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  • 0 5

    Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts (robservatory.com)
  • 16 23

    Our Agreement with the Department of War (openai.com)
  • 1 6

    An Open Letter to the Department of War and Congress (app.dowletter.org)
  • 3 5

    What I learned while trying to build a production-ready nearest neighbor system (github.com)
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    Khamenei Dead (twitter.com)
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    'Play like a dog biting God's feet': Steven Isserlis on György Kurtág at 100 (www.theguardian.com)
  • 34 128

    "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow (www.windowscentral.com)
  • 69 227

    Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state (collapseofindustrialcivilization.com)
  • 56 144

    The happiest I've ever been (ben-mini.com)
  • 8 41

    Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction (www.thenation.com)
  • 4 24

    How Long Is the Coast of Britain? (1967) (www.jstor.org)
  • 12 17

    Show HN: Tomoshibi – A writing app where your words fade by firelight (tomoshibi.in-hakumei.com)
  • 3 8

    CSP for Pentesters: Understanding the Fundamentals (www.kayssel.com)
  • 6 15

    Seeing Like a Sedan (asteriskmag.com)
  • 20 45

    Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead” (superchartisland.com)
  • 91 310

    The whole thing was a scam (garymarcus.substack.com)
  • 45 98

    Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD) (gist.github.com)
  • 12 31

    Show HN: SQLite for Rivet Actors – one database per agent, tenant, or document (github.com)
  • 103 259

    Obsidian Sync now has a headless client (help.obsidian.md)
  • 51 76

    New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 35 148

    Stop Burning Your Context Window – How We Cut MCP Output by 98% in Claude Code (mksg.lu)
  • 190 436

    Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension (www.rockoder.com)
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    From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion (lighthousesoftware.co.uk)
  • 37 93

    747s and Coding Agents (carlkolon.com)
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  • 135 157

    Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access (github.com)
  • 28 38

    Show HN: Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation (github.com)
  • 2 53

    Please do not use auto-scrolling content on the web and in applications (cerovac.com)
  • 128 227

    OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading (www.wired.com)
  • 43 51

    Customer Update on Simplenote (forums.simplenote.com)
  • 13 64

    The Life Cycle of Money (doap.metal.bohyen.space)
  • 89 194

    Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust (github.com)
  • 3 29

    Show HN: Gitcredits – movie-style end credits for any Git repo in your terminal (github.com)
  • 88 137

    Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages (nowigetit.us)
  • 161 253

    What AI coding costs you (tomwojcik.com)
  • 19 27

    Everything Changes, and Nothing Changes (btao.org)
  • 22 70

    Timeline: Anthropic, OpenAI, and U.S. Government (anthropic-timeline.vercel.app)
  • 2 9

    Show HN: Reclaim Flowers – A 2D physics-based "Digital Altar" protocol (github.com)
  • 13 29

    No Bookmarks (nik.art)
  • 19 60

    Latency numbers every programmer should know (cheat.sh)
  • 0 10

    Better Activation Functions for NNUE (cosmo.tardis.ac)
  • 165 281

    Don't trust AI agents (nanoclaw.dev)
  • 83 87

    The Future of AI (lucijagregov.com)
  • 50 76

    More Cows, More Wives (www.worksinprogress.news)
  • 20 49

    Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash (github.com)
  • 2 17

    SHELL: Global Tool for Calling and Chaining Procedures in the System (1965) [pdf] (people.csail.mit.edu)
  • 338 1770

    OpenAI – How to delete your account (help.openai.com)
  • 0 15

    A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer (bernsteinbear.com)
  • 1 11

    The man building Team USA's Olympic bobsleds (www.adirondackexplorer.org)
  • 50 178

    Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs (unsloth.ai)
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  • 142 196

    The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (www.ivanturkovic.com)
  • 9 50

    Inferring car movement patterns from passive TPMS measurements (dspace.networks.imdea.org)
  • 1 16

    5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools (phys.org)
  • 15 279

    U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran (www.nytimes.com)
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    The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran (www.cnn.com)
  • 30 106

    US and Israel carrying out strikes against Iran (www.cnn.com)
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    Israel says it has attacked Iran, declares state of emergency (www.cnbc.com)
  • 148 137

    Rust is just a tool (lewiscampbell.tech)
  • 235 996

    How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription? (help.openai.com)
  • 14 52

    Package Managers à la Carte: a formal model of dependency resolution (arxiv.org)
  • 0 9

    Semantic Syntax Highlighting for Lisp in Emacs (github.com)
  • 21 101

    Cash issuing terminals (computer.rip)
  • 7 36

    Time-Travel Debugging: Replaying Production Bugs Locally (lackofimagination.org)
  • 24 135

    Show HN: I ported Manim to TypeScript (run 3b1B math animations in the browser) (github.com)
  • 116 469

    Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years (glashrvatske.hrt.hr)
  • 37 97

    Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment (a-cup-of.coffee)
  • 20 49

    GitHub Copilot CLI downloads and executes malware (www.promptarmor.com)
  • 45 142

    OpenAI reaches deal to deploy AI models on U.S. DoW classified network (www.reuters.com)
  • 187 220

    Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data (blog.timcappalli.me)
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    OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network (twitter.com)
  • 23 41

    Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014) (www.howardism.org)
  • 32 120

    Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon supply chain risk designation in court (www.reuters.com)
  • 3 34

    Gawk 5.4.0 is released, with replaced MinRX matcher (lists.gnu.org)
  • 211 312

    President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems (www.npr.org)
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    Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (www.anthropic.com)
  • 2 43

    Inventing the Lisa user interface – Interactions (dl.acm.org)
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    We Will Not Be Divided (notdivided.org)
  • 89 223

    Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers (github.com)
  • 1 11

    Zugunruhe, and what makes things worth doing (www.nathanzhao.cc)
  • 21 111

    Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself (www.science.org)
  • 14 12

    Show HN: I built a site where you hire yourself instead of applying for jobs (hired.wtf)
  • 5 69

    Emuko: Fast RISC-V emulator written in Rust, boots Linux (github.com)
  • 0 62

    Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit (book.mixu.net)
  • 70 59

    The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 1053 1319

    I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk (twitter.com)
  • 4 37

    Otters as Bioindicators of Estuarine Health (emt.pensoft.net)
  • 10 54

    Show HN: I built a self-hosted course platform in Clojure (clojure.stream)
  • 3 147

    Trump orders US Government to cut ties with Anthropic (abcnews.com)
  • 39 66

    PCB Tracer (pcbtracer.com)
  • 38 93

    Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions (github.com)
  • 147 241

    A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation (www.cnn.com)
  • 24 125

    "Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything" (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 4 13

    DOS Memory Management (www.os2museum.com)
  • 253 461

    Leaving Google has actively improved my life (pseudosingleton.com)
  • 51 84

    The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock (www.origami-robotics.com)
  • 91 283

    Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died (www.beyondthejoke.co.uk)
  • 65 157

    Let's discuss sandbox isolation (www.shayon.dev)
  • 16 72

    Building secure, scalable agent sandbox infrastructure (browser-use.com)
  • 44 102

    Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE (forum.lazarus.freepascal.org)
  • 7 45

    Don't Cite Unsold eBay Listing Prices (blog.danlew.net)
  • 9 109

    Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts (www.redblobgames.com)
  • 4 13

    Your device identity is probably a liability (smallstep.com)
  • 0 5

    Show HN: SignalCend – API that resolves conflicting IoT device state in 47ms (signalcend.com)
  • Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 208 463

    Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died (www.dignitymemorial.com)
  • 1 32

    Theory of Constraints: "Blue Light" creating capacity for nothing (2007) (theoryofconstraints.blogspot.com)
  • 75 99

    Block spent $68M on a company offsite in September 2025 (twitter.com)
  • 61 82

    Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM (blog.skypilot.co)
  • 5 24

    What was the first life restoration of a sauropod? (svpow.com)
  • 79 122

    Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail (www.unfudged.io)
  • 98 212

    Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification (github.com)
  • 52 159

    Allocating on the Stack (go.dev)
  • 19 37

    Tech people keep falling for the same scam (explodingcomma.com)
  • 313 285

    NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays (www.cbsnews.com)
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    NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs (arstechnica.com)
  • 42 96

    Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory (www.oranlooney.com)
  • 35 135

    Vibe coded Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users (www.theregister.com)
  • 653 768

    A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification (www.pcgamer.com)
  • 1 6

    ChatGPT Health performance in a structured test of triage recommendations (www.nature.com)
  • 1 8

    USRP X420 10MHz – 20 GHz SDR (www.ni.com)
  • 221 251

    The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic (www.understandingai.org)
  • 104 212

    We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM (www.mendral.com)
  • 148 205

    ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study (www.theguardian.com)
  • 18 108

    Sprites on the Web (www.joshwcomeau.com)
  • 40 83

    Show HN: Badge that shows how well your codebase fits in an LLM's context window (github.com)
  • 106 607

    Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices (www.eff.org)
  • 576 551

    OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
  • 1 60

    OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank) (www.reuters.com)
  • 7 72

    How to Allocate Memory (geocar.sdf1.org)
  • 150 434

    A better streams API is possible for JavaScript (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 1 51

    Sam Altman: We raised a $110B round from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank (twitter.com)
  • 231 549

    Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers (claude.com)
  • 52 44

    Generative AI use and depressive symptoms among US adults (jamanetwork.com)
  • 56 187

    Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser (retrotick.com)
  • 107 83

    PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI (postmarketos.org)
  • 22 122

    The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game (arstechnica.com)
  • 24 46

    US Customs destroys rare floppy disk (twitter.com)
  • 45 190

    Breaking Free (www.forbrukerradet.no)
  • 56 58

    Lawmakers say US Military used laser to take down Border Protection drone in TX (apnews.com)
  • 49 121

    Reading English from 1000 AD (lewiscampbell.tech)
  • 1 6

    Quantitativity on the number of rational points in the Mordell conjecture (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 11 71

    The complete Manic Miner disassembly (skoolkit.ca)
  • 195 304

    Can you reverse engineer our neural network? (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 176 135

    Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
  • 137 163

    F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026 (f-droid.org)
  • 6 10

    Open Source Handheld Linux Device [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 24 61

    Compact disc story (1998) (www.researchgate.net)
  • 84 91

    Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case (www.bbc.com)
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    An interactive intro to quadtrees (growingswe.com)
  • 6 73

    Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style (dionisiydk.blogspot.com)
  • 2 10

    Show HN: AS Level Chemistry Lab Simulator (github.com)
  • 9 10

    Firefox's AI Kill Switch Is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem (www.quippd.com)
  • Ubicloud (YC W24): Software Engineer – $95-$250K in Turkey, Netherlands, CA (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 71 150

    Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code (antirez.com)
  • 157 286

    The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)
  • 15 59

    The Origins of Agar (www.asimov.press)
  • 5 20

    Intel Foundry boss leaves for Qualcomm (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 80 72

    Julia: Performance Tips (docs.julialang.org)
  • 90 113

    Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993 (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
  • 53 112

    I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye (paultendo.github.io)
  • 30 122

    80386 Protection (nand2mario.github.io)
  • 0 3

    Demystifying Debuggers, Part 5: Instruction-Level Stepping and Breakpoints (www.dgtlgrove.com)
  • 2 8

    Bending the CLOS Mop for Java-Style Single Dispatch (atgreen.github.io)
  • 30 109

    Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration (github.com)
  • 39 57

    Move tests to closed source repo (github.com)
  • 181 539

    The Hunt for Dark Breakfast (moultano.wordpress.com)
  • 146 179

    A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives (bookriot.com)
  • 136 283

    Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic (www.nytimes.com)
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    Interval Research Corporation: a 1990s PARC without a Xerox (2022) (instadeq.com)
  • 66 40

    Two insider cases we've recently closed (news.kalshi.com)
  • 2 24

    Cartographic Symbologies: The Art and Design of Expression in Historic Maps (exhibits.stanford.edu)
  • LiteLLM (YC W23): Founding Reliability Engineer – $200K-$270K and 0.5-1.0% equity (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 4 25

    Hacking Tauri for Designer (yujonglee.com)
  • 59 146

    Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries (www.dropsitenews.com)
  • 10 40

    Cronboard: A terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs (github.com)
  • 25 104

    An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published (www.openculture.com)