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  • 1 10

    Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts (ntsc.rs)
  • 11 29

    Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot (this.weekinsecurity.com)
  • 2 20

    WoofWare.PawPrint, a Deterministic .NET Runtime (www.patrickstevens.co.uk)
  • 66 149

    Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 1 4

    Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball (ribbie.tv)
  • 7 25

    Summer of '85: DOSBOS is rejected by ANALOG Computing (www.goto10retro.com)
  • 10 40

    You Can Run (magazine.atavist.com)
  • 7 50

    Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk (uonr.github.io)
  • 32 90

    Python JIT project was asked to pause development (discuss.python.org)
  • 27 103

    Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF (su3.io)
  • 5 26

    Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
  • 17 46

    Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM (simonwillison.net)
  • 8 18

    AI didn't break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume (hamishcampbell.com)
  • 36 103

    Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements (www.ft.com)
  • 18 26

    Splash Is a Colour Format (www.todepond.com)
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  • 186 189

    Moving beyond fork() + exec() (lwn.net)
  • 16 42

    Show HN: Soft Body Jiggle Physics (github.com)
  • 62 93

    US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules (www.reuters.com)
  • 2 33

    Tribute to Jiro Yamada, Automotive Artist (1960-2025) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 40 96

    Benchmarks in Leipzig (arxiv.org)
  • 13 58

    Building Rust Procedural Macros from the Grounds Up (www.learnix-os.com)
  • 20 53

    Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers (www.wsj.com)
  • 287 142

    Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs (twitter.com)
  • 56 186

    Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) (pokeemerald.com)
  • 44 56

    The new bibliomaniacs (engelsbergideas.com)
  • 3 9

    Mathematician solves origami donut efficiency challenge with fewest folds (phys.org)
  • 461 307

    Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute (techcrunch.com)
  • 24 64

    Introduction – Rust for Python Programmers (microsoft.github.io)
  • 69 34

    There's still no point in gigabit broadband (shkspr.mobi)
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  • 5 11

    Is anyone here interested in contributing to this OS? (github.com)
  • Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics) (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 2 20

    HISE – Toolkit for building VST plugins (hise.dev)
  • 38 38

    Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? (2014) [pdf] (www.martiehaselton.com)
  • 80 177

    The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy (blog.includesecurity.com)
  • 4 11

    What 100k concurrent sandboxes has taught us so far (www.computesdk.com)
  • 1 6

    Exact UNORM8 to Float (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
  • 46 66

    Azure Linux Desktop (www.boxofcables.dev)
  • 56 118

    Zig Zen Update (codeberg.org)
  • 434 433

    GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS (discuss.grapheneos.org)
  • 2 18

    Raytracing Geometries in 3D Rendering (andeplane.github.io)
  • 0 14

    We shrank our TimescaleDB chunks from 30 days to 7 (tech.wmg.com)
  • 43 117

    Social Cache Busting (www.autodidacts.io)
  • 32 59

    Ten Years of Franz (meetfranz.com)
  • 419 1201

    S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic (arstechnica.com)
  • 9 53

    No Let, No Rec, No Problem: A Gentler Introduction to the Y and Z Combinators (irfanali.org)
  • 48 133

    The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 45 157

    Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight (acoup.blog)
  • 18 75

    Nine Ways to Do Inheritance in Rust, a Language Without Inheritance (medium.com)
  • 34 81

    Lockdown Mode (help.openai.com)
  • 463 272

    Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
  • 204 739

    How LLMs work (www.0xkato.xyz)
  • 7 30

    Alzheimer's patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in drug trial (nypost.com)
  • 5 33

    Europe's largest Copper Age tomb: children's bones show ancient health crisis (phys.org)
  • 22 52

    Nordstjernen 1.0 (github.com)
  • 17 35

    Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised (classic100.gotski.workers.dev)
  • 83 226

    The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024) (salvagedcircuitry.com)
  • 87 142

    The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite (andersmurphy.com)
  • 2 24

    Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction (github.com)
  • 24 26

    Boeing 787 Dreamliner Loses Door at Remote Pacific Airport, Puzzling Engineers (aeroxplorer.com)
  • 3 67

    Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant (disassociated.com)
  • 79 107

    Aging and Eye Problems (ldstephens.net)
  • 77 107

    The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography (www.benthamsgaze.org)
  • 97 179

    Hacker News, Sans AI (elijahpotter.dev)
  • 86 70

    Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made (www.human-made.work)
  • 100 81

    Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers (www.cnbc.com)
  • 117 72

    The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go (superlemon.bearblog.dev)
  • 131 252

    Three of our worst VC stories (twitter.com)
  • 44 125

    Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams) (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 867 485

    Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
  • 40 135

    Transformers are inherently succinct (openreview.net)
  • 55 87

    Do the Hardest Thing (justinjackson.ca)
  • 5 66

    Inside FAISS: Billion-Scale Similarity Search (fremaconsulting.ch)
  • 128 146

    Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump (www.flyingpenguin.com)
  • 100 213

    My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development (www.saturnci.com)
  • 35 94

    "Maybe later" was a feature (arnorhs.dev)
  • 22 27

    Sakana AI's Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab (sakana.ai)
  • 18 38

    Fake Money Built America (mail.blockworks.com)
  • 13 16

    Bullets don't shoot people. So why do cars 'kill' cyclists? (roadragers.netlify.app)
  • 18 21

    SVG of a Hamster Playing Table-Tennis (aibenchy.com)
  • 3 50

    Adyen Selected as Payment Services Provider for GOV.UK Pay (www.adyen.com)
  • 27 18

    Am I Unc? (amiunc.com)
  • 212 542

    Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen (www.theregister.com)
  • 120 386

    Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency (blog.google)
  • 29 69

    Mantine-datatable (and others) compromised – owner account suspended (github.com)
  • 199 472

    New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste (www.rochester.edu)
  • 16 56

    Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices
  • 2 110

    U.S. Military Turned GPS into a Global "Numbers Station" (www.404media.co)
  • 104 455

    pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution (github.com)
  • 5 66

    Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be 'Addictive' (kotaku.com)
  • 250 347

    Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things (sumnerevans.com)
  • 126 144

    Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
  • 10 15

    Good Careers at Bad Companies (sharedphysics.com)
  • 94 278

    Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform (nltimes.nl)
  • 81 288

    I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 109 56

    Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers (fagnerbrack.com)
  • 942 210

    India's surprise baby bust (www.economist.com)
  • 256 416

    Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs (www.bbc.com)
  • 169 79

    New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers (scienceaim.com)
  • 4 4

    Show HN: I benchmarked LLM agents on fixing real-world security vulnerabilities (giovannigatti.github.io)
  • 13 24

    Ad Blocker Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker Works (adblock.turtlecute.org)
  • 43 161

    Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler (blog.rubygems.org)
  • 156 185

    Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other (blog.plover.com)
  • 7 31

    Investigation: Russian censorship systems (TMCT) expose Chinese DPI signatures (freenet.monster)
  • 237 571

    Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows (mouseless.click)
  • 509 491

    Did Claude increase bugs in rsync? (alexispurslane.github.io)
  • 288 217

    Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies (ajph.aphapublications.org)
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  • Nango (YC W23, dev infra) is hiring staff back end engineers (nango.dev)
  • 99 216

    Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements (redis.io)
  • 132 70

    Do we need billionaires? (bjhess.com)
  • 72 143

    Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens (github.com)
  • 64 99

    Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)
  • 2 36

    At the Autograph Show (oldster.substack.com)
  • 55 36

    Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
  • 180 160

    Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023) (www.historytoday.com)
  • 17 35

    Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub (github.com)
  • 215 414

    Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe (arxiv.org)
  • 175 184

    Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 23 115

    databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC driver (columnar.tech)
  • 3 9

    There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes (blog.safia.rocks)
  • 47 200

    ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol (github.com)
  • 546 854

    Changing how we develop Ladybird (ladybird.org)
  • 34 117

    Leap in DNA synthesis slashes time to build new genetic sequences (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 3 24

    Amazon's New Stargate Series Is Officially Dead (screenrant.com)
  • 9 52

    Watching a Z80 from an RP2350 (emalliab.wordpress.com)
  • 2 56

    Linear Cosine Palettes(2025) (blog.djnavarro.net)
  • 46 125

    The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once (isupmap.com)
  • 66 189

    Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995 (passo.uno)
  • 304 412

    C++: The Documentary (herbsutter.com)
  • 0 6

    Pass the Cherries: Review of Twilight of the Dons (literaryreview.co.uk)
  • 72 71

    Dear Microsoft, enough is enough (www.politico.eu)
  • 108 118

    The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America (theintercept.com)
  • 11 65

    Magenta RealTime 2: Open and Local Live Music Models (magenta.withgoogle.com)
  • 12 31

    Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition for Its Smart Glasses to Phones (www.wired.com)
  • 35 41

    SpaceX: Flying High on Impunity (georgiebc.wordpress.com)
  • 10 129

    WiFi Time (mitxela.com)
  • 27 66

    Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored (www.louvre.fr)
  • 1 7

    RAG Without Persona Modeling Fails Patient Clinical Relevance (www.riddhimohan.com)
  • 171 42

    What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants? (www.konichivalue.com)
  • 147 206

    Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux (www.boxofcables.dev)
  • 25 82

    Go Experiments Explained (www.alexedwards.net)
  • 19 43

    CEO to staff: You're not getting a raise. We're spending on AI instead (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 116 162

    The Causes of Long Covid (www.science.org)
  • 3 24

    I made a kernel 2.2x faster. It made my training loop 3x slower (kyrieblunders.bearblog.dev)
  • 509 1033

    SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 145 259

    South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools (discuss.privacyguides.net)
  • 1 17

    Semantic reification: how to generate UB-free code with arbitrary control flow? (github.com)
  • 68 272

    Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool (github.com)
  • 9 22

    Bricks and Minifigs Parts Ways with Franchise Owners (bricksandminifigs.com)
  • 123 300

    Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video] (fb.watch)
  • 13 60

    Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux" (github.com)
  • 12 40

    White House will dump $700M of public funds into costly, unreliable coal again (electrek.co)