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  • 0 3

    Finding the grain of sand in a heap of Salt (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 6 25

    How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones (nasa.cx)
  • 2 15

    By my count, Linux has 11% of the desktop market. Here's how I got that number (www.zdnet.com)
  • 3 12

    A Second Look at Geolocation and Starlink (www.potaroo.net)
  • 31 89

    Writing a Good Claude.md (www.humanlayer.dev)
  • 6 33

    Program-of-Thought Prompting Outperforms Chain-of-Thought by 15% (2022) (arxiv.org)
  • 58 44

    You Want Microservices, but Do You Need Them? (www.docker.com)
  • 9 16

    Does 'Laziness' Start in the Brain? (www.theguardian.com)
  • 5 20

    Garry Tan says MCP "barely works" today (www.reddit.com)
  • 9 27

    Notes on Shadowing a Hospitalist (humaninvariant.substack.com)
  • 0 4

    Drawing with Chaos (yberreby.com)
  • 18 81

    NixOS 25.11 Released (nixos.org)
  • 99 189

    Don't push AI down our throats (gpt3experiments.substack.com)
  • 6 44

    ESA Sentinel-1D delivers first high-resolution images (www.esa.int)
  • 9 88

    ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L, Spring, 2025 (safari.ethz.ch)
  • 12 18

    There is No Quintic Formula [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 12 16

    Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe [video] (youtu.be)
  • 29 54

    I Made a Quieter Air Purifier (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
  • 20 31

    Langjam Gamejam: Build a programming language then make a game with it (langjamgamejam.com)
  • 11 69

    LLVM-MOS – Clang LLVM fork targeting the 6502 (llvm-mos.org)
  • RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring Associate Product Manager (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 14 80

    Show HN: Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art with Rust (github.com)
  • 20 13

    Google CEO says ‘vibe coding’ made software development ‘so much more enjoyable’ (www.google.com)
  • 4 51

    GitHub to Codeberg: My Experience (eldred.fr)
  • 4 20

    Apple Desktop Bus Protocol (2021) (www.lopaciuk.eu)
  • 80 113

    The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind Documentary (thinkinggamefilm.com)
  • 63 35

    Atlas Shrugged (2024) (david-jasso.com)
  • 163 162

    Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it (apnews.com)
  • 14 22

    Show HN: I engineered a 2mm micro-bearing D20 ring that free-spin for 20 seconds
  • 13 29

    Discovering that my smartphone had infiltrated my life (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 148 98

    The Undermining of the CDC (www.newyorker.com)
  • 19 65

    The Easiest Way to Build a Type Checker (jimmyhmiller.com)
  • 14 33

    Geothermal Breakthrough in South Texas Signals New Era for Ercot (www.powermag.com)
  • 130 217

    Migrating Dillo from GitHub (dillo-browser.org)
  • 116 110

    Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy (www.howtogeek.com)
  • 127 282

    Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z (www.ryanliptak.com)
  • 139 281

    Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella (www.cnbc.com)
  • 26 111

    Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford (cs193p.stanford.edu)
  • 191 581

    Advent of Code 2025 (adventofcode.com)
  • 6 27

    Reddit Migrates Comment Back End from Python to Go Microservice to Halve Latency (www.infoq.com)
  • 2 21

    OpenBSD: Free, Functional, and Secure (www.openbsd.org)
  • 30 71

    The space of minds (karpathy.bearblog.dev)
  • 40 111

    The inefficiency of RL, and implications for RLVR progress (www.dwarkesh.com)
  • 207 225

    CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution (cachyos.org)
  • 3 14

    Austria's armed forces rely on LibreOffice instead of Microsoft (oe1.orf.at)
  • 75 110

    Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends (www.nytimes.com)
  • 48 197

    Show HN: Real-time system that tracks how news spreads across 200k websites (yandori.io)
  • 4 23

    Israel's IDF Bans Android Phones: iPhones Now Mandatory (www.forbes.com)
  • 65 185

    What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones? (www.lumafield.com)
  • 0 6

    Magicians of the Miniature (2014) (nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com)
  • 3 20

    Dynamic Skillset Reference Architecture (chatbotkit.com)
  • 24 54

    AI just proved Erdos Problem #124 (twitter.com)
  • 34 43

    The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy (aliveness.kunnas.com)
  • Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Designer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 1 37

    Our Phosphorescent World (aeon.co)
  • 2 20

    One of the Greatest Polar-Bear Hunters Confronts a Vanishing World (www.newyorker.com)
  • 9 8

    MIT Report Claims 11.7% of U.S. Labor Can Be Replaced with Existing AI (iceberg.mit.edu)
  • 125 433

    Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground (zigtools.org)
  • 16 55

    Matrix Core Programming on AMD CDNA Architecture (rocm.blogs.amd.com)
  • 130 663

    Show HN: Boing (boing.greg.technology)
  • 0 7

    The Druridge Bay Ruin [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 3 26

    Mint Is Not TeX (mint.ubavic.rs)
  • 1 14

    Generating Cats with learned lookup tables (aschrein.github.io)
  • 82 167

    Tell HN: Regrets. Think carefully about how you spend your time
  • 57 101

    A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland (www.lepetitprince.com)
  • 69 266

    Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
  • 197 118

    Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted) (evanhahn.com)
  • 117 251

    The HTTP Query Method (www.ietf.org)
  • 1 14

    1964 Recompiling Engine Documentation (2001) [pdf] (emudev.org)
  • 16 79

    Scala (www.huygens-fokker.org)
  • 70 55

    Dilution vs. Risk taking: Capital gains taxes and entrepreneurs (www.nber.org)
  • 78 66

    Let go of StackOverflow; communities must take ownership (ahelwer.ca)
  • 379 474

    Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming (bazzite.gg)
  • 737 430

    Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 84 31

    Copper thieves are wreaking havoc across America (www.wsj.com)
  • 14 112

    Blender facial animation tool. What else should it do? (github.com)
  • 14 16

    Show HN: No Environment Setups Anymore (www.gitarsenal.dev)
  • 108 267

    Landlock-Ing Linux (blog.prizrak.me)
  • 100 39

    A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson (www.historynewsnetwork.org)
  • 7 17

    Baboon: Data Modeling with Automatic Evolutions and tagless binary codecs (github.com)
  • 71 159

    Europe's New War on Privacy (unherd.com)
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  • 2 58

    Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay (2016) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 69 95

    Post-mortem of Shai-Hulud attack on November 24th, 2025 (posthog.com)
  • 35 156

    Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana (github.com)
  • 59 96

    An update on the Farphone's battery (far.computer)
  • 77 75

    The Origins of Scala (2009) (www.artima.com)
  • 354 729

    All it takes is for one to work out (alearningaday.blog)
  • 19 103

    Rare X-ray images of a 4.5-ton satellite that returned intact from space (www.empa.ch)
  • 5 15

    Show HN: Zero-power photonic language model–code (zenodo.org)
  • 3 17

    Scientists may have solved why this ancient, advanced civilization vanished (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 35 260

    Learning Feynman's Trick for Integrals (zackyzz.github.io)
  • 203 333

    Be Like Clippy (be-clippy.com)
  • 16 36

    FBI RFP for tool to scrape Gab, Parler, 8Kun, and Telegram (5k licenses) [pdf] (vault.fbi.gov)
  • 220 157

    Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla (www.reuters.com)
  • 0 20

    Plinko PIR Tutorial (vitalik.eth.limo)
  • 58 149

    Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development (www.phoronix.com)
  • 49 62

    Ported freetype, fontconfig, harfbuzz, and graphite to Fil-C (twitter.com)
  • 0 10

    Archaeologists Find 2,250-Year-Old Monument Beneath Ancient Roman City (scitechdaily.com)
  • 118 95

    Student perceptions of AI coding assistants in learning (arxiv.org)
  • 9 20

    OCaml maintainers reject massive AI-generated pull request (devclass.com)
  • 55 149

    Show HN: Network Monitor – a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux
  • 1 51

    An update on the Farphone's battery (far.computer)
  • 32 111

    Zero knowlege proof of compositeness (www.johndcook.com)
  • 97 156

    Hardening the C++ Standard Library at scale (queue.acm.org)
  • 185 203

    We're learning more about what Vitamin D does (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 211 163

    Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass (www.core77.com)
  • AccessOwl (YC S22) Is Hiring a Technical Account Manager (IAM) (www.ycombinator.com)
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  • 29 44

    Building road signs at home using a Cricut Machine (annanay.dev)
  • 150 361

    Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk (edition.cnn.com)
  • 130 210

    Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written by AI (www.nature.com)
  • 114 58

    Copenhagenize Index 2025: The Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities (copenhagenizeindex.eu)
  • 54 156

    Bronze Age mega-settlement in Kazakhstan has advanced urban planning, metallurgy (archaeologymag.com)
  • 34 63

    Chainalysis Successful Deanonymization Attack on Monero (darkwebinformer.com)
  • 28 205

    The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (www.iankduncan.com)
  • 397 454

    Datacenters in space aren't going to work (taranis.ie)
  • 36 137

    DNS LOC Record (2014) (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 30 61

    Build Your Own Router with URLPattern() (jschof.dev)
  • 114 264

    It's Always the Process, Stupid (its.promp.td)
  • 13 12

    Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban (www.bbc.com)
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  • 43 36

    Quebec to ban public prayer in sweeping new secularism law (www.theguardian.com)
  • 14 144

    Hachi: An Image Search Engine (eagledot.xyz)
  • 21 41

    Show HN: I built Magiclip – an all-in-one AI studio (magiclip.io)
  • 47 109

    Running a business means contact with reality (fredkozlowski.com)
  • 5 18

    The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (1991) (www.cs.utexas.edu)
  • 39 69

    DMT-induced shifts in criticality correlate with self-dissolution (www.jneurosci.org)
  • 29 115

    WebR – R in the Browser (webr.sh)
  • 704 813

    Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 73 186

    High air pollution could diminish exercise benefits by half – study (scienceclock.com)
  • 2 5

    Comments on "Glauert's optimum rotor disk revisited" (wes.copernicus.org)
  • 32 189

    Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment (old.reddit.com)
  • 1 10

    The GitHub Infrastructure Powering North Korea's Contagious Interview NPM Attack (socket.dev)
  • 62 85

    I Know We're in an AI Bubble Because Nobody Wants Me (petewarden.com)
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  • 58 103

    How stealth addresses work in Monero (www.johndcook.com)
  • 92 309

    Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's (bourdain.greg.technology)
  • 16 16

    PEP 638 – Syntactic Macros (peps.python.org)
  • 86 257

    Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you (neberej.github.io)
  • 98 186

    Garfield's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 30 68

    The risk of round numbers and sharp thresholds in clinical practice (www.nature.com)
  • 113 64

    The Great Downzoning (worksinprogress.co)
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  • 50 116

    The 'S&P 493' reveals a different U.S. economy (www.msn.com)
  • 62 65

    Neato vacuum robots to stop working (support.neatorobotics.com)
  • 180 334

    WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS (github.com)
  • 21 14

    Google CEO Pushes 'Vibe Coding' – But Real Developers Know It's Not Magic (www.interviewquery.com)
  • 41 63

    Show HN: Mu – The Micro Network (github.com)
  • 109 328

    System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4 (macos9lives.com)
  • 75 247

    Every mathematician has only a few tricks (2020) (mathoverflow.net)
  • 2 31

    How to get Pandoc to respect custom table styles in Word templates (johnathandos.com)
  • 77 136

    Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf] (gwern.net)
  • 9 60

    Show HN: Choose your own adventure style Presentation (github.com)
  • 82 30

    The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  • 63 134

    A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero (www.johndcook.com)
  • 6 17

    AltSendme: Another Alternative to MAgic Wormhole? (github.com)