HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Recreating the Bell Labs Switch Experiment with Agents 0 11 15d +4d cianfrani.dev/posts/12-switches 1WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform 4 96 11d +1h nullprogram.com/blog/2026/01/01 2Moving Images Related to the Apollo Missions, 1967–1969 6 53 18d +6d catalog.archives.gov/id/133360601 3A silly diffuse shading model 4 24 11d +41m lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/a-silly-diffuse-shading-model.html 4Can Bundler be as fast as uv? 99 357 11d +22m tenderlovemaking.com/2025/12/29/can-bundler-be-as-fast-as-uv 5Straussian Memes 49 43 11d +32m lesswrong.com/posts/CAwnnKoFdcQucq4hG/straussian-memes-a-lens-on-techniques-for-mass-persuasion 6Show HN: Tasker – An open-source desktop agent for browser and OS automation 29 33 11d +37m automatewithtasker.com 7How to construct complex data declaratively and progressively? 0 32 16d +5d github.com/allmonday/pydantic-resolve 8Gemini 3.0 Deciphered the Mystery of a Nuremberg Chronicle Leaf's 30 56 11d +3h blog.gdeltproject.org/gemini-as-indiana-jones-how-gemini-3-0-deciphered-the-mystery-of-a-nuremberg-chronicle-leafs-500-year-old-roundels 9Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008) 13 55 11d +2h ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-098-street-fighting-mathematics-january-iap-2008/pages/readings 10[dead] ? 6 11d +2h saintbeluga.org 11Cycling Game (Mini Neural Net Demo) 3 23 11d +8m doc.ic.ac.uk/~ajd/Cycling 12Prompting People 18 38 11d +1h kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/Prompting-People 13A website to destroy all websites 390 779 11d +33m henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites 14Linux is good now 970 1163 11d +17m pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop 15Joseph Campbell Meets George Lucas – Part I (2015) 25 49 11d +6h starwars.com/news/mythic-discovery-within-the-inner-reaches-of-outer-space-joseph-campbell-meets-george-lucas-part-i 16Starlink satellites being lowered from 550 km to 480 km 40 62 11d +37m twitter.com/michaelnicollsx/status/2006790372681220530 17Motion and Machine 0 9 16d +4d blog.ayjay.org/motion-and-machine 18Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points 89 152 11d +46m jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/dells-version-dgx-spark-fixes-pain-points 19Arpanet standardized TCP/IP on this day in 1983 1 46 11d +20m tomshardware.com/networking/arpanet-standardized-tcp-ip-on-this-day-in-1983-43-year-old-standard-set-the-foundations-for-todays-internet 20Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs 43 211 14d +2d github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu 21All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale [video] 72 128 15d +4d media.ccc.de/v/39c3-all-my-deutschlandtickets-gone-fraud-at-an-industrial-scale 22Love your customers 42 124 12d +22h bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/31/love-your-customers 23Show HN: Wario Synth – Turn any song into Game Boy version 17 70 12d +9h wario.style 24If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app 161 254 15d +4d blog.jgc.org/2025/12/if-you-care-about-security-you-might.html 25Simple 3D Packing 10 70 17d +5d github.com/Vrroom/psacking 26The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs 9 13 11d +3h calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/the-curious-case-of-the-shallow-session-spas 27Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged 683 505 11d +17m cnn.com/2025/12/31/europe/finland-estonia-undersea-cable-ship-detained-intl 28Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows 32 70 11d +23m lethain.com/agents-coordinators 29Show HN: Feature detection exploration in Lidar DEMs via differential decomp 0 6 12d +18h github.com/bshepp/RESIDUALS 30C-events, yet another event loop, simpler, smaller, faster, safer 14 94 17d +6d zelang-dev.github.io/c-events 31How to recognise a genuine password request 1 8 18d +7d eclecticlight.co/2025/12/18/how-to-recognise-a-genuine-password-request 32Memory Subsystem Optimizations 14 47 11d +22m johnnysswlab.com/memory-subsystem-optimizations 33Cameras and Lenses (2020) 57 538 11d +28m ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses 34Autism hasn't increased 58 39 11d +13m marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/01/autism-hasnt-increased.html 35Ultra-Wide Band: A Transformational Technology for the Internet of Things 12 12 20d +8d eetimes.com/ultra-wide-band-a-transformational-technology-for-the-internet-of-things 36European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale 23 53 11d +1m theregister.com/2025/12/31/european_space_agency_hacked 37Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) in PHP 15 94 11d +38m centamori.com/index.php?slug=hierarchical-navigable-small-world-hnsw-php&lang=en 38Common Lisp SDK for the Datastar Hypermedia Framework 9 115 11d +37m github.com/fsmunoz/datastar-cl 39DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship 84 99 11d +6m reason.com/2025/12/31/dhs-says-real-id-which-dhs-certifies-is-too-unreliable-to-confirm-u-s-citizenship 40iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan 408 428 11d +2h developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines-jp 41Beyond the Nat: Cgnat, Bandwidth, and Practical Tunneling 21 40 16d +5d blog.rastrian.dev/post/beyond-the-nat-cgnat-bandwidth-and-practical-tunneling 42Python numbers every programmer should know 183 420 11d +1h mkennedy.codes/posts/python-numbers-every-programmer-should-know 43Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes 92 281 11d +15m tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/playstation-5-rom-keys-leaked-jailbreaking-could-be-made-easier-with-bootrom-codes 44BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal 638 356 11d +22m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-01/byd-sells-4-6-million-vehicles-in-2025-meets-revised-sales-goal 45Build a Deep Learning Library 15 131 11d +1h zekcrates.quarto.pub/deep-learning-library 46[dead] ? 15 11d +18m theguardian.com 47Heap Overflow in FFmpeg EXIF 33 83 11d +29m bugs.pwno.io/0014 4850% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player 333 271 11d +12m lightcapai.medium.com/the-great-return-from-digital-abundance-to-analog-meaning-cfda9e428752 492025 Letter 321 391 11d +1h danwang.co/2025-letter 50Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust 152 494 11d +44m openworkers.com/introducing-openworkers 51ACM Is Now Open Access 50 333 11d +24m acm.org/articles/bulletins/2026/january/acm-open-access 52A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting 6 43 16d +4d rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a-font-with-built-in-tex-syntax-highlighting 53The Mammoth Pirates – In Russia's Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush 19 47 18d +6d rferl.org/a/the-mammoth-pirates/27939865.html 54Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them 109 323 11d +1h sherwood.news/tech/rather-than-fully-cracking-down-on-scam-ads-meta-worked-to-make-them-harder 55I rebooted my social life 394 508 12d +2h takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might-be-oversharing 56Show HN: I created a tool to design and create foamcore inserts for boardgames 16 53 16d +4d boxinsertdesigner.com 57Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] 215 542 11d +1h media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phone 58A Christmas Present to Myself – Vector Network Analyzer (2014) 3 35 18d +6d axotron.se/blog/vector-network-analyzer-a-christmas-present-to-myself 59Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker 250 132 12d +34m github.com/buyukakyuz/rustmm 60Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop 72 82 11d +6m phoronix.com/review/windows-beats-linux-arl-h 61MHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections 3 30 12d +3h arxiv.org/abs/2512.24880 62Easel Turns One One year of building my own IDE in Clojure 17 178 16d +4d blog.phronemophobic.com/easel-one-year.html 63Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder 129 162 12d +29m theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/02/hull-096-worlds-largest-electric-ship-battery-power-launched 64What if the world is made of cubes? Uncovering the universal geometry of geology 3 11 12d +1h quantamagazine.org/scientists-uncover-the-universal-geometry-of-geology-20201119 65Children and Helical Time 122 194 12d +47m moultano.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/children-and-helical-time 66Only 5 Sears stores remain in the U.S. 113 99 16d +4d nytimes.com/2025/12/26/business/sears-seritage-edward-lampert.html 67Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery 21 28 12d +21m abc.net.au/news/2025-12-31/denmark-postal-service-ends-letter-delivery/106188988 68Pokémon Team Optimization 66 191 16d +4d nchagnet.pages.dev/blog/pokemon-team-optimization 69Ask HN: How did you learn to code? 78 33 12d +20m 70So I started cloning the Wii U gamepad [video] 9 92 16d +4d youtube.com/watch?v=jlbcKuDEBw8 71Build Software. Build Users 18 71 16d +3d dima.day/blog/build-software-build-users 72Pixar's True Story 25 100 12d +1h computerhistory.org/blog/pixars-true-story 73Flow5 released to open source 10 152 12d +31m flow5.tech/docs/releasenotes.html 74Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923) 16 44 16d +4d gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60979/pg60979-images.html 75Judge to Texas: You Can't Age-Gate the Internet Without Evidence 99 79 12d +21m techdirt.com/2025/12/31/judge-to-texas-you-cant-age-gate-the-entire-internet-without-evidence 76The Origin of the Terms Big-Endian and Little-Endian (2003) 23 23 17d +5d ling.upenn.edu/courses/Spring_2003/ling538/Lecnotes/ADfn1.htm 77Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans 98 54 12d +8m nerd-lang.org/about 78Quadratrix of Hippias 0 11 17d +4d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratrix_of_Hippias 79GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) Is Hiring Tech Leads 0 1 12d +21s ycombinator.com/companies/gogograndparent/jobs/w2jGKM7-gogograndparent-yc-s16-is-hiring-tech-leads 80Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring 69 133 12d +39m bustermq.sh 812025: The Year in LLMs 592 923 12d +56m simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms 82The Delete Act 86 207 12d +23m privacy.ca.gov/drop/about-drop-and-the-delete-act 83Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes 1 16 19d +7d quantamagazine.org/toward-a-grand-unified-theory-of-snowflakes-20191219 84 More... 2025.12.31