HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Guid Smash 70 180 4mo +1h guidsmash.com 1Turn your dumb messages into cuneiform tablets 5 33 4mo +4h dumbcuneiform.com 2For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules 54 49 4mo +3d aeon.co/essays/for-iris-murdoch-morality-is-about-love-not-duties-and-rules 3Show HN: unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi 50 85 4mo +2h unsafehttp.benren.auhttp:/ 4China develops first pregnancy robot, sparking ethical debate 13 26 4mo +1h thestandard.com.hk/china-news/article/308815/China-develops-worlds-first-pregnancy-robot-sparking-ethical-debate 5Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz 105 208 4mo +51m treeform.github.io/devcompas 6Netanyahu's cybersecurity official arrested in Vegas in child sex sting 21 45 4mo +35m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/nevada-arrest-israeli-official 7Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible 48 142 4mo +1h victorwynne.com/processor-trace-instrument 8Remediation the hardest problem in Non-Human Identity Security 0 3 4mo +2d token.security/blog/why-remediation-is-the-hardest-problem-in-nhi-security 9AI apps are like music 12 21 4mo +5m aimode.substack.com/p/ai-apps-are-like-music 10A Lisp in 99LOC 26 108 4mo +3h github.com/Robert-van-Engelen/tinylisp 11Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism' (2014) 96 112 4mo +25m bbc.com/news/health-26888280 12That 16B password story (a.k.a. "data troll") 12 112 4mo +3d troyhunt.com/that-16-billion-password-story-aka-data-troll 13Dyna – Logic Programming for Machine Learning 21 160 4mo +47m dyna.org 14James Baldwin's Apotheosis 10 35 4mo +2d hudsonreview.com/2025/08/james-baldwins-apotheosis 15Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members 60 107 4mo +51m torrentfreak.com/pirate-library-operator-arrested-study-canceled-for-330k-members-250814 16The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015) 45 170 4mo +3d raft.github.io 17Office on HP-UX and Unix 54 102 4mo +29m openpa.net/hp-ux_office.html 18One person was able to claim 20M IPs 58 197 4mo +1h lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/thread/MMCCEQKA4UPGGWFWEBWLYKHTYCAOQIZS/#MMCCEQKA4UPGGWFWEBWLYKHTYCAOQIZS 19Living with 12 Strangers to Ease a Housing Crunch 13 18 4mo +23m bloomberg.comhttp://www./news/articles/2025-08-15/cohousing-in-europe-is-helping-ease-the-housing-crunch 20European Capitals Are Heating Up 8 29 4mo +6h public.tableau.com/app/profile/lomska/viz/EuropeanCapitalsAreHeatingUp/EuroHeating 21Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software 101 98 4mo +52m smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/03/10/rust-2025-intro 22Monday – A personality experiment 93 83 4mo +35m chatgpt.com/g/g-67ec3b78892481918c89067962526695-monday 23CBP Is Deporting Cruise Ship Crew over CSAM Allegations Without Evidence 20 46 4mo +4m reason.com/2025/08/13/cbp-is-deporting-cruise-ship-crew-over-child-pornography-allegations-without-evidence 24Show HN: Lue – Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech 23 97 4mo +20m github.com/superstarryeyes/lue 25Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites? 122 73 4mo +37m 26Princeton NuEnergy's battery recycling tech recovers 97% of lithium-ion material 34 110 4mo +3h energy-reporters.com/environment/97-battery-recycling-breakthrough-princeton-nuenergy-opens-first-u-s-commercial-facility-cutting-costs-38-and-slashing-environmental-impact 27A single lock of hair could rewrite what we know about Inca record-keeping 43 78 4mo +2d science.org/content/article/single-lock-hair-could-rewrite-what-we-know-about-inca-record-keeping 28Tversky Neural Networks 12 130 4mo +1h gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-neural-networks 29Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale 205 502 4mo +23m derwiki.medium.com/do-things-that-dont-scale-and-then-don-t-scale-9fd2cd7e2156 30Testosterone Didn't Rapidly Decline 5 19 4mo +1m twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1956769175646396714 31My boss fired me over WhatsApp while he was on vacation in Honolulu 19 38 4mo +31m ginoz.bearblog.dev/my-boss-fired-me-over-whatsapp-while-he-was-on-vacation-in-honolulu 32Low-latency, high-throughput garbage collection 9 29 4mo +3d danglingpointers.substack.com/p/low-latency-high-throughput-garbage 33Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person' 111 185 4mo +45m daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/15/woz-on-slashdot 34OpenAI Progress 329 387 4mo +25m progress.openai.com 35Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector 8 39 4mo +1d fiatjaf.com/6829ad8b.html 36Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version 86 74 4mo +18m macrumors.com/2025/08/16/apple-working-on-all-new-operating-system 37Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way 148 349 4mo +1h pudding.cool/2025/08/onions 38SpaceX Gets Billions from the Government, Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes 22 37 4mo +35m nytimes.com/2025/08/15/technology/spacex-musk-government-contracts-taxes.html 39Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider 169 263 4mo +2m voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp 40[dead] ? 13 4mo +41m wisewolfmedia.substack.com 41The catfishing scam putting fans and female golfers in danger 4 11 4mo +1h nytimes.com/athletic/6554056/2025/08/15/womens-golf-catfishing-social-media-stalking-cases 42A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease 25 40 4mo +39m nytimes.com/2025/08/13/realestate/beech-leaf-disease.html 43Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study 200 428 4mo +2h kcl.ac.uk/news/toothpaste-made-from-hair-provides-natural-root-to-repair-teeth 44Pfeilstorch 87 319 4mo +5h en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch 45Climate Action Tracker 2 8 4mo +21m climateactiontracker.org 46Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility 12 30 4mo +42m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02612-9 47Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 2 8 121 4mo +2d gautiersblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/writing-bzip2-encoder-in-ada-from.html 48Boy riding bubble realizes what he's on, asks for more air 3 28 4mo +27m theregister.com/2025/08/15/boy_riding_bubble_realizes_what 49Blue-collar jobs are gaining popularity as AI threatens office work 117 62 4mo +8m nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ai-which-jobs-are-skilled-trades-protected-what-to-know-rcna223249 50Should you take creatine? 71 40 4mo +38m economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/07/11/should-you-take-creatine 51Books will soon be obsolete in school 68 48 4mo +26m shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/books-will-soon-be-obsolete-in-school 52Our Paint – A Natural Painting Program 1 11 4mo +2d wellobserve.com/OurPaint/index_en.html 53Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop 57 110 4mo +20m tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/seagate-spins-up-a-raid-on-a-counterfeit-hard-drive-workshop-authorities-read-criminals-writes-while-they-spill-the-beans 54Open office is giving you secondhand ADHD 77 81 4mo +37m floustate.com/blog/open-office-secondhand-adhd 55How randomness improves algorithms (2023) 23 74 4mo +2d quantamagazine.org/how-randomness-improves-algorithms-20230403 56KDE is removing all colorful third-party app icons from its Breeze icon theme 58 29 4mo +25m neowin.net/news/kde-is-removing-all-of-the-colorful-third-party-app-icons-from-its-breeze-icon-theme 57Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Design Engineers in AMER and EMEA 0 1 4mo +8s ashbyhq.com/careers?utm_source=hn&ashby_jid=579e9d03-0724-482b-a42a-8e5e80d73405 58African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks Africa's size 19 29 4mo +17m theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/african-union-true-size-world-map-replace-mercator-version 59Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription 308 182 4mo +1h autoexpress.co.uk/volkswagen/367566/forget-netflix-volkswagen-locks-horsepower-behind-paid-subscription 60Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need 201 183 4mo +25m theregister.com/2025/08/16/microsoft_windows_features_help_productivity 61Traps to Developers 106 251 4mo +1h qouteall.fun/qouteall-blog/2025/Traps%20to%20Developers 62VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 75 4mo +1h bbc.com/news/articles/c62weyp4qqgo 63Implementing a basic equivalent of OpenBSD's pflog in Linux nftables 0 11 4mo +2d utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NftablesImplementingAPflog 64Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025) 90 44 4mo +29m businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent-code-3-to-6-months-2025-3 65Document.write 7 19 4mo +1d vladimirslepnev.me/write 66Tiny flyers levitate on the Sun's heat alone 2 24 4mo +2d nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02576-w 67Oil states thwart agreement on plastics 108 128 4mo +39m e360.yale.edu/digest/global-plastics-treaty 68Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2 53 98 4mo +3d nikodunk.com/2025-06-10-diy-serverless-(coreos-+-dokploy) 69Good system design 383 910 4mo +9m seangoedecke.com/good-system-design 70Why Metaflow? 6 15 4mo +3d docs.metaflow.org/introduction/why-metaflow 71Prompting by Activation Maximization 11 14 4mo +2d joecooper.me/blog/activation 72America's stock-market dominance is an emergency for Europe 57 42 4mo +1h wsj.com/finance/investing/americas-stock-market-dominance-is-an-emergency-for-europe-627b3221 73Bird signs and cycles, February, 2024 1 14 4mo +2d subject.space/projects-static/winter-bird-cycles 74[dead] ? 10 4mo +7m cendyne.dev 75Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths 75 110 4mo +3d scientificamerican.com/article/deep-sea-desalination-pulls-drinking-water-from-the-depths 76PuTTY has a new website 280 497 4mo +22m putty.software 77Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems 67 177 4mo +51m userjot.com/blog/best-practices-building-agentic-ai-systems 78Secret Messengers: Disseminating Sigint in the Second World War [pdf] 0 21 4mo +2d media.defense.gov/2025/Jul/25/2003761271/-1/-1/0/SECRET_MESSENGERS.PDF 79Building a watch from scratch in a Brooklyn basement 3 19 4mo +3h kottke.org/25/08/building-a-watch-from-scratch-in-a-brooklyn-basement 80AI is different 876 490 4mo +2d antirez.com/news/155 81The Role of Feature Normalization in Ijepa 0 6 4mo +3d github.com/theAdamColton/elucidating-featurenorm-ijepa 82Microsoft launch inquiry on Israel use of tech for surveillance of Palestinians 14 38 4mo +4m theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/microsoft-launches-inquiry-claims-israel-used-tech-mass-surveillance-palestinians 83Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way 2 10 4mo +2d pudding.cool/2025/08/onions 84 More... 2025.08.15