HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order GPS 'kill' switch allows state police cruisers to go dark and disable tracking 79 139 52d +3d boston25news.com/news/local/25-investigates-gps-kill-switch-allows-msp-cruisers-go-dark-disable-tracking/5OKMJEUJDNAVXPLN4WKFADNPLM 1Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs 6 78 49d +46m downtowndougbrown.com/2025/11/debugging-beagleboard-usb-boot-with-a-sniffer-fixing-omap_loader-on-modern-pcs 2[dead] ? 25 49d +16m usatoday.com 3Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel 136 364 49d +9m ironclad-os.org 4US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites 363 171 49d +5m thedailybeast.com/air-traffic-controllers-start-resigning-as-shutdown-bites 5Supreme Court temporarily blocks full SNAP benefits even as they'd started to 1 18 49d +15m npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-5602351/full-snap-benefits-go-out-despite-appeal 6IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act 366 306 49d +21m prestonbyrne.com/2025/11/06/the-ofcom-files-part-2-ip-blocking-the-uk-is-not-enough-to-comply-with-the-online-safety-act 7What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (2023) 86 86 49d +1h nautil.us/what-hallucinogens-will-make-you-see-308247 8Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon 82 272 55d +6d open.space 9How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2 73 66 49d +42m arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/what-i-do-to-clean-up-a-clean-install-of-windows-11-23h2-and-edge 10Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing 264 390 49d +2h marineinsight.com/shipping-news/worlds-largest-cargo-sailboat-completes-historic-first-atlantic-crossing 11I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months) [video] 14 42 49d +17m youtube.com/watch?v=PcWnQ7fYzwI 12Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects 32 196 54d +5d xavierleroy.orghttp:///control-structures 13Humans have remote touch 'seventh sense' like sandpipers 26 45 49d +13m techxplore.com/news/2025-11-humans-remote-seventh-sandpipers.html 14I want you to understand Chicago 31 137 49d +12m aphyr.com/posts 15My first fifteen compilers (2019) 7 71 57d +8d blog.sigplan.org/2019/07/09/my-first-fifteen-compilers 16Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body 149 81 49d +1h cnn.com/2025/02/28/tech/facebook-gender-discrimination-europe-ruling-asequals-intl 17I Want You to Understand Chicago 460 720 49d +31m aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago 18Near mid-air collision at LAX between American Airlines and ITA [video] 99 124 49d +42m youtube.com/watch?v=-j76cp7bETw 19Avería: The Average Font (2011) 47 230 49d +33m iotic.comhttp:///averia 20Transparent computer monitor designed to protect your vision 62 46 49d +43m visualinstruments.co/phantom/display 21WriterdeckOS 114 200 49d +52m writerdeckos.com 22What Is a Manifold? 1 13 54d +5d quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-manifold-20251103 23Firefox Forcing LLM Features 122 134 49d +28m equk.co.uk/2025/10/28/firefox-forcing-llm-features 24Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language 174 363 49d +14m markojs.com 25The Medici Method 4 17 49d +4m letter.palladiummag.com/p/early-article-the-medici-method 26Mothers say chatbots encouraged their sons to kill themselves 2 18 49d +2h bbc.com/news/articles/ce3xgwyywe4o 27The modern homes hidden inside ancient ruins 13 65 55d +5d ft.com/content/5f722a2e-71d8-430c-a476-95de2c4ad9a5 28Driver livestreams on TikTok as she apparently hits and kills man in Chicago 73 63 49d +23m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/tiktok-live-stream-fatal-crash-chicago 29Always be ready to leave (even if you never do) 102 129 49d +6h andreacanton.dev/posts/2025-11-08-always-ready-to-leave 30Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages 1 66 56d +7d homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~slonnegr/plf/Book 31IndieChina Film Festival shut down after harassment from Chinese authorities 25 89 49d +1h hrw.org/news/2025/11/07/china-authorities-shut-down-film-festival-in-new-york 32Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list 34 153 49d +32m krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/cloudflare-scrubs-aisuru-botnet-from-top-domains-list 33Zig is so cool, C is cooler 62 88 49d +1h github.com/little-book-of/c/blob/main/articles/zig-is-cool-c-is-cooler.md 3452 Year old data tape could contain Unix history 73 198 49d +36m theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_tape_rediscovered 35C++ move semantics from scratch (2022) 86 80 54d +5d cbarrete.com/move-from-scratch.html 36Ticker: Don't die of heart disease 473 576 49d +1h myticker.com 37Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface 117 188 49d +1h github.com/aristocratos/btop 38An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions (1958) [pdf] 11 97 49d +1h softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/MIT/AIM-001.pdf 39Reputational consequences of victim signaling: Victimhood decreases status 5 16 49d +40m sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886925004775 40Nubeian Translation for Childhood Songs by Hamza El Din 6 13 55d +6d nubianfoundation.org/translations 41$1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI 205 155 49d +7m gizmodo.com/1-trillion-in-tech-stocks-sold-off-as-market-grows-skeptical-of-ai-2000683226 42Sam Altman Is Getting Desperate and It Is Starting to Show 43 99 49d +19m tickerfeed.net/articles/sam-altman-reeks-of-desperation 43Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending Spree 92 78 49d +33m forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/11/07/why-sam-altman-wont-be-on-the-hook-for-openais-massive-spending-spree 44Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100% 140 53 49d +52m wildingout.substack.com/p/12-things-ive-heard-boomers-say-that 45Why hasn't there been a new major sports league? 64 27 49d +1h humaninvariant.substack.com/p/why-hasnt-there-been-a-new-major 46Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated 189 409 49d +14m oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/study-identifies-weaknesses-in-how-ai-systems-are-evaluated 47Doo: A Simple, Fast Programming Language Built on Rust and LLVM 25 15 54d +5d 48'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden 5 11 49d +33m faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-story-behind-soundgarden-black-hole-sun 49Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (2003) [pdf] 12 80 53d +4d ai.mit.eduhttp://www./courses/6.034f/psets/ps1/airtravel.pdf 50[dead] ? 32 49d +25m kagi.com 51[dead] ? 11 49d +1h politico.com 52Dark mode by local sunlight (2021) 43 32 54d +4d ctnicholas.dev/articles/dark-mode-by-sunlight 53Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring 0 1 49d +22s 54My friends and I accidentally faked the Ryzen 7 9700X3D leaks 70 287 49d +19m old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1orc6jl/my_friends_and_i_accidentally_faked_the_ryzen_7 55Copy button added to Stack Overflow 24 25 49d +8m meta.stackexchange.com/questions/414573/results-of-the-october-2025-community-asks-sprint-copy-button-for-code-blocks 56Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition (2023) 16 85 53d +4d cprimozic.net/blog/reverse-engineering-a-small-neural-network 57GPT-OSS 120B Runs at 3000 tokens/sec on Cerebras 29 46 49d +7h cerebras.ai/blog/openai-gpt-oss-120b-runs-fastest-on-cerebras 58A rats to riches story: Larry the Downing Street cat finds place in TV spotlight 13 33 49d +39m theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/08/a-rats-to-riches-story-larry-the-downing-street-cat-finds-place-in-tv-spotlight 59[dead] ? 12 55d +5d cure-lang.org 60Hashtable vs. A-list in Scheme, which to choose? 9 14 55d +6d nalaginrut.com/archives/2025/11/02/hashtable_vs_alist 61Making Democracy Work: Fixing and Simplifying Egalitarian Paxos 55 180 49d +1h arxiv.org/abs/2511.02743 62Friendly attributes pattern in Ruby 74 101 55d +5d brunosutic.com/blog/ruby-friendly-attributes-pattern 63Apple's "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users 177 296 49d +1h fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251105-01.en.html 64Blood, Brick and Legend: The Chemistry of Dracula's Castle 1 13 54d +4d news.research.gatech.edu/2025/10/31/blood-brick-and-legend-chemistry-draculas-castle 65The Initial Ideal Customer Profile Worksheet 11 88 54d +4d reifyworks.com/writing/2023-01-30-iicp 66Local First Htmx 57 122 49d +2h elijahm.com/posts/local_first_htmx 67Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google Analytics tool 20 73 49d +40m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/oddest-chatgpt-leaks-yet-cringey-chat-logs-found-in-google-analytics-tool 68Can you save on LLM tokens using images instead of text? 19 48 56d +6d pagewatch.ai/blog/post/llm-text-as-image-tokens 69Running a 68060 CPU in Quadra 650 49 73 49d +2h github.com/ZigZagJoe/Macintosh-Q650-68060 70Show HN: Find matching acrylic paints for any HEX color 19 56 54d +4d acrylicmatch.com 71Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec 125 190 50d +3h cerebras.ai/code 72[dead] ? 14 49d +7m theguardian.com 73Why I love my Boox Palma e-reader 58 98 55d +5d minimal.bearblog.dev/why-i-love-my-boox-palma-e-reader 74Israel dumps millions into geo targeting evangelicals in churches and ChatGPT 25 51 49d +41m disclose.tv/id/wrbhq1fa5c 75Sam Altman's pants are on fire 124 209 49d +37m garymarcus.substack.com/p/sam-altmans-pants-are-totally-on 76Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States 118 64 49d +50m census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/older-adults-outnumber-children.html 77Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta 140 217 50d +1h mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-search-proxy-leta 78Shell Grotto: England's mysterious underground seashell chamber 14 36 53d +3d boingboing.net/2025/09/05/shell-grotto-englands-mysterious-underground-seashell-chamber.html 79A new threat: Being replaced by someone who knows AI 44 44 50d +1h wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-work-use-performance-reviews-1e8975df 80Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance 219 520 50d +34m github.com/Snapchat/Valdi 81Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD 46 190 50d +26m conradresearch.com/articles/immutable-software-deploy-zfs-jails 82FSF40 Hackathon 3 119 54d +4d fsf.org/events/fsf40-hackathon 83Analysis of Hedy Lamarr's Contribution to Spread-Spectrum Communication 54 66 50d +37m researchers.one/articles/24.01.00001v4 84 More... 2025.11.07