HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? [pdf] 13 59 4mo +2d vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p5531-viktor.pdf 1Parallel AI agents are a game changer 80 77 3mo +17m morningcoffee.io/parallel-ai-agents-are-a-game-changer.html 2You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title 118 180 3mo +1h idiallo.com/blog/performing-for-the-job-title 3Google Pixel 10 series review 104 69 4mo +3d arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-pixel-10-series-review-dont-call-it-an-android 4Triangle Grids (2022) 14 74 4mo +3d kvachev.com/blog/posts/triangular-grid 5Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly 8 33 3mo +8m nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/google-search-antitrust-decision.html 6A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code 393 528 3mo +1h sanity.io/blog/first-attempt-will-be-95-garbage 7Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts 615 851 3mo +13m cnbc.com/2025/09/02/google-antitrust-search-ruling.html 8Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023) 105 292 3mo +53m dgross.ca/blog/linux-home-server-auto-sleep 9U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7% 201 194 3mo +31m theenergymix.com/u-s-emissions-rise-chinas-fall-in-massive-shift-between-worlds-biggest-climate-polluters 10Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS 11 78 3mo +17m huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-70B-2509 11Pearl – An Erlang lexer and syntax highlighter in Gleam 1 29 4mo +3d github.com/GearsDatapacks/pearl 12Light Sleep: Waking VMs in 200ms with eBPF and snapshots 17 70 3mo +11h koyeb.com/blog/scale-to-zero-wake-vms-in-200-ms-with-light-sleep-ebpf-and-snapshots 13Civics is boring, so, let's encrypt something (2024) 69 53 3mo +58m queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3703126 14iNaturalist keeps full species classification models private 25 70 3mo +17m github.com/inaturalist/inatVisionAPI 15Amazon must face US nationwide class action over third-party sales 104 290 3mo +15m reuters.com/legal/government/amazon-must-face-us-nationwide-class-action-over-third-party-sales-2025-09-02 16Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig 79 174 3mo +1h openai.com/index/vijaye-raji-to-become-cto-of-applications-with-acquisition-of-statsig 17Physically based rendering from first principles 87 282 3mo +1h imadr.me/pbr 18FBI arrests US Army veteran for 'conspiracy' over protest against ICE 49 116 3mo +19m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/fbi-arrest-us-army-veteran-ice-protest 19State of Permanent Fake Emergency 22 75 3mo +1h theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/emergency-authority-power-trump-democracy/684053 20Sparrow: C++20 Idiomatic APIs for the Apache Arrow Columnar Format 0 11 3mo +3h github.com/man-group/sparrow 21Show HN: My first Go project, a useless animated bunny sign for your terminal 17 26 4mo +2d github.com/fsgreco/go-bunny-sign 22The Kafka Replication Protocol with KIP-966 6 36 3mo +11m github.com/Vanlightly/kafka-tlaplus/blob/main/kafka_data_replication/kraft/kip-966/description/0_kafka_replication_protocol.md 23A gentle introduction to CP/M 42 70 3mo +19m eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/a-gentle-introduction-to-cp-m 24Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messenger 78 66 3mo +9m useamber.app 25Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US Government contract 50 188 3mo +1h theregister.com/2025/09/02/microsoft_rewarded_for_security_failures 26The repercussions of a typo in C++ & Rust 6 27 3mo +1h nablag.com/rust_cpp_missing_ampersand 27ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that hack phones and encrypted apps 73 189 3mo +27m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware 28REST and gRPC in 33 Languages, with code examples 1 24 3mo +2h github.com/cloudstreet-dev/REST-gRPC-in-33-Languages/blob/main/book/manuscript/chapters/08-python.md 29AI Models Need a Virtual Machine 1 26 4mo +3d blog.sigplan.org/2025/08/29/ai-models-need-a-virtual-machine 30Ask HN: Is your company still hiring junior engineers? 53 41 3mo +1h 31<template>: The Content Template element 84 215 3mo +43m developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/template 32Google did not warn 2.5B Gmail users to reset passwords 3 18 3mo +20m bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/no-google-did-not-warn-25-billion-gmail-users-to-reset-passwords 33The Tariffs Are Still Illegal 27 93 3mo +5m bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-09-02/the-tariffs-are-still-illegal 34OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations and reporting content to police 228 238 3mo +1h futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police 35Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas 50 192 3mo +4m blog.adacore.com/introduction-to-ada-a-project-based-exploration-with-rosettas 36We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that 641 524 3mo +19m thenexus.media/your-phone-already-has-social-credit-we-just-lie-about-it 37'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback 78 196 3mo +36m quantamagazine.org/world-models-an-old-idea-in-ai-mount-a-comeback-20250902 38Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular? 289 312 3mo +3m tonybaloney.github.io/posts/why-isnt-python-async-more-popular.html 39Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report 5 44 3mo +9m npr.org/2025/09/02/nx-s1-5521384/energy-report-scientists-climate-change 40Writing a Hypervisor in 1k Lines 12 120 4mo +3d seiya.me/blog/hypervisor-in-1000-lines 41How to Argue with an AI Booster 7 26 3mo +28m wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster 42This Month in Ladybird: August 2025 1 28 3mo +40m buttondown.com/ladybird/archive/this-month-in-ladybird-august-2025 43The staff ate it later 295 464 3mo +1h en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_staff_ate_it_later 44AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger 140 208 3mo +24m theregister.com/2025/08/29/ai_web_crawlers_are_destroying 45Removing Guix from Debian 46 135 3mo +1h lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1035491/d8100135a8ae4246 46Launch HN: Datafruit (YC S25) – AI for DevOps 48 64 3mo +23m 47Passkeys and Modern Authentication 202 181 3mo +2h lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/2/passkeys 48Belgium to Recognise Palestinian State 19 24 3mo +20m theguardian.com/world/live/2025/sep/02/middle-east-crisis-israel-gaza-palestine-un-belgium-live-news-updates 49Anthropic raises $13B Series F 625 578 3mo +15m anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-usd183b-post-money-valuation 50Next.js 15 Markdown Boilerplate 50 45 4mo +3d github.com/dtedesco1/nextjs-markdown-boilerplate 51Twitter Shadow Bans Turkish Presidential Candidate 190 382 3mo +29m utkusen.substack.com/p/xtwitter-secretly-shadow-bans-turkish 52Why teach calculus in the age of AI 83 34 3mo +51m mappingignorance.org/2025/08/18/why-teach-calculus-in-the-age-of-ai 53Static sites enable a good time travel experience 40 190 3mo +34m hamatti.org/posts/static-sites-enable-a-good-time-travel-experience 54US stocks fall as bond sell-off spills into equities 18 13 3mo +26m subs.ft.com/products 55The Little Book of Linear Algebra 125 462 3mo +1h github.com/the-litte-book-of/linear-algebra 56Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds 318 190 3mo +11m wsj.com/economy/wsj-norc-economic-poll-73bce003 57You don't want to hire "the best engineers" 309 379 3mo +43m otherbranch.com/shared/blog/no-you-dont-want-to-hire-the-best-engineers 58Reusing Computation in Text-to-Image Diffusion for Efficient Image Generation 2 41 4mo +3d arxiv.org/abs/2508.21032 59[dead] ? 31 3mo +12m theguardian.com 60The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees 6 35 3mo +2h quantamagazine.org/the-sudden-surges-that-forge-evolutionary-trees-20250828 61Imgur's community was in revolt 156 160 3mo +42m 404media.co/imgurs-community-is-in-full-revolt-against-its-owner 62Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 1 45 53 4mo +3d bitflux.ai/blog/memory-is-slow-part1 63Show HN: Moribito – A TUI for LDAP Viewing/Queries 24 102 3mo +1h github.com/ericschmar/moribito 64[dead] ? 6 3mo +21m reuters.com 65Toronto’s network of pedestrian tunnels 172 221 3mo +1h worksinprogress.news/p/torontos-underground-labyrinth 66How to Participate in the Ruby Community 15 22 3mo +18m rubynewbie.org/10-ways-to-participate-in-the-ruby-community 67Take something you don’t like and try to like it 219 262 3mo +31m dynomight.net/liking 68RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use 76 173 3mo +58m blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2025/09/rubymine-is-now-free-for-non-commercial-use 69Quirks of Common Lisp Types 29 119 4mo +2d fosskers.ca/en/blog/cl-type-quirks 70Intuitive find and replace CLI (sed alternative) 8 56 3mo +8h github.com/chmln/sd 71What's New with Firefox 142 134 174 3mo +35m mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/142.0.1/whatsnew/?oldversion=139.0.4&utm_medium=firefox-desktop&utm_source=update&utm_campaign=142 72Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY (2023) 102 68 4mo +3d aresluna.org/the-primitive-tortureboard 73Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever 146 132 3mo +29m old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1n6cjw1/europol_said_chat_control_doesnt_go_far_enough 74Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 296 135 3mo +16m micahflee.com/unfortunately-the-iceblock-app-is-activism-theater 75Run Erlang/Elixir on Microcontrollers and Embedded Linux 53 205 3mo +1h grisp.org/software 76[dead] ? 16 3mo +21m grahamlinehan.substack.com 77An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia 331 504 4mo +3d simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/29/lossy-encyclopedia 78Next.js is infuriating 569 993 3mo +1h blog.meca.sh/3lxoty3shjc2z 79A motto for programmers: "Tuere usorem, data, veritatem" 70 36 3mo +28m koas.dev/a-motto-for-programming 80The first inkjet printer was a medical device 5 32 4mo +1d spectrum.ieee.org/rune-elmqvist 81Animated Text in Voxel Space 11 19 4mo +3d splats.com/watch/635 82Kapa.ai (YC S23) is hiring research and software engineers 0 1 3mo +4s ycombinator.com/companies/kapa-ai/jobs 83Vibe coding as a VC 30 24 3mo +48m kevinkuipers.substack.com/p/vc-for-vibe-coding-a-fresh-new-start 84CauseNet: Towards a causality graph extracted from the web 111 228 3mo +1h causenet.org 85Keyboards from my collection (2023) 33 134 3mo +1h aresluna.org/50-keyboards-from-my-collection 86WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration 75 135 3mo +1h github.com/TibixDev/winboat 87The ice cream truck's surprising history 1 24 4mo +3d longreads.com/2025/08/26/ice-cream-truck-history-hysteria 88The Wetware Crisis: The Thermocline of Truth (2008) 8 37 4mo +2h brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-themocline-of-truth 89Growing the Java Language [video] 55 73 4mo +3d youtube.com/watch?v=Gz7Or9C0TpM 90Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s 147 310 4mo +3h kazeta.org 91PewDiePie has a GitHub now 2 12 4mo +2h github.com/pewdiepie-archdaemon 92Rare IBM Schools Computer 1969 2 14 4mo +3d retrocomputingforum.com/t/rare-ibm-schools-computer-1969/5209 93FreeDroidWarn 299 405 4mo +50m github.com/woheller69/FreeDroidWarn 94Taiwan Submarine Cable Map Showing Current Outage 12 57 4mo +59m smc.peering.tw 95Corruption and Control: Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business 18 56 4mo +1h blog.torproject.org/Corruption-Control-Turkmenistan-internet-censorship-business 96RIP: Amazon Prime Benefits Sharing Ends on Oct 1, 2025 20 30 4mo +1h amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GWZ7QXD2X8WL8YE8 97Ripple – A TypeScript UI framework that takes the best of React, Solid, Svelte 67 77 4mo +3d github.com/trueadm/ripple 98Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe 198 266 4mo +12m theverge.com/news/767344/apple-removes-itorrent-altstore-pal-ios-marketplace 99Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark 157 197 4mo +3d apnews.com/article/denmark-stone-age-settlements-underwater-research-d0a77a07cdad2c23bd61c3f4bb015d7d 100I miss using em dashes 160 139 4mo +43m bassi.li/articles/i-miss-using-em-dashes 101The day Return became Enter (2023) 174 337 4mo +3d aresluna.org/the-day-return-became-enter 102 More... 2025.09.01