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  • 0 5

    Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible (www.pricepoints.health)
  • Structured AI (YC F25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 3 15

    Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station (www.kpbj.fm)
  • 0 9

    Contra "Grandmaster-level chess without search" (2024) (cosmo.tardis.ac)
  • 28 46

    An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout (theshamblog.com)
  • 37 45

    Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026 (dzrh.com.ph)
  • 2 17

    The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 9 30

    Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it (www.usatoday.com)
  • 50 150

    Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat (arstechnica.com)
  • 8 120

    Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway (asteroidos.org)
  • 98 188

    Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans (electrek.co)
  • 113 66

    Russia's economy has entered the death zone (www.economist.com)
  • 1 44

    Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 15 48

    Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File (github.com)
  • 41 106

    Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification (kotaku.com)
  • 15 37

    Don't pass on small block ciphers (00f.net)
  • 26 74

    Claude Sonnet 4.6 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 451 570

    Claude Sonnet 4.6 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 40 158

    Gentoo on Codeberg (www.gentoo.org)
  • 5 33

    Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps (fuji.halfof8.com)
  • 52 102

    A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+ (twitter.com)
  • 57 43

    Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware? (semiengineering.com)
  • 0 14

    Show HN: Clawntown – An Evolving Crustacean Island (clawntown.lol)
  • 54 69

    Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School (www.404media.co)
  • 5 33

    Show HN: Continue – Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI (docs.continue.dev)
  • 51 70

    Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other (mage-bench.com)
  • 34 184

    Using go fix to modernize Go code (go.dev)
  • 25 106

    Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp (berksoft.ca)
  • 8 24

    Show HN: 6cy – Experimental streaming archive format with per-block codecs (github.com)
  • 56 110

    Chess engines do weird stuff (girl.surgery)
  • 33 105

    Async/Await on the GPU (www.vectorware.com)
  • 1 21

    Launch HN: Sonarly (YC W26) – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts (sonarly.com)
  • 6 28

    Labyrinth Locator (labyrinthlocator.org)
  • 17 44

    Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart (hannahritchie.substack.com)
  • 33 101

    So you want to build a tunnel (practical.engineering)
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  • Trata (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (NYC)
  • 111 203

    HackMyClaw (hackmyclaw.com)
  • 12 22

    Show HN: I built a simulated AI containment terminal for my sci-fi novel (vertex.flowlogix.ai)
  • 180 396

    CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 2 16

    Show HN: Cycast – High-performance radio streaming server written in Python (github.com)
  • 162 186

    Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring (www.theregister.com)
  • 46 33

    Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball (priceperball.net)
  • 50 31

    This is What It's Like to Spend Your Life in Prison (2023) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 8 25

    Claude Code talking about unexpected, different projects
  • 301 177

    America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital (www.governance.fyi)
  • 41 169

    I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D (aeris.edbn.me)
  • 11 65

    Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite (notnotp.com)
  • 8 17

    The mathematical mystery inside the legendary '90s shooter Quake 3 (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 108 75

    Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 139 215

    A Programmer's Loss of Identity (ratfactor.com)
  • 40 39

    Undo in Vi and Its Successors (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 64 59

    Rethinking High-School Science Fairs (asteriskmag.com)
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  • 1 15

    How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy (paulkrugman.substack.com)
  • 11 22

    Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence (www.mpg.de)
  • 5 33

    The Rev. Jesse Jackson, pioneering civil rights activist, dies at 84 (www.cnn.com)
  • 49 66

    How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is (www.newscientist.com)
  • 280 340

    Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning (www.arthurcnops.blog)
  • 663 949

    GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple (blog.tomaszdunia.pl)
  • 49 50

    Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like (oceandrops.substack.com)
  • 166 135

    WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 (www.heise.de)
  • 8 13

    Slopware AI: Ship Garbage Even Faster (slopware.ai)
  • 0 6

    The Professor of the Lower Senses (www.vittlesmagazine.com)
  • 40 138

    Xbox UI Portfolio Site (gabrielcabrera.co)
  • 44 68

    Show HN: I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer) (github.com)
  • 21 156

    Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser (glitchycam.com)
  • 26 140

    Rendering the Visible Spectrum (brandonli.net)
  • 44 65

    Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction (www.bbc.com)
  • 12 68

    SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution (svardos.org)
  • 121 185

    Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)
  • 76 318

    Four Column ASCII (2017) (garbagecollected.org)
  • 135 175

    Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout (vo2maxpro.com)
  • 152 192

    Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents? (arxiv.org)
  • 5 19

    Portable 1MV X-ray system combines Cockcroft–Walton with Van de Graaff dome (www.lanl.gov)
  • 79 79

    Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market (www.cnbc.com)
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  • 57 151

    A deep dive into Apple's .car file format (dbg.re)
  • 72 61

    Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems (newsletter.mikekonczal.com)
  • 40 88

    DBASE on the Kaypro II (stonetools.ghost.io)
  • 82 67

    Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm (www.bbc.com)
  • 84 67

    What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf] (www.complang.tuwien.ac.at)
  • 64 98

    Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI (codemade.net)
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  • 38 76

    Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (www.openculture.com)
  • 319 542

    Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse (www.bbc.com)
  • 322 392

    AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 4 10

    Show HN: Journey – A Custom 2D ECS Game Engine Written in Rust and WGPU (ujjwalvivek.com)
  • 28 23

    Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips (arstechnica.com)
  • 27 112

    Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
  • 72 406

    Rise of the Triforce (dolphin-emu.org)
  • 23 64

    Resist and Unsubscribe (Scott Galloway) (www.resistandunsubscribe.com)
  • 15 47

    PascalABC.net (pascalabc.net)
  • 71 162

    H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation (www.h1bexposed.tech)
  • 76 158

    Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (www.docker.com)
  • 13 33

    Building a model that visualizes strategic golf (golfcoursewiki.substack.com)
  • 49 42

    10 years building vertical software: are we cooked? (twitter.com)
  • 27 76

    LCM: Lossless Context Management [pdf] (papers.voltropy.com)
  • 3 34

    Camera that captures photos to cassette tape (hackaday.io)
  • 33 41

    Kim Dotcom says Palantir allegedly hacked (twitter.com)
  • 68 99

    Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife (apps.apple.com)
  • 162 350

    SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks (arxiv.org)
  • 18 30

    Chiplets Get Physical: The Days of Mix-and-Match Silicon Draw Nigh (www.eejournal.com)
  • 122 255

    Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com)
  • Turing Labs (YC W20) Is Hiring – Founding GTM Sales Hacker
  • 130 129

    AI optimism is a class privilege (joshcollinsworth.com)
  • 65 113

    Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)
  • 50 96

    Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (www.lirbank.com)
  • 34 129

    State of Show HN: 2025 (blog.sturdystatistics.com)
  • 77 147

    Neurons outside the brain (essays.debugyourpain.com)
  • 28 79

    The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation (blog.chrislewis.au)
  • 1 26

    Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search (github.com)
  • 26 382

    Visual introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)
  • 188 885

    14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 81 96

    How not to answer the salary question (adatosystems.com)
  • 128 130

    Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe (wero-wallet.eu)
  • 218 237

    "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)
  • 28 27

    Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026 (thedecipherist.com)
  • 43 155

    PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (www.intertronics.co.uk)
  • 3 16

    Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API (playground.get-nerve.com)
  • 89 452

    Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
  • 9 39

    Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator (simonhalvdansson.github.io)
  • 3 49

    STM32G431 Analogue TV Transmitter (slyka.net)
  • 71 72

    "I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us with $30K Workers" [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 69 142

    Robert Duvall has died (www.nytimes.com)
  • 124 299

    Use protocols, not services (notnotp.com)
  • 275 325

    Privilege is bad grammar (tadaima.bearblog.dev)
  • 16 50

    Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52 (www.dexerto.com)
  • 45 81

    History of AT&T Long Lines (telephoneworld.org)
  • 257 160

    I guess I kinda get why people hate AI (anthony.noided.media)
  • 76 147

    WebMCP Proposal (webmachinelearning.github.io)
  • 27 75

    Palantir CEO wants to spray "fentanyl-laced urine" on analysts (twitter.com)
  • 7 131

    How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 19 84

    Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium (github.com)
  • 32 91

    Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview (www.lux.camera)
  • 7 61

    Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter (github.com)
  • 5 33

    Richard Carrington's first portrait has been found (www.cnn.com)
  • 60 33

    Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 12 68

    planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary (github.com)
  • 124 366

    UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
  • 1 11

    How DSQL makes sure sequences scale (blog.benjscho.dev)
  • 126 155

    The Sideprocalypse (johan.hal.se)
  • 185 512

    What your Bluetooth devices reveal (blog.dmcc.io)
  • 115 111

    iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life (www.macrumors.com)
  • 212 422

    Ghidra by NSA (github.com)
  • 140 230

    Running My Own XMPP Server (blog.dmcc.io)
  • 343 508

    Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (www.legalcheek.com)
  • 4 6

    Show HN: I generated a "stress test" of 200 rare defects from 7 real photos
  • 313 278

    The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself (ahmedeldin.substack.com)
  • 303 368

    Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
  • 63 125

    Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code (christopherkrapu.com)
  • 203 425

    Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
  • 239 387

    Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (www.theregister.com)
  • 54 154

    Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing (github.com)
  • 64 162

    MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com)
  • 11 54

    Hard problems in social media archiving (alexwlchan.net)
  • 13 34

    Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout (2021) (peterxjang.medium.com)
  • 70 125

    Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com)
  • 4 18

    Show HN: Solving Sudoku reasoning via Energy Geometric models (www.davisgeometric.com)
  • 18 134

    1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (www.heritagedaily.com)
  • 90 127

    Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (blog.exe.dev)
  • 109 109

    Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found (www.nytimes.com)
  • 928 1463

    I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
  • 115 105

    Building SQLite with a small swarm (kiankyars.github.io)
  • 58 70

    Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish? (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
  • 34 45

    Databases should contain their own Metadata – Use SQL Everywhere (floedb.ai)
  • 12 42

    DHS has reportedly sent out subpoenas to identify ICE critics online (www.engadget.com)
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  • 6 20

    Benchmarking Automatic Typesetting Systems (news.speedata.de)
  • 15 25

    The heavy reality of Venezuela's oil (www.reuters.com)
  • 44 33

    How long do job postings stay open? (corvi.careers)
  • 99 147

    Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (www.economist.com)
  • 45 56

    I Love Board Games: A Personal Obsession Explained by Psychology (www.thesswnetwork.com)
  • 14 67

    Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending (www.nytimes.com)
  • 229 171

    JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
  • 2 27

    Language a Wood for Thought: Susan Howe's Work (www.poetryfoundation.org)
  • 73 109

    Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality (www.pennmedicine.org)
  • 3 59

    Transforming a Clojure Database into a Library with GraalVM Native Image and FFI (avelino.run)
  • 296 135

    Why I don't think AGI is imminent (dlants.me)