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@betterhn20

Tweeting Hacker News stories as soon as they reach 20 points. Younger sibling of @betterhn50, @betterhn300

Joined September 2020

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Show HN: TheProtector – Linux Bash script for the paranoid admin on a budget github.com/IHATEGIVINGAUS… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446624…)

betterhn20's tweet card. Linux Bash Script for the Paranoid Admin on a Budget - real-time monitoring and active threat response - IHATEGIVINGAUSERNAME/theProtector

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 2 h

Alphabet 2025 Q2 Earnings Release [pdf] abc.xyz/assets/cc/27/3… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446635…)

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AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/res… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446632…)

betterhn20's tweet card. The Pew Research Center analysis shows how hard AI is hitting web traffic.

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 3 h

It's Time to Take on the Male Malaise persuasion.community/p/its-time-to-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446620…)

betterhn20's tweet card. In a podcast, the Obamas offer a productive framing for the men’s crisis.

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 3 h

AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API developer.accuweather.com/new-portal (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446630…)

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Justice Dept. Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files wsj.com/politics/justi… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446629…)

betterhn20's tweet card. Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect...

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 3 h

Major Rule About Cooking Meat Turns Out to Be Wrong seriouseats.com/meat-resting-s… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446627…)

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 3 h

How to increase your surface area for luck usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-incre… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446626…)

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 3 h

Employee – CEO pay gap historically wide cnn.com/2025/07/23/bus… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446625…)

betterhn20's tweet card. The pay gap between America’s corporate leaders and their workers grew even larger in 2024, according to the AFL-CIO’s annual Executive Paywatch report, released Wednesday.

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 3 h

UdeM researchers confirm a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59 nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/202… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446618…)

betterhn20's tweet card. A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away.

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 3 h

Hyperpb: 10x faster dynamic Protobuf parsing that's faster than generated code buf.build/blog/hyperpb (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446617…)

betterhn20's tweet card. Today we’re announcing public availability of hyperpb, a fully-dynamic Protobuf parser that is 10x faster than dynamicpb, the standard Go solution for dynamic Protobuf. In fact, it’s so efficient...

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 3 h

FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models machinelearning.apple.com/research/fast-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446615…)

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 5 h

Cara – High Precision Robot Dog Using Rope aaedmusa.com/projects/cara (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446618…)

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 5 h

The Promised LAN tpl.house (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446616…)

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 5 h

US AI Action Plan ai.gov/action-plan (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446603…)

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 6 h

Show HN: The missing link of a bookstore's tech stack bookhead.net (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446607…)

betterhn20's tweet card. We provide e-commerce and inventory software for independent booksellers. We also help with technology, design, and marketing.

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 6 h

San Francisco to ban homeless people from living in RVs with new parking limit abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/s… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446604…)

betterhn20's tweet card. San Francisco is set to ban homeless people from living in RVs with a new citywide parking limit of two hours on large vehicles

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 6 h

AI Friend Apps Are Destroying What's Left of Society currentaffairs.org/news/ai-friend… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446608…)

betterhn20's tweet card. As they become increasingly isolated, people are treating AI chatbots as friends and even lovers. We have to fix the broken society that made this possible.

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 7 h

You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed zed.dev/blog/disable-a… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446605…)

betterhn20's tweet card. From the Zed Blog: If you don’t want AI in your workflow, it won’t be there.

Hacker News 20@betterhn20 · 7 h

Reverse Engineering the GHA Cache to Improve Performance (2024) depot.dev/blog/github-ac… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446600…)

betterhn20's tweet card. Here's how Depot reverse-engineered the GitHub Actions cache and built our own GitHub Actions Runners to achieve a 10x improvement in cache speed.