Hacker News headlines

188

Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?

3 weeks ago | mbix77 | ycombinator.com | best

51

The End of Handwriting (wired.com)

3 weeks ago | beardyw | wired.com | best

41

Calling Their Bluff (anguscheng.com)

3 weeks ago | 4pkjai | anguscheng.com | frontpage

70

The value of hitting the HN front page (mooreds.com)

3 weeks ago | mooreds | mooreds.com | best

12

Monoid-Augmented FIFOs, Deamortised (pvk.ca)

3 weeks ago | todsacerdoti | pvk.ca | frontpage

105

Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025 (gfw.report)

3 weeks ago | kotri | gfw.report | best

17

Tiny, removable "mini SSD" could eventually be a big deal for gaming handhelds (arstechnica.com)

3 weeks ago | quantummagic | arstechnica.com | frontpage

20

[flagged] Pre-Sputnik Earth-Orbit Glints (overcomingbias.com)

3 weeks ago | qsi | overcomingbias.com | frontpage

10

Docker container for running Claude Code in "dangerously skip permissions" mode (github.com/tintinweb)

3 weeks ago | Luc | github.com | frontpage

90

We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism (democracyjournal.org)

3 weeks ago | nobet | democracyjournal.org | best

11

Microsoft workers occupy HQ in protest against company ties to Israeli military (theguardian.com)

3 weeks ago | t0lo | theguardian.com | frontpage

18

Show HN: Kuse 2.0 – AI Visual Folder: Chaos In, Genius Out (kuse.ai)

3 weeks ago | austinxu | kuse.ai | newest

13

Fed up with U.S. health care costs, these Americans moved abroad (washingtonpost.com)

3 weeks ago | littlexsparkee | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

13

The joy of recursion, immutable data, & pure functions: Making mazes with JS (jrsinclair.com)

3 weeks ago | jrsinclair | jrsinclair.com | frontpage

17

[flagged] Avi Loeb: Is 3I/Atlas Our Turing Test by a Superior Alien Intelligence? (avi-loeb.medium.com)

3 weeks ago | ilamont | medium.com | frontpage

11

Tesla drivers can pursue class action over self-driving claims, judge rules (reuters.com)

3 weeks ago | TheAlchemist | reuters.com | frontpage

32

[dupe] How to Think About GPUs (jax-ml.github.io)

3 weeks ago | matt_d | github.io | frontpage

10

DeepSeek-v3.1 (huggingface.co)

3 weeks ago | bparsons | huggingface.co | frontpage

48

Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life (nautil.us)

3 weeks ago | jnord | nautil.us | best

236

Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers (pistachioapp.com)

3 weeks ago | Sayrus | pistachioapp.com | best

261

AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents (agents.md)

3 weeks ago | ghuntley | agents.md | best

12

Top pediatricians buck RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine meddling on Covid shot guidance (arstechnica.com)

3 weeks ago | duxup | arstechnica.com | frontpage

119

How to Draw a Space Invader (muffinman.io)

3 weeks ago | abdusco | muffinman.io | best

24

Drunken Bishop (2023) (factorcode.org)

3 weeks ago | todsacerdoti | factorcode.org | frontpage

96

The forgotten meaning of "jerk" (languagehat.com)

3 weeks ago | aspenmayer | languagehat.com | best

13

New Nationwide Campaign to Stop Warrantless Use of License Plate Reader Cameras (ij.org)

3 weeks ago | pilingual | ij.org | frontpage

12

95 per cent of organisations are getting zero return from AI according to MIT (ft.com)

3 weeks ago | antithesizer | ft.com | frontpage

11

Microsoft Workers Protesting Israel Ties Say They Have Occupied HQ (bloomberg.com)

3 weeks ago | mikestew | bloomberg.com | newest

35

CRDT: Text Buffer (madebyevan.com)

3 weeks ago | skadamat | madebyevan.com | best

15

Forced software updates just make everything worse (theguardian.com)

3 weeks ago | drankl | theguardian.com | frontpage

22

How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019) (figma.com)

3 weeks ago | redbell | figma.com | frontpage

27

The new geography of stolen goods (economist.com)

3 weeks ago | tlb | economist.com | frontpage

64

From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent (ssp.sh)

3 weeks ago | articsputnik | ssp.sh | best

11

Show HN: Lemonade: Run LLMs Locally with GPU and NPU Acceleration (github.com/lemonade-sdk)

3 weeks ago | ramkrishna2910 | github.com | newest

29

Show HN: OpenAI/reflect – Physical AI Assistant that illuminates your life (github.com/openai)

3 weeks ago | Sean-Der | github.com | frontpage

55

Perfect Freehand – Draw perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines (perfectfreehand.com)

3 weeks ago | NikxDa | perfectfreehand.com | best

11

OpenAI Employee Stock Sale Would Value ChatGPT Maker at $500B (nytimes.com)

3 weeks ago | xnx | nytimes.com | frontpage

165

Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature (sso.tax)

3 weeks ago | vinnyglennon | sso.tax | best

32

Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta's A.I. Efforts, Again (nytimes.com)

3 weeks ago | voxadam | nytimes.com | frontpage

39

Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB) (motherduck.com)

3 weeks ago | secondrow | motherduck.com | best

35

Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database (wired.com)

3 weeks ago | hacker_yacker | wired.com | frontpage

11

Nissan announces 2026 Leaf pricing, 300 mile range starting at $29,990 (arstechnica.com)

3 weeks ago | coldpie | arstechnica.com | frontpage

41

Forklifts require training (zacsweers.dev)

3 weeks ago | pandanomic | zacsweers.dev | frontpage

125

Notion releases offline mode (notion.com)

3 weeks ago | ericzawo | notion.com | best

45

Giving people money helped less than I thought it would (theargumentmag.com)

3 weeks ago | tekla | theargumentmag.com | frontpage

100

D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders (d2lang.com)

3 weeks ago | alixanderwang | d2lang.com | best

59

[flagged] Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC's Tech Scene Is Not (wired.com)

3 weeks ago | velik_m | wired.com | frontpage

79

AnduinOS (anduinos.com)

3 weeks ago | TheFreim | anduinos.com | best

21

CRLite: Certificate Revocation Checking in Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)

3 weeks ago | TangerineDream | mozilla.org | frontpage

10

What's the point of vibe coding if I still have to pay a dev to fix it? (reddit.com)

3 weeks ago | latexr | reddit.com | newest

18

Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis (theguardian.com)

3 weeks ago | glutamate | theguardian.com | frontpage

10

Graphite Chat (graphite.dev)

3 weeks ago | jordanscales | graphite.dev | frontpage

21

Geotoy – Shadertoy for 3D Geometry (ameo.design)

3 weeks ago | Ameo | ameo.design | best

128

Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet (mashable.com)

3 weeks ago | Teever | mashable.com | frontpage

13

Show HN: Tambo Add A Cursor style assistant for React apps (OSS, self-hosted) (github.com/tambo-ai)

3 weeks ago | grouchy | github.com | newest

13

EloqKV, a distributed database with Redis compatible API (GPLv2 and AGPLv3) (github.com/eloqdata)

3 weeks ago | cloudsql | github.com | frontpage

40

Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent

3 weeks ago | ykurtov | ycombinator.com | frontpage

40

As Alaska's salmon plummet, scientists home in on the killer (science.org)

3 weeks ago | rbanffy | science.org | frontpage

28

A renovation project in Turkey led to the discovery of a lost city (2023) (atlasobscura.com)

3 weeks ago | areoform | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

14

The 'big church move': Swedish town begins to roll historic building 5km (theguardian.com)

3 weeks ago | nickcotter | theguardian.com | frontpage

39

Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock (cpldcpu.com)

3 weeks ago | cpldcpu | cpldcpu.com | best

222

How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos (kudelskisecurity.com)

3 weeks ago | spiridow | kudelskisecurity.com | best

105

CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in 4 years (ft.com)

3 weeks ago | petethomas | ft.com | frontpage

95

Emacs as your video-trimming tool (xenodium.com)

3 weeks ago | xenodium | xenodium.com | best

14

The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations (nytimes.com)

3 weeks ago | JumpCrisscross | nytimes.com | frontpage

55

Positron, a New Data Science IDE (posit.co)

3 weeks ago | kgwgk | posit.co | best

17

Octopolis and Octlantis (wikipedia.org)

3 weeks ago | eatonphil | wikipedia.org | frontpage

10

Silicon Valley billionaires want the impossible (arstechnica.com)

3 weeks ago | mcguire | arstechnica.com | newest

24

Why Are Some Stats Too 'Girly' for the BLS? (bloomberg.com)

3 weeks ago | petethomas | bloomberg.com | frontpage

40

Attention Is the New Big-O: A Systems Design Approach to Prompt Engineering (alexchesser.medium.com)

3 weeks ago | alexc05 | medium.com | frontpage

11

DeepSeek-v3.1-Base (huggingface.co)

3 weeks ago | meetpateltech | huggingface.co | frontpage

15

In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip (hitachi.com)

3 weeks ago | julkali | hitachi.com | frontpage

16

The Founders of This Housing Development Say You Must Be White to Live There (nytimes.com)

3 weeks ago | mykowebhn | nytimes.com | frontpage

278

"Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" (github.com/whatwg)

3 weeks ago | troupo | github.com | best

26

Launch HN: Parachute (YC S25) – Guardrails for Clinical AI

3 weeks ago | ariavikram | ycombinator.com | frontpage

71

Ask HN: Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'?

3 weeks ago | nomilk | ycombinator.com | frontpage

14

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming 'Climate Extremist Agenda' (desmog.com)

3 weeks ago | Improvement | desmog.com | frontpage

11

MinuteBio – Short biography of famous people for kids (minutebio.org)

3 weeks ago | hao1300 | minutebio.org | newest

84

Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser (werd.io)

3 weeks ago | benwerd | werd.io | best

108

End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs (theregister.com)

3 weeks ago | rntn | theregister.com | frontpage

22

Vim Macros for Beancount (tangled.sh)

3 weeks ago | xarcolade | tangled.sh | frontpage

11

Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix (tidewave.ai)

3 weeks ago | josevalim | tidewave.ai | newest

15

Intel 80286 emulator for Raspberry Pico (github.com/xrip)

3 weeks ago | fleeks | github.com | frontpage

39

U.K. 30-Year Yield Tops U.S. as Pressure Mounts on Government Borrowing (coindesk.com)

3 weeks ago | ksec | coindesk.com | frontpage

111

Without the futex, it's futile (h4x0r.org)

3 weeks ago | eatonphil | h4x0r.org | best

61

Critical Cache Poisoning Vulnerability in Dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)

3 weeks ago | westurner | thekelleys.org.uk | best

68

[flagged] Ballot Hand Counts Lead to Inaccuracy (votingrightslab.org)

3 weeks ago | bediger4000 | votingrightslab.org | frontpage

111

'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court (torrentfreak.com)

3 weeks ago | gslin | torrentfreak.com | best

39

Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages

3 weeks ago | zaidqureshi | ycombinator.com | frontpage

10

Akka and LangChain both made big moves in the past few weeks

3 weeks ago | DigitalReporter | ycombinator.com | newest

44

PyPI Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks (pypi.org)

3 weeks ago | pabs3 | pypi.org | best

18

Netflix Revamps Tudum's CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store (infoq.com)

3 weeks ago | NomDePlum | infoq.com | frontpage

62

Apple has not destroyed Steve Jobs' vision for iPad (victorwynne.com)

3 weeks ago | curtblaha | victorwynne.com | frontpage

12

AI Is Not a Dev

3 weeks ago | tudorizer | ycombinator.com | newest

147

UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption (theverge.com)

3 weeks ago | iamdamian | theverge.com | best

105

Google is killing the open web (oblomov.eu)

3 weeks ago | thm | oblomov.eu | best

100

Custom telescope mount using harmonic drives and ESP32 (svendewaerhert.com)

3 weeks ago | waerhert | svendewaerhert.com | best

17

Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal (bleepingcomputer.com)

3 weeks ago | robtherobber | bleepingcomputer.com | frontpage

49

[flagged] BBC witnesses settlers attack on Palestinian farm in West Bank (bbc.com)

3 weeks ago | mhga | bbc.com | best

14

"Stop children using VPNs to watch porn", UK politicians told (bbc.co.uk)

3 weeks ago | abstractbeliefs | bbc.co.uk | frontpage