Hacker News on Saturday, 8 November 2025

Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance(github.com)

497 points by yehiaabdelm 11 months ago | 202 comments

GitHub repository for Valdi, Snapchat's open-sourced cross-platform UI framework using TypeScript that targets native performance on iOS and Android.

Ticker: Don't die of heart disease(myticker.com)

473 points by colelyman 11 months ago | 385 comments

A guide by Jared Hecht titled "Ticker: Don't Die of Heart Disease" on understanding and preventing cardiovascular disease.

I Want You to Understand Chicago(aphyr.com)

466 points by tonyg 11 months ago | 202 comments

A personal essay on aphyr.com by Kyle Kingsbury describing conditions in Chicago, likely concerning federal immigration enforcement operations there.

Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated(oii.ox.ac.uk)

397 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 186 comments

Oxford Internet Institute news item on a study finding that most of 445 LLM benchmarks lack rigorous methods and clear definitions of what they measure.

Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing(marineinsight.com)

369 points by defrost 11 months ago | 245 comments

Marine Insight news article reporting that the world's largest cargo sailboat completed its first transatlantic crossing.

Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel(ironclad-os.org)

358 points by vitalnodo 11 months ago | 121 comments

Homepage of Ironclad, a formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel written in SPARK and Ada with POSIX compatibility and MAC.

Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language(markojs.com)

341 points by ulrischa 11 months ago | 166 comments

Homepage of Marko, a declarative HTML-based language and UI framework for building web apps, with links to getting started docs and GitHub.

The history of Casio watches(casio.com)

297 points by qainsights 11 months ago | 161 comments

My friends and I accidentally faked the Ryzen 7 9700X3D leaks(old.reddit.com)

261 points by djrockstar1 11 months ago | 63 comments

IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act(prestonbyrne.com)

239 points by pinkahd 11 months ago | 288 comments

Apple's "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users(fsfe.org)

223 points by DavideNL 11 months ago | 133 comments

Avería: The Average Font (2011)(iotic.com)

213 points by JoshTriplett 11 months ago | 38 comments

Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta(mullvad.net)

198 points by holysoles 11 months ago | 130 comments

Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface(github.com)

182 points by vismit2000 11 months ago | 107 comments

WriterdeckOS(writerdeckos.com)

177 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 102 comments

Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD(conradresearch.com)

175 points by vermaden 11 months ago | 44 comments

52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history(theregister.com)

165 points by rbanffy 11 months ago | 61 comments

Making Democracy Work: Fixing and Simplifying Egalitarian Paxos(arxiv.org)

164 points by otrack 11 months ago | 48 comments

Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec(cerebras.ai)

164 points by nathabonfim59 11 months ago | 108 comments

Opencloud – An alternative to Nextcloud written in Go(github.com)

158 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 54 comments

Building a high-performance ticketing system with TigerBeetle(renerocks.ai)

144 points by jorangreef 11 months ago | 22 comments

Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list(krebsonsecurity.com)

141 points by jtbayly 11 months ago | 30 comments

Sam Altman's pants are on fire(garymarcus.substack.com)

119 points by toomuchtodo 11 months ago | 49 comments

$1T in Tech Stocks Sold Off as Market Grows Skeptical of AI(gizmodo.com)

110 points by pabs3 11 months ago | 133 comments

Always Be Ready to Leave (Even If You Never Do)(andreacanton.dev)

97 points by andreacanton 11 months ago | 56 comments

Near mid-air collision at LAX between American Airlines and ITA [video](youtube.com)

93 points by goblin89 11 months ago | 63 comments

An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions (1958) [pdf](softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org)

89 points by swatson741 11 months ago | 11 comments

Local First Htmx(elijahm.com)

78 points by srid 11 months ago | 44 comments

US Air Traffic Controllers Start Resigning as Shutdown Bites(thedailybeast.com)

78 points by throw0101a 11 months ago | 100 comments

Zig is so cool, C is cooler(github.com)

76 points by tamnd 11 months ago | 38 comments

Firefox Forcing LLM Features(equk.co.uk)

68 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 68 comments

Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs(downtowndougbrown.com)

68 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 3 comments

Shader Glass(github.com)

67 points by erickhill 11 months ago | 13 comments

Running a 68060 CPU in Quadra 650(github.com)

63 points by zdw 11 months ago | 37 comments

Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads, European human rights rules(cnn.com)

61 points by Bender 11 months ago | 68 comments

What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (2023)(nautil.us)

60 points by simonebrunozzi 11 months ago | 64 comments

Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending Spree(forbes.com)

60 points by rramadass 11 months ago | 50 comments

How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2(arstechnica.com)

51 points by mariuz 11 months ago | 34 comments

Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States(census.gov)

51 points by geox 11 months ago | 38 comments

COBOL to Kotlin via Formal Models (IR and Alloy and Golden Master)(marcoeg.medium.com)

47 points by marcoeg 11 months ago | 14 comments

Driver livestreams on TikTok as she apparently hits and kills man in Chicago(theguardian.com)

46 points by c420 11 months ago | 39 comments

I want you to understand Chicago(aphyr.com)

45 points by Fraterkes 11 months ago | 4 comments

GPT-5-Codex-Mini – A more compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex(github.com)

43 points by wahnfrieden 11 months ago | 29 comments

Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google Analytics tool(arstechnica.com)

42 points by vlod 11 months ago | 11 comments

Transparent computer monitor designed to protect your vision(visualinstruments.co)

39 points by plun9 11 months ago | 44 comments

Disassembling terabytes of random data with Zig and Capstone to prove a point(jstrieb.github.io)

38 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 15 comments

Authorities Shut Down Film Festival in New York(hrw.org)

33 points by ilamont 11 months ago | 5 comments

Humanity's Endgame(noemamag.com)

31 points by marojejian 11 months ago | 23 comments

The Boss Has a Message: Use AI or You're Fired(wsj.com)

27 points by zerosizedweasle 11 months ago | 15 comments

Humans have remote touch 'seventh sense' like sandpipers(techxplore.com)

26 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 11 months ago | 14 comments

A rats to riches story: Larry the Downing Street cat finds place in TV spotlight(theguardian.com)

24 points by zeristor 11 months ago | 9 comments

Why hasn't there been a new major sports league?(humaninvariant.substack.com)

24 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 37 comments

Kagi Small Web(kagi.com)

22 points by stranges 11 months ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Spam classifier in Go using Naive Bayes(github.com)

22 points by igomeza 11 months ago | 3 comments

GPT-OSS 120B Runs at 3000 tokens/sec on Cerebras(cerebras.ai)

20 points by samspenc 11 months ago | 12 comments

I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months) [video](youtube.com)

17 points by weinzierl 11 months ago | 3 comments

Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100%(wildingout.substack.com)

17 points by ripe 11 months ago | 16 comments

The accidental click that changed everything: the Apify origin story(blog.apify.com)

13 points by mooreds 11 months ago | 1 comments

Copy button added to Stack Overflow(meta.stackexchange.com)

13 points by exploraz 11 months ago | 16 comments

Supreme Court temporarily blocks full SNAP benefits even as they'd started to(npr.org)

8 points by manveerc 11 months ago | 0 comments