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  • 0 4

    Programming the Gigatron (www.iwriteiam.nl)
  • 4 14

    The Water Footprint of AI (doi.org)
  • 2 21

    About Rx Kids (rxkids.org)
  • 84 130

    France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls (www.lemonde.fr)
  • 19 44

    To Save C, We Must Save ABI (thephd.dev)
  • 2 40

    Faster floating point math with Rust's new API (pythonspeed.com)
  • 4 26

    France Bans Unsolicited Telemarketing Calls (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2 15

    OpenAI wraps $7B share sale ahead of potential IPO (www.cnbc.com)
  • 85 51

    Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago (correctiv.org)
  • 5 21

    DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself (manish.sh)
  • 0 4

    Once More in Triple Time (theamericanscholar.org)
  • 36 47

    Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client (github.com)
  • 27 44

    Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App (www.neowin.net)
  • 18 78

    LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models (huggingface.co)
  • 24 44

    Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero (whatever.scalzi.com)
  • 14 38

    Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases (blog.mozilla.org)
  • 2 9

    Claude will watermark AI-generated text and images (tokenstead.ai)
  • 49 75

    Hyperspace (hypercritical.co)
  • 34 50

    US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat (www.theguardian.com)
  • 9 30

    Choral: Choreographic Programming for Java (www.choral-lang.org)
  • 16 50

    Gulf States Accept a New Normal in Hormuz: Iran Is in Control (www.wsj.com)
  • 28 63

    Recycle – Floppydisks (www.floppydisk.com)
  • 58 277

    H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon (github.com)
  • 4 28

    SQRL wan't wrong, it was early (sjg.io)
  • 2 11

    Harry Potter fans force diverting UK-Ireland power link to avoid Dobby's grave (www.bbc.com)
  • 40 57

    Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't (www.nytimes.com)
  • 23 195

    Chicken Scheme 6.0 (code.call-cc.org)
  • 2 26

    ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir (www.404media.co)
  • 4 25

    The Story of Mac: A Just-So Story (gigamonkeys.com)
  • 434 505

    The UK's war on anonymity has come to America (www.effort.news)
  • 62 193

    Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states (everycube.alen.is)
  • 20 44

    Mark Zuckerberg's Yacht Refused to Help Ship in Distress (nymag.com)
  • 72 141

    The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life (resobscura.substack.com)
  • 4 15

    Show HN: AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status (github.com)
  • 55 111

    GPT 5.6 Cyber (openai.com)
  • 49 126

    World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world (worldtrainmap.com)
  • 120 182

    What's the best programming language for coding agents? (danluu.com)
  • 306 304

    As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing (thewalrus.ca)
  • 32 271

    Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead (stowaway.live)
  • 33 118

    Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor (arachnoid.com)
  • 4 9

    We cut a 40-day financial integration down to 5 days using Google Anti (discuss.google.dev)
  • 139 180

    How Claude marks AI-generated content (support.claude.com)
  • 1 17

    Show HN: Higher-dimensional lattices unfolded into the 2D plane (number-garden.com)
  • 13 11

    In Japan, 'calf hair harassment' exposes gender-based appearance conflicts (www.lemonde.fr)
  • 142 170

    Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution (arstechnica.com)
  • 129 230

    Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us (www.massaschadeconsument.nl)
  • 19 91

    Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word (fabscene.medium.com)
  • 131 336

    Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
  • 456 320

    Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification (linuxstans.com)
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  • 63 42

    Why Can't You Pack a Bag? (2024) (www.newyorker.com)
  • 92 185

    Rust SIMD on the GPU (www.vectorware.com)
  • 69 92

    The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 15 17

    Security Vulnerability in Pioneer Rekordbox (alphatheta.com)
  • 18 20

    CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says Zillow Is More Efficient Without Them (galratner.substack.com)
  • 139 206

    Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities (www.anthropic.com)
  • 1 18

    Sorting, hashing, and sketches on 370,103 words (stochastic.blog)
  • 1 4

    Show HN: MergeImage – Merge and stitch images locally in the browser (mergeimage.app)
  • 32 68

    Extreme 220GHz+Broadband Silicon Capacitor X2SC 0201M 22nF BV11 (pim.murata.com)
  • 144 211

    Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb (kuber.studio)
  • 13 21

    Don't Build Mindreading (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 72 101

    The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons (arxiv.org)
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  • 90 378

    Sonic Pi v5 (www.patreon.com)
  • 50 75

    Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers (www.stoaexchange.com)
  • 78 82

    Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years (www.neurology.org)
  • 47 20

    Why Addresses Have Numbers (thehistoricalinsights.page)
  • 36 44

    AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power (ai-updates.net)
  • 58 163

    Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt (github.com)
  • 79 134

    Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline (github.com)
  • 9 41

    Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016) (jackschaedler.github.io)
  • 179 127

    Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 21 144

    Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines (blog.sshh.io)
  • 1 6

    Show HN: Open-Source Greptile Alternative (github.com)
  • 10 59

    There is no “done”: Reflections on a completed Appalachian Trail thru-hike (2022) (thetrek.co)
  • 0 25

    Felix and I (jacobfilipp.com)
  • 18 14

    Every Company Needs a Cassandra (sunilpai.dev)
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  • 163 149

    Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints (www.wcax.com)
  • 68 176

    Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia (earthquake.usgs.gov)
  • 1 8

    Sea Lion Radio brings Seattle's barks, bleats and yaps to the world (www.seattletimes.com)
  • 258 175

    'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows (www.seattletimes.com)
  • 75 113

    Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook (thetokyohermit.substack.com)
  • 26 92

    Force-Fed by ICE (www.theguardian.com)
  • 4 13

    Convince an AI it's not alive in psychological horror game Prove You're Human (www.theguardian.com)
  • 59 184

    Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
  • 526 356

    Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's (www.bbc.com)
  • 78 34

    OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300 (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 0 6

    Gemini for Go Developers – Part 1: The Gemini Model Family (danicat.dev)
  • 199 108

    Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas (openai.com)
  • 31 43

    The Future Is for Everyone – The Path to a Positive AI Future (www.meta.com)
  • 0 8

    Open QEC harness – greedy vs. GE, uniform vs. clustered k=4 (github.com)
  • 34 53

    China is now the world's greatest oil power (www.economist.com)
  • 468 507

    Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (www.ft.com)
  • 31 19

    Your Pension Depends on Kids You Did Not Have (julienreszka.com)
  • 86 108

    Defending my own brain against enshittification (mrmarket.lol)
  • 17 24

    Why a Raspberry Pi shouldn't be powered through its GPIO pins (82mhz.net)
  • 183 218

    Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls” (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
  • 4 12

    From 13.5M installs to 499 active devices (games.lukicengineering.com)
  • 1 8

    Resurrecting the SuperH Architecture (2015) (lwn.net)
  • 108 180

    50k Boat Names (www.beautifulpublicdata.com)
  • 192 583

    Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open (bobdahacker.com)
  • 129 267

    Squeak 6.1 (squeak.org)
  • 59 64

    DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years (twitter.com)
  • 23 63

    Findphone: Locate a nearby Bluetooth device by signal strength (github.com)
  • 53 223

    Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes (ethw.org)
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  • 137 94

    Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail (bytecode.news)
  • 68 88

    A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion (www.irishtimes.com)
  • 135 151

    Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025) (lwn.net)
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    Meta's new open-weight model targets local agentic AI (twitter.com)
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    Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows (research.meta.ai)
  • 47 98

    How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 1 9

    Implant – an extension to VS Code that exposes its APIs to coding agents (marketplace.visualstudio.com)
  • 31 79

    Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler (lordgoati.us)
  • 1 29

    An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018) (smallcultfollowing.com)
  • 3 22

    Show HN: I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges (github.com)
  • 27 121

    An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/f Noise (2007) (www.dsprelated.com)
  • 365 654

    Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents (www.docker.com)
  • 88 73

    The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI (www.economist.com)
  • 116 66

    Why do we assume everyone should be working? (wilsoniumite.com)
  • 19 26

    Slap ROM Patcher (nyuu.page)
  • 26 64

    Long-Run Effects of H-1B Immigration on the U.S. Economy (July 2026) (www.nber.org)
  • 307 282

    Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code (claude.com)
  • 29 48

    Nearest Pint (knowwhereconsulting.co.uk)
  • 80 203

    Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice (www.whodunnitai.com)
  • 58 177

    Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro (github.com)
  • 12 49

    Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk (www.cnbc.com)
  • 3 10

    Memelang: Token-Terse Query Language (memelang.net)
  • 28 78

    Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself (foldingglobes.com)
  • 197 376

    What Happened to HackerOne? (blog.teknogeek.io)
  • 31 137

    ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers (atproto.com)
  • 11 58

    The Ambition Project (www.betonit.ai)
  • 71 75

    The German Mittelstand (kieranvelasquez.substack.com)
  • 30 142

    How We Pushed CDC into Postgres (www.snowflake.com)
  • 26 119

    Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent (www.dpreview.com)
  • 24 88

    Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC (gitlab.com)