HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Americans can't afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried 142 101 69d +11m telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/20/americans-cant-afford-cars-any-more-wall-street-worried 1Atomic-Scale Protein Filters 0 20 74d +5d press.asimov.com/articles/filters 2Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals 52 135 69d +45m leandronsp.com/articles/you-dont-need-kafka-building-a-message-queue-with-only-two-unix-signals 3Art Must Act 3 47 73d +3d aeon.co/essays/harold-rosenberg-exhorted-artists-to-take-action-and-resist-cliche 4Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout 625 1003 69d +44m theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn 5The scariest "user support" email I've received 249 284 75d +5d devas.life/the-scariest-user-support-email-ive-ever-received 6My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs 68 315 76d +7d verdik.substack.com/p/how-to-get-consistent-classification 7[dead] ? 107 69d +53m futurism.com 8A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video] 110 611 71d +1d youtube.com/watch?v=o4TdHrMi6do 9Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures 24 157 72d +3d github.com/felipap/sicp-code 10Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down 286 528 69d +5h status.postman.com 11Webflow Donates $150k to Support Astro's Open Source Mission 1 20 69d +26m astro.build/blog/webflow-official-partner 12Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible) 43 139 69d +5h judojj.com 13Show HN: EloqDoc: MongoDB-compatible doc DB with object storage as first citizen 18 45 70d +1d github.com/eloqdata/eloqdoc 14[dead] ? 31 69d +7m old.reddit.com 15ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety 142 269 75d +6d community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/ChkTag-x86-Memory-Safety/post/1721490 16First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX and VS Code 58 81 69d +1h koi.ai/blog/glassworm-first-self-propagating-worm-using-invisible-code-hits-openvsx-marketplace 17AI Is Killing the Magic 12 11 69d +1h ft.com/content/d003cdfc-aded-4a9d-9a24-e1aff5261cfa 18When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone 95 165 69d +40m a.wholelottanothing.org/bmo-stadium-in-la-added-ai-to-everything-and-what-they-got-was-a-worse-experience-for-everyone 19Populism and economic prosperity 67 48 69d +10m mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/populism-and-economic-prosperity.html 20iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency 239 206 69d +20m macrumors.com/2025/10/20/ios-26-1-liquid-glass-toggle 21Speaking of Amazon, here's a fresh post from an engineer who just quit 4 33 69d +2h nekrolm.github.io/blog.html 22J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange 156 259 69d +4m marketunpack.com/j-p-morgans-openai-loan-is-strange 23The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win 82 81 74d +5d mlb.com/news/the-longest-professional-baseball-game-ever-played 24China has 55% of the high-IQ working-age people 40 23 69d +22m sofiechan.com/p/4571 25Peanut allergies have plummeted in children 153 178 69d +44m nytimes.com/2025/10/20/well/peanut-allergy-drop.html 26Claude Code on the web 386 573 69d +27m anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web 27The Demise of the Flynn Effect 1 15 69d +15m cremieux.xyz/p/the-demise-of-the-flynn-effect 28x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger 24 171 69d +35m x64.halb.it 29An Unexpected Benefit from Quitting Coffee – 10 Months In 83 31 69d +16m hamy.xyz/blog/2025-10_unexpected-benefit-quitting-coffee 30The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894: predictions of 9 feet of manure in cities 53 30 76d +6d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horse_manure_crisis_of_1894 31Why a 'Boring' Life Might Be the Happiest One 52 97 69d +26m karunpal.substack.com/p/why-a-boring-life-might-be-the-happiest 32Intel fabs misusing J1 Visas 7 23 69d +34m old.reddit.com/r/Semiconductors/comments/1ob8igx/i_work_at_an_intel_fab_as_an_engineer_and_half 33Dutch spy services have restricted intelligence-sharing with the United States 225 310 69d +22m intelnews.org/2025/10/20/01-3416 34AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say 212 257 69d +13m theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/20/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-hits-dozens-websites-apps 35Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died 144 422 69d +20m old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1obnbmu/grandmaster_daniel_naroditsky_has_passed_away 36TernFS – an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem 29 137 69d +5m xtxmarkets.com/tech/2025-ternfs/#posix-shaped 37Automate all the things with Swift Subprocess 17 39 76d +7d blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/swift-subprocess 38'Phased Out'–Google Confirms Bad News for All 3B Chrome Users 19 35 69d +1h forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/10/19/phased-out-google-confirms-bad-news-for-all-3-billion-chrome-users 39Tron: Ares Set to Lose $132M+ 68 41 69d +1h deadline.com/2025/10/tron-ares-bombs-box-office-1236591880 40Kohler launches smart toilet camera 69 30 69d +24m techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/kohler-unveils-a-camera-for-your-toilet 41What I Self Host 144 114 69d +25m fredrikmeyer.net/2025/10/18/what-i-self-host.html 42How Soon Will the Seas Rise? 66 49 69d +1h quantamagazine.org/how-soon-will-the-seas-rise-20251020 43Optical diffraction patterns made with a MOPA laser engraving machine [video] 32 164 76d +6d youtube.com/watch?v=RsGHr7dXLuI 44Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents 110 537 69d +17m blog.abdellatif.io/production-rag-processing-5m-documents 45Show HN: I got tired of managing dev environments, so I built ServBay 19 30 69d +3h servbay.com 46[dead] ? 13 69d +17m bbc.com 47How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services 159 158 69d +14m wheresyoured.at/costs 48How to stop Linux threads cleanly 85 241 75d +5d mazzo.li/posts/stopping-linux-threads.html 49Commodore 64 Ultimate 84 142 69d +19m commodore.net/product-page/commodore-64-ultimate-basic-beige-batch1 50Qt Group Buys IAR Systems Group 49 70 69d +3h qt.io/stock/qt-completes-the-recommended-public-cash-offer-to-the-shareholders-of-iar-systems-group-1760351460000-3668995 51Ashen-WoW – Pure Vanilla, authentic, stable, community-run 2 8 69d +1h ashen-wow.space/en 52BERT is just a single text diffusion step 110 449 69d +4m nathan.rs/posts/roberta-diffusion 53Rental Income Analyzer 0 9 69d +27m rebux.app 54"COBOL supports close to 90% of Fortune 500 business systems today." 21 17 69d +5m cobolcowboys.com/cobol-today 55Modeling Others' Minds as Code 43 66 69d +27m arxiv.org/abs/2510.01272 56The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again) 47 102 77d +7d datagubbe.se/crt2 57[dead] ? 12 69d +34m allthingssmitty.com 58Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP 43 179 69d +1h github.com/lackeyjb/playwright-skill 59Calculating legally compliant rent late fees across U.S. states 76 63 69d +1h rentlatefee.comRentLateFee.com 60Servo v0.0.1 195 562 69d +24m github.com/servo/servo 61How to Enter a City Like a King 101 72 77d +8d worldhistory.substack.com/p/how-to-enter-a-city-like-a-king 62[dead] ? 5 69d +41m eloqdata.com 63AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid agencies 205 176 69d +36m theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/20/ai-generated-poverty-porn-fake-images-being-used-by-aid-agencies 64Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights 114 133 69d +50m element.io/blog/the-matrix-conference-a-seminal-moment-for-matrix 65Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system 311 518 69d +11m tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/alibaba-says-new-pooling-system-cut-nvidia-gpu-use-by-82-percent 66AWS Outage: A Single Cloud Region Shouldn't Take Down the World. But It Did 13 305 69d +29m faun.dev/c/news/devopslinks/aws-outage-a-single-cloud-region-shouldnt-take-down-the-world-but-it-did 67Optimizing writes to OLAP using buffers (ClickHouse, Redpanda, MooseStack) 16 40 75d +5d fiveonefour.com/blog/optimizing-writes-to-olap-using-buffers 68How Kids' TV Got Way Too Normal 22 27 69d +25m slate.com/life/2025/10/kids-tv-movies-best-ratings-parents-disney.html 69The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop 179 93 69d +8m kotaku.com/apple-is-going-nuts-the-macbook-air-2025-is-now-cheaper-than-a-random-mid-range-windows-laptop-2000634464 70State-based vs Signal-based rendering 62 52 70d +2h jovidecroock.com/blog/state-vs-signals 71Ask HN: What are some impressive vibe coding projects? 44 54 69d +38m 72Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic 61 125 69d +24m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic 73Fractal Imaginary Cubes 8 63 77d +7d i.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp/users/tsuiki/icube/fractal/index-e.html 74Adding Breadcrumbs to a Rails Application 1 12 76d +6d avohq.io/blog/breadcrumbs-rails 75Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date 20 74 74d +4d adrianhoward.com/posts/give-your-metrics-an-expiry-date 76Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more 1 211 70d +19m theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-offline 77Oma: An attempt at reworking APT's interface 24 52 77d +7d github.com/AOSC-Dev/oma 78AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 2043 2233 70d +43m health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020 79Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption 133 344 70d +9m dockerstatus.com/pages/incident/533c6539221ae15e3f000031/68f5e1c741c825463df7486c 80Major AWS Outage Happening 12 1079 70d +10m old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1obd3lx/dynamodb_down_useast1 81Pointer Pointer (2012) 30 243 80d +10d pointerpointer.com 82Bat v0.26.0 74 145 70d +7m github.com/sharkdp/bat/releases/tag/v0.26.0 83DeepSeek OCR 239 981 70d +10m github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR 84Subway station study reveals fungal communities 6 46 79d +9d phys.org/news/2025-09-subway-station-reveals-fungal-communities.html 85Space Elevator 400 1767 70d +1h neal.fun/space-elevator 86A Tiny Typo May Explain Centuries-Old Mystery Bout Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' 14 35 75d +5d smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-tiny-typo-may-explain-a-centuries-old-mystery-about-chaucers-canterbury-tales-and-troilus-and-criseyde-180986991 87Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Information Theory Argument 51 91 76d +6d medium.com/@gabiteodoru/dont-force-your-llm-to-write-terse-code-an-argument-from-information-theory-for-q-kdb-developers-04077c5b7038 88Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024) 54 587 70d +27m zenodo.org/records/14179366 89Carefully Educated to Be Idiots 32 50 70d +2h hilarylayne.com/p/very-carefully-educated-to-be-idiots 90China Can't Win 56 21 70d +23m campbellramble.ai/p/china-cant-win 91Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware 25 194 70d +27m ajxs.me/blog/Introduction_to_Reverse-Engineering_Vintage_Synth_Firmware.html 92Discussion of the Benefits and Drawbacks of the Git Pre-Commit Hook 41 39 80d +10d yeldirium.de/2025/10/09/pre-commit-hooks/index.html 93Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil 63 162 70d +41m xda-developers.com/nvidia-produced-first-blackwell-wafer-us-soil 94Oskar Speck's 1932 Kayak Journey from Germany to Australia 9 73 79d +8d nswskc.wordpress.com/2002/10/24/incredible-journey-50 95LoC is a dumb metric for functions 60 60 70d +2h theaxolot.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/loc-is-a-dumb-metric-for-functions 96Forth: The programming language that writes itself 167 329 70d +1h ratfactor.com/forth/the_programming_language_that_writes_itself.html 97Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s (2024) 115 234 70d +3m xda-developers.com/absolutely-unhinged-gpu-box-art-from-the-early-2000s 98From Hollywood to horticulture: Cate Blanchett on a mission to save seeds 10 73 70d +56m bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7ekl4yl8o 99Pawn is a simple, typeless, 32-bit extension language with a C-like syntax 11 35 77d +7d compuphase.com/pawn/pawn.htm 100Using Emacs as a TUI 26 62 70d +2h blog.natfu.be/emacs-in-terminal-ergonomics 101QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files 20 62 70d +33m github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer 102What's Behind the Mysterious Ancient Wall in the Gobi Desert? 39 87 77d +7d news.artnet.com/art-world/the-hunt-gobi-wall-mongolia-2674588 103Gleam OTP – Fault Tolerant Multicore Programs with Actors 84 191 70d +1h github.com/gleam-lang/otp 104Replua.nvim – an Emacs-style scratch buffer for executing Lua 1 20 70d +1h github.com/mghaight/replua.nvim 105 More... 2025.10.19