HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Memorizing phone numbers 47 46 86d +3d phong.bearblog.dev/memorizing-phone-numbers 1Seeing like a software company 118 372 83d +6h seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a-software-company 2Vibe engineering 697 633 83d +8h simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering 3Macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling wins Nobel Prize in physics 1 5 83d +6h chemistryworld.com/news/macroscopic-quantum-mechanical-tunnelling-wins-nobel-prize-in-physics/4022281.article 4How to Figure Out What You're Not Good At 14 34 83d +1h blog.martin-haehnel.de/2025/10/07/how-to-figure-out-what-you-re-not-good-at 5Global Village Construction Set 77 191 84d +1d opensourceecology.org/gvcs 6Investing in America 2025 46 45 83d +19m blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/investing-in-america-2025 7[dead] ? 17 83d +17m wibc.com 8Become unbannable from your email 192 237 83d +5m karboosx.net/post/PJOveGVa/become-unbannable-from-your-emailgmail 9Show HN: DidMySettingsChange – A tool that checks changed windows settings 14 50 85d +1d github.com/nolesapex/DidMySettingsChange 10California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services 57 82 83d +4m gov.ca.gov/2025/10/06/no-more-loud-commercials-governor-newsom-signs-sb-576 11Metriport (YC S22) is hiring a recruiter 0 1 83d +9s ycombinator.com/companies/metriport/jobs/uq6CuhA-founding-recruiter 12Recursive reasoning with tiny networks 2 69 83d +33m alexiajm.github.iohttp:///2025/09/29/tiny_recursive_models.html 13Windows 3.1 in a Windows 95 Virtual Machine (2022) 53 71 86d +2d geoffchappell.com/notes/windows/retro/extrawin.htm 14User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality 377 275 83d +41m plus.flux.community/p/banning-controversy-reveals-blueskys 15Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant 358 596 83d +8h nationalpost.com/opinion/canadian-bill-would-strip-internet-access-from-specified-persons 16Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model 322 625 83d +13m blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-computer-use-model 17Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers 46 338 84d +1d nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-browser 18Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012) 75 100 89d +5d boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/6739/is-pawn-promotion-to-rook-or-bishop-something-that-is-seen-in-play 19Photowand – Turn selfies into professional photos with AI 18 10 83d +52m photowand.ai/packs 20Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting 95 187 85d +1d github.com/sharkdp/bat 21Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap 186 150 83d +16m sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/eliminating-contrails 22The publishing industry has a gambling problem 51 73 83d +17m thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-industry-has-a-gambling-problem 23ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones 200 325 83d +1h techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/ice-bought-vehicles-equipped-with-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-phones 24Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid 152 211 83d +16m techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-all-android-developers-to-register-and-be-verified-threatens-to-close-down-open-source-app-store-f-droid 25The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom 115 160 83d +13m economist.com/business/2025/09/30/the-murky-economics-of-the-data-centre-investment-boom 26Locality, and Temporal-Spatial Hypothesis 1 20 84d +1d brooker.co.za/blog/2025/10/05/locality.html 27Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study 302 270 83d +45m surrey.ac.uk/news/solar-energy-now-worlds-cheapest-source-power-surrey-study-finds 28Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks 63 306 83d +26m alexiajm.github.io/2025/09/29/tiny_recursive_models.html 29Show HN: Arc – high-throughput time-series warehouse with DuckDB analytics 18 29 83d +1h github.com/Basekick-Labs/arc 30German government comes out against Chat Control 536 1132 83d +5m xcancel.com/paddi_hansen/status/1975595307800142205 31Functional Threading "Macros" 6 67 84d +1d aartaka.me/threading.html 32Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97 3 21 83d +27m nytimes.com/2025/10/07/dining/saul-zabar-dead.html 33Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers 2 75 83d +12m nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-browser 34Doing Rails Wrong 274 370 83d +7m bananacurvingmachine.com/articles/you-re-doing-rails-wrong 35Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad 203 244 83d +9m bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r0erqk18jo 36Cache-Friendly B+Tree Nodes with Dynamic Fanout 28 97 83d +25m jacobsherin.com/posts/2025-08-18-bplustree-struct-hack 37Pigeon (YC W23) is hiring a lead full stack engineer 0 1 83d +10s ycombinator.com/companies/pigeon/jobs/sjuJOg3-lead-full-stack-software-engineer-remote-us 38Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' 160 301 83d +23m 404media.co/police-said-they-surveilled-woman-who-had-an-abortion-for-her-safety-court-records-show-they-considered-charging-her-with-a-crime 39An illustrated introduction to linear algebra 84 431 84d +1d ducktyped.org/p/an-illustrated-introduction-to-linear 40Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally 161 601 83d +17m timelinize.com 41IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021 138 501 83d +34m ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/ikea-catalogue 42Show HN: MARS – Personal AI robot for builders (< $2k) 66 116 83d +58m 43Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time 134 113 83d +19m wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/gold-prices-top-4-000-for-first-time-d63ab2bd 44Launch HN: LlamaFarm (YC W22) – Open-source framework for distributed AI 70 102 83d +5m github.com/llama-farm/llamafarm 45How does gradient descent work? 24 319 87d +3d centralflows.github.io/part1 46Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August 108 77 83d +11m nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/06/upshot/us-international-student-travel.html 47Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says 93 126 83d +16m france24.com/en/live-news/20251001-swiss-glaciers-shrank-by-a-quarter-in-past-decade-study 48Show HN: Blueprintor for Hardware Engineering 6 3 83d +1h zima.run 49No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut 4 342 83d +9m theregister.com/2025/10/07/windows_11_local_account_loophole 50Reconstruction of Konrad Zuse's Z3 Computer 18 78 87d +3d dcmlr.inf.fu-berlin.de/rojas/index.html%3Fp=560.html 51Show HN: Greenonion.ai – AI-Powered Design Assistant 18 22 84d +6h exuberant-premise-723012.framer.app 52Gifted children are special needs children 138 66 83d +19m mleverything.substack.com/p/gifted-children-are-special-needs 53Eating capitalism: How our food got hijacked by profits 21 23 83d +21m hi-im-ada.beehiiv.com/p/7-eating-capitalism 54Chess.com regional pricing: A case study 111 117 84d +1d mobeigi.com/blog/economics/chesscom-regional-pricing 55Tcl-Lang Showcase 44 120 83d +20m wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Showcase 56America is now one big bet on AI 182 167 83d +26m ft.com/content/6cc87bd9-cb2f-4f82-99c5-c38748986a2e 57When money is abundant, knowledge is the real wealth (2020) 8 19 83d +54m lesswrong.com/posts/wEebEiPpEwjYvnyqq/when-money-is-abundant-knowledge-is-the-real-wealth 58Ahab's Arithmetic: The Mathematics of Moby-Dick 8 48 84d +1d scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1720&context=jhm 593M May Escape Toxic Chemical, PFAS Manufacturing Legacy 101 161 83d +8m bloomberg.com/features/2025-3m-pfas-toxic-legacy-turnaround 60Erlang ARM32 JIT is born 19 168 83d +20m grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-10-07-jit-arm32.3 61Qualcomm to acquire Arduino 531 1317 83d +15m qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-developers--access-to-i 62GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me 36 64 83d +2h seangoedecke.com/ai-research-with-codex 63The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf] 166 228 83d +5m lua.org/doc/cola.pdf 64Stress test for parallel disk i/o using git and pnpm 60 76 83d +43m github.com/NullVoxPopuli/disk-perf-git-and-pnpm 65Provision (YC S22) Is Hiring 0 1 83d +34s ycombinator.com/companies/provision/jobs/JJ9fZxg-fullstack-software-engineer-in-person-toronto-canada 66Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows? 188 173 87d +3d alexmolas.com/2025/07/28/unexpected-benefit-llm.html 67Building a Synthetic Cell Together 8 9 86d +2d nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62778-8 68The Quiet Driving Force Behind Rising Curtailment Costs in Great Britain 77 58 83d +23m ukerc.ac.uk/news/transmission-network-unavailability-the-quiet-driving-force-behind-rising-curtailment-costs-in-great-britain 69Polish scientists' startup Pathway announces AI reasoning breakthrough 9 11 83d +16m polskieradio.pl/395/7784/artykul/3588855,polish-scientists-startup-pathway-announces-ai-reasoning-breakthrough 70MacBook Lid Angle Sensor 29 68 83d +17m github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor 71Redis CVE-2025-49844: Use-After-Free may lead to remote code execution 13 20 83d +58m redis.io/blog/security-advisory-cve-2025-49844 72Build files are the best tool to represent software architecture 42 50 87d +3d blogsystem5.substack.com/p/you-are-holding-build-files-wrong 73The Mondrian introduction to functional optics 21 83 83d +44m marcosh.github.iohttp:///post/2025/10/07/the-mondrian-introduction-to-functional-optics.html 74Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify 91 256 83d +4m github.com/hunvreus/devpush 75Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 99 469 83d +7m nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/popular-information 76Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming 74 35 83d +8m gizmodo.com/buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming-2000668213 77Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages 31 85 86d +2d microformats.org 78A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry 273 199 83d +41m motor1.com/news/774805/ford-ceo-complains-shortage-mechanics 79Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report 229 456 84d +44m theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/06/deloitte-to-pay-money-back-to-albanese-government-after-using-ai-in-440000-report 80No_color: Disabling ANSI color output by default 15 52 87d +3d no-color.org 81Grafana Labs made a Taylor Swift dashboard 19 21 87d +3d grafana.com/blog/2025/10/03/taylor-swift-grafanas-version-how-to-track-and-visualize-data-related-to-pop-s-biggest-superstar 82TIL: The Data Furnace 8 17 84d +26m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_furnace 83Omnitron's MEMS Tech Boosts Lidar Reliability 0 8 87d +3d spectrum.ieee.org/mems-lidar 84The NIH ordered me to stop my 'dangerous' gain-of-function research 94 73 84d +48m statnews.com/2025/10/06/gain-of-function-research-tuberculosis-expert-nih 85RIAA: Telegram and Discord Are Notorious Hubs for Pre-Release Music Piracy 5 29 84d +1h torrentfreak.com/riaa-telegram-discord-are-notorious-hubs-for-pre-release-music-piracy 86Learning a foreign language–before you're born 37 79 84d +11m nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2025/10/03/learning-a-foreign-language-before-you-re-born 87California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes 139 345 84d +1h politico.com/news/2025/10/06/dial-it-down-california-forces-netflix-hulu-to-lower-ad-volume-00595663 88Radioactive Pottery and Glassware (2010) 1 15 87d +3d carlwillis.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/nuclear-collection-part-iv 89Gore Vidal: American Prophet 19 36 87d +3d newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/10/gore-vidal-american-prophet 90Compiling a Forth 9 69 84d +14h healeycodes.com/compiling-a-forth 91Compiling a Forth 0 6 84d +4h healeycodes.com/compiling-a-forth 92Pdoc – Generate API documentation for Python projects 25 114 84d +13m pdoc.dev 93Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half 114 272 87d +3d arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/everyone-but-china-has-pretty-much-stopped-littering-in-low-earth-orbit 94Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle 5 80 84d +1h quantamagazine.org/origami-patterns-solve-a-major-physics-riddle-20251006 95Show HN: ElevenLabs UI shadcn/UI components for audio 3 49 84d +4h ui.elevenlabs.io 96Hardware Stockholm Syndrome 15 37 84d +1h programmingsimplicity.substack.com/p/hardware-stockholm-syndrome 97Using Deno as my game engine 63 171 88d +3d explodi.tubatuba.net/2025/09/26/using-deno-as-my-game-engine 98What makes 5% of AI agents work in production? 121 126 88d +4d motivenotes.ai/p/what-makes-5-of-ai-agents-actually 99Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns (2010) 16 45 88d +3d lwn.net/Articles/411845 100Effect of the inflows of immigrants on European workers’ careers (2013) [pdf] 13 14 84d +2h globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8181/files/2017-07/giovanni_what_happens_to_the_careers.pdf 101The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023) 323 752 84d +1h thecascade.dev/article/least-amount-of-css 102Microsoft are removing mechanisms for creating a local account in Windows Setup 2 67 84d +35m blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/10/06/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-6772-beta-channel 103Being blocked from contributing to lodash 52 87 84d +4h c.ruatta.com/on-being-blocked-from-contributing-to-lodash 104Aaaan.net 4 7 87d +3d aaaan.nethttp:/ 105Analytical review of depression and suicidality from finasteride 108 67 84d +14m psychiatrist.com/jcp/analytical-review-depression-suicidality-finasteride 106 More... 2025.10.06