HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator 46 180 40d +38m picoide.com 1An overly aggressive mock can work fine, but break much later 67 65 40d +1h nedbatchelder.com/blog/202511/why_your_mock_breaks_later.html 2Call Me Maybe: Eavesdropping encrypted LTE calls with ReVoLTE (2020) 4 37 40d +2h montsecure.com/research/revolte-attack 3Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000) 87 283 40d +6m britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm 4The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies 137 58 40d +3h theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/pennies-circulation-mint/684935 5Show HN: Spam classifier in Go using Naive Bayes 8 29 48d +8d github.com/igomez10/nspammer 6Goldman Sachs asks in biotech Report: Is curing patients a sustainable business? (2018) 177 247 40d +7m cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html 7Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” 52 163 40d +1h quantamagazine.org/how-your-brain-creates-aha-moments-and-why-they-stick-20251105 8Why Bcrypt Can Be Unsafe for Password Hashing? 23 14 51d +11d blog.enamya.me/posts/bcrypt-limitation 9Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears 182 209 40d +21m thestreet.com/investing/peter-thiel-dumps-top-ai-stock-stirring-bubble-fears 10The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023) 62 213 40d +28m ahalbert.com/technology/2023/12/19/the_pragmatic_programmer.html 11Shell Grotto, Margate 6 45 52d +11d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Grotto,_Margate 12Adding an imaginary unit to a finite field 5 27 40d +1h johndcook.com/blog/2025/11/16/finite-field-i 13I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure 219 676 40d +20m jonathanclark.com/posts/coinbase-breach-timeline.html 14Dark Pattern Games 134 347 40d +1h darkpattern.games 15Decoding Leibniz Notation (2024) 12 46 40d +1h spakhm.com/leibniz 16Lithium vs. Lettuce 10 45 41d +1d ambrook.com/offrange/photo-essay/lithium-v-lettuce 17Godbolt's Rule 0 3 40d +13s corecursive.com/godbolt-rule-matt-godbolt 18What if you don't need MCP at all? 175 229 40d +1h mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-02-what-if-you-dont-need-mcp 19Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021) 100 355 40d +38m github.com/jonasstrehle/supercookie 20Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml 28 82 40d +32m roscidus.com/blog/blog/2025/11/16/libdrm-ocaml 21Open-source Zig book 381 689 40d +19m zigbook.net 22The man who keeps predicting the web's death 51 56 40d +1h tedium.co/2025/10/25/web-dead-predictions-george-colony 23I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels 103 304 40d +2h david.coffee/cloudflare-zero-trust-tunnels 24Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines (2015) 14 155 40d +59m ericpony.github.io/z3py-tutorial/guide-examples.htm 25Don't Post Passive-Aggressive Webpages 27 26 40d +28m dontpostpassiveaggressivewebpages.com 26The fate of "small" open source 223 291 40d +15m nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the-fate-of-small-open-source 27[dead] ? 6 40d +38m intelligentfuturetech.com 28Waiting for SQL:202y: Group by All 38 58 46d +5d peter.eisentraut.orghttp:///blog/2025/11/11/waiting-for-sql-202y-group-by-all 29AI is killing privacy. We can't let that happen 67 98 40d +1m fastcompany.com/91435189/ai-privacy-openai-tracking-apps 30Holes (1970) [pdf] 13 34 43d +2d rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil375/Lewis1.pdf 31The AI water issue is fake 39 34 40d +22m andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake 32Diamonds and Lasers: Thermal Management for Chips 1 15 53d +13d spectrum.ieee.org/thermal-management-chips 33Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests 14 18 40d +33m sciencealert.com/owning-a-cat-could-double-your-risk-of-schizophrenia-research-suggests 34Three kinds of AI products work 125 129 40d +32m seangoedecke.com/ai-products 35Fourier Transforms 32 177 51d +10d continuummechanics.org/fourierxforms.html 36Dissecting Flock Safety: The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare [video] 87 209 40d +52m youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY 37FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT 48 233 40d +46m bit-hack.net/2025/11/10/fpga-based-ibm-pc-xt 38Interactive Spectrum Chart 7 19 52d +11d potatofi.comhttp://www./posts/spectrum-viewer 39Where Educational Technology Fails: A seventh-grader's perspective 125 54 40d +2h micahblachman.beehiiv.com/p/where-educational-technology-fails 40Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models 370 734 40d +35m github.com/p-e-w/heretic 41De Bruijn Numerals 10 77 40d +12m text.marvinborner.de/2023-08-22-22.html 42Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets – Larvitz Blog 20 62 40d +1h blog.hofstede.it/production-grade-container-deployment-with-podman-quadlets/index.html 43PgFirstAid: PostgreSQL function for improving stability and performance 23 116 40d +2h github.com/randoneering/pgFirstAid 44MCP: Model Context Pitfalls in an agentic world 1 11 40d +2h hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/mcp-model-context-pitfalls-in-an-agentic-world 45Vintage Large Language Models 29 83 40d +2h owainevans.github.io/talk-transcript.html 46Garbage collection is useful 57 164 40d +1h dubroy.com/blog/garbage-collection-is-useful 47Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites 205 135 40d +1h arabnews.com/node/2622812/middle-east 48Denial of Fuzzing: Rust in the Windows Kernel 5 12 44d +4d research.checkpoint.com/2025/denial-of-fuzzing-rust-in-the-windows-kernel 49The MP944 was the 'real' first microprocessor, but it was top secret 5 28 40d +1h tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/the-mp944-was-the-real-worlds-first-microprocessor-and-key-to-the-flight-of-the-f-14-tomcat-but-it-lived-in-the-shadow-of-the-intel-4004-for-nearly-30-years 50The politics of purely client-side apps 11 29 40d +55m pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3m5hwua4sh22v 51The internet is no longer a safe haven 196 252 40d +1h brainbaking.com/post/2025/10/the-internet-is-no-longer-a-safe-haven 52Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler (2023) 11 118 40d +21m research.swtch.com/nih 53Building Serverless Applications with Rust on AWS Lambda – AWS Compute Blog 0 15 40d +56m aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-serverless-applications-with-rust-on-aws-lambda 54Alchemy 22 29 47d +6d joshcollinsworth.com/blog/alchemy 55A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain 173 159 40d +15m bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr43vx0rrwvo 56Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI 7 22 40d +47m tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptomining/major-bitcoin-mining-firm-pivoting-to-ai-plans-to-fully-abandon-crypto-mining-by-2027-bitfarm-to-leverage-341-megawatt-capacity-for-ai-following-usd46-million-q3-loss 57Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun 93 458 40d +2h iflscience.com/the-fall-of-icarus-you-have-never-seen-an-astrophotography-picture-like-this-81570 58Measuring the doppler shift of WWVB during a flight 5 134 52d +11d greatscottgadgets.com/2025/10-31-receiving-wwvb-with-hackrf-pro 59Is Perplexity the first AI unicorn to fail? 18 20 40d +52m medium.com/@anwarzaid76/is-perplexity-the-first-ai-unicorn-to-fail-eb0e827b5e7e 60Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust 112 238 40d +1h github.com/Hans-Halverson/brimstone 61Why use OpenBSD? 102 145 40d +13m tumfatig.net/2025/why-are-you-still-using-openbsd 62Show HN: Real-time 4D Julia set navigation via gamepad 0 17 45d +4d banditcat.github.io/Atlas/Atlas.html 63Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit 320 1143 40d +27m djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit 64Is our death from a hydrogen sulfide event inevitable in climate warming? (2005) 15 28 41d +7h psu.edu/news/research/story/global-warming-led-climatic-hydrogen-sulfide-and-permian-extinction 65Maybe you’re not trying 181 433 40d +1h usefulfictions.substack.com/p/maybe-youre-not-actually-trying 66UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales 244 170 40d +37m bbc.com/news/articles/c051y3d7myzo 67In Praise of Useless Robots 9 37 44d +3d thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/in-praise-of-useless-robots 68[dead] ? 61 41d +3h dropbox.com 69I don’t need a Steam Machine 265 143 40d +7m brainbaking.com/post/2025/11/why-i-dont-need-a-steam-machine 70An exposed .git folder let us dox a phishing campaign 21 64 41d +45m 71Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes 46 109 46d +5d flox.dev/kubernetes 72Bypassing the Branch Predictor 34 68 41d +2h nicula.xyz/2025/03/10/bypassing-the-branch-predictor.html 73Writing a book with Quarto 5 27 52d +11d blog.stephenturner.us/p/quarto-books 74Writing a DOS Clone in 2019 30 70 54d +13d medium.com/@andrewimm/writing-a-dos-clone-in-2019-70eac97ec3e1 75Ubiquiti Flex Mini 2.5G Review Ubiquiti Does a Cheap 5-Port 2.5GbE Switch 26 52 41d +59m servethehome.com/ubiquiti-flex-mini-2-5g-review-ubiquiti-does-a-cheap-5-port-2-5gbe-switch 76Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N 179 225 41d +4h thedrive.com/news/replacing-brake-pads-on-a-hyundai-ioniq-5-n-requires-a-professional-mechanics-login 77Tangled Mess 2 13 46d +5d subbu.org/articles/2025/tangled-mess 78$5 PlanetScale is live 25 49 41d +3h planetscale.com/blog/5-dollar-planetscale-is-here 79Aunt Mary's Storybook 1 15 53d +12d cjtinc.org/projects/amsb 80How the Spoils of an Infamous Heist Traveled the World 0 8 45d +4d nautil.us/how-the-spoils-of-an-infamous-heist-traveled-the-world-1247307 81Whatever Happened to String Theory? 15 32 41d +1h gizmodo.com/whatever-happened-to-string-theory-2000686064 82Why export templates would be useful in C++ (2010) 2 19 51d +10d warp.povusers.orghttp:///programming/export_templates.html 83Computing Across America (1983-1985) 5 32 51d +10d microship.com/winnebiko 84Microsoft: We see all the backlash and we know we have a lot to fix in Windows 57 45 41d +18m neowin.net/news/microsoft-we-see-all-the-backlash-and-we-know-we-have-a-lot-to-fix-in-windows 85Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire 0 11 48d +7d nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z 86EyesOff: How I built a screen contact detection model 24 35 42d +16h ym2132.github.io/building_EyesOff_part2_model_training 87The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024) 35 126 41d +1h blog.polybdenum.com/2024/06/07/the-inconceivable-types-of-rust-how-to-make-self-borrows-safe.html 88Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript 99 196 41d +1h owl.is/blogg/blocking-crawlers-without-javascript 89Solving Project Euler: Problem 45 10 9 41d +1h loriculus.org/blog/euler-45 90Tech Capitalists Don't Care About Humans 26 67 41d +36m jacobin.com/2025/11/musk-thiel-altman-ai-tescrealism 91AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem 452 1393 41d +59m github.com/kavishdevar/librepods 92IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs 179 298 41d +3m codeberg.org/IDEmacs/IDEmacs 93Show HN: High-Performance .NET Bindings for the Vello Sparse Strips CPU Renderer 6 18 45d +4d github.com/wieslawsoltes/SparseStrips 94When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts 303 319 41d +33m oldvcr.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/11/when-ups-charged-me-684-tariff-on-355.html 95 More... 2025.11.15