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    Everything You Need to Know About [California] SB 79 (mnolangray.substack.com)
  • 1 14

    Why are Big Tech companies a threat to human rights? (www.amnesty.org)
  • 1 8

    Tests Show That a Pennsylvania Town's Water Was Contaminated by Fracking (www.sej.org)
  • 9 24

    Wall Street is worried the private credit bubble will burst (www.thetimes.com)
  • 1 13

    Show HN: Baby's First International Landline (wip.tf)
  • 24 45

    Indiana city doesn't have to pay innocent mom $16,000 after police wrecked home (reason.com)
  • 14 16

    Private equity is sitting on $5T of existential dread (www.afr.com)
  • 3 16

    Database Linting and Analysis for PostgreSQL (pglinter.readthedocs.io)
  • 126 109

    Free software hasn't won (dorotac.eu)
  • 43 35

    MAML – a new configuration language (similar to JSON, YAML, and TOML) (maml.dev)
  • 5 27

    3D-Printed Automatic Weather Station (3dpaws.comet.ucar.edu)
  • 212 91

    Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
  • 8 18

    Constraint satisfaction to optimize item selection for bundles in Minecraft (www.robw.fyi)
  • 10 48

    Bird Photographer of the Year Gives a Lesson in Planning and Patience (www.thisiscolossal.com)
  • 3 2

    Trusting builds with Bazel remote execution (jmmv.dev)
  • 49 52

    I audited 47 failed startups' codebases (old.reddit.com)
  • 26 91

    Edge AI for Beginners (github.com)
  • 27 53

    Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice (buttondown.com)
  • 4 10

    I'd like to speak to the Bellcore ManaGeR (www.ninakalinina.com)
  • 8 17

    oavif: Faster target quality image compression (giannirosato.com)
  • 69 69

    A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler (sam-cooper.medium.com)
  • 7 95

    Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP) (xenodium.com)
  • 0 21

    A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs (2018) (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
  • 3 3

    The first interstellar software update: The hack that saved Voyager 1 [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 23 24

    Rcyl – a recycled plastic urban bike (rcyl.bike)
  • 10 15

    AI tools churn out 'workslop', but 'the buck' should stop with bosses (www.theguardian.com)
  • 19 66

    Tiny Teams Playbook (www.latent.space)
  • 304 113

    After the AI boom: what might we be left with? (blog.robbowley.net)
  • 2 34

    HP1345A (and wargames) (2017) (phk.freebsd.dk)
  • 3 49

    Completing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025 (nanochess.org)
  • 35 56

    Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability (anderegg.ca)
  • 1 30

    The neurons that let us see what isn't there (arstechnica.com)
  • 41 90

    Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions (ambisounds.app)
  • 4 23

    Agent Shell 0.5 Improvements (xenodium.com)
  • 46 53

    Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien: Covenant – Contemporary Horror of AI (2020) (www.ejumpcut.org)
  • 115 115

    'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app (www.theguardian.com)
  • 32 53

    Paying AIs to read my books (kk.org)
  • 45 61

    We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB (kuzudb.com)
  • 87 317

    Wireguard FPGA (github.com)
  • 35 28

    I have a GPS bike computer (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 86 127

    In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings −and being skeptical (theconversation.com)
  • 16 111

    GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773) (embracethered.com)
  • 63 177

    How I'm using Helix editor (rushter.com)
  • 93 140

    Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toys (www.nature.com)
  • 50 32

    How to Run WordPress completely from RAM (rickconlee.com)
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    No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive (idiallo.com)
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    Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email (news.itsfoss.com)
  • 3 51

    Show HN: I extracted BASIC listings for Tim Hartnell's 1986 book (github.com)
  • 272 237

    Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models (twitter.com)
  • 4 20

    Apple Introduces $2M Bug Bounty for Spyware-Level Exploits (www.macrumors.com)
  • 5 80

    Konrad Zuse's Helix Tower [pdf] (www.iaarc.org)
  • 69 91

    Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June (www.livescience.com)
  • 72 65

    Django: One ORM to rule all databases (www.paulox.net)
  • 8 21

    A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths (www.wired.com)
  • 14 146

    Loko Scheme: bare metal optimizing Scheme compiler (scheme.fail)
  • 126 131

    Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients (www.researchsquare.com)
  • 107 127

    Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 82 118

    Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification (snarky.ca)
  • 61 114

    Nostr and ATProto (2024) (shreyanjain.net)
  • 60 372

    Macro Splats 2025 (danybittel.ch)
  • 35 82

    C++ Reflection and Qt MOC (wiki.qt.io)
  • 43 189

    AdapTive-LeArning Speculator System (ATLAS): Faster LLM inference (www.together.ai)
  • 3 7

    Blossom – Heroku-like deploys on your servers; cheaper, no lock-in (www.blossom88.com)
  • 80 41

    CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIs (www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com)
  • 47 129

    Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook (github.com)
  • 3 13

    Floating Electrons on a Sea of Helium (arstechnica.com)
  • 53 54

    Show HN: Sober not Sorry – free iOS tracker to help you quit bad habits (sobernotsorry.app)
  • 26 119

    The Flummoxagon (n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com)
  • 96 143

    The App Store was always authoritarian (infrequently.org)
  • 23 102

    Show HN: A Lisp Interpreter for Shell Scripting (github.com)
  • 35 153

    Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18) (postgresql.verite.pro)
  • 50 128

    I/O Multiplexing (select vs. poll vs. epoll/kqueue) (nima101.github.io)
  • 6 24

    Major security breach at Austrian AI startup localmind.ai (localmind.ai)
  • 94 146

    Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors (techcrunch.com)
  • 8 40

    Coral Protocol: Open infrastructure connecting the internet of agents (arxiv.org)
  • 27 186

    CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code (www.legitsecurity.com)
  • 44 57

    How Kyoto, Japan Became the Loveliest Tourist-Trap (nymag.com)
  • 17 46

    Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid (chicago.suntimes.com)
  • 3 7

    Weird Operators in PHP (www.exakat.io)
  • 62 131

    The World's 2.75B Buildings (tech.marksblogg.com)
  • 198 145

    Heroin addicts often seem normal (justismills.substack.com)
  • 107 354

    Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024) (github.com)
  • 3 12

    Show HN: Solving the cluster 1 problem with vCluster standalone (www.vcluster.com)
  • 219 199

    China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains (www.csis.org)
  • 107 194

    Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS (github.com)
  • 24 85

    Paper2video: Automatic video generation from scientific papers (arxiv.org)
  • 69 54

    Is Odin just a more boring C? (dayvster.com)
  • 1 8

    Immutable Value (kevlinhenney.medium.com)
  • 11 51

    The story of X-Copy on the Amiga (spillhistorie.no)
  • 66 133

    Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf] (scamcouver.wordpress.com)
  • 48 56

    US moves to cancel one of the largest solar farms (www.ft.com)
  • 92 196

    Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere (www.androidauthority.com)
  • 45 63

    We Found a Hidden Camera in the Bathroom of Our Airbnb (www.nytimes.com)
  • 157 306

    LineageOS 23 (lineageos.org)