HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Indiana city doesn't have to pay innocent mom $16,000 after police wrecked home 41 63 78d +17m reason.com/2025/10/10/this-indiana-city-doesnt-have-to-pay-an-innocent-mom-16000-after-police-wrecked-her-home-court-rules 1Private equity is sitting on $5T of existential dread 45 32 78d +2m afr.com/chanticleer/private-equity-is-sitting-on-5-trillion-of-existential-dread-20250925-p5mxxv 2Database Linting and Analysis for PostgreSQL 25 115 82d +4d pglinter.readthedocs.io/en/latest 3Free software hasn't won 436 374 78d +17m dorotac.eu/posts/fosswon 4MAML – A new configuration language 171 125 78d +44m maml.dev 53D-Printed Automatic Weather Station 22 106 81d +3d 3dpaws.comet.ucar.edu 6Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025) 967 334 78d +1h 7Constraint satisfaction to optimize item selection for bundles in Minecraft 11 40 78d +2h robw.fyi/2025/10/12/using-constraint-satisfaction-to-optimize-item-selection-for-bundles-in-minecraft 8Bird photographer of the year gives a lesson in planning and patience 40 185 84d +6d thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/2025-bird-photographer-of-the-year-contest 9Trusting builds with Bazel remote execution 4 2 78d +42s jmmv.dev/2025/09/bazel-remote-execution.html 10I audited 47 failed startups' codebases 62 58 78d +1h old.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1o4jup6/i_audited_47_failed_startups_codebases_and_the 11Edge AI for Beginners 63 182 78d +18m github.com/microsoft/edgeai-for-beginners 12I'd like to speak to the Bellcore ManaGeR 6 17 78d +6h ninakalinina.com/notes/mgr 13Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice 113 181 78d +14h buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/three-ways-formally-verified-code-can-go-wrong-in 14Oavif: Faster target quality image compression 20 43 78d +4h giannirosato.com/blog/post/oavif 15A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler 165 157 78d +3h sam-cooper.medium.com/the-country-that-broke-kotlin-84bdd0afb237 16Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP) 46 231 78d +48s xenodium.com/introducing-agent-shell 17A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs (2018) 0 37 79d +23h fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/a-whirlwind-introduction-to-dataflow-graphs 18The first interstellar software update: The hack that saved Voyager 1 [video] 3 7 78d +1m youtube.com/watch?v=p0K7u3B_8rY 19Rcyl – a recycled plastic urban bike 32 32 78d +57m rcyl.bike/en/the-bike 20AI tools churn out 'workslop', but 'the buck' should stop with bosses 12 18 78d +27m theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/12/ai-workslop-us-employees 21The Tiny Teams Playbook 45 134 82d +4d latent.space/p/tiny 22After the AI boom: what might we be left with? 458 157 78d +10m blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/12/after-the-ai-boom-what-might-we-be-left-with 23HP1345A (and wargames) (2017) 4 47 78d +19m phk.freebsd.dk/hacks/Wargames 24Completing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025 20 100 78d +13m nanochess.org/ecs_basic_2.html 25Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability 37 57 78d +27m anderegg.ca/2025/10/12/nielsen-norman-group-on-ios-26-usability 26The neurons that let us see what isn't there 3 49 83d +5d arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/the-neurons-that-let-us-see-what-isnt-there 27Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions 117 294 78d +4h ambisounds.app 28Agent Shell 0.5 Improvements 4 24 78d +43m xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-5-improvements 29Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien: Covenant – Contemporary Horror of AI (2020) 75 63 78d +1h ejumpcut.org/archive/jc58.2018/AlpertAlienPrequels/index.html 30'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app 147 129 78d +53m theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists 31Paying AIs to read my books 46 64 83d +4d kk.org/thetechnium/paying-ais-to-read-my-books 32We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB 57 71 78d +23m kuzudb.com 33Wireguard FPGA 163 629 78d +25m github.com/chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga 34I have a GPS bike computer 38 32 82d +3d utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/WhyIHaveGPSBikeComputer 35In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings −and being skeptical 100 144 78d +14m theconversation.com/in-1776-thomas-paine-made-the-best-case-for-fighting-kings-and-for-being-skeptical-266448 36GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773) 18 127 78d +9m embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/github-copilot-remote-code-execution-via-prompt-injection 37How I'm using Helix editor 90 216 78d +51m rushter.com/blog/helix-editor 38Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toys 138 168 78d +6m nature.com/articles/s41598-025-18636-0 39How to Run WordPress completely from RAM 51 33 82d +3d rickconlee.com/how-to-run-wordpress-completely-from-ram 40[dead] ? 9 78d +32m augmentedswe.com 41No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive 436 571 78d +9m idiallo.com/byte-size/say-no-to-onedrive-backup 42[dead] ? 21 78d +21m crimier.github.io 43Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email 143 381 78d +13m news.itsfoss.com/schleswig-holstein-email-system-migration 44Show HN: I extracted BASIC listings for Tim Hartnell's 1986 book 6 60 80d +2d github.com/nzduck/hartnell-exploring-ai-book 45Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 341 298 78d +35m twitter.com/StephenGutowski/status/1977055831720862101 46Apple Introduces $2M Bug Bounty for Spyware-Level Exploits 4 21 78d +1h macrumors.com/2025/10/10/apple-bug-bounty-program-overhauled 47Konrad Zuse's Helix Tower [pdf] 6 89 83d +4d iaarc.org/publications/fulltext/The_helix-tower_by_konrad_zuse_automated_con-_and_deconstruction.pdf 48Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June 72 92 78d +19m livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/extreme-weather-caused-more-than-usd100-billion-in-damage-by-june-smashing-us-records 49Django: One ORM to rule all databases 82 65 84d +6d paulox.net/2025/10/06/django-orm-comparison 50A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths 9 23 78d +57m wired.com/story/new-method-is-the-fastest-way-to-find-the-best-routes 51Loko Scheme: bare metal optimizing Scheme compiler 15 165 83d +5d scheme.fail 52Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients 136 135 78d +28m researchsquare.com/article/rs-7483367/v1 53Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat 128 138 78d +1h en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_cannot_claim_the_Earth_is_not_flat 54Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification 92 122 78d +1h snarky.ca/why-it-took-4-years-to-get-a-lock-files-specification 55Nostr and ATProto (2024) 72 131 78d +1h shreyanjain.net/2024/07/05/nostr-and-atproto.html 56Macro Splats 2025 71 421 78d +56m danybittel.ch/macro.html 57C++ Reflection and Qt MOC 45 91 82d +3d wiki.qt.io/C%2B%2B_reflection_(P2996)_and_moc 58AdapTive-LeArning Speculator System (ATLAS): Faster LLM inference 47 198 78d +1h together.ai/blog/adaptive-learning-speculator-system-atlas 59Blossom – Heroku-like deploys on your servers; cheaper, no lock-in 3 7 84d +5d blossom88.com 60CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIs 88 43 78d +2h gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-and-border-protection-cbp/cbp-enforces-binary-sex-codes-and-enhanced-us-passport-validation-in-apis 61Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook 55 171 78d +3h github.com/sirbread/spellscript 62Floating Electrons on a Sea of Helium 3 14 82d +3d arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/new-qubit-tech-traps-single-electrons-on-liquid-helium 63Show HN: Sober not Sorry – free iOS tracker to help you quit bad habits 55 58 78d +2h sobernotsorry.app 64The Flummoxagon 32 134 83d +4d n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9827 65The App Store was always authoritarian 103 150 78d +15m infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian 66Show HN: A Lisp Interpreter for Shell Scripting 25 113 82d +3d github.com/gue-ni/redstart 67Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18) 39 161 78d +1h postgresql.verite.pro/blog/2025/10/01/psql-pipeline.html 68I/O Multiplexing (select vs. poll vs. epoll/kqueue) 62 150 81d +3d nima101.github.io/io_multiplexing 69Major security breach at Austrian AI startup localmind.ai 6 27 78d +2h localmind.ai 70Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors 98 153 78d +11m techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/spyware-maker-nso-group-confirms-acquisition-by-us-investors 71Coral Protocol: Open infrastructure connecting the internet of agents 13 41 78d +1h arxiv.org/abs/2505.00749 72CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code 41 229 79d +6h legitsecurity.com/blog/camoleak-critical-github-copilot-vulnerability-leaks-private-source-code 73How Kyoto, Japan Became the Loveliest Tourist-Trap 46 57 81d +2d nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kyoto-japan-tourism-attraction-travel-tourist-trap.html 74Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid 18 48 78d +58m chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/10/neighbor-shielded-7-year-old-during-south-shore-federal-raid-i-didnt-want-them-to-take-her 75Weird Operators in PHP 3 7 83d +4d exakat.io/weird-operators-in-php 76The World's 2.75B Buildings 66 148 83d +4d tech.marksblogg.com/building-footprints-gba.html 77Heroin addicts often seem normal 235 163 79d +4h justismills.substack.com/p/heroin-addicts-often-seem-normal 78Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024) 114 384 79d +8h github.com/anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial 79Show HN: Solving the cluster 1 problem with vCluster standalone 3 13 82d +3d vcluster.com/blog/vcluster-standalone-multi-tenancy-kubernetes 80China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains 233 202 78d +4m csis.org/analysis/chinas-new-rare-earth-and-magnet-restrictions-threaten-us-defense-supply-chains 81Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS 120 212 78d +1h github.com/acsandmann/rift 82Paper2video: Automatic video generation from scientific papers 24 90 79d +1h arxiv.org/abs/2510.05096 83Is Odin just a more boring C? 70 55 79d +5h dayvster.com/blog/is-odin-just-a-more-boring-c 84Immutable Value 1 11 84d +5d kevlinhenney.medium.com/immutable-value-d5d73dc3252f 85The story of X-Copy on the Amiga 12 56 79d +2h spillhistorie.no/2025/10/10/the-story-of-x-copy-on-the-amiga 86Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf] 67 135 79d +42m scamcouver.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/scam-capital.pdf 87US moves to cancel one of the largest solar farms 48 61 79d +1h ft.com/content/7a3cd922-88ed-4188-86ab-ba09fbe24d42 88Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere 103 213 79d +31m androidauthority.com/pixel-ims-broken-october-update-3606444 89We Found a Hidden Camera in the Bathroom of Our Airbnb 46 68 79d +59m nytimes.com/2025/10/09/travel/airbnb-refund-camera-bathroom.html 90LineageOS 23 179 337 79d +7m lineageos.org/Changelog-30 91 More... 2025.10.11