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  • 2 4

    California Is Chasing Wealth That Has Feet (blog.landeconomics.org)
  • 1 5

    Security headers on 4,688 small-business websites: 49.7% met none of 7 criteria (rackcrunch.com)
  • 0 5

    Vibe Coding Production Kit – a production workflow for AI coding agents (github.com)
  • 5 9

    The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014) (grantland.com)
  • 0 11

    2DWillNeverDie (2dwillneverdie.com)
  • 2 27

    Mamdani is the most popular elected official in NYC: poll (www.nydailynews.com)
  • 10 19

    Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos (launchvideo.io)
  • 1 11

    August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem (blog.xkeeper.net)
  • 1 25

    Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html) (blog.arusekk.pl)
  • 6 32

    Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters (resobscura.substack.com)
  • 10 35

    Programming Tutorials Are Dead (robrace.dev)
  • 16 15

    Show HN: Radix – Visual UI for agentic programming (radix-os.com)
  • 41 46

    Is A.I. Above the Law? (www.newyorker.com)
  • 5 25

    A Million Agents Is a Distributed System Problem (www.instacloud.com)
  • 13 31

    Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page (cms-sfx-demo.apeleg.com)
  • 153 123

    Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity (www.cell.com)
  • Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers (www.usestable.com)
  • 11 54

    AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley (www.verysane.ai)
  • 159 161

    Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 1 9

    Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 43 275

    Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (bastardica.mitpit.com)
  • 1 41

    Security auditing in the age of (good enough) AI (blog.trailofbits.com)
  • 5 36

    Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf] (eprint.iacr.org)
  • 102 125

    Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? (dynomight.substack.com)
  • 3 33

    Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows (github.com)
  • 0 20

    Motor Characterization for Small Running Robots (2016) (robot-daycare.com)
  • 18 119

    Fearless SIMD v1.0 (linebender.org)
  • 2 38

    Show HN: Treepeat – Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter (github.com)
  • 16 62

    Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it? (ahelwer.ca)
  • 59 136

    My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps (ahmedhossamdev.com)
  • 9 67

    The forgotten battle of East Lansing (eastlansinginfo.news)
  • 22 58

    Geothermal heat map of US hot springs (www.soakingsprings.com)
  • 112 61

    Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space (blog.google)
  • 22 30

    Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Q&A (2010) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 20 55

    Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS (github.com)
  • 176 124

    Toyota is taking the Corolla electric (electrek.co)
  • 56 134

    Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design (github.com)
  • 4 16

    Agents.md speaks Unix, and you should too (www.fmind.dev)
  • 1 28

    Oracle invokes force majeure on New Mexico AI data center (qz.com)
  • 29 32

    S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in vote (missionlocal.org)
  • 1 21

    Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop (viewsproject.wordpress.com)
  • 1 26

    Why is the human body so crap except for the liver? (dynomight.net)
  • 0 16

    NAZA, a documentary on Israeli war crimes will be free to stream in November (twitter.com)
  • 12 17

    Making the case for Ed Zitron as the last of the great bloggers (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)
  • 7 17

    B5-BJ2 – Ice Cream Barges – Concrete Ship Constructors (2023) (thecretefleet.com)
  • 11 8

    My Humble Opinion on 'Omarchy' OS (blip.bearblog.dev)
  • 13 41

    Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Chats, Lawsuit Claims (openclassactions.com)
  • 125 80

    Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029 (www.texastribune.org)
  • 30 48

    LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data (therecord.media)
  • 95 225

    GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks (successfulsoftware.net)
  • 9 20

    QR codes that route to the appropriate app store (matthuggins.com)
  • 42 39

    I Have a Confession: I Built This Site with AI – Please Forgive Me (dynamicallytyped.org)
  • 12 77

    WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations (github.com)
  • 204 728

    F-Droid 2.0 (f-droid.org)
  • 8 61

    What Is RLCD? The Secret Behind Jev (di-zhang-llm.github.io)
  • 171 141

    Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits (arstechnica.com)
  • 91 69

    Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 64 42

    Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead' (www.afr.com)
  • 152 85

    Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error (www.votebeat.org)
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  • 40 125

    The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast? (jgeekstudies.org)
  • 18 26

    Coulomb's law remains tricky to test at home (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
  • 37 105

    Dynamic Abliteration: Non-Destructive Refusal Suppression via Engram Steering (blog.madhukaraphatak.in)
  • 103 155

    Best LLM for every budget, updated daily (bestmodelforyourbudget.terrydjony.com)
  • 125 130

    Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 97 177

    Enjoy Every Sandwich (bradmontague.substack.com)
  • 255 257

    Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges (arstechnica.com)
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  • 148 96

    'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us (www.theguardian.com)
  • 45 131

    Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers (medium.com)
  • 347 338

    Two-tier encryption in the UK (macanorak.com)
  • 17 64

    When the Debugger Lies (danielmangum.com)
  • 22 58

    The Year of Internal Tools (www.geocod.io)
  • 95 201

    The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi (www.xda-developers.com)
  • 3 18

    Automated optimization of a molecular simulation program (shishir-iyer.medium.com)
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  • 169 159

    Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack (notesfrompoland.com)
  • 110 201

    Nokia Design Archive (2025) (repo.aalto.fi)
  • 101 54

    Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't (harpers.org)
  • 60 44

    AI has no intent and no motivation (www.i-programmer.info)
  • 5 109

    RAM: the forgotten history (2024) (blog.coredump.cx)
  • 350 583

    Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta (www.reddit.com)
  • 15 80

    Microsoft tried to ban "Microslop", and six months later it has given up (www.windowslatest.com)
  • 6 16

    The backend that ran every game we made, ten years and counting (www.m2h.nl)
  • 189 247

    OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says (www.bbc.com)
  • 3 8

    Can open-source prompt-injection detectors catch realistic AI agent attacks? (github.com)
  • 7 62

    Women Who Sold Books Door to Door (daily.jstor.org)
  • 20 12

    AI Passport Photo (www.aipassportphoto.org)
  • 198 219

    Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net (transluce.org)
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  • 49 152

    Contrastive Language Models (contrastive-lm.notion.site)
  • 60 68

    Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 25 139

    Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that (animationobsessive.substack.com)
  • 7 14

    Katamari Object Library (katamari.andrew-boylan.com)
  • 5 54

    Lambda MicroEgg (www.philipzucker.com)
  • 4 17

    Data liberation: Apache Kafka's native cluster mirroring (developers.redhat.com)
  • 70 51

    Show HN: How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire? (github.com)
  • 467 373

    Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop (lwn.net)
  • 0 11

    Liquid Network Security Incident Assessment (blog.blockstream.com)
  • 11 69

    Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler (nanochess.org)
  • 10 55

    Solving for faster SHA-1 collision detection (sam.dev)
  • 401 368

    Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents" (www.kenklippenstein.com)
  • 64 148

    Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest (github.com)
  • 3 121

    Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website (www.channelnewsasia.com)
  • 0 11

    Show HN: Combinators in Array Languages (blog.softwarewrighter.com)
  • 21 18

    We used an AI agent to fix an open-source bug. Someone asked to ban us (github.com)
  • 26 51

    Show HN: An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS (carbon.ms)
  • 4 24

    FLAWED's Flaws and What This Means for Industry Research (suhacker.ai)
  • 453 476

    Meta VR Glasses (www.meta.com)
  • 47 219

    The "Windows XP Box" (2003) (www.mini-itx.com)
  • 8 15

    We've Turned Starlink into a Planetary Barometer (www.spaceweather.com)
  • 38 301

    ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit (blog.arxiv.org)
  • 42 51

    White House Says Access Is a 'Privilege' in Court Filing Defending Media Ban (www.nytimes.com)
  • 89 146

    Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 6 9

    Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin (robertmay.photography)
  • 248 587

    Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series (www.qualcomm.com)
  • 39 144

    We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 6 23

    OpenAI 'agent' hacked Australia's health service (www.ft.com)
  • 17 22

    Bulk Orders Surge at Used Bookstores in Japan; 50 Tons Sent to U.S. (news.ntv.co.jp)
  • 49 118

    Claude's Load-Bearing Seams (madradavid.com)
  • 0 25

    A refined phylochronology of the second plague pandemic in Western Eurasia (www.pnas.org)
  • 19 49

    The Curious Power of Punctuation (www.newyorker.com)
  • 42 149

    The mystery animal on an ancient god's head (signoregalilei.com)
  • 199 301

    VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) (fly.io)
  • 1 13

    Heat May Kill 451,000 People in First 9 Months of Super El Niño (impactlab.org)
  • 94 236

    Making Tailscale Faster (tailscale.com)
  • 252 245

    OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals (www.smh.com.au)
  • 8 85

    LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages (huggingface.co)
  • 22 72

    Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
  • 65 30

    Why Omarchy Exists (mikael.pika.page)
  • 18 50

    Show HN: An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams (atlas-sysdes.vercel.app)
  • 1 24

    LensVLM-9B by Apple (huggingface.co)
  • 23 31

    How can this Amazon scammer keep going, not shipping any goods? (www.amazon.de)
  • 175 328

    DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why (theintercept.com)
  • 7 35

    Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes (www.forensicdbg.com)
  • 4 27

    Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in boot sector (github.com)
  • 148 220

    Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster (claude.dev)
  • 146 70

    Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons (normanponte.io)
  • 777 755

    Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats (www.anthropic.com)
  • 113 167

    A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 22 32

    What to do when your Waymo holds up a Secret Service motorcade (www.ft.com)
  • 209 165

    UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told (www.bbc.com)
  • 755 870

    Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy (apnews.com)
  • 6 23

    What to Know About JavaScript in 2026 (blog.master.dev)
  • 353 293

    28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days (unlisted.careers)
  • 103 68

    Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time (news.gallup.com)
  • 145 326

    Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech (blog.google)
  • 0 4

    Six of 48: I logged every way my AI agents failed for five months (github.com)
  • 254 215

    Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting (www.404media.co)
  • 58 146

    Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol (radicle.dev)
  • 221 378

    Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries (advocacy.consumerreports.org)
  • 60 64

    Jev Can't Be Calibrated (www.alexmolas.com)
  • 241 307

    GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car (drivingbench.com)
  • 157 311

    Why is Hacker News like that? (drewdevault.com)
  • 26 37

    Community condemn Bedminster AI mural as 'insult' to artists (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 113 515

    Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock (pointinthecloud.com)
  • 96 143

    Strands Harness (strandsagents.com)
  • 11 46

    Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963 (github.com)
  • 84 80

    Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees (www.cbc.ca)
  • 113 183

    Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform (stripe.dev)
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    Comma's hands-off driving tech under investigation after 2 fatal crashes (techcrunch.com)
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    Show HN: Jevper – the Jev interface on top of any OpenAI-compatible model (github.com)
  • 86 81

    The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly (marginalrevolution.com)
  • 222 439

    I don't want the details (michaelheap.com)
  • 109 172

    The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022) (michaelheap.com)
  • 22 18

    Show HN: Ive Sent It – online courier for files, with signed proof of delivery (ivesentit.com)
  • 63 93

    Two Git ignore files nobody told me about (mihai.dinculescu.dev)
  • 30 24

    What AI-Native Looks Like (fagnerbrack.com)
  • 276 243

    Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update (www.androidauthority.com)
  • 223 344

    Tokens too cheap to meter (jyn.dev)
  • 206 215

    OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world' (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 15 19

    Show HN: RxFilm Studio–Create and edit your product videos with AI agent (filmstudio.rxlab.app)
  • 280 477

    Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed] (blog.szypowi.cz)
  • QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer (questdb.com)
  • 20 158

    Z80 REPL (2018) (abagames.github.io)
  • 129 49

    The Download: why AI's latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than rea (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 321 273

    The darker side of being a doctor (drericlevi.pages.dev)
  • 3 8

    What Is an AI Software Factory? Lessons from 3 Client Deployments (camplight.net)
  • 72 87

    There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 198 252

    I am done with this shit (www.reddit.com)
  • 131 141

    Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC (apnews.com)
  • 56 77

    Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake (blog.melashri.net)
  • 209 670

    Jev in 25 Lines of Python (www.nobodywho.ai)
  • 27 56

    How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair? (www.thebirthofacapital.info)
  • 14 66

    Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs (github.com)
  • 103 383

    Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel (www.reddit.com)
  • 37 58

    No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls (www.pewresearch.org)
  • 43 101

    Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024) (www.usenix.org)
  • 339 256

    Transit rewards (waymo.com)
  • 3 31

    Delta: Highly available, strongly consistent storage using chain replication (2022) (engineering.fb.com)
  • 147 112

    US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship' (www.bbc.com)
  • 20 53

    The softness of metal (psyche.co)
  • 6 28

    Augustofaces: Pareidolia Fine Art (augusto.at)
  • 2 32

    Make Math Automatic with Mathy (gmays.com)
  • 63 52

    The new CC, an AI agent built for families (blog.google)