hckr news

an unofficial alternative hacker news interface.

  • settings
  • about
  • browser extensions
 

comments points

Filter: all
  • top 10
  • top 20
  • top 50%
  • homepage
  • all
  • 1 4

    Fibonacci's Composed Fractions (ztoz.blog)
  • 0 6

    Fedware: Government Apps That Spy Harder Than the Apps They Ban (www.sambent.com)
  • undefined
  • 0 9

    A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity (maurycyz.com)
  • 0 26

    Do your own writing (alexhwoods.com)
  • 53 105

    “CEO said a thing” journalism (karlbode.com)
  • 0 4

    The revenge of the data scientist (hamel.dev)
  • 1 27

    The ladder is missing rungs – Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle (negroniventurestudios.com)
  • 2 13

    Proactively Parasocial (nicklandolfi.com)
  • 16 35

    DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
  • 29 68

    Spain shuts airspace for US planes involved in Iran war (english.aawsat.com)
  • 5 38

    An NSFW filter for Marginalia search (www.marginalia.nu)
  • 13 82

    You are falling behind because you haven't fed the insincerity machine (christianheilmann.com)
  • 66 179

    New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements (www.seattletimes.com)
  • 47 95

    Take better notes, by hand (brianschrader.com)
  • 10 93

    Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct (github.com)
  • 38 54

    OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it (www.getanchorgrid.com)
  • 38 55

    Bitwarden integrates with OneCLI agent vault (www.onecli.sh)
  • 44 53

    From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab (www.iptechnics.com)
  • 95 167

    CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font (www.codingfont.com)
  • 67 151

    FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data (www.ftc.gov)
  • 7 22

    Show HN: Coasts – Containerized Hosts for Agents (github.com)
  • 217 189

    72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes (eco3min.fr)
  • 23 74

    Build123d: A Python CAD programming library (github.com)
  • 10 325

    1.5M GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot (www.neowin.net)
  • 10 15

    The coming PLG to SLG apocalypse (www.withsahel.com)
  • 58 32

    How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage (www.noemamag.com)
  • 0 16

    Hackers now exploit critical F5 BIG-IP flaw in attacks, patch now (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  •   9

    undefined
  • 13 17

    Show HN: Phantom – Open-source AI agent on its own VM that rewrites its config (github.com)
  • 150 238

    Bird brains (2023) (www.dhanishsemar.com)
  • 47 53

    In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 158 414

    How to turn anything into a router (nbailey.ca)
  • 75 74

    Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase (medium.com)
  • 421 337

    How the AI Bubble Bursts (martinvol.pe)
  • 40 27

    Ask HN: Where have you found the coding limits of current models?
  •   36

    undefined
  • 61 160

    Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI (arxiv.org)
  • 15 53

    Comprehensive C++ Hashmap Benchmarks (2022) (martin.ankerl.com)
  •   11

    undefined
  • 107 140

    Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar (www.mgrunwald.com)
  • 23 34

    Show HN: The Alphabetical Clock (boat.horse)
  • 10 23

    How A Spartan Revolutionized Baseball (msutoday.msu.edu)
  • 30 34

    The First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar (lithub.com)
  •   19

    undefined
  •   9

    undefined
  • 19 65

    Stripe is down (status.stripe.com)
  • 0 9

    When Coupled Volcanoes Talk, These Researchers Listen (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 30 36

    How to Survive in the Tech industry in 2026 (blog.phuaxueyong.com)
  • 140 163

    I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 47 88

    Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed (github.com)
  • 98 228

    I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog (blog.lysk.tech)
  • 38 132

    Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models (dani2442.github.io)
  • 11 65

    Douglas Lenat's Automated Mathematician Source Code (github.com)
  • 64 40

    AI and bots have officially taken over the internet (www.cnbc.com)
  • 48 256

    15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die (community.webminal.org)
  • 79 316

    The curious case of retro demo scene graphics (www.datagubbe.se)
  • 42 46

    Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish (foojay.io)
  • 7 60

    HD Audio Driver for Windows 98SE / Me (github.com)
  • 47 135

    VHDL's Crown Jewel (www.sigasi.com)
  • 11 62

    Hardware Image Compression (www.ludicon.com)
  • 0 9

    Moretti replication published in AER (blog.michaelwiebe.com)
  • 540 1324

    Copilot edited an ad into my PR (notes.zachmanson.com)
  • 32 76

    "Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 37 45

    Gonon: Building a Clock with No Numerals (tonygaeta.com)
  • 1 16

    Pretext (simonwillison.net)
  • 46 49

    The sudden fall of Sora (www.wsj.com)
  • 3 5

    Quantum Control Plane (github.com)
  • 148 297

    New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays (smcleod.net)
  • 54 56

    DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems (github.com)
  • 190 371

    Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week (www.inquirer.com)
  • 5 51

    Interview: Nobonoko, Master of the Minimal Sequencer (fi-le.net)
  • 16 17

    Something unexpected: Sunbathers live longer (2016) (www.health.harvard.edu)
  •   12

    undefined
  • 3 13

    AI Tokens Are Mana (www.proofofconcept.pub)
  • 59 284

    15 Years of Forking (www.waterfox.com)
  • 21 65

    About the Atmosphere (toni.org)
  • 191 250

    Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins (github.com)
  • 32 93

    There is no spoon – A software engineers primer for demystified ML (github.com)
  • 34 100

    I'll buy your electronics to feed our robot (www.dayworkx.com)
  • 33 35

    'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross (variety.com)
  • 270 257

    Coding agents could make free software matter again (www.gjlondon.com)
  • 1 4

    I don't understand graphical abstracts. So I both hate and admire this one (2025) (scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com)
  • 63 147

    The road signs that teach travellers about France (www.bbc.com)
  • 32 51

    AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks (www.theregister.com)
  • 11 64

    Show HN: Crazierl – An Erlang Operating System (crazierl.org)
  • 51 89

    Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via Revolut Bank (torrentfreak.com)
  • 3 23

    What category theory teaches us about dataframes (mchav.github.io)
  • 18 62

    Ohm's Peg-to-WASM Compiler (ohmjs.org)
  • 594 919

    ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state (www.buchodi.com)
  • 251 523

    The Cognitive Dark Forest (ryelang.org)
  • 80 129

    The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame (crackr.dev)
  • 128 140

    Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle (apnews.com)
  • 38 35

    Show HN: I made a "programming language" looking for feedback (github.com)
  • 13 92

    Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties (www.jrkyushu.co.jp)
  • 428 338

    My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix (tobiasberg.net)
  •   22

    undefined
  • 23 24

    A Message from the Ruby Central Board (rubycentral.org)
  • 36 92

    More on Version Control (bramcohen.com)
  • 59 71

    Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024) (letter.palladiummag.com)
  • 71 45

    Typing and Keyboards (lzon.ca)
  • 31 63

    Observations from carbon dioxide monitoring (grieve-smith.com)
  • 19 36

    Stripe withheld $85k from our EU platform
  • 348 303

    C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report (herbsutter.com)
  • 246 386

    Neovim 0.12.0 (github.com)
  • 68 82

    First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales (mashable.com)
  • 26 124

    Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s (isp.netscape.com)
  • 41 88

    Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor (breezepdf.com)
  • 64 26

    VR Is Not Dead (yadin.com)
  • 65 366

    Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout (github.com)
  • 15 103

    Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes (github.com)
  • 5 10

    Catching the LiteLLM and Telnyx supply chain zero-days via semantic analysis (point-wild.github.io)
  • 8 97

    AyaFlow: A high-performance, eBPF-based network traffic analyzer written in Rust (github.com)
  • 25 94

    The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history (www.righto.com)
  • 38 142

    The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub (riseproject.dev)
  • 162 228

    The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine (gladeart.com)
  • 243 656

    Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder (techfixated.com)
  • 141 301

    Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time (www.theguardian.com)
  • 58 38

    Scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 48 37

    Figma's MCP Update Reflects a Larger Industry Shift (metedata.substack.com)
  • 12 51

    App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East (maps.blitzortung.org)
  • 62 84

    Twice this week, I have come across embarassingly bad data (successfulsoftware.net)
  • 27 50

    The Epistemology of Microphysics (www.edwardfeser.com)
  • 160 587

    Say No to Palantir in Europe (action.wemove.eu)
  •   27

    undefined
  •   40

    undefined
  • 99 59

    Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network (varunpriolkar.com)
  • 187 425

    Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND (www.cnn.com)
  • 2 13

    Twelve Dimensional Chess is Stupid (2018) (www.gilgamath.com)
  • 28 20

    Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges (mcpaas.live)
  • 137 112

    TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 16 52

    The Failure of the Thermodynamics of Computation (2010) (sites.pitt.edu)
  • 2 11

    I built a better, human like memory, for Agents (github.com)
  • 19 90

    Show HN: Create a full language server in Go with 3.17 spec support (github.com)
  • 25 33

    The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022) (www.bbc.com)
  • 433 756

    LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
  • 73 81

    Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders (sheetninja.io)
  • 243 336

    Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit (github.com)
  • 4 29

    Monado became the foundation for OpenXR runtimes (www.collabora.com)
  • 253 558

    Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics (news.umich.edu)
  • 18 51

    Siclair Microvision (1977) (r-type.org)
  • 59 86

    Lat.md: Agent Lattice: a knowledge graph for your codebase, written in Markdown (github.com)
  • 7 8

    Tell HN: GitHub's Dependabot REST API is silently returning incomplete results
  • 20 45

    Show HN: Public transit systems as data – lines, stations, railcars, and history (publictransit.systems)
  • 8 59

    The Hackers Who Tracked My Sleep Cycle (glama.ai)
  • 141 104

    Solar is winning the energy race (www.dw.com)
  • 16 58

    The loneliness of A Room of One’s Own (newrepublic.com)
  • 11 25

    The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026) (quillette.com)
  • 128 91

    When do we become adults, really? (www.newyorker.com)
  • 40 64

    Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction (newrepublic.com)
  • 98 183

    What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math? (adlrocha.substack.com)
  • 84 61

    The road to electric in charts and data (www.rac.co.uk)
  • 169 292

    A nearly perfect USB cable tester (blog.literarily-starved.com)
  • 38 56

    Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland (apnews.com)
  • 59 191

    I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper (manualdousuario.net)
  •   18

    undefined
  • 12 75

    The ANSI art "telecomics" of the 1992 election (breakintochat.com)
  • 39 80

    OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem (github.com)
  • 53 57

    The case for becoming a manager (newsletter.thelongcommit.com)
  • 22 39

    Modeling what makes paper-folding puzzles hard (www.dailyunfold.com)
  • 77 53

    Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust? (www.ft.com)
  • 20 154

    A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU) (github.com)
  •   22

    undefined
  • 46 37

    Show HN: PeriodicTableOfElements.org (periodictableofelements.org)
  • 0 8

    Attie.ai (attie.ai)
  • 12 57

    The 667MHz Machine (www.0xsid.com)
  • 135 224

    Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024) (www.bmj.com)
  • 14 85

    Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes (2023) (gwern.net)
  • 6 42

    Memory That Collaborates (datahike.io)
  • 52 128

    A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging (www.fraunhofer.de)
  • 56 58

    Stop picking my Go version for me (blog.howardjohn.info)
  • 2 27

    Building an E2E Encrypted Chat Application with LanceDB and Libsodium (www.justinrmiller.com)
  • 13 34

    ODF is the future, OOXML is the past (blog.documentfoundation.org)
  • 10 11

    Computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy use (www.cam.ac.uk)