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  • 4 12

    60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it (github.com)
  • 1 14

    Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap (12gramsofcarbon.com)
  • 0 15

    The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything (www.filfre.net)
  • 2 19

    My Dad Helped Build North America's Oat Supply Chain: Can It Be Remade? (ambrook.com)
  • 25 42

    America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are (www.derekthompson.org)
  • 17 38

    Factories Are Just Rooms (interconnected.org)
  • 76 111

    Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP (arxiv.org)
  • 0 10

    Anatomy of Persistent Memory's 3 Layers: Comparing ContextNest, Mem0 and Zep (promptowl.ai)
  • 3 3

    Show HN: TaskPeace – a task queue my AI coding agents pull work from over MCP (taskpeace.com)
  • 15 37

    Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things (superuserdone.com)
  • 22 50

    Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (github.com)
  • 3 27

    Best Simple System for Now (dannorth.net)
  • 99 41

    It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026) (publicznyprofil.github.io)
  • 1 54

    Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+ (ubuntu.com)
  • 2 18

    Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions (arxiv.org)
  • 20 53

    The Fall and Rise of Screwworm (www.construction-physics.com)
  • 2 10

    Show HN: OM Core – multidimensional models without spreadsheet cell formulas (github.com)
  • 35 57

    Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access (www.theregister.com)
  • 40 51

    Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17 (docs.cloud.google.com)
  • 8 16

    Goodebye Forever Probably: Why I’m leaving developer relations (whitep4nth3r.com)
  • 205 196

    Please stop the AI confidence theater (www.elenaverna.com)
  • 30 83

    PostgreSQL and the OOM Killer: Why We Use Strict Memory Overcommit (www.ubicloud.com)
  • 45 302

    Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own (www.gamingonlinux.com)
  • 168 191

    Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective (eshumarneedi.com)
  • 22 28

    Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor (www.theverge.com)
  • 46 43

    AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report (www.wsj.com)
  • 14 16

    The Beauty of Tautologies (scottsumner.substack.com)
  • 51 38

    Ed Zitron on CNBC: GenAI Doesn't Work, and Big Tech Is Out of Hypergrowth Ideas (www.youtube.com)
  • 103 54

    Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition (www.swiftsilentdeadly.com)
  • 8 45

    Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL (thombrown.blogspot.com)
  • 70 159

    Wordgard: The new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
  • 11 20

    Q&A with Micron's VP and GM of Memory (morethanmoore.substack.com)
  • 283 942

    Half-Baked Product (weli.dev)
  • 16 115

    Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021) (js13kgames.com)
  • 233 275

    Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says (www.reuters.com)
  • 68 41

    AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence? (www.bbc.com)
  • 49 71

    How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps (iinteractive.com)
  • 17 9

    I Type Holes in Keyboard Covers – This One Survived (medium.com)
  • 62 40

    Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
  • 39 87

    Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel (www.nature.com)
  • 58 204

    The Safari MCP server for web developers (webkit.org)
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  • 16 19

    Cowboys, Frontiersmen, Settlers, Townspeople, Cityfolk (huntersoftwareconsulting.com)
  • 12 76

    Faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore (manticoresearch.com)
  • 4 14

    Wasmer: Fast, secure, lightweight containers based on WebAssembly (wasmer.io)
  • 405 512

    Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't (stefan.schueller.net)
  • 83 91

    Is the iPhone birth control? Causal evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 monopoly [pdf] (www.nber.org)
  • 5 24

    Perform DFU Restores on Apple Silicon Macs with Macvdmtool (2021) (www.bkurtz.io)
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  • 5 21

    Crossword Heatmap (arbourtrary.com)
  • 627 477

    CarPlay Is Additive (www.caseyliss.com)
  • 3 25

    Show HN: Gitstock–Transform you GitHub commit history into K-line and animations (gitstock.org)
  • 76 31

    "An AI Job Apocalypse?" – Goldman Sachs Report [pdf] (www.goldmansachs.com)
  • 147 425

    Right to Local Intelligence (righttointelligence.org)
  • 108 146

    Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo (forms.cloud.microsoft)
  • 9 27

    Show HN: I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you (github.com)
  • 13 41

    Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand (dfarq.homeip.net)
  • 120 373

    An American Privacy Emergency (scottaaronson.blog)
  • 1 62

    Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus (lwn.net)
  • 8 67

    Show HN: Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices (kendal.codeberg.page)
  • 53 51

    Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people (try.piecesof.me)
  • 27 85

    FoundationDB's Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11 (apple.github.io)
  • 65 83

    A Special Wireless-Free Nikon Camera Is Publicly Available for the First Time (petapixel.com)
  • 15 36

    Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine (github.com)
  • 4 12

    Show HN: CLI that helps AI agents avoid vulnerable dependencies (github.com)
  • 92 118

    Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test (www.dailymail.com)
  • 75 353

    crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C (github.com)
  • 1 29

    Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity (www.microsoft.com)
  • 63 118

    U.S. officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiators (www.nytimes.com)
  • 0 54

    Simple, beautiful Emacs modeline: modusregel (codeberg.org)
  • 12 11

    Show HN: BlastRadar - paste a Git diff, get production risk score in 10sec (blastradar.vercel.app)
  • 128 342

    Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)
  • 2 15

    The Wrecking-Ball Revolution (www.economist.com)
  • 137 922

    Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data (www.hunton.com)
  • 16 83

    Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com)
  • 219 175

    The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable (blog.okturtles.org)
  • 3 35

    A New Catalog of Stellar Rotation Periods for over a Million Stars (aasnova.org)
  • 52 151

    Claude-real-video - any LLM can watch a video (github.com)
  • 1 20

    Modeling the Covid-19 Outbreak with J (2020) (datakinds.github.io)
  • 43 120

    Great Salt Lake Tracker (growtheflowutah.org)
  • 29 44

    Wireless LAN SD (www.sdcard.org)
  • 75 147

    EFF letter to FTC on X consent order [pdf] (www.eff.org)
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  • 55 82

    Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0 (www.lmdb.tech)
  • 150 173

    Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years (www.cnbc.com)
  • 36 116

    This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD (github.com)
  • 64 59

    Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer" (github.com)
  • 89 206

    Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower (www.dbos.dev)
  • 275 563

    Immich 3.0 (github.com)
  • 19 65

    JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM moved to preview (openjdk.org)
  • 19 17

    Klara and the Sun Essay Contest – $1k Prize – AI Use Allowed (willpenman.com)
  • 0 10

    Too many tables are bad for you (www.cybertec-postgresql.com)
  • 109 317

    Exapunks (2018) (www.zachtronics.com)
  • 240 611

    Podman v6.0.0 (blog.podman.io)
  • 111 118

    No LLM Code in Dependencies (joeyh.name)
  • 11 54

    How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout (victoriametrics.com)
  • 114 126

    The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies (moeonmargin.substack.com)
  • 4 15

    Lunatic: An Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly (lunatic.solutions)
  • 22 27

    Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone (theguptalog.blogspot.com)
  • 89 141

    NSA tries to weaken mlkem standardisation? (nsa.2026.action.cr.yp.to)
  • 29 29

    Show HN: QUALITY.md – open format/specification, agent skill, and CLI (getquality.md)
  • 9 20

    EU Court of Justice allows criminal prosecution for reposting RT videos (tass.com)
  • 4 16

    What Breaks a Cell's Ribs Can Make It Stronger (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 253 128

    24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012) (people.xiph.org)
  • 283 702

    Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies (clashreport.com)
  • 11 68

    Show HN: zkGolf – Competitive optimization of formally verified circuits (zk.golf)
  • 0 13

    Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats (www.pnas.org)
  • 217 517

    Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory (mathstodon.xyz)
  • 325 642

    PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform (github.com)
  • 67 108

    Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud (manufact.com)
  • 239 481

    The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing (www.thebignewsletter.com)
  • 20 47

    Comparing Fable and 10 other LLMs on refactoring a LangGraph god node (wtf.korridzy.com)
  • 23 104

    Show HN: A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser (freegraphpaper.net)
  • 206 387

    AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
  • 51 101

    Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail (mailmemories.com)
  • 48 89

    Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models (github.com)
  • 59 27

    Orbital Data Centers: Why the Hype Outpaces Reality (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 75 502

    How to ask for help from people who don't know you (pradyuprasad.com)
  • 89 208

    Germany’s Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy (www.rfi.fr)
  • 62 111

    Winamp Skin Museum (skins.webamp.org)
  • 52 126

    Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3 (www.zerofs.net)
  • 50 155

    German button maker searched rivers of American Midwest for valuable shells (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2 9

    An AI board that pre-registers its bets – bet #1 just graded wrong (github.com)
  • 22 17

    In the age of algorithms and AI, is traditional media democracy's defence? (www.martenscentre.eu)
  • 175 366

    The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain (mathstodon.xyz)
  • 34 48

    Show HN: Claudoro, Pomodoro timer embedded in the Claude Code statusline (github.com)
  • Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring for Our Largest Government Contract (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 56 158

    AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news (www.niemanlab.org)
  • 40 149

    Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train (arxiv.org)
  • 4 6

    Foreign Influence in the Campaign Against American AI (www.btcpolicy.org)
  • 1 9

    Using Aspect-Oriented Programming to Record DRL Agents' Data (blog.ptidej.net)
  • 22 20

    Karp: Anthropic/OpenAI are stealing customer IP and their tokens have low value (twitter.com)
  • 423 348

    This blog is written in en-GB (shkspr.mobi)
  • 144 181

    Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)
  • 150 230

    Vite+ Beta (voidzero.dev)
  • 5 85

    WinPE as a stateless harness for Windows driver testing and fuzzing (bednars.me)
  • 21 23

    Canadian boy, 11, dies of rabies after waking to bat on his face (www.bbc.com)
  • 141 132

    OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’ (www.theguardian.com)
  • 10 25

    Nvidia offers startup customers chance to swap compute power for revenue share (www.cnbc.com)
  • 66 30

    Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity (www.reuters.com)
  • 11 21

    Creating a Personalised Bin Calendar (alexwlchan.net)
  • 255 332

    Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass (docs.google.com)
  • 3 20

    Aerial Photographs (2017) (www.toronto.ca)
  • 230 294

    Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine (www.cnbc.com)
  • 138 138

    My favorite keyboards (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 115 274

    The fall of the theorem economy (davidbessis.substack.com)
  • 109 65

    We Don't Have to Be This Bad at Improving Society (kasperjunge.com)
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  • 43 109

    Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction (www.mixedbread.com)
  • 98 77

    The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower (2025) (intrepidkarthi.com)
  • 12 52

    The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer) (github.com)
  • 101 165

    CursorBench 3.1 (cursor.com)
  • 172 415

    Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot (github.blog)
  • 3 9

    Avo 4 released – 15 months and 2000 commits later (avohq.io)
  • 5 43

    Database Traffic Control (planetscale.com)
  • 49 121

    Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van (thisismodest.com)
  • 10 18

    The vibration of the pager has a sound all its own (www.notyouremergency.com)
  • 713 1659

    Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection (f-droid.org)
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  • 112 177

    Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers (senior-swe-bench.snorkel.ai)
  • 349 568

    Bring back crappy forums (tedium.co)
  • 4 19

    Show HN: Unobin compiles Infrastructure as Code to one binary (cloudboss.co)
  • 4 17

    Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems (builder.aws.com)
  • 16 19

    Fable 5 update: Still willing to cybercrime (alec.is)
  • 13 91

    LibreCAD in the Browser (magik.net)
  • 24 38

    Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1 (stonetools.ghost.io)
  • 95 466

    Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself (makerspet.com)
  • 448 339

    Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise  (news.ubc.ca)
  • 147 147

    Meta caps internal AI token spending (mlq.ai)
  • 5 12

    Show HN: Curvytron 2, I rewrote my browser party game, 10 years later (curvytron2.com)
  • 56 90

    The <usermedia> HTML element (developer.chrome.com)