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Navy SEALs reportedly killed North Korean fishermen to hide a failed mission (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B8SJ
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Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio (🔥 Score: 156+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B8Nj
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Years ago I stumbled across a basic version of this concept and it stuck with me. I knew if I was ever going to take on such a project, it would need to be flawless, but without coding experience it was just another idea that would never happen. By the end of 2024, as AI coding tools exploded everywhere, I finally had a way to make it real.
I started from zero knowledge and spent months collaborating with AI agents as a learning experience. Every pixel and every function went through me. The AI translated what I asked for into code, but every decision was human. I didn't use existing OS frameworks because the goal was learning how basic coding languages worked while also developing my skills with AI collaboration. Apart from basic libraries like xp.css and paint.js, it's all original code.
The result is a fully functional Windows XP recreation running in your browser. Complete experience with sounds, animations, and working applications. Even works properly on mobile, which required rebuilding everything to maintain the authentic feel without becoming unusable on touchscreens.
This project taught me more about coding and AI collaboration than I ever expected. Would love to hear your thoughts on the execution and any feedback on the technical approach.
Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020) (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B86q
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Cape Station, future home of an enhanced geothermal power plant, in Utah (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B89T
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We Hacked Burger King: How Auth Bypass Led to Drive-Thru Audio Surveillance (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B6Za
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6B6Za
DuckDuckGo founder: AI surveillance should be banned (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B77b
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6B77b
Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B6mR
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Show HN: Open-sourcing our text-to-CAD app (Score: 152+ in 21 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B4rT
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6B4rT
Hey HN! I'm Zach from Adam (https://adam.new/). We’re building an AI co-pilot for mechanical CAD software.
As part of our broader research, we built a browser-based Text-to-CAD app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182206) and are now open sourcing it. This is a React SPA with a Supabase backend.
What it does:
* Generates parametric 3D models from natural language descriptions, with support for both text prompts and image references
* Outputs OpenSCAD code with automatically extracted parameters that surface as interactive sliders for instant dimension tweaking
* Exports as .STL or .SCAD
Under the hood:
* Separate agents for conversation and code generation; simple parameter tweaks bypass AI entirely using deterministic regex-based updates
* Runs fully in-browser by compiling OpenSCAD to WebAssembly and integrating Three.js with React Three Fiber for 3D rendering
* Supports BOSL, BOSL2, MCAD libraries and custom font support (Geist) for text in models
We’ve seen many developers trying to replicate this kind of functionality, so we’re releasing this to give the community a solid foundation to build on.
Future improvements:
* Expand geometry support - Move beyond CSG primitives to support curved surfaces, fillets, lofts, and constraint-driven modeling through CadQuery/Build123D
* Better spatial context - UI for face/edge selection and viewport image integration to give LLMs spatial understanding
* Enhanced capabilities - RAG on documentation and integration with more OpenSCAD libraries for features like proper threading
You can clone the repo and run it locally! Contributions are welcome, and we’ll keep merging PRs as they come in.
Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018) (Score: 151+ in 22 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B43i
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6B43i
Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ASYt
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ASYt
Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B5YU
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Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works) (❄️ Score: 152+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AU24
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The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B5wT
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I kissed comment culture goodbye (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B58p
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I should have loved electrical engineering (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ALvM
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Oldest recorded transaction (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B7dk
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A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B8dD
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Why language models hallucinate (Score: 152+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B6vj
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How the "Kim" dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B7YU
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Qwen3 30B A3B Hits 13 token/s on 4xRaspberry Pi 5 (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B6Lx
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GLM 4.5 with Claude Code (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B5ST
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6B5ST
996 (🔥 Score: 182+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B733
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Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features (🔥 Score: 160+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B6Kh
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6B6Kh
The maths you need to start understanding LLMs (❄️ Score: 153+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ASFh
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Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++ (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AKGv
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6AKGv
Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy (Score: 152+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B5GW
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6B5GW
MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B4gf
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6B4gf
My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4 (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6B4Uf
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Rasterizer: A GPU-accelerated 2D vector graphics engine in ~4k LOC (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ALnt
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ALnt
The Old Robots Web Site (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ANWj
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