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[BUG] Claude says "You're absolutely right!" about everything (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zAWY
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zAWY
The History of Windows XP (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zqZm
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zqZm
Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils (Score: 151+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zy5w
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zy5w
H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zza4
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zza4
WHY2025: How to become your own ISP [video] (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zyTe
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zyTe
We shouldn't have needed lockfiles (❄️ Score: 150+ in 6 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zbZf
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zbZf
Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm (❄️ Score: 152+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zmCk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zmCk
All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computers (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zkkH
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zkkH
Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings (Score: 156+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zyDz
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zyDz
ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 – A hardware hacking tool that speaks every protocol (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6znHj
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6znHj
ESP32 Bus Pirate is an open-source firmware that turns your device into a multi-protocol hacker's tool, inspired by the legendary Bus Pirate.
It supports sniffing, sending, scripting, and interacting with various digital protocols (I2C, UART, 1-Wire, SPI, etc.) via a serial terminal or web-based CLI.
Modes for:
- HiZ (default)
- I2C (scan, glitch, slave mode, dump)
- SPI (flash, sdcard, slave mode)
- UART / Half-Duplex UART (bridge, read, write)
- 1-WIRE (ibutton, temp sensor)
- 2WIRE (smartcard) / 3WIRE (eeprom)
- DIO (Digital I/O, read, pullup, set)
- Infrared (device-b-gone, send and receive)
- USB (HID, mouse, keyboard, gamepad, storage)
- Bluetooth (BLE HID, scan, spoofing, sniffing)
- Wi-Fi (scan, AP, connect, sniff, deauth)
- JTAG (scan pinout, SWD)
- LED control (animations, set LEDs)
- I2S
- CAN
https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bus-Pirate
Fight Chat Control (🔥 Score: 168+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zrHC
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zrHC
Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop (❄️ Score: 152+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6z7JS
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6z7JS
I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C (❄️ Score: 156+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zbcW
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zbcW
Dial-up Internet to be discontinued (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zmyt
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zmyt
Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zfNg
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zfNg
Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6znDp
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6znDp
FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support (🔥 Score: 155+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zBmh
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zBmh
F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6zAJF
On August 7, 2025, a new build problem started hitting many Android apps on F-Droid. Many Android apps on F-Droid have been unable to publish updates if they use Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) 8.12.0 or Gradle 9.0.
The root cause: Google’s new aapt2 binary in AGP 8.12.0 started requiring CPU instructions (SSE4.1, SSSE3) that F-Droid’s build farm hardware doesn’t support. This is similar to a 2021 AGP 4.1.0 issue, but it has returned, and now affects hundreds of apps.
As an example, my open-source app MBCompass hit this issue. I downgraded to AGP 8.11.1 with Gradle 8.13 to make it build, but even then, F-Droid failed due to a baseline profile reproducibility bug in AGP. The only workaround was disabling baseline profiles and pushing yet another release.
This has led to multiple “maintenance” versions in a short time, confusing users and wasting developer time, just to work around infrastructure issues outside the developer’s control.
References:
- F-Droid admin issue: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/593
- Catima example: https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android/issues/2608
- MBCompass case: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/88
Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks (🔥 Score: 152+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zAV9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zAV9
RISC-V single-board computer for less than 40 euros (❄️ Score: 153+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zma4
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zma4
Millau Viaduct (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zeXU
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zeXU
A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008) (❄️ Score: 152+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zmvR
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zmvR
Search all text in New York City (🔥 Score: 158+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zAhA
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zAhA
https://pudding.cool/2025/07/street-view/
36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zum2
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zum2
Zig's Lovely Syntax (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zrxT
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zrxT
Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zmSL
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zmSL
Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6znut
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6znut
For HTML Day 2025 [1], I made a web service that displays the current sky at your approximate location as a CSS gradient. Colours are simulated on-demand using atmospheric absorption and scattering coefficients. Updates every minute, without the use of client-side JavaScript.
Source code and additional information is available on GitHub: https://github.com/dnlzro/horizon
[1] https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html
A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zkp3
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zkp3
Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zhrc
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zhrc
How attention sinks keep language models stable (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ziRy
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ziRy