HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Workday suffered a data breach 16 78 4mo +32m gizmodo.com/hr-giant-workday-got-hacked-2000644474 1X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls 67 164 4mo +2d popsci.com/technology/tibetan-prayer-scroll-scans 2Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025 45 109 4mo +1h newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1542140 3Structured (Synchronous) Concurrency 3 36 4mo +55m fsantanna.github.io/sc.html 4Lab-grown salmon hits the menu 325 170 4mo +28m smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lab-grown-salmon-hits-the-menu-at-an-oregon-restaurant-as-the-fda-greenlights-the-cell-cultured-product-180986769 5An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (2021) 25 121 4mo +1d jotunheimr.idlerpg.net/users/jotun/lawnmower 6[dead] ? 4 4mo +42m synthicai.com 7What could have been 119 148 4mo +9m coppolaemilio.com/entries/what-could-have-been 8Shamelessness as a strategy (2019) 165 229 4mo +11m nadia.xyz/shameless 9Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims 287 192 4mo +9m apnews.com/article/dominion-voting-newsmax-defamation-trump-2020-3b2366dfdae3a8432afe822bf14fe1ef 10AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event 24 105 4mo +41m theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909 11Phrack 72 30 161 4mo +37m phrack.org/issues/72/1 12Google is watching 71 81 4mo +36m not-a-tech-bro.ghost.io/google-is-watching 13Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers 128 268 4mo +43m fractionaljobs.io 14The rising returns to R&D: Ideas are not getting harder to find 95 141 4mo +3d papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5242171 15Obsidian Bases 249 679 4mo +4m help.obsidian.md/bases 16Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Associate (New Grad) 0 1 4mo +30s ycombinator.com/companies/spice-data/jobs/RJz1peY-product-associate-new-grad 17Show HN: Strix - Open-source AI hackers for your apps 15 101 4mo +23m github.com/usestrix/strix 18Show HN: I built a toy TPU that can do inference and training on the XOR problem 24 129 4mo +57m tinytpu.com 19Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU 15 265 4mo +12m github.com/tiny-tpu-v2/tiny-tpu 20Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016) 17 33 4mo +3d historytoday.com/archive/feature/sikkim-and-himalayan-chess-game 21GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire 142 244 4mo +41m theregister.com/2025/08/18/generative_ai_zero_return_95_percent 22Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year 3 16 4mo +8m electrek.co/2025/08/18/tesla-tsla-insiders-have-sold-more-than-50-of-their-shares-in-the-last-year 23White House in Talks with Intel for 10% U.S. Government Stake 146 90 4mo +8m wsj.com/tech/intel-us-government-stake-22a7f987 24Macintosh Drawing Software Compared (2021) 3 25 4mo +2h blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/24/macintosh-drawing-software-compared 25T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree 91 378 4mo +9m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/t-mobile-claimed-selling-location-data-without-consent-is-legal-judges-disagree 26The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work 62 128 4mo +2h nearlyright.com/how-ai-researchers-accidentally-discovered-that-everything-they-thought-about-learning-was-wrong 27Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription 44 41 4mo +23m dexerto.com/entertainment/volkswagen-gating-a-new-vehicles-full-horsepower-behind-monthly-subscription-3239138 28Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game 75 151 4mo +11m youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX_f2V_c 29Finding a Successor to the FHS 20 46 4mo +11h lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032947/67e23ce1a3f9f129 30How much do electric car batteries degrade? 265 133 4mo +32m sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electric-car-battery-degradation 31[dead] ? 26 4mo +16m presstv.ir 32RFK Jr.'s Wi-Fi and 5G conspiracies appear to make it into MAHA report draft 31 67 4mo +13m arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/maha-draft-takes-on-electromagnetic-radiation-echoing-rfk-jr-s-conspiracies 33Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust 148 567 4mo +53m github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering 34The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman (2016) 11 88 4mo +2d 5wgraphicsblog.com/2016/10/24/the-cutaway-illustrations-of-fred-freeman 35TREAD: Token Routing for Efficient Architecture-Agnostic Diffusion Training 6 37 4mo +4m arxiv.org/abs/2501.04765 36Robots.txt is a suicide note (2011) 74 85 4mo +11m wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Robots.txt 37Left to Right Programming 351 432 4mo +5m graic.net/p/left-to-right-programming 38Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh (2021) 12 79 4mo +3m blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/17/turning-an-ipad-pro-into-the-ultimate-classic-macintosh 39My Retro TVs 22 146 4mo +30m myretrotvs.com 40Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team 521 1048 4mo +14m annas-archive.org/blog/an-update-from-the-team.html 41AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy' 83 90 4mo +2m theregister.com/2025/08/18/aws_updated_kiro_pricing 42Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room 453 514 4mo +1h nytimes.com/2025/08/18/arts/counter-strike-half-life-minh-le.html 43Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity 44 59 4mo +2d nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09321-3 44Who Invented Backpropagation? 114 199 4mo +21m people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-backpropagation.html 45The administration's assault on science feels eerily Soviet 0 25 4mo +24m grist.org/politics/the-trump-administrations-assault-on-science-feels-eerily-soviet 46Show HN: Open-Source Framework for Real-Time AI Video Avatars 0 5 4mo +34m github.com/videosdk-community/ai-avatar-demo 47Win10 users looking for a new OS? Apple $599 MacBook can't come at a better time 37 24 4mo +12m zdnet.com/article/windows-10-users-looking-for-a-new-os-apples-599-macbook-cant-come-at-a-better-time 48Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good 17 13 4mo +15m wired.com/story/apple-finally-destroyed-steve-jobss-vision-of-the-ipad-good 49The road that killed Legend Jenkins was working as designed 151 121 4mo +9m strongtowns.org/journal/2025/8/18/the-road-that-killed-legend-jenkins-was-working-exactly-as-designed 50The Coming Robot Home Invasion 64 29 4mo +1h andykessler.com/andy_kessler/2025/08/wsj-home-robots.html 51Image Fulgurator (2011) 5 52 4mo +2d juliusvonbismarck.com/bank/index.php/projects/image-fulgurator/2 52The Weight of a Cell 33 90 4mo +6m asimov.press/p/cell-weight 53How to ingest 1B rows/s in ClickHouse 9 29 4mo +14m tinybird.co/blog-posts/1b-rows-per-second-clickhouse 54Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection 63 92 4mo +16m realitydefender.com/platform/api 55Show HN: A Minimal Hacker News Reader for Apple Watch Built with SwiftUI 20 62 4mo +19m github.com/wieslawsoltes/HackerNewsWatch 5695% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report 162 205 4mo +5m fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo 57Typechecker Zoo 31 189 4mo +2d sdiehl.github.io/typechecker-zoo 58AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers 232 171 4mo +12m axios.com/2025/08/18/ai-jobs-layoffs 59Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis 139 143 4mo +33m utilitydive.com/news/texas-law-gives-grid-operator-power-to-disconnect-data-centers-during-crisi/751587 60FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons 156 417 4mo +24m github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons 61Discussing politics at work: Don't, just don't 49 22 4mo +11m betterthanrandom.substack.com/p/discussing-politics-at-work 62Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations 48 144 4mo +6m npr.org/2025/08/15/g-s1-83087/otter-ai-transcription-class-action-lawsuit 63AI accounts impersonating doctors on social media [video] 2 43 4mo +17m youtube.com/watch?v=iNNA-66vKPE 64Apple and Amazon will miss AI like Intel missed mobile 181 89 4mo +15m gmays.com/the-biggest-bet-in-tech 65The billionaire developer closing London's pubs 34 63 4mo +26m the-londoner.co.uk/exclusive-the-billionaire-developer-closing-londons-pubs 66Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview 35 53 4mo +1d rainviewer.com/blog/weather-radar-apis-2025-overview.html 67Vibe coding tips and tricks 93 222 4mo +24m github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/main/VIBE_CODING_TIPS_TRICKS.md 68Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels 302 672 4mo +1d scrollguard.app 69When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you 81 163 4mo +53m theregister.com/2025/08/18/opinion_column_ai_surveillance 70Sky Calendar 6 62 4mo +2d abramsplanetarium.org/SkyCalendar/index.html 71The circular economy could make demolition a thing of the past 28 22 4mo +36m theconversation.com/the-circular-economy-could-make-demolition-a-thing-of-the-past-heres-how-261678 72It's the Housing, Stupid 179 67 4mo +10m ofdollarsanddata.com/its-the-housing-stupid 73Website is served from nine Neovim buffers on my old ThinkPad 25 137 4mo +1h vim.gabornyeki.com 74Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery 127 294 4mo +2h medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-alternative-lasik-lasers.html 75Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator 121 178 4mo +1d technoblogy.comhttp://www./show?2AON 76Gamblers Now Bet on AI Models Like Racehorses 6 19 4mo +1h wsj.com/tech/ai/top-ai-model-betting-markets-kalshi-b2964992 77Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths 3 43 4mo +3h lareviewofbooks.org/article/mindless-machines-mindless-myths 78MCP tools with dependent types 14 73 4mo +1h vlaaad.github.io/mcp-tools-with-dependent-types 79LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare 94 194 4mo +5m garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-coding-agents-security-nightmare 80MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code 139 225 4mo +53m lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/8/18/code-mcps 818x19 Text Mode Font Origins 28 73 4mo +2d os2museum.com/wp/8x19-text-mode-font-origins 82Gazan woman flown to Italy dies of malnutrition 46 36 4mo +27m bbc.com/news/articles/ce87n455dvxo 83Scientists discover surprising language 'shortcuts' in birdsong – like humans 27 50 4mo +3d manchester.ac.uk/about/news/scientists-discover-surprising-language-shortcuts-in-birdsong--just-like-humans 84We accidentally built the wrong internet 28 16 4mo +38m karimjedda.com/we-accidentally-built-the-wrong-internet 85Viking-Age hoard reveals trade between England and the Islamic World 58 67 4mo +2d heritagedaily.com/2025/08/viking-age-hoard-reveals-trade-between-england-and-the-islamic-world/155786 86A short statistical reasoning test 27 56 4mo +1h emiruz.com/post/2025-08-17-statistical-reasoning 87Unification (2018) 13 62 4mo +38m eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/unification 88The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin 18 101 4mo +8h newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/baldwin-a-love-story-nicholas-boggs-book-review 89Nvidia Tilus: A Tile-Level GPU Kernel Programming Language 48 91 4mo +3d github.com/NVIDIA/tilus 90SystemD Service Hardening 115 291 4mo +2h roguesecurity.dev/blog/systemd-hardening 91Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble 10 25 4mo +38m theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/759965/sam-altman-openai-ai-bubble-interview 92Airbus A320 Poised to Overtake Boeing 737 as Most-Delivered Commercial Airliner 73 102 4mo +51m simpleflying.com/airbus-a320-overtake-boeing-737-most-delivered-commercial-airliner 93Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file 230 629 4mo +22m hyperclay.com 94Leeches and the legitimizing of folk-medicine 51 30 4mo +3d press.asimov.com/articles/leeches-and-the-legitimizing-of-folk-medicine 95We built ToolVerse: An AI Tools Discovery Platform with 500 curated apps 3 3 4mo +2h toolsverse.tools 96How Keeta processes 11M financial transactions per second with Spanner 60 30 4mo +3d cloud.google.com/blog/topics/financial-services/how-blockchain-network-keeta-processes-11-million-transactions-per-second-with-spanner 97Show HN: ASCII Tree Editor 15 29 4mo +1h asciitree.reorx.com 98[dead] ? 5 4mo +1h applyre.com 99A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut 92 390 4mo +3d science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/a-gigantic-jet-caught-on-camera-a-spritacular-moment-for-nasa-astronaut-nicole-ayers 100IMDB Terminal Browser 15 21 4mo +3m github.com/isene/IMDB 101Lego Transformers Soundwave 7 11 4mo +1h lego.com/en-us/product/transformers-soundwave-10358 102Fun with Finite State Transducers 7 45 4mo +3d blog.yossarian.net/2025/08/14/Fun-with-finite-state-transducers 103Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia 240 297 4mo +14m accc.gov.au/media-release/google-admits-anti-competitive-conduct-involving-google-search-in-australia 104Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is reshaping microservice placement 33 97 4mo +1h codemia.io/blog/path/NUMA-Is-the-New-Network-How-Per-Socket-Memory-Models-Are-Reshaping-Microservice-Placement 105Mangle – a language for deductive database programming 19 100 4mo +1h github.com/google/mangle 106The Microscopic Forces That Break Hearts 8 25 4mo +2d thewaitlist.substack.com/p/the-microscopic-forces-that-break 107Men paying thousands for leg lengthening surgery 43 29 4mo +1h theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/17/being-short-is-a-curse-the-men-paying-thousands-to-get-their-legs-broken-and-lengthened 1088M patients: the only neurosurgeon in Sierra Leone 2 10 4mo +22m npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/08/17/g-s1-82000/neurosurgeon-neurosurgery-sierra-leone 109Primitive Streaming Gods (2018) 5 25 4mo +2d tedium.co/2018/01/30/legal-music-streaming-history 110Clojure Async Flow Guide 88 211 4mo +35m clojure.github.io/core.async/flow-guide.html 111I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024) 111 112 4mo +4h buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/why-i-prefer-rst-to-markdown 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