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  • 3 6

    Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough (techcrunch.com)
  • 5 13

    It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (popcar.bearblog.dev)
  • 12 29

    The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Successful Blogs? (danielstanica.com)
  • 3 18

    The Plight of the Martian Farmer (mceglowski.substack.com)
  • 0 9

    Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC (dmarcwise.io)
  • 13 26

    Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight (www.designboom.com)
  • 41 50

    Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland (www.euronews.com)
  • 4 18

    Show your hands honor for the power they bring you (aresluna.org)
  • 30 46

    Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust (rayfish.xyz)
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    Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork (raymii.org)
  • 76 178

    EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track (www.heise.de)
  • 7 15

    Spain's cadastre API is SOAP from 2003, so I built a JSON wrapper (+MCP) (prediohq.com)
  • 95 348

    Organic Maps (organicmaps.app)
  • 8 47

    Airplane Boneyards List and Map (airplaneboneyards.com)
  • 37 54

    Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel (www.economist.com)
  • 42 126

    Phosh 0.56.0 (phosh.mobi)
  • 26 58

    Show HN: KiCad in the Browser (demo.pcbjam.com)
  • 24 184

    Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (dthain.github.io)
  • 148 116

    Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025) (www.acc.org)
  • 5 28

    A gender-swap EarthBound for my daughter (2025) (tommy.reddad.net)
  • 32 55

    Trust your compiler: Modern C++ (categorica.io)
  • 1 34

    The Engineer in the Half-Space (yusufaytas.com)
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  • 8 15

    Show HN: I trained a language model that thinks the capital of Japan is Paris (hamiltonianresearch.xyz)
  • 18 27

    Dark mode with web standards (olliewilliams.xyz)
  • 50 69

    Knowledge Should Not Be Gated (www.formaly.io)
  • 14 40

    Functional Programming in hica (www.hica.dev)
  • 209 136

    Europe's new climate in seven charts (www.bbc.com)
  • 28 106

    Claude Design System Prompt (github.com)
  • 1 21

    Intuitive Quantum Electrodynamics (forwardscattering.org)
  • 6 25

    Scientist who cleaned space toilet on work now leading Mars exploration (www.bbc.com)
  • 12 17

    Returning to Zig after losing trust in Rust's governance (gracefulliberty.com)
  • 5 29

    Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks (www.bbc.com)
  • 45 47

    Pi squared is nearly 10 (mihai.page)
  • 5 6

    Common 3D Benchy Problems, Causes and Fixes (bambu3design.com)
  • 6 11

    The Economy Is K-Shaped (moai.studio)
  • 11 29

    About the Digital Art (www.tricivenola.com)
  • 51 97

    Fast Software, the Best Software (2019) (craigmod.com)
  • 136 118

    Programmers need to start meditating (jacob.gold)
  • 10 26

    Reducing Assumptions, Exploding Your Code (ryelang.org)
  • 65 60

    Web-based cryptography is always snake oil (www.devever.net)
  • 5 28

    Apocketlypse (0dd.company)
  • 2 6

    A Summer of Solar Cooking (2023) (100r.ca)
  • 55 49

    Is The Economist Always Wrong? (economist.com)
  • 1 14

    Width vs. Depth: Speculating on the Margin (blog.doubleword.ai)
  • 76 63

    sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25) (simonwillison.net)
  • 10 120

    Pandoc Lua Filters (pandoc.org)
  • 73 70

    EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles (www.wsj.com)
  • 5 62

    Megawatts by Microwave (computer.rip)
  • 12 18

    Beeg float library, a Rust port of Fabrice Bellard's libbf (github.com)
  • 3 20

    The Particle Box – Kinetic Molecular Theory Simulator (prepok.com)
  • 3 6

    Reading Minds with Ultrasound: Less-Invasive Technique for Brain's Intentions (2021) (www.caltech.edu)
  • 45 38

    Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents (hic-ai.com)
  • 5 16

    The Preemptive Draw and Preemptive Grip in the Cash-in-Transit Sector (gutsgatesguards.wordpress.com)
  • 15 38

    My ASN Journey series (2024) (www.animmouse.com)
  • 1 10

    Binary Coverage the Wrong Way (redvice.org)
  • 28 88

    Moby Dick Workout (2022) (www.hogbaysoftware.com)
  • 1 16

    Show your hands honor for the power they bring you (aresluna.org)
  • 127 235

    Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix (ui.shadcn.com)
  • 52 84

    President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car' (www.msn.com)
  • 4 13

    Backon – Python retry (zero deps, circuit breaker, async native) (github.com)
  • 5 73

    Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts (www.si.edu)
  • 36 88

    The Log is the Agent (arxiv.org)
  • 8 78

    Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii (www.hawaiinewsnow.com)
  • 0 4

    How to Enjoy John Ashbery (joshuacorey.substack.com)
  • 230 464

    If you're a button, you have one job (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 16 64

    University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts of History (2013) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 20 37

    Efficacy and Safety of Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression (jamanetwork.com)
  • 15 111

    Atomic Force Microscope [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 21 129

    Meta's Un-Stable Signature (hackerfactor.com)
  • 2 13

    Recovering garbled Bitcoin addresses (2024) (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 7 74

    Drone Autonomy (2021) (www.cggonzalez.com)
  • 35 50

    Reflections on the Guillotine (1957) (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • 1 16

    Mapping with In-Memory Layers to Reduce LLM Overload (ridgetext.com)
  • 48 67

    Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • 25 71

    Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025) (writerbeware.blog)
  • 8 13

    Zo Computer (www.zo.computer)
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  • 37 173

    Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets (www.mbl.edu)
  • 80 193

    Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray (stories.tamu.edu)
  • 61 34

    My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress (ekinertac.com)
  • 3 12

    Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may go (www.owlposting.com)
  • 6 45

    Australian influencer Lily Jay's tangled web of AI manipulation (www.abc.net.au)
  • 4 28

    New bacterial species discovered in NASA's cleanrooms (2025) (www.nature.com)
  • 46 34

    Can you build a recognizable World Map in under 500 bytes? (www.experimentlog.com)
  • 1 27

    Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share (arxiv.org)
  • 142 341

    GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com)
  • 1 9

    At Dog School, children gain a sense of achievement (www.csmonitor.com)
  • 73 211

    Better Models: Worse Tools (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • 22 86

    It's not me, it's the compiler (parsa.wtf)
  • 183 95

    AI has torched the market for junior programmers (seldo.com)
  • 0 3

    Iredis (github.com)
  • 46 118

    Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference (www.irishtimes.com)
  • 79 224

    Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System (ziglang.org)
  • 264 627

    Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com)
  • 57 148

    Fable created novel 4D splat format (adamraudonis.github.io)
  • 34 125

    Drone Physics (iahmed.me)
  • 0 22

    EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists (www.theregister.com)
  • 4 35

    Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console (www.mattgreer.dev)
  • 188 141

    As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers (www.seattletimes.com)
  • 4 31

    EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet? (www.endbasic.dev)
  • 2 14

    The .join() that should be a bug (kronotop.com)
  • 113 152

    Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches (www.jefftk.com)
  • 97 39

    Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe (www.dw.com)
  • 292 184

    “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky (www.eso.org)
  • 44 70

    BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments (github.com)
  • 10 60

    Plein Air (art.joonas.wtf)
  • 79 234

    Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 303 508

    Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (software.annas-archive.gl)
  • 13 59

    Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting (studios.disneyresearch.com)
  • 40 112

    Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years (www.euronews.com)
  • 383 656

    Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)
  • 39 63

    Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video] (2012) (vimeo.com)
  • 14 33

    The End of North America (paulkrugman.substack.com)
  • 14 62

    Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit (explainanalyze.com)
  • 29 109

    Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) (github.com)
  • 12 53

    Curveball (mightyburger.net)
  • 69 37

    California bans 'sell by' labels, hoping to cut food waste (www.nytimes.com)
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    What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)
  • 36 60

    The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode (tane.dev)
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  • 56 17

    Does average person understand that all disc media dies too?
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  • 8 42

    A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why (arstechnica.com)
  • 64 53

    How working memory could give rise to consciousness (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 40 123

    Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language (www.freepressjournal.in)
  • 129 311

    Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com)
  • 61 489

    Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019) (peteris.rocks)
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  • 25 93

    Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2 (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 162 169

    The Vespa at 80 (www.cbc.ca)
  • 11 24

    Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588 (www.irishtimes.com)
  • 2 10

    Unearthing the Reality of "Zombie Energy Systems" in Africa's Energy Transition (www.catf.us)
  • 124 207

    Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 2 37

    The Scanline Sweeper: A Glyph Rendering Algorithm [pdf] (rookandpossum.com)
  • 52 176

    Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained (www.databricks.com)
  • 5 9

    Godot bans "vibe-coded" code contributions (theguptalog.blogspot.com)
  • 3 35

    Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (github.com)
  • 454 798

    The bottleneck might be the air in the room (blog.mikebowler.ca)
  • 142 63

    2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results (www.hyperstitionai.com)
  • 11 34

    Bloomberg Terminal Is Ugly and Clunky–Everyone Still Uses It (oztalking.com)
  • 9 26

    Study reveals what people see when they read lips (news.ku.edu)
  • 36 143

    David Beazley – Programming Courses (www.dabeaz.com)
  • 83 178

    Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era (mirtitles.org)
  • 201 447

    Maybe you should learn something (www.marginalia.nu)
  • 81 172

    Agentic coding notes (danluu.com)
  • 5 26

    Reverse-engineering Codemasters' BIGF archive format in Ruby (davidslv.uk)
  • 37 148

    Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)
  • 15 46

    Show HN: A statically typed, cross-platform, easily bootstrappable build system (github.com)
  • 3 9

    CueBench for Developers is live: score how well you drive coding agents (app.cuebench.dev)
  • 1 8

    XMM-Newton helps revise distance to outer spiral arms (www.esa.int)
  • 8 12

    You can get Unicode working on DOS (twitter.com)
  • 33 24

    I Could Kill You with a Consumer Drone (www.defenseone.com)
  • 62 142

    MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds (mrbruh.com)
  • 9 26

    Scientists discover guidance system for migratory songbirds (news.exeter.ac.uk)
  • 144 60

    What does privatization of the US Postal Service mean? (phenomenalworld.org)
  • 46 124

    Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)
  • 0 16

    Notes from Building Tinkerfont (mighil.com)