Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Tuesday, 4 November 2025

New best story on Hacker News: Mr Tiff

Mr Tiff
379 by speckx | 42 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Things you can do with diodes

Things you can do with diodes
368 by zdw | 106 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: My Truck Desk

My Truck Desk
381 by zdw | 96 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
398 by stillatit | 358 comments on Hacker News.
Just saw the CEO of Substack celebrating traffic from X/Twitter shooting up thinking they stopped suppressing tweets with links[0]. Actually, this traffic is because now any time you open a tweet with a link, the in-app webview loads in the background, and displays when you press the link. I run an ecom store that gets a lot of its customers from Twitter. I was also shocked to see my traffic double or triple overnight and thought the algorithm had blessed me and my business. Soon realized what was actually happening. Thought other traffic-monitors might appreciate this explanation. Meanwhile Nikita Bier is pretending they never suppressed tweets with links to begin with, offering the alternative explanation: "a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach. This is because the web browser covers the post and people forget to Like or Reply. So X doesn't get a clear signal whether the content is any good"[1]. A bit of a rewriting of history since Elon and his mom both tweeted about how it wasn't fair to use his platform to promote other links/platforms, even banning people who shared profiles of other social networks (including Paul Graham for a period). They suppressed all links shortly after. [0] https://ift.tt/f1w5ZRH [1] https://ift.tt/9ZfSn5c

Saturday, 1 November 2025

New best story on Hacker News: Hard Rust requirements from May onward

Hard Rust requirements from May onward
328 by rkta | 578 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop

Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop
319 by threeturn | 179 comments on Hacker News.
Dear Hackers, I’m interested in your real-world workflows for using open-source LLMs and open-source coding assistants on your laptop (not just cloud/enterprise SaaS). Specifically: Which model(s) are you running (e.g., Ollama, LM Studio, or others) and which open-source coding assistant/integration (for example, a VS Code plugin) you’re using? What laptop hardware do you have (CPU, GPU/NPU, memory, whether discrete GPU or integrated, OS) and how it performs for your workflow? What kinds of tasks you use it for (code completion, refactoring, debugging, code review) and how reliable it is (what works well / where it falls short). I'm conducting my own investigation, which I will be happy to share as well when over. Thanks! Andrea.

New best story on Hacker News: Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition

Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition
390 by speckx | 105 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category

Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
335 by dw64 | 146 comments on Hacker News.