HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Automating Algorithm Discovery: A Case Study in MoE Load Balancing 57 133 66d +1h adrs-ucb.notion.site/moe-load-balancing 1Introduction to the concept of likelihood and its applications (2018) 9 67 66d +53m journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2515245917744314 2Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023) 32 289 73d +6d americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/betty-white-world-war-ii 3How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access in Go 128 136 66d +41m info.varnish-software.com/blog/how-memory-maps-mmap-deliver-25x-faster-file-access-in-go 4Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B 381 367 66d +18m 9to5mac.com/2025/10/23/apple-loses-uk-app-store-monopoly-case-penalty-might-near-2-billion 5RFC 9861: KangarooTwelve and TurboSHAKE 14 22 74d +7d datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9861 6When is it better to think without words? 137 275 66d +53m henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/wordless-thought 7FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts 204 295 66d +1h github.com/CaptainYouz/FocusTube 8/dev/null is an ACID compliant database 188 603 66d +36m jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database 9Zram Performance Analysis 32 95 66d +1h notes.xeome.dev/notes/Zram 10Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates 441 264 66d +43m lwn.net/Articles/1043103 11I managed to grow countable yeast colonies 12 32 75d +9d chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/i-managed-to-grow-countable-yeast 12I wrote about parallel prompts: from 3D shoe renders to swipe-ready videos 1 6 66d +44m widgens.com/blog/parallel-prompting 13Expanding Our Use of Google Cloud TPUs and Services 3 36 66d +25m anthropic.com/news/expanding-our-use-of-google-cloud-tpus-and-services 14Pyscripter – Open-source Python IDE written in Delphi 20 80 70d +3d github.com/pyscripter/pyscripter 15Trump pardons convicted Binance founder 1188 1028 66d +4h wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63 16The Muscular Compassion of "Paper Girl" 19 22 66d +10m newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-muscular-compassion-of-paper-girl 17Show HN: OpenSnowcat – A fork of Snowplow to keep open analytics alive 18 74 66d +7m opensnowcat.io 18Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language 53 140 75d +9d kaitai.io 19Reasoning is not model improvement 88 63 66d +3h manidoraisamy.com/reasoning-not-ai.html 20Show HN: Git for LLMs – A context management interface 36 97 66d +4h twigg.ai 21What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? 553 755 66d +7m blog.johnozbay.com/what-happened-to-apples-attention-to-detail.html 22Show HN: Tommy – Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors 78 101 66d +1h tommysense.com 23Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage? 275 193 66d +28m volts.wtf/p/can-second-life-ev-batteries-work 24President Trump Pardons Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao 2 88 66d +1h bbc.com/news/articles/cly1qrl9l1qo 25The OS/2 Display Driver Zoo 11 70 75d +8d os2museum.com/wp/the-os-2-display-driver-zoo 26OpenAI acquires Sky.app 166 244 66d +1h openai.com/index/openai-acquires-software-applications-incorporated 27Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon 425 678 66d +8m dexerto.com/entertainment/armed-police-swarm-student-after-ai-mistakes-bag-of-doritos-for-a-weapon-3273512 28Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does 97 183 66d +23m deadstack.net/recent 29OpenMaxIO: Forked UI for MinIO Object Storage 40 183 66d +7m github.com/OpenMaxIO/openmaxio-object-browser 30Make any TypeScript function durable 81 105 66d +47m useworkflow.dev 31U.S. details gambling cases involving pro athletes and mafia families 65 74 66d +9m nytimes.com/live/2025/10/23/nyregion/nba-illegal-gambling-arrests 32Upgrading Our Way Through OpenGL 1.x 0 55 75d +8d bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/upgrading-our-way-through-opengl-1-x 33Living Dangerously with Claude 104 235 67d +1d simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/living-dangerously-with-claude 34Claude Memory 309 553 66d +23m anthropic.com/news/memory 35MinIO declines to release Docker builds resolving CVE-2025-62506 2 175 66d +32m github.com/minio/minio/issues/21647 36Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region 173 537 67d +15h aws.amazon.com/message/101925 37New updates and more access to Google Earth AI 43 150 66d +15m blog.google/technology/research/new-updates-and-more-access-to-google-earth-ai 38How do we stop AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images? 28 14 66d +38m redasadki.me/2025/10/23/how-do-we-stop-ai-generated-poverty-porn-fake-images 39Unconventional Ways to Cast in TypeScript 55 80 66d +3h wolfgirl.dev/blog/2025-10-22-4-unconventional-ways-to-cast-in-typescript 40Antislop: A framework for eliminating repetitive patterns in language models 111 120 66d +16m arxiv.org/abs/2510.15061 41VectorWare – from creators of `rust-GPU` and `rust-CUDA` 24 82 66d +59m vectorware.com/blog/announcing-vectorware 42The Tonnetz 1 8 72d +5d thetonnetz.com 43Show HN: Nostr Web – decentralized website hosting on Nostr 27 101 66d +1h nweb.shugur.com 44US hits $38T in debt. Fastest accumulation of $1T outside pandemic 310 208 66d +23m apnews.com/article/trump-treasury-debt-ceiling-bessent-09575f13ca95c2f1beb38234b2cbe85b 45Compiler for "Easy" language from "Etudes for Programmers" book (1978) 9 28 75d +9d github.com/begoon/easy 46We need to start doing web blocking for non-technical reasons 46 58 66d +1h utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WeShouldBlockForSocialReasons?showcomments 47Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block 35 46 66d +20m theregister.com/2025/10/22/microsoft_office_online_server 48US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces 409 764 66d +2m bbc.com/news/articles/cqx30vnwd4do 49CRDTs: Convergence without coordination 32 92 73d +6d read.thecoder.cafe/p/crdt 50Why China is winning the trade war 94 72 66d +1h economist.com/leaders/2025/10/23/why-china-is-winning-the-trade-war 51We tested 20 LLMs for ideological bias, revealing distinct alignments 101 71 66d +1h anomify.ai/resources/articles/llm-bias 52Which Collatz numbers do Busy Beavers simulate (if any)? 3 43 71d +5d gbragafibra.github.io/2025/10/16/collatz_ant11.html 53[dead] ? 19 66d +4m leadershiplighthouse.substack.com 54Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview 165 100 66d +3m gethopp.app/blog/how-to-conduct-good-programming-interviews 55Show HN: Deta Surf – An open source and local-first AI notebook 39 133 66d +48m github.com/deta/surf 56I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D 222 293 66d +5m bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/asn1-compiler-in-d 57US probes Waymo robotaxis over school bus safety 213 130 66d +7m yahoo.com/news/articles/us-investigates-waymo-robotaxis-over-102015308.html 58Ask HN: Does anyone have scans of these missing PC Plus issues (1991–1993)? 40 124 74d +7d 59The game theory of how algorithms can drive up prices 141 195 66d +24m quantamagazine.org/the-game-theory-of-how-algorithms-can-drive-up-prices-20251022 60Nango (YC W23) is hiring staff back-end engineers (remote) 0 1 66d +11s nango.dev/careers 61PyTorch Monarch 42 373 66d +1h pytorch.org/blog/introducing-pytorch-monarch 62SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers 221 233 66d +8m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/starlink-blocks-2500-dishes-allegedly-used-by-myanmars-notorious-scam-centers 63Egg prices vs. Consumer Price Index since 1980 76 56 66d +32m fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Nm5b 64Power-over-Skin: Full-Body Wearables Powered by Intra-Body RF Energy (2024) 15 32 70d +3d dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3654777.3676394 65A Distributed Emulation Environment for In-Memory Computing Systems 2 19 76d +10d arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08257 66C64 Blood Money 34 130 66d +12m lemmings.info/c64-blood-money 67Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets 96 56 66d +22m thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/silicon-valley-spy-china-russia-2v03676kl 68AI assistance is only making coders dumb, lazy and prone to replacement 14 27 66d +1h 69TP-Link conducts Wi-Fi 8 trials, promises better reliability and lower latency 62 42 71d +4d techspot.com/news/109837-tp-link-conducts-successful-wi-fi-8-trials.html 70Be Careful with Obsidian 147 120 66d +44m phong.bearblog.dev/be-careful-with-obsidian 71Show HN: Silly Morse code chat app using WebSockets 32 77 71d +4d noamtamir.github.io/morwse 72Programming with Less Than Nothing 151 460 66d +1h joshmoody.org/blog/programming-with-less-than-nothing 73Radios, how do they work? (2024) 66 247 66d +40m lcamtuf.substack.com/p/radios-how-do-they-work 74Speculations on arenas and non-trivial destructors 4 10 73d +6d nullprogram.com/blog/2025/10/16 75VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT 174 651 66d +3m forums.steinberg.net/t/vst-3-8-0-sdk-released/1011988 76When you get to be smart writing a macro 22 101 73d +6d tonsky.me/blog/hashp 77The mild mannered Englishman who was the most prolific ghost hunter 4 31 67d +28m lithub.com/the-mild-mannered-englishman-who-was-the-worlds-most-prolific-ghost-hunter 78The myth of outrunning your diet 86 39 67d +26m williamjbarry.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-outrunning-your-diet 79Glasses-free 3D using webcam head tracking 95 87 71d +4d assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/camera/vr-without-glasses-for-webgl-332314 80Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage 198 163 67d +1h cleantechnica.com/2025/10/22/the-sodium-ion-battery-revolution-has-started 81Show HN: Semantic Art – Uses natural language prompts to find real artwork 9 31 67d +10h semantic.art 82Derek Sivers's database and web apps 37 144 73d +6d github.com/sivers/sivers 83Tesla reports steep drop in profits despite US rush to buy electric vehicles 65 67 67d +30m theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/22/tesla-earnings-report-latest-drop-profits 84Is AI a Bubble? I Didn't Think So Until I Heard of SDD 53 25 67d +45m hyperdev.matsuoka.com/p/is-ai-a-bubble-i-didnt-think-so-until 85A Homological Proof of P != NP: Computational Topology via Categorical Framework 21 12 67d +9m arxiv.org/abs/2510.17829 86Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI 77 207 73d +6d developers.googleblog.com/en/say-hello-to-a-new-level-of-interactivity-in-gemini-cli 87Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots 84 180 73d +6d abstractboardgames.com 88 More... 2025.10.22