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  • 3 23

    Anthropic disabled my account after payment cancer patient/medical data trapped
  • 0 5

    Gladys West's vital contributions to GPS technology (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 4 16

    A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth (bitchat.free)
  • 4 11

    My thoughts on Gas Town after 10k hours of Claude Code (simonhartcher.com)
  • 2 10

    Show HN: Intent Layer: A context engineering skill for AI agents (www.railly.dev)
  • 54 105

    Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end) (pdfwithlove.netlify.app)
  • 0 8

    Experiments with Kafka's head-of-line blocking (2023) (www.artur-rodrigues.com)
  • 6 16

    Show HN: AWS-doctor – A terminal-based AWS health check and cost optimizer in Go (github.com)
  • 3 26

    Ultrathink is deprecated & How to enable 2x thinking tokens in Claude Code (decodeclaude.com)
  • 4 21

    Simulating the Ladybug Clock Puzzle (austinhenley.com)
  • 7 33

    All your OpenCodes belong to us (johncodes.com)
  • 4 18

    Astrophotography visibility plotting and planning tool (airmass.org)
  • 18 49

    CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod (www.patreon.com)
  • 29 51

    The Code-Only Agent (rijnard.com)
  • 64 97

    High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 21 (www.bbc.com)
  • 16 57

    AVX-512: First Impressions on Performance and Programmability (shihab-shahriar.github.io)
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    The space and motion of communicating agents (2008) [pdf] (www.cl.cam.ac.uk)
  • 45 116

    Provide agents with automated feedback (banay.me)
  • 0 22

    Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations (xnacly.me)
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  • 184 160

    Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro (gamesbymason.com)
  • 52 78

    Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back (calquio.com)
  • 46 79

    Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience (git.qt.io)
  • 100 114

    Gas Town Decoded (www.alilleybrinker.com)
  • 70 351

    Wine 11.0 (gitlab.winehq.org)
  • 5 20

    Simple GIS on Potato (github.com)
  • 55 42

    60% of Legal Searches Now End Without a Click (talk24.ai)
  • 2 16

    EU plans to retaliate on Greenland tariffs (www.spiegel.de)
  • 96 120

    Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss (getdock.io)
  • 22 72

    Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine (beats.lasagna.pizza)
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  • 296 254

    Dead Internet Theory (kudmitry.com)
  • 6 19

    Show HN: Run LLMs in Docker for any language without prebuilding containers (github.com)
  • 86 302

    Police Invested Millions in Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software Won't Say How Used (www.texasobserver.org)
  • 16 17

    Iran's state broadcaster IRIB was hacked to air a message from Reza Pahlavi (twitter.com)
  • 3 45

    Cardputer uLisp Machine (2024) (www.ulisp.com)
  • 11 32

    Stirling Cycle Machine Analysis (ohioopen.library.ohio.edu)
  • 7 46

    Microslop: A Web Browser Extension (github.com)
  • 92 109

    Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 6 14

    River Runner (river-runner.samlearner.com)
  • 47 77

    Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026 (www.cnn.com)
  • 0 9

    Evolution Unleashed (2018) (aeon.co)
  • 6 78

    Breaking the Zimmermann Telegram (2018) (medium.com)
  • 0 25

    Multiword matrix multiplication over large finite fields in floating-point (arxiv.org)
  • 1 15

    Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability (2023) (web.archive.org)
  • 113 317

    Flux 2 Klein pure C inference (github.com)
  • 22 63

    Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine (github.com)
  • 33 120

    Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup (cua.ai)
  • 4 32

    Show HN: HTTP:COLON – A quick HTTP header/directive inspector and reference (httpcolon.dev)
  • 9 20

    A pandemic rescue became a 30-year debt trap (thehill.com)
  • 210 191

    Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling (www.msn.com)
  • 69 142

    Sins of the Children (asteriskmag.com)
  • 28 72

    How the Lobsters front page works (atharvaraykar.com)
  • 2 8

    Design systems and shareable browser support (medium.com)
  • 183 593

    Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video (radiancefields.com)
  • 82 205

    Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK (www.bundesregierung.de)
  • 34 63

    Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source (optimizedbyotto.com)
  • 10 62

    Overlapping Markup (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 156 376

    A Social Filesystem (overreacted.io)
  • 218 288

    The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable (www.nobelpeaceprize.org)
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  • 127 161

    The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar (opensourcesecurity.io)
  • 66 57

    Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students in unwritten policy (www.science.org)
  • 474 474

    Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK (www.presidentti.fi)
  • 12 6

    Ask HN: Does PPP (Parity Pricing) work for one-time digital products? (apmcommunication.com)
  • 67 28

    Why the Tech World Thinks the American Dream Is Dying (www.wsj.com)
  • 81 90

    AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage (www.theguardian.com)
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  • 36 84

    More sustainable epoxy thanks to phosphorus (www.empa.ch)
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  • 3 21

    The Harvesting of Lettuce (sftw.substack.com)
  • 470 534

    Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy (ossa-ma.github.io)
  • 218 186

    Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills (www.qu8n.com)
  • 5 22

    Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations (xnacly.me)
  • 97 57

    The guide to real-world EV battery health (www.geotab.com)
  • 95 172

    What is Plan 9? (fqa.9front.org)
  • 36 101

    Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents (github.com)
  • 40 193

    A free and open-source rootkit for Linux (lwn.net)
  • 74 131

    Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16 (www.cnx-software.com)
  • 2 34

    When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (2006) (craphound.com)
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    Stop calling it vibe coding (davekiss.com)
  • 50 127

    Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer (www.tuned.org.uk)
  • Keystone (YC S25) Is Hiring
  • 43 85

    Pentagon readies 1,500 troops to possibly deploy to Minnesota, US media say (www.reuters.com)
  • 3 19

    Too Many Walts and not enough Roys (bobbylox.com)
  • 160 111

    EU and Mercosur countries sign landmark free trade deal (www.dw.com)
  • 235 357

    Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014) (adamdrake.com)
  • 96 181

    Consent-O-Matic (github.com)
  • 6 23

    Five Practical Lessons for Serving Models with Triton Inference Server (talperry.com)
  • 93 61

    The Walls Are Closing in on Tesla (www.planetearthandbeyond.co)
  • 4 19

    Data Activation Thoughts (galsapir.github.io)
  • 13 32

    Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board (github.com)
  • 59 529

    Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons (icon-sets.iconify.design)
  • 36 70

    The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster (www.economist.com)
  • 10 60

    Show HN: GibRAM an in-memory ephemeral GraphRAG runtime for retrieval (github.com)
  • 37 59

    Launching the Handmade Software Foundation (handmade.network)
  • 122 252

    ThinkNext Design (thinknextdesign.com)
  • 68 54

    Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
  • 12 36

    Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine (www.loper-os.org)
  • 253 751

    jQuery 4 (blog.jquery.com)
  • 46 53

    Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid (www.joanwestenberg.com)
  • 1 11

    The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 68 66

    Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better? (www.nngroup.com)
  • 61 179

    Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957) (www.abelard.org)
  • 72 114

    How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery (www.anthropic.com)
  • 280 298

    Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro (twitter.com)
  • 67 122

    U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site (torrentfreak.com)
  • 8 19

    The relentless rule of my fitness tracker (timharford.com)
  • 77 119

    No knives, only cook knives (kellykozakandjoshdonald.substack.com)
  • 88 179

    The longest Greek word (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 21 46

    Why Object of Arrays beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance issue (www.royalbhati.com)
  • 171 157

    How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
  • 8 45

    Show HN: Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game (speedminers.fun)
  • 2 19

    A New Era for FIRST LEGO League: Inspiring the Next Generation of Learners (community.firstinspires.org)
  • 17 118

    Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024 (css.csail.mit.edu)
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  • 14 39

    How do I stop participating? (geohot.github.io)
  • 4 48

    IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator (polysoftit.co.uk)
  • 295 793

    If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design (mastodon.social)
  • 3 13

    If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it? (tldraw.dev)
  • 76 84

    OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 (www.tomshardware.com)