HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Lead Limited Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Hominids? 63 98 73d +31m today.ucsd.edu/story/did-lead-limit-brain-and-language-development-in-neanderthals-and-other-extinct-hominids 1Nvidia DGX Spark and Apple Mac Studio = 4x Faster LLM Inference with EXO 1.0 20 59 73d +21m blog.exolabs.net/nvidia-dgx-spark 2Ace Frehley Dies at 74 4 22 73d +41m variety.com/2025/music/news/ace-frehley-kiss-lead-guitarist-dead-1236554943 3A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI 109 151 78d +4d the-ventureweaver.itch.io/tlote4111 4RFK Jr.'s MAHA wants to make chemtrail conspiracy theories great again 29 35 73d +33m arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/rfk-jr-s-maha-wants-to-make-chemtrail-conspiracy-theories-great-again 5Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, Spec-Kit, and Tessl 32 121 73d +1h martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html 6Ron Conway Resigns Salesforce Foundation over Benioff's National Guard Comments 9 67 73d +1h politico.com/news/2025/10/16/ron-conway-salesforce-san-francisco-00611579 7Computable Babylonian Diaries Project 0 10 80d +6d christopherwolfram.com/babylonian-astronomy 8[dead] ? 18 73d +36m alifeengineered.substack.com 9Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete 44 97 73d +31m bloodinthemachine.com/p/silicon-valleys-capture-of-our-political 10Microwave technique allows energy-efficient chemical reactions 5 64 79d +6d phys.org/news/2025-10-microwave-technique-energy-efficient-chemical.html 11Hacker News – The Good Parts 217 167 73d +7m smartmic.bearblog.dev/why-hacker-news 12Cloudflare Sandbox SDK 88 256 73d +8m sandbox.cloudflare.com 13How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM 498 1671 73d +37m blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm 14Elixir 1.19 136 377 74d +13h elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released 15Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020) 162 340 77d +3d buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highlighting-is-a-waste-of-an-information 16GifCities – The Geocities Animated GIF Search from Internet Archive 3 22 73d +1h gifcities.org 17Show HN: We priced basic needs in work hours (global ranking and CSVs) 41 22 73d +14m thepricer.org/hours-to-afford-essentials-best-and-worst-countries 18Your data model is your destiny 97 389 75d +2d notes.mtb.xyz/p/your-data-model-is-your-destiny 19State of AI Report 2025 63 92 77d +3d stateof.ai 20Generalized Orders of Magnitude 12 43 81d +7d arxiv.org/abs/2510.03426 21Benjie's Humanoid Olympic Games 106 145 73d +1m generalrobots.substack.com/p/benjies-humanoid-olympic-games 22Ask HN: What in the world is going on at Supabase? 16 57 73d +13m 23Peeking Inside Gigantic Zips with Only Kilobytes 24 32 78d +4d ritiksahni.com/blog/peeking-inside-gigantic-zips-with-only-kilobytes 24A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019) 139 211 73d +23m blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6 25Show HN: How Useless Are You? A brutally honest skills check 32 27 73d +56m howuselessareyou.com 26test-ipv6.com will stay online 37 155 73d +13m status.test-ipv6.com 27Eon – An Effects-Based OCaml Nameserver 3 66 79d +5d ryan.freumh.org/eon.html 28Talent 101 239 73d +33m felixstocker.com/blog/talent 29SWE-Grep and SWE-Grep-Mini: RL for Fast Multi-Turn Context Retrieval 29 96 74d +57m cognition.ai/blog/swe-grep 30Mysterious Intrigue Around an x86 "Corporate Entity Other Than Intel/AMD" 96 173 73d +10m phoronix.com/news/x86-Opcodes-Not-AMD-Or-Intel 31We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents 46 51 74d +25m propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will 32RTFM: A Real-Time Frame Model 12 44 74d +1h worldlabs.ai/blog/rtfm 33How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet 70 156 79d +5d blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/10/11/how-to-tame-a-user-interface-using-a-spreadsheet 34Codex Is Live in Zed 67 268 74d +1h zed.dev/blog/codex-is-live-in-zed 35Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing 267 418 74d +22m ricklamers.io/posts/gemini-3-spotted-in-the-wild 36Open-Source Hardware: curated list of open-source ASIC tools and designs 3 12 74d +36m github.com/aolofsson/awesome-opensource-hardware 37PaddleOCR-VL: Boosting Multilingual Document Parsing via a 0.9B Compact VLM 3 12 74d +3m huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL 38Claude Skills 418 797 74d +37m anthropic.com/news/skills 39[dead] ? 5 74d +20m nopolitik.substack.com 40Improving the Trustworthiness of JavaScript on the Web 33 64 74d +1h blog.cloudflare.com/improving-the-trustworthiness-of-javascript-on-the-web 41LD_PRELOAD, The Invisible Key Theft 46 37 74d +21m bomfather.dev/blog/ld-preload-the-invisible-key-theft 42Why more SaaS companies are hiring chief trust officers 47 37 74d +17m itbrew.com/stories/2025/10/14/why-more-saas-companies-are-hiring-chief-trust-officers 43Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA 306 320 74d +27m eurogamer.net/ea-union-workers-rally-against-55bn-saudi-backed-private-acquisition-with-formal-petition-to-regulators 44Electricity can heal wounds three times as fast (2023) 138 212 74d +2h chalmers.se/en/current/news/mc2-how-electricity-can-heal-wounds-three-times-as-fast 45How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods 372 127 74d +50m nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/16/well/eat/ultraprocessed-food-junk-history.html 46Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks 1 27 78d +4d lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/floppy-disk-funding 47Working with the Amiga's RAM and Rad Disks 2 22 74d +15m datagubbe.se/ramdisk 48Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features 219 342 74d +20m blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-150a4 49DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix 674 305 74d +30m about.doordash.com/en-us/news/waymo 50Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js 255 270 74d +41m akarshc.com/post/phoenix-for-my-project.html 51LINQ and Learning to Be Declarative 54 59 81d +6d nickstambaugh.dev/posts/LINQ-and-being-declarative 52[dead] ? 38 74d +28m k.nyc 53Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter 59 136 74d +43m novaspivack.com/science/introducing-lace-a-new-kind-of-cellular-automata 54Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework 151 360 74d +1h hyperflask.dev 55Like MS Excel, Pivot tables never die 52 29 74d +1h rilldata.com/blog/why-pivot-tables-never-die 56Show HN: Inkeep (YC W23) – Agent Builder to create agents in code or visually 49 76 74d +32m github.com/inkeep/agents 57VOC injection into a house reveals large surface reservoir sizes 94 111 78d +4d pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2503399122 58European.cloud: A Curated Directory of EU-Based Cloud Providers 76 105 74d +15m european.cloud 59Chat-GPT becomes Sex-GPT for verified adults 71 32 74d +47m twitter.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128 60Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital 151 105 74d +34m journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/3108 61A stateful browser agent using self-healing DOM maps 58 119 74d +9m 100x.bot/a/a-stateful-browser-agent-using-self-healing-dom-maps 62How The Pentagon Is Blocking Out News Organizations 1 20 74d +11m nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/15/business/media/pentatgon-press-rules.html 63The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks 55 107 79d +5d bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks 64Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Full Stacks 0 1 74d +21s workatastartup.com/jobs/44310 65[dead] ? 10 74d +23m lloydsbankinggroup.com 66Sharp Bilinear Filters: Big Clean Pixels for Pixel Art 14 42 78d +4d bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/sharp-bilinear-filters-big-clean-pixels-for-pixel-art 67[dead] ? 14 74d +1h archivethecontrolstack.substack.com 68The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View 6 76 74d +3h quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-math-of-ocean-waves-crashes-into-view-20251015 69Credential Stuffing 43 64 76d +2d ciamweekly.substack.com/p/credential-stuffing 70[dead] ? 11 74d +58m critiqueanddigest.substack.com 71[dead] ? 3 74d +1h ray3.run 72Waymo is bringing autonomous, driverless ride-hailing to London in 2026 98 68 74d +41m 9to5google.com/2025/10/15/waymo-london-2026 73Pica Numbers 5 22 77d +3d home.octetfont.com/blog/pica-number.html 74Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch 319 341 74d +36m github.com/liquibase/liquibase/issues/7374 75JustSketchMe – Digital Posing Tool 32 217 80d +5d justsketch.me 76Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development 228 338 74d +1h lwn.net/Articles/1039073 77Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin 275 243 74d +1h usmint.gov/news/press-releases/united-states-mint-releases-2026-american-innovation-one-dollar-coin-program-designs 78Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs 175 248 80d +5d theconversation.com/thousands-of-flies-keep-landing-on-north-sea-oil-rigs-then-taking-off-a-few-hours-later-heres-why-265622 79Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules 472 469 74d +1m apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-hegseth-trump-restrictions-5d9c2a63e4e03b91fc1546bb09ffbf12 80New coding models and integrations 68 219 74d +8m ollama.com/blog/coding-models 81TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019) 464 898 74d +19m propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free 82Reactive Programming paradigm for Go for event-driven applications 7 16 74d +2h github.com/samber/ro 83Acid Drop 5 23 74d +2h github.com/acidvegas/acid-drop 84Silver Snoopy Award 23 111 78d +3d nasa.gov/space-flight-awareness/silver-snoopy-award 85Functions Are Asymmetric 29 23 78d +3d elbeno.com/blog/?p=1804 86What Does George Orwell's '1984' Mean in 2024? 39 70 74d +8m smithsonianmag.com/history/what-does-george-orwells-1984-mean-in-2024-180984468 87TaxCalcBench: Evaluating Frontier Models on the Tax Calculation Task 23 70 74d +50m arxiv.org/abs/2507.16126 88Free applicatives, the handle pattern, and remote systems 42 94 74d +46m exploring-better-ways.bellroy.com/free-applicatives-the-handle-pattern-and-remote-systems.html 89Looking at kmalloc() and the SLUB Memory Allocator (2019) 2 29 78d +3d ruffell.nz/programming/writeups/2019/02/15/looking-at-kmalloc-and-the-slub-memory-allocator.html 90Show HN: Shorter – search for shorter versions of your domain 11 17 74d +2h shorter.dev 91Closer to production quality Python notebooks with `marimo check` 21 31 82d +8d marimo.io/blog/marimo-check 92Who's Submitting AI-Tainted Filings in Court? 59 82 74d +2h cyberlaw.stanford.edu/whos-submitting-ai-tainted-filings-in-court 93We're losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought 63 129 74d +41m npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/10/15/g-s1-93449/antibiotic-resistance-bacteria 94Build a Superscalar 8-Bit CPU (YouTube Playlist) [video] 19 135 79d +5d youtube.com/watch?v=bwjMLyBU4RU&list=PLyR4neQXqQo5nPdEiMbaEJxWiy_UuyNN4&index=1 95New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques from Brains of Mice Within Hours 113 143 74d +15m sciencealert.com/new-alzheimers-treatment-clears-plaques-from-brains-of-mice-within-hours 96Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state 479 544 74d +16m scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-windows-move-towards-surveillance 97More About Jumps Than You Wanted to Know 0 20 80d +6d gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-4.html 98 More... 2025.10.15