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  • 0 2

    Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta (allenai.org)
  • 0 6

    Electrification Special Report 2026 [pdf] (iea.blob.core.windows.net)
  • 0 5

    The Harness Is the Company (blog.sshh.io)
  • 34 80

    Zig v0.17.0 (ziglang.org)
  • 29 55

    Everyone's Packing Up (widdershins.verja.net)
  • 0 7

    Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web (royapakzad.substack.com)
  • 31 50

    Muse Gadgets (gadgets.muse.ai)
  • 25 39

    Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator (github.com)
  • 17 75

    GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression (discuss.grapheneos.org)
  • 49 68

    Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS (developer.apple.com)
  • 0 9

    Hardly Promethean (jardo.dev)
  • 28 83

    Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid (www.nber.org)
  • 2 26

    The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's (onlineonly.christies.com)
  • 18 29

    Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among the Young, Even Kids and Teens (gizmodo.com)
  • 27 25

    "The only intuitive interface is the nipple" (2012) (www.greenend.org.uk)
  • 1 8

    The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit (www.behindthecode.ca)
  • 5 8

    Scientists untangle the biology of an 'undruggable' cancer gene (www.nytimes.com)
  • 140 218

    Apple Pass Designer (developer.apple.com)
  • 1 9

    The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news (www.lenfestinstitute.org)
  • 14 41

    How accurately calibrated is Jev? (maximumeffort.substack.com)
  • 2 12

    Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (againstallodds.games)
  • 6 31

    Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc (byzantine-systems.github.io)
  • 1 9

    Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites (articlesofinterest.substack.com)
  • 1 10

    On building a worm detector (bencology.bearblog.dev)
  • 7 23

    Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers (developers.redhat.com)
  • 0 14

    Mystery Function (codeset.ai)
  • 13 82

    From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4 (dwarfstar.sh)
  • 2 13

    AI as Normal Technology (2025) (knightcolumbia.org)
  • 4 8

    Scientists invent underwater umbrellas to protect coral reefs (gizmodo.com)
  • 21 115

    A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting (bsky.app)
  • 94 95

    On social reality in China (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 14 48

    Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market (bigthink.com)
  • 0 11

    ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability (github.com)
  • 35 35

    Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit (blog.google)
  • 9 44

    F.02 Decommission (www.figure.ai)
  • 0 9

    Robot Hands for Modern AI and Real Work (bostondynamics.com)
  • 4 18

    100 years of student radio history in the DLARC college radio collections (blog.archive.org)
  • 0 10

    Show HN: Use all Codex Plugins inside Pi (github.com)
  • 1 7

    Show HN: Graphene – Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent (github.com)
  • 0 16

    SequenceHash: Multihashing for the rest of us (blog.trailofbits.com)
  • 4 26

    What if we stopped using GPUs? [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 50 69

    One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash (wagtail.org)
  • 36 130

    Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city (www.nytimes.com)
  • 9 29

    Leaderboards and speedrun.com's new terms of service (therun.gg)
  • 0 11

    Martian chaos terrain (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 4 42

    Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors (github.com)
  • 4 8

    Show HN: PhreshOS – OS for Web Apps (github.com)
  • 1 50

    Anatomy of a Lean proof for software engineers (agostbiro.net)
  • 25 131

    Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 42 114

    With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now (arstechnica.com)
  • 6 16

    Cancel Your Subscription: a free browser game (www.fundrstudio.com)
  • 4 19

    Capcom RE:Dox, open source serialization/deserialization for game engines (github.com)
  • 28 123

    Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers (erictopol.substack.com)
  • 1 16

    Fast Blur with Animated Radius (aras-p.info)
  • 5 8

    Show HN: We built a real-time desktop companion for patient's telehealth visits (openhand.health)
  • 5 24

    STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit (1985) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 129 189

    ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts (www.npr.org)
  • 26 96

    Dutch computer museums (2022) (aresluna.org)
  • 190 160

    Sites in ChatGPT (chatgpt.com)
  • 5 13

    Limited Liability In Historical Perspective (1997) [pdf] (scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu)
  • 171 398

    Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility (www.eff.org)
  • 27 126

    Tiny Brutalism (placeholders.itch.io)
  • 2 25

    Benchmarking retrieval for agents on messy real-world company knowledge (www.kapa.ai)
  • 4 43

    Now That's an Impurity Story (www.science.org)
  • 89 118

    Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal (www.science.org)
  • 5 40

    Show HN: Breadcrumb, record everything on your mac + context manager for AI (innerloop.works)
  • 54 164

    Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas (stillwet.art)
  • 14 29

    The OpenAI Decisions API needs a confidence you can trust (anth.us)
  • 64 75

    Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL (www.reddit.com)
  • 53 232

    FLUX 3 Image (bfl.ai)
  • 3 22

    Fixing GRPO's credit assignment problem without evaluating every step (arxiv.org)
  • 55 69

    GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow (agent-wow.sh)
  • 97 185

    Supabase is acquiring Turso (supabase.com)
  • 77 100

    The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding (distantprovince.substack.com)
  • 26 41

    A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking (www.biometricupdate.com)
  • 33 16

    We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  • 5 15

    America's Largest Producer of Coal Is Operating Under an Expired Permit (insideclimatenews.org)
  • 24 46

    Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter (www.theregister.com)
  • 58 29

    Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator (support.soloist.ai)
  • 208 175

    AI Makes Me Sad (mondobe.com)
  • 99 203

    Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours (www.home-assistant.io)
  • 23 49

    Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code (liquidbrain.net)
  • 91 74

    Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors (www.reuters.com)
  • 139 62

    Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 12 28

    Claude-Shaped Science (www.anthropic.com)
  • 129 222

    The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf] (gwern.net)
  • 60 41

    Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028 (arstechnica.com)
  • 29 64

    Alarm Grows over 'Clearly Illegal' US Election Meddling in Brazil (www.commondreams.org)
  • 82 58

    European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance (www.rte.ie)
  • 73 47

    Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude (www.reddit.com)
  • 105 68

    Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl (www.theguardian.com)
  • 45 131

    Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor (github.com)
  • 10 24

    AI godfather Yann LeCun: Anthropic CEO deluded, doesn't understand cybersecurity (fortune.com)
  • 2 22

    Building reliable (and fast) directory sync (www.firezone.dev)
  • 129 91

    US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban (www.reuters.com)
  • 71 280

    Shimano Bicycle Museum Review (inrng.com)
  • 108 121

    To grieve, or not to grieve? (xenaproject.wordpress.com)
  • 58 194

    Turbo Haskell (comonad.com)
  • 74 59

    Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping (sigh.dev)
  • 204 379

    DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows (www.deepseek.com)
  • 332 241

    How Singapore's government-run dating service works (www.singapore-samizdat.com)
  • 120 531

    Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines (www.frogandtoad.ai)
  • 13 34

    Personal Computing 2.0: It's time for a personal computing revolution (ideas.imbue.com)
  • 50 37

    Your Big Mac might cost more if McDonald's AI thinks people nearby can afford it (neow.in)
  • 19 77

    Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators (www.essex.ac.uk)
  • 3 18

    DoGBench: The first user-facing docs generation benchmark. No model scores >50% (dogbench.ai)
  • 391 542

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel (lwn.net)
  • 66 35

    Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video (www.theapplepost.com)
  • 28 38

    Aweb – Communication for AI Agents (aweb.ai)
  • 71 218

    Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo (resobscura.substack.com)
  • 5 27

    2026 International Utility Locate Rodeo (locaterodeo.net)
  • 36 41

    Don't Be Fooled by this Summer of AI Hype (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 166 390

    SvelteKit 3 (svelte.dev)
  • 22 20

    OpenRadioss is not open anymore (www.siemens.com)
  • 12 11

    Show HN: Premortem – AI agents that red-team your startup idea (premortem.site)
  • 47 158

    CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development (www.cssbed.com)
  • 46 59

    Show HN: Rhun, an open-source code editor written in assembly (rhun.app)
  • 183 230

    The death of web development education (molily.de)
  • 59 85

    Effect 4.0 (effect.website)
  • 17 95

    Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia (github.com)
  • 71 143

    ArXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy (blog.arxiv.org)
  • 212 245

    Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles (automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu)
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  • 65 484

    Pi Durable (earendil.com)
  • 78 48

    Sudo – A dedicated music player designed around listening to music (sudo.music)
  • 567 1632

    Pi 1.0 (earendil.com)
  • 3 13

    Terminal Email: terminal email clients for every system (terminalemail.com)
  • 21 13

    Big Tech's Capex Is Half of Wall Street's Profit Growth (inlevel9.com)
  • 20 123

    Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 40 122

    SlutCon (www.thenewcritic.com)
  • 49 121

    Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests (tangled.org)
  • 50 50

    macOS 27 is so buggy (osxdaily.com)
  • 29 37

    I am so tired of this bullshit (rmoff.net)
  • 29 88

    How to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your sending domain (mailfully.com)
  • 250 195

    Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met (stoppels.ch)
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  • 39 112

    Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance
  • 7 86

    Lightweight PDF parser with layout, tables, formulas and bounding boxes (github.com)
  • 10 65

    ParadeDB Search Performance Improvements (www.paradedb.com)
  • 516 543

    Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake (blog.gitbutler.com)
  • 48 169

    Context Language Models (arxiv.org)
  • 425 122

    Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
  • 262 258

    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
  • 62 278

    Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers (www.rtl-sdr.com)
  • 214 614

    Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 94 83

    Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence (apnews.com)
  • 105 374

    RIP, vector database (turbopuffer.com)
  • 0 16

    Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave (www.dropsitenews.com)
  • 7 7

    Nicolas Cage Says the MCU 'Is Becoming a Well-Funded and Glorified WWE' (variety.com)
  • 111 281

    Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 136 207

    Red Hat being phased out of existence? (techrights.org)
  • 47 155

    RacketCon Is Saturday (con.racket-lang.org)
  • 104 186

    Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi (twitter.com)
  • 28 77

    Identity Management for Agentic AI [pdf] (2025) (openid.net)
  • 6 58

    Polyedergarten: Garden of Paper Polyhedron Models (www.polyedergarten.de)
  • 219 281

    Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones (www.404media.co)
  • 33 9

    Effective altruism is this century's biggest idea (www.economist.com)
  • 2 56

    Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf] (www.tomandmaria.com)
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  • 244 252

    Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (www.nytimes.com)
  • 64 90

    An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism (www.ft.com)
  • 15 9

    Strutt's Powered Wheelchair Is Not a Wheelchair (For Legal Reasons) (www.core77.com)
  • 159 207

    FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks (www.cnbc.com)
  • 437 380

    Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026 (www.techpowerup.com)
  • 162 272

    How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 (nnethercote.github.io)
  • 156 352

    Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks (www.osnews.com)
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  • 32 36

    Price Increases for 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 (www.raspberrypi.com)
  • 21 35

    The Beclowning of Scott Bessent (paulkrugman.substack.com)
  • 0 9

    Speeding up the separating axis test using inscribed spheres (box2d.org)
  • 366 398

    Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant (arstechnica.com)
  • 11 15

    Multi-connectivity for real-time streaming over Wi-Fi (nanoping.com)
  • 170 618

    StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta (github.com)
  • 111 186

    GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design (news.synopsys.com)
  • 35 60

    Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit (blog.vero.site)
  • Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring a GTM Founder's Associate (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 6 15

    Jacques Barzun, Cultural historian and critic (1980) (www.csmonitor.com)
  • 122 266

    OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network (github.com)
  • 25 277

    Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns (bookofshapes.com)
  • 9 25

    AI borrowers face tough sell in risky corners of US credit market (www.reuters.com)
  • 15 9

    Clipboard Normalizer (www.jefftk.com)
  • 187 87

    Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes (devz.cl)
  • 137 326

    Fuck Android Developer Verification Program (twitter.com)
  • 93 49

    Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents? (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
  • 13 8

    TUI Games in 80x24 (www.incredible.rs)
  • 138 47

    Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 8 35

    PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 5 16

    cmart's Hardcore Coworking (cmart.blog)
  • 1 12

    Jevotron: Multiple Jev integrations from the command line (cmungall.github.io)
  • 136 83

    California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states (www.bbc.com)
  • 17 33

    Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++ (github.com)
  • 38 92

    Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program (www.404media.co)
  • 11 5

    Parmiagiano and Financialisation: Cheese as Gold for the Gold of Cheese (developingeconomics.org)
  • 187 121

    10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years (www.wsj.com)
  • 55 27

    What a Massive New 728-Foot-Wide Crater Means for Future Moon Bases (www.nytimes.com)
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    A Closer Look at Australopithecus Africanus (lflank.wordpress.com)