tech-things-genies-lamp-openai-cant 48Open SWE by LangChain 10 24 5mo +1h swe.langchain.com 49GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding 137 169 5mo +10m elite-ai-assisted-coding.dev/p/copilot-agentic-coding-gpt-5-vs-claude-4-sonnet 50Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font 31 156 5mo +3d spacebar.news/apple-history-hiding-in-mac-font 51AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing 181 204 5mo +35m rakhim.exotext.com/ai-is-impressive-because-we-ve-failed-at-semantic-web-and-personal-computing 52AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators 66 147 5mo +24m passo.uno/from-tech-writers-to-ai-context-curators 53[dead] ? 34 5mo +1h motherjones.com 54Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist 42 246 5mo +29m rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/2025-shortlist 55Show HN: Aha Domain Search 31 46 5mo +3d ahadomainsearch.com 56Getting good results from Claude Code 195 467 5mo +55m dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/getting-good-results-from-claude-code 57What Does Consulting Do? 66 84 5mo +47m nber.org/papers/w34072 58Show HN: Synchrotron, a real-time DSP engine in pure Python 4 80 5mo +1h synchrotron.thatother.dev 59The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Daily Puzzle Games 58 61 5mo +43m productpickle.online/2025/07/20/ritual-features-the-quiet-strategy-behind-daily-puzzle-games-on-linkedin-and-beyond 60Telefon Hírmondó 37 105 5mo +3d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon_H%C3%ADrmond%C3%B3 61The Windows 10 emoji picker has been broken for a month 77 46 5mo +1h rozab.dev/blog/emoji-search 62Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people 528 298 5mo +50m apnorc.org/projects/food-housing-and-health-care-costs-are-a-source-of-major-stress-for-many-people 63The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning 93 85 5mo +1h blog.charliemeyer.co/the-gpt-5-launch-was-concerning 64The BLS can't be replaced by the private sector 97 95 5mo +18m bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-08/the-bls-can-t-be-replaced-by-the-private-sector 65How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB 94 263 5mo +12m radar.com/blog/high-performance-geocoding-in-rust 66Show HN: Trayce – Burp Suite for developers 14 81 5mo +21h trayce.dev?resubmit=hn 67Apple's Favoritism to Fastmail 40 65 5mo +16m xcancel.com/mxroute/status/1952890684660203830 68Complex Iterators Are Slow 9 24 5mo +3d caolan.uk/notes/2025-07-31_complex_iterators_are_slow.cm 69It's Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation 34 62 5mo +47m paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-beginning-to-smell-a-lot-like 70Amtrak NextGen Acela Debuts on August 28 66 36 5mo +36m media.amtrak.com/2025/08/amtrak-nextgen-acela-debuts-on-august-28 71Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation 217 1092 5mo +8m github.com/Nicholas-L-Johnson/flip-card 72I don't read your email threads 43 37 5mo +31m loganmarek.com/i-dont-read-your-threads 73Window Activation 134 224 5mo +3d blog.broulik.de/2025/08/on-window-activation 74How attention sinks keep language models stable 34 209 5mo +2h hanlab.mit.edu/blog/streamingllm 75How we enforce .NET coding standards to improve productivity 53 77 5mo +3d anthonysimmon.com/workleap-dotnet-coding-standards 76Sqlite3 will also read and write ZIP archives 5 36 5mo +30m mastodon.social/@jpmens/114991866577330548 77US to rewrite its past national climate reports 191 245 5mo +17m france24.com/en/live-news/20250807-us-to-rewrite-its-past-national-climate-reports 78What Is Popover=Hint? 15 53 5mo +3d una.im/popover-hint 79US Adds Surprise Gold Bar Tariff in Blow to Switzerland 19 40 5mo +2h bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/us-hits-gold-bars-with-tariffs-in-blow-to-switzerland-ft-report 80FLUX.1-Krea and the Rise of Opinionated Models 32 87 5mo +3d dbreunig.com/2025/08/04/the-rise-of-opinionated-models.html 81Turn any website into an API 25 102 5mo +3h parse.bot 82Virtual Linux Devices on ARM64 5 59 5mo +3d underjord.io/500-virtual-linux-devices-on-arm64.html 83A love letter to my future employer (2020) 20 57 5mo +1h catzkorn.dev/blog/love-letter 84[dead] ? 6 5mo +4m chatgpt.com 85MCDB – full-stack web servers in Minecraft 0 8 5mo +3d github.com/NoahCagle/MCDB 86Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole 216 452 5mo +52m bytemash.net/posts/i-went-down-the-linear-rabbit-hole 87Benchmarking GPT-5 on 400 real-world code reviews 80 70 5mo +15m qodo.ai/blog/benchmarking-gpt-5-on-real-world-code-reviews-with-the-pr-benchmark 88[dead] ? 10 5mo +3d medium.com 89How to Not Build the Torment Nexus 38 82 5mo +4h buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-not-build-the-torment-nexus 90Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded? 34 47 5mo +3d 91GPT-5 leaked system prompt? 265 288 5mo +34m gist.github.com/maoxiaoke/f6d5b28f9104cd856a2622a084f46fd7 92Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers 182 245 5mo +3d ergaster.org/posts/2025/08/04-overegineering-homelab 93The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964) 21 100 5mo +39m harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics 94New executive order puts all grants under political control 200 227 5mo +48m arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control 95[dead] ? 4 5mo +35m 96The fundamentals still matter 30 45 5mo +1h jordangoodman.bearblog.dev/fundamentals-still-matter 97Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023) 11 100 5mo +3d notes.eatonphil.com/2023-11-01-postgres-table-access-methods.html 98Satellite Scanning 4 12 5mo +3d geoscaninc.comhttp://www./default.asp?page=satellite_scanning 99AST-Driven Python Testing 2 10 5mo +3d jazzberry.ai/blog/ast-driven-python-testing 100Hubble catches sharpest image yet of 3I/ATLAS 5 23 5mo +15m skyatnightmagazine.com/news/hubble-3i-atlas-july-2025 101 More... 2025.08.07