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  • 4 8

    Tasfer: a text editor drawn on a 2D canvas (www.hamza.se)
  • 3 18

    British Library Legal deposit and web archiving (www.bl.uk)
  • 10 14

    I don't care if web content is AI-generated (kevinboone.me)
  • 22 54

    The $8 Linux Computer (2022) (thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com)
  • 10 28

    Building the NBC News Big Board (ejfox.com)
  • 7 30

    Show HN: Spindle – a full-featured, type-safe web framework for OCaml 5 (github.com)
  • 43 89

    Running a law firm on Free software (decoded.legal)
  • 102 75

    Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why (www.windowslatest.com)
  • 11 48

    ToothPaste (brisk4t.github.io)
  • 129 399

    Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser (nfsu2.xyz)
  • 207 229

    Upload Your RAM (uploadyourram.org)
  • 194 342

    Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier (8rank.ai)
  • 0 19

    Enterprise Brain – Memory that learns from work (www.ampup.ai)
  • 15 39

    Port 0: The Port That Does Not Exist (acid.vegas)
  • 7 20

    Bug Finding Considered Harmful? (alperenkeles.com)
  • 13 26

    Bong: DuckDuckGo bang alternative, open-source and self-hosted (bong.glendalab.com)
  • 6 61

    PostgreSQL Internals [pdf] (2023) (edu.postgrespro.com)
  • 5 42

    8088 Domination Post-Mortem (trixter.oldskool.org)
  • 14 6

    Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values (nousresearch.com)
  • 55 98

    The Components of Agent Memory (www.anthropic.com)
  • 19 57

    The great butter and cheese fire of 1991 (www.wisfarmer.com)
  • 190 226

    Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 (asahilinux.org)
  • 1 13

    Project Sync: The journey to sample-perfect audio/video sync with WebCodecs (mediabunny.dev)
  • 129 157

    A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals (www.science.org)
  • 20 33

    Show HN: Did prediction markets do any predicting this midterms? (app.artifactbin.dev)
  • 39 83

    The Flash C Compiler (blog.adafruit.com)
  • 67 69

    What do the next 4000 emoji look like? (jenniferdaniel.substack.com)
  • 45 107

    Notes on San Marino (mattlakeman.org)
  • 2 15

    Lighting the Skies (computer.rip)
  • 3 11

    Show HN: Backwords – Let AI teach you how to speak in reverse (backwords.greg.technology)
  • 66 77

    The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes (www.kadoa.com)
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  • 6 13

    How tall can you build with 54 Jenga blocks? (johnjwang.com)
  • 32 48

    Show HN: Tmux-restore saves tmux windows and agent sessions across reboots (github.com)
  • 13 36

    Panthera: Ampere's CPU Performance Model (github.com)
  • 6 52

    88x31 GIF Stickers for 2026 (a90.com)
  • 100 137

    I toured Unitree's factory. I'm more bullish on the West (josef.cn)
  • 113 155

    RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to renters (www.multifamilydive.com)
  • 24 159

    Greece has its own Pompeii: Thera buried Akrotiri in ash 17th-16th century BCE (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 142 863

    Libghostty 1.0 (mitchellh.com)
  • 17 109

    Can GROUP BY still be optimized after all these years? (pivotlake.io)
  • 57 68

    Outbound SIP calling is now available to all organizations (developers.openai.com)
  • 17 28

    No CVE Today, Please (nocveday.com)
  • 51 184

    GitHub's new Git storage architecture (github.blog)
  • 1 11

    Annie Ernaux still feels like an outsider (www.vulture.com)
  • 97 202

    Sodium-ion batteries approach cost parity with LFP (www.pv-magazine.com)
  • 38 90

    ChatGPT silently passes data between connectors and the bounty wants an ID card (community.openai.com)
  • 20 41

    *sshole, or when are we going to get rid of C? (sunshowers.io)
  • 72 99

    Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming (www.crusoe.ai)
  • 176 196

    The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 80 71

    The Valley Bubble Breaks (quirksmode.org)
  • 320 341

    AI is dramatically accelerating AI research (www.planned-obsolescence.org)
  • 28 78

    Show HN: Waymark – A workflow engine that compiles jobs instead of replaying (github.com)
  • 3 9

    SketchAgentBench – evaluate LLMs on 3D spatial reasoning (sketchagent.dev)
  • 1 30

    Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them (github.com)
  • 2 10

    Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI's systems – OpenAI (openai.com)
  • 7 31

    Show HN: CloneGuard – Scan a repo for credential-stealing tricks before it runs (github.com)
  • 131 534

    A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost (hightouch.com)
  • 49 82

    As the Japanese countryside empties out, wildlife is disappearing (e360.yale.edu)
  • 18 70

    How octopuses squeeze through too small gaps (journals.biologists.com)
  • 81 153

    Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign (www.infohawk.com)
  • 114 264

    Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2 (pwn.ai)
  • 141 136

    Democrats launching congressional investigations into SpaceXAI, META and Apple (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 33 94

    Replit rebuilt its sandbox engine with microVMs (frontier.replit.com)
  • 10 37

    My first and last telegram was from Rebecca West (thelampmagazine.com)
  • 10 52

    40C3 halfnarp – Submit talk preferences to aid scheduling (halfnarp.events.ccc.de)
  • 0 37

    Reading the Anthropic S-1, with Zvi Mowshowitz (www.complexsystemspodcast.com)
  • 137 161

    We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them? (scotthelme.co.uk)
  • 118 109

    Kalshi court losses pile up as judges refuse to block state gambling laws (arstechnica.com)
  • 18 104

    Microsoft is winding down Oracle deal to rent AI cloud capacity (www.reuters.com)
  • 1 14

    Pliny – Letters – Book 7 Letter 27 (On Ghosts) (vroma.org)
  • 32 30

    Flawless UI-UX Skill 1.0.0 (github.com)
  • 2 6

    Towards formal verification: mbrotli and mzstd (m-compressors.github.io)
  • 54 61

    Perplexity launches AI agents for work (www.perplexity.ai)
  • 13 112

    Memorilla: Latent Semantic Memory for LLMs (arxiv.org)
  • 11 30

    Only 16% of U.S. fast-charging stations meet federal NEVI standards (open data) (chargingnear.me)
  • 1 10

    GPU-Accelerated Weight Teleportation (humansand.ai)
  • 3 12

    Show HN: AegisKernel – Zero-trust POSIX runtime for AI agents in <0.016ms (adikshatriyag-crypto.github.io)
  • 4 52

    PyLings: Solve Exercises and Learn Python (github.com)
  • 69 173

    Devvm.dev: One VM for every project (devvm.dev)
  • 27 80

    Size-It-Up (Game) (magnitudle.com)
  • 591 295

    Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 306 371

    US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028 (www.reuters.com)
  • 2 93

    Anthropic IPO valuation talks drop to $1.3T (epyhia.com)
  • 126 174

    Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web (github.com)
  • UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDR's to sell AI compliance software (up.codes)
  • 23 65

    Scriptable GeoDNS: Leaving AWS for Bunny (vincent.bernat.ch)
  • 5 13

    Promethevs: Full DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017, locally, on 12GB of VRAM (github.com)
  • 48 237

    First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI (kevinboone.me)
  • 16 67

    MTG-I2 First Images (www.eumetsat.int)
  • 3 22

    Show HN: Agentic Identity Broker, OAuth Delegation for AI Agents (github.com)
  • 192 364

    Deus Ex (www.filfre.net)
  • 86 72

    Where each U.S. state gets its tax revenue from (www.visualcapitalist.com)
  • 134 210

    Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
  • 2 74

    Lippitt-Knoster in Practice (Field Notes for Managing Complex Projects) (sharedphysics.com)
  • 4 302

    RIP Cybertruck (www.wired.com)
  • 2 89

    FAA begins retiring decades old floppy disks from air traffic control (www.faa.gov)
  • 38 96

    AI for scientific discovery: How researchers use Claude (www.anthropic.com)
  • 5 104

    Zero Hour: Telling time was a matter of survival and strategy during WWI (2014) (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
  • 37 39

    Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam (www.theverge.com)
  • 61 131

    University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk (www.cbc.ca)
  • 40 25

    Can Democrats effectively abolish Electoral College after midterm wins? (www.snopes.com)
  • 241 353

    Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (blog.google)
  • 19 33

    OpenAI Finds 948 Local Privilege Escalation Bugs in the Linux Kernel (www.phoronix.com)
  • 1945 1088

    Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production (www.nbcnews.com)
  • Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Research and Robotic Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 109 160

    We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years (github.com)
  • 109 138

    Chomsky and the two cultures of statistical learning (2011) (www.norvig.com)
  • 4 22

    Flashcards are "dead fish": rethinking spaced repetition around highlights (andymatuschak.org)
  • 54 175

    Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016) (jhr.pensoft.net)
  • 418 638

    Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS (github.com)
  • 2 6

    Does the Neuroslop Enrichment Real? (github.com)
  • 17 36

    Global stocks tumble as AI panic grips markets after Democrats' midterm success (www.theguardian.com)
  • 7 9

    Living Maps: Bay Area tech since 1960s (tomorrowasusual.com)
  • 286 705

    Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI (github.com)
  • 7 18

    Astronauts arrive at International Space Station just 8 hours after launching (apnews.com)
  • 124 172

    Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap (worldstrike.fun)
  • 65 257

    Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative (apps.metaebene.me)
  • 53 60

    App Store 2026 in numbers: AI, pricing, abandoned apps (obelisk.club)
  • 5 12

    The Poison and the Cure the Life and Afterlife of French Theory (www.theideasletter.org)
  • 19 86

    Hardcoded credentials and other issues in Tata Motors App (www.cert-in.org.in)
  • 448 594

    Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory (www.reuters.com)
  • 19 34

    Hugging Face's CEO Says His P(Doom) Is 'Close to Zero' (www.wired.com)
  • 8 26

    Budget offers $50B jolt to help Canada double its electricity grid (www.cbc.ca)
  • 207 208

    I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 128 335

    From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  • 86 39

    How accurately did science fiction stories predict AI? (jamesyu.org)
  • 89 50

    Silicon Valley's Bad Night (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 54 321

    Pwn.college (pwn.college)
  • 62 84

    Tesla and SpaceX lose over $420B in combined market cap in the two days (techlaws.pages.dev)
  • 28 17

    Castration extends life span in mice (www.science.org)
  • 6 12

    Claude was faster and cheaper. We took the scenic route anyway (blog.grainulation.org)
  • 73 77

    Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier (village.dev)
  • 27 123

    Nvidia Kubernetes Engine (NVKE) (github.com)
  • 34 66

    MoofTCP – A modern replacement for MacTCP on 68k Macs (github.com)
  • 18 46

    Investors wipe $2.5T off Nasdaq as blue tsunami prompts AI fears (www.reuters.com)
  • 108 90

    Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5T Valuation (www.wsj.com)
  • 92 287

    Inkling 2 Small (thinkingmachines.ai)
  • 7 31

    Brazilian Credit Guarantor Fund Data Breach Affecting PII and Payout Data (www.fgc.org.br)