HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Reloading Classes in Python 6 30 4mo +3d andrewpwheeler.com/2025/08/26/reloading-classes-in-python-and-shared-borders 1A look at XSLT 3.0 (2017) 41 75 4mo +3d xml.com/articles/2017/02/14/why-you-should-be-using-xslt-30 2MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data 18 87 4mo +1h whistleblower.org/in-the-news/msnbc-whistleblower-accuses-doge-team-of-endangering-critical-social-security-data 3What Does will-change In CSS Do? 16 43 4mo +2d jakub.kr/components/will-change-in-css 4AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it? 126 68 4mo +12m politico.com/news/2025/08/29/ai-unmasking-ice-officers-00519478 5How to stop Google from AI-summarising your website 69 86 4mo +36m teruza.com/info-hub/how-to-stop-google-from-ai-summarising-your-website 6The Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval 35 147 4mo +4m arxiv.org/abs/2508.21038 7Hermes 4 118 201 4mo +2d hermes4.nousresearch.com 8The No-CPU Amiga Demo Challenge 33 96 4mo +23m github.com/askeksa/NoCpuChallenge 9Do the simplest thing that could possibly work 376 1058 4mo +27m seangoedecke.com/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work 10Data engineering and software engineering are converging 64 103 4mo +44m clickhouse.com/blog/eight-principles-of-great-developer-experience-for-data-infrastructure 11How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs? 171 107 4mo +3m data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt 12Show HN: Magic links – Get video and dev logs without installing anything 6 17 4mo +2d 13[dead] ? 21 4mo +48m github.com 14Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons 258 133 4mo +35m aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20251636 15Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition 101 365 4mo +2d t3x.orghttp:///lfn/index.html 16SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear 57 145 4mo +42m agwa.name/blog/post/sqlite_durability 17[dead] ? 8 4mo +28m wsj.com 18God created the real numbers 205 131 4mo +2h ethanheilman.com/x/34/index.html 19This is my brain on leeches 26 76 4mo +2d todaythings.substack.com/p/this-is-my-brain-on-leeches 20John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta 629 519 4mo +24m twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849 21Thunder Compute (YC S24) Is Hiring 0 1 4mo +23s ycombinator.com/companies/thunder-compute/jobs/sS6QzTi-founding-developer-advocate-contract-to-hire 22The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch 463 450 4mo +3m positiveblue.substack.com/p/the-web-does-not-need-gatekeepers 23Show HN: FFmpeg Pages – because I was tired of fighting FFmpeg 30 62 4mo +10m ffmpegs.pages.dev 24Bourbaki – A Secret Society of Mathematicians 24 54 4mo +10m books.google.com/books/about/Bourbaki.html 25Offline-First Landscape – 2025 79 125 4mo +14m marcoapp.io/blog/offline-first-landscape 26Wikipedia as a Graph 57 246 4mo +4m wikigrapher.com/paths 27German Economist fined €16,100 for sarcastic X posts 29 46 4mo +8m reclaimthenet.org/german-economist-fined-for-sarcastic-posts-on-politicians-journalist 28Fixing an old .NET Core native library loading issue on Alpine 29 68 4mo +2d andrewlock.net/fixing-an-old-dotnet-core-native-library-loading-issue-on-alpine 29Amtrak's New Acela Trains Are Here. They're Moving Slower Than the Old Ones 73 38 4mo +18m wsj.com/us-news/amtraks-new-acela-trains-are-here-theyre-moving-slower-than-the-old-ones-f0794127 30Ex-Mar-a-Lago employee granted broad AI search patent (US12,277,125) – thoughts? [pdf] 6 9 4mo +56m patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/81/08/e8/400c0d5b380d04/US12277125B2.pdf 31AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust 153 180 4mo +46m spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-coding 32Apple Health lies to you about your six months sleep average 17 22 4mo +2h github.com/reschandreas/saverage 33Essential Coding Theory [pdf] 60 370 4mo +8m cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/book/web-coding-book.pdf 34Seedbox Lite: A lightweight torrent streaming app with instant playback 73 120 4mo +43m github.com/hotheadhacker/seedbox-lite 35Fake accounts drove the DeepSeek AI hype and distorted markets 16 30 4mo +1h evai.ai/en/post/disinformation-the-deepseek-hype-was-all-made-up-how-fake-accounts-managed-a-market-frenzy 36[dead] ? 6 4mo +16m choice.com.au 37Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 182 128 4mo +6m bbc.com/news/articles/ckgyk2p55g8o 38How do I get into the game industry 152 211 4mo +2d garry.net/posts/how-do-i-get-into-the-game-industry 39Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs 77 280 4mo +37m lmsys.org/blog/2025-05-05-large-scale-ep 40Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators 99 181 4mo +59m governing.com/management-and-administration/private-equity-snaps-up-disability-services-challenging-regulators 41Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN 19 113 4mo +35m pj4533.com/hn-overlooked 42A tiny (1000 lines), fastish, embeddable scripting language can be AOT compiled 4 35 4mo +4h wareya.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/my-tiny-1000-lines-fastish-embeddable-scripting-language-can-be-aot-compiled 43SilverBullet v2 released: open-source, self hosted, programmable notes 7 33 4mo +10m community.silverbullet.md/t/silverbullet-v2-released/3100 44Flunking my Anthropic interview again 336 358 4mo +19m taylor.town/flunking-anthropic 45Intel's "Clearwater Forest" Xeon 7 E-Core CPU Will Be a Beast 94 90 4mo +2d nextplatform.com/2025/08/26/intels-clearwater-forest-xeon-7-e-core-cpu-will-be-a-beast 46Grok Code Fast 1 473 500 4mo +1h x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-1 47Draft SMS and iMessage from any computer keyboard 15 23 4mo +27m sethmlarson.dev/draft-sms-and-imessage-from-any-computer-keyboard 48Show HN: Sosumi.ai – Convert Apple Developer docs to AI-readable Markdown 69 130 4mo +9m sosumi.ai 49Show HN: A minimal TS library that generates prompt injection attacks 15 33 4mo +34m prompt-injector.blueprintlab.io 50A dark money group is funding high-profile Democratic influencers 69 68 4mo +26m wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers 51Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public 257 289 4mo +32m practicalshootinginsights.com/eighth-circuit-fmeca-update 52It’s not wrong that (for HN) “[facepalm emoji]”.length == 36 59 34 4mo +3d zaerl.com/2025/08/24/its-not-wrong-that-for-hn-%f0%9f%a4%a6%f0%9f%8f%bc%e2%99%82%ef%b8%8f-length-36 53Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning 1 39 4mo +4h princeton-rl.github.io/CRTR 54[dead] ? 7 4mo +48m gizmodo.com 55Show HN: Auto-Match – How We Built Receipt-to-Transaction Matching (Open Source) 7 39 4mo +2d midday.ai/updates/automatic-reconciliation-engine 56[dead] ? 14 4mo +4m theguardian.com 57Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos 243 527 4mo +9m zdnet.com/article/meta-might-be-secretly-scanning-your-phones-camera-roll-how-to-check-and-turn-it-off 58Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it 360 646 4mo +48m washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/29/tesla-autopilot-crashes-evidence-testimony-wrongful-death 59Deepnote (YC S19) is hiring engineers to build a better Jupyter notebook 0 1 4mo +16s deepnote.com/join-us 60Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy 524 743 4mo +16m anthropic.com/news/updates-to-our-consumer-terms 61If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward 225 434 4mo +4m old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1n2ubjx/if_you_have_a_claude_personal_account_they_are 62Probability of typing a wrong Bitcoin address 44 60 4mo +2h johndcook.com/blog/2025/08/28/wrong-address 63What the interns have wrought, 2025 87 74 4mo +1h blog.janestreet.com/wrought-2025 64Nullable vs. Nullable in C# 25 65 4mo +3d einarwh.no/blog/2025/08/25/nullable-vs-nullable 65Wearmouse (Android Wear) 0 15 4mo +3d github.com/ginkage/wearmouse 66Show HN: PageIndex – Vectorless RAG 126 192 4mo +2d github.com/VectifyAI/PageIndex/blob/main/cookbook/pageindex_RAG_simple.ipynb 67[dead] ? 15 4mo +23m nbcnews.com 68Show HN: Envoy – Command Logger 12 11 4mo +2d github.com/heyyviv/envoy 69The Synology End Game 349 444 4mo +55m lowendbox.com/blog/they-used-to-be-good-but-now-theyve-turned-to-evil-the-synology-end-game 70Powerful GPUs or Fast Interconnects: Analyzing Relational Workloads 1 5 4mo +3d vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/18/paper/Powerful%20GPUs%20or%20Fast%20Interconnects%3A%20Analyzing%20Relational%20Workloads%20on%20Modern%20GPUs 71How life-size cows made of butter became an iconic symbol of the Midwest 24 17 4mo +3d smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-life-size-cows-made-of-butter-became-an-iconic-symbol-of-the-midwest-180987208 72A power shortage could short-circuit Nvidia's rise 7 18 4mo +2h economist.com/business/2025/08/28/how-a-power-shortage-could-short-circuit-nvidias-rise 73[dead] ? 15 4mo +2h whatwelost.substack.com 74[dead] ? 9 4mo +30m questionsforum.com 75PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs 85 135 4mo +1h vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/b0a3466f-5efc-11f0-ae84-99047d0a6bcc.html 76Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking 66 221 4mo +3d oxism.com/trystero 77An eyecare foundation model for clinical assistance 9 34 4mo +7h nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03900-7 78Strange CW Keys 48 145 4mo +14m sites.google.com/site/oh6dccw/strangecwkeys 79Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie 102 231 4mo +1h lwn.net/Articles/1033474 80A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it 129 148 4mo +1h lowendbox.com/blog/a-deep-dive-into-debian-13s-tmp-whats-new-and-what-to-do-if-you-dont-like-it 81What We Find in the Sewers 3 14 4mo +3d asimov.press/p/sewers 82Every industry is an overcrowded airport lounge now 73 65 4mo +3h quoththeraven.substack.com/p/every-industry-is-an-overcrowded 83The King's Quarry: How Louis XVI Went from Hunter to Hunted 1 25 4mo +1d worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-kings-quarry 84Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode 396 485 4mo +40m developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-26-release-notes 85Ask HN: What to learn for math for modeling? 27 70 4mo +1d 86[dead] ? 4 4mo +2m scottaaronson.blog 87[dead] ? 9 4mo +5m scottaaronson.blog 88I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0% 52 49 4mo +33m cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-researched-every-attempt-to-stop 89[dead] ? 25 4mo +49m math.columbia.edu 90Python: The Documentary [video] 106 296 4mo +55m youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0 91Dependent Types: Universes, or types of types 2 41 4mo +1d jonmsterling.com/01ET/index.xml 92 More... 2025.08.28