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DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vyYj
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyYj
EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vgAq
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vgAq
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994) (Score: 151+ in 22 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vvBm
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Show HN: AirAP AirPlay server - AirPlay to an iOS Device (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vyaQ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyaQ
I made AirAP because I wanted a simple way to play sound from my Mac Mini when my speaker broke. But it’s got a ton of other uses too, like testing how audio sounds like on different devices, or repurposing old wired speakers.
This was incredibly fun to make - can’t wait for you all to see it!
Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored (🔥 Score: 161+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vyqF
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyqF
Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians' (Score: 155+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vwKH
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vwKH
Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vur5
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vur5
Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vwBL
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Ukraine's autonomous killer drones defeat electronic warfare (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vwq4
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vwq4
GUIs are built at least 2.5 times (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vneF
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vvAq
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Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vw52
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Japanese scientists develop artificial blood compatible with all blood types (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vuJE
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HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vgJB
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When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide (❄️ Score: 151+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vhUH
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Precious Plastic is in trouble (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vyF7
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Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window" (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vyHt
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Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017) (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vn29
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Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vwyw
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Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vxwG
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Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair? (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6vmY2
In my country, 2 decades ago there are were plenty of people who knew the basics. Today, it feels like a lost art.
I would like to approach it as a hobby, not like electronic engineer level, but enough to debug problem and change components to a low level.
What is the pragmatic approach in this mission? I reckon it will be valuable in the future that comes.
(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vxmX
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How to Store Data on Paper? (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vn67
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Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways (Score: 152+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vunZ
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Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers (🔥 Score: 164+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vwyd
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EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal (🔥 Score: 155+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vweG
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Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? (Score: 151+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vsUp
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Show HN: I build one absurd web project every month (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vupD
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vupD
I’ve been building absurd, mostly useless web projects for fun — and I publish one every month at absurd.website.
These are deliberately non-functional, weird, sometimes funny, sometimes philosophical — and usually totally unnecessary.
Some examples:
Sexy Math — solve math problems to reveal erotic images.
Trip to Mars — a real-time simulation that takes 7 months to finish.
Add Luck to Your e-Store — add a waving cat widget to boost your conversion via superstition.
Microtasks for Meatbags — the future: AI gives prompts, humans execute.
Invisible Lingerie — it’s sexy. And invisible.
Artist Death Tracker — art prices spike when artists die. We track that.
Open Celebrity — one open-source face, shared by all. Together we make her famous.
I just enjoy exploring what the web can be when it doesn’t try to be “useful”.
Would love to hear what you think — and absurd ideas are always welcome.
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts (🔥 Score: 169+ in 40 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vuC9
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Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project) (Score: 156+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vtz8
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vtz8
Hi everyone,
I recently published a small open-source project. It’s a minimal network packet analyzer written in Go — designed more like a learning toy than a replacement for Wireshark.
It currently supports parsing basic protocols like TLS, DNS, and HTTP, and includes a tiny fuzzing engine to test payload responses. You can inspect raw packet content directly from the terminal. The output is colored for readability, and the code structure is kept simple and clear.
The entire program is very small — just about 400 lines of Go code. I know it’s not anywhere near Wireshark’s level, and I still use Wireshark myself for real-world analysis. But I built it as a personal experiment in network parsing and to understand protocol behavior more directly.
If you're curious or would like to try it out, the project is here:
https://github.com/lixiasky/vanta
I'm happy to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or critiques. It’s just a little network toy, but maybe someone out there finds it useful or fun.
Thanks for reading!