HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time 2 11 4mo +1h economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/08/12/palantir-might-be-the-most-overvalued-firm-of-all-time 1AI Slop and the Destruction of Knowledge 10 56 4mo +1h irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge 2The Interactive Digital Transcription and Analysis Platform (2024) 0 7 4mo +3d osf.io/preprints/osf/jx3pk_v1 3Managing time shiftable devices (2024) 10 11 4mo +2d bitsandtheorems.com/managing-time-shiftable-devices 4Time travel is self-suppressing 69 40 4mo +1h arxiv.org/abs/2508.09157 5Blurry rendering of games on Mac 309 447 4mo +15m colincornaby.me/2025/08/your-mac-game-is-probably-rendering-blurry 6Border Patrol agents show up outside of Gov. Gavin Newsom's press conference 18 105 4mo +23m cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/border-patrol-gov-gavin-newsom-news-conference-los-angeles 7Big Tech's A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone 43 64 4mo +1h nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/energy-environment/ai-data-centers-electricity-costs.html 8Lambdas, Nested Functions, and Blocks (2021) 9 44 4mo +2d thephd.dev/lambdas-nested-functions-block-expressions-oh-my 9We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application 218 424 4mo +11m mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-gtk-rewrite 10DINOv3 29 177 4mo +1h github.com/facebookresearch/dinov3 11OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring Engineers 0 1 4mo +4s onesignal.com/careers 12Homekit-steam-user-switcher: A way to remotely switch Steam users using HomeKit 16 54 4mo +3d github.com/rcarmo/homekit-steam-user-switcher 13Airbrush art of the 80s (2015) 64 127 4mo +40m coolandcollected.com/airbrush-art-of-the-80s-was-chrome-tastic 14Sam Altman is in damage-control mode after latest ChatGPT release 36 67 4mo +22m cnn.com/2025/08/14/business/chatgpt-rollout-problems 15Show HN: MCP Security Suite 25 34 4mo +10m github.com/NineSunsInc/mighty-security 16Fundamental Flaw of Hustle Culture 33 61 4mo +34m brodzinski.com/2025/08/ai-hustle-culture.html 17Why and how to write things on the Internet (2022) 5 24 4mo +2d benkuhn.net/writing 18How to rig elections [video] 128 195 4mo +7h media.ccc.de/v/why2025-218-how-to-rig-elections 19All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning 41 83 4mo +22h resobscura.substack.com/p/all-souls-exam-questions-and-the 20Meta Leaks Part 2: How to Kill a Social Movement 14 82 4mo +21m archive.org/details/meta_leaks_part_2 21Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode 67 180 4mo +1d github.com/tanrax/org-social 22Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: Why Load Balancing at Scale Is Hard 10 83 4mo +3d startwithawhy.com/reverseproxy/2025/08/08/ReverseProxy-Deep-Dive-Part4.html 23Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness 592 915 4mo +27m yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23765914&cid=65583466 24What are the real numbers, really? (2024) 16 31 4mo +41m infinitelymore.xyz/p/what-are-the-real-numbers-really 25Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text 75 274 4mo +2h docs.hyprnote.com/owhisper/what-is-this 26Show HN: Modelence – Supabase for MongoDB 14 36 4mo +2h github.com/modelence/modelence 27"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit 219 248 4mo +40m pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin 28Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy 879 1078 4mo +1h theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/14/cant-pay-wont-pay-impoverished-streaming-services-are-driving-viewers-back-to-piracy 29I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer 87 411 4mo +1h danielchasehooper.com/posts/syscall-build-snooping 30Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 31 115 4mo +12m thepinknews.com/2025/08/14/meta-robby-starbuck-ai 31Architecting large software projects [video] 62 129 4mo +2d youtube.com/watch?v=sSpULGNHyoI 32Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies 152 101 4mo +14m bsky.social/about/blog/08-14-2025-updated-terms-and-policies 33Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer 90 346 4mo +1h github.com/embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer 34Axle (YC S22) is hiring product engineers 0 1 4mo +32s ycombinator.com/companies/axle/jobs/8wAy0QH-product-engineer 35[dead] ? 40 4mo +23m thepinknews.com 36KosmicKrisp a Vulkan on Metal Mesa 3D Graphics Driver 20 21 4mo +2d lunarg.com/a-vulkan-on-metal-mesa-3d-graphics-driver 37Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI 306 795 4mo +34m developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3-270m 38JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language 70 60 4mo +53m infoworld.com/article/4029053/jetbrains-working-on-higher-abstraction-programming-language.html 39Do You Need to Own a House? Many Older Americans Decide They Don't 56 10 4mo +43m wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/do-you-need-to-own-a-house-many-older-americans-decide-they-dont-54105dcd 40Show HN: Zig-DbC – A design by contract library for Zig 11 43 4mo +2d 41Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps 54 71 4mo +3m 42Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy 134 305 4mo +12m kodak.com/en/company/blog-post/statement-regarding-misleading-media-reports 43Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews? 116 61 4mo +5m 44Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York 85 132 4mo +20m reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death 45Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US 338 439 4mo +1h apple.com/newsroom/2025/08/an-update-on-blood-oxygen-for-apple-watch-in-the-us 46Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage? 177 205 4mo +1h seangoedecke.com/real-reasoning 47Why LLMs can't really build software 478 819 4mo +1h zed.dev/blog/why-llms-cant-build-software 48Jujutsu and Radicle 92 130 4mo +47m radicle.xyz/2025/08/14/jujutsu-with-radicle 49Great Myths #16: The Conflict Thesis 3 19 4mo +2d historyforatheists.com/2025/08/the-great-myths-16-the-conflict-between-science-and-religion 50Lessons learned from implementing SIMD-accelerated algorithms in pure Rust 4 16 4mo +9m kerkour.com/rust-simd?hn=1 51Kubernetes Resource Optimization Strategies That Work in Production 0 7 4mo +37m scaleops.com/blog/5-kubernetes-resource-optimization-strategies-that-work-in-production 52NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem 90 160 4mo +48m allenai.org/blog/nsf-nvidia 53"None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of FL's Book Ban Bill 470 314 4mo +1m bookriot.com/penguin-random-house-florida-lawsuit 54SIMD Binary Heap Operations 18 57 4mo +2d 0x80.plhttp:///notesen/2025-01-18-simd-heap.html 55Passion over Profits 57 77 4mo +7m dillonshook.com/passion-over-profits 56Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, more than expected 110 115 4mo +50m cnbc.com/2025/08/14/ppi-inflation-report-july-2025-.html 57Meta's AI rules let bots hold sensual chats with kids, offer false medical info 20 70 4mo +19m reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines 58US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years 379 319 4mo +13m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/us-producer-prices-rise-by-most-in-three-years-on-services 59A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data 72 73 4mo +3d ourworldindata.org/new-international-poverty-line-3-dollars-per-day 60Linux address space isolation revived after lowering performance hit 59 193 4mo +14m phoronix.com/news/Linux-ASI-Lower-Overhead 61Program the BBC Micro in C with VBCC for 6502 on macOS Using Docker 0 4 4mo +1h retrogamecoders.com/bbc-c-programming-vbcc 62New protein therapy shows promise as antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning 57 224 4mo +20m medschool.umaryland.edu/news/2025/new-protein-therapy-shows-promise-as-first-ever-antidote-for-carbon-monoxide-poisoning.html 63Mbodi AI (YC X25) Is Hiring a Founding Research Engineer (Robotics) 0 1 4mo +33s ycombinator.com/companies/mbodi-ai/jobs/ftTsxcl-founding-research-engineer 64Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode 1 158 4mo +1h github.com/tanrax/org-social 651976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015) 107 279 4mo +3d mashable.com/archive/soviet-hobbit 66Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court 218 383 4mo +28m malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/08/meta-accessed-womens-health-data-from-flo-app-without-consent-says-court 67What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? 191 556 4mo +1d seangoedecke.com/model-on-a-mbp 68What I look for in typeface licenses 12 40 4mo +2h davesmyth.com/typeface-licenses 69Social Media Apps Engineered Like Narcotics: The Dopamine Addiction Crisis 16 14 4mo +1h lookatmyprofile.org/blog/social-media-apps-engineered-like-narcotics-the-dopamine-add-1755157203663 70Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian 129 380 4mo +1h lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032604/73596e0c3ed1945a 71Usage – a shell completion / manpage / help documentation generator 6 34 4mo +3d usage.jdx.dev 72AI Efficiency? Give Me a Break 13 12 4mo +2h luolink.substack.com/p/ai-efficiency-give-me-a-break 73iPhone DevOps (2023) 132 141 4mo +43m clearsky.dev/blog/iphone-devops-ssh 74500 days of math 94 202 4mo +1d gmays.com/500-days-of-math 75[dead] ? 10 4mo +15m news.sky.com 76Optimizing Your Debian 13 Desktop 7 11 4mo +4m teejeetech.com/2025/08/14/debian_13_tips 77A telephony agent for my parents. Should I turn it into a full-fledged service? 23 36 4mo +3d sutrasphere.com 78Show HN: Vaultrice – A real-time key-value store with a localStorage API 13 42 4mo +15h vaultrice.com 79[dead] ? 14 4mo +4m aljazeera.com 80Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users – what's new in 'Trixie' 117 91 4mo +2d zdnet.com/article/debian-13-arrives-with-major-updates-for-linux-users-whats-new-in-trixie 81Convo-Lang: LLM Programming Language and Runtime 40 75 4mo +5m learn.convo-lang.ai 82Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge 36 107 4mo +1d clearsky.dev/blog/xr2000 83Funding Open Source like public infrastructure 132 259 4mo +1h dri.es/funding-open-source-like-public-infrastructure 84My AI-driven identity crisis 73 59 4mo +1h dusty.phillips.codes/2025/06/08/my-ai-driven-identity-crisis 85Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser 39 139 4mo +3d lwn.net/Articles/1001773 86Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks 265 254 4mo +2h zenobiapay.com/blog/open-source-payments 87Show HN: Yet another memory system for LLMs 43 162 4mo +32m github.com/trvon/yams 88Le Lamp – an open source expressive robot 5 25 4mo +1d github.com/humancomputerlab/LeLamp 89Do we understand how neural networks work? 38 31 4mo +4h verysane.ai/p/do-we-understand-how-neural-networks 90Print, a one-line BASIC program 18 77 4mo +1d 10print.org 91Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure 77 137 4mo +2h techcrunch.com/2025/08/13/co-founder-of-elon-musks-xai-departs-the-company 92ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol 42 116 4mo +1d forgefed.org 93Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses 34 41 4mo +2d github.com/PrivacyIsAllYouNeed/protector 94What medieval people got right about learning (2019) 116 161 4mo +1h scotthyoung.com/blog/2019/06/07/apprenticeships 95Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015) 6 59 4mo +3d burntsushi.net/transducers 96Open Banking and Payments Competition 92 155 4mo +1h bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/open-banking-and-payments-competition 97Why top and free in containers don't show the correct container memory (2018) 1 33 4mo +1d ops.tips/blog/why-top-inside-container-wrong-memory 98 More... 2025.08.13