HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order The Peter Principle and exploiting overconfident workers 3 19 65d +49m marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/10/the-peter-principle-and-exploiting-overconfident-workers.html 1Many Factorials in Lambda Calculus 5 13 74d +9d text.marvinborner.de/2025-10-08-12.html 2New OSM file format: 30% smaller than PBF, 5x faster to import 12 142 65d +24m community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-osm-file-format-30-smaller-than-pbf-5x-faster-to-import/137151 3Why PHP and JavaScript Are Great 0 11 66d +1d xahlee.infohttp:///comp/PHP_is_great.html 4"ChatGPT said this" Is Lazy 150 126 65d +6h terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/24/chatgpt-said-this-is-lazy 5Notes on using LaTeX to generate formulae 2 15 73d +8d eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/notes-on-using-latex-to-generate-formulae 6[dead] ? 14 65d +11m vt.social 7Study: MRI contrast agent causes harmful metal buildup in some patients 222 252 65d +49m ormanager.com/briefs/study-mri-contrast-agent-causes-harmful-metal-buildup-in-some-patients 8Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance 71 102 65d +18m tomsguide.com/computing/office-software/microsoft-teams-will-start-snitching-to-your-boss-when-youre-not-in-the-office-and-this-update-is-coming-in-december 9Conductor (YC S24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in San Francisco 0 1 65d +33s ycombinator.com/companies/conductor/jobs/MYjJzBV-founding-engineer 10Modern Perfect Hashing 24 121 66d +18h blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-10-23-21-23_modern_perfect_hashing.html 11TextEdit and the relief of simple software 105 99 65d +20m newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/textedit-and-the-relief-of-simple-software 12Code like a surgeon 129 274 65d +5h geoffreylitt.com/2025/10/24/code-like-a-surgeon 13Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation 203 386 69d +4d valetudo.cloud 14Harnessing America's heat pump moment 544 238 65d +29m heatpumped.org/p/harnessing-america-s-heat-pump-moment 15First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself 155 527 65d +6h quantamagazine.org/first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024 16The Swift SDK for Android 274 689 65d +7m swift.org/blog/nightly-swift-sdk-for-android 17[dead] ? 17 65d +43m theguardian.com 18I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer 111 295 70d +5d aschmelyun.com/blog/i-invited-strangers-to-message-me-through-a-receipt-printer 19How to make a Smith chart 33 165 65d +2h johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/23/smith-chart 20[dead] ? 29 65d +27m 21[dead] ? 17 65d +10m buttondown.com 22FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester: "Your name was brought up." 177 300 65d +14m kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-agents-visit-anti-ice-protester 23Random Numbers from Hard Problems: LWE Based Toy RNG 2 20 78d +13d blog.s20n.dev/posts/lwe-rng 24Disable AI in Firefox 150 203 65d +6m flamedfury.com/posts/disable-ai-in-firefox 25Men who mean just what they say 32 36 65d +2m journal.humancenteredtech.us/p/men-who-mean-just-what-they-say 26'Attention is all you need' coauthor says he's 'sick' of transformers 215 422 65d +12h venturebeat.com/ai/sakana-ais-cto-says-hes-absolutely-sick-of-transformers-the-tech-that-powers 27Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time 103 186 68d +2d cnn.com/2025/10/21/climate/iceland-mosquito-discovery 28LightlyStudio – an open-source multimodal data curation and labeling tool 2 54 68d +3d github.com/lightly-ai/lightly-studio 29Linux disk I/O diagram (2024) 2 107 68d +3d zenodo.org/records/15234151 30A “knot dominated era” may have existed in the early universe: study 40 87 67d +1d phys.org/news/2025-10-key-universe-1800s-idea-science.html 31Clojure Zippers (2021) 6 110 66d +1d grishaev.me/en/clojure-zippers 32Why can't transformers learn multiplication? 107 158 68d +2d arxiv.org/abs/2510.00184 33SierraDB: A distributed event store built in Rust 13 73 68d +3d tqwewe.com/blog/building-sierradb 34Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study 237 366 67d +1d phys.org/news/2025-10-national-montessori-early-outcomes-sharply.html 35Ivy League psychologist: 'Bring your whole self to work' is bad advice 70 43 65d +4m cnbc.com/2025/10/24/bring-your-whole-self-to-work-is-bad-advice-ivy-league-psychologist-saysheres-why.html 36The Mainframe Six (2022) 25 52 65d +23m arcanesciences.com/os2200/app1.html 37Rust Contagious Borrow Issue 9 39 65d +3h qouteall.fun/qouteall-blog/2025/How%20to%20Avoid%20Fighting%20Rust%20Borrow%20Checker#contagious-borrow-issue 38Where's the AI design Renaissance? 83 102 73d +8d learnui.design/blog/wheres-the-ai-design-renaissance.html 39Show HN: A fast, privacy-first image converter that runs in browser 38 45 65d +2h imageconverter.dev 40Traffic Light Protocol 32 58 65d +1h first.org/tlp 41Why does collapsing a bubble with a sound wave produce light? 27 21 73d +8d akshatjiwannotes.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-does-collapsing-bubble-with-sound.html 42Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust 329 309 65d +25m phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-M3-m1n1-Update 43Apple Starts Shipping Made-in-America AI Servers Early 5 31 65d +42m macrumors.com/2025/10/24/apple-starts-shipping-made-in-america-ai-servers 44Why formalize mathematics – more than catching errors 73 216 70d +5d rkirov.github.io/posts/why_lean 45A sharded DuckDB on 63 nodes runs 1T row aggregation challenge in 5 sec 135 218 65d +38m gizmodata.com/blog/gizmoedge-one-trillion-row-challenge 46Show HN: I built an 8-bit CPU simulator in Python from scratch 19 71 65d +17m github.com/sql-hkr/tiny8 47Intel hamstrung by supply shortages across its business 26 16 65d +35m tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-hamstrung-by-supply-shortages-across-its-business-including-production-capacity-says-it-will-prioritize-data-center-cpus-over-consumer-chips-warns-of-price-hikes 48Typst 0.14 165 639 65d +21m typst.app/blog/2025/typst-0.14 49Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players 266 271 65d +1h bbc.com/news/articles/cz6nd9wnzn6o 50VisiCalc on the Apple II 49 104 70d +5d stonetools.ghost.io/visicalc-apple2 51Show HN: MacOS Live Screensaver – A screensaver that plays live video streams 40 62 68d +3d github.com/hauxir/macos-live-screensaver 52Padlet (YC W13) Is Hiring in San Francisco and Singapore 0 1 65d +7s padlet.jobs 53Curl on 110 Operating Systems 5 14 65d +6m daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/23/on-110-operating-systems 54ChunkLLM: A Lightweight Pluggable Framework for Accelerating LLMs Inference 8 92 65d +4m arxiv.org/abs/2510.02361 55Mesh2Motion – Open-source web application to animate 3D models 36 225 65d +43m mesh2motion.org 56Clang Bytecode Interpreter Update 3 43 74d +9d developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/15/clang-bytecode-interpreter-update 57Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change 212 224 65d +49m lwn.net/Articles/1041316 58Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive 207 363 65d +28m github.com/linagora/twake-drive 59Wasp Blower 99 103 76d +11d softsolder.com/2025/08/12/wasp-blower 60Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole 115 141 65d +42m centauri-dreams.org/2025/10/23/interstellar-mission-to-a-black-hole 61Electromagnetically Induced Acoustic Noise 11 16 76d +11d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetically_induced_acoustic_noise 62ChatGPT Launches 'Company Knowledge' 67 40 65d +54m openai.com/index/introducing-company-knowledge 63Britain's most tattooed man says UK's age check told him to "remove his face" 51 61 65d +37m dexerto.com/entertainment/britains-most-tattooed-man-says-uks-age-check-system-told-him-to-remove-his-face-3232920 64Lea Albaugh, "Underdetermined Weaving with Machines" (2021) [video] 1 17 72d +7d youtube.com/watch?v=on_sK8KoObo 65Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage 139 144 65d +1h news.alaskaair.com/on-the-record/alaska-statement-on-it-outage 66Color-changing organogel stretches 46 times its size and self-heals 0 7 73d +7d phys.org/news/2025-09-organogel-size.html 67RFC 863 – Discard Protocol (1983) 8 37 65d +1h datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc863 68JupyterGIS breaks through to the next level 31 140 65d +1h eo4society.esa.int/2025/10/16/jupytergis-breaks-through-to-the-next-level 69Binmoji: A 64-bit emoji encoding 5 30 75d +9d github.com/jb55/binmoji 70US tariff negotiations with Canada terminated over advertisement 87 103 65d +1h bbc.com/news/articles/cdjrlmd4pmeo 71Fast-DLLM: Training-Free Acceleration of Diffusion LLM 4 70 66d +1h arxiv.org/abs/2505.22618 72Killing Charles Dickens (2023) 5 20 71d +5d newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/on-killing-charles-dickens 73Roc Camera 467 548 66d +1h roc.camera 74Dunkin’ Donuts started as a small Quincy coffee and doughnut shop 14 23 78d +12d bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/business/dunkin-donuts-scott-murphy-bain-capital-carlyle-inspire 75Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015) 287 363 66d +24m prog21.dadgum.com/210.html 76Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18 64 181 75d +9d planetscale.com/blog/benchmarking-postgres-17-vs-18 77Deepstaria Enigmatica 2 21 79d +12d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepstaria_enigmatica 78Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall 588 481 66d +37m polygon.com/counter-strike-cs-player-economy-multi-billion-dollar-freefall 79Populism Fast and Slow 24 35 66d +1h josephheath.substack.com/p/populism-fast-and-slow 80Cheap DIY solar fence design 158 210 74d +8d joeyh.name/blog/entry/cheap_DIY_solar_fence_design 81React Flow, open source libraries for node-based UIs with React or Svelte 28 168 66d +44m github.com/xyflow/xyflow 82 More... 2025.10.23