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    Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System (arxiv.org)
  • 0 14

    Things I Won't Work With: Straight Dimethyl Zinc (www.science.org)
  • 39 63

    AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems (www.sylvainkalache.com)
  • 1 10

    Pointing at the error: compiler-style diagnostics in uutils coreutils (uutils.org)
  • 53 69

    Git hosting that never leaves Europe (pushin.eu)
  • 68 71

    I Want a Wife (1971) [pdf] (www.sevanoland.com)
  • 184 138

    Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America? (www.bbc.com)
  • 22 40

    GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost (www.coderabbit.ai)
  • 35 52

    The Highest Point in the Netherlands (ipv6.hanazo.no)
  • 6 56

    Git Submodules as a Package Manager (nesbitt.io)
  • 71 208

    Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns (codeberg.org)
  • 6 19

    When declaring an incident becomes everyone's favorite workaround (greatcircle.com)
  • 12 24

    Reversing MikroTik's Silent Patch: The RouterOS 7.23.4 Fix They Wouldn't Explain (npratley.net)
  • 10 27

    ExactTex. A gradually-typed superset of LaTeX (github.com)
  • 41 117

    Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2 (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 58 129

    Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% (engineering.atspotify.com)
  • 11 25

    Show HN: Moadim.io – A scheduler for agents (moadim.io)
  • 2 38

    Connecting every app to every other app (blog.val.town)
  • 3 8

    Gimlet's Series B (gimletlabs.ai)
  • 44 20

    Christmas Village shoppers no longer will be allowed to enter booths (www.phillyvoice.com)
  • 5 86

    Decompiler Explorer (dogbolt.org)
  • 19 76

    Can guitar frets perform multiplication? (www.charlespetzold.com)
  • 0 23

    Without new landers or rovers, it's helicopters or bust for NASA's Mars program (arstechnica.com)
  • 317 414

    Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread (news.gallup.com)
  • 1 43

    Digital Sovereignty is written in PHP (thephp.foundation)
  • 60 114

    RSA-260 Factorized (twitter.com)
  • 0 10

    Some more thoughts on random_page_cost (vondra.me)
  • 0 38

    Updates on HEIR, the Homomorphic Encryption Compiler Project (www.jeremykun.com)
  • 5 44

    Icons as a Service (nravic.com)
  • 131 218

    GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
  • 270 489

    Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions (nvd.nist.gov)
  • 6 43

    Fomu An FPGA board that fits inside your USB port (www.crowdsupply.com)
  • 7 18

    UN approves resolution in support of map that shows Africa's true size (www.reuters.com)
  • 18 41

    The Wormhole Hall of Shame (rznicolet.com)
  • 2 38

    Fermat's Last Theorem: Anthropic has beaten me to it (xenaproject.wordpress.com)
  • 110 283

    Statichost.eu – European static site hosting (www.statichost.eu)
  • 19 21

    Bin Laden's "Letter to America" (ceu.su)
  • 31 50

    How to Create a Tor Exit Node (2015) (madpsy.uk)
  • 20 108

    Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4 (github.com)
  • 25 88

    An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy (quad9.net)
  • 15 45

    Deadpan Photography: Enjoying the Pretence (photoni.st)
  • 151 258

    Can AI design circuit boards yet? (eebench.org)
  • 29 94

    Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch (rietta.com)
  • 74 128

    Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
  • 156 342

    Shutting down our public encrypted DNS (mullvad.net)
  • 242 113

    “Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs (gmcgoldr.github.io)
  • 384 616

    Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem (www.anthropic.com)
  • 31 138

    The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite (blog.master.dev)
  • 7 23

    Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express' (www.millersbookreview.com)
  • 12 41

    Hayes AT command set (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 29 59

    People that worked on the same idea for decades (nityasnotes.com)
  • 4 195

    Nobody is saying why OpenAI and Anthropic had outages (www.wired.com)
  • 35 131

    Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs (github.com)
  • 102 285

    Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer (opentrailpaper.com)
  • 226 387

    Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive (torrentfreak.com)
  • 46 130

    deSEC – Free Secure DNS (desec.io)
  • 26 75

    Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace (twitter.com)
  • 1 19

    A Switch-Level Simulation Model for Integrated Logic Circuits (1981) [pdf] (www.cs.cmu.edu)
  • 31 67

    Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration (github.blog)
  • 25 77

    Getting Started with AT Protocol (bnb.im)
  • 270 296

    Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI (www.nytimes.com)
  • 55 96

    Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (www.pnas.org)
  • 32 40

    Pause OpenAI Now (garymarcus.substack.com)
  • 95 185

    US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones (www.theguardian.com)
  • 128 186

    Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com (support.google.com)
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  • 58 65

    Burnt out on a three-day week (jennywanger.com)
  • 74 154

    Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Minerals Deal (prospect.org)
  • 13 108

    The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
  • 72 381

    Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search (productrise.app)
  • 33 43

    Scientists Find Worms in Almost Every Fish in a Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected (www.sciencealert.com)
  • 16 44

    Norway's Oil Fund Proposes Selling Roughly $80B in U.S. Treasurys (www.wsj.com)
  • 191 102

    'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres (www.ft.com)
  • 288 269

    IBM Bob (bob.ibm.com)
  • 25 29

    Why is Arrays.fill 265 times slower on G1GC? (krzysztofslusarski.github.io)
  • 66 116

    Ok, but does it scale? (spacetimedb.com)
  • 65 67

    Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region (github.com)
  • 185 192

    How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+ (arstechnica.com)
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    Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (collusion.wiki)
  • 104 94

    O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11 (www.oo-software.com)
  • 78 84

    US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average (apnews.com)
  • SubImage (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SF (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 20 41

    CERN Transitioning Computers To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution (www.phoronix.com)
  • 52 146

    Elevator of the Year: Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building (www.starelevator.com)
  • 2 93

    OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout (www.reuters.com)
  • 92 417

    Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge (jestoph.com)
  • 4 45

    Oscar Winner Brings Monsters to Life with His Simulation Software (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 5 17

    Welcome to the Porcelain Insulator Collector's World of Mud (www.insulators.info)
  • 56 49

    The Raspberry Pi Interactive Timeline · 2006–2026 (raspberry.tips)
  • 77 86

    Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids (carbonawarepricing.com)
  • 83 114

    Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it (idpro.org)
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    Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year (www.techdirt.com)
  • 36 20

    In defense of two-state theme toggles (joshcollinsworth.com)
  • 5 13

    Inside Colombia's Cocaine Factories (www.economist.com)
  • 12 18

    Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys (blog.vrypan.net)
  • 24 68

    Show HN: Reactor Atlas (reactoratlas.com)
  • 66 96

    Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools (www.agentconnect.md)
  • 87 93

    A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas (www.texasmonthly.com)
  • 9 50

    Never Forget How Eagerly Apple and Google Coddled Fascism (karlbode.com)
  • 117 204

    How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language (news.mit.edu)
  • 2 40

    From Hookswitch to Grave (computer.rip)
  • 40 122

    Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025) (gwern.net)
  • 126 71

    1Password Replied to My Disappointment (nicolalosito.it)
  • 9 55

    Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom (jactl.io)
  • 106 122

    New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first (www.cbc.ca)
  • 186 169

    Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
  • 21 68

    Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
  • 1 18

    Show HN: I made a word building game supporting anagrams and one handed use