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  • 12 17

    There should be no Computer Art (1971) (dam.org)
  • 4 36

    Implementing a Forth (ratfactor.com)
  • 6 15

    Plutonium Mountain: The 17-year mission to guard remains of Soviet nuclear tests (www.belfercenter.org)
  • 99 186

    EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal (old.reddit.com)
  • 2 11

    The Shape of the Essay Field (paulgraham.com)
  • 0 17

    Fun with Futex (blog.fredrb.com)
  • 26 24

    Rsync's defaults are not always enough (rachelbythebay.com)
  • 47 37

    Stop Over-Thinking AI Subscriptions (steipete.me)
  • 2 13

    Ubicloud: Open-Source Alternative to AWS (github.com)
  • 11 18

    The Creepy, Surprisingly Routine Business of Animal Cloning (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 21 16

    Ask HN: Cloud vs. Edge Computing–Why Choose a Local NAS?
  • 0 22

    A High-Level View of TLA+ (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
  • 81 190

    Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system (github.com)
  • 10 64

    A Complete Guide to Meta Prompting (www.prompthub.us)
  • Demodesk (YC W19) Is Hiring Rails Engineers (demodesk.com)
  • 51 45

    Poison Pill: Is the killer behind 1982 Tylenol poisonings still on the loose? (www.trulyadventure.us)
  • 27 69

    Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017) (shot97retro.blogspot.com)
  • 56 86

    GUIs are built at least 2.5 times (patricia.no)
  • 31 65

    The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994) (localroger.com)
  • 3 28

    Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface (worrydream.com)
  • 30 34

    Britain's biggest companies are preparing for a third world war (www.telegraph.co.uk)
  • 96 141

    AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder (resobscura.substack.com)
  • 14 26

    Naked billboard that shocked the establishment – blazed a trail in the art world (www.bbc.com)
  • 94 72

    IT workers struggling in New Zealand's tight job market (www.rnz.co.nz)
  • 5 50

    Largest punk archive to find new home at MTSU's Center for Popular Music (mtsunews.com)
  • 12 13

    Apple Appeals EU's March Ruling on 'Interoperability' Requirements Under the DMA (daringfireball.net)
  • 26 65

    GenAI Is Our Polyester (culture.ghost.io)
  • 37 108

    How to Store Data on Paper? (www.monperrus.net)
  • 28 75

    MonsterUI: Python library for building front end UIs quickly in FastHTML apps (www.answer.ai)
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  • 77 118

    Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?
  • 1 7

    The Atari ST, Everyone's Second Favourite 16-Bit Home Computer, Turns 40 (www.timeextension.com)
  • 10 44

    Teaching Program Verification in Dafny at Amazon (2023) (dafny.org)
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  • 34 81

    Conformance checking at MongoDB: Testing that our code matches our TLA+ specs (www.mongodb.com)
  • 46 213

    Japanese scientists develop artificial blood compatible with all blood types (www.tokyoweekender.com)
  • 1953 1558

    My AI skeptic friends are all nuts (fly.io)
  • 59 142

    Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M (www.wsj.com)
  • 48 226

    Show HN: I build one absurd web project every month (absurd.website)
  • 195 144

    Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways (balaji-amg.surge.sh)
  • 250 111

    Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? (www.rte.ie)
  • 5 77

    Decorative Text Within HTML (shkspr.mobi)
  • 24 118

    CVE 2025 31200 (blog.noahhw.dev)
  • 149 122

    The Unreliability of LLMs and What Lies Ahead (verissimo.substack.com)
  • 71 68

    Disaster awaits if we don't secure IoT now (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 3 28

    Jemalloc Repositories Are Archived (github.com)
  • Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 6 28

    Taurine Revisited (www.science.org)
  • 27 54

    Arcol simplifies building design with browser-based modeling (www.arcol.io)
  • 110 114

    Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests (www.theguardian.com)
  • 33 57

    War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America (www.historytoday.com)
  • 299 118

    Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)
  • 317 313

    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
  • 71 142

    Show HN: Penny-1.7B Irish Penny Journal style transfer (huggingface.co)
  • 1 42

    Mesh Edge Construction (maxliani.wordpress.com)
  • 69 227

    Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project) (github.com)
  • 6 49

    Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993) (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
  • 14 50

    Reducing Cargo target directory size with -Zno-embed-metadata (kobzol.github.io)
  • 40 131

    ThorVG: Super Lightweight Vector Graphics Engine (www.thorvg.org)
  • 379 607

    Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts (github.com)
  • 1 35

    A Hidden Weakness (serge-sans-paille.github.io)
  • 5 10

    IE6, AI, and the future of browsing the Web (agenticweb.substack.com)
  • 59 44

    Bohemians at the Gate? (inferencemagazine.substack.com)
  • 42 77

    After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine Is No More (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
  • 9 31

    Google DMARC Policy Changes?
  • 88 343

    Ask HN: How do I learn robotics in 2025?
  • 100 51

    Ask HN: What do you spend your money on?
  • 26 75

    The Atomic Airplane (whatisnuclear.com)
  • 6 33

    Our production Ruby on Rails stack (attendlist.com)
  • 53 51

    Show HN: Fast Random Library for C++17 (github.com)
  • 55 58

    Cuss: Map of profane words to a rating of sureness (github.com)
  • 12 67

    Beyond the Black Box: Interpretability of LLMs in Finance (arxiv.org)
  • 289 153

    Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? (shkspr.mobi)
  • 1 9

    Pianocorder (2022) (www.pianocorder.info)
  • 194 422

    Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello (github.com)
  • 120 109

    TradeExpert, a trading framework that employs Mixture of Expert LLMs (arxiv.org)
  • 1 28

    Awesome-ArXiv: curated tools for discovering and working with ArXiv papers (github.com)
  • 124 76

    Computer science has one of the highest unemployment rates (www.newsweek.com)
  • 46 142

    EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio (easytier.cn)
  • 27 96

    ReasoningGym: Reasoning Environments for RL with Verifiable Rewards (arxiv.org)
  • 4 15

    Understanding Consistency in Databases: Beyond the Basics (medium.com)
  • 2 55

    Yet another tmux cheat sheet (tmuxai.dev)
  • 12 45

    Show HN: System Prompt Learning – LLMs Learn Problem-Solving from Experience
  • 339 782

    If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued (betterthanrandom.substack.com)
  • 13 47

    Show HN: I built an AI Agent that uses the iPhone (github.com)
  • 12 35

    Hip: C++ Heterogeneous-Compute Interface for Portability (github.com)
  • 45 23

    AI-first – We're just 6 months away from AGI (revontulet.dev)
  • 45 74

    A man who sailed round the world with a chicken (2019) (www.theguardian.com)
  • 53 54

    Is It JavaScript? (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
  • 16 25

    Rethinking PostgreSQL Storage (www.ubicloud.com)
  • 11 27

    Revisiting Loop Recognition in C++ in Rust (blomqu.ist)
  • 85 60

    Euro execs mull use of US clouds (www.theregister.com)
  • 102 32

    0.9999 ≊ 1 (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 42 117

    How reliable are MicroSD cards? (old.reddit.com)
  • 35 68

    In POSIX, you can theoretically use inode zero (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 121 86

    Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film? (www.newyorker.com)
  • 12 21

    Rolldown-Vite: a Rust-Rewrite of Rollup (voidzero.dev)
  • 46 42

    Gabon longs to cash in on sacred hallucinogenic remedy (phys.org)
  • 235 579

    How to post when no one is reading (www.jeetmehta.com)
  • 14 72

    LFSR CPU Running Forth (github.com)
  • 153 243

    The rise of judgement over technical skill (notsocommonthoughts.com)
  • 19 70

    Show HN: Agno – A full-stack framework for building Multi-Agent Systems (github.com)
  • 6 39

    The Zach Attack Scratch 'N Solve Puzzle Pack (coincidence.games)
  • 34 61

    Show HN: MBCompass – Android Compass App (github.com)
  • 44 62

    How can AI researchers save energy? By going backward (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 67 74

    Writing your own C++ standard library part 2 (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
  • 15 65

    Show HN: Moon Phase Algorithms for C, Lua, Awk, JavaScript, etc. (github.com)
  • 15 58

    TPDE: A Fast Adaptable Compiler Back-End Framework (arxiv.org)
  • 1 7

    Exponential Functions and Euler's Formula (www.deaneyang.com)
  • 4 12

    Not Everything Is on the Internet (2024) (www.bruh.ltd)
  • 11 20

    Silicon Valley wants to help me make a superbaby (sfstandard.com)
  • 136 339

    I made a chair (milofultz.com)
  • 37 137

    The Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code (esoteric.codes)
  • 22 13

    I Miss My Fan Regulator (rishikeshs.com)
  • 0 7

    Ru and W isotope systematics in ocean island basalts reveals core leakage (www.nature.com)
  • 48 157

    HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux (www.heidisql.com)
  • 66 133

    What works (and doesn't) selling formal methods (www.galois.com)