HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order D2: Diagram Scripting Language 276 69 1d +48m d2lang.com/tour/intro 1Doctor Who archive expert shares positive update on missing episode 122 61 7d +6d radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-missing-episodes-update-teases-announcement-newsupdate 2NewPipe Is Turning 10 104 24 1d +32m newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-turns-10 3The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel 457 87 1d +10m 0xkato.xyz/linux-boot 4The Cooperative National Geologic Map 16 0 4d +2d ngmdb.usgs.gov/nationalgeology 5Belittled Magazine: Thirty years after the Sokal affair 54 42 1d +35m thebaffler.com/salvos/belittled-magazine-robbins 6[dead] 10 ? 1d +55m blog.justcopy.ai 7An Update on TinyKVM 148 37 1d +45m fwsgonzo.medium.com/an-update-on-tinykvm-7a38518e57e9 8Global key-value metadata storage for Scryer Prolog 13 1 1d +1h github.com/jjtolton/environment.pl 9How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015) 139 11 1d +22m lwn.net/Articles/631631 10An Efficient Implementation of SELF (1989) [pdf] 52 44 1d +25m courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse501/15sp/papers/chambers.pdf 11Show HN: LLM Rescuer – Fixing the billion dollar mistake in Ruby 91 14 3d +1d github.com/barodeur/llm_rescuer 12[dead] 13 ? 1d +18m jewinthecity.com 13Show HN: We tried to build a job board that isn't awful 32 52 6d +4d teeming.ai 14WebDAV isn't dead yet 241 116 2d +1d blog.feld.me/posts/2025/09/webdav-isnt-dead-yet 15Visualizing the most common unisex names in the US 19 9 1d +1h nameplay.org/blog/common-unisex-names-by-gender-ratio 16AI, Wikipedia, and uncorrected machine translations of vulnerable languages 128 75 1d +48m technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral 17ARM Memory Tagging: how it improves C/C++ memory safety (2018) [pdf] 73 45 1d +2m llvm.org/devmtg/2018-10/slides/Serebryany-Stepanov-Tsyrklevich-Memory-Tagging-Slides-LLVM-2018.pdf 18Agent Lightning: Train agents with RL (no code changes needed) 98 13 1d +12m github.com/microsoft/agent-lightning 19"Learn APL" Notes 49 10 1d +7m luksamuk.codes/pages/learn-apl.html 20Honda's ASIMO (2021) 39 16 1d +9m robotsgottalents.com/post/asimo 21Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking 122 118 1d +5m about.nike.com/en/newsroom/releases/nike-project-amplify-official-images 22Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations 248 58 1d +1m github.com/RohanAdwankar/oxdraw 23ProEnergy repurposes jet engines to power data centers 31 38 1d +37m datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/proenergy-offers-repurposed-jet-engines-to-data-cent 24Draw high dimensional tensors as a matrix of matrices 13 0 1d +3h blog.ezyang.com/2025/10/draw-high-dimensional-tensors-as-a-matrix-of-matrices 25Torchcomms: A modern PyTorch communications API 28 5 1d +36m pytorch.org/blog/torchcomms 26Show HN: Status of my favorite bike share stations 13 5 1d +30m blog.alexboden.ca/toronto-bike-share-status 27California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind 341 320 1d +34m latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-17/california-made-it-through-another-summer-without-a-flex-alert 28Violent crime plummets 36% in downtown Seattle, lowest since 2017 28 21 1d +8m mynorthwest.com/crime-blotter/seattle-downtown-crime/4146723 29Load-time relocation of shared libraries (2011) 23 1 1d +13m eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/08/25/load-time-relocation-of-shared-libraries 30Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB 63 19 1d +4m blog.matthewbrunelle.com/testing-out-ble-beacons-with-beacondb 31In memory of the Christmas Island shrew 78 25 1d +15m news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-memory-of-the-christmas-island-shrew 32Passwords and Power Drills 120 26 6d +4d google.github.io/building-secure-and-reliable-systems/raw/ch01.html#on_passwords_and_power_drills 33Google Pixel's most dangerous bug: failing to call 911 114 54 2d +22h androidpolice.com/google-pixels-most-dangerous-bug-refuses-to-die 34Why I code as a CTO 301 271 2d +1d assembled.com/blog/why-i-code-as-a-cto 35"Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads 71 47 2d +1d chromewebstore.google.com/detail/return-youtube-dislike/gebbhagfogifgggkldgodflihgfeippi/reviews 36Why your social.org files can have millions of lines without performance issues 90 8 2d +12h en.andros.dev/blog/4e12225f/why-your-socialorg-files-can-have-millions-of-lines-without-any-performance-issues 37Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice? 103 112 2d +18h 38Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes 132 40 1d +12m shadcnthemer.com 39Ask HN: Advice for creating a USB device linking 2 computers 19 41 1d +56m 40Dead soldiers' teeth reveal diseases that doomed Napoleon's army 19 80 2d +22h washingtonpost.com/science/2025/10/24/napoleons-army-diseases-ancient-dna-teeth 41The Journey Before main() 307 138 1d +9m amit.prasad.me/blog/before-main 42TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation 100 197 2d +5h tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-10-25-synadia-and-tigerbeetle-pledge-512k-to-the-zig-software-foundation/#blog-post 43Switzerland is spending millions revamping its vast network of bunkers 66 26 1d +36m washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/25/switzerland-nuclear-bunkers-overhaul 44Tarmageddon: RCE vulnerability highlights challenges of open source abandonware 95 52 5d +3d edera.dev/stories/tarmageddon 45ICC Judge Guillou loses all US IT accounts after MAGA sanctions [FR] 89 81 1d +4m franceinfo.fr/replay-radio/nouveau-monde/quand-les-sanctions-internationales-emises-par-washington-imposent-une-vie-deconnectee-a-un-magistrat-francais_7545724.html 46Calculating the Bounding Rectangle of a Circular Sector 29 1 7d +5d asawicki.info/news_1791_calculating_the_bounding_rectangle_of_a_circular_sector 47Against SQL (2021) 81 73 2d +3h scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql 48Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes chip bag for gun in Baltimore 47 27 1d +36m bbc.com/news/articles/cgjdlx92lylo 49Jacqueline – A minimal i386 kernel written in Pascal (2019) 83 24 4d +2d github.com/danirod/jacqueline 50We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable 284 94 1d +13m libera.chat/news/advised 51The mad king's digital killswitch 74 23 1d +26m pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics 52Rock Tumbler Instructions 195 90 1d +6m rocktumbler.com/tips/rock-tumbler-instructions 53Magic sizes enable high-fidelity assembly of programmable shells 24 2 5d +3d arxiv.org/abs/2411.03720 54Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales 136 192 2d +6m macrumors.com/2025/10/25/windows-10-deadline-boosts-mac-sales 55Xubuntu website hacked and served malware 24 3 2d +16m old.reddit.com/r/xubuntu/comments/1oa43gt/xubuntuorg_might_be_compromised 56DNA reveals the real killers that brought down Napoleon's army 66 4 2d +59m gavi.org/vaccineswork/dna-reveals-real-killers-brought-down-napoleons-army 57The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019 39 19 5d +3d thegradient.pub/state-of-ml-frameworks-2019-pytorch-dominates-research-tensorflow-dominates-industry 58Synadia and TigerBeetle Commit $512k USD to the Zig Software Foundation 403 6 2d +2m synadia.com/blog/synadia-tigerbeetle-zig-foundation-pledge 59Making a micro Linux distro (2023) 190 29 2d +5m popovicu.com/posts/making-a-micro-linux-distro 60Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits 193 116 2d +3h 61The Great SaaS Gaslight 89 118 2d +1h unworkableideas.com/the-great-saas-lighting-how-it-users-got-gaslit 62The future of Python web services looks GIL-free 202 89 8d +6d blog.baro.dev/p/the-future-of-python-web-services-looks-gil-free 63[dead] 16 ? 2d +2h deyaa1251.github.io 64Show HN: Chonky – a neural text semantic chunking goes multilingual 41 4 2d +5m huggingface.co/mirth/chonky_mmbert_small_multilingual_1 65React vs. Backbone in 2025 297 220 2d +1h backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com 66Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews 154 168 2d +6h seangoedecke.com/good-code-reviews 67The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020) 87 36 2d +9m missing.csail.mit.edu 68The persistence of tradition: the curious case of Henry Symeonis (2023) 32 1 5d +2d blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2023/12/13/the-persistence-of-tradition-the-curious-case-of-henry-symeonis 69Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling 78 32 6d +4d spectrum.ieee.org/diamond-thermal-conductivity 70The Goon Squad 82 22 2d +3h harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness 71Fast TypeScript (Code Complexity) Analyzer 57 23 2d +3h ftaproject.dev 72Luau's performance 89 16 4d +1d luau.org/performance 73That Time Ken Thompson Wrote a Backdoor into the C Compiler 79 13 2d +54m micahkepe.com/blog/thompson-trojan-horse 74Creating an Igcse Pseudocode Interpreter 6 0 8d +5d ezntek.com/posts/creating-an-igcse-pseudocode-interpreter-pt-2-20250913t1349 75Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts 154 93 2d +10m itnews.com.au/news/euro-cops-take-down-cybercrime-network-with-49-million-fake-accounts-621174 76Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly 337 388 2d +2h economist.com/international/2025/10/23/meet-the-real-screen-addicts-the-elderly 77Normalize.css 67 50 6d +4d csstools.github.io/normalize.css 78Claudeskills.cc – Share, Discover, and Reuse Claude/OpenAI Agent Skills 28 19 2d +18m claudeskills.cc 79Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update 240 183 2d +3h iverify.io/blog/key-iocs-for-pegasus-and-predator-spyware-cleaned-with-ios-26-update 80The geometry of mathematical methods 80 4 7d +4d books.physics.oregonstate.edu/GMM/book.html 81The fix wasn't easy, or C precedence bites 31 45 5d +2d boston.conman.org/2025/10/20.1 82Advice for new principal tech ICs (i.e., notes to myself) 134 142 2d +1h eugeneyan.com/writing/principal 83Technical experts have zero customers 26 21 2d +4h ivan.codes/thoughts/technical-experts-have-zero-customers 84People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses 307 100 6d +3d nbcnews.com/health/health-news/tiny-eye-implant-special-glasses-legally-blind-patients-can-read-rcna238488 85Google Demanded My Drivers Lic Before Letting Me Read an Article 75 30 2d +2h 86Deepagent: A powerful desktop AI assistant 39 1 2d +1h deepagent.abacus.ai 87Underdetermined Weaving with Machines (2021) [video] 22 3 2d +3m youtube.com/watch?v=on_sK8KoObo 88What is intelligence? (2024) 179 111 2d +1h whatisintelligence.antikythera.org 89The Great Butterfly Heist 24 1 5d +2d theguardian.com/global/2025/oct/04/great-butterfly-heist-how-collector-stole-thousands-butterflies-from-australian-museums 90Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways 651 150 3d +11h saxrag.com/tech/reversing/2025/06/01/BAWiFi.html 91Context engineering is sleeping on the humble hyperlink 176 68 4d +1d mbleigh.dev/posts/context-engineering-with-links 92Compiler optimizations for 5.8ms GPT-OSS-120B inference (not on GPUs) 9 0 9d +7d furiosa.ai/blog/serving-gpt-oss-120b-at-5-8-ms-tpot-with-two-rngd-cards-compiler-optimizations-in-practice 93[dead] 7 ? 2d +1h virtual-try-on.app 94Carmack on Operating Systems (1997) 100 78 2d +18m rmitz.org/carmack.on.operating.systems.html 95Startup plans to cool data centers by converting heat to light 26 2 10d +7d spectrum.ieee.org/laser-cooling-chips 96Vibe Coding in the 90s 87 36 2d +13m ssg.dev/vibe-coding-in-the-90s 97 More... 2025.10.24