HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order A privacy VPN you can verify 144 149 4mo +1h vp.net/l/en-US/blog/Don%27t-Trust-Verify 1'Constantine Cavafy' Review: A Poet's Odyssey Within 1 22 4mo +3d wsj.com/arts-culture/books/constantine-cavafy-review-a-poets-odyssey-within-1e341d7c 2California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters 348 276 4mo +47m sfchronicle.com/california/article/unemployment-rate-rises-tech-20819276.php 3Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation 151 108 4mo +7h latentintent.substack.com/p/model-intelligence-is-no-longer-the 4I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer 173 630 4mo +11h drobinin.com/posts/how-i-accidentally-became-puregyms-unofficial-apple-wallet-developer 5A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection 36 62 4mo +21h nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02589-5 6Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report 25 154 4mo +3m theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/israeli-military-unit-reportedly-tasked-with-linking-journalists-in-gaza-to-hamas 7TextKit 2 – The Promised Land 32 107 4mo +29m blog.krzyzanowskim.com/2025/08/14/textkit-2-the-promised-land 8We're making GPT-5 warmer and friendlier based on feedback that it felt formal 40 27 4mo +41m twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1956461718097494196 9The future of large files in Git is Git 279 536 4mo +1h tylercipriani.com/blog/2025/08/15/git-lfs 10Porting Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Server Board with AMD Turin CPU to Coreboot 5 91 4mo +1h blog.3mdeb.com/2025/2025-08-07-gigabyte_mz33_ar1_part1 11LibreOffice says Microsoft Office exploits you, offers free ODF migration guide 29 75 4mo +2h neowin.net/news/libreoffice-says-microsoft-exploits-you-via-vendor-lock-in-offers-free-odf-migration-guide 12Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets 297 203 4mo +19m scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3320828/us-f-16s-lose-out-thai-air-force-seals-us600-million-deal-swedish-gripen-jets 13[dead] ? 28 4mo +48m 404media.co 14Steve Wozniak:I gave all my Apple wealth away because that's not what I live for 13 22 4mo +1h m.slashdot.org/story/445414 15Dexter Cows and Kefir Cheese (2008) 3 16 4mo +3d smallfarmersjournal.com/dexter-cows-and-kefir-cheese 16Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations 423 257 4mo +28m anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations 17Dating Men in the Bay Area 11 37 4mo +59m astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-dating-men-in-the-bay 18Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer 48 126 4mo +2d enda.sh/primegrid 19OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself 164 219 4mo +1h flak.tedunangst.com/post/is-OpenBSD-10x-faster-than-Linux 20When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun 88 171 4mo +7h wisewolfmedia.substack.com/p/the-investigation-that-should-have 21Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, and growing rapidly 21 56 4mo +3m pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420092122 22In-depth analysis on Valorant's Guarded Regions 4 30 4mo +2d reversing.info/posts/guardedregions 23[dead] ? 25 4mo +55m yro.slashdot.org 24Show HN: JMAP MCP – Email for your agents 11 54 4mo +57m github.com/wyattjoh/jmap-mcp 25Rain: Transiently Leaking Data from Public Clouds Using Old Vulnerabilities 1 15 4mo +3d openreview.net/forum?id=4tDNvQe2G0 26Are We Creating Entrepreneurs or Just Privileged Risk-Takers? 18 39 4mo +35m luolink.substack.com/p/the-million-dollar-safety-net-how 27It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. It Could Be an Audio Bug 12 17 4mo +6m wired.com/story/school-bathroom-vape-detector-audio-bug 28Imagen 4 is now generally available 79 209 4mo +10m developers.googleblog.com/en/announcing-imagen-4-fast-and-imagen-4-family-generally-available-in-the-gemini-api 29HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame 24 39 4mo +18m portswigger.net/research/http1-must-die 30Iceland supermarket offering £1 reward for reporting shoplifters 24 26 4mo +27m bbc.com/news/articles/c707rzen2zvo 31Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software 51 111 4mo +5m 32Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account 119 431 4mo +6m edka.io 33XAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler 10 37 4mo +32m wired.com/story/xai-grok-government-contract-hitler 34It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges 146 165 4mo +19m social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115033790447125787 35Bullfrog in the Dungeon 49 158 4mo +1h filfre.net/2025/08/bullfrog-in-the-dungeon 36Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation and exercise capacity in healthy volunteers 19 104 4mo +4h academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/46/17/1634/8023896?login=false 37They're Killing the Humanities on Purpose 110 56 4mo +3h chronicle.com/article/theyre-killing-the-humanities-on-purpose 38EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring 0 1 4mo +20s easypost.com/careers 39The Lifecycle of a Pull Request 1 25 4mo +3d blog.tangled.sh/pulls 40German court declares Karl Marx's teachings unconstitutional 56 56 4mo +20m harici.com.tr/en/german-court-declares-karl-marxs-teachings-unconstitutional 41Is air travel getting worse? 297 173 4mo +3h maximum-progress.com/p/is-air-travel-getting-worse 42Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library 197 488 4mo +44m openculture.com/2025/08/2178-occult-books-now-digitized-put-online.html 43Ransomware crews don't care about your endpoint security they killed it 11 29 4mo +28m theregister.com/2025/08/14/edr_killers_ransomware 44An interactive guide to sensor fusion with quaternions 26 82 4mo +2h quaternion.cafe 45Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy 164 130 4mo +14m polygon.com/steam-paypal-issues-censorship-visa-mastercard 46I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked 68 70 4mo +15m overbring.com/blog/2025-08-13-writing-an-elixir-nif-with-genai 47SC's proposed nuclear reboot: 'We're going to finish these reactors' 33 24 4mo +47m scdailygazette.com/2025/08/14/sen-graham-on-scs-proposed-nuclear-reboot-were-going-to-finish-these-reactors 48The Folk Economics of Housing 245 113 4mo +4m aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20241428 49The electric fence stopped working years ago 144 355 4mo +22m soonly.com/electric-fences 50Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity 86 163 4mo +3d osec.io/blog/2025-08-11-compiler-bug-causes-compiler-bug 51Have you ever noticed that people dressed better in the past? 34 23 4mo +11m twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1955756224030630264 52Using AI to secure AI 33 99 4mo +8m mattsayar.com/letting-inmates-run-the-asylum-using-ai-to-secure-ai 53ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes 462 353 4mo +1h bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2024-083658 54Do Things That Don't Scale (2013) 108 362 4mo +24m paulgraham.com/ds.html 55The beauty of a text only webpage 185 311 4mo +6m albanbrooke.com/the-beauty-of-a-text-only-webpage 56ARM adds neural accelerators to GPUs 44 174 4mo +3d newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-announces-arm-neural-technology 57The Timmy Trap 171 180 4mo +28m jenson.org/timmy 58What kids told us about how to get them off their phones 102 56 4mo +57m theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/kids-smartphones-play-freedom/683742 59[dead] ? 16 4mo +2d kaamvaam.com 60White House loyalty rating for companies 200 162 4mo +4m axios.com/2025/08/15/white-house-rating-big-beautiful-bill 61AI-induced dehumanization (2024) 80 91 4mo +1h myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcpy.1441 62Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect 98 182 4mo +58m github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/pull/3899 63Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers? 133 134 4mo +5m blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/08/14/is-germany-on-the-brink-of-banning-ad-blockers-user-freedom-privacy-and-security-is-at-risk 64Review: Dating Men in the Bay Area 6 16 4mo +21m astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-dating-men-in-the-bay 65Fairness is what the powerful 'can get away with' study shows 56 212 4mo +1h phys.org/news/2025-07-fairness-powerful.html 66With waters at 32C, Mediterranean tropicalization shifts into high gear 72 101 4mo +42m phys.org/news/2025-08-32c-mediterranean-tropicalization-shifts-high.html 67Recto – A Truly 2D Language 64 140 4mo +2d masatohagiwara.net/recto.html 68Submerged Roman bathhouse in Baiae may be part of Cicero's villa 4 33 4mo +20m archaeologymag.com/2025/08/submerged-roman-bathhouse-in-baiae 69Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years 230 192 4mo +1h smokinggun.org/court-records-reveal-sig-sauer-knew-of-pistol-risks-for-years 70The AI Job Swindle 5 12 4mo +32m therectangle.substack.com/p/the-great-ai-job-swindle 71It is time to 'Correct the Map' 40 23 4mo +38m correctthemap.org 72Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead? 434 707 4mo +19m josefprusa.com/articles/open-hardware-in-3d-printing-is-dead 73Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring a Senior GenAI Engineer (100% Remote) 0 1 4mo +5s tesorio.com/careers#job-openings 74Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power 24 84 4mo +1h theregister.com/2025/08/13/firefox_ai_scoffing_power 75Good Justifications Write Themselves 2 11 4mo +3d oblique.security/blog/justification-fields 76US Government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says 4 31 4mo +2h arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/us-government-agency-drops-grok-after-mechahitler-backlash-report-says 77Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? 104 64 4mo +26m theregister.com/2025/08/15/are_you_willing_to_pay 78The U.S. grid is so weak, the AI race may be over 111 94 4mo +56m fortune.com/2025/08/14/data-centers-china-grid-us-infrastructure 79Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects 150 157 4mo +1h freewheeling.info/blog/swiss-hs2 80Death and What Comes Next (2002) 81 84 4mo +3d lspace.org/books/dawcn/dawcn-english.html 81What makes you still work for Meta, when it's clear how toxic the company is? 69 82 4mo +13m 82Lessons learned from buying an open source repo 33 64 4mo +2d coplay.dev/blog/lessons-learned-from-buying-an-open-source-repo 83UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse 282 202 4mo +6m bsky.app/profile/tupped.bsky.social/post/3lwgcmswmy222 84Stylish Bugs 7 6 4mo +2d flak.tedunangst.com/post/stylish-bugs 85Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s 53 65 4mo +3d flashbak.com/snapshots-of-kids-bike-jumping-in-the-1970s-476580 86Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? 86 59 4mo +10m github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523 87Galileo's Telescopes: Seeing Is Believing 3 47 4mo +3d historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/galileos-telescopes-seeing-believing 88Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem 63 158 4mo +30m blog.foletta.net/post/2025-07-14-clt 89Map of Wales and Pronunciation from Wikipedia 6 25 4mo +3d mapiau.cymru/mapiau/MapLlais/index.html 90Lessons learned from implementing SIMD-accelerated algorithms in pure Rust 2 14 4mo +13m kerkour.com/rust-simd?hn=1 91Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux 222 156 4mo +2d mark.stosberg.com/universal-copy-paste 92South Park creator’s 2007 digital ad revenue sharing clause 57 97 4mo +21m readtrung.com/p/south-park-and-the-greatest-tv-contract 93Measuring Thinking Efficiency in Reasoning Models: The Missing Benchmark 0 9 4mo +2h nousresearch.com/measuring-thinking-efficiency-in-reasoning-models-the-missing-benchmark 94Teenage Engineering's free computer case 57 92 4mo +13m teenage.engineering/store/computer-2 95Show HN: Understanding the Spatial Web Browser Engine 2 18 4mo +2d m-creativelab.github.io/jsar-runtime/blogs/spatial-browser-engine.html 96Show HN: Evaluating LLMs on creative writing via reader usage, not benchmarks 12 35 4mo +10h narrator.sh 97The Kuzma Self-Playing Guitar System 26 38 4mo +3d core77.com/posts/137962/The-Kuzma-Self-Playing-Guitar-System 98Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (2003) [pdf] 21 96 4mo +3d erlang.orghttp:///download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf 99Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma 72 110 4mo +31m cfr.org/blog/time-end-roundtripping-big-pharma 100Nobody’s buying homes, nobody’s switching jobs, America’s mobility is stalling 150 155 4mo +8m wsj.com/economy/american-job-housing-economic-dynamism-d56ef8fc 101I used to know how to write in Japanese 266 221 4mo +22m aethermug.com/posts/i-used-to-know-how-to-write-in-japanese 102The secret code behind the CIA's Kryptos puzzle is up for sale 46 90 4mo +33m news.artnet.com/art-world/cia-kryptos-sculpture-code-auction-2677451 103Repairing an HP 5370A Time Interval Counter 7 30 4mo +3d tomverbeure.github.io/2025/08/10/HP-5370A-Repair.html 104Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism 63 187 4mo +1h aeplay.org/citybound 105The new science of “emergent misalignment” 67 121 4mo +51m quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-fed-sloppy-code-it-turned-into-something-evil-20250813 106 More... 2025.08.14