HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order How I code with AI on a budget/free 222 659 5mo +1h wuu73.org/blog/aiguide1.html 1Abusing Entra OAuth for fun and access to internal Microsoft applications 112 350 5mo +1h research.eye.security/consent-and-compromise 2The Scroll Art (Animated ASCII) Museum 1 16 5mo +3d scrollart.org 3People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say 14 93 5mo +2d bbc.com/news/articles/c62wx23y2v1o 4How I use Tailscale 97 374 5mo +3d chameth.com/how-i-use-tailscale 5GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?" 313 330 5mo +1d bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.co/post/3lvtxbtexg226 6R0ML's Ratio 13 76 5mo +9h blog.glyph.im/2025/08/r0mls-ratio.html 7Synchronizing Clocks by Leveraging Local Clock Properties (2022) 0 2 5mo +33m usenix.org/conference/nsdi22/presentation/najafi 8“The Hollow Men” at 100 22 61 5mo +25m prufrock.substack.com/p/the-the-hollow-men-at-100 9The Framework Desktop is a beast 428 471 5mo +1d world.hey.com/dhh/the-framework-desktop-is-a-beast-636fb4ff 10Who got arrested in the raid on the XSS crime forum? 36 161 5mo +3d krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/who-got-arrested-in-the-raid-on-the-xss-crime-forum 11A Simple CPU on the Game of Life (2021) 12 84 5mo +3d nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2021/unlimited-register-machine-game-of-life.html 12Gateway pattern for external service calls 1 7 5mo +3d rednafi.comhttp:///go/gateway_pattern 13The Magic of Herding 2 15 5mo +3d nautil.us/the-magic-of-herding-1229248 14Caligra Workbench 18 36 5mo +3d caligra.com/workbench 15Jen Pawol becomes first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game 3 37 5mo +4m apnews.com/article/pawol-female-umpire-marlins-braves-0ae34533ea49f1e400a1c39e8be6f30e 16How AI is upending the software development industry 73 36 5mo +2h reuters.com/lifestyle/bootcamp-bust-how-ai-is-upending-software-development-industry-2025-08-09 17Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API 69 252 5mo +1h ch.at 18Isle FPGA Computer: creating a simple, open, modern computer 9 55 5mo +3d projectf.io/isle/fpga-computer.html 19JD Vance's team had water level of Ohio river raised for family's boating trip 19 59 5mo +25m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/jd-vance-ohio-lake-water-levels 20Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame 43 55 5mo +12m rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/physical-media-collectors-trend-viral-streamers-1235387314 21The mystery of Alice in Wonderland syndrome 18 33 5mo +3d bbc.com/future/article/20230313-the-mystery-of-alice-in-wonderland-syndrome 22Debian 13 “Trixie” 390 926 5mo +23m debian.org/News/2025/20250809 23Residents cheer as Tucson rejects data center campus 40 58 5mo +9m datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/residents-cheer-as-tucson-rejects-amazons-massive-project-blue-data-center-campus-in-arizona 24Which colors are primary? 36 34 5mo +3d jamesgurney.substack.com/p/which-colors-are-primary 25Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025? 111 100 5mo +1h 26The current state of LLM-driven development 222 219 5mo +1h blog.tolki.devhttp:///posts/2025/08-07-llms 27Knuth on ChatGPT (2023) 46 125 5mo +21m cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt 28A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package 106 307 5mo +6m righto.com/2025/08/intel-386-package-ct-scan.html 29Testing Bitchat at the music festival 54 104 5mo +2d primal.net/saunter/testing-bitchat-at-the-music-festival 30Accessibility and the agentic web 11 26 5mo +10m tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08/08/accessibility-and-the-agentic-web 31MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems 222 399 5mo +2h julsimon.medium.com/why-mcps-disregard-for-40-years-of-rpc-best-practices-will-burn-enterprises-8ef85ce5bc9b 32A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union 403 159 5mo +46m laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-the-absurd 33ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 – A hardware hacking tool that speaks every protocol 31 158 5mo +1h github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bus-Pirate 34An AI-first program synthesis framework built around a new programming language 19 107 5mo +59m queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3746223 35My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup 114 421 5mo +1h simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/bay-area-ai 36ChatGPT Agent – EU Launch 52 59 5mo +16m help.openai.com/en/articles/11752874-chatgpt-agent 37Cordoomceps – Replacing an Amiga’s brain with DOOM 13 45 5mo +3d mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73001.html 3860% of medal of honor recipients are Irish or Irish-American 48 85 5mo +9m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish-American_Medal_of_Honor_recipients 39Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment 154 109 5mo +3d probablydance.com/2025/08/04/installing-a-mini-split-ac-in-a-brooklyn-apartment 40Yet Another LLM Rant 131 91 5mo +2h overengineer.dev/txt/2025-08-09-another-llm-rant 41Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets 30 209 5mo +2h ratfactor.com/cards/fitted-sheets 42Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread 197 269 5mo +2m usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/07/09/secretary-rollins-takes-decisive-action-and-shuts-down-us-southern-border-ports-livestock-trade-due 43Intermittent fasting strategies and their effects on body weight 103 101 5mo +1h bmj.com/content/389/bmj-2024-082007 44An Unusual Way to End Up with a Whole Lot of Gold 7 12 5mo +34m theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/08/alchemy-gold-nuclear-fusion-marathon/683811 45Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia 121 354 5mo +1h cam.ac.uk/research/news/long-term-exposure-to-outdoor-air-pollution-linked-to-increased-risk-of-dementia 46Why Cargo Check Is So Slow 29 14 5mo +25m eveeifyeve.pages.dev/blogs/cargo-check-slow.mdx 47A subtle bug with Go's errgroup 19 25 5mo +1h gaultier.github.io/blog/subtle_bug_with_go_errgroup.html 48OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second 129 596 5mo +38m blog.hyperknot.com/p/openfreemap-survived-100000-requests 49[dead] ? 15 5mo +20m reuters.com 50[dead] ? 6 5mo +30m wsj.com 51The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says 119 185 5mo +34m theregister.com/2025/08/09/dead_need_ai_data_delete_right 52Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop 49 365 5mo +3d quickshell.org 53The era of boundary-breaking advancements is over? 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