HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order AI vs. Professional Authors Results 93 94 4mo +2h mark---lawrence.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/08/the-ai-vs-authors-results-part-2.html 1Two sizes fit most: PostgreSQL and ClickHouse (2022) 2 15 4mo +3d about.gitlab.com/blog/two-sizes-fit-most-postgresql-and-clickhouse 2The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States 188 123 4mo +48m blog.waldrn.com/p/the-decline-of-high-tech-manufacturing 3Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs 83 217 4mo +56m github.com/ngafar/llama-scan 4Cache of WW2 bombs found under a playground in Northumberland 21 46 4mo +2d bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c36x08jezw5o 5MS-DOS development resources 42 124 4mo +6h github.com/SuperIlu/DOSDevelResources/blob/main/README.md 6Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow 69 256 4mo +2h github.com/bgreenwell/doxx 7Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users 84 88 4mo +14m ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/investigation-into-4chan-and-its-compliance-with-duties-to-protect-its-users-from-illegal-content 8Show HN: A iOS Native Bluesky App 12 20 4mo +30m github.com/0xatrilla/LiquidSky 9Blackwater's Erik Prince Muscles Back into the Mercenary Business 3 44 4mo +33m wsj.com/world/americas/erik-prince-mercenaries-vectus-global-5a166dca 10PG Auto Upgrade – Docker (and K8s) container to auto upgrade your database 16 27 4mo +1d github.com/pgautoupgrade/docker-pgautoupgrade 11[dead] ? 7 4mo +28m jomo.lol 12Carved stone mask – Pre-pottery, Neolithic B period 24 49 4mo +2d imj.org.il/en/collections/334459-0 13Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to AI in colonoscopy 18 36 4mo +49m thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract 14HN Search isn't ingesting new data since Friday 49 198 4mo +2m github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/248 15When did AI take over Hacker News? 223 304 4mo +5m zachperk.com/blog/when-did-ai-take-over-hn 16'Safety Today Is a Luxury,' Giorgetto Giugiaro Says After His Crash 60 37 4mo +14m jalopnik.com/1930930/giorgetto-giugiaro-crash-op-ed 17Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea 99 453 4mo +3h 18A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes (2019) 1 85 4mo +1d distill.pub/2019/visual-exploration-gaussian-processes 19"Email is Easy" email address quiz 32 43 4mo +1h e-mail.wtf 20Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" 195 522 4mo +4h 21Dynasties, Selection, and Talent Allocation Among Classical Composers 1 18 4mo +3d papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5304251 22AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery 72 194 4mo +1h playtechnique.io/blog/ai-doesnt-lighten-the-burden-of-mastery.html 23Show HN: DNC – A Decentralized Economic Protocol (No Blockchain) 0 4 4mo +56m github.com/POlLLOGAMER/DNC-DIAC-NET-CHAIN 24ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL UPDATE performance comparison 41 106 4mo +18m clickhouse.com/blog/update-performance-clickhouse-vs-postgresql 25Review of Anti-Aging Drugs 162 179 4mo +46m scienceblog.com/joshmitteldorf/2025/08/17/review-of-anti-aging-drugs 26[dead] ? 11 4mo +30m fortune.com 27Americans Are Ignoring Their Student Loan Bills 132 53 4mo +34m news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/millions-of-americans-are-ignoring-their-student-loan-bills 28ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links 103 412 4mo +14m tracker.archiveteam.org/goo-gl 29iOS 18.5 Bluetooth Privacy Vulnerabilities 25 78 4mo +7m github.com/JGoyd/iOS-18.5-Bluetooth-Privacy-Vuln 30Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines 118 60 4mo +36m andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/anticheat-secure-boot-tpm 31Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code 223 492 4mo +25m claudiacode.com 32Teaching GPT-5 to Use a Computer 23 91 4mo +2d prava.co/archon 33The Enterprise Experience 148 501 4mo +25m churchofturing.github.io/the-enterprise-experience.html 34Does OLAP Need an ORM 50 73 4mo +50m clickhouse.com/blog/moosestack-does-olap-need-an-orm 35US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care 124 131 4mo +39m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/gaza-children-visas-medical-care-laura-loomer 36Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386 49 100 4mo +1h righto.comhttp://www./2025/08/static-latchup-metastability-386.html 37We Hit 100% GPU Utilization–and Then Made It 3× Faster by Not Using It 11 17 4mo +3d daft.ai/blog/embedding-millions-of-text-documents-with-qwen3 38Who does your assistant serve? 101 169 4mo +44m xeiaso.net/blog/2025/who-assistant-serve 39Robin Lakoff has died 8 45 4mo +12m nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us/robin-lakoff-dead.html 40Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning 45 88 4mo +8m fallinorg.com/# 41The Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements (2017) 17 40 4mo +3d periodictable.com 42Sharp Hubble Images Confirm 3I/Atlas as Comet 7 28 4mo +25m sciencealert.com/nasa-probe-could-intercept-interstellar-comet-scientists-say 43Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation 387 317 4mo +51m npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5502671/electricity-bill-high-inflation-ai 44The Zizians' deadly fusion of transgender ideology, rationalism and veganism 10 14 4mo +5m spiked-online.com/2025/08/16/inside-the-trans-vegan-death-cult 45Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians 70 277 4mo +36m blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/derivatives-gradients-jacobians-and-hessians-oh-my 46Show HN: Rust macro utility for batching expensive async operations 5 28 4mo +2d github.com/hackermondev/batched 47Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs 30 170 4mo +27m marginalia.nu/log/a_123_index_io 48BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM 141 137 4mo +36m retrogamecoders.com/bbc-micro-the-ancestor-to-a-device-you-are-guaranteed-to-own 49Refine your initial prompt instead of course-correcting 1 8 4mo +28m elite-ai-assisted-coding.dev/p/refine-your-initial-prompt-instead-of-course-correcting 50Wozniak pops up in a comment thread about his 'bad decision' to sell his stock 2 16 4mo +36m pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/on-his-75th-birthday-apple-legend-steve-wozniak-pops-up-in-a-comment-thread-about-his-bad-decision-to-sell-his-stock-in-the-80s-with-a-devastatingly-zen-reply-i-gave-all-my-apple-wealth-away-because-wealth-and-power-are-not-what-i-live-for 51Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data 110 136 4mo +19m neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-latest-windows-11-24h2-update-breaks-ssdshdds-may-corrupt-your-data 52New Cloudflare Pirate Site Blocking May Involve Domains 8 35 4mo +2h torrentfreak.com/new-cloudflare-pirate-site-blocking-may-already-involve-thousands-of-domains-250815 53Why Nim? 225 184 4mo +10m undefined.pyfy.ch/why-nim 54ResurrectedGod: The Ruby Framework for Process Management 3 21 4mo +3d github.com/mishina2228/resurrected_god 55Comparison of different C libraries providing generic containers capabilities 4 43 4mo +3d github.com/P-p-H-d/c-stl-comparison 56VictoriaLogs Practical Ingestion Guide for Message, Time and Streams 17 59 4mo +1h victoriametrics.com/blog/victorialogs-concepts-message-time-stream/index.html 57GPT-4o quoted deleted GPT-5 content. Model isolation appears brok 6 16 4mo +1h 58LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers 181 436 4mo +18m threedle.github.io/ll3m 59Good multipliers for congruential pseudorandom number generators 3 19 4mo +3d arxiv.org/abs/2001.05304 60Nuvistor Valves 20 36 4mo +1h r-type.orghttp://www./articles/art-150.htm 61Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity 386 468 4mo +1h elliotcsmith.com/linkedin-toxic-mediocrity 62Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda 69 196 4mo +22h goose.icu/lambda 63IQ tests results for AI 337 219 4mo +1m trackingai.org/home 64Clinical genetics and the problem of uncertain significance 3 14 4mo +3d stetson.substack.com/p/solving-the-problem-of-uncertain 65Dispelling misconceptions about RLHF 30 120 4mo +2h aerial-toothpaste-34a.notion.site/How-OpenAI-Misled-You-on-RLHF-1f83f742d9dd80a68129d06503464aff 66Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK 139 104 4mo +25m nicksimulator.com 67"Mocha Dick," the White Whale of the Pacific 0 10 4mo +3d lithub.com/on-mocha-dick-the-white-whale-of-the-pacific-that-influenced-herman-melville 68Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3 38 218 4mo +3h github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2 69Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite 39 191 4mo +55m finkelstein.fr/sqlite-sync-engine-with-reactivity 70LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises 143 139 4mo +3d danfabulich.medium.com/llms-tell-bad-jokes-because-they-avoid-surprises-7f111aac4f96 71Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration 258 436 4mo +39m nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v22.18.0 72SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts" 24 188 4mo +3d marnetto.net/2025/02/20/broderbund-stunts-1 73CIA's 'Kryptos' sculpture, unsolved for 35 years, is up for sale 10 22 4mo +1h washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/08/14/kryptos-code-k4-solution-jim-sanborn-auction 74$3.1B annual cost estimated for fossil fuel plants DOE won't allow to retire 13 23 4mo +2h utilitydive.com/news/doe-mandate-fossil-fueled-power-plants-emergency/757653 75Counting Words at SIMD Speed 15 58 4mo +3d healeycodes.com/counting-words-at-simd-speed 76In one command use 500 open source tools 12 22 4mo +28m x-cmd.com 77Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors 93 61 4mo +3d thedrive.com/news/modern-cars-wreak-havoc-on-radar-detectors-heres-how-escort-adapts 78Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move 212 246 4mo +42m neowin.net/news/hyundai-wants-ioniq-5-customers-to-pay-for-cybersecurity-patch-in-baffling-move 79Running Wayland Clients as Non-Root Users on Yocto 9 33 4mo +2d embeddeduse.com/2025/08/11/running-wayland-clients-as-non-root-users 80Hardening Systemd Services 8 30 4mo +5m us.jlcarveth.dev/post/hardening-systemd.md 81Passive Microwave Repeaters 12 72 4mo +2h computer.rip/2025-08-16-passive-microwave-repeaters.html 82Flock Reports to Police If It Thinks Car Movement Patterns "Suspicious" 11 81 4mo +3h aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=pm&utm_medium=pm&initms=nat-dig-pm-awr-int-fb-social_feed-BZ30%2B-nsp-feed_SurveillanceCompanyFlockNow_20250813&utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=nat-dig-pm-awr-int&utm_content=fb-social_feed-BZ30%2B-nsp-feed_SurveillanceCompanyFlockNow_20250813&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=pm&ms=nat-dig-pm-awr-int-fb-social_feed-BZ30%2B-nsp-feed_SurveillanceCompanyFlockNow_20250813&utm_term=pm-6748111603595-6838690309595&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMABhZGlkAAAGOEHIQhsBHntU-vN-zAj7VllTEkKZxwc7W3NxYS6d6L4_XI4idiZnhTYsnLyqFCbuQ6Mo_aem_dWflVIAJNk7sTdRRfrq5mg&utm_id=6544987402995 83When Fascism Comes Wrapped in the Flag and Carrying a Cross 56 85 4mo +4h wisewolfmedia.substack.com/p/it-cant-happen-here-sinclair-lewis 84An argument for increasing TCP's initial congestion window (2024) 51 107 4mo +3d jeclark.net/articles/tcp-initcwnd/?tag=performance 85[dead] ? 25 4mo +3h github.com 86FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 351 359 4mo +3d code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg 87GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video] 400 448 4mo +9m youtube.com/watch?v=3NyUgv6dpJc 88Stylish Bugs 1 11 4mo +3d flak.tedunangst.com/post/stylish-bugs 89 More... 2025.08.16