HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order GNU cross-tools: musl-cross 313.3M 17 34 4mo +1h github.com/cross-tools/musl-cross 1OS Yamato lets your data fade away 35 25 4mo +2d github.com/osyamato/os-yamato 2Introducing: VuIO – open-source UPNP/DLNA server written in Rust 1 25 4mo +1h github.com/vuiodev/vuio 3Show HN: Sping – An HTTP/TCP latency tool that's easy on the eye 24 174 4mo +9m dseltzer.gitlab.io/sping/docs 4Inflammation predicts 25% higher mortality 4 24 4mo +45m thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(25)00230-0/fulltext 5Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework 68 114 4mo +6h vgr.land/content/posts/20250821.xml 6Ghrc.io appears to be malicious 71 399 4mo +6m bmitch.net/blog/2025-08-22-ghrc-appears-malicious 7My ZIP isn't your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers 33 65 4mo +3d usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/presentation/you 82.5B Gmail users endangered after Google database hack 16 41 4mo +16m pcworld.com/article/2880822/2-5-billion-gmail-users-endangered-after-google-database-hack.html 9"I Hate Almost Everything They Do with a Passion" James Pond Creator on Gameware 1 16 4mo +8m timeextension.com/news/2025/07/i-hate-almost-everything-they-do-with-a-passion-james-ponds-creator-isnt-a-fan-of-gamewares-ai-focused-sequel 10Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock 347 327 4mo +17m wsj.com/opinion/uncle-sam-shouldnt-own-intel-stock-ccd6986d 11Iterative DFS with stack-based graph traversal (2024) 9 39 4mo +3d dwf.dev/blog/2024/09/23/2024/dfs-iterative-stack-based 12Starship's Tenth Flight Test 230 125 4mo +16m spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-10 13Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus (2021) 76 179 4mo +1h bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus 14Everything I know about good API design 155 413 4mo +1h seangoedecke.com/good-api-design 15Math Not Required (2023) 12 35 4mo +2d programmersstone.blog/posts/math-not-required 16Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux 217 125 4mo +18m scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-looking-back-windows-to-linux 17A Brilliant and Nearby One-off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 pc Precision 31 94 4mo +1h iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf62f 18How Does a Firewall Work Step by Step 2 7 4mo +1h kalilinuxtutorials.com/how-firewall-works-step-by-step 19The two versions of Parquet 49 204 4mo +3d jeronimo.dev/the-two-versions-of-parquet 20Paracetamol disrupts early embryogenesis by cell cycle inhibition 191 189 4mo +55m academic.oup.com/humrep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/humrep/deaf116/8234396 21Show HN: Game demo made with my homemade game engine 53 100 4mo +1d reprobate.site 22[dead] ? 26 4mo +13m ctol.digital 23Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam 121 84 4mo +50m chronicle.com/article/bring-back-the-blue-book-exam 24Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV 93 99 4mo +23h austinvernon.substack.com/p/building-ultra-cheap-energy-storage 25Materialized views are obviously useful 77 166 4mo +21h sophiebits.com/2025/08/22/materialized-views-are-obviously-useful 26Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025 42 207 4mo +2d blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-incident-on-august-21-2025 27Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups 230 215 4mo +2d macrumors.com/2025/08/21/y-combinator-epic-games-amicus-brief 28Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics 148 254 4mo +3d twitter.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1958198661139009862 29Don't pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs 34 120 4mo +3d blog.brixit.nl/dont-pick-weird-subnets-for-embedded-networks 30Burner Phone 101 189 413 4mo +3d rebeccawilliams.info/burner-phone-101 31Y Combinator says Apple's App Store has hindered startup growth 2 30 4mo +40m techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/y-combinator-says-apples-app-store-has-hindered-startup-growth 32NASA's Juno mission leaves legacy of science at Jupiter 36 98 4mo +2d scientificamerican.com/article/how-nasas-juno-probe-changed-everything-we-know-about-jupiter 33Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years 20 61 4mo +23h theguardian.com/culture/2025/aug/21/will-at-centre-of-legal-battle-over-shakespeares-home-unearthed-after-150-years 34Update on my Racket exit 18 35 4mo +12m blog.winny.tech/posts/update-on-my-racket-exit 35People stuck using ancient Windows computers 39 53 4mo +19m bbc.com/future/article/20250516-the-people-stuck-using-ancient-windows-computers 36M-x spook (Emacs mail amusement) 2 29 4mo +35m gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mail-Amusements.html 37[dead] ? 25 4mo +25m cnn.com 38Fractal drum machine plays any beat [video] 3 13 4mo +3d youtube.com/watch?v=-OG87X6XSWU 39Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking? 792 355 4mo +18m torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-finds-ideal-pirate-bay-poster-boy-to-sell-blocking-of-non-pirate-sites-250824 40We put a coding agent in a while loop 299 412 4mo +4m github.com/repomirrorhq/repomirror/blob/main/repomirror.md 41Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs 223 351 4mo +1h marianogappa.github.io/software/2025/08/24/i-made-two-card-games-in-go 42SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings 90 105 4mo +25m avi.im/blag/2025/sqlite-fsync 43NASA's Juno Mission Leaves Legacy of Science at Jupiter 11 41 4mo +3d scientificamerican.com/article/how-nasas-juno-probe-changed-everything-we-know-about-jupiter 44Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account 214 622 4mo +9m twitter.com/zack_overflow/status/1959308058200551721 45[dead] ? 12 4mo +10m 46DeepConf: Scaling LLM reasoning with confidence, not just compute 34 98 4mo +30m arxiviq.substack.com/p/deep-think-with-confidence 47US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices 305 233 4mo +28m cnbc.com/2025/08/24/solar-wind-renewable-trump-tariff-utility-tax-credit-itc-ptc-obbb-electricity-price.html 48Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes 125 227 4mo +1d newscientist.com/article/2487804-trees-on-city-streets-cope-with-drought-by-drinking-from-leaky-pipes 49US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2B in research grants 13 82 4mo +38m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02721-5 50A short introduction to optimal transport and Wasserstein distance (2020) 5 40 4mo +2d alexhwilliams.info/itsneuronalblog/2020/10/09/optimal-transport 51[dead] ? 10 4mo +2h github.com 52[dead] ? 6 4mo +1m intlayer.org 53Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks 23 79 4mo +53m heise.de/en/news/Copyright-clearing-house-Committee-for-website-blocking-to-rely-on-judiciary-10490128.html 54SSD-IQ: Uncovering the Hidden Side of SSD Performance [pdf] 23 59 4mo +1d vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p4295-haas.pdf 55ICE uses celebrity loophole to hide deportation flights 34 139 4mo +7m jacobin.com/2025/08/ice-uses-celebrities-loophole-to-hide-deportation-flights 56Dynamically patch a Python function's source code at runtime 77 152 4mo +11m ericmjl.github.io/blog/2025/8/23/wicked-python-trickery-dynamically-patch-a-python-functions-source-code-at-runtime 57Show HN: Bicyclopedia 40 118 4mo +1h bicyclopedia.lemoing.ca 58Spending too much time at airports 136 88 4mo +29m thezvi.substack.com/p/spending-too-much-time-at-airports 59Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras 62 227 4mo +30m github.com/roryclear/clearcam 60A Family Project (2022) 1 19 4mo +1d bittersoutherner.com/feature/2022/a-family-project 61Perplexity Comet Browser Vulnerability Put Sensitive Data at Risk 3 9 4mo +43m twitter.com/brave/status/1958152314914508893 62A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website 425 785 4mo +24m lina.sh/blog/telefonica-sabotages-me 63The oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world 43 61 4mo +2d openculture.com/2025/08/the-oldest-unopened-bottle-of-wine-in-the-world.html 64The AI vibe shift is upon us 100 73 4mo +4m cnn.com/2025/08/22/business/ai-vibe-shift-nightcap 65Writing with LLM is not a shame 133 106 4mo +24m reflexions.florianernotte.be/post/ai-transparency 66[dead] ? 14 4mo +26m theguardian.com 67Multimodal Siamese networks for dementia detection from speech in women 4 6 4mo +33m nature.com/articles/s41598-025-13902-7 68US halts work on almost finished wind farm because national security 83 116 4mo +36m npr.org/2025/08/23/nx-s1-5513919/trump-stops-offshore-wind-renewable-energy 69Go-away – Customizable, conditional challenges to incoming requests 2 14 4mo +3d git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away/wiki/Challenges 70How to Fix Your Context 24 89 4mo +2h dbreunig.com/2025/06/26/how-to-fix-your-context.html 71Coinbase Mandates In-Person Orientation to Stop North Korean Hackers 8 12 4mo +5m businessinsider.com/coinbase-north-korea-threats-remote-work-2025-8 72A Clash Course in Solving Sudoku (Functional Pearl) [pdf] 2 21 4mo +2d unsafeperform.io/papers/2025-hs-clash-sudoku/2025-hs-clash-sudoku.pdf 73[dead] ? 19 4mo +16m 972mag.com 74Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012) 202 240 4mo +27m cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf 75Grok 2.5 is now open source. Grok 3 will be open source in about 6 months 22 41 4mo +1h twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1959379349322313920 76Turning Claude Code into my best design partner 83 222 4mo +7m betweentheprompts.com/design-partner 77It is worth it to buy the fast CPU 500 259 4mo +1h blog.howardjohn.info/posts/buy-a-cpu 78Mob Programming (2018) 20 30 4mo +2h mobprogramming.org 79Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp 21 117 4mo +56m github.com/phantomics/seed 80Marshal madness: A brief history of Ruby deserialization exploits 4 25 4mo +3d blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/20/marshal-madness-a-brief-history-of-ruby-deserialization-exploits 81Setting serial baud rate on ESP-IDF does nothing 39 38 4mo +15h atomic14.substack.com/p/this-number-does-nothing 82Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018) 53 75 4mo +1h equal-earth.com/index.html 83The problems that accountability can't fix 5 50 4mo +8h surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/08/23/the-problems-that-accountability-cant-fix 84Insights from research with probiotic E. coli (2016) 1 15 4mo +1d pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5063008 85Wildthing – A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT conversations 35 87 4mo +26m youaretheassistantnow.com 86Open Source Maintenance Fee 7 10 4mo +2d github.com/wixtoolset 87Programming People (2016) 19 72 4mo +2h leftoversalad.com/c/015_programmingpeople 88Ask HN: Best codebases to study to learn software design? 89 100 4mo +37m 89ThinkMesh: A Python lib for parallel thinking in LLMs 4 71 4mo +1h github.com/martianlantern/ThinkMesh 90What if every city had a London Overground? 104 84 4mo +2d dwell.com/article/what-if-every-city-had-a-london-overground-ac7a7ff9 91Rolling the dice with CSS random() 31 143 4mo +2d webkit.org/blog/17285/rolling-the-dice-with-css-random 92Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet 31 96 4mo +54m brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection 93Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor 47 120 4mo +36m github.com/kagehq/port-kill 94How to build a coding agent 121 461 4mo +14m ghuntley.com/agent 95Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case 45 117 4mo +2h darkcoding.net/software/personal-ai-evals-aug-2025 96DeepCode: Open Agentic Coding 3 13 4mo +1h github.com/HKUDS/DeepCode 97My original Palm IIIx 43 61 4mo +3d goto10retro.com/p/taking-a-look-at-my-old-palm-iiix 98Not so prompt: Prompt optimization as model selection (2024) 0 11 4mo +42m gojiberries.io/not-so-prompt-prompt-optimization-as-model-selection 99Gardening Boosts Brain Health 9 22 4mo +44m bbc.com/future/article/20250509-how-gardening-boosts-brain-health 100Debdelta 5 41 4mo +2h debdelta.debian.net 101Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year 101 110 4mo +17m electrek.co/2025/08/18/tesla-tsla-insiders-have-sold-more-than-50-of-their-shares-in-the-last-year 102Physics of badminton's new killer spin serve 16 118 4mo +3d arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/physics-of-badmintons-new-killer-spin-serve 103AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem 413 192 4mo +26m vincirufus.com/posts/agi-is-engineering-problem 104 More... 2025.08.23