HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order ⚙ Microsoft's Windows XP Crocs 4 8 5mo +3d theverge.com/microsoft/717965/microsoft-crocs-windows-xp-bliss-wallpaper-theme 1[dead] ? 18 4mo +13m twitter.com 2Prominent Al Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza 9 65 4mo +12m theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/10/prominent-al-jazeera-journalist-killed-in-israeli-airstrike-on-gaza 3Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices 86 94 5mo +3d github.com/actuallymentor/battery 4Compiling a Lisp: Lambda lifting 18 161 4mo +3m bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-a-lisp-12 5I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid 155 132 4mo +41m thomasorus.com/i-tried-coding-with-ai-i-became-lazy-and-stupid 6Ask HN: Would you get a CS degree today? 120 38 4mo +1h 7"Did you mean: Ed Sheeran" 4 18 4mo +19m google.com/search?hl=en&q=Rupert%20Grint 8Hire People Who Care (2020) 82 36 4mo +26m alexw.substack.com/p/hire 9Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable 89 49 4mo +52m cnbc.com/2025/08/08/climate-insurers-are-worried-the-world-could-soon-become-uninsurable-.html 10Reflections on Soviet Amateur Photography 8 42 5mo +2d publicbooks.org/strangers-in-the-family-album-reflections-on-soviet-amateur-photography 11ECScape: Understanding IAM Privilege Boundaries in Amazon ECS 9 23 5mo +3d sweet.security/blog/ecscape-understanding-iam-privilege-boundaries-in-amazon-ecs 12A large number of protocols on Ethereum and Solana blockchains have no revenue 19 23 4mo +14m coindesk.com/markets/2025/07/23/disguised-unemployment-in-blockchain-data-shows-only-12-of-ethereum-25-of-solana-protocols-have-revenue 13Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report 9 45 5mo +3h psu.edu/news/engineering/story/conversations-remotely-detected-cell-phone-vibrations-researchers-report 14The great myth of empire collapse 51 36 5mo +45m aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse 15One Million Screenshots 94 274 4mo +20m onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=random 16Events 22 66 5mo +28m developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Core/Scripting/Events 171910: The year the modern world lost its mind 312 353 4mo +1m derekthompson.org/p/1910-the-year-the-modern-world-lost 18PHP compile time generics: yay or nay? 61 97 5mo +3d thephp.foundation/blog/2025/08/05/compile-generics 19Creating the Longest Possible Ski Jump in “The Games: Winter Challenge” 19 237 5mo +3d mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup2.html 20LLMs aren't world models 100 200 5mo +7h yosefk.com/blog/llms-arent-world-models.html 21The Drone and AI Delusion 12 13 5mo +20m secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/the-drone-and-ai-delusion 22South Korea's military has shrunk by 20% in six years as male population drops 164 51 5mo +21m channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/south-koreas-military-has-shrunk-20-in-six-years-male-population-drops-5287301 23ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now? 28 22 5mo +31m nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/ice-glenn-valley-foods.html 24My Dream Productivity Device Is Done – and It's Becoming a Kit [video] 58 57 5mo +3d youtube.com/watch?v=pf3BxNq1cp4 25Fight Chat Control 474 1410 5mo +1h fightchatcontrol.eu 26Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C 92 253 5mo +25m github.com/Beariish/bolt 27Show HN: Llmswap – Python package to reduce LLM API costs by 50-90% with caching 6 12 5mo +1h pypi.org/project/llmswap 28[dead] ? 6 5mo +2d plonky.top 29Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride 30 79 5mo +1h phys.org/news/2025-08-sunlight-material-pfas-harmless-fluoride.html 30Type (YC W23) is hiring a founding engineer to build an AI-native doc editor 0 1 5mo +7s ycombinator.com/companies/type/jobs/1idOunL-founding-product-engineer 31GPT-5: It just does stuff 67 65 5mo +36m oneusefulthing.org/p/gpt-5-it-just-does-stuff 32Flintlock – Create and manage the lifecycle of MicroVMs, backed by containerd 6 89 5mo +1h github.com/liquidmetal-dev/flintlock 33Diffusion language models are super data learners 16 214 5mo +26m jinjieni.notion.site/Diffusion-Language-Models-are-Super-Data-Learners-239d8f03a866800ab196e49928c019ac 34LHC's New Chip Tackles Radiation Challenges 11 25 5mo +1h spectrum.ieee.org/lhc-radiation-chip 35AOL closes its dial up internet service 86 160 5mo +23m ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/08/after-34-years-aol-finally-closes-its-dial-up-internet-service.html 36Zig's Lovely Syntax 237 232 5mo +17m matklad.github.io/2025/08/09/zigs-lovely-syntax.html 37GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2 97 482 5mo +34m magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/from-gpt-2-to-gpt-oss-analyzing-the 38NASA finds multi-billion-year-old 'coral' on Mars 19 20 5mo +10m livescience.com/space/mars/nasa-finds-multi-billion-year-old-coral-on-mars 39Try and 329 644 5mo +35m ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/try-and 40MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System 86 165 5mo +1h worksonmymachine.ai/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin 41Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place 123 449 5mo +2m engineering.fyi 42The 5 stages of SaaS Death 13 14 5mo +1h arnon.dk/the-5-stages-of-saas-death 43Inside OS/2 (1987) 73 121 5mo +9m gitpi.us/article-archive/inside-os2 44Hyprland – An independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor 74 77 5mo +1h hypr.land 45Booting 5000 Erlangs on Ampere One 192-core 49 222 5mo +1h underjord.io/booting-5000-erlangs-on-ampere-one.html 46[dead] ? 6 5mo +36m jsdev.space 47Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside svg files 94 96 5mo +53m arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/adult-sites-use-malicious-svg-files-to-rack-up-likes-on-facebook 48Open Lovable 49 176 5mo +1h github.com/mendableai/open-lovable 49GTP Blind Voting: GPT-5 vs. 4o 51 46 5mo +1d gptblindvoting.vercel.app 50Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh 92 265 5mo +21m mill-build.org/blog/14-bash-zsh-completion.html 51POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language 44 104 5mo +3h github.com/microsoft/poml 52P-fast trie, but smaller 4 33 5mo +3d dotat.at/@/2025-08-06-p-fast-trie.html 53[dead] ? 16 5mo +34m 54How to interactively debug GitHub Actions with netcat 1 25 5mo +3d jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2021/how-to-interactively-debug-github-actions-with-netcat 55Melonking Website 32 142 5mo +2h melonking.net 56Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text 79 343 5mo +23m github.com/denizsafak/abogen 57Computational Music Synthesis 3 18 5mo +2h cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/synthesis 58The importance of offtopic 62 114 5mo +3d blog.tadzik.net/the-importance-of-offtopic.html 59Boundaries Are in the Eye of the Beholder (2024) 1 9 5mo +3d planktonvalhalla.com/20240227-boundaries-are-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder 60How Potatoes Evolved 53 117 5mo +3d nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/july/we-finally-solved-the-mystery-of-how-potatoes-evolved.html 61Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too 57 238 5mo +5h twitter.com/jxmnop/status/1953899426075816164 62Suzhou Imperial Kiln Ruins Park and Museum of Imperial Kiln Brick (2018) 3 23 5mo +3d theplan.it/eng/award-2018-Culture/suzhou-imperial-kiln-ruins-park-museum-of-imperial-kiln-brick-1 63Happy BuyNothing Day 75 210 5mo +46m justbuynothing.com 64Don't “let it crash”, let it heal 90 168 5mo +3d zachdaniel.dev/p/elixir-misconceptions-1 65GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it 257 299 5mo +9m garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhelming 66GPTs and Feeling Left Behind 218 245 5mo +1h whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/08/06/gpts-and-feeling-left-behind 67 More... 2025.08.09