HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion 112 156 4mo +33m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/global-mail-services-halt-us-deliveries-ahead-of-de-minimis-end 1Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn't try AI immediately 75 59 4mo +18m techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/coinbase-ceo-explains-why-he-fired-engineers-who-didnt-try-ai-immediately 2Transcribe music in abc with syntax highlighting 8 28 4mo +36m fugue-state.io/app?project=24024aab-22f1-43cc-abef-c1647cc59597 3Glyn: Type-safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam actors with distributed clustering 11 75 4mo +48m github.com/mbuhot/glyn 4From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent 452 245 4mo +3d ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-arch-linux-omarchy 5Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes 110 209 4mo +4h github.com/Evidlo/xsl-website 6Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law 165 175 4mo +2h bsky.social/about/blog/08-22-2025-mississippi-hb1126 7U.S. auto-safety regulator investigating delays by Tesla to submit crash reports 4 25 4mo +19m wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-hasnt-filed-crash-reports-on-time-federal-investigators-want-to-know-why-f526045c 8If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web? 60 29 4mo +26m cacm.acm.org/opinion/will-ai-destroy-the-world-wide-web 9Writing Micro Compiler in OCaml (2014) 0 26 4mo +3d troydm.github.iohttp:///blog/2014/03/29/writing-micro-compiler-in-ocaml 10Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information 13 125 4mo +17h thoughtbot.com/blog/top-secret 11U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel 698 585 4mo +16m cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel-goverment-equity-stake.html 12From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year 146 119 4mo +16m npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5511182/aca-tax-credits-health-insurance-open-enrollment 13DeepSeek v3.1 is not having a moment 26 41 4mo +4h thezvi.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/deepseek-v3-1-is-not-having-a-moment 14Ejabberd 25.08 6 56 4mo +5m process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-25-08 15Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor 92 243 4mo +1h git.vuxu.org/nitro/about 16Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0? 105 132 4mo +1h github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11578 17Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT 129 101 4mo +2h meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/08/22/no-google-did-not-unilaterally-decide-to-kill-xslt 18Ask HN: How do you find early stage startups to join 22 40 4mo +2h 19Media over QUIC (MoQ): Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack 5 72 4mo +5h blog.cloudflare.com/moq 20Harper Evolves 4 30 4mo +15m elijahpotter.dev/articles/harper_evolves 21Scientists just found a protein that reverses brain aging in mice 73 133 4mo +3m sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250820000808.htm 22The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare 116 283 4mo +30m moq.dev/blog/first-cdn 23US probes delays in Tesla crash reports involving driver-assistance systems 10 22 4mo +26m reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-probes-delays-tesla-crash-reports-involving-driver-assistance-systems-2025-08-21 24Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers – August 2025 15 39 4mo +16m steipete.me/posts/2025/essential-reading-august-2025 25Closing the Nix gap: From environments to packaged applications for rust 44 80 4mo +2h devenv.sh/blog/2025/08/22/closing-the-nix-gap-from-environments-to-packaged-applications-for-rust 26The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024) 293 159 4mo +17h tulach.cc/the-issue-of-anti-cheat-on-linux 27Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT 96 143 4mo +25m justin.searls.co/posts/sprinkling-self-doubt-on-chatgpt 28The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables 193 182 4mo +12m insideclimatenews.org/news/19082025/usda-bans-farm-renewables-support 29Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org 370 335 4mo +8m giuliomagnifico.blog/post/2025-08-18-leaving-gmail 30XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites 135 157 4mo +11m github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11582 31Show HN: Pinch – macOS voice translation for real-time conversations 23 65 4mo +2d startpinch.com 32Artificial light has essentially lengthened birds' day 3 7 4mo +18m npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5507165/light-pollution-bird-day-hour-longer 33Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City 600 580 4mo +12m cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo-permit-new-york-city-nyc-rides.html 34Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) – Making RNA Programmable 29 61 4mo +9m 35Does MHz Still Matter? 47 65 4mo +2h ubicloud.com/blog/does-mhz-still-matter 36Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux 48 78 4mo +52m github.com/murat-cileli/clyp 37A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers 117 126 4mo +2h stochasticlifestyle.com/a-guide-to-gen-ai-llm-vibecoding-for-expert-programmers 38Build Log: Macintosh Classic 19 50 4mo +2h jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/build-log-macintosh-classic 39The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst 83 67 4mo +6m telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/20/ai-report-triggering-panic-and-fear-on-wall-street 40My development team costs $41.73 a month 39 45 4mo +6m philipotoole.com/my-development-team-costs-41-73-a-month 41Vibe Debugging: Enterprises' Up and Coming Nightmare 65 73 4mo +8m marketsaintefficient.substack.com/p/vibe-debugging-enterprises-up-and 42FFmpeg 8.0 192 944 4mo +6m ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.0 43Making LLMs Cheaper and Better via Performance-Efficiency Optimized Routing 28 129 4mo +20m arxiv.org/abs/2508.12631 44US to review all 55M visas to check if holders broke rules 40 53 4mo +27m bbc.com/news/articles/cvg04gm92d3o 45Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update 72 163 4mo +5m blog.thunderbird.net/2025/08/tbpro-august-2025-update 46NIMBYs threaten to sink Project Sail, a $17B datacenter development in Georgia 7 13 4mo +18m theregister.com/2025/08/22/georgia_datacenter_pushback 47DMCA Used to Take Down GamersNexus Nvidia Smuggling Expose 1 19 4mo +45m twitter.com/GamersNexus/status/1958503184546111536 48Launch HN: Inconvo (YC S23) – AI agents for customer-facing analytics 23 39 4mo +35m 49My development team costs $41.73 a month 5 17 4mo +18m philipotoole.com/my-development-team-costs-41-73-a-month 50All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair 129 298 4mo +15m terriblesoftware.org/2025/08/22/the-management-skill-nobody-talks-about 51[dead] ? 21 4mo +1h lemonde.fr 52What is going on right now? 303 367 4mo +5h catskull.net/what-the-hell-is-going-on-right-now.html 53What about using rel="share-url" to expose sharing intents? 39 86 4mo +42m shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/what-about-using-relshare-url-to-expose-sharing-intents 54Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash 174 56 4mo +7m tampabay28.com/news/state/florida-lawmaker-floats-ban-on-hoas-amid-growing-backlash 55Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back 260 155 4mo +8m promptql.io/blog/being-confidently-wrong-is-holding-ai-back 56Bloomberg DMCA'd gamersnexus GPU smuggling documentary for quoting the President [video] 1 15 4mo +36m youtube.com/watch?v=6RJvrTC6oTI 57Go is still not good 817 605 4mo +1h blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go-is-still-not-good.html 58LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis 39 249 4mo +1h labplot.org 59Fmllm: 4mb training data, 100mb model, Fibonacci embeddings, near-coherent. WTF? 27 37 4mo +31m github.com/henrygabriels/FMLLM/blob/main/README.md 60Zuckerberg Squandered His AI Talent. Now He's Spending Billions to Replace It 9 27 4mo +1h forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/08/13/zuckerberg-squandered-his-ai-talent-now-hes-spending-billions-to-replace-it 614chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC 427 402 4mo +22m bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o 62Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky 177 191 4mo +11h academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/icb/icaf127/8196180?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false 63[dead] ? 26 4mo +19m nytimes.com 64[dead] ? 8 4mo +2h nanobanana.ai 65The Minecraft Code (2024) [video] 68 64 4mo +1h youtube.com/watch?v=nz2LeXwJOyI 66Is moderate drinking healthy? Scientists say the idea is outdated 94 36 4mo +2h news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/08/moderate-alcohol-consumption-drinking-health-benefits-impacts-research 67VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video] 118 209 4mo +3d youtube.com/watch?v=HFYWHeBhYbM 68It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019) 265 189 4mo +52m hsivonen.fi/string-length 6924,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville 64 40 4mo +3d thedrive.com/news/this-24000-watt-scooter-is-going-for-a-100-mph-speed-record-at-bonneville 70Everything is correlated (2014–23) 120 258 4mo +3h gwern.net/everything 71Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server 164 481 4mo +58m blog.habets.se/2025/04/io-uring-ktls-and-rust-for-zero-syscall-https-server.html 72How Not to Buy a SSD 176 199 4mo +3d andrei.xyz/post/how-not-to-buy-a-ssd 73My AI had fixed the code before I saw it 14 17 4mo +3d every.to/source-code/my-ai-had-already-fixed-the-code-before-i-saw-it 74Approval given for first human spinal cord repair using the patient's own cells 4 18 4mo +20h eurekalert.org/news-releases/1095347 75The attr() function in CSS now supports types 16 15 4mo +3d amitmerchant.com/attr-function-types-css 76Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021) 135 279 4mo +54m begaydocrime.com 77Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B 33 109 4mo +1h cnbc.com/2025/08/21/google-scores-six-year-meta-cloud-deal-worth-over-10-billion.html 78Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers 35 91 4mo +3d github.com/cvilsmeier/go-sqlite-bench 79Happy 100000th birthday, Debian 22 128 4mo +3d lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/08/msg00006.html 80Show HN: Changefly ID + Anonymized Identity and Age Verification 28 19 4mo +5h changefly.com/blog/2025/08/anonymized-identity-and-age-verification-a-new-era-of-privacy-for-changefly-id 81 More... 2025.08.21