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    What Is Llms.txt and Does Your Business Need One? (semarkglobal.com)
  • 5 26

    In the AI propaganda war, Iran is winning (www.economist.com)
  • 37 84

    NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (www.nist.gov)
  • 2 7

    Hardware Is Hard? (prdpx7.github.io)
  • 14 32

    Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
  • 4 51

    Modern Common Lisp with FSet (fset.common-lisp.dev)
  • 9 21

    PostgreSQL production incident caused by transaction ID wraparound (www.sqlservercentral.com)
  • 6 65

    PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com)
  • 1 28

    Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
  • 81 85

    College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
  • 121 178

    Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
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    Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (www.rtrvr.ai)
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    Two $20B: OpenAI and Nvidia in a 'Reasoning Battle' (jianshiapp.com)
  • 19 35

    4-bit floating point FP4 (www.johndcook.com)
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    Headless Everything for Personal AI (interconnected.org)
  • 14 47

    Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018) (texascooppower.com)
  • 4 22

    Show HN: Remoroo. trying to fix memory in long-running coding agents (www.remoroo.com)
  • 133 204

    Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (www.theguardian.com)
  • 119 60

    America will come to regret its war on taxes (economist.com)
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    Building a Grow-Only Counter on a Sequentially Consistent KV Store (brunocalza.me)
  • 43 66

    Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 6 47

    Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
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    The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) (apps.npr.org)
  • UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
  • 70 237

    The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (www.righto.com)
  • 9 14

    Respect to the Man Chasing AI Immortality, While Freeloading Off Our Platform (blog.mulerun.com)
  • 407 387

    Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (tokens.billchambers.me)
  • 29 82

    Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com)
  • 26 66

    Scientists discover "cleaner ants" that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 75 64

    Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore (arstechnica.com)
  • 108 117

    Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th (goodereader.com)
  • 25 70

    Fuzix OS (www.fuzix.org)
  • 4 29

    Sherry Turkle: "We're losing the raw human part of being with each other" (2013) (www.theguardian.com)
  • 13 17

    Show HN: Solyto – a free, open-source all-in-one personal management app (solyto.app)
  • 11 77

    80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
  • 5 152

    Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (www.sumida-aquarium.com)
  • 337 652

    Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
  • 3 15

    Binary Encodings for JSON and Variant (jincongho.com)
  • 272 277

    Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
  • 29 81

    Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists (ipvm.com)
  • 25 63

    A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025) (ar-ms.me)
  • 107 322

    State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
  • 189 183

    The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
  • 3 29

    Loonies for Loongsons (www.leadedsolder.com)
  • 55 58

    Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware
  • 115 171

    It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
  • 7 24

    Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG (github.com)
  • 95 92

    America Lost the Mandate of Heaven (geohot.github.io)
  • 78 377

    Michael Rabin has died (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 69 226

    Amiga Graphics Archive (amiga.lychesis.net)
  • 15 119

    The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
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    It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)
  • 58 219

    Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)
  • 177 79

    Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com)
  • 40 87

    Rewriting Every Syscall in a Linux Binary at Load Time (amitlimaye1.substack.com)
  • 16 24

    Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale (waxletter.com)
  • 49 286

    Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
  • 72 129

    Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language (lindbakk.com)
  • 0 9

    Ben Lerner's Big Feelings (www.vulture.com)
  • 27 175

    Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)
  • 16 66

    Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
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    Generating Hierarchical JSON Representations of Scientific Sentences Using LLMs (arxiv.org)
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    Coq theorem prover is now called Rocq (rocq-prover.org)
  • 11 53

    Generating a color spectrum for an image (amandahinton.com)
  • 155 230

    Slop Cop (awnist.com)
  • 4 29

    Nintendo's Empire of Secrets with Keza MacDonald [audio] (art19.com)
  • 16 26

    How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025) (www.davidma.org)
  • 126 106

    Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (www.nature.com)
  • 5 65

    The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 106 200

    A simplified model of Fil-C (www.corsix.org)
  • 116 294

    Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) (www.tobyord.com)
  • 29 113

    The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (inria.hal.science)
  • 174 288

    "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 (blog.calif.io)
  • 21 124

    Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
  • 322 326

    I’m spending months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)
  • Arc Prize Foundation (YC W26) Is Hiring a Platform Engineer for ARC-AGI-4 (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 195 216

    Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD (electrek.co)
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    MZI-based transistorlessness might finally be here (write.as)
  • 107 128

    I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months (www.wespiser.com)
  • 19 36

    Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks (strangelyentangled.com)
  • 252 436

    All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (www.esa.int)
  • 51 60

    NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation (www.heise.de)
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    Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech (citizenlab.ca)
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    xAI has Released Grok 4.3 (beta) (twitter.com)
  • 17 75

    Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box (datagirl.xyz)
  • 22 105

    Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (www.bbc.com)
  • 134 441

    Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com)
  • 57 48

    Congress extends controversial surveillance powers for 10 days (www.npr.org)
  • 109 243

    Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com)
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    Claude Design (claude.ai)
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    Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590% (github.com)
  • Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 7 6

    Why "200 OK" does not mean your system worked (blog.bridgexapi.io)
  • 262 271

    Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects (twitter.com)
  • 9 70

    The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant (gregorio-project.github.io)
  • 306 315

    NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
  • 7 78

    Designing the Transport Typeface (www.thamesandhudson.com)
  • 481 684

    Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (www.claudecodecamp.com)
  • 52 225

    NIST gives up enriching most CVEs (risky.biz)
  • 17 39

    IETF draft-meow-mrrp-00 (www.ietf.org)
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    Brussels launched an age checking app. It took 2 minutes to hack it (www.politico.eu)
  • 16 118

    Experiment with ICEYE Open Data (www.iceye.com)
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    Claude Design (www.anthropic.com)
  • 124 261

    Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (www.thehistoryblog.com)
  • 51 78

    The Utopia of the Family Computer (mudmapmagazine.com)
  • 49 148

    Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010) (prologue.blogs.archives.gov)
  • 71 187

    Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (blog.healthchecks.io)
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    Ban the sale of precise geolocation (www.lawfaremedia.org)
  • 56 106

    We reproduced Anthropic's Mythos findings with public models (blog.vidocsecurity.com)
  • 174 108

    Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents (isitagentready.com)
  • 11 41

    The missing catalogue: why finding books in translation is still so hard (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
  • 106 117

    Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review (stagereview.app)
  • 6 17

    Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms – Moncef Abboud (cefboud.com)
  • 297 752

    Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
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  • 103 120

    Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers? (www.thenation.com)
  • 100 110

    Average is all you need (rawquery.dev)
  • 37 78

    中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron (blog.kevinzwu.com)
  • 29 77

    EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted (xcancel.com)
  • 9 20

    Rubens Menin's 150 Years "Old" Port Wine (neofeed.com.br)
  • 63 182

    How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll (www.investigate-europe.eu)
  • 205 276

    Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (www.iqiipi.com)
  • 0 19

    Precision over perception: Why architecture matters in benchmarking (www.redhat.com)
  • 58 20

    How to make buffet breakfasts less wasteful (www.economist.com)
  • 2 29

    PROBoter – Open-source platform for automated PCB analysis (www.schutzwerk.com)
  • 79 145

    FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer (www.nongnu.org)
  • 10 42

    Building a web page that edits itself (www.patrickweaver.net)
  • 8 11

    First bikebell against noise-canceling headphones (www.welovecycling.com)
  • 13 47

    Century-bandwidth antenna reinvented,patented after 18 yrs with decade bandwidth (2006) (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
  • 118 144

    Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming (chapel-lang.org)
  • 57 121

    Human Accelerated Region 1 (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 51 156

    A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
  • 90 165

    Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day (www.theverge.com)
  • 13 52

    FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why (arstechnica.com)
  • 320 394

    US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 18 68

    A Git helper tool that breaks large merges into parallelizable tasks (github.com)
  • 83 219

    Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source (blog.discourse.org)
  • 22 94

    ReBot-DevArm: open-source Robotic Arm (github.com)
  • Substrate AI Is Hiring Harness Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
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    288,493 Requests – How I Spotted an XML-RPC Brute Force from a Weird Cache Ratio (marcindudek.dev)
  • 60 225

    CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models (cadquery.github.io)
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    Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon's growing reliance on SpaceX (www.reuters.com)
  • 31 119

    Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code (lucasgerads.com)
  • 244 338

    Everything we like is a psyop? (techcrunch.com)
  • 116 180

    Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan (www.bbc.com)