HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order When if is just a function 101 109 76d +3d ryelang.org/blog/posts/if-as-function-blogpost-working-on-it_ver1 1Promoted on Sunday, Fired on Monday: Inside a NASA Office's Sudden Closure 24 76 72d +23m planetary.org/articles/promoted-on-sunday-fired-on-monday-inside-a-nasa-offices-sudden-closure 2WebMCP 27 132 72d +54m github.com/jasonjmcghee/WebMCP 3Career Asymtotes 54 44 77d +4d molochinations.substack.com/p/career-asymptotes 4Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments 62 137 73d +1d aiengineering.report/p/claude-code-vs-codex-sentiment-analysis-reddit 5Marc Benioff: I no longer believe National Guard is needed for SF 90 79 72d +26m cnbc.com/2025/10/17/benioff-trump-national-guard-sf.html 6PlayStation 3 Architecture (2021) 60 194 76d +3d copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-3 7US car repossessions surge as more Americans default on auto loans 222 159 72d +9m theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/17/us-car-repossessions-economy 8Republicans use deepfake video of Chuck Schumer in new attack ad 30 87 72d +44m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/17/republican-ad-deepfake-video-chuck-schumer 9Making Every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 76 38 72d +1h blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/10/16/making-every-windows-11-pc-an-ai-pc 10The Wi-Fi Revolution (2003) 90 95 78d +5d wired.com/2003/05/wifirevolution 11The pivot 243 480 72d +44m antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/10/the-pivot-1.html 12Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right? 77 148 72d +48m skyvern.com/blog/asking-ai-to-build-scrapers-should-be-easy-right 13Show HN: We packaged an MCP server inside Chromium 16 45 72d +3h github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS/blob/main/docs/browseros-mcp/how-to-guide.mdx 14Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support 212 275 75d +2d aiven.io/blog/exploring-postgresql-18-new-uuidv7-support 15GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders 128 254 72d +32m thegamer.com/gog-private-investigators-off-the-grid-ip-rights-holders 16Ace Frehley Has Died 6 36 72d +10m nytimes.com/2025/10/16/arts/music/ace-frehley-dead.html 17Forgejo v13.0 Is Available 23 105 72d +17m forgejo.org/2025-10-release-v13-0 18[dead] ? 5 72d +19m racketmn.com 19Smithsonian Open Access 11 82 75d +3d si.edu/openaccess 20Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP 361 709 72d +16m simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills 21I built an F5 QKview scanner for CISA ED 26-01 0 16 73d +5h usenabla.com/blog/emergency-scanning-cisa-endpoint 22OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months 240 264 72d +3m wheresyoured.at/openai400bn 23Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents 1053 1146 72d +17m dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy 24MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks 42 97 78d +5d news.mit.edu/2025/mit-physicists-improve-atomic-clocks-precision-1008 25Google's $1,800 foldable phone is first smartphone to explode in durability test 22 50 72d +1h fortune.com/2025/10/16/google-pixel-10-pro-fold-durability-test-jerryrigeverything-zack-nelson-folding-phone-explosion-video 26Amazon-backed, nuclear facility for Washington state 5 28 72d +1h geekwire.com/2025/a-first-look-at-the-amazon-backed-next-generation-nuclear-facility-planned-for-washington-state 27The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation 186 788 72d +26m 50centadjustedforinflation.com 28Stinkbug Leg Organ Hosts Symbiotic Fungi That Protect Eggs from Parasitic Wasps 14 35 73d +2h bioengineer.org/stinkbug-leg-organ-hosts-symbiotic-fungi-that-protect-eggs-from-parasitic-wasps 29Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network 246 298 73d +1h science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr7403 30AI has a cargo cult problem 135 176 72d +22m ft.com/content/f2025ac7-a71f-464f-a3a6-1e39c98612c7 31Cartridge Chaos: The Official Nintendo Region Converter and More 15 48 77d +5d nicole.express/2025/not-just-for-robert.html 32I Test Drove a Flying Car. Get Ready, They're Here 57 33 72d +33m wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/i-test-drove-a-flying-car-get-ready-theyre-here-257b0ecf 33Show HN: Searchable compression for JSON – ~99% page skip and sub-ms lookups 6 15 72d +17m github.com/kodomonocch1/see_proto 34Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki, 58 passes away 20 123 72d +4m gamedeveloper.com/design/dead-or-alive-creator-tomonobu-itagaki-has-passed-away-at-58 35[dead] ? 4 73d +13m dailymail.co.uk 36Trap the Critters with Paint 22 60 79d +6d deepanwadhwa.github.io/freeze_trap 37Endorsing easily disproven claims linked to prioritizing symbolic strength 55 59 73d +14m theconversation.com/winning-with-misinformation-new-research-identifies-link-between-endorsing-easily-disproven-claims-and-prioritizing-symbolic-strength-265652 38You did no fact checking, and I must scream 191 314 73d +11m shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/i-have-no-facts-and-i-must-scream 39Dev Services for Spring Boot Using Arconia 1 10 78d +5d thomasvitale.com/arconia-dev-services-spring-boot 40Zorin OS 18 54 81 73d +20m blog.zorin.com/2025/10/14/zorin-os-18-has-arrived 41Europe Can't Defend Democracy on US Servers 1 17 73d +30m werd.io/europe-cant-defend-democracy-on-us-servers 42Metropolis 1998 lets you design every building in an isometric, pixel-art city (2024) 41 99 73d +7m arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/08/metropolis-1998-lets-you-design-every-building-in-an-isometric-pixel-art-city 43Email bombs exploit lax authentication in Zendesk 16 68 73d +2h krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/email-bombs-exploit-lax-authentication-in-zendesk 44Show HN: OnlyJPG – Client-Side PNG/HEIC/AVIF/PDF/etc to JPG 42 61 73d +2h onlyjpg.com 45Show HN: A large format XY scanning hyperspectral camera 10 44 79d +6d anfractuosity.com/projects/waverider 46A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal 105 154 73d +1h npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal 47Live Stream from the Namib Desert 102 558 73d +18m bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/10/live-stream-from-namib-desert.html 48Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler 371 660 73d +16m ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/10/17/rubygems-repository-transition 49Codebase is 250% AI generated 12 16 73d +58m moderndescartes.com/essays/ai_codebase 50Resizeable Bar Support on the Raspberry Pi 42 113 81d +7d jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/resizeable-bar-support-on-raspberry-pi 51EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars 941 422 73d +47m restofworld.org/2025/ev-depreciation-blusmart-collapse 52Let's write a macro in Rust 47 113 79d +6d hackeryarn.com/post/rust-macros-1 53Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React? 178 104 73d +6m 54Virtual Memory for Real-time RISC-V systems using hPMP 4 22 80d +6d arxiv.org/abs/2504.04498 55Migrating from AWS to Hetzner 614 1098 73d +24m digitalsociety.coop/posts/migrating-to-hetzner-cloud 56Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock 492 571 73d +13m techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police 57Reworking Memory Management in CRuby 8 38 78d +4d railsatscale.com/2025-09-16-reworking-memory-management-in-cruby 58Frank founder Charlie Javice sentenced for JPMorgan fraud 36 39 73d +29m bbc.com/news/articles/c4gwj15djdxo 594Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence 712 457 73d +54m alecmuffett.com/article/117792 60New computer model helps reveal how the brain both adapts and misfires 19 58 73d +1h now.tufts.edu/2025/10/16/flight-simulator-brain-reveals-how-we-learn-and-why-minds-sometimes-go-course 61Wabi – Personal Software Platform 11 8 73d +29m wabi.ai 62Create a Custom Interactive dashboard using SVG 22 83 77d +3d 0xmm.in/posts/custom_dash 63Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month? 175 275 73d +40m 64Show HN: Compression-Resistant Data Transfers 6 27 78d +4d github.com/ianling/steg-experiments 65Meow.camera 227 652 73d +1h meow.camera 66Read your way through Hà Nội 79 91 78d +5d vietnamesetypography.com/samples/read-your-way-through-ha-noi 67Free the Internet: The Tor Project's annual fundraiser 15 110 73d +8m blog.torproject.org/2025-fundraiser-donations-matched 68Next steps for BPF support in the GNU toolchain 26 109 73d +1h lwn.net/Articles/1039827 69Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash 57 26 79d +5d ft.com/content/8766ef23-3938-4de2-8a37-602c798034aa 70H-1B Visa Holders Disappear from US Housing Market 28 32 73d +2h newsweek.com/h-1b-visa-holders-disappear-from-us-housing-market-10882216 71A liver transplant from start to finish 36 126 77d +4d press.asimov.com/articles/liver 72Accelerating authoritarian dynamics: Assessment of democratic decline 9 62 73d +5m steadystate1.substack.com/p/accelerating-authoritarian-dynamics 73My First Gulfstream 3 10 78d +5d vanityfair.com/news/1998/10/gulfstream-199810 74[dead] ? 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