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  • 2 11

    Show HN: Nectar, a Rust-like React that compiles to WebAssembly (buildnectar.com)
  • 1 6

    Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)
  • 0 5

    I Learned to Read Again (substack.magazinenongrata.com)
  • 0 6

    The One-Step Trap (In AI Research) (incompleteideas.net)
  • 31 83

    I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
  • 83 144

    Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)
  • 17 22

    Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason? (cacm.acm.org)
  • 1 15

    Deir El-Medina Strikes (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 80 29

    Why write code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
  • 7 40

    LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (www.larp.website)
  • 58 40

    Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion (support.claude.com)
  • 5 31

    Against Usefulness (www.motivenotes.ai)
  • 1 15

    Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers (github.com)
  • 2 15

    The Lunduke Computer Operating System (github.com)
  • 5 11

    Abject Praise (infrequently.org)
  • 18 49

    Fable extended until 19 July (twitter.com)
  • 43 55

    Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007) (marc.info)
  • 24 44

    Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)
  • 4 11

    Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters (kurvengefahr.org)
  • 2 20

    The European Oligarchy (rocketup.pages.dev)
  • 5 19

    Show HN: Website is served from a 200KB binary (200kb.freelang.dev)
  • 28 54

    Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go (github.com)
  • 1 13

    Noto: A Typeface for the World (fonts.google.com)
  • 1 15

    Agent Harness Engineering (addyosmani.com)
  • 0 18

    Morphometrics: Introduction to the Analysis of Shape (www.geol.umd.edu)
  • 102 136

    The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia (www.economist.com)
  • 14 45

    Why study Diophantine equations? (hidden-phenomena.com)
  • 4 23

    Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization (www.elliotcsmith.com)
  • 65 136

    Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 24 36

    The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
  • 18 34

    TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024) (atthis.link)
  • 102 176

    How to Read More Books (scotto.me)
  • 3 11

    An explanation of our search results (web.archive.org)
  • 10 12

    Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration (github.com)
  • 3 11

    Undeniable proof that time travel is real (twitter.com)
  • 0 6

    Relm – local LLMs as base-R objects, with interpretability (github.com)
  • 5 39

    Satteri: A Markdown pipeline forged in Rust for the JavaScript world (satteri.bruits.org)
  • 11 28

    Gina Gallery of International Naive Art (www.ginagallery.com)
  • 8 21

    Show HN: Only 1 of 4,356 reachable MCP servers is ready for the 2026-07-28 spec (github.com)
  • 20 39

    Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east? (theconversation.com)
  • 88 121

    AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 28 24

    Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck (www.ft.com)
  • 1 98

    Making Crash Bandicoot (2011) (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
  • 22 66

    Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router (mrbruh.com)
  • 64 125

    Understanding the Odin Programming Language (odinbook.com)
  • 29 53

    Ditching Zotero for a Text File (atthis.link)
  • 31 100

    Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams (app.ilograph.com)
  • 101 353

    Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 7 39

    Xbox 'OG' Adventures (mamoniem.com)
  • 195 144

    Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family (english.elpais.com)
  • 23 40

    IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11 (www.neowin.net)
  • 39 236

    Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
  • 10 24

    Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after 'brief and sudden illness' (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 93 76

    Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France (www.theguardian.com)
  • 68 67

    Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (ca.pcmag.com)
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  • 10 33

    Fibonacci's Real Mathematical Legacy (blogs.nature.com)
  • 7 24

    Sixteen Failed Attempts to Write a Eulogy for My Father (2024) (jude-doyle.ghost.io)
  • 7 40

    Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format (nigeltao.github.io)
  • 6 19

    Lindsey Graham has died (www.nytimes.com)
  • 42 124

    Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (buf.build)
  • 3 14

    6× faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy (pythonspeed.com)
  • 61 141

    Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com)
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  • 10 21

    Vinod Khosla to Buy Seattle Seahawks for $9.6B (www.sportico.com)
  • 144 258

    Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
  • 41 119

    Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid (my.uscap.org)
  • 23 84

    Text art tools (hlnet.notion.site)
  • 37 68

    EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster (steven-giesel.com)
  • 1 63

    Why Write Code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
  • 442 185

    Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid (www.npr.org)
  • 143 115

    Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices (www.theguardian.com)
  • 70 227

    An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (thebeach.dev)
  • 3 3

    Show HN: Quantum-Qec / Matrix-Free Quantum Homeostatic Engine(Blueprint) (github.com)
  • 26 65

    Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio (mrzk.io)
  • 8 24

    Small Inventors Are Being Squeezed by a Convoluted Patent Process (www.nationalreview.com)
  • 7 96

    A Erlang style pure Scheme Webserver and further (igropyr.com)
  • 145 349

    What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (gist.github.com)
  • 58 97

    Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 3 28

    The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation (2012) (arxiv.org)
  • 27 73

    Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
  • 63 44

    Wealthy AI workers send San Francisco house prices soaring (www.bbc.com)
  • 22 131

    A pure scheme web programming tool (goeteia.dev)
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  • 39 103

    I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) (triapul.cz)
  • 34 93

    Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma (abcnews.com)
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  • 62 103

    Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19 (www.ijidonline.com)
  • 22 39

    Firefox 12.58% for Desktop Browser Market Share in North America June 2026 (gs.statcounter.com)
  • 59 95

    A dock that wakes up reliably (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 1 12

    How to Achieve Pruning When Querying by Non-Partitioned Columns in PostgreSQL (hakibenita.com)
  • 23 16

    Odyssey Linux (odysseylinux.org)
  • 65 34

    The fine print that follows you out the door: non-compete clauses are spreading (oecdecoscope.blog)
  • 7 37

    Show HN: Sqlsure – deterministic semantic checks for AI-generated SQL (github.com)
  • 41 50

    Optimization Solver as a Service (www.quicopt.com)
  • 134 237

    How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) (archive.cancerworld.net)
  • 84 142

    Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025) (news.vt.edu)
  • 76 326

    Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (www.iroh.computer)
  • 109 189

    Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM (blog.yaelwrites.com)
  • 31 196

    RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (github.com)
  • 22 125

    Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
  • 61 48

    I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it (www.androidauthority.com)
  • 4 17

    Construction workers, electricians, couriers: ICE disguises to detain migrants (english.elpais.com)
  • 19 23

    OpenAI Forked Git on GitHub (github.com)
  • 2 23

    Taiwan's Lost 8-Bit Computer [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 29 88

    ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files (www.zerofs.net)
  • 144 313

    Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (antjs.org)
  • 15 81

    The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human (www.sixthtone.com)
  • 19 145

    Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph (github.com)
  • 33 47

    Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?
  • 16 56

    Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs (github.com)
  • 175 136

    How to hide from killer drones (www.economist.com)
  • 19 84

    Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects (nagylukas.github.io)
  • 111 230

    UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction (timeseriesofindia.com)
  • 12 52

    Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests (github.com)
  • 155 355

    Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (io-fund.com)
  • 256 215

    AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence (geohot.github.io)
  • 0 16

    The Oral History of the Dinosaur Input Device (DID) (vfxblog.com)
  • 165 331

    Prefer strict tables in SQLite (evanhahn.com)
  • 91 73

    Who manages the agents? (www.off-policy.com)
  • 12 15

    Alex Karp Is Saying What Every Angry CEO Is Thinking About AI (www.wsj.com)
  • 68 107

    Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025) (pluralistic.net)
  • 8 50

    BLISS (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 0 7

    Theories of Deep Learning (astledsa.substack.com)
  • 136 190

    Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 6 35

    Earendel (Astronomical Object) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 35 52

    AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It) (www.jamesdrandall.com)
  • 66 86

    Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh (amber-lang.com)
  • 104 311

    Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii (www.theguardian.com)
  • Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 252 260

    Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)
  • 64 189

    Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)
  • 20 24

    The Victorian War on Rabies (www.historytoday.com)
  • 75 137

    The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] (www.math.ucdavis.edu)
  • 28 57

    Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds (www.pnas.org)
  • 55 234

    We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (clickhouse.com)
  • 7 70

    Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts (www.atariarchives.org)
  • 56 76

    USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025 (www.expressnews.com)
  • 54 58

    Show HN: Richest people in the world by wealth creation instead of ownership (anti-forbes-list.vercel.app)
  • 49 91

    Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf] (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
  • 7 13

    Semantic/Hybrid Search in the Browser (bart.degoe.de)
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  • 85 134

    Your code is fast if you're lucky (tiki.li)
  • 146 123

    FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky (theconversation.com)
  • 68 199

    Networking and the Internet, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)
  • 9 22

    Show HN: HTMLDrive – serve HTML files from your Google Drive (html-drive.com)
  • 9 21

    pgrust passes 100% of the Postgres regression tests (malisper.me)
  • 8 77

    The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits (questdb.com)
  • 45 99

    Google Search lets creators know more about their reach (www.theverge.com)
  • 170 227

    Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot (www.mixfont.com)
  • 150 113

    Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 1 16

    Show HN: Dotenv-Diff v3.0.0 (github.com)
  • 28 45

    Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs (www.economist.com)
  • 2 94

    Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials (alexandrepoupeau.com)
  • 13 35

    Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet (gerireid.com)
  • 18 44

    What's the best way to do authentication in modern applications (neciudan.dev)
  • 66 211

    The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)
  • 0 4

    The Rule of 7 and the 7-Touchpoint Myth (anartfulscience.com)
  • 38 34

    The Lindy effect in software (www.clemsau.com)
  • 2 11

    Show HN: Phobos – A tiny scale-free kernel language with tile-DAG support (www.joa-ebert.com)
  • 35 106

    Silent speech with ultrasound (alephneuro.com)
  • 21 44

    The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters (blog.alexbeals.com)
  • 34 15

    I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time (peakd.io)
  • 22 56

    Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash (www.bbc.com)
  • 0 14

    Choosing the Right AI Agent Memory Strategy: A Decision-Tree Approach (machinelearningmastery.com)
  • 54 164

    An iroh powered smart fan (www.iroh.computer)
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    Show HN: We beat Cloudflare's bot detection (open-source stealth browser) (tilion.dev)
  • 36 50

    FreeCAD in the Browser (magik.net)
  • 30 69

    Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe (www.economist.com)
  • 7 49

    Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019) (pvk.ca)