logoalt Hacker News

  1. VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits (ipinfo.io)
    146 points • by mmaia • today at 7:46 PM • 66 comments
  2. Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith (www.twilio.com)
    49 points • by birdculture • today at 8:30 PM • 26 comments
  3. Recovering Anthony Bourdain's (really) lost Li.st's (sandyuraz.com)
    31 points • by thecsw • today at 9:18 PM • 4 comments
  4. Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo you probably don't know (gabrielweinberg.com)
    14 points • by ArmageddonIt • today at 9:57 PM • 4 comments
  5. I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model (susam.net)
    38 points • by zdw • today at 8:19 PM • 9 comments
  6. I tried Gleam for Advent of Code (blog.tymscar.com)
    191 points • by tymscar • today at 5:00 PM • 110 comments
  7. The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure (technicshistory.com)
    16 points • by cfmcdonald • today at 8:19 PM • 0 comments
  8. Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost (www.science.org)
    71 points • by rbanffy • today at 8:48 PM • 20 comments
  9. Useful patterns for building HTML tools (simonwillison.net)
    203 points • by simonw • last Wednesday at 9:08 PM • 60 comments
  10. Cryptids (wiki.bbchallenge.org)
    75 points • by frozenseven • 12/06/2025 • 12 comments
  11. Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences? (self)
    31 points • by glidr_dev • today at 8:04 PM • 36 comments
  12. Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement for All Undergrads (www.forbes.com)
    24 points • by rmason • today at 8:54 PM • 17 comments
  13. Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? (self)
    134 points • by lemonlime227 • today at 3:37 PM • 178 comments
  14. Go Proposal: Secret Mode (antonz.org)
    131 points • by enz • last Tuesday at 9:10 PM • 55 comments
  15. Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video] (www.youtube.com)
    57 points • by joelkesler • today at 6:39 PM • 60 comments
  16. What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you? (louplummer.lol)
    251 points • by speckx • last Thursday at 7:28 PM • 199 comments
  17. A Giant Ball Will Help This Man Survive a Year on an Iceberg (www.outsideonline.com)
    20 points • by areoform • today at 3:25 PM • 22 comments
  18. Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue (www.nature.com)
    89 points • by bikenaga • last Wednesday at 7:13 PM • 26 comments
  19. Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder (petapixel.com)
    153 points • by shinryuu • 12/06/2025 • 34 comments
  20. From Azure Functions to FreeBSD (jmmv.dev)
    37 points • by todsacerdoti • last Monday at 8:02 AM • 2 comments
  21. Will West Coast Jazz Get Some Respect? (www.honest-broker.com)
    57 points • by paulpauper • 12/06/2025 • 36 comments
  22. A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021) (woodrush.github.io)
    83 points • by pabs3 • today at 3:06 AM • 3 comments
  23. Using Python for Scripting (hypirion.com)
    71 points • by birdculture • last Monday at 8:52 AM • 62 comments
  24. Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring (www.mvp.express)
    92 points • by mands • last Sunday at 3:19 PM • 42 comments
  25. Pig Video Arcades Critique Life in the Pen (1997) (www.wired.com)
    3 points • by naryJane • last Monday at 9:27 PM • 0 comments
  26. GNU Unifont (unifoundry.com)
    315 points • by remywang • yesterday at 8:57 PM • 72 comments
  27. A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera (www.bbc.com)
    73 points • by selvan • last Monday at 1:04 PM • 41 comments
  28. Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles (eavan.blog)
    128 points • by eavan0 • last Tuesday at 8:16 PM • 22 comments
  29. Dynamic Pong Wars (markodenic.tech)
    30 points • by rendall • 12/06/2025 • 8 comments
  30. Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards (victorpoughon.github.io)
    225 points • by fouronnes3 • last Thursday at 6:00 PM • 108 comments
  31. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 (self)
    225 points • by ggm • today at 8:15 AM • 76 comments
  32. OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI (simonwillison.net)
    536 points • by simonw • yesterday at 11:30 PM • 306 comments
  33. Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig (github.com)
    184 points • by trj • yesterday at 10:02 PM • 12 comments
  34. How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs (quant.engineering)
    116 points • by rundef • last Monday at 1:48 PM • 62 comments
  35. Workday project at Washington University hits $266M (www.theregister.com)
    47 points • by sebastian_z • today at 8:58 PM • 45 comments
  36. Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon (openship.org)
    24 points • by theturtletalks • yesterday at 6:19 PM • 18 comments
  37. Hacking Google Chrome Source Code: Make Puppeteer work over Redis PubSub (www.deadf00d.com)
    10 points • by deadf00d • today at 4:03 PM • 2 comments
  38. Z8086: Rebuilding the 8086 from Original Microcode (nand2mario.github.io)
    39 points • by nand2mario • today at 3:04 PM • 12 comments
  39. Indexing 100M vectors in 20 minutes on PostgreSQL with 12GB RAM (blog.vectorchord.ai)
    70 points • by gaocegege • last Monday at 5:30 PM • 16 comments
  40. Formula One Handovers and Handovers From Surgery to Intensive Care (2008) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    100 points • by bookofjoe • 12/06/2025 • 36 comments
  41. Go is portable, until it isn't (simpleobservability.com)
    139 points • by khazit • last Sunday at 11:17 AM • 118 comments
  42. Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud (0l.de)
    136 points • by stv0g • yesterday at 6:17 AM • 71 comments
  43. 30 Years of <Br> Tags (www.artmann.co)
    12 points • by FragrantRiver • today at 2:35 PM • 0 comments
  44. Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion (www.johndcook.com)
    74 points • by ColinWright • last Monday at 4:27 PM • 4 comments
  45. Windows 3.1 in the Browser (www.pcjs.org)
    33 points • by memalign • today at 9:29 AM • 1 comment
  46. Show HN: LinkedQL – Live Queries over Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB (github.com)
    20 points • by phrasecode • last Monday at 2:23 PM • 12 comments
  47. Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options (arstechnica.com)
    557 points • by fleahunter • yesterday at 12:51 PM • 462 comments
  48. Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet (pv-magazine-usa.com)
    128 points • by Matrixik • today at 5:32 PM • 146 comments
  49. Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (www.whitehouse.gov)
    176 points • by andsoitis • last Thursday at 11:56 PM • 242 comments
  50. How to Watch the Radiant Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight (www.smithsonianmag.com)
    6 points • by cjbarber • today at 6:12 PM • 3 comments