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