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  • 0 2

    I Love Email (2023) (blog.xoria.org)
  • 14 12

    Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers (www.wired.com)
  • 58 51

    Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed (www.theguardian.com)
  • 2 57

    Grammarly is using our identities without permission (www.theverge.com)
  • 13 24

    Claude built a system in 3 rounds, latent bugs from round 1 exploded in round 3 (github.com)
  • 10 17

    Are You Noticing This? (ryanholiday.net)
  • 29 53

    Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP (github.com)
  • 54 133

    US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf] (cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov)
  • 2 13

    Humanoid robot: The evolution of Kawasaki’s challenge (kawasakirobotics.com)
  • 6 31

    Thermal Grizzly was scammed twice on raw materials worth €40k (videocardz.com)
  • 32 149

    How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier (old.reddit.com)
  • 16 16

    Triumph of the toons: how animation came to rule the box office (economist.com)
  • 69 123

    The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025) (www.smartlab.at)
  • 6 18

    Show HN: Reviving a 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI (quesma.com)
  • 0 7

    Some Lotto Math (leancrew.com)
  • 46 53

    Claude helped select targets for Iran strikes, possibly including school (twitter.com)
  • 2 23

    My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world (www.theguardian.com)
  • 32 31

    Last Statements (walzr.com)
  • 1 16

    Case Study: lynnandtonic.com 2025 refresh (lynnandtonic.com)
  • 19 41

    Tell HN: Tired of Generic Long Form A.I Posts
  • 6 31

    The legendary Mojave Phone Booth is back (2013) (dailydot.com)
  • 479 138

    Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
  • 18 78

    Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021) (offlinemark.com)
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  • 31 167

    PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug (github.com)
  • 5 22

    An Analysis of User-Space Idle State Instructions on x86 Processors (dl.acm.org)
  • 209 204

    Most of the US economy is in a recession (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 7 10

    Detection Is Not Protection: What WAF Detection Mode Does (and Doesn't) (blog.ebbypeter.com)
  • 82 131

    Blacksky AppView (github.com)
  • 5 18

    SQG (SQL to Code Generator) v0.10: Java Streams and List Type Support (sqg.dev)
  • 31 96

    Lil Finder Guy (basicappleguy.com)
  • 11 110

    Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life (github.com)
  • 26 45

    She called 911 for an ambulance. She got a nightmare instead (www.seattletimes.com)
  • 23 22

    71% Desk Workers Say Screen-Related Visual Discomfort Is Reducing Productivity (www.vspvision.com)
  • 137 232

    We should revisit literate programming in the agent era (silly.business)
  • 10 11

    Show HN: WhatsApp Clone – No Setup or Signup (positive-intentions.com)
  • 140 559

    Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents (agent-safehouse.dev)
  • 49 161

    Every single board computer I tested in 2025 (bret.dk)
  • 48 418

    Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc (www.youtube.com)
  • 49 97

    Neural Boids (campedersen.com)
  • 16 98

    Pushing and Pulling: Three reactivity algorithms (jonathan-frere.com)
  • 14 25

    The human.json Protocol (codeberg.org)
  • 12 109

    Z80 Sans – a disassembler in a font (2024) (github.com)
  • 435 578

    Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
  • 95 61

    AI doesn't replace white collar work (www.marble.onl)
  • 98 231

    Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds (github.com)
  • 34 78

    I made a programming language with M&Ms (mufeedvh.com)
  • 8 15

    In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a game-world(2022) (www.cell.com)
  • 54 101

    WSL Manager (github.com)
  • 167 127

    Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package (techcrunch.com)
  • 50 43

    A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way (www.economist.com)
  • 20 34

    "I can't do that, Dave" – No agent yet (systemic.engineering)
  • 45 84

    Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better (skir.build)
  • 38 21

    The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead (lowendbox.com)
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  • 61 333

    LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown (blog.documentfoundation.org)
  • 149 225

    My Homelab Setup (bryananthonio.com)
  • 141 154

    Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus (www.forbes.com)
  • 323 373

    The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines (mlumiste.com)
  • 69 118

    Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 7 57

    If It Quacks Like a Package Manager (nesbitt.io)
  • 182 186

    Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 18 90

    What if the Apple ][ had run on Field-Sequential? (nicole.express)
  • 217 170

    Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat (www.cio.com)
  • 3 16

    Accessing inactive union members through char (www.sandordargo.com)
  • 71 424

    FrameBook (fb.edoo.gg)
  • 46 92

    Beagle, a source code management system that stores AST trees (github.com)
  • 47 291

    LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances (blog.documentfoundation.org)
  • 23 15

    Show HN: AI agents run my one-person company on Gemini's free tier – $0/month
  • 144 206

    Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019) (www.ethanhein.com)
  • 129 83

    The new Apple begins to emerge (parkerortolani.blog)
  • 17 66

    CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior, synced using Git (github.com)
  • 268 141

    How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents (thehustle.co)
  • 9 87

    Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model (www.microsoft.com)
  • 1 5

    Show HN: I logged Gemini's stock predictions for 38 days to study LLM drift (huggingface.co)
  • 24 20

    You Don't Need a Vector Database (vecstore.app)
  • 320 447

    Ask HN: How to be alone?
  • 147 333

    I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine (xcancel.com)
  • 22 107

    Some Words on WigglyPaint (beyondloom.com)
  • 13 72

    Show HN: Eyot, A programming language where the GPU is just another thread (cowleyforniastudios.com)
  • 57 33

    Fatbikes are wreaking havoc in Sydney's wealthy beach suburbs (www.bbc.com)
  • 4 104

    The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp (mssv.net)
  • 231 369

    Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage (arstechnica.com)
  • 16 43

    Strike on girls' school that killed 150 in Iran 'likely' carried out by US (today.lorientlejour.com)
  • 53 120

    The Lobster Programming Language (strlen.com)
  • 16 89

    Sem – Semantic version control. Entity-level diffs on top of Git (github.com)
  • 95 220

    Notes on writing Rust-based Wasm (notes.brooklynzelenka.com)
  • 84 39

    Ask HN: Why there are no actual studies that show AI is more productive?
  • 31 136

    Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (www.rijksmuseum.nl)
  • 71 52

    I'm Not Consulting an LLM (lr0.org)
  • 2 14

    Invoker Commands API (developer.mozilla.org)
  • 3 15

    Llm9p: LLM as a Plan 9 file system (github.com)
  • 3 39

    Digital Iris [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 19 79

    Show HN: Curiosity – DIY 6" Newtonian Reflector Telescope (curiosity-telescope.vercel.app)
  • 22 19

    New Research Reassesses the Value of Agents.md Files for AI Coding (www.infoq.com)
  • 41 116

    SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI (arxiv.org)
  • 3 28

    Revisiting Time: UT1, UTC, NTP and NTS (www.potaroo.net)
  • 34 86

    From RGB to L*a*b* color space (2024) (kaizoudou.com)
  • 24 87

    To the Polypropylene Makers (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 3 8

    Netdata is a seriously impressive server monitoring tool (thenewstack.io)
  • 2 13

    Malcolm Cowley helped build a golden age of American letters (newrepublic.com)
  • 22 53

    Ten years of deploying to production (brandonvin.github.io)
  • 155 464

    How to run Qwen 3.5 locally (unsloth.ai)
  • 118 100

    I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years (www.seangoedecke.com)
  • 164 182

    My “grand vision” for Rust (blog.yoshuawuyts.com)
  • 171 98

    What if the Hormuz closure will not be brief? (www.lloydslist.com)
  • 161 302

    Warn about PyPy being unmaintained (github.com)
  • 69 105

    MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games (github.com)
  • 10 50

    Give Up GitHub – Software Freedom Conservancy (sfconservancy.org)
  • 7 30

    Americans Are Now a Target for ICE (www.wsj.com)
  • 39 47

    Best performance of a C++ singleton (andreasfertig.com)
  • 52 58

    Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran (www.nytimes.com)
  • 87 92

    Will Claude Code ruin our team? (justinjackson.ca)
  • 18 112

    Emacs internals: Deconstructing Lisp_Object in C (Part 2) (thecloudlet.github.io)
  • 45 50

    Iranian Women Graduate in Stem 3× the Rate of U.S. Women and Has 5× More PhDs (hrnews1.substack.com)
  • 54 115

    Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video (pulsefeedback.io)
  • 102 57

    Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi? (www.typebarmagazine.com)
  • 153 336

    Cloud VM benchmarks 2026 (devblog.ecuadors.net)
  • 3 23

    Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats (www.cnn.com)
  • 5 19

    Hidden Overheads (2023) (blog.xoria.org)
  • 43 24

    Ghostmd: Ghostty but for Markdown Notes (mimoo.github.io)
  • 12 60

    Lisp-style C++ template meta programming (github.com)
  • 5 35

    The influence of anxiety: Harold Bloom and literary inheritance (thepointmag.com)
  • 58 84

    How important was the Battle of Hastings? (www.historytoday.com)