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Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xe6T
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xe6T
Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xdNy
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xdNy
Hannah Cairo has solved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture (🔥 Score: 162+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xi9t
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xi9t
How to Network as an Introvert (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xgg3
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xgg3
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (🔥 Score: 160+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xfv9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xfv9
In a milestone for Manhattan, a pair of coyotes has made Central Park their home (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6x2J8
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6x2J8
Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B (Score: 152+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xdvA
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xdvA
Baba Is Eval (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6x9Kw
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6x9Kw
OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xedw
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xedw
ChatGPT creates phisher's paradise by serving the wrong URLs for major companies (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xduu
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xduu
Nvidia Is Full of Shit (🔥 Score: 166+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xdUz
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xdUz
Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wYwb
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wYwb
Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6x2Lk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6x2Lk
Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip (🔥 Score: 156+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xcZz
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xcZz
Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xcwF
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xcwF
Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xgx8
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xgx8
I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models (🔥 Score: 159+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xiMX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xiMX
I managed to reverse engineer the encryption (refered to as “Obfuscation” in the framework) responsible for managing the safety filters of Apple Intelligence models. I have extracted them into a repository. I encourage you to take a look around.
What a Hacker Stole from Me (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xgsm
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xgsm
X-Clacks-Overhead (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6x5eJ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6x5eJ
Stop Killing Games (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xeGs
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xeGs
Learn to love the moat of low status (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6x6r8
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6x6r8
Kepler.gl (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xcMt
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How to Incapacitate Google Tag Manager and Why You Should (2022) (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xdsb
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xdsb
Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xdPS
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xdPS
Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xdQx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xdQx
EverQuest (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xd8V
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xd8V
Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs? (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6x7Cx
Soham Parekh is all the rage on Twitter right now with a bunch of startups coming out of the woodwork saying they either had currently employed him or had in the past.
Serious question: why aren't so many startups hiring processes filtering out a candidate who is scamming/working multiple jobs?
Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xczr
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xczr
I'm a software developer with 20+ years of experience but during this time I never programmed any games, but I really wanted to for the longest time. With the advent of AI coding agents I thought that this is the best time to try and so I've learned a bit of Phaser.js (a Javascript based game engine) and entered Beginner's Jam Summer 2025 - a game jam for beginners in the game dev industry that allows AI coding. After around 25-30 hours (working mainly after my full-time day job) I managed to submit the game I called "Tower of Time" (the theme of the jam was "Time Travel").
You can play it in your browser here: https://m4v3k.itch.io/tower-of-time
The goal of this project for me was first and foremost to see if AI coding is good enough to help me with creating something that's actually fun to play and to my delight is turns out the answer is yes! I decided to document the whole process for myself and others to learn from my mistakes, so both the code AND all the prompts I used are published on GitHub (see submission link). The art assets are largely taken from itch.io artists who shared them for free, with some slight touch ups. Sounds came from freesound.org.
I've also streamed parts of the process, you can watch me working on the final stretch and submitting the finished game (warning, it's 5+ hours long):
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2503428478
During this process I've learned a lot and I want to use this knowledge in my next project that will hopefully be more ambitious. If you have any comments or questions I'm here to answer!
Zig breaking change – initial Writergate (Score: 154+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xbDD
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xbDD
Larry (cat) (Score: 153+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xcfd
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xcfd