hckr news

an unofficial alternative hacker news interface.

  • settings
  • about
  • browser extensions
 

comments points

Filter: all
  • top 10
  • top 20
  • top 50%
  • homepage
  • all
  • 0 8

    NY Smartphone Ban Has Made Lunch Loud Again (gothamist.com)
  • 6 22

    Gov Shutdown: US Army is advising its soldiers in Germany to go to food banks (old.reddit.com)
  • 3 26

    An eBPF Loophole: Using XDP for Egress Traffic (loopholelabs.io)
  • 3 23

    The grim truth behind the Pied Piper (www.bbc.com)
  • 1 10

    Optimism Associated with Exceptional Longevity (www.pnas.org)
  • 1 7

    Parsing Chemistry (re.factorcode.org)
  • 25 57

    iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline (www.macrumors.com)
  • 0 6

    The Magic of Precision Engineering (www.hightechinstitute.nl)
  • 55 33

    72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study (www.gamesindustry.biz)
  • 68 236

    YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations (theintercept.com)
  • Founder in Residence at Woz (San Francisco)
  • 0 34

    Moving tables across PostgreSQL instances (ananthakumaran.in)
  • 105 155

    I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel (simonwillison.net)
  • 4 24

    FDD – Diskettes (retrocmp.de)
  • 10 30

    Intervaltree with Rust Back End (github.com)
  • 37 80

    The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986) (phrack.org)
  • 45 120

    SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python (antocuni.eu)
  • 122 129

    Developers are choosing older AI models (www.augmentcode.com)
  • 26 65

    The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 2 11

    What does computer literacy mean for 2026? (sjg.io)
  • 21 99

    Epic vs. Google settlement: Opening up Android (twitter.com)
  • 3 41

    Vectorizing for Fun and Performance (www.ibm.com)
  • 0 10

    Client ID Metadata Documents (client.dev)
  • 92 148

    Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python (hypothesis.readthedocs.io)
  • 36 61

    Preventing Kubernetes from Pulling the Pause Image from the Internet (kyle.cascade.family)
  • 52 67

    GM Deprecating In-Car App Store for Models as Recent as 2020 (gmauthority.com)
  •   13

    undefined
  • 36 99

    What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise (www.leefang.com)
  • 154 120

    Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX (press.asus.com)
  • 162 188

    UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport (avherald.com)
  • 151 275

    Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states (www.nextgov.com)
  • 810 677

    Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 1 13

    UPS MD-11 crashes departing Louisville (www.flightradar24.com)
  • 13 47

    Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-ms reads and 15 GB/s upload (blog.wilsonl.in)
  • 2 8

    At least 3 dead after UPS plane crashes at Louisville airport; fire spreading (www.wlky.com)
  • 13 62

    Cargo plane crashes at Kentucky airport (www.bbc.com)
  • 32 126

    Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes (www.theguardian.com)
  • 73 186

    RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization (riscv.org)
  • 11 135

    Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc. (github.com)
  • 62 198

    Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux (github.com)
  • 75 170

    Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans (www.cnet.com)
  • 56 139

    FDA described as a "clown show" amid latest scandal; top drug regulator is out (arstechnica.com)
  • 81 72

    Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes (www.freemalaysiatoday.com)
  • 9 15

    What Happened to Ukraine's Missile Defense (missilematters.substack.com)
  • 203 325

    Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not (www.theregister.com)
  • 26 38

    Narco-sub carrying 1.7 tonnes of cocaine seized in Atlantic (www.bbc.com)
  • 66 69

    BlackRock's Larry Fink: "Tokenization", Digital IDs, & Social Credit (thewinepress.substack.com)
  • 139 318

    Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results (torrentfreak.com)
  • 103 771

    Mr TIFF (inventingthefuture.ghost.io)
  • 49 73

    Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code (ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org)
  • 22 42

    Border Patrol agent testifies sandwich thrown at him "exploded all over," (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 25 68

    Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future? (byroot.github.io)
  • 12 14

    Precompiled headers and why Squid won't be using them (2023) (squidproxy.wordpress.com)
  • 14 92

    Patching 68K Software – SimpleText (tinkerdifferent.com)
  • 6 38

    SocketAddrV6 is not roundtrip serializable (sunshowers.io)
  • 70 53

    74% of CEOs worry AI failures could cost them their jobs (cfo.economictimes.indiatimes.com)
  • 306 367

    I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars (rameerez.com)
  • 3 35

    Zip Files All the Way Down (2010) (research.swtch.com)
  • 51 36

    AI and Copyright: Expanding copyright hurts everyone (www.eff.org)
  • 71 79

    US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents (arstechnica.com)
  • 77 79

    CPUs and GPUs to Become More Expensive After TSMC Price Hike in 2026 (www.guru3d.com)
  • 67 89

    Amazon Demands Perplexity Stop AI Agent from Making Purchases (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 27 46

    Paramount blacklists actors for pro-Palestinian activism (www.worldofreel.com)
  • 12 93

    Singing bus horns in West Sumatra (www.auralarchipelago.com)
  • 86 84

    How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 43 233

    By the Power of Grayscale (zserge.com)
  • 73 50

    Cheaper MacBook powered by iPhone chip coming in 2026, per new report (9to5mac.com)
  • 26 30

    Man spent 200 days building a solar-powered explorer yacht that can run forever (supercarblondie.com)
  • 50 245

    Whole Earth Index (wholeearth.info)
  • 130 364

    NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware (github.com)
  • 105 287

    Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It (cognition.ai)
  • 2 5

    Arguably the prettiest selfhosting services dashboard (github.com)
  • 161 174

    Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source (deepnote.com)
  • 58 70

    Normalize Identifying Corporate Devices in Your Software (lgug2z.com)
  • 222 181

    Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir (sherwood.news)
  • 87 66

    The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (rustfoundation.org)
  • 59 41

    US nuclear weapons testing can forever scar a nation.Just ask Marshall Island (www.cnn.com)
  • 70 43

    Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design (research.google)
  • 28 82

    Launch HN: Plexe (YC X25) – Build production-grade ML models from prompts (www.plexe.ai)
  • 70 83

    Recovering videos from my Sony camera that I stupidly deleted (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 56 66

    USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps (newrepublic.com)
  • 0 15

    Inside Pinecone: Slab Architecture (www.pinecone.io)
  • 18 55

    Data breach at major Swedish software supplier impacts 1.5M (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 78 114

    YouTube AI error costs creator his channel over alleged link to Japanese account (piunikaweb.com)
  • 15 89

    How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code (www.polarsignals.com)
  • 106 350

    Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access (github.com)
  • 71 89

    US startup Substrate announces chipmaking tool that it says will rival ASML (www.reuters.com)
  • 84 149

    The 512KB Club (512kb.club)
  •   6

    undefined
  • 119 139

    Server DRAM prices surge 50% as AI-induced memory shortage hits hyperscalers (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 181 414

    This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 21 115

    Optimizing Datalog for the GPU (danglingpointers.substack.com)
  • 163 80

    Tesla's ‘Robotaxis' Keep Crashing—Even With Human ‘Safety Monitors' Onboard (www.miamiherald.com)
  • 80 339

    Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator (terra.layoutit.com)
  • 27 103

    Google Cloud suspended customer's account 3 times, for 3 different reasons (www.theregister.com)
  • 72 83

    Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS (apps.apple.com)
  • 7 15

    Learning from Sudoku Solvers (2007) (ravimohan.blogspot.com)
  • 56 99

    Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent (100x.bot)
  • 15 48

    The Art of Atari (2016) (www.artofatari.com)
  • 59 156

    Customize Nano Text Editor (2022) (shafi.ddns.net)
  •   6

    undefined
  • 54 47

    Ask HN: Why are most status pages delayed?
  • 108 81

    Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies (www.reuters.com)
  • 115 100

    Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix Demand OpenAI to Stop Using Their IP (www.theverge.com)
  • 55 97

    The Farmer Was Replaced [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 215 87

    Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists (www.theguardian.com)
  • 48 173

    This Month in Ladybird – October 2025 (ladybird.org)
  • 0 10

    Is Your Data Valid? Why Bufstream Guarantees What Kafka Can't (vutr.substack.com)
  • 124 362

    What is a manifold? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 38 194

    Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale (notpeerreviewed.com)
  • 28 113

    Reverse-engineered CUPS driver for Phomemo receipt/label printers (github.com)
  • 43 43

    Show HN: Yourshoesmells.com – Find the most smelly boulder gym (yourshoesmells.com)
  • 122 59

    Some software bloat is OK (waspdev.com)
  • 4 19

    How to Draw a Tetrapod (dotat.at)
  • 20 26

    A Confederacy of Toddlers (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 1 12

    Visual Features Across Modalities: SVG and ASCII Art Cross-Modal Understanding (transformer-circuits.pub)
  • 91 103

    Lessons from interviews on deploying AI Agents in production (mmc.vc)
  • 74 55

    Pain Points of OCaml (quamserena.com)
  • 4 16

    The Morals of Chess (1786) (americanliterature.com)
  • 50 149

    Tenacity – a multi-track audio editor/recorder (tenacityaudio.org)
  • 260 453

    You can't cURL a Border (drobinin.com)
  • 28 44

    Show HN: MyTimers.app offline-first PWA with no build step and zero dependencies (mytimers.app)
  • 18 22

    Once Australia's second priciest city, Melbourne has become more affordable (www.theguardian.com)
  • 55 63

    Resolution limit of the eye – how many pixels can we see? (www.nature.com)
  • 493 611

    Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
  • 175 131

    Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury (a16z.substack.com)
  • 17 13

    Why is Python's OrderedDict ordered? (www.piglei.com)
  • 110 439

    My Truck Desk (www.theparisreview.org)
  • 39 98

    An individual can change an organization (notes.eatonphil.com)
  •   21

    undefined
  • 2 22

    R interface to Apple's MLX library (hughjonesd.github.io)
  • 11 61

    Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator (tomverbeure.github.io)
  • 81 64

    UnitedHealth pays its own physician groups 17% more than outside ones (www.statnews.com)
  • 141 370

    When stick figures fought (animationobsessive.substack.com)
  • 334 174

    Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?
  • 9 27

    Handwriting Programs in J (2017) (www.hillelwayne.com)
  • 3 114

    Israels top military lawyer resigns, goes missing, is found and thrown into jail (apnews.com)
  • 19 45

    Pixi: Reproducible Package Management for Robotics (prefix.dev)
  • 112 385

    Things you can do with diodes (lcamtuf.substack.com)