THE HACKER NEWS

RyanShook
16 minutes ago
Today Intercom becomes Fin
We're changing the name of our company to Fin. Intercom will live on as our customer service software platform, but Fin is our future....
A DAY AGO
JNORD
Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
5 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools
3 DAYS AGO
HARDWARELUST
New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater
4 HOURS AGO
DANSO
Making the news available at no cost is a victory
3 HOURS AGO
LOGICKKK1
Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads
3 DAYS AGO
DMITRYGR
Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter
12 HOURS AGO
MONOKAI_NL
I moved my digital stack to Europe
2 HOURS AGO
DOENER
A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism
15 HOURS AGO
SAGACITY
Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways
A DAY AGO
SURPRISETALK
Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined
8 HOURS AGO
STALFOSKNIGHT
Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors
5 HOURS AGO
BENDER
Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago
A DAY AGO
TAMBOURINE_MAN
Googlebook
12 HOURS AGO
AKUTLAY
Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems
A DAY AGO
SURPRISETALK
Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined
2 HOURS AGO
ASHISHB
I was asked to install malware during a fake interview
8 HOURS AGO
STALFOSKNIGHT
Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors
A DAY AGO
SBULAEV
When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug
5 HOURS AGO
BENDER
Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago
A DAY AGO
MURFALO
Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
A DAY AGO
TAMBOURINE_MAN
Googlebook
haunter
3 days ago
Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
As time goes on, fewer games than ever are unplayable on Linux
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brandonb
2 hours ago
Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea
There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medi...
jackhogan11
2 days ago
Marco Polo: Finding a friend with only distance and motion
Finding a friend with only distance and motion....
tambourine_man
2 days ago
How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?
Office Hours question asked by by Ian H. on May 1, 2026 Q: Memory prices could move from 15% to 40% of the BOM of a device. This seems incredible. So how can Apple deal with this? This has b...
laurentlb
5 days ago
A History of IDEs at Google
Laurent Le Brun's blog...
bookofjoe
3 hours ago
In-person examinations at Princeton will be proctored starting July 1
The faculty voted Monday to require universal proctoring for all in-person examinations in response to mounting concerns over AI-assisted cheating and declining student reporting of Honor Co...
andsoitis
4 days ago
Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC
Roguelike that names itself each run. WIP. Contribute to nooga/xsofy development by creating an account on GitHub....
speckx
9 hours ago
Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
In the US, you can get a domain name like `somename.city.state.us` for free. If your town has its own domain, you can get nameservers from Amazon Lightsail, send the *Interim .US Domain Temp...
https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/
tosh
5 hours ago
MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
A18 Pro processor in the $599 MacBook Neo. Geekbench 6 scores 3,569 single-core, between M3 and M4. Full CPU benchmarks, power draw, and thermal analysis....
curiousgal
4 days ago
Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15
Python 3.14 shipped with a new incremental garbage collector. However, we’ve had a number of reports of significant memory pressure in production environments. We’ve decided to revert it in...
ceejayoz
4 hours ago
"Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their pat...
jorijn
11 hours ago
Leaving GitHub for Forgejo
I left GitHub for self-hosted Forgejo on a hardened NUC. The reason is digital sovereignty, not reliability outages. Here's the thinking and the architecture....
HenryNdubuaku
a day ago
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
26m function call model that runs on incredibly small devices - cactus-compute/needle...
kunle
11 hours ago
Substrate (YC S24) Is Hiring a Technical Success Manager
About Substrate Substrate (www.substrate.cc) is building the world’s first AI native BPO, starting with healthcare RCM. We’re focused on helping healthcare enterprises like physician groups...
mikemcquaid
8 hours ago
Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time
A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time....
damienwebdev
12 hours ago
Composer leaks contents of tokens configured as GitHub OAuth tokens
### Summary Composer leaks the full contents of tokens configured as GitHub OAuth tokens if they do not match Composer's expected format for such tokens to stderr. GitHub has introduced a...