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  • 0 18

    Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease (www.lifesitenews.com)
  • 19 33

    SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence (cognition.com)
  • 0 7

    Catastrophe theory; geniuses and maniacs (2011) (glassbottomblog.blogspot.com)
  • 12 15

    Show HN: Kastor – Terraform-style specs for AI agents (github.com)
  • 25 16

    Answering "why do you want to relocate?" during interviews (relocateme.substack.com)
  • 32 167

    Chatto is now Open Source (www.hmans.dev)
  • 6 19

    Anyone here with an "in" with eBay?
  • 48 202

    Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model (mistral.ai)
  • 51 119

    OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root (nvd.nist.gov)
  • 17 117

    Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 25 55

    Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D (ride.nexttrain.london)
  • 198 96

    It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 124 170

    US Food and Drug Administration rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food (www.theguardian.com)
  • 34 29

    "Can We Make the Villain a White Guy?" (hollywoodgadfly.substack.com)
  • 87 66

    Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool (www.bbc.com)
  • 12 100

    Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid (www3.nhk.or.jp)
  • 82 54

    How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner (mydiplomaticlife.com)
  • 165 215

    Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips (www.apple.com)
  • 24 17

    We Got This Wrong. and We Are Fixing It (community.hubspot.com)
  • 58 38

    List of European organizations that have banned personal messaging apps at work (www.birdy.chat)
  • 34 74

    NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta (manualmeida.dev)
  • 84 254

    EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why (www.gamesindustry.biz)
  • 11 88

    Geosql: A Claude/Codex skill for geospatial data (github.com)
  • 174 998

    Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt (tris.sherliker.net)
  • 35 79

    Ants: Who looks after the injured in a colony? (www.uni-wuerzburg.de)
  • 28 47

    Reform UK leader 'in real trouble' against Count Binface (www.mirror.co.uk)
  • 44 143

    Home made GPU escalated quickly [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 91 57

    The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley (www.ft.com)
  • 20 44

    Automate Excel with Python: From manual grind to one-click workflow (nostarch.com)
  • 162 418

    GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos (noma.security)
  • 0 9

    Out of the Armchair (literaryreview.co.uk)
  • 61 116

    The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" (pluralistic.net)
  • 194 225

    GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday (twitter.com)
  • 56 151

    Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks (www.digipres.org)
  • 201 285

    How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024) (neil.computer)
  • 63 77

    Show HN: Neil the Seal Game (neiltheseal.app)
  • 96 170

    LineageOS Statistics (stats.lineageos.org)
  • 13 42

    Pure-Python symbolic regression that rediscovered Kepler's law from 8 data point (github.com)
  • 7 16

    Show HN: Ghostmeet – Self-hosted meeting transcription and summaries (ghostmeet.sshlab.dev)
  • 161 133

    Is The Economist Always Wrong? (www.economist.com)
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    We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12 (twitter.com)
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  • 19 125

    Scheme Is a Hoot (gracefulliberty.com)
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  • 1 7

    Rlm-Workflow (try.works)
  • 5 15

    Git Hash Chain Malleability (arxiv.org)
  • 105 305

    Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor (kb.cert.org)
  • 12 49

    Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor (moxiedocs.com)
  • 15 66

    Show HN: Chiptune Radio (chiptune-radio.alephvoid.com)
  • 125 212

    Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years (www.cbc.ca)
  • 37 280

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986) (ocw.mit.edu)
  • 4 18

    A 13th-Century Enumeration Algorithm, Ignored for 700 Years (blog.klipse.tech)
  • 17 39

    Honey, We Bought an AI Story (www.bona-books.com)
  • 58 41

    Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked (github.com)
  • 13 41

    An interactive explorer for Benford's Law across real datasets (vatsalbakshi.com)
  • 16 50

    First Principles of Model Routing (try.works)
  • 224 286

    We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code (odra.dev)
  • 4 15

    FrankenMarkdown (franken-markdown.com)
  • 137 251

    GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup (www.gao.gov)
  • 50 58

    Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021) (www.sfgate.com)
  • 19 101

    IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Training Course (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 72 72

    Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years (www.theguardian.com)
  • 50 83

    Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29 (www.notebookcheck.net)
  • 952 727

    Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera (allaboutcookies.org)
  • 93 60

    Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home (firesphere.dev)
  • 155 371

    Herdr: One terminal to rule them all (herdr.dev)
  • 93 367

    Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI (davit.app)
  • 86 208

    Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop (github.com)
  • 21 37

    Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents (github.com)
  • 4 5

    Decrypting View State Messages (zeroed.tech)
  • 12 111

    AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl (blog.zksecurity.xyz)
  • 27 104

    Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
  • 64 151

    Notes on Software Quality (anthonyhobday.com)
  • 29 67

    Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens (github.com)
  • 57 208

    Astro 7.0 (astro.build)
  • 91 483

    Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro (ariya.io)
  • 36 50

    Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
  • 106 165

    l: A new runtime for k and q (lv1.sh)
  • 8 15

    New Literalism Comes for Museums (jaymollica.com)
  • 0 48

    Computational Balloon Twisting: The Theory of Balloon Polyhedra [pdf] (cccg.ca)
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  • 32 42

    Midtown Manhattan blocks evacuated after beams buckling at construction site (abcnews.com)
  • 62 242

    Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler (pgdog.dev)
  • 318 837

    Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained (fightchatcontrol.eu)
  • 21 34

    Software Bonkers (craigmod.com)
  • 3 15

    Sites that block AI training crawlers mostly ignore the answer time bots (sitedex.dev)
  • 101 598

    30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format (30papers.com)
  • 1 41

    GitHub Freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service (github.com)
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  • 60 127

    Automating AI Away (replicated.live)
  • 111 105

    Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k (govauctions.app)
  • 28 206

    Jim's TrueType QR Code Font (github.com)
  • 9 31

    Reducing Doom Loops with Final Token Preference Optimization (www.liquid.ai)
  • 18 82

    MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released (github.com)
  • 255 323

    Amazon without the knockoffs (knockoff.shopping)
  • 436 339

    China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes (www.bbc.com)
  • 84 125

    Better Auth is joining Vercel (better-auth.com)
  • 13 53

    But Nothing Has Changed on Our Side (cacm.acm.org)
  • 576 635

    Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software (gamefromscratch.com)
  • 4 9

    A System of Systems for the Selection of Optimal Climate Change Decisions (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
  • 255 603

    Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament (www.heise.de)
  • 32 30

    Yes, AI Will Take Your Job (blog.calebjay.com)
  • 14 44

    Almost all coders at Id Software have been fired, following Xbox reset (xcancel.com)
  • 19 92

    Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types (postgres.saneengineer.com)
  • 34 32

    Show HN: Shellular – run Claude Code, Codex, Pi from your phone (shellular.dev)
  • 15 55

    Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
  • 248 159

    The revenge of the philosophy majors (www.nytimes.com)
  • 32 53

    Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
  • 60 38

    Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage (www.newscientist.com)
  • 8 65

    C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences (nekrozqliphort.github.io)
  • 175 165

    Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T (www.the-independent.com)
  • 178 519

    A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 202 795

    StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time (streetcomplete.app)
  • 248 301

    Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal (www.euronews.com)
  • 28 59

    The Making of Claude Code (www.anthropic.com)
  • 337 513

    98% isn't much (whynothugo.nl)
  • 71 90

    The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup (www.wsj.com)
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  • 183 250

    Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors (ciphercue.com)
  • 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX (9mothers.com)
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  • 11 27

    PostgreSQL Benchmark: AWS RDS vs. Self-Hosted on Hetzner (2026) (hostim.dev)
  • 257 316

    Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch) (www.nwo.nl)
  • 2 35

    Not Dark Yet (agoodhardstare.substack.com)
  • 3 8

    IDE with agentic support built using Flutter (lumide.dev)
  • 781 281

    Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again (www.dw.com)
  • 28 117

    Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 67 95

    Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) (whimfiles.com)
  • 3 13

    Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013) (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 58 228

    The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
  • 155 343

    Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID (www.pcmag.com)
  • 97 113

    YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood (www.fastcompany.com)
  • 51 76

    In Praise of Observational Evidence (asteriskmag.com)
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  • 19 63

    Inkfield (www.inkfield.studio)
  • 113 102

    Kernel anti-cheat is an overreach (nooneshappy.com)
  • Lago (YC S21) Is Hiring for Our GTM Team (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 39 138

    Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world (thisbugslife.com)
  • 1 23

    Tiny-C Reference Manual Excerpt (permacomputer.solarpunk.au)
  • 7 12

    Giving a domain a hill to climb: benchmarking as data activation (sparsethought.com)
  • 2 6

    Artificial and Fake Eggs: Dance of Death (www.researchgate.net)
  • 29 24

    Craig Mod built his own Good Reads (craigmod.com)
  • 2 7

    LLMs Are Not a Default Execution Engine (unmeshed.io)
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    Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 30 9

    Strata – An app that talks me out of dying outdoors (strata.highloop.co)
  • 185 145

    NSA and IETF: Fairness (blog.cr.yp.to)
  • 13 27

    The Music of Destruction (thebaffler.com)
  • 31 25

    Show HN: InstantVideos.org – short documentaries in ~30 seconds (instantvideos.org)
  • 152 376

    How to sequence your own DNA at home (bradleywoolf.com)