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  • 0 23

    Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (www.bbc.com)
  • 8 35

    Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates (www.macobserver.com)
  • 28 71

    Everything in C is undefined behavior (blog.habets.se)
  • 5 14

    Nostalgic Electronics Kits Central (www.nostalgickitscentral.com)
  • 0 11

    Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows (andlukyane.com)
  • 1 15

    Skills in Web, iOS, and Android (x.ai)
  • 47 66

    India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark (www.hindustantimes.com)
  • 58 190

    GitHub Compromised (twitter.com)
  • 1 26

    In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident (producelikeapro.com)
  • 4 25

    Evals will break (wanglun1996.github.io)
  • 9 30

    HTML-in-Canvas Demos (github.com)
  • 5 26

    Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (imaginaryinstruments.org)
  • 38 147

    FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (fivethirtyeightindex.com)
  • 13 17

    Microsoft is 1.84 Peters, Google is 0.66. What's the Peter unit? (github.com)
  • 11 58

    The Mercury logic programming system (github.com)
  • 79 92

    Railway Is Having a Major Outage (status.railway.com)
  • 75 166

    Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 (developers.googleblog.com)
  • 35 44

    El Niño is coming. The last time ocean temp. looked like this, millions died (respublicamgz.substack.com)
  • 205 422

    Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (status.railway.com)
  • 115 364

    GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories (twitter.com)
  • 2 25

    Unusual uses of OEIS sequences on GitHub (www.jeremykun.com)
  • 17 38

    The two oldest printing presses (museumplantinmoretus.be)
  • 132 244

    Remove–AI–Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images (github.com)
  • 3 41

    Tool mapping 90 companies in the photonics and CPO supply chain (leonardo-boquillon.com)
  • 5 73

    Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001) (sep.turbifycdn.com)
  • 11 100

    Growing Neural Cellular Automata (distill.pub)
  • 131 259

    OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool (openai.com)
  • 1 7

    Crossview 4.4.0 is now available (github.com)
  • 220 460

    Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day (www.autonocion.com)
  • 9 66

    The TTY Demystified (2008) (www.linusakesson.net)
  • 115 179

    Dumb ways for an open source project to die (nesbitt.io)
  • 190 613

    Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets (www.npr.org)
  • 1 5

    Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic (www.thevccorner.com)
  • 0 26

    Era: From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery (research.google)
  • 163 422

    Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com)
  • 64 234

    Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI (www.emmi.ai)
  • 672 488

    Google changes its search box (blog.google)
  • 213 403

    Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (www.natesilver.net)
  • 3 13

    Google changes its search box for the first time in 25 years (www.nytimes.com)
  • 4 30

    The Silver Swan (thebowesmuseum.org.uk)
  • 517 728

    Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
  • 11 45

    AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome: A Communications Intervention (www.personfamiliar.com)
  • 0 18

    Deciphering the Hashihara Castle Town Map (www.obayashi.co.jp)
  • 9 110

    Google Search as you know it is over (techcrunch.com)
  • 128 301

    Gemini Omni (deepmind.google)
  • 7 45

    KV cache is becoming the memory hierarchy of inference (touchdown-labs.com)
  • 3 21

    Cursor Cloud Agents Down (forum.cursor.com)
  • 52 70

    'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech (www.theguardian.com)
  • 10 57

    'Comically bad' datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes (retractionwatch.com)
  • 1 179

    Gemini 3.5 Flash: frontier intelligence with action (blog.google)
  • 6 9

    Raindrop Workshop: Local OSS agent debugger (github.com)
  • 174 114

    Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements (apnews.com)
  • 2 30

    KV Sharing, MHC, and Compressed Attention (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
  • 54 20

    Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car (insideevs.com)
  • 2 26

    Google IO 26 Keynote [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 257 179

    Google I/O (io.google)
  • 11 35

    Show HN: Haystack – Review the PRs that need human attention (haystackeditor.com)
  • 22 36

    'You can hear me now or pay me later' Music exec tells graduates booing AI (www.independent.co.uk)
  • 9 11

    Slopinator: Attack AI training with poisoned GitHub repositories (codeberg.org)
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  • 143 137

    AI is too expensive (www.wheresyoured.at)
  • 43 65

    Show HN: Superlog (YC P26) – Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs (superlog.sh)
  • 163 722

    I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (virtualosmuseum.org)
  • 187 119

    Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism (www.ox.ac.uk)
  • 48 122

    Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (www.gentoo.org)
  • 121 72

    Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz (arstechnica.com)
  • 525 1273

    I’ve joined Anthropic (twitter.com)
  • 104 57

    New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing (www.plex.tv)
  • 114 54

    Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore (max.gp)
  • 25 112

    U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub (gizmodo.com)
  • 29 127

    Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory (emptysqua.re)
  • 30 77

    Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists (setpose.com)
  • 172 443

    CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 88 81

    Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried (www.vincentschmalbach.com)
  • 19 54

    An Apple (II) for Teacher (technicshistory.com)
  • 39 135

    Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation (sundaylongread.com)
  • 281 386

    OpenBSD 7.9 (www.openbsd.org)
  • 27 69

    IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media (www.timesofisrael.com)
  • 94 114

    Colonization of Venus (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 12 58

    Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language (2024) (github.com)
  • 338 654

    Apple unveils new accessibility features (www.apple.com)
  • 51 36

    Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents (github.com)
  • 195 194

    Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users (github.com)
  • 190 494

    Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
  • 55 43

    Energy return in running shoes explained (2025) (runrepeat.com)
  • 115 277

    I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert (medium.com)
  • 7 30

    Consider the Sister (www.thesmallbow.com)
  • 18 60

    My domain got abused on GitHub Pages (meertens.dev)
  • 28 92

    The lasting influence of Netscape Time (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
  • 285 374

    Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
  • 23 210

    Polypad (polypad.amplify.com)
  • 2 5

    Show HN: I built a sovereign OS, L1 blockchain, AI agent, and language (github.com)
  • 1 9

    Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir (2014) (theappendix.net)
  • 43 62

    Make zip files smaller with zip shrinker (evanhahn.com)
  • 3 14

    Show HN: Clark-Browser – Stealth Chromium (github.com)
  • 0 4

    Show HN: Closed Rings – A CLI-first time tracker for developers (closedrings.sh)
  • 19 25

    LLMCap – A proxy that hard-stops LLM API calls when you hit a dollar cap (www.llmcap.io)
  • 69 172

    Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone (www.kv4p.com)
  • 79 96

    Codex-maxxing (jxnl.co)
  • 6 52

    Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust (github.com)
  • 3 18

    Sieve – scans Cursor/Claude chat history for leaked API keys (apps.apple.com)
  • 24 307

    Peter Neumann has died (www.tuhs.org)
  • 16 52

    As of April 2026: Iran has destroyed 42 U.S. Military Aircraft in Op: Epic Fury (nationalsecurityjournal.org)
  • 21 61

    Apple Silicon costs less than OpenRouter (twitter.com)
  • 24 92

    PyTorch Landscape (pytorch.landscape2.io)
  • 9 43

    Why is it called Kent House? (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
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  • 87 84

    War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare (nsarchive.gwu.edu)
  • 85 119

    Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell (www.abgeo.dev)
  • 14 169

    Peter Salus has died (www.tuhs.org)
  • 569 750

    The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)
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  • 125 125

    The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam (www.wsj.com)
  • 45 58

    Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0 (www.zdnet.com)
  • 48 176

    Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (nicholas.carlini.com)
  • 62 75

    When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call? (quuxplusone.github.io)
  • 44 81

    What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights (Qwen 3.5) (vas-blog.pages.dev)
  • 25 86

    Coding on Paper (wickstrom.tech)