HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver 298 898 3mo +4m dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driver 1Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code 52 78 3mo +2d spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-programming-languages-daniel-temkin 2Taking Buildkite from a side project to a global company 13 86 3mo +1h valleyofdoubt.com/p/taking-buildkite-from-a-side-project 3Formatting code should be unnecessary 474 346 3mo +11m maxleiter.com/blog/formatting 4The demo scene is dying, but that's alright 118 242 3mo +38m datagubbe.se/sceneherit 5South Korea will bring home 300 workers detained in Hyundai plant raid 123 80 3mo +10m apnews.com/article/us-south-korea-ice-raid-georgia-hyundai-ee8781d965c74a5ee18525ce87959ba4 6Detroit's carmakers to save billions in emissions rollback 75 45 3mo +20m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-07/detroit-s-carmakers-to-save-billions-in-trump-emissions-rollback 7Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster 110 160 3mo +1h abortretry.fail/p/the-story-of-creative-technology 8Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization 20 101 3mo +3d nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09430-z 9Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations 264 202 3mo +36m guru3d.com/story/intel-arc-pro-b50-gpu-launched-at-for-compact-workstations 10Show HN: OpenCV over WebRTC (in Go) 8 55 3mo +42m github.com/pion/example-webrtc-applications/blob/master/gocv-to-webrtc/README.md 11Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru 222 147 3mo +54m aidarwinawards.org/nominees/taco-bell-ai-drive-thru.html 12Speed Brain: Helping web pages load faster (2024) 7 34 3mo +2d blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-speed-brain 13Print GitHub Repositories as Books 19 21 3mo +7m gitprint.me 14Electric bill may be paying for big data centers' energy use 68 72 3mo +2h theconversation.com/how-your-electric-bill-may-be-paying-for-big-data-centers-energy-use-257794 15Show HN: The World After 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 Years Ft. AI 20 7 3mo +2h mandar.cloud/blog.html 16GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search 253 356 3mo +1d simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin 17Requiem for an Exit 0 27 3mo +2d calls.ars.electronica.art/2025/prix/winners/15487 18Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML 107 367 3mo +13m picocss.com 19Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014) 154 221 3mo +18m trendingbuffalo.com/life/uncle-steves-buffalo/everything-from-1991-radio-shack-ad-now 20No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1986) [pdf] 31 115 3mo +35m cs.unc.edu/techreports/86-020.pdf 21Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be? 69 54 3mo +27m theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/09/ai-bubble-us-economy/684128 22How did Tether profit $13B in 2024 from USDT? 22 22 3mo +9m antongolub.substack.com/p/how-did-tether-profit-13-billion 23[dead] ? 29 3mo +5m theguardian.com 24Scientists Turned Our Cells into Quantum Computers–Sort Of 0 6 3mo +29m popularmechanics.com/science/health/a65936535/qubit-proteins-cells 25The race to build a distributed GPU runtime 60 78 3mo +2d voltrondata.com/blog/the-race-to-build-a-distributed-gpu-runtime 26Submarine Cable Map 12 61 3mo +1h submarinecablemap.com 27Transmission Grid Mapping in OpenStreetMap 5 8 3mo +31m mapyourgrid.orgMapYourGrid.org 28How to make metals from Martian dirt 98 80 3mo +24m csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2025/August/Metals-out-of-martian-dirt 29SQLite's Use of Tcl (2017) 39 111 3mo +4h tcl-lang.org/community/tcl2017/assets/talk93/Paper.html 30Apple A17 Pro Chip Hardware Flaw? 26 38 3mo +30m github.com/JGoyd/Apple-Silicon-A17-Flaw 31Keeping secrets out of logs (2024) 54 246 3mo +39m allan.reyes.sh/posts/keeping-secrets-out-of-logs 32Show HN: rm-safely – A shell alias that moves files to trash instead of deleting 22 14 3mo +3d github.com/zdk/rm-safely 33An empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode 7 30 3mo +28m medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1 34Action was the best 8-bit programming language 7 37 3mo +3d goto10retro.com/p/action-was-the-best-8-bit-programming 35US to target more businesses after Hyundai raid 118 57 3mo +21m reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-target-more-businesses-after-hyundai-raid-top-official-says-2025-09-07 36US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality 133 115 3mo +13m travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/adjudicating-nonimmigrant-visa-applicants-in-their-country-of-residence-sep-6-2025.html 37Campfire: Web-Based Chat Application 28 68 3mo +12m github.com/basecamp/once-campfire 38Way to Address Product Design Failure 10 35 3mo +3d core77.com/posts/138379/The-Best-Way-to-Address-Product-Design-Failure 39Hacker News Run by Bots? 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