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George Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

https://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/page/2/
55•bookofjoe•1h ago•27 comments

Measuring the Impact of AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
286•dheerajvs•3h ago•161 comments

Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/retail-cyber-attacks-nca-arrest-four-for-attacks-on-m-s-co-op-and-harrods
31•sandwichsphinx•2h ago•8 comments

Graphical Linear Algebra

https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/
64•hyperbrainer•3h ago•3 comments

Launch HN: Leaping (YC W25) – Self-Improving Voice AI

22•akyshnik•2h ago•10 comments

Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes?

https://simedw.com/2025/07/10/gemini-bounding-boxes/
216•simedw•7h ago•49 comments

Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language

https://flix.dev/
139•freilanzer•5h ago•72 comments

Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide

https://stylepedia.net/style/
76•jumpocelot•4h ago•32 comments

Bret Victor on why current trend of AIs is at odds with his work

https://dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/#What_is_Realtalks_relationship_to_AI
42•prathyvsh•4h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones

7•HenryNdubuaku•28m ago•0 comments

FOKS: The Federated Open Key Service

https://foks.pub/
62•ubj•7h ago•15 comments

Bear-Sized Giant Beavers Once Roamed North America

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bear-sized-giant-beaver-once-roamed-north-america-and-theyre-now-the-official-state-fossil-of-minnesota-180986937/
11•noleary•2d ago•13 comments

Millions of Cars Exposed to Remote Hacking via PerfektBlue Attack

https://www.securityweek.com/millions-of-cars-exposed-to-remote-hacking-via-perfektblue-attack/
33•Bender•1h ago•7 comments

Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter
47•mihau•6h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Typeform was too expensive so I built my own forms

https://www.ikiform.com/
147•preetsuthar17•10h ago•76 comments

Regarding Prollyferation: Followup to "People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees"

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2025-07-03-regarding-prollyferation/
5•ingve•2d ago•0 comments

US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data centre demand booms

https://www.ft.com/content/c5f20c78-7931-492f-9153-675f3046e245
56•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•48 comments

Belkin ending support for older Wemo products

https://www.belkin.com/support-article/?articleNum=335419
8•apparent•1h ago•7 comments

Optimizing a Math Expression Parser in Rust

https://rpallas.xyz/math-parser/
112•serial_dev•10h ago•51 comments

Show HN: asyncmcp – Run MCP over async transport via AWS SNS+SQS

https://github.com/bh-rat/asyncmcp
13•bharatgel•2h ago•0 comments

EU rules ask tech giants to publicly track how, when AI models go off the rails

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/everything-tech-giants-will-hate-about-the-eus-new-ai-rules/
28•rntn•1h ago•20 comments

Show HN: CXXStateTree – A modern C++ library for hierarchical state machines

https://github.com/ZigRazor/CXXStateTree
20•zigrazor•3d ago•8 comments

Bitchat - P2P Chat on Bluetooth (no Internet, phone number, etc.)

https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat
5•fitzn•1h ago•1 comments

Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough

https://apnews.com/article/tidal-energy-turbine-marine-meygen-scotland-ffff3a7082205b33b612a1417e1ec6d6
108•djoldman•5h ago•98 comments

How to prove false statements: Practical attacks on Fiat-Shamir

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-figure-out-how-to-prove-lies-20250709/
181•nsoonhui•10h ago•143 comments

Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines

https://camelai.com/blog/hn-database-hype/
66•vercantez•2d ago•42 comments

Automatically Packaging a Haskell Library as a Swift Binary XCFramework

https://alt-romes.github.io/posts/2025-07-05-packaging-a-haskell-library-as-a-swift-binary-xcframework.html
30•Bogdanp•3d ago•0 comments

Mini robots detect and fix water pipe leaks without digging

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/mini-robots-detect-fix-water-pipe-leaks-without-digging
76•Bluestein•2d ago•52 comments

A Typology of Canadianisms

https://dchp.arts.ubc.ca/how-to-use
238•gnabgib•21h ago•290 comments

The death of partying in the USA

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-partying-in-the-usaand
283•tysone•23h ago•508 comments
Open in hackernews

Matt Trout has died

https://www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/ripples-they-cause-in-the-world/
73•todsacerdoti•12h ago

Comments

rwmj•11h ago
Couldn't we have a one sentence description of what "shadowcat" is? (The main website is also down at the moment.)
sebmellen•11h ago
> Shadowcat Systems is an open source software developer and software consultancy provider based in the UK but accustomed to operating worldwide via electronic communications.

> We offer proven expertise in development of networked systems and reliably automating manual processes from business workflow to systems and network management. Shadowcat is committed to Open Source technology and specialises in working with Open Source Software and open standards and protocols. Shadowcat also contributes back to the community with patches, scripts and occasionally full packages.

detaro•11h ago
Maybe more relevant, Matt was a big deal in the Perl community.
ether_at_cpan•2h ago
In his bio he has the most succinct and accurate description of Perl that I've ever seen:

> Perl is a wonderful language once you get over the fact that a slightly quirky set of syntax and embedded regular expressions have a tendency to make it look like line noise in the wrong light. Once you're used to it, it's a hell of an expressive dynamically typed language with a huge set of libraries and classes available for it.

the_precipice•1h ago
not really, but he liked to claim that he was. he was best known for earning a lifetime ban from Perl conferences due to his anti-semitism. so, a "big deal" in some sense I guess?
petesergeant•1h ago
> due to his anti-semitism

It is beyond intellectually dishonest to not put this in context; you've linked elsewhere in this thread to Ovid's obituary, from which I'll quote:

> Third, he wasn’t a bigot. Far from it. He stood up for LGBQT+ rights. He didn’t care about your ethnicity, religion, or national origin. He was accused of philosemitic antisemitism[0], but while he admitted to me that he had hurt someone, he was bewildered by it. He thought he was making a joke; the person hearing it (someone else who I also respect) heard bigotry. For the record, I don’t think Matt was antisemitic, but I realize that this is such an emotionally-charged topic, that some will disagree.

0: https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/philosemitism

petesergeant•11h ago
alt title: Matt Trout (mst) -- prominent Perl developer -- has died aged 42

Matt Trout (mst) was a very big deal in the Perl 5 community, although he was a deeply polarizing figure. He was a big contributor to many Modern Perl projects. I am personally very sad he's dead. I enjoyed the time I spent with him in person, and always found him personally supportive, encouraging, and helpful, although it would be remiss to not mention that a good section of other people found him a very difficult character on many levels.

He wasn't a particularly heavy HN user, but here he is: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mst

kleiba•11h ago
For someone not up-to-date with the Perl community, could you elaborate why Matt was considered a deeply polarizing figure, please?
petesergeant•10h ago
He would have been happy to tell you himself that he had some rough edges, would speak his mind unvarnished, and would hold strongly onto his own opinions of what he thought was right.
ChrisMarshallNY•10h ago
That sounds like half this community. I suspect the issue is what those opinions were.

I did not know him at all, have no opinion on him, and sincerely wish the best for those he left behind.

petesergeant•2h ago
> the issue is what those opinions were

Rarely, in fact.

xdfgh1112•6h ago
He was pretty mean to people on irc. If you didn't immediately understand what he said he'd verbally barrage you. Then again the whole perl irc community was pretty toxic.
ether_at_cpan•2h ago
He "did not suffer fools gladly"
the_precipice•1h ago
he was a mean spirited autistic alcoholic. he had just a couple of real life friends. he passed away sometime in mid June and his corpse wasn't discovered until this week. for all the talk of his talent and personality the truth is he died penniless and alone.
layer8•11h ago
https://trout.me.uk/
tunnuz•11h ago
Sad news :(
kubb•10h ago
42 :( it’s way too young - pisses me of when people spend days, months years of our time for their own benefit like it’s nothing
_rpf•9h ago
Super sad to see this. I worked with Matt around 2004.

Super smart kid, very nice to work with. I ended up supporting one of the systems he built (in Perl). I used his Cataylst Perl framework for some projects after that because of him.

martinclayton•9h ago
I use Catalyst quite a lot - have been working on a new thing this morning.

Thanks, Matt, the ripples will go on for a good while.

rurban•8h ago
You died way too young, my dear friend!
xena•8h ago
mst is the reason I know some Perl and also managed to get me a Perl group cloak on Liberachat. I will miss him dearly. I've added him to the list of X-Clacks-Overhead responses on my blog.
kodzoman•8h ago
I've met Matt on several occasions, and while he was a challenging character, he was also full of life and ideas, and an inspiration. He was a genius in an old-school, no-compromise way. I have been away from Perl for a long time, but some of my best memories and some of the most intelligent conversations took place while with MST and the rest of that amazing community. Fly high.
IncandescentGas•4h ago
RIP mst and thanks for all the fish. DBIx::Class and Catalyst are still a core part of how I pay the bills.
ether_at_cpan•2h ago
This is very sad news.

As I said on irc:

He brought many people into the community, and encouraged their growth (like me)

I popped into the scene by sending a few Moose patches and then coming onto irc displaying an utter lack of understanding of anything

Matt set me straight, and encouraged me to send more patches and I ended up as the manager for Moose

and then inherited the ownership of literally hundreds (perhaps thousands by now) distributions

that work helped me move from being mediocre at my job to being stellar, and enabled me to move on to much better jobs

the_precipice•1h ago
Here is a far more balanced view of the recently deceased. https://curtispoe.org/blog/rip-mst.html
moltar•38m ago
Eh remember him from IRC days