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Google is killing the open web (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zXw3
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How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos (🔥 Score: 157+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zYwJ
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Chrome intends to remove XSLT from the HTML spec (🔥 Score: 163+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zYfB
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X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls (❄️ Score: 153+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zQbh
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Custom telescope mount using harmonic drives and ESP32 (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zXwH
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UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zXKi
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Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zWwY
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Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger (❄️ Score: 153+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zLFB
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Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU (Score: 152+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zVXs
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OpenMower – An open source lawn mower (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zWAW
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Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zW65
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zW65
I'm Taylor, I spent about a year as a Fractional Head of Product. It was my first time not in a full-time W2 role, and I quickly learned that the hardest part of the job wasn't doing the Product work (I was a PM for 10+ years), it was finding good clients to work with.
So I built Fractional Jobs.
The goal is to help more people break out of W2 life and into their own independent careers by helping them find great clients to work with.
We find and vet the clients, and then engineers can request intros to any that seem like a good fit. We'll make the intro assuming the client opts in after seeing your profile.
We have 9 open engineering roles right now:
- 2x Fractional CTO
- 2x AI engineers
- 3x full-stack
- 1x staff frontend
- 1x mobile
AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zUES
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Paper:
https://nanda.media.mit.edu/ai_report_2025.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20250818145714/https://nanda.media.mit.edu/ai_report_2025.pdf
Obsidian Bases (🔥 Score: 164+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zW8N
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Left to Right Programming (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zVis
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T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zVJD
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Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock (❄️ Score: 157+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zNnd
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Without the futex, it's futile (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zY4v
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Phrack 72 (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zWb6
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How to Build a Medieval Castle (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zX3a
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Lab-grown salmon hits the menu (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zWgr
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Prime Number Grid (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zXhC
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Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zNNe
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Shamelessness as a strategy (2019) (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zWg9
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Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zWwL
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Typechecker Zoo (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zLPv
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Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zWfP
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zWfP
GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire (Score: 156+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zVQw
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zVQw
When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zUfW
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Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zUNt
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Who Invented Backpropagation? (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zUZ5
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