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  • SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 7 16

    Church of the TigerBeetle: A Look at Tech Evangelism (www.wespiser.com)
  • 54 49

    Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude (allaboutcoding.ghinda.com)
  • 9 24

    Using an old Android phone as a music player (monocyte.blog)
  • 24 29

    Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders (claude.com)
  • 13 6

    Death to the Self-Playing Game (www.jank.cool)
  • 3 25

    Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (tumbleforth.hardcoded.net)
  • 0 5

    Volcanoes That Made History (knowablemagazine.org)
  • 6 58

    People of ACM – Russ Cox (www.acm.org)
  • 11 64

    A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
  • 0 6

    A look under our trunk: what’s in our compute (waymo.com)
  • 27 86

    Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe (newscenter.lbl.gov)
  • 2 11

    Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode (interconnected.org)
  • 1 11

    Show HN: Declarative-forms – await an object the way prompt() awaits a string (wolfoo2931.github.io)
  • 0 10

    How orchids inspired the work of Charles Darwin (lithub.com)
  • 16 38

    LLMs are proof that Unix won (bastian.rieck.me)
  • 17 88

    I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (pointinthecloud.com)
  • 222 168

    AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (www.economist.com)
  • 34 49

    When the shortage is the strategy (nooneshappy.com)
  • 41 31

    New York’s office market is home to the most tech workers: CBRE report (www.cnbc.com)
  • 1 23

    Quantifying the honey bee dance floor (journals.plos.org)
  • 13 40

    Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it (github.com)
  • 9 35

    Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift (circleback.ai)
  • 14 34

    Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent (github.com)
  • 6 25

    Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing (gus-massa.blogspot.com)
  • LiteLLM (YC W23) Is Hiring – Rust / Performance Engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 109 315

    Kobo can run apps now (bandarlabs.github.io)
  • 39 59

    Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory (blog.jakesaunders.dev)
  • 2 8

    Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix (fzakaria.com)
  • 15 75

    What happens when a GPU reads memory (blog.doubleword.ai)
  • 9 27

    Does whispering to agents in docs help? (passo.uno)
  • 45 94

    I Just Want to Search (www.0xsid.com)
  • 4 7

    Show HN: SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor (github.com)
  • 24 9

    Every shape can be cut exactly in half with one straight line (bisecto.com)
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  • 139 153

    Omacom Foundation launches with $8M (omarchy.org)
  • 13 70

    How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms (nari-labs.com)
  • 9 37

    How I came to write that paper with Leslie Lamport (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
  • 1 26

    Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing (vitalik.eth.limo)
  • 172 377

    Felony Bench (www.felonybench.com)
  • 81 75

    Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants (www.cnn.com)
  • 9 165

    AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: Study (canews24.online)
  • 0 14

    Show HN: AgentSight – eBPF observability for AI agents, no code changes (github.com)
  • 3 7

    Making stinkarm stink less, or more – userspace armv7 emulator (xnacly.me)
  • 8 19

    Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode (github.com)
  • 71 97

    WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust (www.winonapost.com)
  • 1 18

    Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat (matklad.github.io)
  • 3 15

    The B-right/V R2 Operating System (2000) (tronweb.super-nova.co.jp)
  • 81 101

    c100 (caligra.com)
  • 4 23

    Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3] (blog.coredump.cx)
  • 103 141

    Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article (github.com)
  • 1 9

    John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography (www.theguardian.com)
  • 14 30

    Nothing Doing (www.futilitycloset.com)
  • 2 10

    If Your New People Are on X, Maybe Your New People Suck (coyotetracks.org)
  • 5 18

    Olympian Jenny Simpson Says Her Running Career Is Over After Cardiac Arrest (www.runnersworld.com)
  • 7 17

    AI;DR or Don't be a meat proxy (theaspiringnerd.com)
  • 3 54

    The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 (theconsensus.dev)
  • 54 85

    What we lost when search stopped making us think (blog.8ball.space)
  • 39 360

    I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
  • 132 186

    New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)
  • 6 55

    DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser (duckdb.org)
  • 1 6

    Show HN: Agent Office (Slack for AI Agents) – Similar to Grok Bot but older (github.com)
  • 63 70

    Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar (2007) (martin.kleppmann.com)
  • 3 14

    Convite (www.guidavid.com)
  • 121 114

    What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x (catalystneuro.com)
  • 101 60

    US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call? (www.bbc.com)
  • 5 6

    Rama 0.4: System proxy and PAC support (plabayo.tech)
  • 1 45

    Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout (invertingvision.com)
  • 310 899

    Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
  • 36 67

    Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark (twitter.com)
  • 32 92

    Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle (arxiv.org)
  • 1 8

    Four Levels of In-Place Initialization (Rust) (blog.yoshuawuyts.com)
  • 197 195

    I'm becoming AI-blind (cymerys.com)
  • 347 605

    Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)
  • 3 13

    Siemens PC-X (2015) (www.geekdot.com)
  • 382 286

    Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (www.nytimes.com)
  • 13 67

    Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0 (github.com)
  • 40 124

    TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering (ixuvo.com)
  • 2 697

    AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.pk)
  • 15 56

    The Mystery of Dark Oxygen (www.newyorker.com)
  • 139 424

    DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (api-docs.deepseek.com)
  • 0 17

    Attention Through Arithmetic Intensity (changyi.fun)
  • 51 200

    Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)
  • 22 53

    Better Batteries (matklad.github.io)
  • 36 103

    Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo (paculdo.com)
  • 20 63

    Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24 (github.com)
  • 70 50

    The case against a C alternative (2022) (c3.handmade.network)
  • 60 115

    Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise (investors.micron.com)
  • 134 237

    The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
  • 82 143

    We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)
  • 1 6

    I Ported Moonshine to JavaScript (petewarden.com)
  • 127 66

    Stop Making TUIs (sockpuppet.org)
  • 19 52

    Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness (github.com)
  • 7 8

    Show HN: Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents (argentic.network)
  • 51 50

    Version Control for Everything (tyoverby.com)
  • 61 77

    The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986) (philipdick.com)
  • 196 342

    Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened (www.xda-developers.com)
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  • 1 8

    Hard Problems and Heuristic Answers (stochastic.blog)
  • 61 145

    Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges (github.com)
  • 9 67

    Captain Zilog (www.zilog.com)
  • 7 11

    Orbital Construction Pioneers (orbitalconstructionpioneers.com)
  • 812 461

    AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
  • 12 43

    Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K (journals.aps.org)
  • 31 42

    Artificial Intelligence Policy (www.law.berkeley.edu)
  • 4 24

    Show HN: ParqDB – Vector search in the browser from Parquet over HTTP" (search.parqdb.io)
  • 5 8

    My Microscope Is a Dashcam (xecaz.com)
  • 89 118

    It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)
  • 179 225

    Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)
  • 169 92

    There's no such thing as a small software team anymore (jacob.gold)
  • 208 185

    Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU (mathstodon.xyz)
  • 0 11

    In Which I Lose My Mind over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (www.maayanroth.com)
  • 18 48

    Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour (niki.cat)
  • 0 74

    Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes (byroot.github.io)
  • 13 37

    Ameliorate (ameliorate.app)
  • 25 43

    The Wonders of the Male Human Pelvis (nautil.us)
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  • 1 23

    Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe (newscenter.lbl.gov)
  • 86 58

    The Citizen Developer (www.massdriver.cloud)
  • 7 21

    Code as an Artifact (pradeeproark.com)
  • 11 17

    I Analyzed 163K Lines of Kuzu's Codebase. Here's Why Apple Wanted It (medium.com)
  • 368 1604

    Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (blog.curiousquail.com)
  • 1 13

    Fossilisation processes and our reading of animal antiquity (www.cell.com)
  • 50 112

    SpacetimeDB: a short technical review (strn.cat)
  • 14 77

    Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns (tidalcycles.org)
  • 0 22

    GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy (surfingcomplexity.blog)
  • 134 198

    Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 394 248

    Why aren't smart people happier? (2022) (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 728 621

    The August 17 outage (github.blog)
  • 5 25

    Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain (dl.acm.org)
  • 205 357

    Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (www.danielvaughn.dev)
  • 10 11

    Show HN: Kandelo – a POSIX-compatible multi-process WASM kernel for the browser (kandelo.dev)
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  • 59 292

    Consumer Rights Wiki (consumerrights.wiki)
  • 6 22

    TrueForge – The open-source agent harness (github.com)
  • 2 24

    What Is Reasoning (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • 120 348

    Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study (www.rathbiotaclan.com)
  • 1 28

    AI at Home Part 2: Multi-GPU Drifting (jdagostino.github.io)
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    Show HN: sce (Simple Console Editor) (github.com)
  • 38 53

    Optimizing things in the USSR (2016) (chris-said.io)
  • 55 64

    Project Cybersyn (2022) (bactra.org)
  • 126 329

    I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net)
  • 16 24

    The Defense-Tech Bubble Is Headed for Consolidation (foxandlion.pub)
  • 43 56

    Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP (github.com)
  • 26 59

    Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it (radi8.dev)
  • 2 18

    URL shortener links stored in your ATProto PDS (atpr.to)
  • 3 8

    I bought the most expensive cable I could find. It still died (medium.com)
  • Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 126 284

    Linux 7.2 (www.igalia.com)
  • 17 35

    A theory for decades of C vulnerabilities (strawberry9.github.io)
  • 43 70

    Generic Methods in Go 1.27 (dominik.info)
  • 20 22

    Just Fucking Use Neovim (www.justfuckinguseneovim.com)
  • 160 177

    How to compromise your system with a job interview (www.codedge.de)
  • 28 29

    I am morally opposed to updating my Claude.md (alex-jacobs.com)
  • 22 57

    Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com)
  • 160 203

    Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (blog.yaros.ae)
  • 286 294

    Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM (github.com)
  • 333 843

    I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 11 42

    Double-double: 31 digits of precision without leaving the FPU (marekfiser.com)
  • 265 441

    CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (www.wsj.com)
  • 25 130

    Nearly 1,400 live streams from Japan (tomarigi.me)
  • 35 80

    Show HN: Open-source Stripe Connect alternative (zoneless.com)
  • 5 61

    Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 37 75

    Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours (pub.doub.ly)
  • 237 280

    Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
  • 226 972

    HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)
  • 116 354

    Git at any scale (cursor.com)
  • 95 408

    Mojo is now open source (www.modular.com)
  • 109 78

    Slack Code (www.salesforce.com)
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  • 21 8

    Rivian OS 2 (xcancel.com)
  • 135 135

    Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1 (lists.x.org)
  • 4 12

    Do Chatbot LLMs Talk Too Much? (arxiv.org)
  • 25 53

    Zellij 0.45.0: nested sessions, Kitty graphics, a fresh UI (zellij.dev)
  • 30 101

    An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30 (elliptic-rank.icarm.cloud)
  • 110 111

    Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons (www.bbc.com)
  • 171 253

    Bun 1.4 (bun.com)
  • 2 16

    Bufo pulls the andon cord (hatchet.run)
  • 90 107

    Every Model Cheats (dreadnode.io)
  • 27 216

    Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter (stwipe.com)
  • 56 105

    Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch (www.mikekasberg.com)
  • 8 28

    An American Mosaic (interactive map of ancestry census data) (www.nytimes.com)
  • 15 19

    CI jobs artifacts should not be difficult (deadsimpleci.sparrowhub.io)
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  • 100 66

    I spent twenty years becoming good at the wrong game (savvynormie.com)
  • 3 6

    Index of the best vibe coding tools (www.vibeleaderboard.ai)
  • 84 94

    Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn't solved the plastic pollution crisis (therevelator.org)
  • 40 158

    DiffusionGemma Technical Report (arxiv.org)
  • 61 57

    UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub (www.ft.com)
  • 5 4

    Sokoban via Grok App Builder (sokoban.grok.me)
  • 45 39

    Canonical backs new project to translate large C codebases into safe Rust (linuxiac.com)
  • 490 540

    Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (safedep.io)
  • 4 13

    Show HN: Streambench – Native Mac Client for Kafka and NATS (streambench.app)
  • 10 81

    Netherlands lists Israel as a threat to its national security for the first time (2025) (www.trtworld.com)
  • 53 54

    Australia passes law to levy tech giants that fail to pay for local news (www.reuters.com)
  • 33 53

    Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery (research.google)
  • 17 78

    Risk Engineering (risk-engineering.org)
  • 47 60

    Browser De-Slop (www.sacredheartsc.com)
  • 113 574

    Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device (simedw.com)
  • 0 9

    Filtered Vector Search: What Acorn Fixes, and What Fixes Acorn (qdrant.tech)
  • Proof of Human (YC S23) Is Hiring a Member of Technical Staff (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 143 89

    AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it (franciscotrindade.me)
  • 1 8

    YACS 2.0 – Yet Another Curta Simulator (satadorus.eu)
  • 104 50

    If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
  • 325 1005

    AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (blog.laserphile.com)
  • 9 13

    Free v4 front end for your v6 site (v4-frontend.netiter.com)
  • 2 12

    RAPx: A static analysis tool for Rust programs (github.com)
  • 574 1027

    Don't paste the AI, please (dontpastetheai.com)
  • 42 60

    The Chauffeur Problem (1999) (engines.egr.uh.edu)
  • 10 25

    What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI (snarky.ca)
  • 136 352

    Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003) (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 95 43

    Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex (openai.com)
  • 22 87

    Zuckerberg encouraged growth over child safety, ex-Meta executive testifies (www.reuters.com)
  • 16 52

    Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector (2020) (github.com)
  • 52 77

    Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 61 84

    Rewriting in Rust (blog.jetbrains.com)
  • 130 157

    Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated (www.abc.net.au)
  • 14 41

    How do payments work in the US, China, and Brazil? (andrewacomb.substack.com)
  • 88 262

    A faster way to calculate the day of the week (www.benjoffe.com)
  • 211 346

    Turns are Better than Radians (2022) (www.computerenhance.com)
  • 36 87

    Simulacra and Simulation (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 2 39

    Universality of Gradient Descent Neural Network Training (arxiv.org)
  • 13 24

    Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo (fetzu.ch)
  • 27 191

    Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures (coca11272000.wixsite.com)
  • 15 10

    Technical leaders should have the largest AI exhaust (schipper.ai)