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  • 9 11

    A Trillion Characters (characters.fastserial.com)
  • 0 5

    Notable Properties of Specific Numbers (www.mrob.com)
  • 3 9

    Why I collect DLES (dles.gg)
  • 12 30

    Canada in Technical Recession (www.cbc.ca)
  • 9 57

    Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump (www.theregister.com)
  • 62 97

    The California State Assembly Has Passed the 'Protect Our Games Act' (www.invenglobal.com)
  • 2 26

    Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA (github.com)
  • 43 28

    Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots (www.theverge.com)
  • 1 8

    CVE-Bench: testing LLM agents on real-world vulnerability patches (giovannigatti.github.io)
  • 26 79

    On Rendering Diffs (pierre.computer)
  • 30 33

    AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 9 81

    Rothko for your current weather conditions (rothko.joonas.wtf)
  • 6 31

    Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809) (wellsoc.org)
  • 23 95

    Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T (www.liquid.ai)
  • 4 12

    Bill C-22 Is a Mess of the Government's Own Making (ethanplant.ca)
  • 108 211

    SQLite is all you need for durable workflows (obeli.sk)
  • 16 72

    Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV (tvexplorer.live)
  • 132 73

    Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks (techcrunch.com)
  • 4 27

    ATLAS: Autoformalized Textbook Library At Scale (github.com)
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  • 1 12

    The Science of Weather and the Nature of Science (www.the-hinternet.com)
  • 68 263

    Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris (koenvangilst.nl)
  • 3 27

    The Framework 12 is dead. Apple killed it [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 39 54

    CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents (research.roundtable.ai)
  • 47 76

    Someone used my open source project to phish people (andrej.sh)
  • 10 36

    Step 3.7 Flash (static.stepfun.com)
  • 601 441

    The dead economy theory (www.owenmcgrann.com)
  • 62 40

    Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say (www.frontiersin.org)
  • 302 476

    GTA 6 Developers Unionize (rockstarintel.com)
  • 147 228

    Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance' (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 10 32

    The Secret Garden of Rock-Paper-Scissors (theshamblog.com)
  • 7 18

    OpenAI Announces Rosalind Biodefense (openai.com)
  • 292 160

    It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 67 184

    Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding (www.inkandswitch.com)
  • 23 36

    Do U.S. Presidents Always Make This Much Money? [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 73 56

    It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop (unix.foo)
  • 457 672

    I am retiring from tech to live offline (openpath.quest)
  • 90 88

    Expertise in the age of AI (www.moderndescartes.com)
  • 17 30

    Show HN: Context-aware Japanese furigana using Sudachi and ModernBERT (www.ezfurigana.com)
  • 34 102

    Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care (www.404media.co)
  • 96 78

    Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
  • 2 27

    Blue Origin rocket explodes on launchpad in a setback (www.reuters.com)
  • 355 689

    Please Use AI (shawnsmucker.substack.com)
  • 57 71

    Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells (github.com)
  • 8 28

    Even (very) noisy LLM evaluators are useful for improving AI agents (www.tensorzero.com)
  • 53 135

    High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building (commonedge.org)
  • 18 51

    Wterm – A terminal emulator for the web (wterm.dev)
  • 64 78

    Local Git remotes (cblgh.org)
  • 2 18

    Poisonous invasion: What is the 'devil's trumpet' harming crops in Iraq? (www.aljazeera.com)
  • 2 10

    We should be more tired than the model (newsletter.vickiboykis.com)
  • 60 50

    Prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike (www.theverge.com)
  • 7 42

    Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize 70% of Gaza Strip, violating ceasefire (www.theguardian.com)
  • 88 132

    The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time (shkspr.mobi)
  • 19 57

    An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter (www.core77.com)
  • 113 132

    We should be more tired than the model (vickiboykis.com)
  • 118 134

    Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025) (dutchreview.com)
  • 43 57

    Digital Identity Management in Norway Is a Catastrophe (www.uio.no)
  • Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 205 233

    Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade? (mastrojs.github.io)
  • 2 5

    Show HN: Compile-time model-id validation with declared capability (github.com)
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  • 96 86

    Is this sustainable? (jamiehurst.co.uk)
  • 2 19

    Barthelme, the Houstonian (www.theparisreview.org)
  • 87 189

    Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request (blog.kog.ai)
  • 50 127

    Orchestrating AI code review at scale (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 4 26

    Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins for AMD Zen 5 on PostgreSQL, Valkey (www.phoronix.com)
  • 35 93

    HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager (github.com)
  • 61 193

    Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)
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  • 4 14

    US Military personnel are being targeted using location data (www.reuters.com)
  • 2 13

    Franklin Pierce by David W. Blight (inpursuit.substack.com)
  • 179 358

    Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion (github.com)
  • 67 55

    Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output (arstechnica.com)
  • 42 33

    Zot now supports Claude Opus 4.8 (www.zot.sh)
  • 24 29

    Avoid Using "< [Cdata[ ]]>" in RSS (waspdev.com)
  • 28 29

    The and Wonderful Evolution of the Waterproof Jacket (www.carryology.com)
  • 63 320

    Claude Code – Everything you can configure that the docs don't tell you (buildingbetter.tech)
  • 54 104

    Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching (www.mpi.nl)
  • 2 18

    Python utility package for building Claude Code hooks (github.com)
  • 8 209

    Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test (arstechnica.com)
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  • 268 473

    Cars collect a startling amount of data about you (www.bbc.com)
  • 14 66

    Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 7 17

    The Pack That Killed the Pack Mule (www.carryology.com)
  • 514 463

    Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test (twitter.com)
  • 1 7

    Washington Diary (worksinprogress.co)
  • 70 66

    Why Gentoo? (blogs.gentoo.org)
  • 123 92

    Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding? (www.construction-physics.com)
  • 16 10

    Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end (www.inkl.com)
  • 4 39

    More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, More (www.eff.org)
  • 80 89

    The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin (minimaxir.com)
  • 7 12

    The Silent Critic (www.tft.io)
  • 4 26

    Some Like It Literary (www.nytimes.com)
  • 3 14

    The internet has become too American to trust (thewalrus.ca)
  • 137 247

    SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims (sfstandard.com)
  • 28 76

    Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down (discourse.nixos.org)
  • 46 197

    Ten Basic Clouds (www.noaa.gov)
  • 41 52

    Protestware for Coding Agents (nesbitt.io)
  • 12 22

    Minimax M3 (www.minimax.co.uk)
  • 6 27

    Micromania: The Whole Truth about Home Computers (1984) (taff.org.uk)
  • 246 517

    GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 3 47

    Durable execution, the hard way (github.com)
  • 37 142

    Announcing Rust 1.96 (blog.rust-lang.org)
  • 18 43

    US troops are reportedly being targeted using location data, Pentagon says (www.militarytimes.com)
  • 10 43

    I'm "Retiring" from Tech – Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source, Sentry.io (bsky.app)
  • 40 181

    Coalton is an efficient, statically typed Lisp with ideas from Haskell and OCaml (coalton-lang.github.io)
  • 85 525

    I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025) (nick.winans.io)
  • 58 61

    Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed?
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  • 87 104

    Social Animus (justine.lol)
  • 12 14

    Confidence Scores for Exam Questions (nomagicpill.substack.com)
  • 276 350

    Various LLM Smells (shvbsle.in)
  • 175 229

    Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions (fortune.com)
  • 0 6

    Show HN: Py-SQL-cleaner – format SQL embedded in Python strings (github.com)
  • 577 1278

    Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection (mybricklog.com)
  • 48 59

    Separate the Cord from the Device (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
  • 42 134

    The most unlikely school bag (www.carryology.com)
  • 2 19

    W3C Leadership Transition (www.w3.org)
  • 37 104

    Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime (github.com)
  • 25 88

    The Lone Lisp Heap (www.matheusmoreira.com)
  • 109 297

    Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy' (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk)
  • 0 10

    Tuning LLVM's SLP Vectorizer Cost Model (blog.kaving.me)
  • 104 234

    I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024) (www.science.org)
  • 24 110

    Bitburner, programming-based incremental game (bitburner-official.github.io)
  • 43 73

    Google Hates You (www.sfgate.com)
  • 69 82

    About LLMs at Zig Days (kristoff.it)
  • 139 340

    Building durable workflows on Postgres (www.dbos.dev)
  • 6 4

    You Were Never Declaring State. You Were Observing by Hand (webframp.com)
  • 70 118

    Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock (ipvm.com)
  • 11 29

    Hold on for Dear Life (pluralistic.net)
  • 407 357

    Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation (www.anthropic.com)
  • 8 19

    Show HN: TapToyPia (memalign.github.io)
  • 18 78

    Using Tailscale with an OrbStack VM on macOS (github.com)
  • 190 233

    News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 24 81

    Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents (github.com)
  • 17 39

    Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras with Trash Bags (www.404media.co)
  • 6 24

    Trivial Pursuits (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 123 161

    Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code (claude.com)
  • 1 8

    Thornton Wilder's Last Play Vanished into Thin Air. Or Did It? (www.nytimes.com)
  • 1336 1715

    Claude Opus 4.8 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 14 47

    ICE has spent over $25M on iris scanners in no-bid contracts (www.npr.org)
  • 37 45

    Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs (www.bbc.com)
  • 109 97

    US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal (arstechnica.com)
  • 81 212

    The Permanent Upper Crow (permanent-upper-crow.jasonwu.ink)
  • 88 117

    We replaced Zendesk (tradecore.com)
  • 434 276

    New York passes pied-a-terre tax (www.cnbc.com)
  • 27 46

    Boston and Bermuda (askthepilot.com)
  • 147 366

    Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue (llmgame.scalex.dev)
  • 8 66

    Creusot helps you prove your Rust code is correct (github.com)
  • 126 263

    Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT (taoofmac.com)
  • 81 45

    How long until AI automates all cognitive labor? (futuresearch.ai)
  • 373 342

    EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 637 402

    Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM (www.latimes.com)
  • 5 13

    Iran's Internet is partially restored, Cloudflare Radar data shows (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 16 17

    Nendo's Wonderful Toru, an Electric Kettle for Alessi (www.core77.com)
  • 344 500

    Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks (lenz.io)
  • 1 33

    Libwce: The entropy layer of a wavelet codec, on its own (yogthos.net)
  • 6 92

    Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act (ec.europa.eu)
  • 46 62

    Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin (tanin.nanakorn.com)
  • 143 165

    AI sticker shock hits corporate America (www.axios.com)
  • 166 335

    AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes (itsfoss.com)
  • 9 52

    More Whimsical OEIS Sequences (www.jeremykun.com)
  • 91 34

    The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader (www.inc.com)
  • 21 80

    Seeing Around Corners Using Smartphone-Grade Lidar (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 66 86

    Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter (github.com)
  • 24 38

    AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs? (almartis.xyz)
  • 44 145

    A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot (iisc.ac.in)
  • 96 169

    Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife (github.com)
  • 19 20

    Our 2D game character grew 3% taller every time he walked (hey.paris)
  • 31 37

    Qwen3.7-Max Ran for 35 Hours on Unknown Hardware and Achieved a 10× Speedup (firethering.com)
  • 151 251

    I analysed 20 years of my chats (drobinin.com)
  • 6 48

    MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart (www.bostonglobe.com)
  • 63 72

    The Green Side of the Lua (arxiv.org)
  • 193 434

    Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave (hallucinate.site)
  • 46 36

    Pentagon puts building blocks in place for Cuba invasion (www.politico.com)
  • 41 78

    Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us (retrogamecoders.com)
  • 87 54

    Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix (rajveerbachkaniwala.com)
  • RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 48 81

    Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll (www.nytimes.com)
  • 210 312

    Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term (www.cnbc.com)
  • 110 148

    The Ask (randsinrepose.com)
  • 765 1366

    Can we have the day off? (mlsu.io)
  • 383 465

    FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home (www.nytimes.com)
  • 29 25

    I am not a black belt (rodolphoarruda.pro.br)
  • 19 28

    You Should Not Update Your Dependencies (www.mendral.com)