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  • 0 4

    Lucasart's Afterlife (togameforlife.wordpress.com)
  • 0 13

    One Year of Sponsored Servo Development (servo.org)
  • 5 32

    The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (www.damtp.cam.ac.uk)
  • 27 48

    US interest rates raised for first time in three years (www.bbc.com)
  • 8 83

    My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it (jakeasmith.com)
  • 5 43

    Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill (github.com)
  • 3 49

    Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space (github.com)
  • 5 62

    Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms (egbert.net)
  • 6 20

    The President's Power to Pardon Friends and Allies Must End (medium.com)
  • 52 54

    The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning (www.madshrimps.be)
  • 2 15

    ASCII City (asciicity.live)
  • 55 152

    Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes (ryan.science)
  • 17 52

    A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server (labs.watchtowr.com)
  • 22 70

    Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008) (www.vanityfair.com)
  • 25 38

    Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough (www.bbc.com)
  • 21 27

    Pangram – AI detector for text and images (www.pangram.com)
  • 8 113

    DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression (zartbot.github.io)
  • 3 15

    Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (www.danvk.org)
  • 0 18

    Michael Burry slams OpenAI, Anthropic for 'self-serving' calls to slow AI (nypost.com)
  • 51 85

    The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind (gcaptain.com)
  • 12 105

    Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus (www.amazon.science)
  • 70 71

    OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior (www.nytimes.com)
  • 48 118

    HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? (harnesstax.github.io)
  • 0 4

    William Buckland's Theology of Geology (www.historytoday.com)
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  • 4 15

    Destroy After Reading: photocopiers,cheap paper and DIY gave metal it's look (www.truegrittexturesupply.com)
  • 175 216

    Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU (www.independent.co.uk)
  • 55 136

    OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework (openspec.dev)
  • 16 31

    I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app (oldmanrahul.com)
  • 42 51

    Why Does the Universe Expand? (cosmicave.org)
  • 131 224

    Backups Aren't Simple (filipovski.net)
  • 77 196

    The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (johnjwang.com)
  • 1 16

    Common Crawl Data Stored on a Hugging Face Bucket (commoncrawl.org)
  • 6 44

    Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hardcoded creds (micahflee.com)
  • 247 648

    Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (developer.nvidia.com)
  • 74 80

    Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now (www.autism.org.uk)
  • 4 40

    Show HN: AttaLambda: a language where types and data are made of untyped lambdas (attalambda.com)
  • 31 197

    Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs (arxiv.org)
  • 75 181

    Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries (untranslatedjp.substack.com)
  • 326 385

    AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran (www.wsj.com)
  • 57 279

    Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 0 4

    Randomized query complexity can beat certificate complexity (arxiv.org)
  • 9 13

    Show HN: SeasonMap – when to travel where? visualized with climate data (seasonmap.app)
  • 223 147

    Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (evanhahn.com)
  • 17 120

    Reverse-engineered Jev-like model (github.com)
  • 7 20

    Show HN: Restarted – a 2026 remake of the classic 2015 startup generator (restarted.io)
  • 139 117

    macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review (arstechnica.com)
  • 7 53

    WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL (clickhouse.com)
  • 10 50

    Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster (www.linum.ai)
  • 15 34

    Tell HN: An inside view of Montana's new biotech law
  • 101 421

    Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (mimo.xiaomi.com)
  • 3 15

    Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 3 7

    Barndoor acquires Diaphora, creators of open-source workflow runtime Frags (barndoor.ai)
  • 29 200

    Reversing Factorio's RNG (gegell.github.io)
  • 2 25

    Fed Raises Rates for First Time in Three Years (www.wsj.com)
  • 276 74

    A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 20 53

    Berlin-based Langdock moves its parent company from the US to Germany (www.euronews.com)
  • 110 532

    Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (rohanbansal.com)
  • 46 90

    How good are frontier models at physics? (arxiv.org)
  • 207 168

    Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields (www.reuters.com)
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  • 9 71

    Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores (arxiv.org)
  • 3 9

    Show HN: Friday – Self-hosted persistent memory for AI coding agents (MCP) (github.com)
  • 57 75

    GitHub is having trouble counting things (chuckgreenman.com)
  • 27 169

    Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022) (opensource.googleblog.com)
  • 1 38

    Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (evanhahn.com)
  • 148 156

    ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market (temertymedicine.utoronto.ca)
  • 4 49

    The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World (patrickwyman.substack.com)
  • 13 78

    I sent Google proof of a bot farm. They called it "normal user behavior." (dayzlegame.com)
  • 10 8

    Prisma's pgbouncer=true on Supabase made every query 4 round-trips (postmortem) (blog.simbastack.com)
  • 61 170

    The DeepMind Institute (institute.deepmind.com)
  • 221 218

    Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (claude.com)
  • 54 75

    This Code Is CRAP (2011) (testing.googleblog.com)
  • 22 28

    Measuring Gauss-Seidel loop-carried dependency and fixing it via loop unrolling (loiseaujc.github.io)
  • 227 509

    Small programming tricks (will-keleher.com)
  • 104 139

    Can we stop with the uptime percentages? (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
  • 15 94

    Anatomy of a Texture (agentlien.github.io)
  • 31 14

    Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp
  • 80 289

    Tell the speakers that you liked their talks (ohhelloana.blog)
  • 3 40

    Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 25 45

    We know what a world without work looks like (asteriskmag.substack.com)
  • 216 313

    PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand" (frvr.com)
  • 594 214

    A warning about 'model welfare' (mustafa-suleyman.ai)
  • 66 165

    DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model (enclave.ai)
  • 49 203

    Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds (arxiv.org)
  • 173 154

    OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents (openai.com)
  • 39 85

    How big are factorials? (eli.thegreenplace.net)
  • 44 73

    Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models (stale.jock.pl)
  • 34 25

    The American Age Is Over (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 23 69

    Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go (www.cloudx.ai)
  • 239 525

    Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera (www.wired.com)
  • 47 36

    ImpactGate: A merge gate that scores the structural decay AI adds (github.com)
  • 17 11

    We tasted and ranked 17 different Mango varieties to find the best one (aakritwrites.com)
  • 41 22

    Tiny village votes for 'independence' from UK amid asylum seeker row (www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk)
  • 80 275

    Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 9 61

    We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  • Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 76 58

    Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ads (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 335 349

    The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week (gultsch.social)
  • 80 76

    Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 177 270

    Salesforce Global Outage (status.salesforce.com)
  • 845 660

    EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' (www.bbc.com)
  • 41 86

    Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy (techwontsave.us)
  • 5 18

    Better routing, probe fixes, plugin updates in Freenet/Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1507 (www.hyphanet.org)
  • 192 563

    Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing (mistral.ai)
  • 182 238

    Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs (blog.ploeh.dk)
  • 0 6

    ZTE B860H: Getting Armbian into It (pen.waltuh.cyou)
  • 169 82

    EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member' (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 62 165

    Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI (arxiv.org)
  • 23 69

    A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX (forum.vcfed.org)
  • 4 31

    MartyPC – A Cycle-Accurate IBM PC/XT Emulator (github.com)
  • 1 6

    Show HN: Pull every comment out of a Google Sheet, in the browser (bensunter.com)
  • 1 9

    Piezoelectric effect in polycrystalline diamond membranes (www.science.org)
  • 8 56

    Datamimic – don't let your coding agent invent its own test world (github.com)
  • 98 203

    Doing Everyone Else's Job (yosefk.com)
  • 202 429

    Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger (inflightsimulator.com)
  • 13 57

    An interactive world map of the stories cultures have told (originmap.sunnyguha.com)
  • 40 117

    Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New (blog.archive.org)
  • 341 508

    Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography (security.apple.com)
  • 49 84

    Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 5 14

    The madman's guide to stamp collecting (www.wsj.com)
  • 221 93

    The Beauty of Roundabouts (gruhn.me)
  • 56 188

    Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA (nand2mario.github.io)
  • 7 41

    Sierra digital cameras on the Apple II (www.colino.net)