HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order ⚙ Docker Hub Is Down 98 197 3mo +21m dockerstatus.com/pages/incident/533c6539221ae15e3f000031/68d47a2f93c09e05486d93a9 1Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students 265 211 3mo +3m ycombinator.com/early-decision 2Ray Marching a Blob in 3D 1 16 3mo +2d 4rknova.com//blog/2025/09/21/blob-3d 3Helium Browser 525 593 3mo +3m helium.computer 4Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image 713 1229 3mo +29m bitbytebit.substack.com/p/everything-thats-wrong-with-google 5Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU 214 160 3mo +25m qualcomm.com/products/mobile/snapdragon/laptops-and-tablets/snapdragon-x2-elite 6Ask HN: Local hostnames without root/admin 31 13 3mo +3d 7SonyShell – An effort to “SSH into my Sony DSLR” 107 177 3mo +1h github.com/goudvuur/sonyshell 8Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming to Playstation 5 on December 8th 50 59 3mo +3m flightsimulator.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-2024-soars-onto-playstation-5 9Driving Complex Decisions 4 49 3mo +3d garrettdbates.com/driving-complex-decisions 10Diffusion Finetuning Myself 4 14 3mo +55m vassi.life/projects/diffinetune 11Linkgraphs are fun 3 37 3mo +3d andregarzia.com/2025/09/linkgraphs-are-fun.html 12How fast is Go? Simulating particles on a smart TV 29 107 3mo +1h dgerrells.com/blog/how-fast-is-go-simulating-millions-of-particles-on-a-smart-tv 13How Secure is Tor? Not secure at all 55 21 3mo +14m csam-bib.github.io/security 14Unlocking a Million Times More Data for AI 56 30 3mo +39m ifp.org/unlocking-a-million-times-more-data-for-ai 15Engineering a fixed-width bit-packed integer vector in Rust 21 84 3mo +4h lukefleed.xyz/posts/compressed-fixedvec 16Waymo for Business 76 58 3mo +2h waymo.com/blog/2025/09/waymo-for-business 17Show HN: Vibe Linking 41 132 3mo +2h vb.lk 18Björk on nature and technology (2016) 27 102 3mo +1d thecreativeindependent.com/people/bjork-on-nature-and-technology 19Giving users choice with Cloudflare's new Content Signals Policy 21 21 3mo +29m blog.cloudflare.com/content-signals-policy 20Drawn in the dock: the story of UK courtroom illustration (2020) 1 11 3mo +3d itsnicethat.com/features/courtroom-illustration-060420 21Tinder, Hinge, and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps 136 157 3mo +10m themarkup.org/investigations/2025/02/13/dating-app-tinder-hinge-cover-up 22Quicksort explained IKEA-style 134 676 3mo +3d idea-instructions.com/quick-sort 23Launch HN: Flywheel (YC S25) – Waymo for Excavators 75 100 3mo +1m 24Product Hunt is dead 115 321 3mo +22m sedimental.org/product_hunt_is_dead.html 25Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly 540 1033 3mo +7m mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115259943398316677 26Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based 198 178 3mo +18m zed.dev/blog/pricing-change-llm-usage-is-now-token-based 27Better Curl Saul: a lightweight API testing CLI focused on UX and simplicity 13 71 3mo +11m github.com/DeprecatedLuar/better-curl-saul 28The Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server 3 17 3mo +39m developers.googleblog.com/en/datacommonsmcp 29New bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, discovered in soil 62 178 3mo +15m rockefeller.edu/news/38239-hundreds-of-new-bacteria-and-two-potential-antibiotics-found-in-soil 30SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust 49 195 3mo +13m sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/2025/09/24/introducing-sedonadb-a-single-node-analytical-database-engine-with-geospatial-as-a-first-class-citizen 31How to be a leader when the vibes are off 187 354 3mo +1h chaoticgood.management/how-to-be-a-leader-when-the-vibes-are-off 32Identity Types 2 17 3mo +2d bartoszmilewski.com/2025/09/22/identity-types 33Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly 157 394 3mo +15m wasmer.io/posts/python-on-the-edge-powered-by-webassembly 34The Poison Pill to End the MMR Is Tylenol 123 106 3mo +10m rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-poison-pill-to-end-the-mmr-is 35The Lambda Calculus (2023) 22 102 3mo +29m plato.stanford.edu/entries/lambda-calculus 36Smartphone Cameras Go Hyperspectral 85 151 3mo +1h spectrum.ieee.org/hyperspectral-imaging 37Replace PostgreSQL with Git for your next project 29 32 3mo +7m devcenter.upsun.com/posts/why-you-should-replace-postgresql-with-git-for-your-next-project 38Show HN: Mosaic – A Kotlin framework for cleaner back end code 9 24 3mo +1h github.com/Nick-Abbott/Mosaic 39Building a Custom eBPF Filesystem Watcher to Catch Root Ownership Goofs 1 10 3mo +44m amandeepsp.github.io/blog/fs-watcher 40The DHS has been harvesting DNA from Americans for years 28 128 3mo +24m wired.com/story/dhs-has-been-collecting-us-citizens-dna-for-years 41Who Funds Misfit Research? 22 57 3mo +11m blog.spec.tech/p/who-funds-misfit-research 42How HubSpot scaled AI adoption 46 71 3mo +13m product.hubspot.com/blog/context-is-key-how-hubspot-scaled-ai-adoption 43Autodesk Increases APS Pricing 3 10 3mo +1h aps.autodesk.com/blog/aps-business-model-evolution 44Ask HN: How do you expose telemetry data to non-tech? 6 10 3mo +15m 45Just let me select text 578 849 3mo +15m aartaka.me/select-text.html 46Everyone's trying vectors and graphs for AI memory. We went back to SQL 62 133 3mo +2d 47How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts 133 446 3mo +1h idiallo.com/blog/how-to-lead-in-a-room-full-of-experts 48WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping 18 62 3mo +1h wigle.net/index 49Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube 88 261 3mo +36m cjauvin.github.io/posts/learning-persian 50[dead] ? 22 3mo +46m theguardian.com 51How Neural Super Sampling Works: Architecture, Training, and Inference 0 30 3mo +3d semiengineering.com/how-neural-super-sampling-works-architecture-training-and-inference 52Preparing for the .NET 10 GC 59 95 3mo +2h maoni0.medium.com/preparing-for-the-net-10-gc-88718b261ef2 53EU age verification app not planning desktop support 413 579 3mo +58m github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/issues/22 54US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees 639 659 3mo +19m travelandtourworld.com/news/article/american-joins-delta-southwest-united-and-other-us-airlines-push-to-strip-away-travelers-rights-and-add-more-fees-by-rolling-back-key-protections-in-new-deregulation-move 55Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads 593 1217 3mo +1h github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404 56My Ed(1) Toolbox 23 88 3mo +9m aartaka.me/my-ed.html 57Rights groups urge UK PM Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID 147 203 3mo +7m bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/rights-groups-urge-starmer-to-abandon-plans-for-mandatory-digital-id 58[dead] ? 9 3mo +33m drewdevault.com 59Exploring GrapheneOS secure allocator: Hardened Malloc 10 103 3mo +2h synacktiv.com/en/publications/exploring-grapheneos-secure-allocator-hardened-malloc 60I Spent Three Nights Solving Listen Labs Berghain Challenge (and Got #16) 23 62 3mo +2d kuber.studio/blog/Projects/How-I-Spent-Three-Nights-Solving-Listen-Labs-Berghain-Challenge 61Huntington's disease treated for first time 119 694 3mo +19m bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro 62How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs 163 359 3mo +1h bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/how-aws-s3-scales-with-tens-of-millions-of-hard-drives 63Show HN: We built our own technology radar 8 8 3mo +1d technologieradar.tryresearchly.com 64My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on 221 424 3mo +23m old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1np6kyn/my_games_server_is_blocked_in_spain_whenever 65Deep researcher with test-time diffusion 13 93 3mo +3d research.google/blog/deep-researcher-with-test-time-diffusion 66You didn't see it coming 61 74 3mo +2h aishwaryagoel.com/you-didnt-see-it-coming 67That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus 611 1044 3mo +57m cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secret-service-sim-farm-story 68[dead] ? 10 3mo +47m diggitmagazine.com 69The Hardware Knowledge That Every Programmer Should Know 8 22 3mo +4h needoneapp.medium.com/the-hardware-knowledge-that-every-programmer-should-know-f62cf4ba8bdc 70Simplifying Cross-Chain Transactions Using Intents 1 6 3mo +3d blog.shodipoayomide.com/Simplifying-Cross-Chain-Transactions-Using-Intents 71Ruby Central Is Not Behaving in Good Faith, and I've Got Receipts 120 67 3mo +1h jaredwhite.com/articles/ruby-central-is-not-operating-in-good-faith 72Why is modern data architecture so confusing? And what made sense for me 10 16 3mo +1d exasol.com/hub/data-warehouse/architecture 73Show HN: Inferencer – Run and deeply control local AI models (macOS release) 1 14 3mo +1h inferencer.com 74Neovate Code Is Open Sourced 4 9 3mo +2h neovateai.dev/en/blog/neovate-code-is-open-sourced 75OpenFake: An Open Dataset and Platform Toward Large-Scale Deepfake Detection 0 4 3mo +2h arxiv.org/abs/2509.09495 76New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death 173 209 3mo +3h pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03546 77Processing Strings 109x Faster Than Nvidia on H100 3 34 3mo +3d ashvardanian.com/posts/stringwars-on-gpus 78Building a better online editor for TypeScript 12 61 3mo +2d blog.val.town/vtlsp 79Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans hired to clean AI slop 115 205 3mo +54m sify.com/ai-analytics/greatest-irony-of-the-ai-age-humans-being-increasingly-hired-to-clean-ai-slop 80A webshell and a normal file that have the same MD5 46 97 3mo +2d github.com/phith0n/collision-webshell 81Bring true randomness to Spotify with Fisher-Yates shuffle 10 20 3mo +2h github.com/vuciv/true-random-shuffle 82Ask HN: How do you choose languages for building applications? 46 28 3mo +2d 83America's top companies keep talking about AI – but can't explain the upsides 106 132 3mo +38m ft.com/content/e93e56df-dd9b-40c1-b77a-dba1ca01e473 84Introduction to Programming Languages 10 74 3mo +3d hjaem.info/itpl 85Quadratic memory reductions for Zero-knowledge Proofs 23 76 3mo +30m github.com/logannye/space-efficient-zero-knowledge-proofs 86Zutty: Zero-cost Unicode Teletype, high-end terminal for low-end systems 22 71 3mo +13m git.hq.sig7.se/zutty.git 87How is einx notation universal? 3 30 3mo +2d einx.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq/universal.html 88Periodic Table of Cognition 13 55 3mo +43m kk.org/thetechnium/the-periodic-table-of-cognition 89Omittable – Solving the Ambiguity of Null 3 14 3mo +2d committing-crimes.com/articles/2025-09-16-null-and-absence 90Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version 446 624 3mo +16m larian.com/support/faqs/steam-deck-native-version_121 91MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system 116 112 3mo +56m espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46357017/mlb-approves-robot-umpires-2026-part-challenge-system 92Top Programming Languages 2025 443 285 3mo +29m spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2025 93 More... 2025.09.23