HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order FSF announces Librephone project 608 1497 75d +12m fsf.org/news/librephone-project 1Interior cancels largest solar project in North America 16 108 75d +18m politico.com/news/2025/10/10/trump-interior-department-cancels-largest-solar-project-in-north-america-00602071 2Google's Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during durability testing 13 30 75d +1h notebookcheck.net/Pixel-10-Pro-Fold-explodes-during-durability-test-and-isn-t-dustproof-Google-doesn-t-learn.1138381.0.html 3CSS for Styling a Markdown Post 14 66 83d +7d webdev.bryanhogan.com/miscellaneous/styling-markdown 4[dead] ? 33 75d +8m twitter.com 5GrapheneOS is ready to break free from Pixels 247 407 75d +19m androidauthority.com/graphene-os-major-android-oem-partnership-3606853 6Why Is SQLite Coded In C 366 334 75d +2h sqlite.org/whyc.html 7Hacking the Humane AI Pin 41 181 82d +6d writings.agg.im/posts/hacking_ai_pin 8Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during JerryRigEverything's durability test 19 93 75d +1h dexerto.com/youtube/google-pixel-10-pro-fold-explodes-during-jerryrigeverythings-durability-test-3267086 9Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks 73 314 76d +2h blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cloudflare-workers-cpu-performance-benchmarks 10Captcha Welcome Mat 8 18 76d +3h captchawelcomemat.com 11Facebook removes ICE-tracking page after US Government 'outreach' 64 66 75d +1h theverge.com/policy/799473/facebook-meta-ice-jawboning 12Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses 78 74 76d +3h anthropic.com/research/economic-policy-responses 13Show HN: An open source access logs analytics script to block bot attacks 7 36 76d +2h github.com/tempesta-tech/webshield 14Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You 4 54 76d +2h motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/firstwap-altamides-phone-tracking-surveillance-secrets-assad-erik-prince-jared-leto-anne-wojcicki 15[dead] ? 18 75d +14m newrepublic.com 16AI and Home-Cooked Software 41 60 84d +8d mrkaran.dev/posts/ai-home-cooked-software 17U.S. Sanctions Cambodian Conglomerate, Citing Role in 'Pig-Butchering' Scams 3 84 75d +1h wsj.com/business/u-s-sanctions-cambodian-conglomerate-citing-role-in-pig-butchering-scams-0cf2e0ff 18Synthetic kratom is exploding in California 9 31 75d +33m sfgate.com/bayarea/article/synthetic-kratom-addiction-and-ban-california-21076514.php 19AppLovin nonconsensual installs 59 177 76d +1h benedelman.org/applovin-nonconsensual-installs 20New-Vehicle Avg Price Hits Record High in Sep, Surges Past $50k for First Time 90 27 75d +12m coxautoinc.com/insights-hub/sept-2025-atp-report 21SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system 25 258 76d +3h smolbsd.org 22Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking 144 473 75d +17m lighthousereports.com/investigation/surveillance-secrets 23Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch 170 196 76d +30m dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/half-of-americas-voting-machines 24[dead] ? 19 76d +18m politico.com 25Show HN: Wispbit - Linter for AI coding agents 14 29 76d +15m wispbit.com 26How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface 158 217 76d +31m tidbits.com/2025/10/09/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into-a-solid-interface 27The day my smart vacuum turned against me 132 235 83d +7d codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me 28America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy 389 265 76d +4m theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526 29Americans are losing millions to scammers at crypto ATMs 4 26 76d +13m cnn.com/interactive/2025/10/us/crypto-atm-scams-companies-profit-invs-vis 30Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI 445 516 76d +59m boydkane.com/essays/boss 31How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters 129 258 76d +3h accent-explorer.boldvoice.com 32Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM 126 197 76d +39m phoronix.com/review/intel-crescent-island 33What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on 463 688 76d +15m ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from 34Beyond the SQLite single-writer limitation with concurrent writes 66 79 82d +6d turso.tech/blog/beyond-the-single-writer-limitation-with-tursos-concurrent-writes 35New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells 26 92 76d +11m cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-lab-grown-human-embryo-model-produces-blood-cells 36[dead] ? 20 76d +6m politico.com 37Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass 17 42 76d +5m npr.org/2025/10/14/g-s1-93297/pentagon-reporter-opinion-press-policy 38Prefix sum: 20 GB/s (2.6x baseline) 32 89 76d +43m github.com/ashtonsix/perf-portfolio/tree/main/delta 39A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe 186 409 83d +7d trthaber.com/foto-galeri/karahantepede-12-bin-yil-oncesine-ait-insan-yuzlu-dikili-tas-bulundu/73912.html 40How bad can a $2.97 ADC be? 135 270 76d +18m excamera.substack.com/p/how-bad-can-a-297-adc-be 41Nexperia – Update on Company Developments 12 56 76d +6h nexperia.com/about/news-events/press-releases/update-on-company-developments 42CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded 2 50 76d +3h statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-firings-government-shutdown-hhs 43The phaseout of the mmap() file operation 4 48 81d +4d lwn.net/Articles/1038715 44Show HN: Metorial (YC F25) – Vercel for MCP 22 59 76d +1h github.com/metorial/metorial 45Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0 18 96 76d +1m mtlynch.io/notes/hold-off-on-litestream-0.5.0 46Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth's magnetic field 12 18 76d +4m phys.org/news/2025-10-swarm-reveals-weak-earth-magnetic.html 47Tesla is at risk of losing subsidies in Korea over widespread battery failures 139 102 76d +46m electrek.co/2025/10/14/tesla-is-at-risk-of-lossing-subsidies-in-korea-over-widespread-battery-failures 48RFK Jr. Must Go 88 99 76d +17m quillette.com/2025/09/17/rfk-jr-must-go-hhs-health-vaccines 49Subverting Telegram's end-to-end encryption (2023) 92 105 76d +10m tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/10302 50Automatic K8s pod placement to match external service zones 46 82 82d +6d github.com/toredash/automatic-zone-placement 51DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia 360 389 76d +13m cnbc.com/2025/10/14/bitcoin-doj-chen-zhi-pig-butchering-scam.html 52GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades 119 195 76d +9m thalamusgme.com/blogs/cortex-core-clerkship-grades-and-transcript-normalization 53Gravity can explain the collapse of the wavefunction 14 18 76d +3h arxiv.org/abs/2510.11037 54Self-improving LMs are becoming reality with MIT's updated SEAL technique 0 24 76d +1h venturebeat.com/ai/self-improving-language-models-are-becoming-reality-with-mits-updated-seal 55Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe 139 257 76d +10m mpg.de/25518363/1007-asph-astronomers-image-a-mysterious-dark-object-in-the-distant-universe-155031-x 56Scientists create 'Superwood' that's 10 times stronger than steel 13 17 76d +6m cnn.com/science/superwood-10-times-stronger-than-steel-spc 57Wireshark 4.6.0 Supports macOS Pktap Metadata (PID, Process Name, etc.) 22 134 76d +18m nuxx.net/blog/2025/10/14/wireshark-4-6-0-supports-macos-pktap-metadata-pid-process-name-etc 58Debugging Humidity: Lessons from deploying software in the physical world 14 16 80d +3d physical-ai.ghost.io/debugging-humidity-lessons-from-deploying-code-to-a-factory-floor 59CRISPR-like tools that finally can edit mitochondria DNA 45 154 76d +53m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03307-x 60Let's Not Encrypt (2019) 258 109 76d +6m michael.orlitzky.com/articles/lets_not_encrypt.xhtml 61Thread First – A model for chat experiences 8 26 78d +1d progressdb.dev/docs/blog-thread-first 62Show HN: Daily install trends of AI coding extensions in VS Code 11 27 76d +18m bloomberry.com/coding-tools.html 63ADS-B Exposed 77 334 76d +2h adsb.exposed 64China Is a Paradox 2 8 76d +25m bothfleshandmore.com/p/china-is-a-paradox 65Pyrefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust 143 199 76d +12m pyrefly.org/?featured_on=talkpython 662025 Q3 Sardines 6 13 81d +4d draftcorgi.substack.com/p/2025-q3-recommendations 67Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise AE 0 1 76d +24s ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/BQRRSrZ-enterprise-account-executive-ae 68Zoo of array languages 83 173 76d +30m ktye.github.io 69US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official info 6 23 76d +37m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/13/defense-department-media-news-rules 70Why is everything so scalable? 369 406 81d +5d stavros.io/posts/why-is-everything-so-scalable 71Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number made available online 27 21 76d +3m abc.net.au/news/2025-10-14/anthony-albanese-mobile-phone-number-available-online/105889284 72Show HN: CSS Extras 63 103 82d +6d github.com/sindresorhus/css-extras 73KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser 191 275 76d +29m kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025 74Nanochat 15 49 76d +8h simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/13/nanochat 75Ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment 112 404 82d +5d bbc.com/future/article/20251007-how-ultrasound-is-ushering-a-new-era-of-surgery-free-cancer-treatment 76A Draft of the ImageMagick Field Guide 4 12 83d +6d joeldare.com/imagemagick-field-guide.html 77[dead] ? 11 76d +14m nypost.com 78I let my AI agents run unsupervised and they burned $200 in 2 hours 36 21 76d +28m blog.justcopy.ai/p/i-let-my-ai-agents-run-unsupervised 79Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction? 375 326 76d +28m forum.cursor.com/t/why-the-push-for-agentic-when-models-can-barely-follow-a-single-simple-instruction/137154 80[dead] ? 17 81d +5d sigarch.org 81Why study programming languages (2022) 114 157 76d +1h people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/post/why-study-programming-languages 82A series of debugging sessions for Strimzi 0 6 81d +4d github.com/fvaleri/strimzi-debugging 83Copy-and-Patch: A Copy-and-Patch Tutorial 19 114 76d +20m transactional.blog/copy-and-patch/tutorial 84Passt – Plug a Simple Socket Transport 3 37 83d +7d passt.top/passt/about 85NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference 93 113 76d +3h lmsys.org/blog/2025-10-13-nvidia-dgx-spark 86Vali, a C library for Varlink 15 43 80d +3d emersion.fr/blog/2025/announcing-vali 87New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules 204 393 76d +1h apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-defense-department-rules-95878bce05096912887701eaa6d019c6 88Show HN: Wordle but you have to predict your score before playing 12 13 76d +7m boring.game/invite/SRhyUStjin 89Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence 288 267 81d +5d rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/chatgpt-palisades-fire-suspect-1235443216 90Modifying a Casio F-Series Digital Watch (2020) 4 39 76d +32m shellzine.net/casio-f-series-mods 91Apple Renames Apple TV+ to Apple TV 1 8 76d +3h daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/13/apple-tv-minus 92Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf] 135 539 76d +41m satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontlookup_ccs25_fullpaper.pdf 93The Bari Weiss Strategy 28 10 82d +5d letter.otherlife.co/p/bari 94Traffic lights with four colors and a new white light are coming 45 22 76d +1h unionrayo.com/en/traffic-lights-color-white-autonomous-cars 95Beating the L1 cache with value speculation (2021) 2 18 83d +6d mazzo.li/posts/value-speculation.html 96Nitro: Tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor 2 19 76d +1h github.com/leahneukirchen/nitro 97SpaceX Starship flight 11 successful 1 56 76d +11m twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1977895039318864296 98StreamingVLM: Real-Time Understanding for Infinite Video Streams 0 33 76d +38m arxiv.org/abs/2510.09608 99SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on 11th test flight 141 112 76d +7m cnn.com/science/live-news/spacex-starship-flight-11-launch-10-13-25 100Palm Jumeirah Island as an anlaogy to explain the Elliptic Curve Method 3 8 83d +7d codingpirate.com/elliptic-curve-method-visualization-for-integer-factorization-the-palm-jumeirah-as-an-analogy-via-63aec62b29bd 101Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 82 126 76d +29m arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/no-fix-yet-for-attack-that-lets-hackers-pluck-2fa-codes-from-android-phones 102 More... 2025.10.13