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New best story on Hacker News: Maybe the default settings are too high

Maybe the default settings are too high
354 by htk | 104 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

I sell onions on the Internet (2019)
343 by sogen | 100 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL

Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
340 by medv | 111 comments on Hacker News.
I wanted to see how far I could go building a notes app using only what modern browsers already provide – no frameworks, no storage APIs, no build step. What it does: Single HTML file, no deps, 111 loc Notes live in the URL hash (shareable links!) Auto-compressed with CompressionStream Plain-text editor (contenteditable) History support Page title from first # heading Respects light/dark mode No storage, cookies, or tracking The entire app is the page source. https://textarea.my/

New best story on Hacker News: Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
389 by snvzz | 181 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash

Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash
348 by nickrubin | 212 comments on Hacker News.
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New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

Tell HN: Merry Christmas
327 by basilikum | 107 comments on Hacker News.
Different cultures celebrate Christmas at different days and time zones are a thing. But it's Christmas here, so: Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you get some rest and can spend time with people who are dear to you and get to focus on what's important rather than getting lost in stressing about everything having to be perfect. Also much love to everyone who cannot spend their Christmas with dear people. To make sure this post meets the relevancy criteria, here is a Wikipedia article about some Christmas (more precisely advent) tradition which I personally really like: https://ift.tt/zrov2lE

New best story on Hacker News: Unifi Travel Router

Unifi Travel Router
416 by flurdy | 360 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)

We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)
476 by quesobob | 281 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents

X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents
439 by rendx | 84 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks
430 by vinni2 | 326 comments on Hacker News.
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New best story on Hacker News: Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100

Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100
268 by ggm | 88 comments on Hacker News.
Here's a video from 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1J9kfDCAmU It's his 100th birthday today.

New best story on Hacker News: Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
276 by thomascountz | 125 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Elevated errors across many models

Elevated errors across many models
269 by pablo24602 | 132 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith

Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith
266 by birdculture | 242 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
332 by lemonlime227 | 349 comments on Hacker News.
I've been working on a personal project recently, rewriting an old jQuery + Django project into SvelteKit. The main work is translating the UI templates into idiomatic SvelteKit while maintaining the original styling. This includes things like using semantic HTML instead of div-spamming, not wrapping divs in divs in divs, and replacing bootstrap with minimal tailwind. It also includes some logic refactors, to maintain the original functionality but rewritten to avoid years of code debt. Things like replacing templates using boolean flags for multiple views with composable Svelte components. I've had a fairly steady process for doing this: look at each route defined in Django, build out my `+page.server.ts`, and then split each major section of the page into a Svelte component with a matching Storybook story. It takes a lot of time to do this, since I have to ensure I'm not just copying the template but rather recreating it in a more idiomatic style. This kind of work seems like a great use case for AI assisted programming, but I've failed to use it effectively. At most, I can only get Claude Code to recreate some slightly less spaghetti code in Svelte. Simple prompting just isn't able to get AI's code quality within 90% of what I'd write by hand. Ideally, AI could get it's code to something I could review manually in 15-20 minutes, which would massively speed up the time spent on this project (right now it takes me 1-2 hours to properly translate a route). Do you guys have tips or suggestions on how to improve my efficiency and code quality with AI?

New best story on Hacker News: Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help

Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
383 by ArmageddonIt | 149 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: IBM to acquire Confluent

IBM to acquire Confluent
354 by abd12 | 284 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab

Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab
352 by embedding-shape | 84 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst

GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
374 by robin_reala | 224 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: The past was not that cute

The past was not that cute
422 by mhb | 515 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
434 by bookofjoe | 605 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
427 by thecr0w | 352 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
398 by LorenDB | 175 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
380 by ementally | 99 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries

YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
385 by mystraline | 213 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches

GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
402 by akyuu | 161 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
430 by OptionOfT | 332 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
462 by xnx | 229 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Unreal Tournament 2004 is back

Unreal Tournament 2004 is back
466 by keithoffer | 198 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry

Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry
378 by FreeQueso | 195 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term

TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
406 by vegasbrianc | 304 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you

AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you
428 by _tk_ | 175 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance

EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance
460 by fragebogen | 297 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file

Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
446 by modinfo | 131 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
424 by mfilion | 201 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
423 by jaydenmilne | 317 comments on Hacker News.
Related: Someone at YouTube needs glasses - https://ift.tt/p1RPgVo - April 2025 (694 comments)

New best story on Hacker News: Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
417 by XzetaU8 | 284 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage

PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
451 by speckx | 335 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator
459 by johnsillings | 202 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! Just for fun, I built an interactive Hacker News Simulator. You can submit text posts and links, just like the real HN. But on HN Simulator, all of the comments are generated by LLMs + generate instantly. The best way to use it (IMHO) is to submit a text post or a curl-able URL here: https://news.ysimulator.run/submit . You don't need an account to post. When you do that, various prompts will be built from a library of commenter archetypes, moods, and shapes. The AI commenters will actually respond to your text post and/or submitted link. I really wanted it to feel real, and I think the project mostly delivers on that. When I was developing it, I kept getting confused between which tab was the "real" HN and which was the simulator, and accidentally submitted some junk to HN. (Sorry dang and team – I did clean up after myself). The app itself is built with Node + Express + Postgres, and all of the inference runs on Replicate. Speaking of Replicate, they generously loaded me up with some free credits for the inference – so shoutout to the team there. The most technically interesting part of the app is how the comments work. You can read more about it here, as well as explore all of the available archetypes, moods, and shapes that get combined into prompts: https://news.ysimulator.run/comments.html I hope you all have as much fun playing with it as I did making it!

New best story on Hacker News: Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
441 by amichail | 193 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS

Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS
372 by arianvanp | 154 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run

X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run
355 by ourmandave | 186 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public

Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public
335 by binning | 142 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates

Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates
318 by Garbage | 70 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure

A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
366 by vedmed | 170 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
331 by pseudolus | 123 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft makes Zork open-source

Microsoft makes Zork open-source
471 by tabletcorry | 197 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
484 by abraham | 304 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support

Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
445 by babolivier | 131 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship

Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship
459 by pabs3 | 247 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable

The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable
507 by iamnothere | 71 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Meta Segment Anything Model 3

Meta Segment Anything Model 3
482 by lukeinator42 | 94 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: URLs are state containers

URLs are state containers
383 by thm | 169 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Facts about throwing good parties

Facts about throwing good parties
393 by cjbarber | 145 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)

Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)
365 by samrolken | 260 comments on Hacker News.
I spent a few hours last weekend testing whether AI can replace code by executing directly. Built a contact manager where every HTTP request goes to an LLM with three tools: database (SQLite), webResponse (HTML/JSON/JS), and updateMemory (feedback). No routes, no controllers, no business logic. The AI designs schemas on first request, generates UIs from paths alone, and evolves based on natural language feedback. It works—forms submit, data persists, APIs return JSON—but it's catastrophically slow (30-60s per request), absurdly expensive ($0.05/request), and has zero UI consistency between requests. The capability exists; performance is the problem. When inference gets 10x faster, maybe the question shifts from "how do we generate better code?" to "why generate code at all?"

New best story on Hacker News: Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997

Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997
344 by kome | 68 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Hard Rust requirements from May onward

Hard Rust requirements from May onward
328 by rkta | 572 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop

Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop
319 by threeturn | 179 comments on Hacker News.
Dear Hackers, I’m interested in your real-world workflows for using open-source LLMs and open-source coding assistants on your laptop (not just cloud/enterprise SaaS). Specifically: Which model(s) are you running (e.g., Ollama, LM Studio, or others) and which open-source coding assistant/integration (for example, a VS Code plugin) you’re using? What laptop hardware do you have (CPU, GPU/NPU, memory, whether discrete GPU or integrated, OS) and how it performs for your workflow? What kinds of tasks you use it for (code completion, refactoring, debugging, code review) and how reliable it is (what works well / where it falls short). I'm conducting my own investigation, which I will be happy to share as well when over. Thanks! Andrea.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Strange Attractors

Show HN: Strange Attractors
316 by shashanktomar | 38 comments on Hacker News.
I went down the rabbit hole on a side project and ended up building this: Strange Attractors( https://ift.tt/aEDWcUu ). It’s built with three.js. Working on it reminded me of the little "maths for fun" exercises I used to do while learning programming in early days. Just trying things out, getting fascinated and geeky, and being surprised by the results. I spent way too much time on this, but it was extreme fun. My favorite part: someone pointed me to the Simone Attractor on Threads. It is a 2D attractor and I asked GPT to extrapolate it to 3D, not sure if it’s mathematically correct, but it’s the coolest by far. I have left all the params configurable, so give it a try. I called it Simone (Maybe). If you like math-art experiments, check it out. Would love feedback, especially from folks who know more about the math side.

New best story on Hacker News: Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust

Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust
289 by bcantrill | 127 comments on Hacker News.
This RFD describes our distillation of a really gnarly issue that we hit in the Oxide control plane.[0] Not unlike our discovery of the async cancellation issue[1][2][3], this is larger than the issue itself -- and worse, the program that hits futurelock is correct from the programmer's point of view. Fortunately, the surface area here is smaller than that of async cancellation and the conditions required to hit it can be relatively easily mitigated. Still, this is a pretty deep issue -- and something that took some very seasoned Rust hands quite a while to find. [0] https://ift.tt/cMevIiY [1] https://ift.tt/BGm8Vug [2] https://ift.tt/GBrXu1S [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv5Cy1R7r4

New best story on Hacker News: Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works

Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works
278 by nomilk | 140 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down

A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down
315 by jemmyw | 228 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/yu9jnxH...

New best story on Hacker News: Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles
441 by Daiz | 156 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Programming with Less Than Nothing

Programming with Less Than Nothing
457 by signa11 | 149 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall

Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall
456 by perihelions | 540 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: /dev/null is an ACID compliant database

/dev/null is an ACID compliant database
522 by swills | 167 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Claude Memory

Claude Memory
507 by doppp | 288 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region

Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region
505 by meetpateltech | 157 comments on Hacker News.
Recent and related: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 - https://ift.tt/uJfACks (2045 comments)

New best story on Hacker News: Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon

Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
584 by antongribok | 360 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state

Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
370 by trinsic2 | 231 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement

Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement
362 by simul007 | 272 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia

DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia
356 by pseudolus | 338 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/o7me0Du...

New best story on Hacker News: Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5
389 by adocomplete | 169 comments on Hacker News.
System card: https://ift.tt/Ba6bcyT...

New best story on Hacker News: Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking

Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking
431 by _tk_ | 116 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI

Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
427 by beyarkay | 321 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend
321 by gloxkiqcza | 217 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files

Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
306 by Lucas-C | 93 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
325 by david927 | 907 comments on Hacker News.
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

New best story on Hacker News: Free software hasn't won

Free software hasn't won
331 by LorenDB | 371 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
330 by croes | 177 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email

Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email
350 by sebastian_z | 121 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill

One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill
467 by cuu508 | 169 comments on Hacker News.
Related: https://ift.tt/bgBWTYA

New best story on Hacker News: Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
459 by luisb | 98 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/7uRtUSV

New best story on Hacker News: We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler

We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler
485 by jgrahamc | 82 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant

Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant
445 by walterbell | 228 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
434 by mholt | 104 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN -- thanks for showing interest in this. Happy to collaborate on this project. I'm hoping to get it stable soon so my own family can start using it. I've been working on this for about 10+ years, nights and weekends. It's been really slow going since I only have my own personal data to test it with. I just don't love that my data is primarily stored on someone else's computer up in the cloud. I want my own local copy at least. And while I can download exports from my various accounts, I don't want them to just gather dust and rot on my hard drive. So, Timelinize helps keep that data alive and relevant and in my control. I don't have as much worry if my cloud accounts go away. Hopefully you'll find it useful, and I hope we can collaborate. (PS. I'm open to changing the name. Never really liked this one...)

New best story on Hacker News: Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
1106 by jamesberthoty | 910 comments on Hacker News.
A lot of blogs on this are AI generated and such as this is developing, so just linking to a bunch of resources out there: Socket: - Sep 15 (First post on breach): https://socket.dev/blog/tinycolor-supply-chain-attack-affect... - Sep 16: https://socket.dev/blog/ongoing-supply-chain-attack-targets-... StepSecurity – https://ift.tt/jx7tc05... Aikido - https://ift.tt/kCzFTbW... Ox - https://ift.tt/vQTk4h9... Safety - https://ift.tt/yhFCdL5 Phoenix - https://ift.tt/CRHsE6e Semgrep - https://ift.tt/t6hZvkx...

New best story on Hacker News: Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
1099 by Qem | 864 comments on Hacker News.
Full report: https://ift.tt/AvfFPeb...