HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Show HN: KeyLeak Detector – Scan websites for exposed API keys and secrets 7 27 36d +1h github.com/Amal-David/keyleak-detector 1Pomelli 151 284 36d +34m blog.google/technology/google-labs/pomelli 2RegEx Crossword 20 57 41d +4d jimbly.github.io/regex-crossword 3OpenDesk by the Centre for Digital Sovereignty 4 69 36d +1h opendesk.eu/en/product 4Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997 135 487 36d +49m visopsys.org 5The Suppliers Behind the Apple Pencil Pro 15 30 44d +7d quartr.com/insights/company-research/the-suppliers-behind-the-apple-pencil-pro 6AI Broke Interviews 122 87 36d +25m yusufaytas.com/ai-broke-interviews 7SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes 165 349 36d +14m sailfishos.org/info 8'Chinese lantern' structure shifts into many shapes for various applications 0 28 45d +8d techxplore.com/news/2025-10-chinese-lantern-shifts-dozen-applications.html 9FFmpeg dealing with a security researcher 156 104 36d +27m twitter.com/ffmpeg/status/1984207514389586050 10[dead] ? 8 36d +11m centcom.mil 11From 400 Mbps to 1.7 Gbps: A WiFi 7 Debugging Journey 125 168 36d +1h blog.tymscar.com/posts/wifi7speedhunt 12[dead] ? 17 36d +1h electrek.co 13Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts 189 144 39d +2d dynomight.net/dating 14Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 1 3 44 37d +2h randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/reflections-on-my-tech-career-part-1 15Beginner-friendly, unofficial documentation for Helix text editor 66 202 36d +42m helix-editor.vercel.app/start-here/basics 16Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography 208 465 36d +1h words.filippo.io/claude-debugging 17Word2vec-style vector arithmetic on docs embeddings 17 77 36d +49m technicalwriting.dev/embeddings/arithmetic/index.html 18Sanders: Government should break up OpenAI 89 46 36d +15m thehill.com/policy/technology/5571789-ai-threatens-jobs-sanders-warns 19Nutella maker in hazelnut stand-off with Turkish dealers 60 68 37d +7h ft.com/content/4826dfd2-8d8e-4316-931f-974f604a3899 20The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs 17 261 39d +2d huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/smol-training-playbook 21NJVL: Nim's New Intermediate Representation 9 78 39d +2d github.com/nim-lang/nimony/blob/master/doc/njvl-spec.md 22Linux Kernel Ported to WebAssembly – Demo Lets You Run It in Your Web Browser 1 14 36d +10m phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-WebAssembly 23[dead] ? 5 36d +13m lbc.co.uk 24The hardest program I've ever written (2015) 60 96 40d +3d journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-program-ive-ever-written 25Czech police forced to turn off facial recognition cameras at the Prague airport 53 159 36d +40m edri.org/our-work/czech-police-forced-to-turn-off-facial-recognition-cameras-at-the-prague-airport-thanks-to-the-ai-act 26US will not send officials to COP30 climate talks 27 76 36d +6m reuters.com/sustainability/cop/us-will-not-send-officials-cop30-climate-talks-white-house-says-2025-10-31 27Reconfigurable Analog Computers 9 26 37d +1h arxiv.org/abs/2510.25942 28Powell – unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn't a bubble 50 29 36d +22m fortune.com/2025/10/29/powell-says-ai-is-not-a-bubble-unlike-dot-com-federal-reserve-interest-rates 29Austria: Pylons as sculpture for public acceptance of expanding electrification 55 124 41d +4d goodgoodgood.co/articles/austrian-power-giants-power-line-animals 30Stack based Prolog. Cool thing you can do with DCGs 1 13 37d +5m old.reddit.com/r/prolog/comments/1olni8c/stack_based_prolog_cool_thing_you_can_do_with_dcgs 31Visible from space, Sudan's bloodied sands expose a massacre of thousands 169 371 37d +6m telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/28/sudan-bloodied-sands-massacre-thousands 32Self-help gets philosophical 107 96 37d +31m thedriftmag.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-my-shitty-life 33Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment) 316 429 37d +5m github.com/samrolken/nokode 34OpenAI Moves to Complete Potentially the Largest Theft in Human History 97 245 37d +19m thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-moves-to-complete-potentially 35The giant basket case countries 38 29 37d +14m noahpinion.blog/p/the-giant-basket-case-countries 36Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs? 114 214 37d +25m 37Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition 154 589 37d +50m andreafortuna.org/2025/11/01/chat-control-proposal-fails-again-after-massive-public-opposition 38Periodic Advertising with Responses (PAwR): Bidirectional Bluetooth Advertising 0 7 43d +6d novelbits.io/periodic-advertising-with-responses-pawr 39Open-Source Ada: From Gateware to Application 11 60 37d +1h blog.adacore.com/open-source-ada-from-gateware-to-application 40An investigation into Substrate 56 61 38d +1d substack.com/inbox/post/177604037 41Studies increasingly find links between air pollutants and dementia 124 202 37d +4m nytimes.com/2025/11/01/health/alzheimers-dementia-air-pollution.html 42GHC now runs in the browser 124 355 37d +27m discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-now-runs-in-your-browser/13169 43Data centers contribute to high prices as energy bills electrify local politics 65 104 37d +19m wsj.com/economy/consumers/surging-power-costs-are-putting-the-squeeze-on-customers-f8b2c04b 44I think Substrate is a $1B Fraud 1 90 37d +27m substack.com/home/post/p-177604037 45Screenwriter Eric Heisserer on Lights Out, the Rules of Horror 1 24 42d +5d filmmakermagazine.com/99327-screenwriter-eric-heisserer-lights-out-the-rules-of-horror-and-collaborating-with-james-wan 46Tech companies are firing everyone to "fund AI", spending money on each other 100 129 37d +31m old.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1oj52xx/tech_companies_are_firing_everyone_to_fund_ai_but 47Tigerbeetle Simulator 8 24 37d +1h sim.tigerbeetle.com 48I built my own CityMapper 21 152 42d +5d asherfalcon.com/blog/posts/5 49Async/Await is finally back in Zig 87 39 37d +1h charlesfonseca.substack.com/p/asyncawait-is-finally-back-in-zig 50Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category 235 492 37d +7m blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category 51Show HN: AI Operator from Hell – Autonomous AI Sysadmin Writing Tech Stories 3 16 37d +47m aiofh.com 52Frank Gasking on preserving «lost» games 21 90 41d +4d spillhistorie.no/2025/10/24/frank-gasking-on-preserving-lost-games 53Pitching the Death Star to Investors 1 6 37d +58m supremefounder.com/pitching-investors.html 54CharlotteOS – An Experimental Modern Operating System 98 170 37d +42m github.com/charlotte-os/Catten 55Gilded Rage – Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian 85 85 37d +14m paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gilded-rage-talking-with-jacob-silverman 56You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say 481 586 37d +4h 404media.co/you-cant-refuse-to-be-scanned-by-ices-facial-recognition-app-dhs-document-says 57On Having a Data Object 14 40 42d +5d natemeyvis.com/on-having-a-data-object 58.arpa, rDNS and a few magical ICMP hacks 7 62 37d +3h sdomi.pl/weblog/24-arpa-hacks 59SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it 168 369 37d +16m jellyfin.org/posts/SQLite-locking 60Do you know that there is an HTML tables API? 202 253 37d +4m christianheilmann.com/2025/10/08/abandonware-of-the-web-do-you-know-that-there-is-an-html-tables-api 61RSF forces in Sudan's civil war are preparing for mass genocide 22 39 37d +46m economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/10/30/darfurs-besieged-capital-falls-to-the-rapid-support-forces 62Solving the NY Times "Pips" game with F# 15 63 46d +8d github.com/brianberns/Pips 63'Killing the Dead' Review: Watch the Graveyard 14 27 46d +9d wsj.com/arts-culture/books/killing-the-dead-review-watch-the-graveyard-f54e14f4 64Show HN: Settling the Score – A point-and-click adventure rhythm game 7 21 41d +4d easel.games/@raysplaceinspace/settling-the-score 65The Impossible Optimization, and the Metaprogramming to Achieve It 25 72 41d +3d verdagon.dev/blog/impossible-optimization 66Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018) 23 153 38d +1d software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/myths-programmers-believe-about-cpu-caches 67Hard Rust requirements from May onward 746 393 37d +33m lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/10/msg00285.html 68Ask HN: Do you have an aversion to recent TLDs? 40 21 37d +37m 69Beyond Smoothed Analysis: Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book 3 39 42d +4d arxiv.org/abs/2510.21613 70Nisus Writer: Schrödinger's Word Processor 28 58 43d +6d tidbits.com/2025/10/25/nisus-writer-schrodingers-word-processor 71How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly 34 191 46d +8d medium.com/@jonas.eschenburg/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-started-loving-the-assembly-4fd00e786c60 72Intent to Deprecate and Remove XSLT 149 87 37d +27m groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/CxL4gYZeSJA/m/yNs4EsD5AQAJ 73New analog chip capable of outperforming top-end GPUs by as much as 1000x 22 73 37d +27m livescience.com/technology/computing/china-solves-century-old-problem-with-new-analog-chip-that-is-1-000-times-faster-than-high-end-nvidia-gpus 74Value-pool based caching for Java applications 2 21 46d +9d github.com/malandrakisgeo/mnemosyne 75The profitable startup 88 245 37d +33m linear.app/now/the-profitable-startup 76Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? (1999) 82 95 45d +8d bikeshed.com 77"Our research is greatly sped up by AI but AI still needs us" 8 20 37d +2h twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1984340182351634571 78Family Mart Designed Cute Teary-Eyed Stickers to Combat Food Loss 24 46 44d +7d spoon-tamago.com/family-mart-food-loss-stickers 79I Love My Wife, My Wife Is Dead (1946) 11 47 37d +1h bingqiangao.com/poetry/i-love-my-wife-my-wife-is-dead 80Fungus: The Befunge CPU (2015) 3 18 37d +9m bedroomlan.org/hardware/fungus 81OpenAI updates terms to forbid usage for medical and legal advice 27 26 37d +2h openai.com/policies/usage-policies 82Kerkship St. Jozef, Antwerp – WWII German Concrete Tanker 19 43 46d +8d thecretefleet.com/blog/f/kerkship-st-jozef-antwerp-%E2%80%93-wwii-german-concrete-tanker 83Will Paramount Cancel Jon Stewart? 13 16 37d +1h newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/will-paramount-cancel-jon-stewart 84S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine 57 273 37d +1h github.com/vindar/SARCASM 85Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication 79 191 42d +4d togetherlondon.com/insights/active-listening-swiss-army-knife 86 More... 2025.10.31