HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf] 95 125 4mo +46m fertrevino.com/docs/gpt5_medhelm.pdf 1Philosophical Thoughts on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (2024) 5 52 4mo +3d kindxiaoming.github.io/blog/2024/kolmogorov-arnold-networks 2Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine 18 43 4mo +1h demo.dynamicslab.ai/chaos 3The Onion brought back its print edition and the gamble is paying off 65 191 4mo +45m wsj.com/business/media/the-onion-print-subscribers-6c24649c 4Show HN: Splice – CAD for Cable Harnesses and Electrical Assemblies 18 88 4mo +1h splice-cad.com 5Elegant mathematics bending the future of design 18 145 4mo +3d actu.epfl.ch/news/elegant-mathematics-bending-the-future-of-design 6Libre-Chip Awarded NLnet Grant to Prototype a CPU Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre 3 25 4mo +1h phoronix.com/news/Libre-Chip-NLnet-Grant 7CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations 243 218 4mo +13m ips-dc.org/report-executive-excess-2025 8Beyond the Logo: How We're Weaving Full Images Inside QR Codes 40 61 4mo +3d blog.nitroqr.com/beyond-the-logo-how-were-weaving-full-images-inside-qr-codes 9Text.ai (YC X25) Is Hiring Founding Full-Stack Engineer 0 1 4mo +32s ycombinator.com/companies/text-ai/jobs/OJBr0v2-founding-full-stack-engineer 10[dead] ? 21 4mo +6m venturebeat.com 11Code formatting comes to uv experimentally 245 356 4mo +24m pydevtools.com/blog/uv-format-code-formatting-comes-to-uv-experimentally 12Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations 110 136 4mo +39m apnews.com/article/trump-visas-deportations-068ad6cd5724e7248577f17592327ca4 13Show HN: Playing Piano with Prime Numbers 5 8 4mo +3d nabraj.com/demo/prime-piano 14In Defense of Car-Centered Society 85 24 4mo +6m sweatofthebrow.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-defense-of-car-centered-society.html 15The AI Job Title Decoder Ring 71 88 4mo +59m dbreunig.com/2025/08/21/a-guide-to-ai-titles.html 16Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022) 111 248 4mo +25m hillelwayne.com/post/python-abc 17Dropbox Passwords Discontinuation 10 13 4mo +3h help.dropbox.com/installs/dropbox-passwords-discontinuation 18In the long run, LLMs make us dumber 89 108 4mo +45m desunit.com/blog/in-the-long-run-llms-make-us-dumber 19DeepSeek-v3.1 257 755 4mo +44m api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250821 20How does the US use water? 179 238 4mo +7h construction-physics.com/p/how-does-the-us-use-water 21Grug Design 22 42 4mo +7m grug.design/know 22The power of two random choices (2012) 9 68 4mo +3d brooker.co.za/blog/2012/01/17/two-random.html 23When a Street Kills a Child, We Put the Parents on Trial 25 58 4mo +1h strongtowns.org/journal/2025/8/21/when-a-street-kills-a-child-we-put-the-parents-on-trial 24AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions 441 704 4mo +7m github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/8289 25Building AI products in the probabilistic era 103 185 4mo +14m giansegato.com/essays/probabilistic-era 26The unbearable slowness of AI coding 99 131 4mo +17m joshuavaldez.com/the-unbearable-slowness-of-ai-coding 27Ask HN: Is Kubernetes still a big no-no for early stages in 2025? 49 25 4mo +27m 28Show HN: Tool shows UK properties matching group commute/time preferences 5 11 4mo +23h closemove.com 29Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest 45 144 4mo +3d cnn.com/2025/08/18/travel/budapest-diving-molnar-janos-cave 30I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead 87 64 4mo +2h miguelconner.substack.com/p/anki-is-already-dead 31The Simple Vision Breakthrough That Might End Lasik 1 22 4mo +1h scitechdaily.com/the-shockingly-simple-vision-breakthrough-that-might-end-lasik 32My other email client is a daemon 28 187 4mo +9h feyor.sh/blog/my-other-email-client-is-a-mail-daemon 33The Core of Rust 162 169 4mo +1h jyn.dev/the-core-of-rust 34Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes 39 40 4mo +52m rudevulture.com/marines-managed-to-get-past-an-ai-powered-camera-undetected-thanks-to-hiding-in-boxes 35The contrarian physics podcast subculture 249 212 4mo +21m timothynguyen.org/2025/08/21/physics-grifters-eric-weinstein-sabine-hossenfelder-and-a-crisis-of-credibility 36An interactive guide to SVG paths 43 446 4mo +3d joshwcomeau.com/svg/interactive-guide-to-paths 37[dead] ? 36 4mo +26m theguardian.com 38Cua (YC X25) is hiring design engineers in SF 0 1 4mo +35s ycombinator.com/companies/cua/jobs/a6UbTvG-founding-engineer-ux-design 39AI SRE Needs More Than AI: It Needs Operational Context 1 10 4mo +11m rootly.com/blog/ai-sre-needs-more-than-ai-it-needs-operational-context 40Unmasking the Privacy Risks of Apple Intelligence 22 101 4mo +46m lumia.security/blog/applestorm 41Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says 123 302 4mo +19m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/bank-forced-to-rehire-workers-after-lying-about-chatbot-productivity-union-says 42A summary of recent AI research (2016) 2 34 4mo +29m blog.plan99.net/the-science-of-westworld-ec624585e47 43Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat 36 49 4mo +17m aggressivelyparaphrasing.me/2025/08/21/adding-my-home-electricity-uptime-to-status-href-cat 4495% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend 413 406 4mo +32m thedailyadda.com/95-of-companies-see-zero-return-on-30-billion-generative-ai-spend-mit-report-finds 45I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform 207 311 4mo +19m old.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1mw5yfg/forced_every_engineer_to_take_sales_calls_they 46Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license 117 213 4mo +1h unity.com/products/unity-industry 47Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products 45 55 4mo +1m 48Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables 53 229 4mo +23m arxiv.org/abs/2507.00191 49You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB 38 89 4mo +3d chrispenner.ca/posts/views-for-debugging 50In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 171 123 4mo +26m technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1122288/google-gemini-ai-energy 51A Conceptual Model for Storage Unification 3 27 4mo +24m jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/8/21/a-conceptual-model-for-storage-unification 52Why is D3 so Verbose? 68 125 4mo +3h theheasman.com/short_stories/why-is-d3-code-so-long-and-complicated-or-why-is-it-so-verbose 53The rise and fall of the Seagaia Ocean Dome wave pool 2 21 4mo +3d surfertoday.com/surfing/the-untold-story-of-the-seagaia-ocean-dome-indoor-wave-pool 54How well does the money laundering control system work? 352 286 4mo +24m journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735665 55Show HN: ChartDB Cloud – Visualize and Share Database Diagrams 13 98 4mo +15m app.chartdb.io 56AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' 734 1643 4mo +14m theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion 57Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems 131 486 4mo +39m blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems 58Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser 29 109 4mo +45m turtleware.eu/posts/Using-Common-Lisp-from-inside-the-Browser.html 59Privately-Owned Rail Cars 307 195 4mo +14m amtrak.com/privately-owned-rail-cars 60AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders 144 226 4mo +49m theregister.com/2025/08/21/ai_crawler_traffic 61Sütterlin 59 80 4mo +2d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin 621981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video] 79 98 4mo +30m youtube.com/watch?v=jHG_I-9a7FY 63Margin debt surges to record high 294 214 4mo +42m advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2025/07/23/margin-debt-surges-record-high-june-2025 64Activeloop (YC S18) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff – Back End Engineering 0 1 4mo +27s careers.activeloop.ai 65The Open-Office Trap (2014) 55 75 4mo +1h newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-trap 66AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally 60 57 4mo +44m blog.google/products/search/ai-mode-agentic-personalized 67Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit 109 306 4mo +43m emersion.fr/blog/2025/using-podman-compose-and-buildkit 68Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears 887 791 4mo +25m telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/21/zuckerberg-freezes-ai-hiring-amid-bubble-fears 69Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever 191 392 4mo +2d mavericksforever.com 70Sixteen bottles of wine riddle 31 68 4mo +3d chriskw.xyz/2025/08/11/Wine 71Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum 11 100 4mo +1h timeextension.com/news/2025/08/dev-reveals-secrets-behind-stunning-new-3d-platformer-for-the-zx-spectrum 72To Infinity but Not Beyond 2 44 4mo +34m meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/08/20/to-infinity-but-not-beyond 73Basic dependency injection in OCaml with objects 3 22 4mo +2d gr-im.github.io/a/dependency-injection.html 74D4D4 56 471 4mo +3d nmichaels.org/musings/d4d4/d4d4 75Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as 'chaotic' tariff deadline looms 169 133 4mo +10m abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/australia-post-suspends-transit-shipping-parcels-us-trump-tariff/105680456 76The Illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity 7 20 4mo +2d it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe 77Python f-string cheat sheets (2022) 38 157 4mo +1h fstring.help/cheat 78Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC) 44 192 4mo +27m github.com/Growth-Kinetics/DiffMem 79Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) 66 72 4mo +2d github.com/universal-tool-calling-protocol/python-utcp 80U.S. drinking rate at new low as alcohol concerns surge 21 24 4mo +11m news.gallup.com/poll/693362/drinking-rate-new-low-alcohol-concerns-surge.aspx 81'Reading crisis' prompts Denmark to end 25% tax on books 59 71 4mo +12m rte.ie/news/world/2025/0820/1529397-denmark-book-tax 82Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018) 49 93 4mo +20m tedinski.com/2018/01/23/data-objects-and-being-railroaded-into-misdesign.html 83Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf] 54 52 4mo +3d unicode.org/L2/L2019/19310-mirror-ball-emoji.pdf 84I've never had a real adversary 27 79 4mo +2h inoticeiamconfused.substack.com/p/ive-never-had-a-real-adversary 85The Pleasure of Patterns in Art 11 65 4mo +41m thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-repetition-in-art-pleases-the-brain 86Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts 592 415 4mo +13h petapixel.com/2025/08/20/home-depot-sued-for-secretly-using-facial-recognition-technology-on-self-checkout-cameras 87Still want to be a London cabbie? 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