HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Yet another year with Decker 3 45 50d +8d beyondloom.comhttp:///blog/unionstate3.html 1AI can code, but it can't build software 170 257 42d +2m bytesauna.com/post/coding-vs-software-engineering 2Are these real CVEs? VulDB entries for dnsmasq rely on replacing config files 50 55 42d +1h seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q4/79 3Iroh-blobs 26 141 42d +36s iroh.computer/blog/iroh-blobs-0-95-new-features 4[deleted] 0 48d +6d iroh.computer 5Go beyond Goroutines: introducing the Reactive paradigm 41 68 49d +7d samuelberthe.substack.com/p/go-beyond-goroutines-introducing 6The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program 9 238 42d +14m simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/psf-withdrawn-proposal 7Easy RISC-V 78 392 42d +1m dramforever.github.io/easyriscv 8Precise and scalable analogue matrix equation solving using RRAM chips [pdf] 0 17 44d +2d nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01477-0.pdf 9Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code (2012) 31 116 45d +3d tannerhelland.com/2012/12/28/dithering-eleven-algorithms-source-code.html 10TOON – Token Oriented Object Notation 58 171 43d +22h github.com/johannschopplich/toon 11The new calculus of AI-based coding 209 194 42d +3h blog.joemag.dev/2025/10/the-new-calculus-of-ai-based-coding.html 12When 'perfect' code fails 51 63 42d +6h marma.dev/articles/2025/when-perfect-code-fails 13It's not always DNS 39 54 42d +3h notes.pault.ag/its-not-always-dns 14Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization 227 214 42d +1h phys.org/news/2025-10-friends-division-social-circles-fuel.html 15A mild mannered Englishman who was the most prolific ghost hunter 1 12 48d +6d lithub.com/the-mild-mannered-englishman-who-was-the-worlds-most-prolific-ghost-hunter 16Fingerprint Formation (2004) [pdf] 1 9 44d +2d math.arizona.edu/~anewell/publications/Fingerprint_Formation.pdf 17Stack walking: space and time trade-offs 0 16 42d +12h maskray.me/blog/2025-10-26-stack-walking-space-and-time-trade-offs 18Gitworkshop.dev – Collaborate on code over Nostr 9 60 44d +2d gitworkshop.dev 19Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell 206 405 44d +2d testing.googleblog.com/2025/10/simplify-your-code-functional-core.html 20Creating an all-weather driver 104 124 42d +22m waymo.com/blog/2025/10/creating-an-all-weather-driver 21Solving regex crosswords with Z3 0 64 48d +6d blog.nelhage.com/post/regex-crosswords-z3 22Carl Bohland's Auto Wash Bowl (2015) 6 20 42d +26m news.wttw.com/2015/07/29/ask-geoffrey 2310M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea 623 1555 42d +5h arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/suing-a-popular-youtuber-who-shimmed-a-130-lock-what-could-possibly-go-wrong 24Why Nigeria accepted GMOs 139 69 42d +18m asimov.press/p/nigeria-crops 25MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities 50 168 42d +36m github.com/cisco-ai-defense/mcp-scanner 26Computer Assisted Biologically Augmented Lifeform 2 19 50d +8d cnc.fandom.com/wiki/Computer_Assisted_Biologically_Augmented_Lifeform 27Show HN: Dlog – Journaling and AI coach that learns what drives wellbeing (Mac) 35 46 42d +27m dlog.pro 28Let the little guys in: A context sharing runtime for the personalised web 13 73 42d +9m arjun.md/little-guys 29Life next to 199 data centres 61 66 42d +44m bbc.com/news/articles/c93dnnxewdvo 30Write Express JS code that runs on Rust 6 8 42d +1h github.com/Shyam20001/rsjs 31Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise 41 183 42d +59m github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/6779 32Show HN: Git Auto Commit (GAC) – LLM-powered Git commit command line tool 35 52 42d +19m github.com/cellwebb/gac 33Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013) 367 337 42d +15m endpointdev.com/blog/2013/04/avoid-200-and-300-am-cron-jobs 34Show HN: JSON Query 68 147 42d +53m jsonquerylang.org 35Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra 76 237 42d +19m benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra 36JetKVM – Control any computer remotely 203 379 42d +31m jetkvm.com 37Artificial Writing and Automated Detection [pdf] 32 46 42d +6m nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34223/w34223.pdf 38Show HN: Erdos – open-source, AI data science IDE 32 84 42d +1h lotas.ai/erdos 39Sieve (YC X25) is hiring engineers to build video datasets for frontier AI 0 1 42d +14s sievedata.com 40Eight Million Copies of Moby-Dick (2014) 10 40 46d +4d thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/nicolas-mugaveros-eight-million-copies-of-moby-dick-or-the-whale 41Claude for Excel 454 672 42d +15m claude.com/claude-for-excel 42It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts 514 1171 42d +54m blog.pabloecortez.com/its-insulting-to-read-your-ai-generated-blog-post 43Ask HN: Is AWS down again? 37 83 42d +2m 44EntropyLong: Effective Long-Context Training via Predictive Uncertainty 0 15 42d +2h arxiv.org/abs/2510.02330 45Viral 'Free Potatoes' Post Cost This Farmer 150 Tons of Crops 55 72 47d +5d vice.com/en/article/viral-free-potatoes-post-cost-this-farmer-150-tons-of-crops 46Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf] 73 359 42d +18m exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacimages/Images/Pyrex/Rakow_1000132877.pdf 47PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program 734 724 42d +7m pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html 48Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions 129 296 42d +9m accc.gov.au/media-release/microsoft-in-court-for-allegedly-misleading-millions-of-australians-over-microsoft-365-subscriptions 49OpenBSD C/C++ Toolchain in the Browser 13 33 45d +3d openbsd.llvm.moe 50More big companies bet they can still grow without hiring 86 72 42d +12m wsj.com/business/companies-hiring-jobs-ai-9ef675b6 51Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret 232 238 42d +2h source-material.org/amazon-leak-reveals-true-data-centres-water-usage-secret-plan 52Pre-emptive Z80 multitasking explainer 32 56 42d +1h github.com/bchiha/Ready-Z80/tree/main/29-Multitasking 53Isomorphic JS/TS Functions Orchestrator 2 13 42d +2h github.com/damianofalcioni/js-functions-orchestrator 54Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations 78 127 46d +3d su.se/english/news/unexpected-patterns-in-historical-astronomical-observations-1.855042 55Canada Set to Side with China on EVs 100 53 42d +41m thewirechina.com/2025/10/26/canada-set-to-side-with-china-on-evs 56Artifact (YC W25) is hiring engineers in NYC to build modern ECAD 0 1 42d +3s 57You are how you act 184 326 42d +14m boz.com/articles/you-are-how-you-act 58Corrosion 101 216 46d +4d fly.io/blog/corrosion 59Microsoft needs to open up more about its OpenAI dealings 178 268 42d +19m wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-needs-to-open-up-more-about-its-openai-dealings-59102de8 60SETL Programming Language 5 13 42d +23m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETL 61Tags to make HTML work like you expect 235 437 42d +1h blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/dont-forget-these-html-tags 62Should LLMs just treat text content as an image? 99 166 48d +6d seangoedecke.com/text-tokens-as-image-tokens 63WorldGrow: Generating Infinite 3D World 50 86 42d +48m github.com/world-grow/WorldGrow 64Rust cross-platform GPUI components 214 506 42d +33m github.com/longbridge/gpui-component 65Geoutil.com – Measure distances, areas, and convert geo data in the browser 25 127 48d +6d geoutil.com 66What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine? 288 410 42d +36m hackaday.com/2025/10/22/what-happened-to-running-what-you-wanted-on-your-own-machine 67The last European train that travels by sea 162 174 42d +21m bbc.com/travel/article/20251024-the-last-european-train-that-travels-by-sea 68Why JPEG XL ignoring bit depth is genius (and why AVIF can't pull it off) 64 102 42d +59m fractionalxperience.com/ux-ui-graphic-design-blog/why-jpeg-xl-ignoring-bit-depth-is-genius 69This World of Ours (2014) [pdf] 189 243 42d +29m usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf 70Gleescript – Bundle Gleam-on-Erlang project into an executable file 1 16 48d +6d github.com/lpil/gleescript 71Recall for Linux 212 543 42d +1h github.com/rolflobker/recall-for-linux 72[dead] ? 15 42d +30m substack.com 73Show HN: Write Go code in JavaScript files 47 154 42d +2h npmjs.com/package/vite-plugin-use-golang 74Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2014) 65 152 42d +3h tgvaughan.github.io/sicm/toc.html 75Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers 110 275 47d +4d hacktivate.app/why-teach-kids-to-hack 76Tamper-Sensing Meshes Using Low-Cost, Embedded Time-Domain Reflectometry 3 36 46d +3d jaseg.de/blog/paper-sampling-mesh-monitor 77An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x throughput (hist) 108 117 47d +4d github.com/noamteyssier/hist-rs 78Diphtheria, a once vanquished killer of children, is resurgent 100 61 42d +14m nytimes.com/2025/10/27/health/diptheria-somalia-vaccines.html 79The striking Swedish workers taking on carmaker Tesla 4 18 42d +25m bbc.com/news/articles/c5y9082q0jjo 80Searching for Charles Fourier in the ruins of a socialist utopia outside LA 1 33 50d +7d kubicki.org/letters/the-dogs-of-llano-del-rio-i 81However small, just start. From zero to hero 0 13 42d +30m theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/26/expert-motivation-tips-gym-to-do-list 82Severe performance penalty found in VSCode rendering loop 45 63 42d +29m github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/272155 83We're in the wrong moment 90 57 42d +30m ezrichards.github.io/posts/were-in-the-wrong-moment 84A Looking Glass Half Empty, Part 2: A Series of Unfortunate Events 0 27 49d +6d filfre.net/2025/10/a-looking-glass-half-empty-part-2-a-series-of-unfortunate-events 85Argentina's midterm election hands landslide win to Milei's libertarian overhaul 50 38 42d +41m cnbc.com/2025/10/27/argentinas-midterm-election-hands-landslide-win-to-mileis-libertarian-overhaul.html 86Termite farmers fine-tune their weed control 6 21 48d +5d arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/termite-farmers-fine-tune-their-weed-control 87Milei Wins Mandate for Free-Market Revolution in Argentina's Election 51 38 43d +54m wsj.com/world/americas/milei-wins-mandate-for-free-market-revolution-in-argentinas-election-3be65f38 88How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in 141 324 43d +1h lalinsky.com/2025/10/26/zio-async-io-for-zig.html 89Sphere Computer – The Innovative 1970s Computer Company Everyone Forgot 13 98 46d +3d sphere.computer 90ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 412 320 43d +30m jacobin.com/2025/10/ice-zignal-surveillance-social-media 91We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3" 251 324 43d +4h engineering.nanit.com/how-we-saved-500-000-per-year-by-rolling-our-own-s3-6caec1ee1143 92Sandhill cranes have adopted a Canada gosling 43 155 47d +4d smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-sandhill-cranes-have-adopted-a-canadian-gosling-and-birders-have-flocked-to-watch-the-strange-family-180986828 93Microsoft 365 Copilot – Arbitrary Data Exfiltration via Mermaid Diagrams 49 215 43d +1h adamlogue.com/microsoft-365-copilot-arbitrary-data-exfiltration-via-mermaid-diagrams-fixed 94 More... 2025.10.26