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Archives for 19 Aug 2025
  1. Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life
    (163 points | Comments)

  2. How to Draw a Space Invader
    (557 points | Comments)

  3. The forgotten meaning of "jerk"
    (140 points | Comments)

  4. From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
    (253 points | Comments)

  5. Perfect Freehand – Draw perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines
    (153 points | Comments)

  6. CRDT: Text Buffer
    (160 points | Comments)

  7. Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature
    (288 points | Comments)

  8. AnduinOS
    (146 points | Comments)

  9. Notion releases offline mode
    (242 points | Comments)

  10. D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders
    (441 points | Comments)

  11. Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB)
    (152 points | Comments)

  12. Emacs as your video-trimming tool
    (286 points | Comments)

  13. How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos
    (687 points | Comments)

  14. 450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown
    (120 points | Comments)

  15. "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"
    (388 points | Comments)

  16. WebR – R in the Browser
    (140 points | Comments)

  17. Positron, a New Data Science IDE
    (165 points | Comments)

  18. Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser
    (130 points | Comments)

  19. Without the futex, it's futile
    (306 points | Comments)

  20. Critical Cache Poisoning Vulnerability in Dnsmasq
    (130 points | Comments)

  21. 'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court
    (125 points | Comments)

  22. Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages
    (113 points | Comments)

  23. UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption
    (276 points | Comments)

  24. I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can
    (177 points | Comments)

  25. PyPI Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks
    (136 points | Comments)

  26. Custom telescope mount using harmonic drives and ESP32
    (310 points | Comments)

  27. Google is killing the open web
    (193 points | Comments)

  28. BBC witnesses settlers attack on Palestinian farm in West Bank
    (147 points | Comments)

  29. Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions
    (226 points | Comments)

  30. Prime Number Grid
    (296 points | Comments)

  31. How to Build a Medieval Castle
    (244 points | Comments)

  32. OpenMower – An open source lawn mower
    (609 points | Comments)

  33. XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images
    (113 points | Comments)

  34. Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing
    (293 points | Comments)

  35. Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes
    (300 points | Comments)