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  • 2 15

    LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices (www.notebookcheck.net)
  • 2 11

    Programming is Art (orchidfiles.com)
  • 47 37

    It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta (www.theguardian.com)
  • 3 8

    NIXI has killed the "Dot In" domain name (2025) (www.naavi.org)
  • 0 11

    Bot Detection Without JavaScript: What My Blog Measured (gkoreli.com)
  • 1 7

    Mmuko Boot Sequence – a tiny freestanding C kernel that boots in QEMU (github.com)
  • 74 101

    Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers (itsfoss.com)
  • 25 62

    TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings (cordcuttersnews.com)
  • 0 5

    Study Math with Kusama (medium.com)
  • 4 21

    Coop – Isolated VM Environments for Running Claude Code and Codex (github.com)
  • 8 31

    Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs (github.com)
  • 84 81

    I refused to train the AI that could replace me (restofworld.org)
  • 4 25

    US Republicans revolt against Flock AI surveillance as backlash intensifies (www.ft.com)
  • 67 29

    Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 1 30

    Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security (rfd.shared.oxide.computer)
  • 3 8

    GitSpawn: Untrusted repos can execute code via AI coding agents (www.manifold.security)
  • 18 25

    Mother convicted of: her 5 yo walks short way to pond alone in Virginia (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 68 68

    I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer (claytonwramsey.com)
  • 92 398

    Keep Our Servers Running (blog.archive.org)
  • 9 10

    YouTube had a bug – I used ChatGPT to investigate (blog.thezilber.com)
  • 34 25

    Signing TLS handshakes inside a TPM (bschaatsbergen.com)
  • 90 149

    Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
  • 63 36

    Ask HN: Why don't we bring back old school OkCupid?
  • 48 77

    Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
  • 97 110

    Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
  • 19 49

    Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post (gettogether.dev)
  • 0 8

    She Also Found It at the Movies (hedgehogreview.com)
  • 38 96

    216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 113 105

    Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge (www.theguardian.com)
  • 20 32

    Ponytail: Lazy Senior Engineer Skill (ponytail.dev)
  • 34 69

    The NX bit is not just about security (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 5 30

    MathKernel: An evidence-aware multi-engine mathematics kernel and MCP server (github.com)
  • 2 14

    Hard-Chat – A serverless, RAM-only P2P terminal chat (github.com)
  • 13 19

    Americans Without Degrees Are Having One of the Best Job Markets in Years (www.wsj.com)
  • 43 56

    Every Novel Is Boring–Until It Isn't (www.publicbooks.org)
  • 65 45

    Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory? (mbmccoy.dev)
  • 36 28

    Four Weeks of a Vegan Diet Alter Signs of Inflammation and Aging (www.uniklinik-freiburg.de)
  • 0 9

    Adverse Selection and Markouts (machow.ski)
  • 12 17

    UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition (www.npr.org)
  • 16 24

    GOP issues stark warning to AI companies (www.axios.com)
  • 82 219

    Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes (austinhenley.com)
  • 66 110

    Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet (twitter.com)
  • 43 86

    Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical system (www.piie.com)
  • 17 30

    Show HN: Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source
  • 7 17

    Armed man attacks Ohio governor candidate Amy Acton, several injured (www.dispatch.com)
  • 3 7

    A Week of Bug Reporting (tratt.net)
  • 16 44

    D2 Is Non-Profit (d2lang.com)
  • 8 58

    Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds (mceglowski.substack.com)
  • 27 75

    Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings (arxiv.org)
  • 55 77

    Windows 11's "special" developer edition looks like another marketing misfire (www.neowin.net)
  • 4 53

    Reverse engineering the storage format for an undocumented database (blog.glazer.ee)
  • 4 14

    Human archive: They were only human (sayyss.github.io)
  • 1 39

    XCancel is available again (xcancel.com)
  • 12 37

    Show HN: VODForge – a free local desktop UI for YouTube video/playlist downloads (getvodforge.com)
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  • 133 265

    It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis (anubis.techaro.lol)
  • 28 87

    Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple (github.com)
  • 201 285

    GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard (grapheneos.social)
  • 15 64

    Black Hole of Los Alamos: Seller of surplus nuclear research materials (2011) (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 77 48

    There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything (out-of-hell.xylon.me.uk)
  • 7 20

    They're Made Out of Meat (www.eastoftheweb.com)
  • 119 106

    The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay (a.wholelottanothing.org)
  • 6 23

    Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
  • 156 106

    Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one (kepter.app)
  • 313 724

    Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice (github.com)
  • 1 5

    Running a personal AI agent on an old Android phone instead of a server (medium.com)
  • 1 266

    Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue (github.com)
  • 107 141

    Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE) (babylonian-collection.yale.edu)
  • 20 43

    Any Nix package, live in the browser (fzakaria.com)
  • 45 47

    How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment (openai.com)
  • Opalite Health (YC W26) Is Hiring – Founding GTM (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 356 406

    An Alien Mind (openai.com)
  • 69 73

    Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark (kuber.studio)
  • 114 170

    Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI (openai.com)
  • 5 53

    Electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure (news.wsu.edu)
  • 3 9

    When did French fries become the standard side to serve with a hamburger? (www.reddit.com)
  • 12 132

    NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9 (blog.netbsd.org)
  • 24 92

    Research carried out using NetBSD (www.netbsd.org)
  • 1 14

    Cultivating Trust (kaeruct.github.io)
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  • 31 78

    Is There I/O After Death? What Happens to Io_uring When a Process Dies (blog.ydb.tech)
  • 74 63

    Alberta (Canada) slaps punitive tax on solar panels (albertapolitics.ca)
  • 10 28

    Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited) (www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com)
  • 252 158

    How I feel about AI (beza1e1.tuxen.de)
  • 273 1267

    QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes (beige.party)
  • 32 74

    Show HN: Kadō – open-source habit tracker, with non-binary habit score, for iOS (github.com)
  • 467 578

    A/I shuts down (keepitfree.ai)
  • 59 74

    What is nueralese and why is it bad (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 281 462

    Asahi Linux on M3 (asahilinux.org)
  • 22 65

    I'm teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering (shukla.io)
  • 13 63

    The many mysteries and lessons of the Bayeux tapestry (economist.com)
  • 47 88

    2026 Hugo Awards (www.thehugoawards.org)
  • 6 25

    Fileregister: Tagging and reference layer for your files, in plain text (github.com)
  • 0 13

    Schemy Lisp En DOS (sled.neocities.org)
  • 18 52

    Household Laser Cuts (cceckman.com)
  • 18 44

    New all in one 6502 computer (Neo6502kbd) (olimex.wordpress.com)
  • 22 63

    The pencil case model of creativity (dub.uu.nl)
  • 51 96

    'Old Person Smell' (www.theguardian.com)
  • 406 643

    Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025) (bcantrill.dtrace.org)
  • 36 35

    I asked astra to make playable 4D chess (4d-chess.pages.dev)
  • 51 65

    Don't Use a gmail.com Address (crookedtimber.org)
  • 291 394

    Doomscrolling ourselves to death (www.edwest.co.uk)
  • 10 33

    The Empire of Information (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • 5 11

    Show HN: Keen Bean – Mac meeting notes that draft the spec while you talk (keenbean.app)
  • 80 46

    "We Have to Assume That the Internet Will Go Offline in the Next Few Years" (www.trendingtopics.eu)
  • 6 8

    Pigeon, a signed Pass for what a sub-agent may do (github.com)
  • 1 6

    "Catching Crumbs from the Table" (www.nature.com)
  • 175 150

    I changed my license (bergie.iki.fi)
  • 95 201

    M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 37 85

    IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2 (www.ibm.com)
  • 174 222

    You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules (www.motherjones.com)
  • 34 75

    Play GTA Vice City in the Browser (quenq.com)
  • 183 585

    Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight (isaraerospace.com)
  • 0 24

    A Computer History Time Capsule (blog.archive.org)
  • 0 6

    Matching Puzzle Pieces and Disappointing Benchmarks (llogiq.github.io)
  • 124 100

    Site Is Closed on Sundays (v7.robweychert.com)
  • 50 32

    Watch the 'Eclipse of the Century' Next Year When Spain, Egypt and More Go Dark (www.nytimes.com)
  • 28 121

    AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded (vermaden.wordpress.com)
  • 229 377

    Music Theory for Programmers (runjs.app)
  • 54 113

    Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke (www.vancouverisawesome.com)
  • 24 122

    The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50 (www.dpreview.com)
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  • 68 151

    AI, Tools and Transformation (www.ben-evans.com)
  • 21 91

    OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices (miod.online.fr)
  • 185 233

    GPT-6 Astra on robot arms (openai.robocurve.org)
  • 13 60

    RecurseCenter.return() (mm-dev.rocks)
  • 62 28

    Gateside by TSA Precheck (www.tsa.gov)
  • 112 585

    Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)
  • 2 27

    CHC5: Open Camera System – Image Sensor Specification Comparison (www.circuitvalley.com)
  • 304 619

    Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone (cloudinabottle.org)