HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Show HN: Quantum Tunnel 13 30 8d +15m chuanqisun.github.io/quantum-tunnel 1OneDrive just deleted all of my files 61 123 8d +15m twitter.com/jasonkpargin/status/2007659047663874120 2Six Harmless Bugs Lead to Remote Code Execution 25 112 11d +3d mehmetince.net/the-story-of-a-perfect-exploit-chain-six-bugs-that-looked-harmless-until-they-became-pre-auth-rce-in-a-security-appliance 3Copybara – tool for transforming and moving code between repositories 0 13 15d +6d github.com/google/copybara 4C-Sentinel: System prober that captures “system fingerprints” for AI analysis 1 14 8d +38m github.com/williamofai/c-sentinel 5The great shift of English prose 46 62 12d +3d worksinprogress.news/p/english-prose-has-become-much-easier 6Show HN: An LLM-Powered PCB Schematic Checker (Major Update) 21 53 8d +27m traceformer.io 7The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves 141 198 14d +6d matduggan.com/the-year-of-the-3d-printed-miniature-and-other-lies-we-tell-ourselves 8North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers' names 119 160 8d +13m bismarcktribune.com/news/local/government-politics/article_515812a0-d29a-4161-91f1-3e53003e2911.html 9Eurostar AI vulnerability: When a chatbot goes off the rails 48 208 8d +11m pentestpartners.com/security-blog/eurostar-ai-vulnerability-when-a-chatbot-goes-off-the-rails 10Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects 40 152 8d +3h ripplegame.app 11Claude Code On-the-Go 321 533 8d +59m granda.org/en/2026/01/02/claude-code-on-the-go 12Show HN: Server-rendered multiplayer games with Lua (no client code) 58 78 8d +51m cleoselene.com 13I changed my personality in six weeks 183 198 8d +43m bbc.com/future/article/20260102-how-i-changed-my-personality-in-six-weeks 14Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data? 75 303 8d +15m stats.stackexchange.com/questions/674129/why-does-a-linear-least-squares-fit-appear-to-have-a-bias-when-applied-to-simple 15Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS 207 386 8d +22m github.com/huseyinbabal/taws 16OpenGitOps 50 48 8d +20m opengitops.dev 17Agentic Patterns 45 167 8d +1h github.com/nibzard/awesome-agentic-patterns 18Seed of Life 3 16 8d +8m seed-of-life-eight.vercel.app 19NSFW Acronyms for Programmers (Free eBook) 35 57 8d +1h github.com/fristovic/naughty-words-every-programmer-should-know 20Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check 2 22 11d +3d orlp.net/blog/fibonacci-sort 21Show HN: Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage 27 56 8d +53m github.com/Sampsoon/hover 22Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them 60 99 8d +19m fast.github.io/blog/stop-forwarding-errors-start-designing-them 23Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed (2022) 162 180 12d +4d queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3534854 24Venezuela's interim government says it is united behind Maduro 79 70 8d +17m reuters.com/world/us/venezuelas-maduro-custody-trump-says-us-will-run-country-2026-01-04 25Show HN: Magic CSV – Transform CSVs with plain English, no formulas 3 17 13d +4d magiccsv.app 26I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019) 115 431 10d +1d idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-page 27Microservices Killed Our Startup. Monoliths Would've Saved Us 52 51 10d +1d medium.com/lets-code-future/microservices-killed-our-startup-monoliths-wouldve-saved-us-4ebadf584a6d 28Microsoft CEO resorts to blogging in defense of AI 71 66 8d +15m gamesradar.com/games/microsoft-ceo-resorts-to-blogging-in-defense-of-ai-says-we-need-to-get-beyond-the-arguments-of-slop-exactly-what-id-say-if-i-was-tired-of-losing-the-arguments-of-slop 29Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server 62 109 8d +3h mattwie.se/hinge-command-control-c2 30Macromedia Flash, from an Animator's Standpoint (2022) 23 32 14d +6d medium.com/@nehochupechatat/the-history-of-macromedia-flash-from-an-animators-standpoint-684dc60a011b 31Trellis AI (YC W24) is hiring engineers to build AI agents for healthcare access 0 1 8d +19s ycombinator.com/companies/trellis-ai/jobs/ngvfeaq-member-of-technical-staff-full-time 32[dead] ? 8 8d +13m forumgeopolitica.com 33Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025) 56 43 8d +1h blog.drjoshcsimmons.com/p/how-neurodivergent-brains-build-better 34Bison return to Illinois' Kane County after 200 years 56 171 13d +4d phys.org/news/2025-12-bison-illinois-kane-county-years.html 35Lessons from 14 years at Google 682 1642 8d +51m addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons 36Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis 175 391 8d +31m scitechdaily.com/anti-aging-injection-regrows-knee-cartilage-and-prevents-arthritis 37The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café 434 790 8d +1h candost.blog/the-unbearable-joy-of-sitting-alone-in-a-cafe 38Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of Consumption 11 18 8d +32m kasurian.com/p/democracy-will-not-survive-consumption 39Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work 38 288 8d +20m howbrowserswork.com 40AI sycophancy panic 102 57 8d +42m github.com/firasd/vibesbench/blob/main/docs/ai-sycophancy-panic.md 41Web development is fun again 602 476 8d +21m ma.ttias.be/web-development-is-fun-again 42One Formula That Demystifies 3D Graphics 28 96 12d +3d youtube.com/watch?v=qjWkNZ0SXfo 43How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify 53 108 8d +8m notes.xdavidhu.me/notes/how-i-archived-10-years-of-memories-using-spotify 44Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) 156 196 8d +1h lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html 45Cold-blooded software (2023) 19 81 8d +36m dubroy.com/blog/cold-blooded-software 46Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay 100 93 8d +50m philippdubach.com/posts/nikes-crisis-and-the-economics-of-brand-decay 47Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021) 87 429 8d +2m fabiensanglard.net/sf2_warrier 48Moiré Explorer 23 192 8d +1h play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/#/src/demos/moire_explorer 49A New Year's letter to a young person 19 28 8d +2h siliconcontinent.com/p/a-new-years-letter-to-a-young-person 50Swift interface for GNUStep's version of AppKit 0 19 8d +4h github.com/austintatiousness/GNUStepSwiftBridge 51YouTube Playlist Downloader 21 55 8d +1h github.com/Linuxmaster14/yt-playlist-downloader 52Open Veins of Latin America Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent [pdf] (1971) 6 16 8d +1h archive.wphna.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1971-Eduardo-Galeano-Open-Veins-of-Latin-America.pdf 53Attention Is Bayesian Inference 32 152 13d +4d medium.com/@vishalmisra/attention-is-bayesian-inference-578c25db4501 54Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo 241 247 8d +41m jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/migrated-to-hugo 55Nightshade: Make images unsuitable for model training 31 56 8d +49m nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html 56India has surpassed Japan to become the fourth-largest economy 55 56 13d +4d dw.com/en/india-overtakes-japan-as-4th-largest-economy-report-says/a-75341063 57Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin 105 159 10d +1d 58US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover 190 170 8d +2m theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/04/greenland-denmark-us-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-donald-trump 59Was it a billion dollar mistake? 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304 317 8d +1h michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026 69The PGP problem (2019) 115 88 8d +26m latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem 70Interview of Fabien Pinckaers, CEO at Odoo[video] 0 10 8d +29m youtube.com/watch?v=vgvbRRVreHI 71Beyond Benchmaxxing: Why the Future of AI Is Inference-Time Search 0 6 8d +12m adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-beyond-benchmaxxing-why 72The Gentle Seduction (1989) 80 211 8d +19m skyhunter.comhttp://www./marcs/GentleSeduction.html 73Pixoo Sign Client for Ruby 5 51 8d +1h github.com/tenderlove/pixoo-rb 74From silicon to Darude – Sandstorm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs [video] 17 130 13d +4d media.ccc.de/v/39c3-from-silicon-to-darude-sand-storm-breaking-famous-synthesizer-dsps 75GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene 46 161 14d +5d gdimayhem.temari.fr/index.php?p=all 76Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep 51 130 9d +3h github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop 77Show HN: Claude Reflect – Auto-turn Claude corrections into project config 28 75 9d +2h github.com/BayramAnnakov/claude-reflect 78Evolution: Training neural networks with genetic selection achieves 81% on MNIST 4 10 14d +5d github.com/A1CST/GENREG_ALPHA_MNIST 79Corundum – open-source FPGA-based NIC and platform for in-network compute 9 44 9d +1h github.com/corundum/corundum 80Learning to Play Tic-Tac-Toe with Jax 4 29 9d +48m joe-antognini.github.io/ml/jax-tic-tac-toe 81Show HN: Krowdovi – Video-based indoor navigation on a DePIN creator economy 27 10 9d +1h github.com/daftpixie/krowdovi 82Neural Networks: Zero to Hero 74 782 9d +42m karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html 83Odoo: Open-Source ERP 63 76 13d +4d github.com/odoo/odoo 84Finger-Nose Stylus for Touch Screens (2011) 19 44 14d +5d variationsonnormal.com/2011/04/28/finger-nose-stylus-for-touchscreens 85Advanced Rail Energy Storage of North America 39 37 9d +5h aresnorthamerica.com 86U.S. veterans helped Venezuela's Machado escape 6 22 9d +20m npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5642538/machados-escape-from-venezuela 87The Late Arrival of 16-Bit CP/M 10 70 14d +5d nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-late-arrival-of-16-bit-cpm 88[dead] ? 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