HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order All-In on Omarchy at 37signals 74 78 4mo +3d world.hey.com/dhh/all-in-on-omarchy-at-37signals-68162450 1A gentle introduction to anchor positioning 45 125 4mo +13m webkit.org/blog/17240/a-gentle-introduction-to-anchor-positioning 2A Suicide Cult's Surviving Members Still Maintain Its 90s Website (2016) 19 37 4mo +51m vice.com/en/article/a-suicide-cults-surviving-members-still-maintain-its-90s-website 3Galileo’s telescopes: Seeing is believing (2010) 12 31 4mo +2d historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/galileos-telescopes-seeing-believing 4Show HN: I accidentally built a startup idea validation tool 42 15 4mo +1h validationly.com 5Crypto founder Do Kwon pleads guilty to US fraud charges 24 63 4mo +38m ft.com/content/2e6fdc73-1083-48fb-b258-d22fc7ef8ad8 6Go 1.25 Release Notes 116 259 4mo +24m go.dev/doc/go1.25 7Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils 61 199 4mo +7h tangled.sh/@oppi.li/journal 8The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know 83 142 4mo +31m deanebarker.net/tech/blog/let-me-know 9Perplexity low-balls Google with $34.5B offer for Chrome 6 21 4mo +1h arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/perplexity-offers-more-than-twice-its-total-valuation-to-buy-chrome-from-google 10Dumb to managed switch conversion (2010) 34 58 5mo +3d spritesmods.com/?art=rtl8366sb&page=1 11Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails 87 81 4mo +20m lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n14/ferdinand-mount/biff-bang 12Bell Laboratories Acquired by Berkshire Hathaway 17 30 4mo +30m pctonline.com/news/bell-laboratories-acquired-berkshire-hathaway 13Ashet Home Computer 93 307 4mo +20m ashet.computer 14The equality delete problem in Apache Iceberg 44 65 4mo +46m blog.dataengineerthings.org/the-equality-delete-problem-in-apache-iceberg-143dd451a974 15OpenAI Burns the Boats 16 36 4mo +2h ethanding.substack.com/p/openai-burns-the-boats 16Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm 110 206 5mo +3d thurrott.com/music-videos/324346/blender-is-native-on-windows-11-on-arm 17Writing is power transfer technology 9 51 4mo +2h danco.substack.com/p/im-joining-a16z 18H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House 270 174 4mo +30m newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-changes-approved-white-house-report-2112216 19Let's get real about the one-person billion dollar company 147 121 4mo +7m marcrand.com/p/lets-get-real-about-the-one-person 20WHY2025: How to become your own ISP [video] 59 207 4mo +1h media.ccc.de/v/why2025-9-how-to-become-your-own-isp 21Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released 152 231 4mo +2d lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2025/08/msg00038.html 22Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 108 111 4mo +40m newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/is-the-ai-boom-turning-into-an-ai-bubble 23New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots 4 17 4mo +2h uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/3d-laserscan-harvestingrobots 24The "high-level CPU" challenge (2008) 50 72 4mo +30m yosefk.com/blog/the-high-level-cpu-challenge.html 25Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context 44 144 4mo +20m every.to/vibe-check/vibe-check-claude-sonnet-4-now-has-a-1-million-token-context-window 26Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M² 125 271 5mo +3d sdo.group/study 27Weave (YC W25) is hiring a founding AI engineer 0 1 4mo +34s ycombinator.com/companies/weave-3/jobs/SqFnIFE-founding-ai-engineer 28Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"? 77 32 4mo +33m minimaxir.com/2025/08/llm-blueberry 29Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere 161 297 4mo +9m github.com/omnara-ai/omnara 30Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings 114 635 4mo +28m blog.wilsonl.in/search-engine 31[dead] ? 28 4mo +34m wsj.com 32Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context 687 1297 4mo +17m anthropic.com/news/1m-context 33Launch HN: Design Arena (YC S25) – Head-to-head AI benchmark for aesthetics 24 72 4mo +1m 34The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes 0 30 4mo +3d thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-ancient-art-and-intimate-craft-of-artificial-eyes 35Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome 119 189 4mo +6m wsj.com/tech/perplexity-makes-longshot-34-5-billion-offer-for-chrome-5ddb7a22 36Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable 374 353 4mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2507.21919 37Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot 105 167 4mo +28m jszym.com/blog/archiving_googl 38Evaluating LLMs playing text adventures 69 116 4mo +1m entropicthoughts.com/evaluating-llms-playing-text-adventures 39Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale 68 95 4mo +18m blog.opensecret.cloud/why-we-migrated-from-neon-to-planetscale 40UK government advises deleting emails to save water 152 138 4mo +1m gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall 41The ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook's content policy (2022) 76 110 4mo +4m mronline.org/2022/07/14/meet-the-ex-cia-agents-deciding-facebooks-content-policy 42A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008) 198 187 5mo +3d prog21.dadgum.com/29.html 43Why are there so many rationalist cults? 881 527 4mo +7m asteriskmag.com/issues/11/why-are-there-so-many-rationalist-cults 44Nexus: An Open-Source AI Router for Governance, Control and Observability 25 91 4mo +23m nexusrouter.com/blog/introducing-nexus-the-open-source-ai-router 45GitHub was having issues 222 336 4mo +11m githubstatus.com/incidents/9rfydl2xdqqj 46[dead] ? 7 4mo +12m finalroundai.com 47That viral video of a 'deactivated' Tesla Cybertruck is a fake 154 187 4mo +7m theverge.com/tesla/757594/tesla-cybertruck-deactivated-viral-video-fake 48Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using? 95 86 4mo +11m 49RISC-V single-board computer for less than 40 euros 105 174 5mo +3d heise.de/en/news/RISC-V-single-board-computer-for-less-than-40-euros-10515044.html 50We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem 142 65 4mo +2m denodell.com/blog/we-keep-reinventing-css 51Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive 152 372 4mo +5m ghacks.net/2025/08/12/australian-court-finds-apple-google-guilty-of-being-anticompetitive 52US influencer stranded in Antarctica after landing plane without permission 103 71 4mo +48m independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/antarctica-ethan-guo-teen-pilot-detained-b2805884.html 53Outside of the top stocks, S&P 500 forward profits haven't grown in 3 years 103 100 4mo +58m insight-public.sgmarkets.com/quant-motion-pictures/outside-of-the-top-10-stocks-sp500-forward-profits-haven-t-grown-in-three-years 54OOP is not Design Patterns 1 6 5mo +3d iaziz786.com/blog/oop-is-not-design-patterns 55Sloppy AI defenses take cybersecurity back to the 1990s, researchers say 17 45 4mo +52s scworld.com/news/sloppy-ai-defenses-take-cybersecurity-back-to-the-1990s-researchers-say 56High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups 47 74 4mo +13m arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/high-severity-winrar-0-day-exploited-for-weeks-by-2-groups 57Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated] 220 304 4mo +16m cnn.com/2025/08/12/business/kodak-survival-warning 58Radicle 1.3.0 13 115 4mo +52m radicle.xyz/2025/08/12/radicle-1.3.0 59Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack 270 498 4mo +16m twitter.com/p3b7_/status/1955173413992984988 60Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (2019) 5 29 5mo +3d sahillavingia.com/reflecting 61Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Community and Events Manager (Remote) 0 1 4mo +33s ycombinator.com/companies/depot/jobs/K1IFotJ-community-events-manager 62Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified 52 139 4mo +14m qodo.ai/blog/qodo-command-swe-bench-verified 63Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive? 60 61 4mo +2h dodge.trickle.host 64Exploring AI Memory Architectures (Part 2): MemOS Framework 0 9 4mo +2d blog.lqhl.me/exploring-ai-memory-architectures-part-2-memoss-system-and-governance-framework 65The Best Line Length 51 40 5mo +3d blog.glyph.im/2025/08/the-best-line-length.html 66Artificial biosensor can better measure the body's main stress hormone 32 77 5mo +3d medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-artificial-biosensor-body-main-stress.html 67Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit 81 329 5mo +3d crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor 68Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2024) 233 99 5mo +3d russellw.github.io/undefined-behavior 69CoLoop (YC S21) Is Hiring AI Engineers in London 0 1 4mo +19s 70You're Wrong About Dates – and Your Code Is Lying to You 20 16 5mo +3d metaduck.com/youre-wrong-about-dates 71Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens 130 159 4mo +9m arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense 72Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers 265 221 4mo +7h fortune.com/2025/08/11/starbucks-south-korea-policy-desktop-computer-printer-ban-cagongjok 73The Article in the Most Languages 74 239 5mo +2d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-08-09/Disinformation_report 74StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers 321 474 4mo +53m lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032732/3334850da49689e1 75Weathering Software Winter (2022) 52 135 4mo +1h 100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html 76All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computers 37 154 5mo +3d apple1registry.com/en/list.html 77Supreme Court formally asked to overturn same-sex marriage ruling 47 95 4mo +20m abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302 78Chris Simpkins, creator of Hack font, has died 9 120 4mo +16m typo.social/@Hilary/114845913381245488 79U.S. preparing IPO for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac later this year 14 55 5mo +3d wsj.com/finance/regulation/trump-aiming-to-ipo-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac-later-this-year-13b138cf 80FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs 33 116 5mo +3d wiki.freebsd.org/Scheduler/Hybrid 81GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf] 82 412 4mo +31m arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06471 82Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice 23 29 4mo +1h sendkeeps.com 83Dollar Street – Photos from families with different incomes 4 17 5mo +3d gapminder.org/dollar-street 84What does it mean to be thirsty? 105 155 4mo +1h quantamagazine.org/what-does-it-mean-to-be-thirsty-20250811 85Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations 93 197 4mo +37m niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans-largest-newspaper-yomiuri-shimbun-sues-perplexity-for-copyright-violations 86How Kentucky bourbon went from boom to bust 38 62 4mo +35m bbc.com/news/articles/ckglnk6yxlko 87 More... 2025.08.11