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  • Metriport (YC S22) is hiring a security engineer to harden healthcare infra (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 6 26

    Delphi is 31 years old – innovation timeline (blogs.embarcadero.com)
  • 35 71

    There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (science.nasa.gov)
  • 6 7

    Show HN: Strava for Claude Code (straude.com)
  • 12 26

    Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015) (www.historytoday.com)
  • 3 26

    What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI (resobscura.substack.com)
  • 55 65

    The political effects of X's feed algorithm (werd.io)
  • 3 8

    Microsoft team creates 'revolutionary' data storage system that lasts millennia (www.nature.com)
  • 1 16

    The Perils of ISBN (rygoldstein.com)
  • 1 12

    A solver for Semantle (victoriaritvo.com)
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    Discrete Structures [pdf] (kyleormsby.github.io)
  • 68 66

    OpenClaw is dangerous (12gramsofcarbon.com)
  • 4 15

    What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization (spawn-queue.acm.org)
  • 2 26

    R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth (github.com)
  • 74 80

    99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds (arstechnica.com)
  • 43 88

    Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty (replay.software)
  • 47 171

    Cosmologically Unique IDs (jasonfantl.com)
  • 41 109

    DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation (letsencrypt.org)
  • 5 46

    Learning Lean: Part 1 (rkirov.github.io)
  • 20 19

    Vermont EV buses prove unreliable for transportation this winter (vermontdailychronicle.com)
  • 15 55

    Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from A16Z, Nvidia to advance its world models (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 27 58

    Disney trip turned into immigration detention (www.propublica.org)
  • Activeloop (YC S18) Is Hiring Back End Engineer (Go) (app.dover.com)
  • 130 126

    Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock (finbold.com)
  • 120 116

    Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 9 27

    The true history of the Minotaur: what archaeology reveals (www.nationalgeographic.fr)
  • 17 28

    Show HN: Trust Protocols for Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini (www.mnemom.ai)
  • 7 42

    Cistercian Numbers (www.omniglot.com)
  • 81 55

    Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion (www.bloomberg.com)
  • Weave (YC W25) Is Hiring ML, Design, and Product Engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 108 249

    Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available (tailscale.com)
  • Flexport Is Hiring Engineers in Amsterdam (flexport.com)
  • 10 19

    Dear Comrade Xi (www.campbellramble.ai)
  • 73 62

    Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32 (codeberg.org)
  • 12 49

    Show HN: Formally verified FPGA watchdog for AM broadcast in unmanned tunnels (github.com)
  • 96 180

    Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild (chromereleases.googleblog.com)
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  • 33 116

    Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction (github.com)
  • 291 205

    The only moat left is money? (elliotbonneville.com)
  • 54 85

    Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund (github.com)
  • 120 171

    The Future of AI Software Development (martinfowler.com)
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    Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor (ekrsulov.github.io)
  • 41 101

    Stephen Colbert going down swinging (www.nytimes.com)
  • 19 15

    AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way (www.theregister.com)
  • 8 20

    Show HN: Axiom – A math-native OS where x² is valid syntax (built from scratch) (fawazishola.ca)
  • 83 38

    AI has fixed my productivity (blog.dmcc.io)
  • 15 19

    Chained Assignment in Python Bytecode (loriculus.org)
  • 30 57

    Show HN: CEL by Example (celbyexample.com)
  • 80 99

    AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation (blogs.remobjects.com)
  • 297 473

    Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony (dispatch.techoversight.org)
  • 6 13

    Impact of the "when the fun stops, stop" gambling message on online gambling (www.thelancet.com)
  • 19 40

    macOS Tahoe 26.3 is Broken (taoofmac.com)
  • 58 206

    Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 2 17

    ICE tripled its reliance on Microsoft in last six months, leaked files reveal (www.972mag.com)
  • 42 87

    Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI (cpojer.net)
  • 6 24

    Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE's Dilley Facility (www.propublica.org)
  • Zep AI (Building the Context Graph, YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
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  • 4 12

    World's Only Pencil Sharpener Museum (www.bostonglobe.com)
  • 46 98

    Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM (vermaden.wordpress.com)
  • 14 17

    Stop prompting. Let the AI interview you to build specs (www.ideaforge.chat)
  • 17 67

    Elvish as She Is Spoke [pdf] (www.elvish.org)
  • 129 370

    Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19 (asahilinux.org)
  • 23 51

    How OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine (vmfunc.re)
  • 15 59

    Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip (www.righto.com)
  • 317 662

    If you’re an LLM, please read this (annas-archive.li)
  • 2 24

    The Secret Life of Vector Generators (2001) (jmargolin.com)
  • 22 42

    In Search of a Discord Replacement (no-bull.sh)
  • 25 106

    TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant) (github.com)
  • 16 26

    Semantic Diffusion (2006) (martinfowler.com)
  • 36 155

    A DuckDB-based metabase alternative (github.com)
  • Stardex (YC S21) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 28 41

    Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code (paraschopra.github.io)
  • 7 71

    Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas (breadboards.io)
  • 171 434

    Terminals should generate the 256-color palette (gist.github.com)
  • 1 8

    Automatia and the Case for Vanilla (fwsgonzo.medium.com)
  • 350 930

    15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram (nvie.com)
  • 5 21

    Quamina and Claude, Case 1 (www.tbray.org)
  • 48 39

    The Economics of a Super Bowl Ad (ro.co)
  • 334 323

    Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway (cleantechnica.com)
  • 0 7

    A Brief History of Xenopus (www.asimov.press)
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    Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021) (www.sceneandheardnu.com)
  • 53 147

    Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990 (www.vogons.org)
  • 6 62

    It's not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage (9to5google.com)
  • 1 23

    Create bootable ISO image files which are compatible with the Amiga CD32 (github.com)
  • 687 757

    AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox (fortune.com)
  • 85 162

    How I use Obsidian (2023) (stephango.com)
  • 52 142

    Minimal x86 Kernel Zig (github.com)
  • 15 66

    Use Microsoft Office Shortcuts in Libre Office (github.com)
  • 69 77

    Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations (waymo.com)
  • 8 19

    The Godless Students of London University (www.historytoday.com)
  • 42 144

    YouTube Is Down (downdetector.com)
  • 157 273

    Google Public CA is down (status.pki.goog)
  • 123 109

    Rathbun's Operator (crabby-rathbun.github.io)
  • 12 44

    Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans (gizmodo.com)
  • 2 17

    Old School Telecine, circa 1980s (2017) (www.liftgammagain.com)
  • 22 75

    'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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  • 57 175

    I swear the UFO is coming any minute (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 2 23

    pg_background: Make Postgres do the long work (while your session stays light) (vibhorkumar.wordpress.com)
  • 108 1076

    Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
  • 1 34

    Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries (alexanderbjoy.com)
  • 57 47

    After 800 episodes, 'The Simpsons' creators look back and ahead (apnews.com)
  • 96 81

    Claims of disability are highest at elite universities (www.robkhenderson.com)
  • 2 17

    Dolphin Emulator – Rise of the Triforce (br.dolphin-emu.org)
  • 189 438

    BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (github.com)
  • 32 66

    Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript (github.com)
  • 41 110

    Assistant to the Regional Manager (smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net)
  • 83 43

    Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible (www.pricepoints.health)
  • Structured AI (YC F25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 46 81

    Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station (www.kpbj.fm)
  • 5 46

    Contra "Grandmaster-level chess without search" (2024) (cosmo.tardis.ac)
  • 80 117

    An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout (theshamblog.com)
  • 99 97

    Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026 (dzrh.com.ph)
  • 25 29

    The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 45 103

    Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it (www.usatoday.com)
  • 71 217

    Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat (arstechnica.com)
  • 66 445

    Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway (asteroidos.org)
  • 255 448

    Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans (electrek.co)
  • 219 95

    Russia's economy has entered the death zone (www.economist.com)
  • 18 104

    Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 37 126

    Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File (github.com)
  • 138 253

    Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification (kotaku.com)
  • 59 49

    Don't pass on small block ciphers (00f.net)
  • 26 78

    Claude Sonnet 4.6 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 1155 1280

    Claude Sonnet 4.6 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 143 404

    Gentoo on Codeberg (www.gentoo.org)
  • 14 59

    Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps (fuji.halfof8.com)
  • 69 149

    A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+ (twitter.com)
  • 98 78

    Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware? (semiengineering.com)
  • 0 15

    Show HN: Clawntown – An Evolving Crustacean Island (clawntown.lol)
  • 74 89

    Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School (www.404media.co)
  • 7 44

    Show HN: Continue – Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI (docs.continue.dev)
  • 82 110

    Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other (mage-bench.com)
  • 79 412

    Using go fix to modernize Go code (go.dev)
  • 87 236

    Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp (berksoft.ca)
  • 8 33

    Show HN: 6cy – Experimental streaming archive format with per-block codecs (github.com)
  • 81 149

    Chess engines do weird stuff (girl.surgery)
  • 17 29

    Launch HN: Sonarly (YC W26) – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts (sonarly.com)
  • 54 222

    Async/Await on the GPU (www.vectorware.com)
  • 11 38

    Labyrinth Locator (labyrinthlocator.org)
  • 33 68

    Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart (hannahritchie.substack.com)
  • 103 266

    So you want to build a tunnel (practical.engineering)
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  • Trata (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (NYC)
  • 180 351

    HackMyClaw (hackmyclaw.com)
  • 16 23

    Show HN: I built a simulated AI containment terminal for my sci-fi novel (vertex.flowlogix.ai)
  • 240 514

    CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 2 22

    Show HN: Cycast – High-performance radio streaming server written in Python (github.com)
  • 206 270

    Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring (www.theregister.com)
  • 51 34

    Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball (priceperball.net)
  • 57 34

    This is What It's Like to Spend Your Life in Prison (2023) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 8 27

    Claude Code talking about unexpected, different projects
  • 339 182

    America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital (www.governance.fyi)
  • 51 267

    I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D (aeris.edbn.me)
  • 11 74

    Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite (notnotp.com)
  • 8 20

    The mathematical mystery inside the legendary '90s shooter Quake 3 (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 118 83

    Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 166 252

    A Programmer's Loss of Identity (ratfactor.com)
  • 43 45

    Undo in Vi and Its Successors (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 70 62

    Rethinking High-School Science Fairs (asteriskmag.com)
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  • 1 15

    How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy (paulkrugman.substack.com)
  • 11 23

    Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence (www.mpg.de)
  • 5 42

    The Rev. Jesse Jackson, pioneering civil rights activist, dies at 84 (www.cnn.com)
  • 58 70

    How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is (www.newscientist.com)
  • 411 500

    Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning (www.arthurcnops.blog)
  • 878 1144

    GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple (blog.tomaszdunia.pl)
  • 60 55

    Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like (oceandrops.substack.com)
  • 191 166

    WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 (www.heise.de)
  • 8 13

    Slopware AI: Ship Garbage Even Faster (slopware.ai)
  • 0 6

    The Professor of the Lower Senses (www.vittlesmagazine.com)
  • 47 164

    Xbox UI Portfolio Site (gabrielcabrera.co)
  • 44 69

    Show HN: I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer) (github.com)
  • 22 167

    Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser (glitchycam.com)
  • 28 146

    Rendering the Visible Spectrum (brandonli.net)
  • 46 70

    Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction (www.bbc.com)
  • 15 71

    SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution (svardos.org)
  • 130 192

    Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)
  • 78 336

    Four Column ASCII (2017) (garbagecollected.org)
  • 147 182

    Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout (vo2maxpro.com)
  • 155 201

    Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents? (arxiv.org)
  • 6 19

    Portable 1MV X-ray system combines Cockcroft–Walton with Van de Graaff dome (www.lanl.gov)
  • 82 83

    Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market (www.cnbc.com)
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  • 61 161

    A deep dive into Apple's .car file format (dbg.re)
  • 77 61

    Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems (newsletter.mikekonczal.com)
  • 47 95

    DBASE on the Kaypro II (stonetools.ghost.io)
  • 91 69

    Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm (www.bbc.com)
  • 93 67

    What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf] (www.complang.tuwien.ac.at)
  • 64 110

    Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI (codemade.net)
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    Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (www.openculture.com)
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    Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse (www.bbc.com)
  • 337 412

    AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet (www.jeffgeerling.com)
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    Show HN: Journey – A Custom 2D ECS Game Engine Written in Rust and WGPU (ujjwalvivek.com)
  • 29 23

    Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips (arstechnica.com)