HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway 59 221 74d +4h blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery 1Blood-Sharing Drug Trend Fuels Global HIV Surge 37 42 79d +4d nytimes.com/2025/10/08/world/asia/bluetoothing-drug-blood-sharing.html 2US Dept of Interior denies canceling largest solar project after axing review 43 95 74d +39m utilitydive.com/news/department-interior-cancels-review-nevada-solar-project-trump/802704 3Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM 10 250 74d +4m gilesthomas.com/2025/10/llm-from-scratch-22-finally-training-our-llm 4YouTube seems to be down 70 144 74d +10m youtube.com 5IRS open sources its fact graph 77 336 74d +19m github.com/IRS-Public/fact-graph 6ImapGoose 17 111 74d +34m whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/10/15/introducing-imapgoose 7Ask HN: Can't get hired – what's next? 149 52 74d +7m 8An Electrical Engineering View of a Mechanical Watch (2003) [video] 16 71 84d +9d techtv.mit.edu/videos/15895-an-electrical-engineering-view-of-a-mechanical-watch 9How First Wap tracks phones around the world 22 84 74d +28m lighthousereports.com/methodology/surveillance-secrets-explainer 10Google runs Israel's ads: 'There is food in Gaza' 31 53 74d +9m washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/15/israel-ads-youtube-famine-gaza 11Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable 168 191 74d +19m vincentuden.xyz/blog/pdf-reader 12Next Steps for the Caddy Project Maintainership 105 227 74d +35m caddy.community/t/next-steps-for-the-caddy-project-maintainership/33076 13Bringing NumPy's type-completeness score to nearly 90% 33 59 83d +8d pyrefly.org/blog/numpy-type-completeness 14Zed is now available on Windows 359 540 75d +5h zed.dev/blog/zed-for-windows-is-here 15Gravity Can Explain the Collapse of the Wavefunction (Sabine Hossenfelder) 55 49 74d +45m arxiv.org/abs/2510.11037 16Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research 8 38 82d +7d pearlab.icrl.org 17Are hard drives getting better? 176 265 75d +3h backblaze.com/blog/are-hard-drives-getting-better-lets-revisit-the-bathtub-curve 18Monads are too powerful: The expressiveness spectrum 65 65 78d +3d chrispenner.ca/posts/expressiveness-spectrum 19Getting syntax highlighting wrong 137 204 74d +43m tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting 20Recursive Language Models (RLMs) 34 130 75d +1h alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2025/rlm 21Show HN: Specific (YC F25) – Build backends with specifications instead of code 14 29 75d +1h specific.dev 22US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low 163 137 75d +1h henleyglobal.com/newsroom/press-releases/henley-global-mobility-report-oct-2025 23SSH Security: Why You Should Touch to Verify 4 10 80d +5d ubicloud.com/blog/ssh-security-why-you-should-touch-to-verify 24Things I've learned in my 7 years implementing AI 52 154 75d +19m jampa.dev/p/llms-and-the-lessons-we-still-havent 25Clone-Wars: 100 open-source clones of popular sites 7 79 75d +30m github.com/GorvGoyl/Clone-Wars 26Claude Haiku 4.5 System Card [pdf] 1 51 75d +7m assets.anthropic.com/m/99128ddd009bdcb/original/Claude-Haiku-4-5-System-Card.pdf 27ChatGPT – Truth over comfort instruction set 28 28 78d +3d organizingcreativity.com/2025/06/chatgpt-truth-over-comfort-instruction-set 28F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code 101 209 75d +3h bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/f5-says-hackers-stole-undisclosed-big-ip-flaws-source-code 29Italy's Piracy Shield Is Just as Big a Disaster as Everyone Predicted 1 18 75d +1h techdirt.com/2025/10/14/research-italys-piracy-shield-is-just-as-big-a-disaster-as-everyone-predicted 30Breaking "provably correct" Leftpad 22 68 84d +9d lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/breaking-provably-correct-leftpad 31A Bright HDR Image 2 11 75d +22s walzr.com/HDR2.jpg 32Claude Haiku 4.5 285 720 75d +8m anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5 33C++26: range support for std:optional 83 77 80d +5d sandordargo.com/blog/2025/10/08/cpp26-range-support-for-std-optional 34F5 Networks reports nation-state cyberattack on product systems 1 29 75d +3h streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/F5+Networks+reports+nation-state+cyberattack+on+product+systems/25457824.html 35Americans' love of billiards paved the way for synthetic plastics 35 68 81d +6d invention.si.edu/invention-stories/imitation-ivory-and-power-play 36David Byrne Radio 24 110 75d +36m davidbyrne.com/radio#filter=all&sortby=date:desc 37Recreating the Canon Cat document interface 16 113 75d +49m lab.alexanderobenauer.com/updates/the-jasper-report 38We Raised $5.7M to Launch Cto.new Completely for Free 6 11 75d +26m super-empathy-963213.framer.app/blog/why-we-raised-5-7m-to-launch-cto-new-completely-for-free 39Reverse engineering a 27MHz RC toy communication using RTL SDR 20 95 75d +30m nitrojacob.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/reverse-engineering-a-27mhz-rc-toy-communication-using-rtl-sdr 40OVM6948 miniature camera module [pdf] 13 20 81d +5d ovt.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OVM6948-PB-v1.5-WEB.pdf 41A kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidia's GPU Linux drivers 37 169 75d +51m blog.quarkslab.com/./nvidia_gpu_kernel_vmalloc_exploit.html 42I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' 496 886 75d +1h blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-almost-got-hacked-by-a-job-interview 43[dead] ? 22 75d +11m politico.com 44Reverse engineering iWork 5 116 75d +2h andrews.substack.com/p/reverse-engineering-iwork 45You are the scariest monster in the woods 382 220 75d +12m jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/10/15/you-are-the-scariest-monster-in-the-woods 46They Clean the Balls in a Ball Pit 15 16 75d +1h core77.com/posts/138608/Heres-How-They-Clean-the-Balls-in-a-Ball-Pit 47M5 MacBook Pro 550 364 75d +56m apple.com/macbook-pro 48Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs 73 172 75d +55m macsourceports.com 49Pwning the Nix ecosystem 63 290 75d +9m ptrpa.ws/nixpkgs-actions-abuse 50Show HN: Trott – search,sort,extract social media videos(ig,yt,tiktok) 11 37 75d +2h trott.hattimatimlabs.in 51Hidden drivers of HRM's performance on ARC-AGI 2 30 82d +7d arcprize.org/blog/hrm-analysis 52iPad Pro with M5 chip 277 216 75d +28m apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-introduces-the-powerful-new-ipad-pro-with-the-m5-chip 53Apple Vision Pro 6 25 75d +19m apple.com/apple-vision-pro 54Apple M5 chip 1372 1242 75d +9m apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon 55Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier 180 137 75d +1h soft-dev.org/pubs/html/hughes_tratt__garbage_collection_for_rust_the_finalizer_frontier 56Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip 344 258 75d +5m apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-vision-pro-upgraded-with-the-m5-chip-and-dual-knit-band 57Flapping-wing robot achieves self-takeoff by adopting reconfigurable mechanisms 22 87 81d +6d science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx0465 58Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS 111 134 75d +29m scriberpro.cc/hn 59Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop 12 24 75d +45m arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/nvidia-sells-tiny-new-computer-that-puts-big-ai-on-your-desktop 60Irish privacy regulator picks ex-Meta lobbyist as third commissioner 23 56 75d +18m euractiv.com/news/irish-privacy-regulator-picks-ex-meta-lobbyist-as-third-commissioner 61Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent 489 485 75d +37m artnews.com/art-news/news/ireland-basic-income-artists-program-permanent-1234756981 62Esports scholarship at Deutsche Bahn (German railways) 29 36 75d +44m db.jobs/de-de/esports-11092734 63Show HN: I started treasure hunt in Blue Ridge. It's Day 7. Prize is up to $36k+ 6 12 75d +36m countdowntreasure.com/treasure-hunt 64ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability 55 90 75d +1h nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55315 65Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client 97 370 75d +16m github.com/squidowl/halloy 66Helpcare AI (YC F24) Is Hiring 0 1 75d +9s 67Show HN: Nano Banana AI Prompt Gallery 2 7 75d +1h nanobananas.ai/banana-image-prompt 68Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture 258 472 75d +30m unkey.com/blog/serverless-exit 69Animalese.js Demo 7 19 81d +6d acedio.github.io/animalese.js 70Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement 304 404 75d +29m joindatacops.com/resources/how-73-of-your-e-commerce-visitors-could-be-fake 71The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' between reality and mental maps 80 160 82d +7d medicine.yale.edu/news-article/brain-navigates-new-spaces-by-flickering-between-reality-and-old-mental-maps 72[dead] ? 15 75d +1h tomstu.art 73The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain 322 282 75d +14m wastedwind.energy 74Fixing bugs automatically from a screen recording 0 14 84d +8d nitpicks.ai 75Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering 130 200 75d +2h steipete.me/posts/just-talk-to-it 76You Can't Mock Reality: Testing a 3D Rendering Pipeline in Blender 1 8 81d +5d medium.com/@egorich42/you-cant-mock-reality-testing-a-3d-rendering-pipeline-in-blender-9c5b93e0076e 77Europe's Digital Sovereignty Paradox – "Chat Control" Update 115 120 75d +47m process-one.net/blog/chat-control-update-oct-2025 78Updating Desktop Rust 41 65 78d +3d tritium.legal/blog/update 79Show HN: Firm, a text-based work management system 57 163 75d +35m github.com/42futures/firm 80A Early History of Algebraic Data Types 14 72 81d +5d hillelwayne.com/post/algdt-history 81Pixnapping Attack 72 306 75d +9m pixnapping.com 82I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code 279 238 75d +31m prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2025/10/i-am-a-programmer.html 83Python's splitlines does more than just newlines 3 33 81d +6d yossarian.net/til/post/python-s-splitlines-does-a-lot-more-than-just-newlines 84A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Go 90 144 76d +12h alexedwards.net/blog/preventing-csrf-in-go 85Printing Petscii Faster 11 44 79d +4d retrogamecoders.com/printing-petscii-faster 86Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem 109 184 75d +2h simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/14/nvidia-dgx-spark 87Why The Pentagon run the best schools and the safest nuclear program 82 58 75d +1h governance.fyi/p/the-pentagons-best-schools-and-safest 88Can we know whether a profiler is accurate? 21 69 75d +39m stefan-marr.de/2025/10/can-we-know-whether-a-profiler-is-accurate 89Disk Prices 69 154 75d +40m diskprices.com/?locale=us 90Interviewing Intel's Chief Architect of x86 Cores 26 144 81d +5d chipsandcheese.com/p/interviewing-intels-chief-architect 91Ally Petitt: Youngest OSCP at 16yo. Over 11 CVEs by 18 7 44 75d +2h ally-petitt.com/en/posts/2024-05-07_how-i-became-a-hacker-before-i-finished-high-school 92New England's last coal plant has stopped operating, according to its owners 87 96 75d +56m nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-10-06/new-englands-last-coal-plant-has-stopped-operating-according-to-its-owners 93Meta erases Gaza journalist's Instagram 28 75 75d +2h twitter.com/DropSiteNews/status/1977795050206576763 94Beating the L1 cache with value speculation (2021) 14 47 79d +4d mazzo.li/posts/value-speculation.html 95Transverse Mercator with an accuracy of a few nanometers (2010) 2 7 77d +1d arxiv.org/abs/1002.1417 96Meditating with mongooses: Backyard wildlife phtotography lessons 0 7 75d +12m wildgundmi.com/meditating-with-mongooses 97State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments 55 91 75d +17m wsj.com/politics/state-department-revokes-visas-over-charlie-kirk-comments-3c30d9ae 98 More... 2025.10.14