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    rVPN – stealth VPN with end-to-end encryption (rvpn.org)
  • 0 8

    What It Costs to Run 4 Apps on My Own Servers (akashrajpurohit.com)
  • 55 68

    Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei truck in America (www.theautopian.com)
  • 14 33

    Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890 (www.archives.gov)
  • 2 31

    Six Math Essentials by Terence Tao (teorth.github.io)
  • 17 53

    Life on Claude Nine (babuschk.in)
  • 3 29

    The planet Vulcan: a cautionary tale (kevinboone.me)
  • 56 48

    Saltline: First-person shooter built by Fable 5.2 (claude.ai)
  • 8 42

    A comprehensive study of how fingerprintable users are (fingerprinting.study)
  • 26 57

    What objective is reasoning solving? (alexwang.ai)
  • 6 18

    Twelve things you could build on a live index of internet radio (tuneping.com)
  • 6 43

    An Open Field Guide to Inference Engineering (docs.modelplane.ai)
  • 88 116

    Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data (claude.com)
  • 2 8

    Show HN: WolveKafka – Consume Kafka with a plain HTTP endpoint (github.com)
  • 191 181

    Starlink Mini 2 (starlink.com)
  • 53 183

    Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives (github.com)
  • 19 24

    Work at the Frontier: AI's effect on freelance work (openai.com)
  • 89 206

    Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers (lwn.net)
  • 7 26

    Variable-width Bézier curves (2025) (luthert.web.illinois.edu)
  • 58 235

    Val Town is winding down (blog.val.town)
  • 35 87

    Process Explorer for macOS (github.com)
  • 12 8

    U.S. highways have 878 stretches of 50+ miles with no fast EV charger (map) (chargingnear.me)
  • 92 197

    I deleted all my SSH keys (blog.infected.systems)
  • 48 140

    AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 118 555

    .name Grandfathered (neil.fraser.name)
  • 63 119

    Tailscale's DNS IPv6 spells out "Tailscale" (www.reddit.com)
  • 52 367

    Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support (www.blender.org)
  • 38 151

    Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View (tinyvalencia.com)
  • 151 139

    Palantir hires a former Democratic senator as it faces scrutiny in new Congress (text.npr.org)
  • 144 262

    Gemini 4 Carbon is now available (blog.google)
  • 10 35

    PHP2Shell Deep Dive (djad04.github.io)
  • 190 541

    Smart home devices should work without the internet (docodethatmatters.com)
  • 5 64

    .NET 11 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 74 70

    The death knell of digital search (www.newyorker.com)
  • 9 26

    Wake me up when AI can... (stoppels.ch)
  • 30 140

    The Hardest Tarball? (stoppels.ch)
  • 5 31

    Building an OOO RISC-V CPU from scratch (prawns.dev)
  • 49 29

    Anthropic launches roadshow for proposed initial public offering (www.anthropic.com)
  • 106 80

    The U.S. Is Driving Away Young Scientists (www.nytimes.com)
  • 36 111

    Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2 (ericswpark.com)
  • 9 48

    Here comes the sun[light]:An ambient Daylight Clock with time and space controls (hannahilea.com)
  • 19 16

    Sexual harassment takes a hidden toll on gig workers (www.futurity.org)
  • 16 71

    Let over Lambda–50 Years of Lisp (2008) (letoverlambda.com)
  • 69 118

    NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 (neongd.com)
  • 33 34

    Compress any LLM 3x in one click,near-lossless,in under 50 MB RAM (neuracryption.com)
  • 145 205

    What's new in the .NET 11 runtime (learn.microsoft.com)
  • 255 236

    Ableton Live 13 (www.ableton.com)
  • 171 125

    Don't buy AR glasses (blog.yaros.ae)
  • 22 63

    Simon Winchester, Author of 'The Professor and the Madman,' Has Died (www.nytimes.com)
  • 80 58

    Anthropic to Seek $1.3T Valuation in IPO (www.wsj.com)
  • 130 162

    Show HN: A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server (github.com)
  • 169 535

    AlphaProof Code (deepmind.google)
  • 18 26

    Merz: Google Cloud is sovereign enough for intelligence agencies (www.heise.de)
  • 19 99

    Show HN: Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser (www.ghanastreetgames.com)
  • 53 62

    'C:\> FORMAT C:' – relax, it's just a screen saver (fakedos.com)
  • 177 179

    What constant surveillance is doing to children and parents (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 354 288

    AI usage generates a fragile codebase (evanxmerz.com)
  • 186 161

    Fossil CO2 emissions decrease in 2026 (news.exeter.ac.uk)
  • 4 13

    Echoloc: A minimalist echolocation horror videogame (level102.itch.io)
  • 19 64

    Russia's combat losses in the data of Rosstat (rosstat-leaks.com)
  • 66 74

    Meet the Sad Wives of AI (www.wired.com)
  • 51 95

    Billion Watts in the Speaker [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 12 21

    S.t.a.l.k.e.r. Call of Pripyat in WASM and WebGPU (stalker-online.xyz)
  • 105 188

    Queens Public Library under ransomware attack (connect.queenslibrary.org)
  • 31 119

    How hard is it to check for whitespace? (serce.me)
  • 59 157

    Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers (www.notion.com)
  • 17 19

    China drafts lifetime ID codes for every robot it makes, not just humanoids (asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
  • 85 109

    M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker (www.theguardian.com)
  • 9 96

    ClickHouse Acquires Xata (xata.io)
  • 60 54

    A failed experiment in laptop cooling (2025) (kevinboone.me)
  • 7 20

    Mathematicians Are Like Luddites (alok.blog)
  • 236 675

    Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider (strandsagents.com)
  • 122 256

    Your TV can see through walls (2025) (maurycyz.com)
  • 8 11

    They Can Barely Drive, They're Flying Planes: The Surprising Rise of Teen Pilots (www.wsj.com)
  • 49 140

    Ultorg: The User Interface for Relational Databases (www.ultorg.com)
  • 4 8

    Test Pattern History: How Color Bars Became a TV Staple (2020) (tedium.co)
  • 55 123

    Formalizing CPython (broyojo.com)
  • 62 39

    How many people work from home? (nicholasdecker.substack.com)
  • 184 191

    CoreWeave bond yield tops 16% as AI credit stress rises (www.cnbc.com)
  • 12 24

    The Race to Build a "Find My" for AI Chips (spectrum.ieee.org)
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    Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 3 9

    An Aggregate Is a Function, Not a Sum (alnovis.io)
  • 162 312

    Locating the source of a mysterious beep (simonwillison.net)
  • 5 11

    AI Bubble Tracker (endtime-instruments.org)
  • 4 59

    Never Gonna Print You Up (dixken.de)
  • 85 236

    Horible public key tricks (maurycyz.com)
  • 15 27

    A renowned scientist, a deadly snakebite, and a diary that documented it (2025) (www.cbsnews.com)
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    Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game (notesbylex.com)
  • 13 27

    ssh2RCE (ssh2rce.com)
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  • 106 132

    Exact – a new cross platform UI framework (github.com)
  • 79 48

    Jensen Huang scandal sparks divorce speculation (www.forbes.com)
  • 2 19

    Magnets and Rare Earths (robodienst.com)
  • 189 145

    A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code (www.reddit.com)
  • 75 254

    TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max (blog.google)
  • 3 23

    Possible 19th-century castaway camp found on Isla de los Estados (phys.org)
  • 5 28

    Claude Fable 5.2 launch offers (support.claude.com)
  • 6 20

    Supply chain attack on Qubole customers (sentra.io)
  • 80 92

    Parking-app convenience fees in 312 U.S. cities (median $0.35 per session) (parkgraph.com)
  • 3 52

    An ode to livelyness analysis; SSA to registers (xnacly.me)
  • 265 369

    Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 147 707

    Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators (github.com)
  • 385 716

    USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons (postalpro.usps.com)
  • 39 105

    Show HN: STE80 Humanizer – de-AI text by writing 80% of the way to ASD-STE100 (github.com)
  • 15 50

    Deuterium's Impact on OLED Displays (2024) (www.oled-info.com)
  • 103 69

    Iran was behind cyber-attack on French supermarket freezers, Paris says (www.theguardian.com)
  • 101 177

    CUI – Native UI components for C (yappologistic.github.io)
  • 3 14

    I Am Done Using Your UI (killianc.com)
  • 8 9

    Show HN: My daily word puzzle Jointter revisited
  • 294 179

    On Being an Engineer in 2026 (shahar.blog)
  • 77 492

    E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs (e-means.github.io)
  • 42 113

    Show HN: Someone Was Here – Find out who used your Mac while you were away (someonewashere.app)
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  • 21 184

    A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization (www.nabo.dev)
  • 6 986

    Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 15 36

    Show HN: Recalc – Spreadsheet where cells can be Claude Code or Codex terminals (github.com)
  • 27 155

    DeepX claims inference up to 100B parameters at less than 5 W (www.eetimes.com)
  • 79 447

    Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos (www.watched.earth)
  • 5 15

    Show HN: Write GitHub Actions in any language: Loopt (github.com)
  • 45 114

    Show HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse (meowdisplay.app)
  • 90 153

    The first 300-millimeter power silicon carbide (SiC) wafer (www.infineon.com)
  • 576 342

    Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds (www.westcentralonline.com)
  • 139 325

    Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model (research.meta.ai)
  • 11 16

    Private equity is building a volleyball empire on dreams of 12-year-old girls (bayareavolleyballclub.com)
  • 200 342

    Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering another, better universe
  • 4 18

    Turning the HEIC decoder into a SHA-256 computer (www.irisc2.com)
  • 302 325

    When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385 (www.cnx-software.com)
  • 9 29

    The Learjet Repo Man (2009) (www.salon.com)
  • 47 119

    Show HN: DBDelve – Open-Source DB Client Made with Rust and GPUI
  • 13 34

    Pointer Provenance in Rust vs. C++: Pointers Are Not Just Glorified Ints (sofiabelen.github.io)
  • Y/N (YC S23) is hiring a growth lead to distribute superhuman A.I. storytelling (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 21 77

    Pigshell: Unix the Web (pigshell.com)
  • 6 53

    Commerce Dept Inquiry into Megaspeed Halted After Nvdia Intervention (www.nytimes.com)
  • 53 52

    Castration extends life span, but in a surprising way, mouse study suggests (www.science.org)
  • 335 579

    Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system (www.payments.ca)
  • 251 346

    Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics (www.anthropocenemagazine.org)
  • 87 170

    The same H100 costs $2.69 or $12.29 an hour depending where you rent it (github.com)
  • 79 98

    Time for AVIF everywhere? (www.michaelponders.com)
  • 326 437

    I saw your HN comment (joshstrange.com)
  • 203 222

    Cryptocurrency lawsuit: Ethereum Foundation required "suicide pledge" (www.denverpost.com)
  • 2 44

    Active Benchmarking (www.brendangregg.com)
  • 46 117

    Zebkit – Chromium as an embeddable library (github.com)
  • 50 67

    He Was a Suspect in the Yogurt Shop Murders for Thirty Years. He Can't Forget (www.texasmonthly.com)
  • 170 188

    Children of Men: The future is a mirror for the present (reactormag.com)
  • 13 48

    Borrowing a Microsoft-signed shim to abuse Secure Boot on corporate hardware (leosmith.wtf)
  • 14 30

    How Australia played the first music on a computer (www.pearcey.org.au)
  • 446 482

    Humans will never again create a project quite like Wikipedia (www.economist.com)
  • 12 79

    6 Hours of YouTube and 85 handtyped pages of notes on LLM Inference – Start here (github.com)
  • 64 254

    What is malloc doing, anyway? (benmandrew.com)
  • 62 32

    Ginux: A New Kernel Runs Linux Userspace, Made via Human-Directed AI Engineering (zenodo.org)
  • 12 39

    Nvidia's China Problem [pdf] (culperresearch.com)
  • 133 136

    Try Gleam (nchagnet.eu)
  • 167 1181

    Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes (www.foldableflight.com)
  • 79 88

    Burying the Evidence: nine out of every 10 time capsules go missing (longreads.com)
  • 26 18

    Electric cars are about to overtake petrol in the UK, data shows (electrek.co)
  • 70 82

    Nvidia was in 1 in 11 startup rounds over $100M last year (datahyena.com)
  • 91 45

    370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI (www.enca.com)
  • 48 104

    Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers (rbanffy.github.io)
  • 83 57

    Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
  • 22 33

    The French Cake Cooked on a Spit (2018) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 71 75

    PixelOS (pixelos.net)
  • 3 10

    WindyMaps – Free offline maps, 1h/1km weather and route trip planner (windymapy.com)
  • 76 213

    ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
  • 48 81

    Psalm 7 release: PHP security&static analysis software (psalm.dev)
  • 2 16

    SultanC – an Arabic-first systems programming language (github.com)
  • 45 179

    Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation (arxiv.org)
  • 510 812

    Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 (twitter.com)
  • 44 50

    Being a meat proxy for AI should be grounds for getting people fired (swiftrocks.com)
  • 33 104

    Quasi-Logarithmic Kitchen Timer (blog.coredump.cx)
  • 29 124

    Show HN: Flide: Make Jev-like decision models up to 9.5x faster (github.com)
  • 124 113

    Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget (www.stork.ai)
  • 4 28

    Show HN: My compact, bio inspired distributed edge detection algorithm (github.com)
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  • 14 59

    Ur-Nammu: Founder of the Sumerian Renaissance (www.worldhistory.org)
  • 101 138

    A Critique of GPUI (blog.zortax.de)
  • 0 25

    Branching Beyond Leonardo: The Evolution of Tree Architecture Theory (blue-continuum.com)
  • 4 40

    A Bit about Email (maurycyz.com)
  • 2 51

    The Qlobe: Rotating Quine (2010) (mamememo.blogspot.com)
  • 23 46

    Show HN: JavaScript web apps with WASM layout and GPU rendering in 280 KB (github.com)
  • 56 97

    Ask HN: How do you manage your AI agents' context across clients and projects?
  • 145 438

    RIP, Harvest (aphyr.com)
  • 1 8

    Are big problems more difficult to solve? (paulitaylor.com)
  • 2 15

    Taco: The Tensor Algebra Compiler (tensor-compiler.org)
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    I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists (matteoraso.github.io)
  • 8 58

    Air holes turn silicon wafers into flat UV focusing mirrors for compact optics (phys.org)
  • 343 623

    Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world (shubs.io)