HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution 9 53 15d +20m algorithmicsuperintelligence.ai/blog/openevolve-overview/index.html 1Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter 169 284 20d +4d reuters.com/lifestyle/culture-current/anna-possi-six-decades-behind-counter-italys-bar-centrale-2025-11-20 2Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know 53 102 15d +7m kroah.comhttp://www./log/blog/2025/12/08/linux-cves-more-than-you-ever-wanted-to-know 3Joyboard is a balance board peripheral for the Atari 2600 3 19 22d +6d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyboard 4Canada's US Travel Boycott Is Backfiring in the Most Unexpected Way at US Border 22 10 15d +21m thetravel.com/canadas-us-travel-boycott-is-backfiring-canadians-face-more-detailed-border-controls 5OpenAI Staffers Quit, Alleging Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy 7 37 15d +44m wired.com/story/openai-economic-research-team-ai-jobs 6Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly 27 87 15d +4m qtandeverything.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/12/debugging-qt-webassembly-dwarf.html 7I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week 132 32 15d +9m blog.shortround.space/blog/how-i-misused-llms-to-diagnose-myself-and-ended-up-bedridden-for-a-week 8Django: what’s new in 6.0 124 369 15d +26m adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/django-whats-new-6.0 9ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier 54 68 23d +8d packagemain.tech/p/ulid-identifier-golang-postgres 10We Need to Die 174 103 15d +15m willllliam.com/blog/why-we-need-to-die 11Agentic AI Foundation 26 126 15d +34m block.xyz/inside/block-anthropic-and-openai-launch-the-agentic-ai-foundation 12The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] (2017) 49 72 15d +33m pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5541280/pdf/jpmph-50-4-278.pdf 13Tutorial 48: my museum collections kit 0 15 19d +3d svpow.com/2025/11/26/tutorial-48-my-museum-collections-kit 14MCP Joins the Agentic AI Foundation 3 28 15d +22m blog.modelcontextprotocol.iohttp:///posts/2025-12-09-mcp-joins-agentic-ai-foundation 1510 Years of Let's Encrypt 343 802 15d +32m letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-years 16The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered 64 139 15d +1h righto.com/2025/12/8087-stack-circuitry.html 17So you want to speak at software conferences? 127 235 15d +14m dylanbeattie.net/2025/12/08/so-you-want-to-speak-at-software-conferences.html 18Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops 5 38 22d +6d 19“The Matilda Effect”: Pioneering Women Scientists Written Out of Science History 46 105 15d +54m openculture.com/2025/12/matilda-effect.html 20Please Don't 9 36 15d +25m hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Please%20don%27t%20by%3Adang%20by%3Atomhow&sort=byDate&type=comment 21Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation 140 286 16d +1h anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation 22Animalcules and Their Motors 3 15 22d +6d asimov.press/p/flagella 23Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder 27 66 15d +18m detail.dev 24A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine 286 172 16d +1h boomsupersonic.com/flyby/ai-needs-more-power-than-the-grid-can-deliver-supersonic-tech-can-fix-that 25How private equity is changing housing 306 117 15d +21m theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/private-equity-housing-changes/685138 26After the Bubble 82 89 16d +5h tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/07/Thin-Spots-In-the-AI-Bubble 27PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance 158 683 16d +13m digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube 28If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C? 595 621 16d +10m stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-coding.html 29Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Designer 0 1 16d +10s ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace/jobs/yamWTLr-founding-designer-at-clearspace 30Velato 4 16 23d +6d futilitycloset.com/2025/10/10/velato 31Show HN: I got tired of switching AI tools, so I built an IDE with 11 of them 17 20 16d +2h hivetechs.io 32Launch HN: Mentat (YC F24) – Controlling LLMs with Runtime Intervention 34 52 16d +4m playground.ctgt.ai 33Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio 185 764 16d +34m bruno-simon.com 34Berkeley professor's camera caught student allegedly sabotaging another student 20 32 16d +13m mercurynews.com/2025/12/08/uc-berkeley-professor-installed-secret-camera-allegedly-catching-phd-candidate-sabotaging-fellow-students-work 35Firewood Banks Aren't Inspiring. They're a Sign of Collapse 31 33 16d +15m newrepublic.com/article/204051/firewood-banks-heating-bill-winter 36Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now 949 3307 16d +1h dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news 37Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? 459 955 16d +10m 38Fate: A modern data client for React and tRPC 8 31 16d +2h fate.technology/posts/introducing-fate 39Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI 340 735 16d +1h mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli 40AWS Trainium3 Deep Dive – A Potential Challenger Approaching 24 71 20d +4d newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/aws-trainium3-deep-dive-a-potential 41Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? 28 47 16d +2h newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-put-himself-into-his-case-studies-what-was-the-cost 42Is your AI system illegal in the EU? 58 25 16d +40m medium.com/@lea.leumassart/is-your-ai-system-illegal-in-the-eu-heres-how-to-check-b92e2a5fb739 43My favourite small hash table 36 157 16d +52m corsix.org/content/my-favourite-small-hash-table 44EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results 120 57 16d +20m bbc.com/news/articles/crl95eg33k1o 45Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain 576 579 16d +12m repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain 46Engineers: Stop trying to win other people's game 24 18 16d +18m anthonyputignano.com/p/the-western-front-advantage-how-junior 47Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending 420 356 16d +1m finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-slow-ai-pace-becomes-104658095.html 48Kaiju – General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor 107 218 16d +11m github.com/KaijuEngine/kaiju 49The Gamma Language 7 40 19d +3d lair.masot.net/gamma 5030 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness 196 267 16d +5h jorsys.org/archive/december_2025.html#newsitem_2025-12-09T07:42:19Z 51Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban 260 112 16d +22m politico.com/news/2025/12/09/rahm-emanuel-says-u-s-should-follow-australias-youth-social-media-ban-00682185 52Show HN: WhatHappened – HN summaries, heatmaps, and contrarian picks 27 64 16d +18h whathappened.tech 53Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine 22 128 23d +7d stackchk.fail/blog/jxl_hashquine_writeup 54Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage 53 102 16d +1h designboom.com/technology/rediscover-mazda-suitcase-car-portable-three-wheeled-vehicle-fits-luggage-12-06-2025 55Why frozen test fixtures are a problem on large projects and how to avoid them 66 34 16d +57m radanskoric.com/articles/frozen-test-fixtures 56Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence 45 128 21d +5d arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10811 57America Has Become a Digital Narco-State 84 106 16d +30m paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-has-become-a-digital-narco 58Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth? 99 97 16d +16m ramones.dev/posts/where-are-you-supposed-to-go 59Morphisms All the Way Down: API Design as Arrow-First Thinking 4 12 16d +1h ibrahimcesar.cloud/blog/categorical-solutions-architect-part-2 60ZX Spectrum Next on the Internet: Xberry Pi ESP01 and Pi Zero Upgrades 0 61 16d +1h retrogamecoders.com/zx-spectrum-next-on-the-internet-xberry-pi-esp01-and-pi-zero-upgrades 61Brent's Encapsulated C Programming Rules (2020) 48 77 16d +52m retroscience.net/brents-c-programming-rules.html 62A deep dive into QEMU: The Tiny Code Generator (TCG), part 1 (2021) 2 82 23d +6d airbus-seclab.github.io/qemu_blog/tcg_p1.html 63Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz 57 82 16d +21m forever-wars.com/torture-techniques-from-cia-black-sites-were-used-at-alligator-alcatraz 64Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns 105 175 16d +20m algodrill.io 65Richard Stallman on ChatGPT 165 132 16d +4m stallman.org/chatgpt.html 66LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090 114 535 22d +6d gilesthomas.com/2025/12/llm-from-scratch-28-training-a-base-model-from-scratch 67The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn 122 184 16d +37m segasaturnshiro.com/2025/11/27/the-joy-of-playing-grandia-on-sega-saturn 68No ARIA is better than bad ARIA 97 125 22d +6d w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/practices/read-me-first 69Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go 43 151 24d +8d github.com/ziggy42/epsilon 70Periodic Spaces 8 42 21d +5d ianthehenry.com/posts/periodic-spaces 71The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets 106 83 16d +1h sciencefocus.com/science/the-closer-we-look-at-time-the-stranger-it-gets 72A thousand-year-long composition turns 25 (2024) 6 32 16d +34m longplayer.org/news/2024/12/31/a-thousand-year-long-composition-turns-25 73Using floating point numbers as hash keys (2017) 4 16 22d +5d readafterwrite.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/how-to-hash-floating-point-numbers 74Why I don’t root for the Many Worlds team 19 14 17d +18h nautil.us/reality-exists-without-observers-boooo-1252289 75Manual: Spaces 24 113 16d +5h type.today/en/journal/spaces 76Luarrow – True pipeline operators and elegant Haskell-style function compositio 4 24 22d +6d github.com/aiya000/luarrow.lua 77Modern Walkmans 140 164 16d +11m walkman.land/modern 78Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s 130 172 16d +6h withdocket.com 79The Hitchhiker's Guide to Coherent Fabrics: 5 Programming Rules 0 8 23d +7d sigarch.org/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-coherent-fabrics-5-programming-rules-for-cxl-nvlink-and-infinityfabric 80The web runs on tolerance 172 101 21d +4d shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/the-web-runs-on-tolerance 81Everything that is wrong in museums starts with wall labels 24 25 22d +6d aaronland.info/weblog/2025/11/20/cafeteria 82OSHW: Small tablet based on RK3568 and AMOLED screen 40 101 22d +5d oshwhub.com/oglggc/rui-xin-wei-rk3568-si-ceng-jia-li-chuang-mian-fei-gong-yi 83$30M military wreath charity buys solely from its founders' farm (2023) 10 58 16d +1h militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2023/12/13/30m-military-wreath-charity-buys-solely-from-its-founders-farm 84The power of proximity to coworkers [pdf] 11 19 16d +5m pallais.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum5926/files/2025-11/Power%20of%20Proximity%20to%20Coworkers%20November%202025.pdf 85Latency Profiling in Python: From Code Bottlenecks to Observability 11 44 23d +6d quant.engineering/latency-profiling-in-python.html 86Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden 623 572 16d +43m andyljones.com/posts/horses.html 87The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023) 30 92 16d +5m untappedcities.com/automats-cafeterias-nyc 88Scientific and Technical Amateur Radio 6 57 16d +2m destevez.net 89The universal weight subspace hypothesis 132 355 16d +22m arxiv.org/abs/2512.05117 90Intel 8086 Microcode Explorer 2 36 20d +4d nand2mario.github.io/8086_microcode.html 91Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far 328 274 16d +7m grocerydive.com/news/kroger-ocado-close-automated-fulfillment-centers-robotics-grocery-ecommerce/805931 92 More... 2025.12.08