HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary approaches to ancient olfactory worlds 1 32 41d +6d scientificamerican.com/article/how-archaeology-is-reviving-the-smell-of-history 1Facts about throwing good parties 406 930 35d +1h atvbt.com/21-facts-about-throwing-good-parties 2Foods that make you smell more attractive 57 60 35d +38m bbc.com/future/article/20251031-the-foods-that-make-you-smell-more-attractive 3The x86 Interrupt List, aka “Ralf Brown's Interrupt List” (2018) 29 100 43d +7d cs.cmu.eduhttp://www./~ralf/files.html 4Plumbing vs. Internet, Revisited 13 42 35d +17h gwern.net/blog/2025/plumbing-vs-internet 5Amazon Rivian electric delivery vans arrive in Canada 55 55 35d +1h cleantechnica.com/2025/10/30/rivian-electric-delivery-vans-arrive-in-canada 6"You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful 39 39 35d +1h morling.dev/blog/you-dont-need-kafka-just-use-postgres-considered-harmful 7Why does Swiss cheese have holes? 249 102 40d +5d usdairy.com/news-articles/why-does-swiss-cheese-have-holes 8Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020) 202 402 35d +28m openculture.com/2020/03/paris-had-a-moving-sidewalk-in-1900.html 9FurtherAI (YC W24) Is Hiring Across Software and AI 0 1 35d +31s 10Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder 'MrICQ' in U.S. Custody 69 170 35d +47m krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/alleged-jabber-zeus-coder-mricq-in-u-s-custody 11Solar-powered QR reading postboxes being rolled out across UK 39 49 39d +4d bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgln72rgrero 12Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today 62 92 35d +34m 13React-Native-Godot 6 69 35d +1h github.com/borndotcom/react-native-godot 14'This is the big one' – tech firms bet on electrifying rail 46 40 35d +22m bbc.com/news/articles/czdjg92y00no 15Printed circuit board substrates derived from lignocellulose nanofibrils 18 36 41d +6d nature.com/articles/s41598-025-91653-1 16Is Your Bluetooth Chip Leaking Secrets via RF Signals? 35 145 35d +1h semanticscholar.org/paper/Is-Your-Bluetooth-Chip-Leaking-Secrets-via-RF-Ji-Dubrova/c1d3ceb47ea6f9cc4f29929e2f97d36862a260a2 17Y Combinator Interview Practice Simulation 7 12 35d +49m kydarin.com/uses/y-combinator-interview-practice-simulation 18Reproducing the AWS Outage Race Condition with a Model Checker 43 141 35d +58m wyounas.github.io/aws/concurrency/2025/10/30/reproducing-the-aws-outage-race-condition-with-model-checker 19Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark 525 817 35d +28m gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-gamers-on-steam-finally-cross-over-the-3-mark 20Lisp: Notes on its Past and Future (1980) 103 190 35d +11m formal.stanford.edu/jmc/lisp20th/lisp20th.html 21Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again 162 395 35d +8h jsteuernagel.de/posts/using-freebsd-to-make-self-hosting-fun-again 22Preserving Digital Memory at the Festival of Floppies 0 9 40d +4d digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/preserving-digital-memory-at-the-festival-of-floppies-200f01092738 23Show HN: Anki-LLM – Bulk process and generate Anki flashcards with LLMs 22 57 35d +4h github.com/raine/anki-llm 24Anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism 97 327 35d +6m cjr.org/analysis/nigeria-pakistan-jordan-cybercrime-laws-journalism.php 25A once-in-a-generation discovery is transforming a Michigan dairy farm 7 33 35d +1h phys.org/news/2025-10-generation-discovery-michigan-dairy-farm.html 26OpenBSD 7.8 Highlights 16 76 45d +10d rsadowski.de/posts/2025/openbsd-78 27At the end you use `git bisect` 169 227 35d +5m kevin3010.github.io/git/2025/11/02/At-the-end-you-use-git-bisect.html 28A prison of my own making 18 80 35d +4h jsteuernagel.de/posts/a-prison-of-my-own-making 29New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms 169 201 35d +1h electrek.co/2025/11/02/new-national-law-will-turn-large-parking-lots-into-solar-power-farms 30Rats filmed snatching bats from air 88 149 40d +5d science.org/content/article/rats-filmed-snatching-bats-air-first-time 31Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads 116 55 35d +4m wsj.com/business/palantir-thinks-college-might-be-a-waste-so-its-hiring-high-school-grads-aed267d5 32X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland 200 203 35d +2h lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2025-October/003635.html 33Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) 1 9 35d +17m web.archive.org/web/20150309043401/http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html 34Writing FreeDOS Programs in C 70 133 35d +2h freedos.org/books/cprogramming 35A man who changes the time on Big Ben 25 44 42d +7d mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/meet-man-who-changes-time-32715300 36Why don't you use dependent types? 115 268 35d +27m lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/11/02/Why-not-dependent.html 37'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud 62 38 35d +35m ft.com/content/0849f8fe-2674-4eae-a134-587340829a58 38Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015) 66 136 39d +4d cringely.com/2015/06/03/autodesks-john-walker-explained-hp-and-ibm-in-1991 39I'm a health editor: my husband's prostate cancer screening results surprised me 3 7 35d +22m telegraph.co.uk/christmas/2025/11/02/prostate-cancer-screening 40MySafeSpace – Whitehouse.gov 52 112 35d +3m whitehouse.gov/mysafespace 41Viruses of the Mind (1991) Richard Dawkins [pdf] 3 14 35d +15m biolinguagem.comhttp://www./ling_cog_cult/dawkins_1991_virusesofthemind.pdf 42Telephone: A Game for Artists 0 8 37d +2d telephonegame.art/game 43Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch 150 357 35d +1h tongyi-agent.github.io/blog/introducing-tongyi-deep-research 44Matched Clean Power Index 22 36 35d +1h matched.energy/blog/matched-clean-power-index-is-live 45Stop 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header (2024) 70 61 35d +9m neilzone.co.uk/2024/07/attempting-to-stop-microsoft-users-sending-reactions-to-email-from-me-by-adding-a-postfix-header 46How the US is preparing a Caribbean staging ground near Venezuela 137 91 35d +55m reuters.com/graphics/USA-CARIBBEAN/MILITARY-BUILDUP/egpbbnzyrpq 47Go Primitive in Java, or Go in a Box 32 72 43d +7d donraab.medium.com/go-primitive-in-java-or-go-in-a-box-c26f5c6d7574 48HyperRogue – A non-Euclidean roguelike 50 143 35d +54m roguetemple.com/z/hyper 49[dead] ? 24 35d +1h arstechnica.com 50URLs are state containers 211 490 35d +59m alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html 51Welcome to hell; please drive carefully 28 104 41d +5d 2earth.github.io/website/20251026.html 52Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples 18 135 35d +58s dhuan.github.io/mock/latest/examples.html 53We reduced a container image from 800GB to 2GB 83 88 41d +6d sealos.io/blog/reduce-container-image-size-case-study 54Context engineering 64 95 35d +1h chrisloy.dev/post/2025/08/03/context-engineering 55[dead] ? 10 35d +17m vt.social 56When O3 is 2x slower than O2 98 101 40d +4d cat-solstice.github.io/test-pqueue 57Why do AI models use so many em-dashes? 94 90 35d +1h seangoedecke.com/em-dashes 58Hyperbolic Non-Euclidean World (2007) 3 18 41d +6d web1.kcn.jphttp:///hp28ah77 59FlightAware Map Design (2024) 24 101 41d +5d andywoodruff.com/posts/2024/flightaware-maps 60Notes by djb on using Fil-C 245 358 35d +1h cr.yp.to/2025/fil-c.html 61CLI to manage your SQL database schemas and migrations 19 36 35d +15m github.com/gh-PonyM/shed 62Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016) 151 348 35d +1h karpathy.medium.com/yes-you-should-understand-backprop-e2f06eab496b 63A secret to never forgetting numbers 59 53 40d +4d ninjasandrobots.com/the-naked-man-problem-and-the-secret-to-never-forgetting-numbers 64Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off 180 118 35d +8m ft.com/content/120d2321-8382-4d74-ab48-f9ecb483c2a9 65Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 8088 Microprocessor (2017) 9 42 42d +6d spectrum.ieee.org/chip-hall-of-fame-intel-8088-microprocessor 66LM8560, the eternal chip from the 1980 years 42 133 35d +45m tycospages.com/other-themes/lm8560-the-eternal-chip-from-the-1980-years 67You Don't Need Anubis 168 174 35d +1h fxgn.dev/blog/anubis 68Linux and Windows: A tale of Kerberos, SSSD, DFS, and black magic (2018) 8 32 35d +4h draeath.nethttp://www./blog/it/2018/03/13/DFSwithKRB 69The purported benefits of effect systems 1 15 36d +5h typesanitizer.com/blog/effects-convo.html 70Sufficiently Smart Compiler 5 35 40d +4d wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler 71Automatically Translating C to Rust 104 112 44d +8d cacm.acm.org/research/automatically-translating-c-to-rust 72Crossfire: High-performance lockless spsc/mpsc/mpmc channels for Rust 20 102 35d +10m github.com/frostyplanet/crossfire-rs 73Show HN: A simple drag and drop tool to document and label fuse boxes 6 26 37d +1d github.com/alexadam/fuse-box-labels 74A Few Words About Async 35 83 35d +1h yoric.github.io/post/quite-a-few-words-about-async 75Show HN: Duper – The Format That's Super 15 31 36d +1h duper.dev.br 76How to build a solar powered electric oven 50 84 43d +7d solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/10/how-to-build-a-solar-powered-electric-oven 77How I use every Claude Code feature 186 520 36d +1h blog.sshh.io/p/how-i-use-every-claude-code-feature 78Why "everyone dies" gets AGI all wrong 234 112 35d +37m bengoertzel.substack.com/p/why-everyone-dies-gets-agi-all-wrong 79Anonymous credentials: rate-limit bots and agents without compromising privacy 63 102 35d +3m blog.cloudflare.com/private-rate-limiting 803M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf] 40 121 41d +5d retrocmp.de/fdd/diskette/3M_Diskette_Reference_Manual_May83.pdf 81 More... 2025.11.01