HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account 1288 602 84d +21m theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes 1RediShell: Critical remote code execution vulnerability in Redis 55 137 84d +1h wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-redis-rce-cve-2025-49844 2Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? 289 410 88d +3d animebythenumbers.substack.com/p/worse-crunchyroll-subtitles 3An MVCC-like columnar table on S3 with constant-time deletes 10 20 86d +2d shayon.dev/post/2025/277/an-mvcc-like-columnar-table-on-s3-with-constant-time-deletes 4CodeMender: an AI agent for code security 29 195 84d +55m deepmind.google/discover/blog/introducing-codemender-an-ai-agent-for-code-security 5Translating Cython to Mojo, a first attempt 31 86 84d +1h fnands.com/blog/2025/sklearn-mojo-dbscan-inner 6WebGPU and the Price of Compiling WGSL 25 45 84d +21m hugodaniel.com/posts/webgpu-diagnostics 7How to tile matrix multiplication (2023) 8 81 88d +3d alvinwan.com/how-to-tile-matrix-multiplication 8OpenAI ChatKit Studio 1 24 84d +1h chatkit.studio 9Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020) 127 218 84d +9m technology.riotgames.com/news/valorants-128-tick-servers 10OpenAI ChatKit 47 198 84d +3h github.com/openai/chatkit-js 11Cuckoo hashing improves SIMD hash tables (and other hash table tradeoffs) 1 78 86d +2d reiner.org/cuckoo-hashing 12Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target 90 305 88d +4d physicsworld.com/a/kirigami-inspired-parachute-falls-on-target 13Writing high-performance matrix multiplication kernels for Blackwell 6 62 88d +4d docs.jax.dev/en/latest/pallas/gpu/blackwell_matmul.html 14Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024) 412 665 87d +2d windscribe.com/blog/the-vpn-relationship-map 15Sharpie found a way to make pens more cheaply by manufacturing them in the U.S. 195 161 86d +1d wsj.com/business/sharpie-us-production-cost-cutting-d9ba2abd 16My Life in Ambigrammia 15 41 84d +26m theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/ambigrams-words-double-meanings-art/684404 17Request for Hall of Fame Essays 1 8 87d +3d quarter--mile.com/Request-for-hall-of-fame-essays 18OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework 105 420 84d +3h engineering.fb.com/2025/10/06/developer-tools/openzl-open-source-format-aware-compression-framework 19ACP Brings JetBrains on Board 11 30 84d +2h zed.dev/blog/jetbrains-on-acp 20Show HN: I've build a platform for writing technical/scientific documents 33 58 84d +8h monsterwriter.com 21OpenAI DevDay 2025: Opening keynote [video] 12 55 84d +2h youtube.com/watch?v=hS1YqcewH0c 22How the US got left behind in the electric car race 143 71 84d +1h bbc.com/news/articles/c8ex2l58en4o 23Novel Stable and Low-Energy Earth-Moon Cycle Orbits [pdf] 5 23 84d +4h ross.aoe.vt.edu/papers/ross-roberts-tsoukkas-2025-AAS-25-621.pdf 24OpenZL: A novel data compression framework 4 32 84d +1h github.com/facebook/openzl 25Beginnings: The Dempster Dumpster 9 24 84d +2h classicrefusetrucks.com/albums/DE/DE01.html 26Stickpic: Generate block device and file compressibility maps 0 7 88d +3d gitlab.com/scalvin/stickpic 27'Obedient, yielding and happy to follow': the troubling rise of AI girlfriends 73 24 84d +40m theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/06/rise-of-ai-girlfriends-adult-dating-websites 28The Hunt for Huntington's 1 26 88d +4d nehalslearnings.substack.com/p/the-hunt-for-huntingtons 29Nearly half of drivers killed in (Ohio County) crashes had THC in their blood 122 86 84d +8m sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251005085621.htm 30Apps SDK 381 461 84d +9m developers.openai.com/apps-sdk 31Mister Macintosh (2004) 57 115 88d +3d folklore.org/Mister_Macintosh.html 32OpenAI is good at deals 40 90 84d +45m bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-10-06/openai-is-good-at-deals 33How Europe crushes innovation 139 44 84d +1m economist.com/europe/2025/10/02/how-europe-crushes-innovation 34One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day 328 260 84d +59m earthsky.org/human-world/1-to-2-starlink-satellites-falling-back-to-earth-each-day 35La Quête du Temps, Vacheron Constantin timepiece at the Louvre 9 33 87d +3d bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-03/at-the-louvre-vacheron-constantin-showcases-the-art-of-luxury-watches 36The worrying kink in this job openings, unemployment curve 83 63 84d +21m axios.com/2025/10/06/jobs-unemployment-fed-interest-rates 37UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote engineers across the Americas 0 1 84d +33s up.codes/careers?utm_source=HN 38Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests 255 937 84d +42s twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1974781722953953601 39The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times subprime 241 234 84d +5m morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20251003175/the-ai-bubble-is-17-times-the-size-of-the-dot-com-frenzy-and-four-times-subprime-this-analyst-argues 40When ChatGPT turns informant 140 135 84d +4m futureofbeinghuman.com/p/when-chatgpt-turns-snitch 41Expected Attention: KV Cache Compression by Estimating Attention 3 20 84d +1h arxiv.org/abs/2510.00636 42Show HN: Neural emotion matrix for NPCs 18 48 3mo +7d github.com/mavdol/npc-neural-affect-matrix 43Finding treasures with physics: the fingerprint matrix 6 30 87d +2d tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/news/news-articles/news/physik-fuer-die-schatzsuche-die-fingerabdruck-matrix 44"Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore 133 135 84d +4m iamcharliegraham.substack.com/p/be-different-doesnt-work-for-building 45Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works 60 73 84d +8m getgrapevine.ai 46AI has found 50 bugs in cURL. "AI-native SASTs work well" 5 22 84d +3h etn.se/72494 47Apple's Unlawful Evil 107 164 84d +6m pluralistic.net/2025/10/06/rogue-capitalism/#orphaned-syrian-refugees-need-not-apply 48Microsoft is about to launch free Xbox Cloud Gaming with ads 55 41 84d +29m theverge.com/report/791213/xbox-cloud-gaming-free-ad-supported-version 49Ink deformation 14 88 87d +2d inkandswitch.com/ink/notes/ink-deformation-review 50[dead] ? 6 84d +1h aeryn.me 51Mise: Monorepo Tasks 91 377 84d +42m github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/6564 52Indefinite Backpack Travel 399 438 88d +3d jeremymaluf.com/onebag 53[dead] ? 11 84d +26m theintercept.com 54Show HN: Kent Dybvig's Scheme Machine in 400 Lines of C (Heap-Memory Model) 42 224 84d +58s gist.github.com/swatson555/8cc36d8d022d7e5cc44a5edb2c4f7d0b 55Generation X may be the first to need a universal basic income 23 15 84d +32m thehill.com/opinion/finance/5538292-gen-x-job-security-ai 56CLI tool to convert OpenBSD Packet Filter config files to JSON and vice versa 13 46 87d +2d github.com/fleximus/pfjson 57Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server 147 223 84d +37m codedge.de/posts/modern-messaging-running-your-own-xmpp-server 58Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker 173 270 84d +14m write-it-down.com 59State Terror, American Style 116 215 84d +1h paulkrugman.substack.com/p/state-terror-american-style 60AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake 363 438 84d +8m reuters.com/business/amd-signs-ai-chip-supply-deal-with-openai-gives-it-option-take-10-stake-2025-10-06 61French PM Lecornu resigns hours after forming cabinet 21 22 84d +17m lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/10/06/french-pm-lecornu-resigns-hours-after-naming-government_6746132_7.html 62Creating a database of motivated proofs 2 20 88d +3d gowers.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/creating-a-database-of-motivated-proofs 63Disney+ Subscribers Face a Wave of Cancellations 36 33 84d +46m techbook-magazine.com/streaming/providers/disney-subscribers-face-a-wave-of-cancellations 64IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man 48 52 88d +3d spectrum.ieee.org/ironcub-jet-powered-flying-robot 65The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh 2 57 84d +20m pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence 66Build a VPN Tunnel with Wintun on Windows – Part 1 2 41 85d +44m 0xmm.in/posts/peer-to-peer-windows-part1 67Protecting your (my) passport from liquid damage 25 17 88d +3d blog.jgc.org/2025/10/protecting-your-my-passport-from-liquid.html 68Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 78 344 85d +30m nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/press-release 69[dead] ? 16 85d +4m moneo.com.tr 70Delimited continuations in lone Lisp 23 115 88d +3d matheusmoreira.com/articles/delimited-continuations-in-lone-lisp 71Demodesk (YC W19) Is Hiring a Ruby on Rails Engineer 0 1 85d +4s demodesk.com/careers 72Basic Math Textbook: The Napkin Project 72 239 88d +3d web.evanchen.cc/napkin.html 73Battering RAM – Low-cost interposer attacks on confidential computing 59 136 85d +23m batteringram.eu 74[dead] ? 15 85d +47m theguardian.com 75Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers 133 122 85d +10m swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-democracy/zurich-voters-ban-petrol-powered-leaf-blowers/90082192 76FSF turns forty with a groundbreaking new project and a new president 25 104 85d +25m fsf.org/news/fsf-turns-forty-with-a-new-president-and-a-new-campaign 77It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead 436 243 85d +3h nytimes.com/2025/10/05/well/sam-terblanche-virus-death-columbia.html 78Gem.coop 296 514 85d +2h gem.coop 79Orcas are bringing humans gifts 96 161 87d +2d newscientist.com/article/2486216-orcas-are-bringing-humans-gifts-what-does-it-mean 80Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account 96 168 85d +8m flightcontrol.dev 81Structured Procrastination (1995) 160 479 85d +10m structuredprocrastination.com 82Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders 59 79 87d +2d geonot.github.io/retrocide-mono 83CHERI with a Linux on Top 11 54 85d +1h lwn.net/Articles/1037974 84Joint Book Review: Class, by Paul Fussell 11 37 88d +3d thepsmiths.com/p/joint-review-class-by-paul-fussell 85Find Nearby Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) 75 141 85d +46m deflock.me 86Building Effective Text-to-3D AI Agents: A Hybrid Architecture Approach 3 20 85d +1h addy.rocks/blog/text-to-3d-agent-hybrid-architecture 87Catalyst evolution reveals the unsung heroes in industrial ammonia production 0 15 88d +3d phys.org/news/2025-09-catalyst-evolution-reveals-unsung-heroes.html 881 Trillion Web Pages Archived 92 687 85d +20m blog.archive.org/trillion 89Michigan anti-porn bill would criminalize ASMR, written erotica 7 19 85d +6m reason.com/2025/09/22/michigan-anti-porn-bill-would-criminalize-asmr-written-erotica-and-even-nonsexual-depictions-of-trans-people 90Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? 409 722 85d +1h vgel.me/posts/seahorse 91The Internet Is Better on Comet 11 4 88d +3d perplexity.ai/hub/blog/comet-is-now-available-to-everyone-worldwide 92[dead] ? 6 85d +46m wsj.com 93Revocation Confusion 5 11 85d +9m nullpxl.com/post/revocation-confusion 94Should I choose Ada, SPARK, or Rust over C/C++? (2024) 162 109 85d +42m blog.adacore.com/should-i-choose-ada-spark-or-rust-over-c-c 95Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely 101 302 88d +3d magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html 96A selfie with Netanyahu turns into an employee and customer exodus 10 36 85d +23m hardresetmedia.com/p/a-selfie-with-netanyahu-turns-into 97Mic-E-Mouse – Covert eavesdropping through computer mice 14 89 85d +4m sites.google.com/view/mic-e-mouse 98Rule-Based Expert Systems: The Mycin Experiments (1984) 24 92 85d +1h shortliffe.net/Buchanan-Shortliffe-1984/MYCIN%20Book.htm 99Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame 45 296 89d +3d srb2.org 100Estimating AI energy use 97 103 85d +1h spectrum.ieee.org/ai-energy-use 101AMD's EPYC 9355P: Inside a 32 Core Zen 5 Server Chip 1 15 88d +3d chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-epyc-9355p-inside-a-32-core 102 More... 2025.10.05