HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019) 171 201 4mo +1h mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd7w2t2mtvfg81uhx 1RSS is awesome 116 305 4mo +15m evanverma.com/rss-is-awesome 2Thrashing 19 101 4mo +1d exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/08/26/thrashing 3[dead] ? 12 4mo +12m scottaaronson.blog 4Rupert's Property 19 88 4mo +1h johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/a-polyhedron-without-ruperts-property 5Expert: LSP for Elixir 40 234 4mo +1h github.com/elixir-lang/expert 6Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with 247 433 4mo +1h lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js 7Speed-coding for the 6502 – a simple example 12 53 4mo +1h colino.net/wordpress/en/archives/2025/08/28/speed-coding-for-the-6502-a-simple-example 8Sometimes CPU cores are odd 130 124 4mo +32m anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2025/cpu-core-odd 9TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux 30 106 4mo +3d tuned-project.org 10There Goes the American Muscle Car 218 56 4mo +15m thedispatch.com/article/dodge-challenger-muscle-cars 11Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos 100 323 4mo +9m fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com&torchCursor=true&comicSans=true&fakeCursors=true&peskyFly=true 12Performance Speed Limits (2019) 1 18 4mo +3d travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/06/11/speed-limits.html 13Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc. 12 41 4mo +17m tarsnap.com/spiped.html 14CDC Implosion Continues as Staff Stage Unprecedented Walk Out 15 46 4mo +15m gizmodo.com/the-cdc-implosion-continues-as-staff-plan-walkout-2000649819 15RFC 8594: The Sunset HTTP Header Field (2019) 12 29 4mo +52m datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8594 16Web Bot Auth 74 81 4mo +1h developers.cloudflare.com/bots/reference/bot-verification/web-bot-auth 17Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS 19 72 4mo +6h github.com/mi12labs/SwiftAI 18In Search of AI Psychosis 221 205 4mo +2d astralcodexten.com/p/in-search-of-ai-psychosis 19In Search of AI Psychosis 1 21 4mo +2h astralcodexten.com/p/in-search-of-ai-psychosis 20A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021) 54 114 4mo +1d bbc.com/future/article/20210325-the-strange-medieval-fruit-the-world-forgot 21My startup banking story (2023) 156 331 4mo +18m mitchellh.com/writing/my-startup-banking-story 22Engineers send quantum signals with standard Internet Protocol 7 13 4mo +17m phys.org/news/2025-08-quantum-standard-internet-protocol.html 23Some thoughts on LLMs and software development 386 412 4mo +19m martinfowler.com/articles/202508-ai-thoughts.html 24The Unforgotten 10 18 4mo +3d espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46012436/football-forever-young-college-high-school-nfl 25Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI 38 189 4mo +26m martinfowler.com/articles/build-own-coding-agent.html 26CDC director has been ousted just weeks after Senate confirmation 1 38 4mo +17m arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/report-cdc-director-being-ousted-just-weeks-after-senate-confirmation 27VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II 50 50 4mo +8m arxiv.org/abs/2508.18382 28Uncertain<T> 96 441 4mo +42m nshipster.com/uncertainty 29Seeing infrared: contact lenses that grant 'super-vision' 22 39 4mo +13m theguardian.com/science/2025/may/22/infrared-contact-lenses-super-vision 30A Federal Appellate Court Finds the NLRB to Be Unconstitutional 26 33 4mo +12m prospect.org/justice/2025-08-25-federal-appellate-court-finds-nlrb-unconstitutional 31Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins 116 104 4mo +1h text.npr.org/nx-s1-5498669 32GPT-realtime and Realtime API updates 14 31 4mo +22m openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-realtime 33The Lobster Programming Language 70 91 4mo +2d strlen.com/lobster 34Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy 24 51 4mo +1h anthropic.com/news/updates-to-our-consumer-terms 35Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use? 707 1289 4mo +8m 36Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents 15 74 4mo +23m 37Service members deserve the right to repair 77 131 4mo +5m militarytimes.com/opinion/2025/07/11/why-service-members-deserve-the-right-to-repair 38Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually 132 175 4mo +1h ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans 39China is eating the world 514 230 4mo +24m apropos.substack.com/p/china-is-eating-the-world 40Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand 29 95 4mo +47m gleam.run/case-studies/strand 41PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued 171 171 4mo +8m social.treehouse.systems/@pine64/115027515081143369 42Show HN: Grammit – Local-only AI grammar checker (Chrome extension) 5 31 4mo +34m chromewebstore.google.com/detail/grammit-the-ai-grammar-ch/pkfmoknmnkbidlniedaloiijibdpjjmm 43Teams Grow Organically 25 64 4mo +3d frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-08-22-how-teams-grow-organically 44Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023) 64 182 4mo +43m xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue 45Mosh Mobile Shell 78 152 4mo +50m mosh.org 46The Stock Market Is Selling the Fed's Independence Because ZIRP Broke the World 61 73 4mo +16m splinter.com/the-stock-market-is-selling-its-soul-and-the-feds-independence-to-trump-because-zirp-broke-the-world 47Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity 48 58 4mo +17m economist.com/leaders/2025/08/28/brazil-offers-america-a-lesson-in-democratic-maturity 48Birth of 86-DOS 8 49 4mo +2d nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/birth-of-86-dos 49AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study 615 425 4mo +25m cnbc.com/2025/08/28/generative-ai-reshapes-us-job-market-stanford-study-shows-entry-level-young-workers.html 50How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi 160 211 4mo +19m jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/how-install-truenas-on-raspberry-pi 51Google debuts device-bound session credentials against session hijacking 62 59 4mo +6m feistyduck.com/newsletter/issue_128_google_debuts_device_bound_session_credentials_against_session_hijacking 52iOS Elegantbouncer: When you can't get samples but still need to catch threats 11 39 4mo +3d msuiche.com/posts/elegantbouncer-when-you-cant-get-the-samples-but-still-need-to-catch-the-threat 53US to put economic data on 9 blockchains 69 27 4mo +8m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/us-puts-gdp-data-on-the-blockchain-in-trump-crypto-push 54The sisters “paradox” – counter-intuitive probability 132 86 4mo +30m blog.engora.com/2025/08/the-sisters-paradox-counter-intuitive.html 55LLMs solving problems OCR+NLP couldn't 16 19 4mo +32m cloudsquid.substack.com/p/ocr-is-legacy-tech 56Microbial metabolite repairs liver injury by restoring hepatic lipid metabolism 32 135 4mo +2h journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01718-25 57Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising 74 164 4mo +1h tj401.com/blog/formd/index.html 58GPU Prefix Sums: A nearly complete collection 20 82 4mo +40m github.com/b0nes164/GPUPrefixSums 59That boolean should probably be something else 135 103 4mo +52m ntietz.com/blog/that-boolean-should-probably-be-something-else 60The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech 125 65 4mo +25m kennethreitz.org/essays/2025-08-27-the_cost_of_transparency 61A Ritzy L.A. Enclave Learned a Bitter Lesson About the Limits of Its Wealth 48 19 4mo +3d nytimes.com/2025/08/24/magazine/landfill-calabasas-los-angeles-wildfire-ash.html 62Group Borrowing: Zero-cost memory safety with fewer restrictions 85 81 4mo +35m verdagon.dev/blog/group-borrowing 63Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference? 473 504 4mo +2h martinalderson.com/posts/are-openai-and-anthropic-really-losing-money-on-inference 64Rendering a game in real time with AI 98 112 4mo +26m blog.jeffschomay.com/rendering-a-game-in-real-time-with-ai 65Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs 84 78 4mo +2d arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/like-intel-before-it-amd-blames-motherboard-makers-for-burnt-out-cpus 66Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps 210 287 4mo +1h 67Claude Code Checkpoints 129 178 4mo +2h claude-checkpoints.com 68Prosper AI (YC S23) Is Hiring Founding Account Executives (NYC) 0 1 4mo +26s jobs.ashbyhq.com/prosper-ai/29684590-4cec-4af2-bb69-eb5c6d595fb8 69The Math Behind GANs (2020) 31 141 4mo +13m jaketae.github.io/study/gan-math 70Important machine learning equations 34 296 4mo +15m chizkidd.github.io//2025/05/30/machine-learning-key-math-eqns 71Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs 34 166 4mo +31m fossjobs.net 72Synthetic gasoline 57 26 4mo +2d iere.org/what-is-synthetic-gasoline 73OpenRouter is down 26 45 4mo +6m status.openrouter.ai 74Pausing Insect Activity 5 27 4mo +2d asimov.press/p/insect-diapause 75Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Causing SSD Failures 117 200 4mo +14m old.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/1n1sgxx/windows_11_update_kb5063878_causing_ssd_failures 76Open Source is one person 171 417 4mo +7h opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person 77A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Compiler 4 71 4mo +3d abhinavsarkar.net/posts/arithmetic-bytecode-vm-compiler 78The Group That's Been Swatting US Universities 4 15 4mo +8m wired.com/story/purgatory-gores-swatting-us-universities 79The Forecasting Company (YC S24) Is Hiring a Software Engineer 0 1 4mo +6s ycombinator.com/companies/the-forecasting-company/jobs/9kIwGyz-founding-software-engineer 80Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine 14 13 4mo +3d asimov.press/p/leeches 81Show HN: I built AI that turns 4 hours of financial analysis into 30 seconds 29 15 4mo +35m duebase.com 82AGI Overhyped? 35 13 4mo +33m 83Lesser known mobile adtech domains where data is sent 24 103 4mo +1h jamesoclaire.com/2025/08/28/uncovering-lesser-known-mobile-adtech-domains 84What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience (2021) 19 38 4mo +2d systems-souls-society.com/what-is-this-the-case-for-continually-questioning-our-online-experience 85Certificates for Onion Services 26 128 4mo +2h onionservices.torproject.org/research/proposals/usability/certificates 86Partner with Product to pay down technical debt 2 17 4mo +2d dev.jimgrey.net/2025/08/19/unlocking-high-software-engineering-pace-partner-with-product-to-pay-down-technical-debt 87Sci-Hub has been blocked in India 148 281 4mo +18m sci-hub.se/sci-hub-blocked-india 88The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami 243 345 4mo +17m community.broadcom.com/tanzu/blogs/beltran-rueda-borrego/2025/08/18/how-to-prepare-for-the-bitnami-changes-coming-soon 89Will Bardenwerper on Baseball's Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots 12 21 4mo +2d lithub.com/will-bardenwerper-on-baseballs-betrayal-of-its-minor-league-roots 90Canaries in the Coal Mine? Recent Employment Effects of AI [pdf] 109 102 4mo +1h digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Canaries_BrynjolfssonChandarChen.pdf 91Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files 156 188 4mo +1h github.com/soulim/bookmarks.txt 92A mini-book on AWS networking 7 60 4mo +2d ducktyped.org/p/a-mini-book-on-aws-networking-introduction 93White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign 110 144 4mo +14m cnbc.com/2025/08/27/cdc-director-susan-monarez-.html 94CDC officials’ resignation emails 143 242 4mo +10m insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-read-three-top-cdc 95Glow-in-the-dark succulents are here 4 11 4mo +40m popsci.com/science/glow-in-the-dark-plants-succulents 96As PBS Stations Confront Cuts, American History Takes a Hit 2 31 4mo +58m nytimes.com/2025/08/27/arts/television/american-experience.html 97About Containers and VMs 59 109 4mo +2d linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/explanation/containers_and_vms 98The National Design Studio is a scam 53 196 4mo +19m chrbutler.com/the-national-design-studio-is-a-scam 99Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music 296 553 4mo +58m journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0329411 100FlightConnections 10 25 4mo +1h flightconnections.com 101Nvidia DGX Spark 206 179 4mo +3d nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark 102 More... 2025.08.27