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  • 3 16

    The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming (thomaswc.com)
  • 3 11

    HamsterOS: A graphical desktop OS that fits on a 1.44MB floppy (hackaday.com)
  • 9 50

    US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections (www.theguardian.com)
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  • 60 54

    Microsoft Needs Windows Lite (philipbohun.com)
  • 14 33

    A native graphical shell for SSH (probablymarcus.com)
  • 7 50

    European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage (torrentfreak.com)
  • 2 15

    Decker Fantasy Camp 2026 (itch.io)
  • 14 31

    DeepSeek V4 Peak Valley Pricing Change (www.kucoin.com)
  • 54 73

    NixOS 26.05 (nixos.org)
  • 6 20

    Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 3 9

    The Meadows of Medieval Summer (www.historytoday.com)
  • 37 65

    CachyOS June 2026 Release (cachyos.org)
  • 2 6

    Auditable Commercial License v1.0 (www.auditablelicense.org)
  • 7 13

    DocumentDB – a MongoDB compatible open-source database (documentdb.io)
  • 8 73

    WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter (humphri.es)
  • 5 13

    WebGL Without a GPU (microlink.io)
  • 10 9

    I Am Behind on C# 14 Features, and I Can't Prove It but Does It Matter? (medium.com)
  • 83 153

    Rocketlab acquires Iridium (investors.rocketlabcorp.com)
  • 3 26

    Data breach exposes up to 14.2M email logins at six ISPs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 100 134

    Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf] (www.apollo.com)
  • 39 59

    A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML (davidpoblador.com)
  • 14 14

    Why did one day of AI cost more than a month of servers? (junueno.dev)
  • 13 20

    The war against 'woke' could end US science as we know it (www.theverge.com)
  • 2 23

    How we made WINDOW JOIN parallel and vectorized (questdb.com)
  • 70 127

    Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund (www.playstation.com)
  • 7 106

    What happens when you run a CUDA kernel? (fergusfinn.com)
  • 75 177

    Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses (twitter.com)
  • 16 79

    Building Principia for Windows XP (voxelmanip.se)
  • 231 203

    Tidal AI Policy (tidal.com)
  • 86 165

    Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing (en.sedaily.com)
  • 16 38

    Type-checked non-empty strings (exploring-better-ways.bellroy.com)
  • 50 49

    Caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee lower stress, depression and impulsivity (www.ucc.ie)
  • 29 56

    Rebuilding the Computer Room (alexwlchan.net)
  • 1 29

    Federating Clusters for Zero-Downtime Kubernetes (linkerd.io)
  • 11 9

    MaralGPT "Mythos" 9B just released, and this is why I'm proud of my project (haghiri75.com)
  • 31 112

    Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU (www.cpushack.com)
  • 445 155

    The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party (det.social)
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  • 37 123

    Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship (thomasdullien.github.io)
  • 4 22

    Let's Decode the Mystery Bytes [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 95 701

    Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
  • 24 199

    Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck? (arstechnica.com)
  • 19 100

    NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them (edera.dev)
  • 65 35

    1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller (www.ti.com)
  • 133 58

    Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian (danielcordova.me)
  • 72 28

    US Grid Constraints: Towards 40GW+ of Behind-the-Meter Datacenter by 2028? (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
  • 65 144

    We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 5 35

    The Forgotten Castles of the Garamantes (www.wildmanlife.com)
  • 51 41

    Lore – Give your coding agent the decisions your team made (github.com)
  • 80 122

    Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal (github.com)
  • 20 137

    Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF) (schamper.dev)
  • 7 24

    Some Simple Economics of AGI (papers.ssrn.com)
  • 22 22

    A glitch in February of the year 0 (28times.com)
  • 355 829

    HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88 (danunparsed.com)
  • 7 30

    Idler Magazine (www.idler.co.uk)
  • 511 859

    Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech (nonogra.ph)
  • 5 34

    You might not need a service worker (www.jayfreestone.com)
  • 3 74

    Tell Congress: Don't Force Age Checks Online (act.eff.org)
  • 190 148

    AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers (www.telegraph.co.uk)
  • 48 92

    The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (2020) (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 34 28

    Sophon PFG-1: a monolithic-3D AI ASIC with 330 GB of on-die DRAM and no HBM (www.phantafield.com)
  • 30 55

    Better Images of AI (betterimagesofai.org)
  • 25 82

    Deciphering basmala (blog.plover.com)
  • 74 127

    We need tech news sources which exclude AI
  • 57 43

    On cigarettes (funnelfiasco.com)
  • 24 176

    Model Training as Code (aleph-alpha.com)
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  • 12 19

    The food science behind designing an ice cream (altermag.com)
  • 43 72

    Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine (xonaly.com)
  • 2 37

    A QNX-inspired operating system with selectable kernels (qsoe.net)
  • 23 117

    Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024) (arxiv.org)
  • 53 50

    POSIX Is Not a Shell (alganet.github.io)
  • 1 9

    The Excavator That Digs to a Line It Cannot See – Mobility and Field Robotics (atomsfrontier.substack.com)
  • 654 506

    Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown (english.elpais.com)
  • 3 29

    British Origami: the 1955 exhibition by Akira Yoshizawa (2005) (www.britishorigami.org)
  • 11 29

    Staying Awake (2008) (harpers.org)
  • 64 73

    Do LLMs pass the mirror test? (blog.pascalschuster.de)
  • 16 54

    Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs (github.com)
  • 22 52

    Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch (github.com)
  • 84 124

    TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 97 144

    The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It (www.pcmag.com)
  • 3 133

    Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short (techcrunch.com)
  • 167 456

    Librepods: AirPods liberated (github.com)
  • 477 1040

    GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks (semgrep.dev)
  • 1 28

    Computer-Aided Language Development in Nonspeaking Children (1968) [pdf] (archive.org)
  • 145 383

    Historical memory prices 1960-2026 (dam.stanford.edu)
  • 29 46

    Linux Kills Strncpy (smist08.wordpress.com)
  • 103 119

    The cost YAGNI was never about (newsletter.kentbeck.com)
  • 3 114

    Build Yourself Flowers (vickiboykis.com)
  • 41 110

    Show HN: DRM-Free Books (frequal.com)
  • 1 55

    Programmable Probabilistic Computer with 1M p-bits (arxiv.org)
  • 95 102

    Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI (adiamond.me)
  • 41 134

    Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
  • 322 210

    The Boeing 747 begins its final descent (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 269 183

    Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing (12gramsofcarbon.com)
  • 659 534

    I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI (antoine.fi)
  • 52 164

    Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020) (www.openculture.com)
  • 24 123

    Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor (www.righto.com)
  • 8 13

    Does Your Paper Really Suck? (www.sina.bio)
  • 97 359

    Show HN: Zanagrams (zanagrams.com)
  • 12 58

    Designing a Personal Pebble Watchface (www.jonashietala.se)
  • 62 136

    California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database (papersplease.org)
  • 216 270

    Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 106 397

    5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920) (pudding.cool)
  • 39 103

    Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? (devz.cl)
  • 412 703

    EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors (www.patrick-breyer.de)
  • 309 383

    Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast (www.engadget.com)
  • 65 52

    Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?
  • 39 164

    EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools (github.com)
  • 98 34

    Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor? (www.dnews.gr)
  • 48 34

    Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?
  • 72 158

    Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models (www.cnbc.com)
  • 3 16

    Mobile Web Computing Before Smartphones. (University of Liverpool, ~2010) [pdf] (cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk)
  • 136 114

    Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 103 250

    The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015) (aresluna.org)
  • 51 86

    The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition (github.com)
  • 3 64

    Bringing Swift to the Apple ][ (yeokhengmeng.com)
  • 67 108

    The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024) (www.cbc.ca)
  • 140 222

    A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex (github.com)
  • 499 603

    The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online (www.eff.org)
  • 28 23

    Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI (twitter.com)
  • 0 6

    Instantiating UI Components with Distinguishing Variations [pdf] (static.barik.net)
  • 114 105

    More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025) (www.cbc.ca)
  • 44 144

    DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 5 30

    From Pentagons to Pentagrams (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
  • 15 34

    Armadillo – A DNS Server in Gleam for Homelab Use (github.com)
  • 1 28

    From Hallmark to neon signs: A look at Jim Parkinson's career in letter art (typographica.org)
  • 32 67

    A stray "j" ruined my evening (napkins.mtmn.name)
  • 1 13

    Hungary holds first post-Orban Budapest Pride march (www.dw.com)
  • 88 51

    Can China build its own ASML? (nikkei.shorthandstories.com)
  • 9 23

    Experimenting with Random() in CSS (polypane.app)
  • 2 34

    Reflecting to optimise (magnusross.github.io)
  • 86 107

    Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs (github.com)
  • 0 16

    Show HN: Metaspec: The DpANS3R Common Lisp Spec in S-Expr and HTML Format (metaspec.dev)
  • 35 99

    Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician (2022) (the.scapegoat.dev)
  • 31 123

    Engineering for Bounded Cognition (shapeofthesystem.com)
  • 55 120

    Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM (github.com)
  • 71 75

    Trade, merchants, and the lost cities of the Bronze Age (2019) [pdf] (keremcosar.uvacreate.virginia.edu)
  • 2 12

    I built a 100% local network privacy appliance to stop smart home spying (www.edgedefenseai.com)
  • 4 238

    Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly (www.the-independent.com)
  • 183 174

    Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo (www.thedrive.com)
  • 6 55

    How a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya's sand cat does exist (www.theguardian.com)
  • 127 410

    Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep (www.marfapublicradio.org)
  • 17 130

    WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups (clickhouse.com)
  • 22 103

    Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display (californiasciencecenter.org)
  • 219 394

    The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams (jayacunzo.com)
  • 73 194

    Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C (decomp-academy.dev)
  • 81 229

    AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide (github.com)
  • 3 20

    Show HN: Kiso, an open-source publishing engine for Open Knowledge Format (oak-invest.github.io)
  • 43 98

    Regular expressions that work “everywhere” (www.johndcook.com)
  • 44 66

    America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers (hntrbrk.com)
  • 8 26

    Set Up Your Own DoH Service (nochan.net)
  • 47 56

    Codeberg Is Down (social.anoxinon.de)