HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond 258 201 12d +5d edn.com/poe-basics-and-beyond-what-every-engineer-should-know 120,858 Public Domain Audio Books 120 15 6d +7h librivox.org/search 2Understanding conflict resolution and avoidance in PostgreSQL: a complete guide 42 8 17d +10d pgedge.com/blog/living-on-the-edge 3"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney 187 89 6d +36m lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here 4The Lottery-fication of Everything 93 58 6d +49m dopaminemarkets.com/p/the-lottery-fication-of-everything 5The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum 30 9 13d +7d thesaltandpeppershakermuseum.com 6We rewrote OpenFGA in pure Postgres 50 14 6d +32m getrover.substack.com/p/how-we-rewrote-openfga-in-pure-postgres 7rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC 241 94 6d +21m github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/src/external/rlsw.h 8Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server 802 555 6d +19m disco.cloud/blog/how-idealistorg-replaced-a-3000mo-heroku-bill-with-a-55-server 9Renato Casaro, 'Michelangelo of Movie Posters,' Dies at 89 32 3 16d +9d nytimes.com/2025/10/10/movies/renato-casaro-dead.html 10Doomsday scoreboard 232 145 6d +13m doomsday.march1studios.com 11Minds, brains, and programs (1980) [pdf] 102 68 15d +8d home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/382/readings/482/searle.minds.brains.programs.bbs.1980.pdf 12[dead] 20 ? 6d +31m dnscheck.co 13Show HN: bbcli – A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News like a hacker 79 15 9d +2d github.com/hako/bbcli 14The death of thread per core 151 67 7d +21h buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/the-death-of-thread-per-core 15What do we do if SETI is successful? 172 329 7d +1d universetoday.com/articles/what-do-we-do-if-seti-is-successful 16Kvcached: Virtualized, elastic KV cache for LLM serving on shared GPUs 69 13 6d +1h notion.so/yifanqiao/Solve-the-GPU-Cost-Crisis-with-kvcached-289da9d1f4d68034b17bf2774201b141 17Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code 200 44 7d +1d simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/deepseek-ocr-claude-code 18[dead] 5 ? 6d +27m blog.jacobstechtavern.com 19Magit Is Amazing 172 93 6d +5m heiwiper.com/posts/magit-is-awesome 20Mathematicians have found a hidden 'reset button' for undoing rotation 182 115 11d +5d newscientist.com/article/2499647-mathematicians-have-found-a-hidden-reset-button-for-undoing-rotation 21NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission 404 1142 7d +5h cnn.com/2025/10/20/science/nasa-spacex-moon-landing-contract-sean-duffy 22Binary Retrieval-Augmented Reward Mitigates Hallucinations 42 3 6d +1h arxiv.org/abs/2510.17733 23Build your own database 539 89 6d +1h nan.fyi/database 24Do not accept terms and conditions 97 69 10d +3d termsandconditions.game 25OpenAI Set to Challenge Google with New ChatGPT Atlas Browser 36 17 6d +22m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/openai-set-to-challenge-google-with-new-chatgpt-atlas-browser 26ChatGPT Atlas 764 722 6d +1m chatgpt.com/atlas 27The Programmer Identity Crisis 266 298 6d +16m hojberg.xyz/the-programmer-identity-crisis 28Flexport Is Hiring SDRs in Chicago 1 0 6d +10s job-boards.greenhouse.io/flexport/jobs/5690976?gh_jid=5690976 29Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue 255 267 6d +8m quasa.io/media/the-strangest-fallout-from-the-aws-outage-smart-mattresses-go-rogue-and-ruin-sleep-worldwide 30Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws 433 369 6d +1h csoonline.com/article/4074962/foreign-hackers-breached-a-us-nuclear-weapons-plant-via-sharepoint-flaws.html 31The Greatness of Text Adventures 115 84 6d +4m entropicthoughts.com/the-greatness-of-text-adventures 32[dead] 12 ? 11d +4d redops.at 33Public trust demands open-source voting systems 233 270 6d +35m voting.works/news/public-trust-demands-open-source-voting-systems 34Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI? 179 199 6d +28m calnewport.com/is-sora-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-openai 35A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Virtual Machine 10 3 6d +1h abhinavsarkar.net/posts/arithmetic-bytecode-vm 36Show HN: Katakate – Dozens of VMs per node for safe code exec 120 51 6d +55m github.com/Katakate/k7 37Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with gov spyware 288 144 6d +19m techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/apple-alerts-exploit-developer-that-his-iphone-was-targeted-with-government-spyware 38Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage 391 95 6d +15m 39Show HN: Clink – Bring your own CLI Agents, Ship instantly 21 21 6d +30m clink.new 40AI is making us work more 221 250 6d +18m tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/10/ai-work-more 41Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher 3000 87 22 14d +7d lcamtuf.substack.com/p/weekend-projects-chicken-squisher 42RF Shielding History: When the FCC Cracked Down on Computers 60 34 7d +56m tedium.co/2025/10/20/computers-fcc-rf-interference-history 43LLMs can get "brain rot" 466 288 7d +55m llm-brain-rot.github.io 44[dead] 14 ? 7d +5m youtube.com 45Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots 75 143 7d +1h theverge.com/news/803257/amazon-robotics-automation-replace-600000-human-jobs 46Solving the Wrong Problem 36 24 16d +9d ufried.com/blog/ai_assisted_coding 47Sell tickets to concerts agentically – Hive (YC S14) is hiring 1 0 7d +27s 48UA 1093 221 109 7d +10m windbornesystems.com/blog/ua-1093 49Shutdown with no clear end poses new economic threat 21 13 7d +4m nytimes.com/2025/10/21/business/economy/government-shutdown-economic-effects.html 50The Karpathy Interview, 6 Months After AI 2027 38 24 7d +38m futuresearch.ai/ai-2027-6-months-later 51Don't use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog 61 72 7d +23m theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/21/ai-chatbots-unreliable-biased-advice-voters-dutch-watchdog 52South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates 114 148 14d +7d france24.com/en/africa/20250705-south-africa-s-one-million-invisible-children-without-birth-certificates 53Our modular, high-performance Merkle Tree library for Rust 141 29 7d +20m github.com/bilinearlabs/rs-merkle-tree 54Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI 123 51 7d +9m asciinema.org/a/Lbxa2w9R5IbaJqW3INqVrbX8E 55Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs 425 117 7d +10m kyutai.org/next/codec-explainer 56Just Use Curl 170 143 7d +13m justuse.org/curl 57SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition 141 2 7d +17m theregister.com/2025/10/21/spacex_is_behind_schedule_so 58Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling 200 63 7d +1h spectrum.ieee.org/diamond-thermal-conductivity 59Show HN: ASCII Automata 101 10 10d +3d hlnet.neocities.org/ascii-automata 60US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky dies aged 29 126 2 7d +1h bbc.com/news/articles/c15pz8vpjp9o 61StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game 202 57 7d +17m quarters.captaintouch.com/blog/posts/2025-10-21-stargrid-has-arrived,-a-brand-new-palm-os-strategy-game-in-2025.html 62Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making 238 338 7d +11m electrek.co/2025/10/20/tesla-heading-into-multi-billion-dollar-iceberg-of-own-making 63White House's East Wing partially demolished as work begins on $250M ballroom 58 22 7d +54m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/20/trump-white-house-ballroom-construction 64Quantum dynamics on your laptop? New technique moves us closer 70 16 16d +9d buffalo.edu/news/releases/2025/10/quantum-dynamics-on-your-laptop.html 65KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices 472 194 16d +8d community.kde.org/KDEConnect 66AI Weiwei: What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier 57 80 7d +23m hyperallergic.com/1050197/what-i-wish-i-had-known-about-germany-earlier 67Human Error Cripples the Internet (1997) 26 16 7d +4m archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/071797dns.html 68Calendar Puzzle "Rhombus" 59 24 15d +8d praxispuzzles.com/calendar_puzzle_rhombus 69Pasta/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor 118 24 7d +1h github.com/pleumann/pasta80 70Show HN: I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of use 68 91 7d +1h ferron.sh 71The Tyrrany of Literacy. On oral tradition and what is lost 41 56 16d +9d languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71545 72Most expensive laptops 63 106 7d +6m comparelaptopprices.com/lists/most-expensive-laptops 73Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay) 197 106 13d +6d waxbanks.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/bare-metal-the-emacs-essay 74Language Support for Marginalia Search 176 27 7d +31m marginalia.nu/log/a_126_multilingual 75Practical Scheme 151 56 7d +44m practical-scheme.net/index.html#docs 76A magnetic field orientation that changes the fundamental design of motors 52 16 12d +5d paranetics.com/copy-of-home 77Building a CMS without programming experience 12 1 14d +7d vibediary.dev/essays/cms 78Nuclear Exercising at NATO 19 0 7d +36m walberque.substack.com/p/nuclear-exercising-at-nato 7960k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds 349 344 7d +58m cbsnews.com/news/peanut-allergies-60000-kids-avoided-2015-advice 80When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance 90 36 14d +6d nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/when-compiler-optimizations-hurt 81Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia 310 43 10d +3d detective.wiki 82Galleri test: Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers 123 75 10d +3d bbc.com/news/articles/c205g21n1zzo 83Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video 436 440 7d +31m techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/wikipedia-says-traffic-is-falling-due-to-ai-search-summaries-and-social-video 84Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US interventions 66 76 7d +19m ft.com/content/815ef487-0d0e-430c-b140-9bc39dbd1a53 85The Rubygems.org takeover 55 23 7d +42m lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1040778/77d921001b26d061 86Argentina Could Be a Superpower 38 16 7d +22m unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/argentina-could-be-a-superpower 87I made a small LED panel 154 80 18d +11d stavros.io/posts/really-small-led-panel 88Old Computer Challenge – Modern Web for the ZX Spectrum 77 17 7d +1h 0x00.cl/blog/2025/occ-2025 89Why UUIDs won't protect your secrets 74 59 7d +1h alexsci.com/blog/uuids-and-idor 90Old Is Gold: Optimizing Single-Threaded Applications with Exgen-Malloc 16 7 13d +5d arxiv.org/abs/2510.10219 91 More... 2025.10.20