HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order The Cornervery: A 90-Degree Stapler 17 54 4mo +2d core77.com/posts/138232/The-Cornervery-A-90-Degree-Stapler 1The cost of interrupted work (2023) 201 275 4mo +1h blog.oberien.de/2023/11/05/23-minutes-15-seconds.html 2Good EU regulations 223 160 4mo +1h actuallygoodregulations.eu 3Hacker and physicist – a tale of "common sense" 18 29 4mo +1d supasaf.com/blog/general/hacker_physicist 4Gutenprint Discontinues macOS Support 23 42 4mo +57m gimp-print.sourceforge.io/p_FAQ_OS_X.php 5Romhack.ing's Internet Archive Mirror No Longer Available 37 159 4mo +1h romhack.ing/database/news/entry/DW8BKnRHSEqaGDwXTiKjMw 6The Amiga games and demo scene collection 16 75 4mo +1h amiga.vision 7Ergonomic errors in Rust: write fast, debug with ease, handle precisely 27 32 4mo +1d gmcgoldr.github.io/2025/08/21/stackerror.html 8Europe's Free-Speech Problem 43 42 4mo +30m theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/europe-free-speech-republicans/683915 9Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring Principal Software Engineers 0 1 4mo +15s jobs.ashbyhq.com/motion/7355e80d-dab2-4ba1-89cc-a0197e08a83c?utm_source=hn 10A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt 56 172 4mo +1h smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-2000-year-old-sun-hat-worn-by-a-roman-soldier-in-egypt-goes-on-view-after-a-century-in-storage-180987192 11How can AI ID a cat? 66 170 4mo +3d quantamagazine.org/how-can-ai-id-a-cat-an-illustrated-guide-20250430 12Optimizing FizzBuzz in Rust 16 30 4mo +59m github.com/nrposner/fizzcrate 13Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker 87 155 4mo +1d nkantar.com/blog/2025/08/static-python-uv-caddy-docker 14What makes Claude Code so damn good 295 449 4mo +36m minusx.ai/blog/decoding-claude-code 15Reproducing prospect theory with 'differentiable decision theories' 8 39 4mo +1d science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abe2629 16A simple way to generate random points on a sphere 73 77 4mo +3d johndcook.com/blog/2025/05/06/random-points-on-a-sphere 17Children of the Geissler Tube (2023) 13 46 4mo +3d hopefulmons.com/p/children-of-the-geissler-tube 18Disk sampling on a sphere 0 17 4mo +3d observablehq.com/@jrus/spheredisksample 19Acronis True Image costs performance when not used 33 146 4mo +3d randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/acronis-true-image-costs-performance-when-not-used 20Practical approach for streaming UI from LLMs 10 62 4mo +3d timetler.com/2025/08/19/unlocking-rich-ui-components-in-ai 21Recreationally overengineering my location history 5 54 4mo +2d overengineer.dev/blog/2025/08/19/overengineering-location-history 22Stepanov's biggest blunder? The curious case of adjacent difference 19 73 4mo +2d mmapped.blog/posts/43-stepanovs-biggest-blunder 23Exploring EXIF (2023) 11 81 4mo +1d hturan.com/writing/exploring-exif 24Reserve First 0 31 4mo +1d matklad.github.io/2025/08/16/reserve-first.html 25Punch cards and dollar bills 0 10 4mo +1d johndcook.com/blog/2025/08/22/punch-card-dollar 26Help flight radar with a RasPi and SDR 7 13 4mo +39m flightradar24.com/build-your-own 27The F-35 is losing the trade war 130 70 4mo +12m jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35-fighter-jet-losing-trade-war 28Optimizing our way through Metroid 32 143 4mo +1d antithesis.com/blog/2025/metroid 29Arrays in Practice (2024) 0 12 4mo +2d programming-journal.org/2024/8/14 30Why was Apache Kafka created? 208 195 4mo +23h bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/why-was-apache-kafka-created 31Line scan camera image processing for train photography 81 439 4mo +2h daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y2025m09d21 32Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips 186 173 4mo +1d cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple-will-make-chips-at-texas-instruments-60-billion-us-project.html 33Determinants and causal effects of admission to selective private colleges [pdf] (2023) 52 33 4mo +7h nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31492/w31492.pdf 34The JWST Rocky Worlds DDT Program reveals GJ 3929B to likely be a bare rock 0 18 4mo +2h arxiv.org/abs/2508.12516 35The importance of counter-clockwise dance rituals 3 8 4mo +1h honest-broker.com/p/the-importance-of-counter-clockwise 36Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads 165 98 4mo +1h libreantisocial.com 37RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no 134 121 4mo +37m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02682-9 38Game math: precise control over numeric springing 1 13 4mo +2d allenchou.net/2015/04/game-math-precise-control-over-numeric-springing 39I hacked Monster Energy 166 194 4mo +32m bobdahacker.com/blog/monster-energy 40Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring an Applied AI Engineer 0 1 4mo +27s 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