HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off? 78 50 3mo +23m wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-bubble-building-spree-55ee6128 1[dead] ? 49 3mo +52m sanixdk.xyz 2Why warm countries are poorer 54 54 3mo +8m unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/mountains 3Code Mode: the better way to use MCP 10 79 3mo +2h blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode 4Just how resilient are large language models? 28 56 3mo +3d rdrocket.com/blog/just-how-resilient-are-large-language-models 5High-power microwave defeats drone swarm 167 226 3mo +55m epirusinc.com/press-releases/epirus-leonidas-high-power-microwave-defeats-49-drone-swarm-100-of-drones-flown-at-live-fire-demonstration 6The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh 100 127 3mo +32m pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse 7NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference 114 109 3mo +2h discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-the-moderation-team/69828 8We reverse-engineered Flash Attention 4 48 131 3mo +1h modal.com/blog/reverse-engineer-flash-attention-4 9Python developers are embracing type hints 539 310 3mo +3d pyrefly.org/blog/why-typed-python 10US to retire its only icebreaker, stranding polar research 13 46 3mo +38m colorado.edu/today/2025/09/16/us-retire-its-only-icebreaker-stranding-polar-research 11Handy – Free open-source speech-to-text app written in Rust 96 232 3mo +1h handy.computer 12Explore Digital Edition of Printing Types from 1922 1 9 3mo +1h openculture.com/2025/09/explore-a-new-digital-edition-of-printing-types-the-authoritative-history-of-printing-typography-from-1922.html 13Meshtastic 64: A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64 0 8 3mo +3d 64jim64.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/09/meshtastic-64-meshtastic-radio-for.html 142025 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition Winners 17 133 3mo +1h nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2025-small-world-in-motion-competition 15The truth behind standing desks (2016) 18 11 3mo +1h health.harvard.edu/blog/the-truth-behind-standing-desks-2016092310264 16Linux 6.18 Will Fix Lockups When Systemd Units Read Lots of Files 25 43 3mo +14m phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-Writeback-Lockups 17Windows ML is generally available 45 112 3mo +2d blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/09/23/windows-ml-is-generally-available-empowering-developers-to-scale-local-ai-across-windows-devices 18iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark 199 127 3mo +24m tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/apples-a19-becomes-the-fastest-single-core-cpu-in-the-world-on-passmark-beating-pc-chips-and-apples-own-m3-ultra-passively-cooled-iphone-17-chip-catapults-past-power-hungry-competitors 19NSPM-7 labels common beliefs as terrorism 'indicators' 66 121 3mo +36m kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs 20New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens 23 61 3mo +10m connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/new-in-firefox-desktop-only-visual-search/m-p/106216#M41026 21Used EVs have never been cheaper. But are they a good deal? 40 34 3mo +41m grist.org/economics/used-evs-have-never-been-cheaper-but-are-they-a-good-deal 22Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production [video] 54 113 3mo +39m youtube.com/watch?v=iPoL03tFBtU 23In Praise of Binturongs 6 19 3mo +2d satyrs.eu/garden/2025/binturongs 24The death of east London's most radical bookshop 161 199 3mo +1h the-londoner.co.uk/scarlett-letters-closure-left-wing-bookshop 25Are We in an A.I. Bubble? I Suspect So 79 62 3mo +1h gideons.substack.com/p/are-we-in-an-ai-bubble-i-suspect 26LLM Observability in the Wild – Why OpenTelemetry Should Be the Standard 41 141 3mo +5m signoz.io/blog/llm-observability-opentelemetry 27Xeres: Uncensorable Peer-to-Peer Communications 22 74 3mo +18m xeres.io 28The doctor who says we can improve our vision – at any age 20 62 3mo +1h thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/how-to-improve-vision-any-age-doctor-advice-gjnftx5dm 29Compositor 0.3 for Windows 8 27 3mo +3d compositorapp.com/blog/2025-09-24/Compositor-Windows-03 30I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it 108 268 3mo +18m theroom.lol 31Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation–Report 40 58 3mo +29m newsweek.com/americans-are-using-pto-to-sleep-not-for-vacation-report-10783162 32Walking Around the Compiler 3 47 3mo +1d bernsteinbear.com/blog/walking-around 33Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Director of Product 0 1 3mo +25s ycombinator.com/companies/great-question/jobs/9crdslU-director-of-product 34The role of Amazon fires in the record atmospheric CO₂ growth in 2024 63 162 3mo +1h essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.22541/essoar.175874118.83695562/v1 35Testing the Raspberry Pi 500+'s new mechanical keyboard 96 137 3mo +2d jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/testing-raspberry-pi-500s-new-mechanical-keyboard 36Greenland is a beautiful nightmare 329 594 3mo +30m matduggan.com/greenland-is-a-beautiful-nightmare 37Norway to monitor airborne radioactivity in Svalbard 37 115 3mo +40m highnorthnews.com/en/norway-monitor-airborne-radioactivity-svalbard 38Show HN: Privacy-First Voice-to-Text for macOS 14 29 3mo +2h github.com/cydanix/whisperclip 39Bad Machinery: Managing Interrupts Under Load 0 9 3mo +2h log.andvari.net/pages/bad-machinery.html 40AI model trapped in a Raspberry Pi 99 131 3mo +28m blog.adafruit.com/2025/09/26/ai-model-trapped-in-raspberry-pi-piday-raspberrypi 41A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet 328 2035 3mo +44m messenger.abeto.co 42Fundamental of Virtual Memory 5 22 3mo +29m nghiant3223.github.io/2025/05/29/fundamental_of_virtual_memory.html 43Was This 18,000-Year-Old Siberian Puppy a Dog or a Wolf? (2019) 9 30 3mo +18m nytimes.com/2019/12/02/science/frozen-puppy-found-russia.html 44Why We Think 27 144 3mo +2h lilianweng.github.io/posts/2025-05-01-thinking 45Depictions of Celestial Objects Spanning Nearly a Millennium (2014) 1 43 3mo +2d publicdomainreview.org/collection/flowers-of-the-sky 46Is sound gradual typing dead? Performance problems in Typed Racket (2016) 8 44 3mo +34m dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2837614.2837630 47Health Effects of Cousin Marriage: Evidence from US Genealogical Records 3 8 3mo +1h aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20230544 48Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place 323 242 3mo +5m psypost.org/scientists-say-x-formerly-twitter-has-lost-its-professional-edge-and-bluesky-is-taking-its-place 49SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 259 521 3mo +30m github.com/francoismichel/ssh3 50Ebola outbreak in DR Congo rages, with 61% death rate and funding running dry 98 66 3mo +9m arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/ebola-outbreak-in-dr-congo-rages-with-61-death-rate-and-funding-running-dry 51Cost of AGI Delusion:Chasing Superintelligence US Falling Behind in Real AI Race 103 69 3mo +1h foreignaffairs.com/united-states/cost-delusion-artificial-general-intelligence 52A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails 164 304 3mo +15m koi.security/blog/postmark-mcp-npm-malicious-backdoor-email-theft 53Show HN: An open source Launchpad for macOS 26 30 50 3mo +15m github.com/RoversX/LaunchNext 54How many valid JSON strings are there? 1 10 3mo +2d qntm.org/jsoncount 55We Won't Be Missed: Work and Growth in the Era of AGI [pdf] 49 29 3mo +1h conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f227505.pdf 56Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music 89 350 3mo +3h music.ishkur.comhttp:// 57The Other Linux Logo 92 93 3mo +7m ecogex.com/the-other-linux-logo 58Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life 83 87 3mo +12m three-cells.com 59Notes on Geiger Counters 1 10 3mo +2d divested.dev/pages/blog#2025-09-24-geigers 60Samsung now owns Denon, Bowers and Wilkins, Marantz, Polk, and more audio brands 254 246 3mo +11m theverge.com/news/784390/samsung-harman-masimo-audio-acquisition-complete 61Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? – The Old New Thing 122 122 3mo +2d devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250924-00/?p=111624 62Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 179 105 3mo +18m gizmodo.com/cracker-barrel-outrage-was-almost-certainly-driven-by-bots-researchers-say-2000664221 63Show HN: One API for all your SMTPs 4 9 3mo +3h brieferl.com 64Trellis (YC W24) Is Hiring: Automate Healthcare Paperwork 0 1 3mo +5s ycombinator.com/companies/trellis/jobs/C0VryYb-forward-deployed-engineers-intern-august-2025 65How This Retro Cafeteria Became a Launchpad for Buffalo’s Food Entrepreneurs 4 19 3mo +2d thefoodcorridor.com/blog/how-this-retro-cafeteria-became-a-launchpad-for-buffalos-food-entrepreneurs 66I built Foyer: a Rust hybrid cache that slashes S3 latency 58 168 3mo +3d medium.com/@yingjunwu/the-case-for-hybrid-cache-for-object-stores-4b1f02ec6c9a 67A lifetime of social ties adds up to healthy aging 153 186 3mo +3h news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/09/lifetime-social-ties-adds-healthy-aging 68Show HN: Lingo – A linguistic database in Rust with nanosecond-level performance 22 42 3mo +1d 69Property-Based Testing of OCaml 5's Runtime System [pdf] 1 43 3mo +2h janmidtgaard.dk/papers/Midtgaard%3AOLIVIERFEST25.pdf 70Requiem for a Hash Function, or: How I learned to love package maphash 1 21 3mo +3d matttproud.com/blog/posts/go-maphash.html 71Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement 376 763 3mo +17m lwn.net/Articles/1037577 72AI Investment Is Starting to Look Like a Slush Fund 58 86 3mo +55m nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-investment-is-starting-to-look-like-a-slush-fund.html 73Meshtastic 64 – A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64 40 121 3mo +3d 64jim64.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/09/meshtastic-64-meshtastic-radio-for.html 74The Amazon Kindle War Against Piracy 128 99 3mo +59m goodereader.com/blog/kindle/the-amazon-kindle-war-against-piracy 75Litex: The First Formal Language Learnable in 1-2 Hours 81 111 3mo +2d github.com/litexlang/golitex 76[dead] ? 18 3mo +26m twitter.com 77Where to find PCB dataset for autorouting? 16 17 3mo +3d 78Why Today's Humanoids Won't Learn Dexterity 68 78 3mo +1h rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity 79Casimir Effect Energy 7 12 3mo +34m casimirspace.com 80Elephantshark, a tool to monitor Postgres network traffic 2 38 3mo +2d neon.com/blog/elephantshark-monitor-postgres-network-traffic 81GPT-OSS Reinforcement Learning 43 180 3mo +2h docs.unsloth.ai/new/gpt-oss-reinforcement-learning 82[dead] ? 12 3mo +1h timesnewdumbass.co 83MCAP Support Lands in Rerun 0 11 3mo +1d rerun.io/blog/introducing-experimental-support-for-mcap-file-format 84Endless AI-Generated Wikipedia 24 28 3mo +1d seangoedecke.com/endless-wiki 85Reduce, Reuse, Don't Recycle 20 25 3mo +48m alearningaday.blog/2025/09/11/reduce-reuse-dont-recycle 86Investigating a Forged PDF 5 55 3mo +2d mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html 87Show HN: Family Chess: Play across firewalls and Internet cultures 11 57 3mo +1h github.com/kelvinq/family-chess 88RPi 500 arrives with mechanical switches, RGB LED backlit keys 28 67 3mo +1d thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-500-plus 89The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog 53 126 3mo +18m eblong.com/infocom 90 More... 2025.09.26