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  • 3 4

    Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (github.com)
  • 0 8

    Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal (github.com)
  • 1 9

    Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels (phulin.me)
  • 2 9

    What Would It Mean to See a New Color? (www.newyorker.com)
  • 10 20

    Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (www.ctgt.ai)
  • 0 12

    Show HN: Supapool – a Supabase per coding agent in ~400 ms (supapool.io)
  • 28 69

    2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026 (obryant.dev)
  • 186 300

    UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (www.uefa.com)
  • 19 41

    So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ (dynomight.net)
  • 0 4

    Show HN: Tally – check a spreadsheet's numbers against their source, in-browser (tally.jiegou.ai)
  • 0 8

    Show HN: Noisegate – a differential-privacy gateway for untrusted AI agents (github.com)
  • 4 52

    Making Postgres queues scale (www.dbos.dev)
  • 13 54

    CodePen 2.0 (chriscoyier.net)
  • 102 176

    We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 (www.bottlenecklabs.com)
  • 16 33

    US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference (www.theguardian.com)
  • 71 194

    Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)
  • 236 363

    Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (openai.com)
  • 112 251

    Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 29 28

    How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 59 35

    Toot.community is shutting down (social.jorijn.com)
  • Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 5 41

    How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025) (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  • 0 8

    Reversing Abstractions: An Existential Crisis (www.humprog.org)
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  • 2 16

    Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast (brandur.org)
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  • 22 37

    Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again (github.com)
  • 6 15

    Postgres rewritten in Rust v0.2, now faster than Postgres and ClickHouse (github.com)
  • 25 31

    Parody Hacker News (2013) (bradconte.com)
  • 63 120

    Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 5 25

    RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 61 140

    The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (martinfowler.com)
  • 318 351

    Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)
  • 32 31

    Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents (fletch.sh)
  • 3 36

    Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset? (rusty.today)
  • 2 4

    Show HN: I audited my AI leaderboard scale – every score dropped 6-15 points (agiranker.com)
  • 116 55

    The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  • 74 52

    Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others (www.cam.ac.uk)
  • 13 47

    Building a native C# implementation of CEL engine (bsid.io)
  • 16 50

    SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library (github.com)
  • 12 20

    Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures (blog.certisfy.com)
  • 18 100

    Hacker Public Radio (hackerpublicradio.org)
  • 35 120

    Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 (www.projectpluto.com)
  • 1 15

    Going beneath NTFS: USN Journal, dfir_NTFS, and artefact-driven investigations (andreafortuna.org)
  • 196 117

    Europe's fires are just the start (economist.com)
  • 6 45

    The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984) (hex.ooo)
  • 35 58

    Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools (prized.dev)
  • 57 116

    Are We Stuck with Lean? (mathoverflow.net)
  • 4 13

    UK police to arrest people for showing support for Palestine Action (twitter.com)
  • 36 59

    You can't solve computer use by ignoring the interface (steelmanlabs.com)
  • 42 92

    3D Pinball for Windows (1995) (98.js.org)
  • 160 421

    'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling (remysharp.com)
  • 30 105

    RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020) (mnot.net)
  • 60 69

    Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (select.supply)
  • 14 53

    Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib) (github.com)
  • 14 55

    CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB (www.wiz.io)
  • 74 53

    OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI (openjdk.org)
  • 161 133

    Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? (www.construction-physics.com)
  • 88 102

    Why don't people use formal methods? (2019) (www.hillelwayne.com)
  • 59 56

    How old is Ann? (quuxplusone.github.io)
  • 41 30

    What it means for an API to be RESTful (en.andros.dev)
  • 205 170

    GCC steering committee announces AI policy (lwn.net)
  • Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Robotics/Research Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 54 108

    The Glass Famine (edconway.substack.com)
  • 49 68

    ChatGPT, Roblox to fall under strictest EU rules for platforms (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 102 220

    Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 (www.grumpygamer.com)
  • 3 11

    Cisco FMC static credential vulnerability exploited as a zero-day (sec.cloudapps.cisco.com)
  • 7 34

    The Apple Calculator Language (wadetregaskis.com)
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  • 53 56

    Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits (docs.carolinacloud.io)
  • 72 85

    Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode (github.com)
  • 59 168

    Azulejo (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 66 40

    Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea (atomarine.co)
  • 34 114

    Gpiozero Flow (bennuttall.com)
  • 356 288

    Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year (android-developers.googleblog.com)
  • 30 80

    The first watch featuring computer functions (by.seiko-design.com)
  • 14 56

    ESP32-C6 Power Consumption: Arduino vs. Zephyr vs. ESP-IDF Comparison (www.qoitech.com)
  • 65 47

    I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air (christianselig.com)
  • 28 56

    Concurrency, interactivity, mutability, choose two (www.n16f.net)
  • 58 40

    Why the future is local app (getapps.cafe)
  • 12 6

    Show HN: Edge Drop- #1 productivity and unique clipboard 200 stars on GitHub (github.com)
  • 1 16

    Claude is down for 2nd consecutive day (status.claude.com)
  • 54 82

    EU now fears US interference in European elections (www.eunews.it)
  • 41 68

    London’s most equidistant pub (equidistance.io)
  • 95 154

    1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed (noyb.eu)
  • 1 3

    The Royal Order of Operations (ken.fyi)
  • 2 12

    Thanatos Rising (theamericanscholar.org)
  • 17 73

    Kuna: Decompiler Development in the Age of Coding Agents (noelo.org)
  • 77 82

    NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements (www.nsf.gov)
  • 43 189

    Logic for Programmers (logicforprogrammers.com)
  • 49 39

    A pharmacy chain in Vermont implemented AI for efficiency (vtdigger.org)
  • 9 57

    Angels in Coptic Magic I: Introduction (www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de)
  • 30 38

    Flume Water Monitor 915 MHz Security Is Pretty Good (waveformsecurity.com)
  • 9 20

    Starter Homes Are Piling Up While Luxury Homes Fly Off the Market (www.zillow.com)
  • 11 57

    Recursive Filters: SMA, EMA, Low‑Pass, and a Tiny Kalman (www.staszewski.xyz)
  • 22 40

    Show HN: A local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents (github.com)
  • 5 8

    Why you should sell your AI Skills? (capabase.ai)
  • 148 341

    The Productivity Mirage (frantic.im)
  • 0 18

    Interconverting std::function with copyable_function (quuxplusone.github.io)
  • 104 371

    LLM Honeypot (llm2human.pages.dev)
  • 13 54

    Man and the Computer by John G. Kemeny (1972 book by the co-creator of BASIC) (archive.org)
  • 45 56

    GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world (depot.dev)
  • 28 67

    Refactoring cuisine: how an Iraqi stew sailed to Singapore (iza.ac)
  • 111 281

    The Cold Email (zachholman.com)
  • 51 34

    Staging patches with git add (2024) (www.simonholywell.com)
  • 309 584

    AI's top startups are barely publishing their research (www.science.org)
  • SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring FDEs (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 299 800

    The coolest use for the Vision Pro (christianselig.com)
  • 5 15

    I'm running a programming contest (eieio.games)
  • 9 35

    Theo Conjecture solves 35-year-old math problem, finds a term no one predicted (firstprinciples.com)
  • 73 120

    A Trampoline (dogdogfish.com)
  • 7 18

    Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
  • 246 267

    Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved (status.claude.com)
  • 38 28

    Balcony Solar: $1.74/watt direct plug-in solar (www.brightsaver.org)
  • 251 450

    Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (huggingface.co)
  • 148 482

    Kimi K3-256k (www.kimi.com)
  • 10 10

    Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 20 60

    How much can you delegate to agents? (newsletter.posthog.com)
  • 3 38

    PGSimCity – an explorable 3D model that shows how Postgres works (github.com)
  • 161 203

    Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit) (prilik.com)
  • 32 55

    The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings (www.bbc.com)
  • 1 29

    Gleam v1.18.0 (gleam.run)
  • 9 15

    The growing threat of Docusign phishing attacks (2024) (www.darktrace.com)
  • 49 54

    How to think about software quality (2022) (www.evalapply.org)
  • 47 84

    Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals (www.emergingtrajectories.com)
  • 64 42

    Who the welfare state protects shapes a country’s financial openness (theloop.ecpr.eu)
  • 2 16

    Ads-STE100: Simplified Technical English (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 19 34

    Learning Musical Multitasking (www.jefftk.com)
  • 239 269

    Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10 (cheapfoodmap.com)
  • 107 180

    Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
  • 3 25

    Infrastructure Patterns for Agentic Applications (render.com)
  • 22 172

    The Rust on ESP Book (docs.espressif.com)
  • PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 22 41

    I Want to Leave the Internet (chupacabra.bearblog.dev)
  • 176 428

    Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice (www.digitalfoundry.net)
  • 44 30

    CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches (www.designboom.com)
  • 15 68

    Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite (kedge.dev)
  • 51 25

    Baseload Is a Myth (2024) (cleanenergyreview.io)
  • 448 755

    Superlogical (www.superlogical.com)
  • 3 150

    Superlogical (mitchellh.com)
  • 60 63

    Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]
  • 44 93

    Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold (www.engadget.com)
  • 54 169

    Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used (alsterrunde.com)
  • 59 69

    Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money (usetokenless.com)
  • 47 147

    Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution (aistack.imec-int.com)
  • 100 51

    AI in Linux (drewdevault.com)
  • 5 23

    Graph Engineering Needs a Compiler (fluxtion-playground.dev)
  • 121 72

    Apple's hostile App Store rating system (lapcatsoftware.com)
  • 22 33

    PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's (boringsql.com)
  • 20 92

    Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon (github.com)
  • 21 98

    GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best? (juliahub.com)
  • 16 140

    Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (huggingface.co)
  • 15 39

    Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite's creator (cesium.com)
  • 11 26

    The Scientific Literature Is Poisonous to LLMs (www.reinvent.science)
  • 315 874

    Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (github.com)
  • 384 302

    A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands (www.nytimes.com)
  • 4 18

    Show HN: Write, simulate and synthesize VHDL/Verilog in the browser (risingedge.pro)
  • 1 11

    Show HN: A verification browser for AI agents – 13ms windows, one-call checks (github.com)
  • 91 162

    San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing (www.eff.org)
  • 31 69

    Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows (www.phoronix.com)
  • 20 72

    TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
  • 55 86

    Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite (tracewayapp.com)
  • 22 115

    Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem (www.claire-blackshaw.com)
  • 170 353

    Darktable (www.darktable.org)
  • 13 35

    It doesn't matter whether "Matz is nice" (po-ru.com)
  • 117 153

    Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago (www.newscientist.com)
  • 73 91

    Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression' (www.npr.org)
  • 226 124

    After the AI Crash (potsandpansbyccg.com)
  • 68 62

    Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles (github.com)
  • 202 321

    Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents (arxiv.org)
  • 13 29

    Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself (echologue.com)
  • 47 48

    Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?
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  • 43 88

    Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions (github.blog)
  • 7 7

    Pulse Path – a browser puzzle where placement is the only decision (pulsepathgame.netlify.app)
  • 4 34

    ALP: Adaptive lossless floating-point compression (github.com)
  • 9 37

    A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU (JCGT) (jcgt.org)
  • 77 335

    French musician Kavinsky found dead (www.euronews.com)
  • 29 20

    Starling: The first real desktop written by AI (starling.build)
  • 2 9

    We Hardened an AI Security Platform Against 16 Critical Vulnerabilities (aegis-security.higgsfield.app)
  • 55 43

    They Stole Your Attention (moai.studio)
  • 237 733

    KOReader (koreader.rocks)
  • 288 377

    Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word (enklypesalt.com)
  • 69 38

    The only road in London where you have to drive on the right (www.mylondon.news)
  • 70 73

    National Security Determination Threat Posed by Foreign-Produced Robotic Devices [pdf] (www.fcc.gov)
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  • 24 167

    Amiga Graphics Archive (amiga.lychesis.net)
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  • 11 79

    SpecForge – A Platform for Authoring Formal Specifications (docs.imiron.io)
  • 0 6

    The Shape of Data (2022) (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  • 26 35

    Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels (vimgolf.ai)
  • 52 67

    Ancient Rome's version of Google Maps: how long to reach the beach (www.euronews.com)
  • 82 48

    ChatGPT claims rogue AI attacked more companies (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 32 122

    Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp (letoverlambda.com)
  • 77 251

    SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers (micrologics.org)
  • 10 6

    Fixing a bug with byte order marks (alexwlchan.net)
  • 9 16

    Show HN: Firemaps Spain – Live wildfire map with wind flow for ES and PT (firemapsspain.online)
  • 31 44

    60 Years Ago, a Submerged Submarine Circled the Globe for the First Time (2020) (www.popularmechanics.com)
  • 74 425

    User Interfaces of the Demo Scene (www.datagubbe.se)
  • 26 93

    Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to Win32 (www.collabora.com)
  • 110 402

    More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle (tailscale.com)
  • 8 72

    Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design (transformer-transformer.github.io)
  • 2 13

    OpenShell Kubernetes Operator (github.com)
  • 2 18

    Show HN: Lean4 Datalog DSL Based on Google Zanzibar for AI Projects (github.com)
  • 56 48

    Beyond Greece and Rome (aeon.co)
  • 51 74

    Chip stocks slide in US and Asia as AI jitters rattle investors (www.bbc.com)
  • 10 12

    Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge? (dynomight.net)
  • 75 62

    Hooray for the Sockets Interface (blog.apnic.net)
  • 172 262

    LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences (learnvector.ai)
  • 87 109

    Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes (abeljansma.nl)
  • 109 169

    State of multi-player Wayland (blinry.org)
  • 3 24

    Show HN: Learning Rust by writing a Markdown to HTML compiler (andreadimatteo.com)
  • 4 12

    Industry Brief: Private 5G for Manufacturing and Industrial Sites [pdf] (framerusercontent.com)
  • 0 16

    Lockless MPSC FIFO queues for io_uring (lwn.net)
  • 5 29

    Lightweight Spring Boot Monitoring Without Prometheus and Grafana (pvrlabs.xyz)
  • 48 218

    ReFrame – The EPaper Camera (reframe.camera)
  • 71 147

    Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents (www.hubble.md)
  • 50 67

    The Difference Between a Button and a Link (unplannedobsolescence.com)
  • 32 48

    Show HN: Manim (3Blue1Brown's animation engine) in the browser via WebGPU (studio.academa.ai)
  • 106 36

    Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 2 14

    AE Studio recruiting pirates to recover treasure located by AI (ae.studio)