HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Space Exploration Logo Archive 3 22 46d +6d kottke.org/25/10/the-space-exploration-logo-archive 1Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet 83 262 39d +14m elektormagazine.com/news/rp2350-bit-bangs-100-mbit-ethernet 2A century of reforestation helped keep the eastern US cool (2024) 20 134 39d +16m news.agu.org/press-release/a-century-of-reforestation-helped-keep-the-eastern-us-cool 3Responses from LLMs are not facts 180 242 39d +1h stopcitingai.com 4Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules 107 185 39d +2m science.org/content/article/meta-and-tiktok-are-obstructing-researchers-access-data-european-commission-rules 5Mapping Underground Structures with 3D Scans 1 21 43d +3d wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-10-25-3d-mapping 6A Fork in the Road: Deciding Kafka's Diskless Future 2 59 47d +7d jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/10/22/a-fork-in-the-road-deciding-kafkas-diskless-future 7How the U.S. National Science Foundation enabled Software-Defined Networking 41 116 39d +2m cacm.acm.org/federal-funding-of-academic-research/how-the-u-s-national-science-foundation-enabled-software-defined-networking 8Backpressure in Distributed Systems 14 42 40d +17m blog.pranshu-raj.me/posts/backpressure 9China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990 618 659 41d +1d e360.yale.edu/digest/china-new-forest-report 10How blocks are chained in a blockchain 31 68 42d +2d johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/27/blockchain 11Detour: Dynamic linking on Linux without Libc 8 77 40d +22h github.com/graphitemaster/detour 12Movycat – A terminal movie player written in Zig 9 61 42d +1d github.com/M64GitHub/movycat 13SwirlDB: Modular-first, CRDT-based embedded database 5 73 40d +22h docs.swirldb.org 14More than DNS: Learnings from the 14 hour AWS outage 55 167 42d +2d thundergolfer.com/blog/aws-us-east-1-outage-oct20 15Show HN: Pipelex – Declarative language for repeatable AI workflows 15 67 41d +1d github.com/Pipelex/pipelex 16Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK 146 271 40d +16h board.fun 17[dead] ? 13 40d +1m defiance.org 18Cancer survival rates are misleading 63 106 41d +1d allendowney.com/blog/2025/10/27/cancer-survival-rates-are-misleading 19GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders 188 251 41d +1d academic.oup.com/jes/article/9/11/bvaf141/8277723?login=false 20Quantifying pass-by-value overhead 28 115 41d +1d owen.cafe/posts/struct-sizes 21Tailscale Services 37 169 41d +1d tailscale.com/blog/services-beta 22The Uncertain Origins of Aspirin 1 26 43d +3d asimov.press/p/aspirin 23Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models 4 30 40d +16m transformer-circuits.pub/2025/introspection/index.html 24How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm 69 111 40d +13m rashil2000.me/blogs/tune-wezterm 25Vibration Analysis and Control in Particle Accelerator (2018) [pdf] 0 14 44d +4d indico.cern.ch/event/694811/contributions/2863859/attachments/1595533/2526938/2018_02_06_FCCee_MDI_workshop_Serluca.pdf 26Show HN: SQLite Graph Ext – Graph database with Cypher queries (alpha) 17 34 40d +19m github.com/agentflare-ai/sqlite-graph 27The Green Tea Garbage Collector 31 162 40d +1h go.dev/blog/greenteagc 28Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade 1301 2186 40d +3m emily.space/posts/251023-uv 29The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS 50 266 40d +38m icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-internet-runs-on-free-and-open-source-softwareand-so-does-the-dns-23-10-2025-en 30Dithering – Part 1 95 455 40d +31m visualrambling.space/dithering-part-1 31Hacking the World Poker Tour: Inside ClubWPT Gold's Back Office 10 37 43d +3d samcurry.net/hacking-clubwpt-gold 32Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware 104 164 40d +5m extropic.ai 33Building a Robot Dog (with an airsoft gun) 11 48 40d +1h erikschluntz.com/hardware/2025/10/26/robot-dog.html 34Encoding x86 Instructions 37 104 40d +28m user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs/chm/x86.chm/x86.htm 35OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO 337 233 40d +19m wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-promise-to-stay-in-california-helped-clear-the-path-for-its-ipo-3af1c31c 36Pentagon orders states' national guards to form 'quick reaction forces' 30 71 40d +17m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/pentagon-memo-quick-reaction-forces 37Tell HN: Azure outage 802 875 40d +1h downdetector.ca 38Zig's New Async I/O 164 317 40d +5h andrewkelley.me/post/zig-new-async-io-text-version.html 39Character.ai to bar children under 18 from using its chatbots 95 91 40d +3h nytimes.com/2025/10/29/technology/characterai-underage-users.html 40A History of British Summer Time 4 17 43d +3d diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-history-of-british-summer-time.html 41A Year of Fast Apply – Our Path to 10k Tokens per Second 6 47 40d +20m relace.ai/blog/relace-apply-3 42Show HN: Research Hacker News, ArXiv & Google with Hierarchical Bayesian Models 23 78 41d +1d sturdystatistics.com/deepdive-search 43ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship 342 384 40d +18m 404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents-are-scanning-peoples-faces-on-the-street-to-verify-citizenship 44Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition 446 1007 40d +1h minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation-in-java-edition 45Floss Before Brushing 86 52 40d +45m alearningaday.blog/2025/10/29/floss-before-brushing 46Upwave (YC S12) is hiring software engineers 0 1 40d +29s upwave.com/job/8228849002 47AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B 265 284 40d +31m axios.com/2025/10/29/aol-bending-spoons-deal 48Tailscale Peer Relays 111 355 40d +19m tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-beta 49Cursor 2.0 10 51 40d +26m cursor.com/blog/2-0 50Azure major outage: Portal, Front Door and global regions down 2 93 40d +17m 51Tell HN: Twilio support replies with hallucinated features 41 156 40d +25m 52Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL 167 212 40d +12m cursor.com/blog/composer 53Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages (2021) 19 84 40d +43m phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages 54Tell HN: Azure Outage 2 437 40d +4m 55AirTips – Alternative to Bento.me/Linktree 16 28 40d +14m a.coffee 56Turns Out, Wikipedia Isn't That 'Woke' as Grokipedia Rips Off Most of Its Pages 37 52 40d +14m uk.pcmag.com/ai/160970/turns-out-wikipedia-isnt-that-woke-as-grokipedia-rips-off-most-of-its-pages 57Oracle has adopted BOOLEAN in 23ai and PostgreSQL had it forever 18 15 40d +57m hexacluster.ai/blog/postgresql/oracles-adoption-of-native-boolean-data-type-vs-postgresql 58The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry 192 246 40d +14m economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/10/27/the-end-of-the-rip-off-economy 59Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS 19 53 40d +1h draw.wrobele.com 60Collins Aerospace: Sending text messages to the cockpit with test:test 33 97 40d +36m ccc.de/en/disclosure/collins-aerospace-mit-test-test-textnachrichten-bis-ins-cockpit-senden 61State of Embedded: Q4 2025 Overview 77 136 45d +4d sbcwiki.com/news/articles/state-of-embedded-q4-25 62The Early Days of AI 19 21 40d +18m metorial.com/blog/jquery-age-of-ai 63Life After Work 91 34 40d +27m mechanize.work/blog/life-after-work 64Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt 124 101 40d +10m twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1983455972636111011 65Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres 386 544 40d +34m topicpartition.io/blog/postgres-pubsub-queue-benchmarks 66Samsung's $2000 smart fridges are getting ads 33 53 40d +35m ghacks.net/2025/10/29/samsungs-2000-smart-fridges-are-getting-ads 67Mom says son asked Grok AI bot about soccer; told him to send nudes 62 59 40d +10m cbc.ca/news/investigates/tesla-grok-mom-9.6956930 68I made a 10¢ MCU Talk 53 203 40d +22m 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down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 480 516 40d +15m old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1oiz0v0/youtube_is_taking_down_videos_on_performing 86Use the Saw, Fear the Saw 14 20 44d +3d stephango.com/saw 87SpiderMonkey Garbage Collector 5 83 40d +12m firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/js/gc.html 88UIs Are Not Pure Functions of the Model – React.js and Cocoa Side by Side (2018) 47 75 44d +3d blog.metaobject.com/2018/12/uis-are-not-pure-functions-of-model.html 89Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip 21 70 44d +4d phys.org/news/2025-10-powerful-precise-multi-lasers-chip.html 90Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself? 105 505 40d +1h spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/10/28/iongraph-web.html 91Notes on Waveguide Synthesis (2018) 1 38 47d +6d osar.fr/notes/waveguides 92uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store 231 434 40d +1h apps.apple.com/in/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698 93Falcon: A Reliable, Low Latency Hardware Transport 9 26 43d +2d 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