HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order ⚙ CSS Unit Might Be a Combination 29 49 3mo +2d oddbird.net/2025/09/23/type-units 1The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows 175 278 2mo +6h nicolasbustamante.com/p/the-rag-obituary-killed-by-agents 2Cormac McCarthy's personal library 132 283 2mo +3m smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150 3The JavaScript Handbook (2025 edition) 3 18 3mo +2d flaviocopes.com/the-javascript-handbook-2025-edition 4GenAI Predictions 19 43 2mo +1h tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/26/GenAI-Predictions 5The Company Man 88 206 2mo +1h lesswrong.com/posts/JH6tJhYpnoCfFqAct/the-company-man 6Egg-Shaped Curves (2007) 5 48 2mo +5m nyjp07.com/index_egg_E.html 7Implementing /Usr Merge in Alpine 30 34 2mo +1h alpinelinux.org/posts/2025-10-01-usr-merge.html 8US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew 109 77 2mo +12m theregister.com/2025/10/01/us_government_shutdown_it_seccurity 9Measuring My DIY Air Purifier 11 74 3mo +3d chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/measuring-my-diy-air-purifier 10DARPA project for automated translation from C to Rust (2024) 193 134 2mo +34m darpa.mil/news/2024/memory-safety-vulnerabilities 11Tests suggest clues of whose content was used to train OpenAI’s Sora 4 23 2mo +1h washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/openai-training-data-sora 12Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work 87 143 2mo +23m theregister.com/2025/10/01/microsoft_consumer_copilot_corporate 13Edge264 – Minimalist, high-performance software decoder for H.264/AVC video 36 159 2mo +8m github.com/tvlabs/edge264 14White House ballroom construction to continue through shutdown, official says 7 25 2mo +44m abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates/?id=126029955 15Unbound Academy hasn’t replaced teachers with AI 58 49 2mo +12m danmeyer.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-2-hour-learning-and 16"DSEG": Original 7-segment and 14-segment fonts (2014) 20 63 3mo +2d keshikan.net/fonts-e.html 17[dead] ? 13 2mo +26m twitter.com 18Evaluating the impact of AI on the labor market: Current state of affairs 182 144 2mo +15m budgetlab.yale.edu/research/evaluating-impact-ai-labor-market-current-state-affairs 19[dead] ? 4 2mo +10m github.com 20U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor 206 218 2mo +13m wsj.com/economy/jobs/u-s-lost-32-000-jobs-in-september-says-payroll-processor-06528340 21A replica of Citizen Quartz watch based on Harel's paper introducing statecharts 22 143 3mo +3d andyjakubowski.github.io/statechart-watch 22ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Phones, Without Warrants 99 163 2mo +13m olgalautman.substack.com/p/ice-is-buying-a-tool-to-track-hundreds 23Pushing the Boundaries of C64 Graphics with Nuflix 6 98 2mo +52m cobbpg.github.io/articles/nuflix.html 24Increasing your practice surface area 83 164 2mo +58m indiehackers.com/post/lifestyle/increasing-your-practice-surface-area-agxYGi9bL0gd1WYYQZAu 25Decoding Netflix's AV1 Streams 75 76 2mo +15m singhkays.com/blog/netflix-av1-decode 26Announcing Tinker 89 150 2mo +27m thinkingmachines.ai/blog/announcing-tinker 27Tinker by Thinking Machines 2 53 2mo +1m thinkingmachines.ai/tinker 28Tactility: An ESP32 OS 61 192 3mo +2d tactility.one 29Jane Goodall has died 183 1284 2mo +6m latimes.com/obituaries/story/2025-10-01/jane-goodall-chimpanzees-dead 30Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54% 295 277 2mo +41m electrek.co/2025/09/30/solar-leads-eu-electricity-generation-as-renewables-hit-54-percent 31Don't avoid workplace politics 306 565 2mo +14m terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/stop-avoiding-politics 32OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series 79 273 2mo +25m opentslm.com 33Why Tech Inevitability is Self-Defeating 57 83 2mo +30m deviantabstraction.com/2025/09/29/against-the-tech-inevitability 34[dead] ? 18 2mo +56m techyquantum.com 35Galileo Bad, Archimedes Good 13 23 3mo +3d intellectualmathematics.com/blog/galileo-bad-archimedes-good 36Ask HN: Who is hiring? 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