HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order C# vs. Java int: Primitive type semantics, runtime behavior and tribal knowledge 5 12 4mo +3d msiyer.com/csharp-vs-java-int-primitive-type-semantics-runtime-behavior-and-tribal-knowledge 1How to Draw a Space Invader 53 530 4mo +17m muffinman.io/blog/invaders 2The forgotten meaning of "jerk" 131 136 4mo +21m languagehat.com/the-forgotten-meaning-of-jerk 3Drunken Bishop (2023) 16 80 4mo +19m re.factorcode.org/2023/08/drunken-bishop.html 4Stop Paywalling SSO: It Is a Basic Right, Not an Enterprise Perk 9 8 4mo +40m oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-08-19-sso-is-a-security-basic-not-an-enterprise-perk/view 5CRDT: Text Buffer 13 156 4mo +1h madebyevan.com/algos/crdt-text-buffer 6The joy of recursion, immutable data, & pure functions: Making mazes with JS 20 89 4mo +1d jrsinclair.com/articles/2025/joy-of-immutable-data-recursion-pure-functions-javascript-mazes 7Perfect Freehand – Draw perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines 11 149 4mo +7m perfectfreehand.com 8Branch prediction: Why CPUs can't wait? 36 49 4mo +3d namvdo.ai/cpu-branch-prediction 9Show HN: Twick - React SDK for Timeline-Based Video Editing 6 8 4mo +1h github.com/ncounterspecialist/twick 10Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature 191 286 4mo +19m sso.tax 11Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta's A.I. Efforts, Again 69 58 4mo +1h nytimes.com/2025/08/19/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html 12Show HN: OpenAI/reflect – Physical AI Assistant that illuminates your life 52 89 4mo +5m github.com/openai/openai-reflect 13Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB) 44 148 4mo +2h motherduck.com/blog/semantic-layer-duckdb-tutorial 14Forklifts require training 43 70 4mo +1h zacsweers.dev/forklifts-require-training 15Small Objects, Big Gains: Benchmarking Tigris Against AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 5 11 4mo +1h tigrisdata.com/blog/benchmark-small-objects 16Notion releases offline mode 178 240 4mo +37m notion.com/help/guides/working-offline-in-notion-everything-you-need-to-know 17The new geography of stolen goods 123 103 4mo +1d economist.com/interactive/britain/2025/08/17/the-new-geography-of-stolen-goods 18Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC's Tech Scene Is Not 77 44 4mo +20m wired.com/story/tech-executives-new-york-zohran-mamdani 19Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database 65 69 4mo +25m wired.com/story/highly-sensitive-medical-cannabis-patient-data-exposed-by-unsecured-database 20D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders 72 433 4mo +37m d2lang.com/blog/ascii 21AnduinOS 214 143 4mo +9m anduinos.com 22Giving people money helped less than I thought it would 100 63 4mo +3h theargumentmag.com/p/giving-people-money-helped-less-than 23How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019) 53 174 4mo +3d figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works 24Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent 31 91 4mo +1h 25CRLite: Certificate Revocation Checking in Firefox 5 71 4mo +1h hacks.mozilla.org/2025/08/crlite-fast-private-and-comprehensive-certificate-revocation-checking-in-firefox 26Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet 150 89 4mo +3m mashable.com/article/age-verification-is-going-to-destroy-the-entire-internet 27Show HN: Chroma Cloud – serverless search database for AI 40 92 4mo +21h trychroma.com/cloud 28As Alaska's salmon plummet, scientists home in on the killer 106 75 4mo +1h science.org/content/article/alaska-s-salmon-plummet-scientists-home-killer 29A renovation project in Turkey led to the discovery of a lost city (2023) 26 89 4mo +1h atlasobscura.com/articles/derinkuyu-turkey-underground-city-strange-maps 30Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis 86 61 4mo +1d theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/18/shut-it-down-and-start-again-staff-disquiet-as-alan-turing-institute-faces-identity-crisis 31CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in 4 years 156 78 4mo +36m ft.com/content/d8da9877-a5d0-4ac2-87cd-236ff33d7269 32Emacs as your video-trimming tool 161 286 4mo +19m xenodium.com/emacs-as-your-video-trimming-tool 33How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos 224 678 4mo +42m research.kudelskisecurity.com/2025/08/19/how-we-exploited-coderabbit-from-a-simple-pr-to-rce-and-write-access-on-1m-repositories 34Octopolis and Octlantis 8 29 4mo +10m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopolis_and_Octlantis 35Positron, a New Data Science IDE 51 164 4mo +1h posit.co/blog/positron-product-announcement-aug-2025 36[dead] ? 22 4mo +32s bloomberg.com 37Guile bindings for Sway window manager 9 77 4mo +3d github.com/ebeem/guile-swayer 38Attention Is the New Big-O: A Systems Design Approach to Prompt Engineering 45 92 4mo +1h alexchesser.medium.com/attention-is-the-new-big-o-9c68e1ae9b27 39"Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" 519 378 4mo +28m github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11563 40[dead] ? 32 4mo +22m desmog.com 41Ask HN: Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'? 81 46 4mo +14m 42Launch HN: Parachute (YC S25) – Guardrails for Clinical AI 35 62 4mo +8m 43Geotoy – Shadertoy for 3D Geometry 24 143 4mo +1d 3d.ameo.design/geotoy 44End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs 106 73 4mo +14m theregister.com/2025/08/19/uk_commissioner_suggests_govt_stop 45Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser 121 130 4mo +7m werd.io/why-im-all-in-on-zen-browser 46U.K. 30-Year Yield Tops U.S. as Pressure Mounts on Government Borrowing 45 28 4mo +9m coindesk.com/markets/2025/08/19/u-k-30-year-yield-tops-u-s-as-pressure-mounts-on-government-borrowing 47Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock 77 335 4mo +3d cpldcpu.com/2025/08/13/candle-flame-oscillations-as-a-clock 48Without the futex, it's futile 154 301 4mo +2m h4x0r.org/futex 49Vim Macros for Beancount 17 56 4mo +1h tangled.sh/@adam.tngl.sh/vim-beancounting 50'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court 194 124 4mo +1h torrentfreak.com/ad-blocking-is-not-piracy-decision-overturned-by-top-german-court-250819 51Critical Cache Poisoning Vulnerability in Dnsmasq 111 130 4mo +31m lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2025q3/018288.html 52Ballot Hand Counts Lead to Inaccuracy 56 23 4mo +6m votingrightslab.org/2024/02/27/ballot-hand-counts-lead-to-inaccuracy 53Vibecoding my personal site into the 512KB Club 5 5 4mo +44m calvinbarker.com/blog/vibecoding-my-personal-site-into-the-512kb-club 54Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages 51 109 4mo +52m 55EloqKV, a distributed database with Redis compatible API (GPLv2 and AGPLv3) 45 54 4mo +1d github.com/eloqdata/eloqkv 56Intel 80286 emulator for Raspberry Pico 40 30 4mo +3h github.com/xrip/pico-286 57PyPI Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks 51 136 4mo +2h blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-08-18-preventing-domain-resurrections 58UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption 108 274 4mo +32m theverge.com/news/761240/uk-apple-us-encryption-back-door-demands-dropped 59Apple has not destroyed Steve Jobs' vision for iPad 88 31 4mo +6m victorwynne.com/vision-for-ipad 60A Case for Protecting Computer Games with SGX (2016) 7 11 4mo +2d dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3007788.3007792 61Google is killing the open web 178 185 4mo +1h wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web 62In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip 69 110 4mo +3d hitachi.com/New/cnews/060206.html 63Custom telescope mount using harmonic drives and ESP32 113 305 4mo +50m svendewaerhert.com/blog/telescope-mount 64How to Use Snprintf 22 52 4mo +2d bernsteinbear.com/blog/snprintf 65BBC witnesses settlers attack on Palestinian farm in West Bank 41 147 4mo +1h bbc.com/news/articles/cewy88jle0eo 66The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace (2021) 17 52 4mo +3d heritagecalling.com/2021/11/29/picturing-the-crystal-palace 67Netflix Revamps Tudum's CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store 87 91 4mo +2d infoq.com/news/2025/08/netflix-tudum-cqrs-raw-hollow 68Prime Number Grid 96 294 4mo +5m susam.net/primegrid.html 69"Stop children using VPNs to watch porn", UK politicians told 13 34 4mo +18m bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo 70Croatia just revised its digital nomad visa to last up to 3 years 116 65 4mo +3d cnbc.com/2025/08/15/croatia-digital-nomad-visa.html 71How to Build a Medieval Castle 76 239 4mo +1h archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2025/features/how-to-build-a-medieval-castle 72Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger 70 591 4mo +3d lazybrush.dulnan.net 73DBCrust – A modern database CLI 18 28 4mo +2d github.com/clement-tourriere/dbcrust 74Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals 6 52 4mo +3d iapsop.com 75How to free up and automatically manage disk space for WSL 54 66 4mo +2d freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-free-up-and-automatically-manage-disk-space-for-wsl-on-windows-1011 76Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing 143 290 4mo +2h linch.substack.com/p/ted-chiang-review 77[dead] ? 23 4mo +19m cbsnews.com 78Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Informed? 21 38 4mo +32m tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2025.2434494#abstract 79Precision mapping tracks woody plant spread across Great Plains grasslands 2 28 4mo +3d phys.org/news/2025-07-precision-tracks-woody-great-plains.html 80Starting game development in JavaScript with no experience 40 80 4mo +22m jslegenddev.substack.com/p/how-to-start-making-games-in-javascript 81OpenMower – An open source lawn mower 190 590 4mo +1h github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower 82What learning react won't teach you: Image Formats 7 13 4mo +3d idiallo.com/blog/react-and-image-format 83A general Fortran code for solutions of problems in space mechanics [pdf] 24 57 4mo +32m jonathanadams.pro/blog-articles/Nasa-Fortran-Code-1963.pdf 84XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images 58 111 4mo +14m binarly.io/blog/persistent-risk-xz-utils-backdoor-still-lurking-in-docker-images 85Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes 164 298 4mo +17m divernet.com/scuba-news/freediving/how-croatian-freediver-held-breath-for-29-minutes 86 More... 2025.08.18