HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Explainer: Inodes and Inode Numbers 0 51 86d +1d eclecticlight.co/2025/10/04/explainer-inodes-and-inode-numbers 1Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels 610 412 85d +26m grist.org/buildings/how-germany-outfitted-half-a-million-balconies-with-solar-panels 2Apt Down – The North Korea Files 1 22 85d +2h phrack.org/issues/72/7_md#article 3Period-Correct Graphics in PC Emulators: Part 1 – The Amiga 0 30 85d +4h blog.johnnovak.net/2022/04/15/achieving-period-correct-graphics-in-personal-computer-emulators-part-1-the-amiga 4The G in GPU is for Graphics damnit 97 206 89d +3d ut21.github.io/blog/triton.html 5Ken Parker, famed luthier, has died 46 144 85d +5m kenparkerarchtops.com 6The dangerous intimacy of social location sharing 155 96 85d +5m joinreboot.org/p/lighthouses-in-the-sky 7Wine 10.16 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS 22 42 85d +22m gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.16 8The death of industrial design and the era of dull electronics 125 160 85d +31m hackaday.com/2025/07/23/the-death-of-industrial-design-and-the-era-of-dull-electronics 9Ask HN: Any advice on pivoting out of VC-backed tech? 57 85 85d +40m 10Connecticut Trail Census Dashboard (2025) 8 17 88d +2d experience.arcgis.com/experience/04f19d6c0a634a188cad8bbf7e8475ba/page/Page-1?draft=true&views=-2025 11Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line 50 115 85d +1h github.com/landley/toybox 12Dear Tesla Shareholder [pdf] 52 31 85d +27m static1.squarespace.com/static/5d374de8aae9940001c8ed59/t/68de828992aced27fc2d217c/1759412874017/TSLA+Vote+No_Oct_2025_Final.pdf 13MIT's New AI Platform for Scientific Discovery 1 4 85d +3h hpcwire.com/2025/10/03/inside-mits-new-ai-platform-for-scientific-discovery 14Matrix Core Programming on AMD CDNA3 and CDNA4 Architecture 3 24 89d +3d salykova.github.io/matrix-cores-cdna 15Why George R.R. Martin Broke the Cardinal Rule of Hollywood (2024) 13 13 85d +7m hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/george-r-r-martin-howard-waldrop-ugly-chickens-game-of-thrones-1236078329 16What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data 82 346 85d +50m fi-le.net/oss 17Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends 30 125 88d +3d hannahilea.com/blog/birdnet-intro 18Without Deeds, Without Names 9 31 85d +23m laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/without-deeds-without-names 19Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT 63 167 85d +1h github.com/ksdme/ut 20[dead] ? 14 85d +28m karenattiah.substack.com 21Callbacks in C++ using template functors (1994) 47 49 85d +29m tutok.skhttp://www./fastgl/callback.html 22Why are hyperlinks blue? (2021) 61 98 88d +2d blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue 23Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available 912 2046 85d +40m koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10-01/national/socialAffairs/NIRS-fire-destroys-governments-cloud-storage-system-no-backups-available/2412936 24NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece 222 277 85d +2h erichartford.com/the-demonization-of-deepseek 25The QNX Operating System 124 318 85d +3h abortretry.fail/p/the-qnx-operating-system 26BYD builds fastest car 289 248 85d +1h autotrader.co.uk/content/news/byd-builds-world-s-fastest-car 27Show HN: ASCII Drawing Board 45 117 85d +2h delopsu.com/draw.html 28Focus Is Saying No 47 94 85d +22m medium.com/@HobokenDays/software-modernization-projects-dilemma-part-2-7f6002c4b6f1 29Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder 37 74 89d +3d github.com/everydayanchovies/SpatialFinder 30Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR 9 38 85d +11m arxiv.org/abs/2509.02522 31GoboLinux 017.01 – Passing the Torch 4 34 85d +50m gobolinux.org//news/119.html 32NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System 146 178 85d +1h nfs40.online 33Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' – Lina Khan 113 171 85d +17m pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/as-microsoft-lays-off-thousands-and-jacks-up-game-pass-prices-former-ftc-chair-says-i-told-you-so-the-activision-blizzard-buyout-is-harming-both-gamers-and-developers 34A vast 4,000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds (2018) 4 47 89d +3d cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31287-9 35If the University of Chicago won't defend the humanities, who will? 175 166 85d +20m theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/08/university-chicago-humanities-doctorate/684004 36Westjet is going to make you pay to recline your seat 96 31 85d +20m thestreet.com/travel/a-major-airline-is-going-to-make-you-pay-to-recline-your-seat 37Language Agnostic Programming: Why you may still need code 59 51 85d +16m joaquimrocha.com/2025/08/31/language-agnostic-programming-why-you-may-still-need-code 38Small Nuclear Reactors Will Not Save the Day 28 18 85d +35m oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Small-Nuclear-Reactors-Will-Not-Save-The-Day.html 39Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters 46 57 88d +2d arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/ice-age-hunters-in-south-america-preferred-now-extinct-megafauna 40Remembering Steve Jobs 92 47 85d +7m macrumors.com/2025/10/05/remembering-steve 41Show HN: Pyscn – Python code quality analyzer for vibe coders 79 134 85d +1h github.com/ludo-technologies/pyscn 42I do not want to be a programmer anymore 120 77 85d +40m mindthenerd.com/i-do-not-want-to-be-a-programmer-anymore-after-losing-an-argument-to-ai-and-my-wife 43Retiring Test-Ipv6.com 183 268 85d +12m retire.test-ipv6.com 44Experimental and Theoretical Confirmation of Covalent Bonding in α-Pu 8 32 89d +3d advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202501798 45Hobby Hilbert Simplex 1 31 86d +3h nedbatchelder.com/blog/202509/hobby_hilbert_simplex.html 46The deadline isn't when AI outsmarts us – it's when we stop using our own minds 321 362 86d +2h theargumentmag.com/p/you-have-18-months 47What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security 8 46 85d +1h propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek 48Which table format do LLMs understand best? 107 227 88d +2d improvingagents.com/blog/best-input-data-format-for-llms 4986 GB/s bitpacking with ARM SIMD (single thread) 29 129 85d +42m github.com/ashtonsix/perf-portfolio/tree/main/bytepack 50Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks 110 265 86d +3h jamesoclaire.com/2025/10/05/self-hosting-10tb-in-s3-on-a-framework-laptop-disks 51Skills I Was Missing as a MongoDB User 6 6 88d +2d mongodb.com/company/blog/technical/10-skills-was-missing-as-mongodb-user 52Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power 67 112 86d +58m zakelfassi.com/command-interface-device-power 53Show HN: 2D Spine Animation AI for Game 12 29 89d +3d godmodeai.co/ai-spine-animation 54Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify 152 303 86d +13m bhargav.dev/blog/VPS_Setup_and_Security_Checklist_A_Complete_Self_Hosting_Guide 55Legal experts condemn Apple bowing to White House's request to remove ICEBlock 34 66 86d +28m text.npr.org/nx-s1-5561999 56A 2025 manual to the DEC PDP-1 0 20 89d +3d obsolescence.dev/pdp1-manual.html 57Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 274 403 86d +1h blog.muni.town/personal-data-storage-idea 58Leveling Up My Homelab 76 96 89d +3d cweagans.net/2025/09/leveling-up-my-homelab 59Benefits of choosing email over messaging 155 178 86d +43m spinellis.gr/blog/20250926/?li 60Comparing a RISC and a CISC with similar hardware organization (1991) 81 82 88d +2d dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/106972.107003 61Social Cooling (2017) 275 428 86d +1h socialcooling.com 62Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform 89 218 86d +1h anthropic.com/news/context-management 63The best worst hack that saved our bacon 64 133 89d +3d jeffersonheard.ghost.io/the-best-worst-hack-that-saved-our-bacon 64Ambigr.am 42 313 86d +2h ambigr.am/hall-of-fame 65Whiteboarding with AI 3 27 86d +8h jrfernandez.com/whiteboarding-with-ai 66Microsoft Surface Pen Compatibility / Interoperability FAQ (2024) 31 47 89d +3d dancharblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/29/surface-pen-compatibility-interoperability-faq 67Scientists debunk claims of seed oil health risks 35 22 86d +1h hsph.harvard.edu/news/scientists-debunk-seed-oil-health-risks 68Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? 309 297 86d +1m theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish 69What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers 238 289 2mo +3d roxeem.com/2025/09/30/what-net-10-gc-changes-mean-for-developers 70Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society 483 550 86d +1h pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/02/americans-increasingly-see-legal-sports-betting-as-a-bad-thing-for-society-and-sports 71[dead] ? 5 86d +1h github.com 721Password CLI Vulnerability 59 119 86d +1h codeberg.org/manchicken/1password-cli-vuln-disclosure 73Show HN: The Little Book of C 27 37 88d +2d github.com/little-book-of/c 74Are Motorcycles "Donorcycles"? 19 14 86d +36m pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33334475 75Machine Learnability as a Measure of Order in Aperiodic Sequences 5 48 89d +3d arxiv.org/abs/2509.18103 76AI-powered open-source code laundering 84 158 86d +3h github.com/SudoMaker/rEFui/blob/main/HALL_OF_SHAME.md 77Parrot – type-safe SQL in Gleam, supports SQlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL 33 121 86d +1h github.com/daniellionel01/parrot 78You can't parse XML with regex. Let's do it anyways 81 89 86d +31m sdomi.pl/weblog/26-nobody-here-is-free-of-sin 79One Battle After Another: PTA and the Death of Revolutionary Cinema 23 24 89d +2d letterboxd.com/markcira/film/one-battle-after-another/2 80Mod. 5140 - IBM's First Laptop Computer 42 80 86d +1h richardsapperdesign.com/products/mod-5140 81NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography? 109 240 86d +3h blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html 82Unchecked and Unaccountable: How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data 15 74 86d +1h hsgac.senate.gov/media/dems/peters-report-finds-that-doge-continues-to-operate-unchecked-likely-violating-federal-privacy-and-security-laws-and-putting-the-safety-of-americans-personal-information-in-danger 83Mathematical Models/Algorithms for Optimization of Lego Construction Problems [pdf] 0 71 89d +3d backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/236623063/PhD_Thesis_Torkil_Kollsker.pdf 84[dead] ? 14 86d +51m kqed.org 85Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure 169 192 86d +5h perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-365-copilot-commercial-failure 86Borehole Oscillators 12 51 86d +1h gregegan.net/SCIENCE/Borehole/Borehole.html 87Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4 21 77 86d +1h arxiv.org/abs/2509.12351 88[dead] ? 16 86d +1h probioticfinder.org 89A Network Crumb Back Story: A Baker's Dozen Retrospective 0 9 89d +3d kentik.com/blog/crumb-back-story-a-bakers-dozen-retrospective 90 More... 2025.10.04