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  • 4 17

    Claude's Load-Bearing Seams (madradavid.com)
  • 0 7

    A refined phylochronology of the second plague pandemic in Western Eurasia (www.pnas.org)
  • 1 7

    The Curious Power of Punctuation (www.newyorker.com)
  • 0 8

    The mystery animal on an ancient god's head (signoregalilei.com)
  • 17 36

    VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (fly.io)
  • 0 11

    Heat May Kill 451,000 People in First 9 Months of Super El Niño (impactlab.org)
  • 3 21

    Making Tailscale Faster (tailscale.com)
  • 17 64

    OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals (www.smh.com.au)
  • 2 18

    LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages (huggingface.co)
  • 3 21

    Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
  • 25 22

    Why Omarchy Exists (mikael.pika.page)
  • 6 24

    Show HN: An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams (atlas-sysdes.vercel.app)
  • 0 24

    LensVLM-9B by Apple (huggingface.co)
  • 20 26

    How can this Amazon scammer keep going, not shipping any goods? (www.amazon.de)
  • 90 236

    DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why (theintercept.com)
  • 1 14

    Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes (www.forensicdbg.com)
  • 3 20

    Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in boot sector (github.com)
  • 74 122

    Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster (claude.dev)
  • 102 46

    Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons (normanponte.io)
  • 348 353

    Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats (www.anthropic.com)
  • 35 82

    A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 20 28

    What to do when your Waymo holds up a Secret Service motorcade (www.ft.com)
  • 159 111

    UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told (www.bbc.com)
  • 264 437

    Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy (apnews.com)
  • 6 21

    What to Know About JavaScript in 2026 (blog.master.dev)
  • 270 190

    28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days (unlisted.careers)
  • 92 61

    Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time (news.gallup.com)
  • 113 215

    Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech (blog.google)
  • 0 4

    Six of 48: I logged every way my AI agents failed for five months (github.com)
  • 204 187

    Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting (www.404media.co)
  • 36 105

    Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol (radicle.dev)
  • 146 260

    Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries (advocacy.consumerreports.org)
  • 54 42

    Jev Can't Be Calibrated (www.alexmolas.com)
  • 217 257

    GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car (drivingbench.com)
  • 124 224

    Why is Hacker News like that? (drewdevault.com)
  • 26 35

    Community condemn Bedminster AI mural as 'insult' to artists (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 79 346

    Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock (pointinthecloud.com)
  • 90 130

    Strands Harness (strandsagents.com)
  • 8 37

    Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963 (github.com)
  • 81 77

    Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees (www.cbc.ca)
  • 100 162

    Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform (stripe.dev)
  • 6 28

    Jev in practice: typed decisions, scoped authority (tenuo.ai)
  • 32 33

    Comma's hands-off driving tech under investigation after 2 fatal crashes (techcrunch.com)
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    Show HN: Jevper – the Jev interface on top of any OpenAI-compatible model (github.com)
  • 81 77

    The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly (marginalrevolution.com)
  • 183 320

    I don't want the details (michaelheap.com)
  • 95 161

    The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022) (michaelheap.com)
  • 22 18

    Show HN: Ive Sent It – online courier for files, with signed proof of delivery (ivesentit.com)
  • 60 85

    Two Git ignore files nobody told me about (mihai.dinculescu.dev)
  • 24 22

    What AI-Native Looks Like (fagnerbrack.com)
  • 250 227

    Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update (www.androidauthority.com)
  • 169 208

    Tokens too cheap to meter (jyn.dev)
  • 203 204

    OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world' (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 14 19

    Show HN: RxFilm Studio–Create and edit your product videos with AI agent (filmstudio.rxlab.app)
  • 239 431

    Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed] (blog.szypowi.cz)
  • QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer (questdb.com)
  • 18 131

    Z80 REPL (2018) (abagames.github.io)
  • 120 48

    The Download: why AI's latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than rea (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 296 260

    The darker side of being a doctor (drericlevi.pages.dev)
  • 2 8

    What Is an AI Software Factory? Lessons from 3 Client Deployments (camplight.net)
  • 69 77

    There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 184 230

    I am done with this shit (www.reddit.com)
  • 124 137

    Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC (apnews.com)
  • 56 75

    Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake (blog.melashri.net)
  • 190 596

    Jev in 25 Lines of Python (www.nobodywho.ai)
  • 26 51

    How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair? (www.thebirthofacapital.info)
  • 12 61

    Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs (github.com)
  • 97 343

    Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel (www.reddit.com)
  • 33 55

    No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls (www.pewresearch.org)
  • 42 94

    Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024) (www.usenix.org)
  • 315 246

    Transit rewards (waymo.com)
  • 2 30

    Delta: Highly available, strongly consistent storage using chain replication (2022) (engineering.fb.com)
  • 136 109

    US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship' (www.bbc.com)
  • 20 49

    The softness of metal (psyche.co)
  • 0 13

    Augustofaces: Pareidolia Fine Art (augusto.at)
  • 2 31

    Make Math Automatic with Mathy (gmays.com)
  • 63 51

    The new CC, an AI agent built for families (blog.google)
  • 1 7

    Apple's Dimensional Drawings (512pixels.net)
  • 54 120

    The current balance of power in open models (www.interconnects.ai)
  • 72 229

    ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system (github.com)
  • 45 163

    LLM Ass Bench (www.assbench.com)
  • 3 23

    The trouble with 'ntile()' (blog.djnavarro.net)
  • 249 463

    Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived (foxscript.org)
  • 36 56

    No Sloptober (no-sloptober.com)
  • 77 94

    The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin (blog.asciitweezers.com)
  • 683 357

    What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals (www.kqed.org)
  • 52 55

    The JavaScript Midlife Crisis (maroun-baydoun.com)
  • 67 116

    Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem? (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 586 782

    'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees (www.404media.co)
  • 35 135

    Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models (benchmarkheaven.com)
  • 93 153

    Markdown in /src (htmx.org)
  • 323 240

    People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 85 120

    An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord (discord.com)
  • 95 90

    Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production (electrek.co)
  • 192 471

    How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? (lemire.me)
  • 53 124

    Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS (github.com)
  • 10 38

    A Faster Shortest Path Algorithm (www.vals.ai)
  • 4 13

    The human brain is two separate organs, study finds (news.stanford.edu)
  • 135 180

    Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity (obscura.com)
  • 57 64

    Explaining to business people why building software is still hard (www.manager.dev)
  • 1 14

    A study of sequence weighting at scale (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 177 338

    SAML: A fractal of bad design (blog.trailofbits.com)
  • 479 883

    Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 1 9

    Zero-downtime Linux kernel zero-day mitigation via eBPF and SECCOMP (github.com)
  • 120 234

    Unreal Agent (unreallabs.ai)
  • 65 114

    George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts (commonedge.org)
  • 21 64

    Show HN: Training a model to identify AI web content from structure alone (arxiv.org)
  • 820 1728

    GPT-6 Sol and Luna (openai.com)
  • 16 93

    Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly (www.evalapply.org)
  • 30 52

    Launch HN: Coverage Cat (YC S22) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent (www.coveragecat.com)
  • 7 74

    One Minute Park (oneminutepark.tv)
  • 137 304

    There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027 (grapheneos.social)
  • 15 40

    Moving from cash to credit cards, PayPal, etc. is an ongoing privacy disaster (grapheneos.social)
  • 103 329

    Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max) (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 127 231

    WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE (github.com)
  • 82 78

    Aging may be a program, not a breakdown (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 41 26

    Americans' Drinking Remains at Record Low: Gallup Poll (news.gallup.com)
  • 4 24

    Show HN: InstinctFlash – High-Performance Serving Runtime for Robotics Models (github.com)
  • 7 42

    Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why (ai-rete-rag.com)
  • 1074 1765

    Claude Opus 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 2 273

    Claude Opus 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 9 55

    Relativistic raytracing (publish.obsidian.md)
  • 63 50

    Xbox continues its “reset” with dramatic restructuring (arstechnica.com)
  • 19 130

    16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985) (allpoetry.com)
  • 59 109

    Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster (minimaxir.com)
  • 26 53

    The Economics of Open-Weight Inference (data.ornn.com)
  • 18 92

    Vacate a drone restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents (www.eff.org)
  • 163 332

    I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB (mouse.dev)
  • 45 42

    Teleoperated Humans (www.jefftk.com)
  • 24 16

    If you start writing today, there's no way to know if you can write without AI (www.ssp.sh)
  • 32 154

    Solitaire Alone Together (solitairealonetogether.com)
  • 49 121

    Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day (arstechnica.com)
  • 34 91

    Jev – A curation of Jev demos on X, tools, skills, and integrations (github.com)
  • 0 10

    Quantum information spreading via higher-order operator correlators (arxiv.org)
  • 47 57

    What Capital Never Told You About Rent (www.humansontheloop.com)
  • 221 314

    OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev (arcturus-labs.com)
  • 572 781

    Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy (www.techradar.com)
  • 61 185

    Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support (droprun.sh)
  • 7 14

    We broke an Over-The-Air update on the ESP32 on purpose (groundrun.io)
  • 64 85

    Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising (stanfordreview.org)
  • 436 720

    OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 (www.cryptocellar.org)
  • 55 76

    People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI (www.404media.co)
  • 33 75

    Texas police department ordered to close for failing to provide public benefit (www.dallasnews.com)
  • 12 20

    AI Is Antithetical to Learning (jola.dev)
  • 53 201

    MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco (daniel.lawrence.lu)
  • 542 383

    AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You (alexn.org)
  • 3 45

    Video games inspire great UX (2019) (jenson.org)
  • 61 28

    Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It? (albertoarena.it)
  • 23 36

    Type Punning in C and C++ (blog.pwkf.org)
  • 2 17

    A build graph that rolls dice (fzakaria.com)
  • 5 12

    A Tokyo school counts the mornings it can see Mt. Fuji: 22 in 1965, 170 in 2023 (jivx.com)
  • 113 72

    JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development (blog.jetbrains.com)
  • 216 178

    9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game" (www.bristol.ac.uk)
  • 52 87

    Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B (verda.com)
  • 13 53

    JavaFX 27 Native Image on a Raspberry Pi 5 (ennerf.github.io)
  • 213 279

    AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0? (board.flatassembler.net)
  • 44 95

    A font that reads what you wrote (rohanadwankar.github.io)
  • 119 66

    Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences (norwegianscitechnews.com)
  • 690 853

    I said no and Apple said yes (dbushell.com)
  • 96 49

    Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking
  • 74 80

    What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers (www.wsj.com)
  • 18 52

    Jev introduces a new shape of LLM (simonwillison.net)
  • 39 66

    Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024) (gregorygundersen.com)
  • 158 397

    Can gzip be a language model? (nathan.rs)
  • 53 60

    Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide (2019) (www.bobble.tech)
  • 3 41

    World Wide Words (www.worldwidewords.org)
  • 1 11

    AMD briefly joins the $1T club (www.theregister.com)
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  • 65 162

    MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 99 67

    Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 13

    Epoll and Kqueue: How Operating Systems Learned to Wait Efficiently (thecodinggopher.substack.com)
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  • 48 59

    PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022) (gwern.net)
  • 11 24

    Smart Ring Maker Oura, Backers Seek $2.2B in US IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 1 9

    Copper-Rs: Live Telemetry Deterministic Twins for Robots (www.copper-robotics.com)
  • 35 70

    Truman World (trumanworld.live)
  • 1 38

    Paper Models of Polyhedra (www.polyhedra.net)
  • 62 96

    Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame' (variety.com)
  • 57 73

    Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011) (wondermark.com)
  • 111 140

    Elevated errors for multiple models – Resolved (status.claude.com)
  • 49 53

    More floating point alternatives (wizardzines.com)
  • 8 27

    The agents, they just want to talk (snats.xyz)
  • 114 198

    Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0 (lwn.net)
  • 9 30

    7 out of 9 Planetary Boundaries are breached (www.planetaryhealthcheck.org)