Hacker News on Saturday, 30 August 2025

Cognitive load is what matters(github.com)

1392 points by nromiun 1 year ago | 488 comments

GitHub repository by zakirullin containing an essay arguing that reducing cognitive load is what matters most in software development, with translations.

Magic Lantern Is Back(magiclantern.fm)

476 points by felipemesquita 1 year ago | 153 comments

Magic Lantern forum announcement thread 'Magic Lantern 2025: Midsummer Edition' marking the return of the open-source Canon camera firmware add-on project.

Are we decentralized yet?(arewedecentralizedyet.online)

444 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 226 comments

A dashboard measuring server concentration of the Fediverse and Bluesky's Atmosphere using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, with server counts and user shares.

Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything(wsj.com)

386 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 490 comments

Wall Street Journal article on how businesses struggle to set prices six months into Trump's tariffs; the capture shows a captcha verification page.

You Have to Feel It(mitchellh.com)

343 points by tosh 1 year ago | 132 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's essay arguing that meeting checklists and requirements isn't enough; builders must personally feel how their work feels to users.

Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT(gally.net)

326 points by tkgally 1 year ago | 249 comments

A leaderboard of the top 50 Hacker News users ranked by number of posts containing em dashes before ChatGPT's release on November 30, 2022.

Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great user interface font(osnews.com)

281 points by rguiscard 1 year ago | 93 comments

Agent Client Protocol (ACP)(agentclientprotocol.com)

263 points by vinhnx 1 year ago | 89 comments

How to Give a Good Talk(blog.sigplan.org)

247 points by pykello 1 year ago | 76 comments

Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy(andrewmarder.net)

246 points by amarder 1 year ago | 127 comments

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'(theregister.com)

240 points by Bender 1 year ago | 130 comments

AI models need a virtual machine(blog.sigplan.org)

216 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 109 comments

Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"(lwn.net)

188 points by ksec 1 year ago | 279 comments

LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords(landchad.net)

187 points by cft 1 year ago | 54 comments

New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely(lafollette.wisc.edu)

182 points by XzetaU8 1 year ago | 414 comments

Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?(shkspr.mobi)

170 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 385 comments

From multi-head to latent attention: The evolution of attention mechanisms(vinithavn.medium.com)

166 points by mgninad 1 year ago | 38 comments

Condor's Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025(chipsandcheese.com)

148 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 45 comments

TPDE-LLVM: Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End(discourse.llvm.org)

148 points by mpweiher 1 year ago | 56 comments

Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history(sydneyreviewofbooks.com)

126 points by cacher 1 year ago | 47 comments

The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust(yekdeveloper.com)

116 points by avan1 1 year ago | 88 comments

Quirks of Common Lisp Types(fosskers.ca)

101 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 18 comments

Affiliates flock to scam gambling machine(krebsonsecurity.com)

96 points by mikhael 1 year ago | 26 comments

The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters(natesnewsletter.substack.com)

95 points by laurex 1 year ago | 22 comments

A blog does not need “analytics”(thisdaysportion.com)

92 points by FromTheArchives 1 year ago | 83 comments

De minimis exemption ends(washingtonpost.com)

88 points by ajd555 1 year ago | 120 comments

With AI Boom, Dell's Datacenter Biz Is Finally Bigger Than Its PC Biz(nextplatform.com)

88 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 71 comments

SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI(deepmind.google)

85 points by jonbaer 1 year ago | 69 comments

University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test(planning.e-psychometrics.com)

81 points by indigodaddy 1 year ago | 143 comments

Lisp interpreter with GC in <750 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)(github.com)

80 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 31 comments

Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale(livescience.com)

77 points by geox 1 year ago | 53 comments

Meta and Yandex Disclosure: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android(localmess.github.io)

75 points by wahnfrieden 1 year ago | 13 comments

Pentagon Docs: US Wants to "Suppress Dissenting Arguments" Using AI Propaganda(theintercept.com)

70 points by Qem 1 year ago | 33 comments

The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular Sex Keeps Dropping(ifstudies.org)

69 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 64 comments

Triangle Grids (2022)(kvachev.com)

67 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 12 comments

Scottish brothers finish mammoth row across Pacific Ocean after 139 days(abc.net.au)

61 points by e2e4 1 year ago | 20 comments

New Huawei 96GB GPU(e.huawei.com)

61 points by elorant 1 year ago | 43 comments

F-Stack – A network development kit with high performance based on DPDK(f-stack.org)

60 points by anon6362 1 year ago | 23 comments

GAO warns of privacy risks in using facial recognition in rental housing(files.gao.gov)

54 points by Improvement 1 year ago | 24 comments

Anduril's product engineering machine(joincolossus.com)

53 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 82 comments

Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired

47 points by usernamed7 1 year ago | 37 comments

Enrollment at trade schools is expected to grow 6.6% a year(finance.yahoo.com)

47 points by m-hodges 1 year ago | 65 comments

Accelerating life sciences research(openai.com)

45 points by oskarpearson 1 year ago | 6 comments

What happens during startup?(eclecticlight.co)

45 points by colinprince 1 year ago | 4 comments

The easy way to make a website with Markdown(github.com)

39 points by dtedesco1 1 year ago | 39 comments

Inside the World of "The Great British Bake Off"(newyorker.com)

38 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 4 comments

Adafruit Fruit Jam – An RP2350 mini computer running classic Macintosh(cnx-software.com)

35 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 5 comments

The space race is transforming Southern California's economy again(latimes.com)

35 points by dangle1 1 year ago | 2 comments

Google Pixel 10 series review(arstechnica.com)

34 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 29 comments

Man declares country in unclaimed pocket of land between Serbia and Croatia(nbcnews.com)

31 points by domofutu 1 year ago | 14 comments

New interpretations suggest the "heat death" hypothesis might not hold (2023)(noemamag.com)

30 points by hhs 1 year ago | 36 comments

Computing simplified coverage polygons(volkerkrause.eu)

29 points by m_rothe 1 year ago | 2 comments

The Middle Earth(historytoday.com)

25 points by Vigier 1 year ago | 3 comments

Acorn and the future of (AI?) theorem proving(lmao.bearblog.dev)

24 points by LolWolf 1 year ago | 1 comments

Amiga Hardware Reference Manual 3rd Edition (1991)(archive.org)

23 points by doener 1 year ago | 6 comments

Sleeper AI agents and how Anthropic detects them [video](youtube.com)

23 points by gidellav 1 year ago | 0 comments

U.S. guided-missile cruiser crosses Panama Canal, warships deployed to Venezuela(cbsnews.com)

23 points by MilnerRoute 1 year ago | 31 comments

I sat down with Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon(everton.xyz)

21 points by evertonmjr 1 year ago | 9 comments

Fun and Immersive Typing Game(keybara.io)

20 points by martyhendricks 1 year ago | 3 comments

The Delusion Machine – What happened when I fed my soul into an LLM(hedgehogreview.com)

20 points by rntn 1 year ago | 10 comments