HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser 52 76 4mo +42m bphilip.uk/blog/2025-08-25-the-cs2-server-browser-where-community-goes-to-die 1The Annotated Transformer (2022) 12 203 4mo +1d nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer 2[dead] ? 32 4mo +34m politico.com 3Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis 37 136 4mo +2h jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/reverse-engineering-all-raspberry-pis 4How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes 17 28 4mo +46m theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/08/billionaire-tax-study/683987 5Show HN: Timep – A next-gen profiler and flamegraph-generator for bash code 6 51 4mo +16h github.com/jkool702/timep 6Fenster: Most minimal cross-platform GUI library 52 150 4mo +2h github.com/zserge/fenster 7A short proof of the Hairy Ball theorem (2016) [pdf] 20 37 4mo +43m .math.upenn.edu/~pjmcgrat/research/hairy-ball.pdf 8Study finds gaps in evidence for air-cleaning technologies to prevent infections 93 78 4mo +1h news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/study-finds-gaps-in-evidence-for-air-cleaning-technologies-designed-to-prevent-respiratory-infections 9Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US 80 76 4mo +1h medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-pleasure-plummets.html 10Make the Easy Change Hard 4 21 4mo +38m blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/make-the-easy-change-hard 11Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar 222 215 4mo +30m newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacksky-grew-to-millions-of 12Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera 51 119 4mo +1d caseyliss.com/2025/8/15/a-rube-goldberg-camera 13Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models 75 97 4mo +17m llama.fund 14ClickHouse Full-Text Search 0 27 4mo +45m clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-full-text-search 15Decide Now; We Won't Know More Later Re UFOs 21 21 4mo +22m overcomingbias.com/p/decide-now-we-wont-know-much-more 16Google to require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 110 4mo +25m techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/google-will-require-developer-verification-for-android-apps-outside-the-play-store 17How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure 35 154 4mo +2h blog.rubygems.org/2025/08/25/rubygems-security-response.html 18Angry Metal Guy Speaks: On Spotify 19 27 4mo +1h angrymetalguy.com/angry-metal-guy-speaks-on-spotify 19DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase 46 229 4mo +1d aitidbits.ai/p/deepwiki 20Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 2253 2948 4mo +1h 9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification 21By Birth Alone: The Original Meaning of Birthright Citizenship 4 8 4mo +7m papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5394605 22Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson 130 284 4mo +57s twitter.com/nealstephenson/status/1959759051732213812 23With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people 56 55 4mo +49m arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/with-ai-chatbots-big-tech-is-moving-fast-and-breaking-people 24Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously 28 63 4mo +1d chriskw.xyz/2025/08/24/Hyper-Wordle 25Secret Management on NixOS with sops-Nix 2 9 4mo +1d michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-08-24-secret-management-with-sops-nix 26Google's Liquid Cooling 172 393 4mo +13m chipsandcheese.com/p/googles-liquid-cooling-at-hot-chips 27IBM's Power11 Processor Architecture 69 80 4mo +19m servethehome.com/ibms-power11-processor-architecture-at-hot-chips-2025 28Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States 384 343 4mo +15m post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2025/0825_01_en.html 29[dead] ? 23 4mo +2m theguardian.com 30[dead] ? 11 4mo +27m pbs.org 31The extraordinary rise in the wealth of older American households 89 43 4mo +28m nber.org/papers/w34131 32Show HN: Stagewise – frontend coding agent for real codebases 18 38 4mo +24m stagewise.io 33A visual introduction to big O notation 189 658 4mo +1d samwho.dev/big-o 34The MiniPC Revolution 252 191 4mo +12m jadarma.github.io/blog/posts/2025/08/the-minipc-revolution 35EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives 27 29 4mo +19m transportenvironment.org/articles/eu-cave-in-on-vehicle-trade-rules-will-cost-european-lives-as-us-pick-up-trucks-flood-into-europe 36Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499 82 91 4mo +11m cnbc.com/2025/08/25/nvidias-thor-t5000-robot-brain-chip.html 37Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar 95 96 4mo +15m 38FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections 264 375 4mo +4m docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-414073A1.txt 39Building the mouse Logitech won't make 313 444 4mo +27m samwilkinson.io/posts/2025-08-24-mx-ergo-mods 40Omarchy Is Out 133 214 4mo +1d world.hey.com/dhh/omarchy-is-out-4666dd31 41Barking Up the Ratchet Tree – MLS Is Neither Royal nor Nude 2 23 4mo +2m soatok.blog/2025/08/25/barking-up-the-ratchet-tree-mls-is-neither-royal-nor-nude 42Hundreds lose water source in Colorado's poorest county with no notice 206 121 4mo +30m coloradosun.com/2025/08/25/costilla-county-water-cutoff 43How to make things slower so they go faster 35 131 4mo +1d gojiberries.io/how-to-make-things-slower-so-they-go-faster-a-jitter-design-manual 44Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS 176 674 4mo +21m menial.co.uk/base 45What is a color space? 47 250 4mo +1h makingsoftware.com/chapters/color-spaces-models-and-gamuts 46The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon 129 98 4mo +26m theregister.com/2025/08/25/overinflated_ai_balloon 47Japan's Creepiest Station 81 202 4mo +24m tokyocowboy.co/articles/doai-eki-japans-creepiest-station 48Prediction-Encoded Pixels image format 9 31 4mo +2h github.com/ENDESGA/PEP 49The unlikely revival of nuclear batteries 50 110 4mo +21m spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-battery-revival 50A lightweight TypeScript library for assertion-based runtime data validation 32 30 4mo +1d github.com/nimeshnayaju/decode-kit 51The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years 134 181 4mo +1h sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2025/08/25/zw6z4E.html 52A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation 67 203 4mo +6m b.43z.one/2025-07-22 53An illustrated guide to OAuth 62 346 4mo +46m ducktyped.org/p/an-illustrated-guide-to-oauth 54Trump halts construction on nearly complete wind farm off Rhode Island 30 65 4mo +1h thepublicsradio.org/environment/trump-halts-construction-on-nearly-complete-wind-farm-off-rhode-island 55Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017) 62 68 4mo +15h theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/24/mathematical-secrets-of-ancient-tablet-unlocked-after-nearly-a-century-of-study 56Standard Thermal: Energy Storage 500x Cheaper Than Batteries 271 243 4mo +41m austinvernon.site/blog/standardthermal.html 57Why I'm Now Running Enterprise AI on My Laptop (Without Internet) 19 9 4mo +26m medium.com/@klaudibregu/beyond-the-cloud-why-im-now-running-enterprise-ai-on-my-laptop-without-internet-16929a585328 58Walmart Fires VP in Tech for Taking Daily Kickbacks Starting from $30K 69 89 4mo +17m ctol.digital/news/walmart-fires-vp-kickbacks-terminates-1200-contractors 59Censorship in the EU: Hate Speech Laws Are Suffocating Free Speech 6 14 4mo +1h freedom-research.org/p/censorship-in-the-eu-hate-speech 60Agent-C: a 4KB AI agent 84 108 4mo +46m github.com/bravenewxyz/agent-c 61The great medieval water myth (2013) 48 74 4mo +17h leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-water-myth.html 62Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently 17 80 4mo +45m newatlas.com/computers/cornell-microwave-brain 63Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed 192 204 4mo +3h guard.io/labs/scamlexity-we-put-agentic-ai-browsers-to-the-test-they-clicked-they-paid-they-failed 64The SD Association has an official SD card format utility [Win/OS X/Linux] 56 66 4mo +1d sdcard.org/downloads/sd-memory-card-formatter-for-linux 65Show HN: CasCache – multi-generational cache with optimistic concurrency control 2 20 4mo +21h github.com/unkn0wn-root/cascache 66SmallJS: Smalltalk-80 that compiles to JavaScript 44 149 4mo +22h small-js.org/Home/Home.html 67Buypass Discontinues Issuance of TLS/SSL Certificates 52 39 4mo +1h buypass.com/products/tls-ssl-certificates/discontinues-issuance-of-tls-ssl-certificates 68On the Screen, Libyans Learned About Everything but Themselves (2021) 0 14 4mo +15m newlinesmag.com/argument/on-the-screen-libyans-learned-about-everything-but-themselves 69YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission 272 290 4mo +20h bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission 70What are OKLCH colors? 183 831 4mo +2m jakub.kr/components/oklch-colors 71MCP Gateway and Registry 53 73 4mo +56m github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge 72In-Memory Filesystems in Rust 54 124 4mo +23h andre.arko.net/2025/08/18/in-memory-filesystems-in-rust 73A bubble that knows it's a bubble 123 141 4mo +7h craigmccaskill.com/ai-bubble-history 74Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me 465 583 4mo +1h boston.conman.org/2025/08/21.1 75Git-Annex 59 224 4mo +45m git-annex.branchable.com 76Why is choral music harder to appreciate? 64 39 4mo +2d marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/08/why-is-choral-music-harder-to-appreciate.html 77We need a new theory of democracy – because this version has failed 26 37 4mo +1h salon.com/2025/08/24/we-need-a-new-theory-of-democracy-because-this-version-has-failed 78Show HN: Decentralized Bitcoin Incentives via QR Codes 2 11 4mo +2h github.com/DT7QR/Bitcoin-Rewards-System-Proposal 79The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] 145 211 4mo +3h simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf 80German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit 80 41 4mo +3d theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/21/german-contest-to-live-in-depopulated-soviet-era-city-proves-global-hit 81From Hackathon to YC 23 61 4mo +5h producthunt.com/p/april-yc-s25/from-hackathon-to-yc 82Using acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase childrens autism and ADHD risk 15 55 4mo +3h hsph.harvard.edu/news/using-acetaminophen-during-pregnancy-may-increase-childrens-autism-and-adhd-risk 83Bash Strict Mode (2014) 50 47 4mo +2d redsymbol.nethttp:///articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode 84Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math 86 220 4mo +2d quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-hunters-reach-numbers-that-overwhelm-ordinary-math-20250822 85How to check if your Apple Silicon Mac is booting securely 22 100 4mo +1h eclecticlight.co/2025/08/21/how-to-check-if-your-apple-silicon-mac-is-booting-securely 86Prison isn’t set up for today’s tech so we have to do legal work the old way 92 118 4mo +1h prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/08/19/prisons-outdated-technology-hurts-our-chances-at-freedom 87How many paths of length K are there between A and B? (2021) 12 34 4mo +4h horace.io/walks 88Vanguard hits new 'bans-per-second' record 66 50 4mo +29m playvalorant.com/en-us/news/dev/vanguard-hits-new-bans-per-second-record 89 More... 2025.08.24