HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order The History of Windows XP 102 153 4mo +1d abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-windows-xp 1Mouthguards that flash red with head impacts to be used at Rugby World Cup 18 46 4mo +1h rnz.co.nz/news/sport/569695/mouthguards-that-flash-red-with-head-impacts-to-be-used-at-rugby-world-cup 2The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess 10 16 4mo +14m arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/the-gpt-5-rollout-has-been-a-big-mess 3Show HN: I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python 62 207 4mo +59m github.com/danterolle/tilf 4How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card 209 144 5mo +3d bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/how-to-teach-your-kids-poker-with-one-card-at-age-four 5Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session 50 119 4mo +1d github.com/AdoPi/wlgblock 6I've seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI 91 120 4mo +20m twitter.com/KeithSakata/status/1954884361695719474 7Why tail-recursive functions are loops 162 135 5mo +3d kmicinski.com/functional-programming/2025/08/01/loops 8Bcachefs to be removed from mainline Linux kernel 30 25 4mo +46m lore.kernel.org/lkml/22ib5scviwwa7bqeln22w2xm3dlywc4yuactrddhmsntixnghr@wjmmbpxjvipv/T/#u 9Ollama and gguf 84 168 4mo +2h github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/11714 10Show HN: ServerBuddy – GUI SSH client for managing Linux servers from macOS 26 40 4mo +2h serverbuddy.app 11A Guide Dog for the Face-Blind 28 31 5mo +2d asimov.blog/a-guide-dog-for-the-face-blind 12Grok Has Been Suspended 32 37 4mo +11m x.com/grok 13White Mountain Direttissima 36 48 5mo +3d whitemountainski.co/pages/white-mountain-direttissima 14Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed 17 103 4mo +27m cnbc.com/2025/08/11/trump-washington-crime-fed-national-guard-homeless.html 15Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess 42 249 4mo +18m planetscale.com/blog/announcing-neki 16Failover to Human Intelligence 3 6 4mo +1h max.engineer/failover-to-hi 17Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev 160 189 4mo +8m blog.kilocode.ai/p/future-ai-spend-100k-per-dev 18Byte Buddy is a code generation and manipulation library for Java 49 97 5mo +3d bytebuddy.net 19The demographic future of humanity: facts and consequences [pdf] 393 114 4mo +52m sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf 20AP to end its weekly book reviews 29 83 4mo +28m dankennedy.net/2025/08/08/the-associated-press-tells-its-book-critics-that-its-ending-weekly-reviews 21Cloudflare Is Not a CDN 12 27 4mo +22m magecdn.com/blog/2025/08/11/cloudflare-not-a-cdn 22Hard Drive Shortage in Canada? 0 12 4mo +2h vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=107758 23Claude is the drug, Cursor is the dealer 119 177 4mo +1h middlelayer.substack.com/p/i-claude-is-the-drug-cursor-is-the 24How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development 107 104 4mo +21h bscholl.substack.com/p/move-fast-and-dont-break-safety-critical 25Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live 24 117 4mo +1h opuslabs.substack.com/p/learn-reflect-apply-prepare 26Apache Iceberg V3 Spec new features for more efficient and flexible data lakes 23 86 4mo +7m opensource.googleblog.com/2025/08/whats-new-in-iceberg-v3.html 27UI vs. API. vs. UAI 52 84 4mo +1h joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/ui-vs-api-vs-uai 28The value of institutional memory 97 194 4mo +18m timharford.com/2025/05/the-value-of-institutional-memory 29Trellis (YC W24) Is Hiring: Automate Prior Auth in Healthcare 0 1 4mo +10s ycombinator.com/companies/trellis/jobs/Cv3ZwXh-forward-deployed-engineers-all-levels-august-2025 30Porting to OS/2 (1987) 14 45 5mo +3d gitpi.us/article-archive/porting-to-os2 31Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs 17 37 4mo +53m theverge.com/ford-motor-company/757243/ford-ev-truck-breakthrough-model-t 32The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown 41 111 4mo +32m deanebarker.net/tech/blog/custom-elements-markdown 33Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act 833 1071 4mo +11m bbc.com/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlo 34Ford Aims for Revolution with $30k Electric Truck 20 35 4mo +1h thedrive.com/news/ford-aims-for-revolution-with-30000-electric-truck 35GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 1089 1416 4mo +28m theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition 36We are all mercantilists now 99 57 4mo +1h bridgewater.com/what-trumps-global-order-could-look-like 37Beloved by bands and bank robbers, the Ford Transit turns 60 20 31 4mo +2m bbc.com/news/articles/c0j97xegz5no 38Optimizing My Disk Usage Program 0 18 5mo +3d healeycodes.com/optimizing-my-disk-usage-program 39[dead] ? 17 4mo +1h github.com 40Ask HN: Do you think differently about working on open source these days? 61 32 4mo +1h 41Launch HN: Halluminate (YC S25) – Simulating the internet to train computer use 46 69 4mo +2m 42Apple brings OpenAI's GPT-5 to iOS and macOS 64 68 4mo +40m arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/apple-brings-openais-gpt-5-to-ios-and-macos 43CPS investigated her 4 times because she let her kids play outside 97 92 4mo +16m reason.com/2025/08/09/child-protective-services-investigated-her-4-times-because-she-let-her-kids-play-outside 44Ex-Google Exec Says "The Idea That AI Will Create New Jobs Is 100% Crap" 132 82 4mo +2h windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/former-google-exec-even-ceo-on-tech-chopping-block 45Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub 104 177 4mo +3m github.blog/news-insights/company-news/goodbye-github 4636B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens 125 161 4mo +21m academic.oup.com/mnras/article/541/4/2853/8213862?login=false 47Flowers of Fealty: Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598) 0 10 4mo +16h publicdomainreview.org/collection/christening-of-lady-elisabeth-of-hesse 48Designing Software in the Large 39 94 4mo +13m dafoster.net/articles/2025/07/22/designing-software-in-the-large 49Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel and Meta 177 505 4mo +15m archive.org/details/meta_leaks_part_1 50Show HN: 1 Million Rows 41 24 4mo +2h 1mrows.pages.dev 51Claude Code is all you need 498 820 4mo +18m dwyer.co.za/static/claude-code-is-all-you-need.html 52I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file 772 1329 4mo +15m al3rez.com/todo-txt-journey 53Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police 730 439 4mo +5m nytimes.com/live/2025/08/11/us/trump-news 54AOL to discontinue dial-up internet 237 222 4mo +6h nytimes.com/2025/08/11/business/aol-dial-up-internet.html 55Mistral Integration Improved in Llama.cpp 14 94 4mo +3h github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/14737 56A simple pixel physics simulator in Rust using Macroquad 4 50 5mo +3d github.com/gale93/sbixel 57TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users' personal data 81 56 4mo +33m techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/a-rival-tea-app-for-men-is-leaking-its-users-personal-data-and-drivers-licenses 58A Global Look at Teletext 21 83 4mo +2h text-mode.org/?p=23643 59Why Is Web Performance Undervalued? 81 38 4mo +1h blaines-blog.com/post-2 60Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles (2016) 8 32 4mo +17m ithare.comhttp:///infographics-operation-costs-in-cpu-clock-cycles 61Justice Dept. Settles with Greystar to End Participation in Algorithmic Pricing 57 43 4mo +21m justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reaches-proposed-settlement-greystar-largest-us-landlord-end-its 62Nukes, Nubs And Coners: The Social Hierarchy Aboard A Nuclear Submarine (2020) 18 34 4mo +46m twz.com/34104/nukes-nubs-and-coners-the-unique-social-hierarchy-aboard-a-nuclear-submarine 63Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations 4 630 4mo +23m wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08/11/wikimedia-foundation-challenges-uk-online-safety-act-regulations 64Amazon Drone Beehive Concept (2019) 3 9 4mo +13m etrr.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12544-019-0368-2 65Fitzgerald's Follies 0 9 5mo +3d libertiesjournal.com/articles/fitzgeralds-follies 66Pricing Pages – A Curated Gallery of Pricing Page Designs 68 234 4mo +25m pricingpages.design 67OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography 123 442 4mo +14m openssh.com/pq.html 68Dear String-to-Integer Parsers 14 10 5mo +3d owl.billpg.com/dear-string-to-integer-parsers 69Hand-picked selection of articles on AI fundamentals/concepts 18 214 4mo +2h aman.ai/primers/ai 70Against the UUID 16 8 5mo +3d github.com/firasd/alphadec/blob/main/docs/against-the-uuid.md 71GPT-OSS-120B runs on just 8GB VRAM & 64GB+ system RAM 79 244 4mo +34m old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1mke7ef/120b_runs_awesome_on_just_8gb_vram 72Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig 55 190 4mo +38m aarol.dev/posts/zig-simd-substr 73Self-Guaranteeing Promises 43 63 4mo +2h stephango.com/self-guarantee 74[dead] ? 11 4mo +51m getcassius.ai 75Show HN: I built a service to run Claude Code in the Cloud 11 13 5mo +3d agentwrap.dev 76Al Jazeera condemns the assassination of its journalists by the IOF 40 85 4mo +29m network.aljazeera.net/en/press-releases/al-jazeera-condemns-assassination-its-journalists-israeli-occupation-forces 77A ChatGPT Pro subscription costs 38.6 months of income in low-income countries 100 62 4mo +2h policykahani.substack.com/p/a-chatgpt-pro-subscription-costs 78Millau Viaduct 67 153 5mo +3d fosterandpartners.com/projects/millau-viaduct 79Theft is not fair use 115 62 4mo +1h jskfellows.stanford.edu/theft-is-not-fair-use-474e11f0d063 80Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability 62 46 5mo +2d dropbox.tech/infrastructure/seventh-generation-server-hardware 81How Does a Blind Model See the Earth? 6 46 4mo +3h outsidetext.substack.com/p/how-does-a-blind-model-see-the-earth 82Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizing (2020) 68 72 4mo +2h rogerebert.com/streaming/hbo-maxs-raised-by-wolves-is-original-sci-fi-at-its-most-polarizing 83Bouncing on trampolines to run eBPF programs 3 31 5mo +3d bootlin.com/blog/bouncing-on-trampolines-to-run-ebpf-programs 84The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report 262 508 4mo +40m issues.chromium.org/issues/412578726 85Basic Social Skills Guide 265 221 4mo +1h improveyoursocialskills.com/basic-social-skills-guide 86Generic Containers in C: Safe Division Using Maybe 61 109 4mo +58m uecker.codeberg.page/2025-08-10.html 87Instagram's new 'Friend Map' feature puts your privacy at risk 8 27 4mo +1h proton.me/blog/instagram-maps-privacy-concern 88"McKinsey in a Box": The End of Strategic Consulting? 54 36 5mo +3d knowledge.insead.edu/strategy/mckinsey-box-end-strategic-consulting 89Ask HN: What is the alternative to LLMs in real life? 5 4 4mo +1h 90Graham: Synchronizing Clocks by Leveraging Local Clock Properties (2022) [pdf] 13 59 4mo +11m usenix.org/system/files/nsdi22-paper-najafi_1.pdf 91Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling? 193 93 4mo +42m 92Going faster than memcpy 79 144 4mo +53s squadrick.dev/journal/going-faster-than-memcpy 93Beyond Meat is headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy 18 18 4mo +1h thestreet.com/restaurants/beyond-meat-is-headed-to-chapter-11-bankruptcy 94Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles 64 95 5mo +3d usebottles.com 95Join Our 100 Hour Workweek 9 4 4mo +24m twitter.com/JvNixon/status/1954590829190033835 96TCP Client Self-Connect (2013) 9 65 4mo +3h sgros.blogspot.comhttp:///2013/08/tcp-client-self-connect.html 97[dead] ? 10 4mo +13m theguardian.com 98The enduring puzzle of static electricity 20 111 5mo +2d pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/78/8/54/3355922/The-enduring-puzzle-of-static-electricityEven 99Lists and Lists: Basics of Lisp through interactive fiction (1996) 13 81 5mo +3d eblong.com/zarf/zweb/lists 100Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network 259 426 4mo +45m techno-fandom.orghttp:///~hobbit/cars/ev/offnet.html 101Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits 145 213 4mo +1h mattwie.se/no-sleep-till-agi 102Digital Foundry leaves IGN, now independent [video] 40 91 5mo +2d youtube.com/watch?v=tl7bIJ2yu4I 103Show HN: A Sinclair ZX81 retro web assembler+simulator 26 78 4mo +47m 104Show HN: Reactive: A React Book for the Reluctant (written by Claude) 41 49 4mo +26m github.com/cloudstreet-dev/React-is-Awful 105Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck? 152 222 4mo +10m threads.com/@brittainforsenate/post/DNMcEZ9yOxk 106Squashing my dumb bugs and why I log build IDs 13 39 5mo +3d rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/08/03/scope 107 More... 2025.08.10