HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Angle brackets in a Nix flake world 4 21 4mo +2d fzakaria.com/2025/08/10/angle-brackets-in-a-nix-flake-world 1What does Palantir actually do? 355 349 4mo +33m wired.com/story/palantir-what-the-company-does 2After losing company stock Philz Coffee baristas get $525 'thank you' payments 22 38 4mo +18m missionlocal.org/2025/08/philz-coffee-baristas-thank-you-payments 3Mubook – N100 x86 NAS Carrier Board Designed for Hackclub Highway 4 15 4mo +1d github.com/LtBrain/MuBook 4Eca: Editor Code Assistant – AI pair programming capabilities agnostic of editor 3 77 4mo +1h github.com/editor-code-assistant/eca 5Electrically controlled heat transport in graphite films 2 14 4mo +2d science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw8588 6VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project 238 819 4mo +20h 7US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports 158 153 4mo +2h apnews.com/article/treasury-debt-spending-trump-obbb-6f807c4aae78dcc96f29ff07a3c926f4 8NIST Finalizes 'Lightweight Cryptography' Standard to Protect Small Devices 119 169 4mo +10m nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/08/nist-finalizes-lightweight-cryptography-standard-protect-small-devices 9Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image 21 87 4mo +2d shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/fighting-with-youtube-to-show-a-preview-image 10Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy 240 388 4mo +24m washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/12/illinois-ai-therapy-ban 11How Silicon Valley can prove it is pro-family 103 40 4mo +1h thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-silicon-valley-can-prove-it-is-pro-family 12New downgrade attack can bypass FIDO auth in Microsoft Entra ID 9 24 4mo +19m bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-downgrade-attack-can-bypass-fido-auth-in-microsoft-entra-id 13Fuse is 95% cheaper and 10x faster than NFS 36 47 4mo +26m nilesh-agarwal.com/storage-in-cloud-for-llms-2 14Rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite: instruction-following rerankers 12 93 4mo +1d blog.voyageai.com/2025/08/11/rerank-2-5 15The Poison Within Patriotism 21 15 4mo +24m renfoc.us/posts/1755103186-the_poison_within_patriotism 16DeepKit Story: how $160M company killed EU trademark for a small OSS project 6 54 4mo +14m old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1mopzhz/160m_vcbacked_company_just_killed_my_eu_trademark 17Job Listing Site Highlighting H-1B Positions So Americans Can Apply 101 143 4mo +24m newsweek.com/h1b-jobs-now-american-workers-green-cards-2041404 18Google Play Store bans wallets that don't have banking license 85 103 4mo +22m therage.co/google-play-store-ban-wallets 19PYX: The next step in Python packaging 450 742 4mo +7m astral.sh/blog/introducing-pyx 20[dead] ? 16 4mo +22m economist.com 2129 years later, Settlers II gets Amiga release 32 100 4mo +9m gamingretro.co.uk/29-years-later-settlers-ii-finally-gets-amiga-release 22PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again 217 168 4mo +3d servethehome.com/pcie-8-0-announced-by-the-pci-sig-will-double-throughput-again 23Man develops rare condition after ChatGPT query over stopping eating salt 72 35 4mo +6m theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/12/us-man-bromism-salt-diet-chatgpt-openai-health-information 24Tesla Diner Drops Most Menu Options and Cuts Hours Just Weeks After Opening 16 18 4mo +23m jalopnik.com/1938650/tesla-diner-drops-most-menu-options-cuts-hours 25OCaml as my primary language 280 378 4mo +5m xvw.lol/en/articles/why-ocaml.html 26April Fools 2014: The *Real* Test Driven Development (2014) 26 117 4mo +22m testing.googleblog.com/2014/04/the-real-test-driven-development.html 27How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency? 21 79 4mo +5m newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number 28How Stock Options Work 25 49 4mo +31m web.stanford.edu/class/e145/2007_fall/materials/stockoptions.html 29What Is America, and for Whom? 15 7 4mo +13m thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-is-america-and-for-whom 30Cross-Site Request Forgery 30 151 4mo +8m words.filippo.io/csrf 31Mesmerizing Hypnoloid, a Kinetic Desktop Sculpture 1 17 4mo +3d core77.com/posts/138054/This-Mesmerizing-Hypnoloid-a-Kinetic-Desktop-Sculpture 32[dead] ? 16 4mo +4m pluralistic.net 33U.S. alcohol consumption drops to a 90-year low, new poll finds 201 114 4mo +11m sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/drink-alcohol-americans-poll-20812180.php 34Trump Just Militarized the Capital – What Comes Next? 36 44 4mo +6m onegex.com/trump-just-militarized-the-capital-what-comes-next 35Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power? 21 15 4mo +6m nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/politics/congressional-gerrymandering-redistricting-game.html 36Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos 90 111 4mo +3m video.golpoai.com 37Pebble Time 2* Design Reveal 1 179 4mo +2h ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-time-2-design-reveal 38A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it 94 119 4mo +22m tomkranz.com/blog1/a-case-study-in-bad-hiring-practice-and-how-to-fix-it 39ReadMe (YC W15) Is Hiring a Developer Experience PM 0 1 4mo +20s readme.com/careers#product-manager-developer-experience 40Gartner's grift is about to unravel 76 163 4mo +49m dx.tips/gartner 41Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol 293 781 4mo +33m blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol 42Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in the Browser 38 115 4mo +55m abacusnoir.com/2025/08/12/coalton-playground-type-safe-lisp-in-your-browser 43OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution 91 94 4mo +17m openindiana.org 44This website is for humans 348 634 4mo +19m localghost.dev/blog/this-website-is-for-humans 45Honky-Tonk Tokyo (2020) 9 26 4mo +3d afar.com/magazine/in-tokyo-japan-country-music-finds-an-audience 46New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients 161 340 4mo +20m news.keckmedicine.org/new-treatment-eliminates-bladder-cancer-in-82-of-patients 47Study: Social media probably can't be fixed 199 202 4mo +10m arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-probably-cant-be-fixed 48Rubberduck: Emulate OpenAI/Anthropic locally with caching and failure injection 0 8 4mo +4m github.com/Zipstack/rubberduck 49Alaska's Juneau orders evacuations as record glacier flood looms 16 39 4mo +48m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/13/alaskas-juneau-glacier-flood-record-climate 50AI is already replacing thousands of jobs per month, report finds 27 39 4mo +12m independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/artificial-intelligence-replacing-jobs-report-b2800709.html 51The case for shorter .com domains 20 11 4mo +12m nklswbr.com/blog/dot-com-diet 52How well do coding agents use your library? 61 76 4mo +27m stackbench.ai 53We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online 4 10 4mo +7m pogowasright.org/we-caught-companies-making-it-harder-to-delete-your-personal-data-online 54What to Do When Critical Open Source Projects Go End of Life 5 9 4mo +2d thenewstack.io/what-to-do-when-critical-open-source-projects-go-end-of-life 55I'm worried it might get bad 230 174 4mo +8m danielmiessler.com/blog/im-worried-it-might-get-bad 56Facebook is not worth $33B (2010) 1 8 4mo +6m signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33000000000 57Palantir might be the most over-valued firm of all time 15 26 4mo +4h economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/08/12/palantir-might-be-the-most-over-valued-firm-of-all-time 58What if A.I. doesn't get better than this? 105 87 4mo +4h newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/what-if-ai-doesnt-get-much-better-than-this 59Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video] 235 285 4mo +1h youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzmDePH3E 60We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online 72 314 4mo +5m themarkup.org/privacy/2025/08/12/we-caught-companies-making-it-harder-to-delete-your-data 61Netflix Recommendations Mastery: Complete Implementation Guide 2 21 4mo +8m github.com/codeverseproo/Demo-Codes/tree/master/netflix 62Farmers want California to change its autonomous tractor ban [video] 89 56 4mo +8m nbcnews.com/video/farmers-want-california-to-change-its-autonomous-tractor-ban-244658757726 63Evaluating GPT5's reasoning ability using the Only Connect game show 50 40 4mo +23h ingram.tech/posts/evaluating-gpt5-reasoning-ability 64So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork? 83 258 4mo +33m lostpixels.io/writings/the-difference-between-plotted-and-printed-artwork 65When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army 282 206 4mo +5m jackpoulson.substack.com/p/when-counterculture-and-empire-merge 66Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021) 91 66 4mo +3d asawicki.info/news_1741_myths_about_floating-point_numbers 67Supporting org.apache.xml.security in graalVM 4 29 4mo +34m guust.ysebie.be/blog/supporting-apache-xml-security-algorithms.html 68Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike 178 107 4mo +30m reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/geneva-makes-public-transport-temporarily-free-combat-pollution-spike-2025-08-13 69The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation 14 80 4mo +7m charlespetzold.com/blog/2025/05/Mary-Queen-of-Scots-Channel-Anamorphosis-A-3D-Simulation.html 70DoubleAgents: Fine-Tuning LLMs for Covert Malicious Tool Calls 30 92 4mo +1m pub.aimind.so/doubleagents-fine-tuning-llms-for-covert-malicious-tool-calls-b8ff00bf513e 71Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts 22 71 4mo +23m politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract-claims-savings-inflation-00498178 72UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new facial recognition vans 1 155 4mo +1h theregister.com/2025/08/13/uk_expands_police_facial_recognition 73The number of ICE flights is skyrocketing – but the planes are harder to track 47 71 4mo +5m cnn.com/2025/08/13/politics/ice-flights-locations-tracking-maps 74His psychosis was a mystery–until doctors learned about ChatGPT's health advice 94 59 4mo +45m psypost.org/his-psychosis-was-a-mystery-until-doctors-learned-about-chatgpts-health-advice 75The Data in a Dino's Smile 1 6 4mo +3d nautil.us/the-data-in-a-dinos-smile-1229729 76The Rock Art of Serrania De La Lindosa 2 27 4mo +3d earthasweknowit.com/pages/serrania_de_la_lindosa_rock_art 77Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 590 421 4mo +27m news.sky.com/story/facial-recognition-vans-to-be-rolled-out-across-police-forces-in-england-13410613 78Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything 524 757 4mo +4h github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/3382 79Improving Geographical Resilience for Distributed Open Source Teams with Freon 0 30 4mo +3d soatok.blog/2025/08/09/improving-geographical-resilience-for-distributed-open-source-teams-with-freon 80FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support 317 999 4mo +14m code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/13ce36fef98a3f4e6d8360c24d6b8434cbb8869b 81Open Greek and Latin Perseus Digital Library 0 14 4mo +3h scaife.perseus.org 82Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequency band 185 186 4mo +1h astrobites.org/2025/08/12/starlink-ska-low 83Lördagsgodis (Saturday Sweets) 47 31 4mo +3d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6rdagsgodis 84Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B 122 92 4mo +39m theverge.com/news/758218/perplexity-google-chrome-bid-unsolicited-offer 85Fingerjigger 40 71 4mo +3d fingerjigger.com/play 86The Factory Timezone 56 101 4mo +28m data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb-2025a/factory 87Exploding Cucumber 12 17 4mo +16m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclanthera_brachystachya 88Sheet0, a data agent transform webpages to structured spreadsheets 15 24 4mo +53m sheet0.com 89QNX: The Incredible 1.44M Demo 53 115 4mo +2d archive.org/details/QNX_incredible_1.44m_demo_v4.0 90Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks 305 277 4mo +21m blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks 91From Here? 9 63 4mo +1d dirtyfeed.org/2025/07/from-here 92Why does AI feel so different? 98 56 4mo +1h blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/08/12/why-does-ai-feel-so-different 93Show HN: Doom port to pure Go – Gore 42 145 4mo +7h github.com/AndreRenaud/gore 94The Anti-Pattern Game 48 64 4mo +2d hakon.gylterud.net/antipattern 951948: Catholic Church publishes final edition of “Index Librorum Prohibitorum” 127 71 4mo +1h historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=856 96F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs 287 429 4mo +25m 97Fennel libraries as single files (2023) 23 65 4mo +8m andreyor.st/posts/2023-08-27-fennel-libraries-as-single-files 98A Comprehensive Survey of Self-Evolving AI Agents [pdf] 28 91 4mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2508.07407 99So You Bought a Fancy Vintage Car. Now Who's Going to Restore It? 49 22 4mo +2d bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-08/from-porsche-to-aston-martin-classic-car-mechanics-are-a-dying-breed 100Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI? 22 28 4mo +1h wedistribute.org/2025/08/is-meta-scraping-the-fediverse-for-ai 101GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter? 70 47 4mo +8m bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a-joke-will-it-matter 102Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes 52 225 4mo +3d graphite.rs/libraries/bezier-rs 103Blender on iPad Is Finally Happening 44 85 4mo +11m creativebloq.com/3d/blender-on-ipad-is-finally-happening-and-it-could-be-the-app-every-artist-needs 104NYC mayor Adams uses free internet to expand police surveillance at NYCHA 3 21 4mo +23m nysfocus.com/2025/08/11/eric-adams-nycha-nypd-cameras-surveillance 105Visualizing quaternions: An explorable video series (2018) 9 85 4mo +3d eater.net/quaternions 106Please Don't Promote Wayland 74 59 4mo +15m stoppromotingwayland.netlify.app 107AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 66 61 4mo +13m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-12/ai-eroded-doctors-ability-to-spot-cancer-within-months-in-study 108Fixing a loud PSU fan without dying 61 42 4mo +3d chameth.com/fixing-a-loud-psu-fan-without-dying 109Search all text in New York City 115 576 4mo +13m alltext.nyc 110Comparing baseball greats across eras, who comes out on top? 34 10 4mo +2d phys.org/news/2025-07-baseball-greats-eras.html 111Scapegoating the Algorithm 33 46 4mo +20m asteriskmag.com/issues/11/scapegoating-the-algorithm 112Go 1.25 Is Released 1 19 4mo +1h go.dev/blog/go1.25 113 More... 2025.08.12