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  • 1 4

    The Death Knell of Digital Search (www.newyorker.com)
  • 0 12

    Wake me up when AI can... (stoppels.ch)
  • 4 9

    Building an Order RISC-V CPU from scratch (prawns.dev)
  • 1 31

    The Hardest Tarball? (stoppels.ch)
  • 44 27

    Anthropic launches roadshow for proposed initial public offering (www.anthropic.com)
  • 76 58

    The U.S. Is Driving Away Young Scientists (www.nytimes.com)
  • 12 31

    Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2 (ericswpark.com)
  • 0 25

    Here comes the sun[light]:An ambient Daylight Clock with time and space controls (hannahilea.com)
  • 8 13

    Sexual harassment takes a hidden toll on gig workers (www.futurity.org)
  • 3 31

    Let over Lambda–50 Years of Lisp (2008) (letoverlambda.com)
  • 15 61

    NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 (neongd.com)
  • 31 34

    Compress any LLM 3x in one click,near-lossless,in under 50 MB RAM (neuracryption.com)
  • 23 71

    What's new in the .NET 11 runtime (learn.microsoft.com)
  • 135 104

    Don't buy AR glasses (blog.yaros.ae)
  • 139 128

    Ableton Live 13 (www.ableton.com)
  • 12 39

    Simon Winchester, Author of 'The Professor and the Madman,' Has Died (www.nytimes.com)
  • 64 46

    Anthropic to Seek $1.3T Valuation in IPO (www.wsj.com)
  • 66 130

    Show HN: A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server (github.com)
  • 116 336

    AlphaProof Code (deepmind.google)
  • 16 23

    Merz: Google Cloud is sovereign enough for intelligence agencies (www.heise.de)
  • 11 65

    Show HN: Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser (www.ghanastreetgames.com)
  • 38 53

    'C:\> FORMAT C:' – relax, it's just a screen saver (fakedos.com)
  • 85 95

    What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 158 126

    AI usage generates a fragile codebase (evanxmerz.com)
  • 144 114

    Fossil CO2 emissions decrease by 0.4% in 2026 (news.exeter.ac.uk)
  • 4 13

    Echoloc: A minimalist echolocation horror videogame (level102.itch.io)
  • 10 43

    Russia's combat losses in the data of Rosstat (rosstat-leaks.com)
  • 56 67

    Meet the Sad Wives of AI (www.wired.com)
  • 37 72

    Billion Watts in the Speaker [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 12 21

    S.t.a.l.k.e.r. Call of Pripyat in WASM and WebGPU (stalker-online.xyz)
  • 82 120

    Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing suspended (connect.queenslibrary.org)
  • 22 90

    How hard is it to check for whitespace? (serce.me)
  • 41 121

    Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers (www.notion.com)
  • 17 19

    China drafts lifetime ID codes for every robot it makes, not just humanoids (asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
  • 51 60

    M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize (www.theguardian.com)
  • 9 84

    ClickHouse Acquires Xata (xata.io)
  • 50 41

    A failed experiment in laptop cooling (kevinboone.me)
  • 7 19

    Mathematicians Are Like Luddites (alok.blog)
  • 194 532

    Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider (strandsagents.com)
  • 98 224

    Your TV can see through walls (2025) (maurycyz.com)
  • 8 11

    They Can Barely Drive, They're Flying Planes: The Surprising Rise of Teen Pilots (www.wsj.com)
  • 39 117

    Ultorg: The User Interface for Relational Databases (www.ultorg.com)
  • 4 8

    Test Pattern History: How Color Bars Became a TV Staple (2020) (tedium.co)
  • 46 112

    Formalizing CPython (broyojo.com)
  • 61 39

    How many people work from home? (nicholasdecker.substack.com)
  • 171 184

    CoreWeave bond yield tops 16% as AI credit stress rises (www.cnbc.com)
  • 12 24

    The Race to Build a "Find My" for AI Chips (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 919 777

    Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 3 9

    An Aggregate Is a Function, Not a Sum (alnovis.io)
  • 137 270

    Locating the source of a mysterious beep (simonwillison.net)
  • 5 10

    AI Bubble Tracker (endtime-instruments.org)
  • 4 57

    Never Gonna Print You Up (dixken.de)
  • 73 220

    Horible public key tricks (maurycyz.com)
  • 15 27

    A renowned scientist, a deadly snakebite, and a diary that documented it (2025) (www.cbsnews.com)
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  • 383 445

    Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game (notesbylex.com)
  • 13 26

    ssh2RCE (ssh2rce.com)
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  • 100 129

    Exact – a new cross platform UI framework (github.com)
  • 70 46

    Jensen Huang scandal sparks divorce speculation (www.forbes.com)
  • 2 18

    Magnets and Rare Earths (robodienst.com)
  • 178 140

    A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code (www.reddit.com)
  • 75 252

    TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max (blog.google)
  • 3 23

    Possible 19th-century castaway camp found on Isla de los Estados (phys.org)
  • 5 28

    Claude Fable 5.2 launch offers (support.claude.com)
  • 6 20

    Supply chain attack on Qubole customers (sentra.io)
  • 77 86

    Parking-app convenience fees in 312 U.S. cities (median $0.35 per session) (parkgraph.com)
  • 2 52

    An ode to livelyness analysis; SSA to registers (xnacly.me)
  • 261 359

    Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 143 686

    Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators (github.com)
  • 356 693

    USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons (postalpro.usps.com)
  • 36 100

    Show HN: STE80 Humanizer – de-AI text by writing 80% of the way to ASD-STE100 (github.com)
  • 15 49

    Deuterium's Impact on OLED Displays (2024) (www.oled-info.com)
  • 100 65

    Iran was behind cyber-attack on French supermarket freezers, Paris says (www.theguardian.com)
  • 99 173

    CUI – Native UI components for C (yappologistic.github.io)
  • 3 14

    I Am Done Using Your UI (killianc.com)
  • 7 9

    Show HN: My daily word puzzle Jointter revisited
  • 265 164

    On Being an Engineer in 2026 (twitter.com)
  • 67 462

    E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs (e-means.github.io)
  • 39 105

    Show HN: Someone Was Here – Find out who used your Mac while you were away (someonewashere.app)
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  • 16 178

    A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization (www.nabo.dev)
  • 6 980

    Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 12 33

    Show HN: Recalc – Spreadsheet where cells can be Claude Code or Codex terminals (github.com)
  • 24 154

    DeepX claims inference up to 100B parameters at less than 5 W (www.eetimes.com)
  • 79 428

    Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos (www.watched.earth)
  • 5 14

    Show HN: Write GitHub Actions in any language: Loopt (github.com)
  • 42 113

    Show HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse (meowdisplay.app)
  • 88 148

    The first 300-millimeter power silicon carbide (SiC) wafer (www.infineon.com)
  • 544 340

    Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds (www.westcentralonline.com)
  • 139 320

    Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model (research.meta.ai)
  • 10 15

    Private equity is building a volleyball empire on dreams of 12-year-old girls (bayareavolleyballclub.com)
  • 200 337

    Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering another, better universe
  • 4 18

    Turning the HEIC decoder into a SHA-256 computer (www.irisc2.com)
  • 299 321

    When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385 (www.cnx-software.com)
  • 9 29

    The Learjet Repo Man (2009) (www.salon.com)
  • 46 115

    Show HN: DBDelve – Open-Source DB Client Made with Rust and GPUI
  • 13 34

    Pointer Provenance in Rust vs. C++: Pointers Are Not Just Glorified Ints (sofiabelen.github.io)
  • Y/N (YC S23) is hiring a growth lead to distribute superhuman A.I. storytelling (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 21 77

    Pigshell: Unix the Web (pigshell.com)
  • 5 51

    Commerce Dept Inquiry into Megaspeed Halted After Nvdia Intervention (www.nytimes.com)
  • 53 52

    Castration extends life span, but in a surprising way, mouse study suggests (www.science.org)
  • 326 563

    Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system (www.payments.ca)
  • 231 340

    Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics (www.anthropocenemagazine.org)
  • 87 170

    The same H100 costs $2.69 or $12.29 an hour depending where you rent it (github.com)
  • 75 93

    Time for AVIF everywhere? (www.michaelponders.com)
  • 325 434

    I saw your HN comment (joshstrange.com)
  • 198 218

    Cryptocurrency lawsuit: Ethereum Foundation required "suicide pledge" (www.denverpost.com)
  • 2 44

    Active Benchmarking (www.brendangregg.com)
  • 46 117

    Zebkit – Chromium as an embeddable library (github.com)
  • 50 67

    He Was a Suspect in the Yogurt Shop Murders for Thirty Years. He Can't Forget (www.texasmonthly.com)
  • 159 184

    Children of Men: The future is a mirror for the present (reactormag.com)
  • 13 48

    Borrowing a Microsoft-signed shim to abuse Secure Boot on corporate hardware (leosmith.wtf)
  • 14 30

    How Australia played the first music on a computer (www.pearcey.org.au)
  • 440 481

    Humans will never again create a project quite like Wikipedia (www.economist.com)
  • 12 78

    6 Hours of YouTube and 85 handtyped pages of notes on LLM Inference – Start here (github.com)
  • 64 252

    What is malloc doing, anyway? (benmandrew.com)
  • 62 32

    Ginux: A New Kernel Runs Linux Userspace, Made via Human-Directed AI Engineering (zenodo.org)
  • 11 39

    Nvidia's China Problem [pdf] (culperresearch.com)
  • 132 133

    Try Gleam (nchagnet.eu)
  • 158 1130

    Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes (www.foldableflight.com)
  • 77 87

    Burying the Evidence: nine out of every 10 time capsules go missing (longreads.com)
  • 26 18

    Electric cars are about to overtake petrol in the UK, data shows (electrek.co)
  • 68 81

    Nvidia was in 1 in 11 startup rounds over $100M last year (datahyena.com)
  • 91 45

    370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI (www.enca.com)
  • 44 104

    Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers (rbanffy.github.io)
  • 81 57

    Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
  • 22 33

    The French Cake Cooked on a Spit (2018) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 71 75

    PixelOS (pixelos.net)
  • 3 10

    WindyMaps – Free offline maps, 1h/1km weather and route trip planner (windymapy.com)
  • 75 212

    ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
  • 48 81

    Psalm 7 release: PHP security&static analysis software (psalm.dev)
  • 2 16

    SultanC – an Arabic-first systems programming language (github.com)
  • 44 179

    Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation (arxiv.org)
  • 499 802

    Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 (twitter.com)
  • 44 49

    Being a meat proxy for AI should be grounds for getting people fired (swiftrocks.com)
  • 33 104

    Quasi-Logarithmic Kitchen Timer (blog.coredump.cx)
  • 29 123

    Show HN: Flide: Make Jev-like decision models up to 9.5x faster (github.com)
  • 124 113

    Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget (www.stork.ai)
  • 4 28

    Show HN: My compact, bio inspired distributed edge detection algorithm (github.com)
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  • 14 58

    Ur-Nammu Founder of the Sumerian Renaissance (www.worldhistory.org)
  • 99 138

    A Critique of GPUI (blog.zortax.de)
  • 0 25

    Branching Beyond Leonardo: The Evolution of Tree Architecture Theory (blue-continuum.com)
  • 4 40

    A Bit about Email (maurycyz.com)
  • 2 51

    The Qlobe: Rotating Quine (2010) (mamememo.blogspot.com)
  • 23 46

    Show HN: JavaScript web apps with WASM layout and GPU rendering in 280 KB (github.com)
  • 52 94

    Ask HN: How do you manage your AI agents' context across clients and projects?
  • 143 434

    RIP, Harvest (aphyr.com)
  • 1 8

    Are big problems more difficult to solve? (paulitaylor.com)
  • 2 15

    Taco: The Tensor Algebra Compiler (tensor-compiler.org)
  • 953 559

    I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists (matteoraso.github.io)
  • 8 58

    Air holes turn silicon wafers into flat UV focusing mirrors for compact optics (phys.org)
  • 337 617

    Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world (shubs.io)