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  • 4 7

    Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?
  • 1 6

    Google EmbeddingGemma 2 (twitter.com)
  • 4 13

    The smartest Claude Code feature is not for its users (www.zohaib.cc)
  • 12 18

    Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT use "more disturbing" than known: reporter (www.cbc.ca)
  • 3 36

    OpenSSH 10.6 (www.openssh.org)
  • 11 14

    Meta's Muse AI agent is building a dossier on you (time.com)
  • 10 21

    System-level ad-blocking in Android (kevinboone.me)
  • 71 77

    Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (arstechnica.com)
  • 8 39

    Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill (citizenlab.ca)
  • 97 48

    A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over (dbushell.com)
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  • 34 92

    Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage (www.404media.co)
  • 14 109

    EmbeddingGemma 2 (blog.google)
  • 48 33

    Berthd (berthd.app)
  • 43 92

    What's Earth's dominant species by mass? (signoregalilei.com)
  • 23 62

    Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught (www.erdosproblems.com)
  • 3 15

    Ask a model if code is malicious and it reaches for its morals (www.manifold.security)
  • 60 39

    How California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole (www.thedrive.com)
  • 95 111

    Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason (www.reuters.com)
  • 6 23

    Nano Banana 2.1 (twitter.com)
  • 54 95

    Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust (github.com)
  • 82 136

    I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity (ajmoon.com)
  • 79 46

    Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight (www.techspot.com)
  • 7 19

    LibreOffice says 'no AI' is now a software feature (techcrunch.com)
  • 12 53

    Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer (peterszentkiralyi.eu)
  • 229 171

    OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI (github.com)
  • 1 6

    Prepare for your next tech interview, free (nokku.payanai.com)
  • 44 96

    The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) (worrydream.com)
  • 31 82

    Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP (arxiv.org)
  • 242 174

    Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand (www.autodidacts.io)
  • 29 115

    Benchmark in Milliseconds (matklad.github.io)
  • 47 32

    Screens Aren't Destroying Young Minds. I Should Know (humanprogress.org)
  • 58 123

    Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol (mihai.dinculescu.dev)
  • 14 70

    Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (www.parseable.com)
  • 12 20

    Show HN: Jotbus – a shared encrypted scratchpad for coding agents (jotbus.com)
  • 25 28

    Oracle Triggered the Implosion of the AI Bubble (medium.com)
  • 5 517

    Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" (mistral.ai)
  • 7 49

    Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl (mastodon.social)
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  • 4 69

    Mistral Large 4 (twitter.com)
  • 3 11

    Remote Live vs. Pre-Recorded Exercise Training for Chronic Low Back Pain (RCT) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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  • 34 61

    Mathematics of Geothermal Energy (www.ebsco.com)
  • 893 1433

    Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
  • 251 359

    Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire (www.techdirt.com)
  • 91 389

    Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
  • 521 563

    JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025 (www.helgilibrary.com)
  • 147 289

    Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study (phys.org)
  • 63 141

    First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months (techcrunch.com)
  • 41 61

    ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 1 7

    Asos users receive pop-up notification apparently sent by hackers (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 114 276

    Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore (gleam.run)
  • 157 484

    Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen (www.nobelprize.org)
  • 1 11

    Fundamentals of circadian entrainment by light (2021) (journals.sagepub.com)
  • 3 6

    DOOM, simulated and rendered inside the Firebird SQL database using WASM (github.com)
  • 15 43

    Protect Your Friends and Loved Ones (ephemeral.cx)
  • 90 78

    Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
  • 52 37

    German Bundeswehr Uses AI to Screen Applicants for Right-Wing Extremism (news.osna.fm)
  • 37 15

    'Pull the plug': protesters resort to direct action against AI firms (www.theguardian.com)
  • 26 68

    The complement of true is true, except when it's false (dryperspective.github.io)
  • 136 116

    We are going to kill "unalive" (www.anildash.com)
  • 30 84

    Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024) (liquidbrain.net)
  • 61 81

    Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales (blue-continuum.com)
  • 6 37

    Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster (www.stelabouras.com)
  • 3 11

    Wood Tape (2004) (gamesbyemail.com)
  • 39 104

    Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing (blog.pipetogrep.org)
  • 60 100

    Open Source as We Know It Is Dead (jross.me)
  • 355 275

    Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language (www.vivienhenz.com)
  • 7 15

    Using Theme park rides and smartphones for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics (iopscience.iop.org)
  • 5 23

    A single license fee of £100k.00 (dbushell.com)
  • 11 58

    Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers (github.com)
  • 99 143

    Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project (github.com)
  • 167 163

    High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days (www.thedrive.com)
  • 2 8

    Unruly Folded Sheets (literaryreview.co.uk)
  • 91 105

    An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot (blog.citp.princeton.edu)
  • 26 57

    Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle (gwern.net)
  • 65 69

    AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment (edworkingpapers.com)
  • 228 300

    Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend (dbushell.com)
  • 13 50

    Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning (almostimplemented.github.io)
  • 29 79

    Ephemeral Testing (lemire.me)
  • 116 225

    Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared (smarthomescene.com)
  • 57 39

    Is mathematics over, or just graduating? (docs.google.com)
  • 64 72

    Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally (globalsolaratlas.info)
  • 0 35

    Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf] (nivdayan.github.io)
  • 393 534

    ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons (www.niemanlab.org)
  • 1 4

    Food Atlas: Connections behind the dishes we love (knowledgeartist.org)
  • 3 34

    Graphical UI (www.graphicalui.com)
  • 223 334

    Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades (www.debugbear.com)
  • 51 54

    Worth Building (armstr.ng)
  • 35 207

    Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage (arstechnica.com)
  • 10 82

    DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit (github.com)
  • 104 297

    Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (flattensf.com)
  • 79 263

    Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation (qlabs.sh)
  • 91 61

    The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches? (blogs.gnome.org)
  • 134 109

    Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort (smyck.net)
  • 53 31

    A third way of using Linux (hisvirusness.com)
  • 15 35

    WSL containers is now generally available (blogs.windows.com)
  • 325 482

    Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates (www.vals.ai)
  • 9 18

    How much should we worry about the pneumonic plague lableak in Siberia? (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 53 57

    How to save a life without knowing CPR (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
  • 119 78

    The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse (www.cbc.ca)
  • 82 121

    The Future of Mathematics (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 64 103

    Incident with Actions (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 66 63

    After bankruptcy, he was banned from betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi (www.npr.org)
  • 37 70

    AI Companies Are Parasites (www.coryd.dev)
  • 9 22

    How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't (www.science.org)
  • 10 21

    OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows. Its Creator Trusts No One (zbruceli.org)
  • 80 304

    Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] (cses.fi)
  • 127 204

    Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have (deadparrotbbs.com)
  • 0 19

    ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours (www.propublica.org)
  • 58 110

    One person can now be a quorum at the SEC (www.ft.com)
  • 167 534

    Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (reflection.ai)
  • 230 47

    Questions for believers in AI consciousness (endsdontjustifythemeans.com)
  • 101 176

    Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses (www.barrons.com)
  • 44 66

    Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland (www.ess-news.com)
  • 3 21

    Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004) (archive.techarp.com)
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  • 26 85

    Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear (github.com)
  • 191 299

    OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (diff.wikimedia.org)
  • 41 140

    Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016) (blog.lizzie.io)
  • 10 10

    Earth Tipped on Its Side During the Age of Dinosaurs–and Not Just Once (gizmodo.com)
  • 122 329

    The lamps in my house (arslan.io)
  • 84 53

    People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms (www.npr.org)
  • 243 224

    US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia (www.theguardian.com)
  • 60 69

    Our approach to EU text provenance rules (openai.com)
  • 48 148

    2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel (www.nobelprize.org)
  • 109 141

    The future of independence is interdependence (onlys.ky)
  • 84 50

    Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat (www.theverge.com)
  • 2 8

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 (www.nobelprize.org)
  • 63 106

    Borland Turbo Basic (dosdays.co.uk)
  • 48 139

    Picard 3.0 (blog.metabrainz.org)
  • 45 58

    Beating the compiler (2024) (www.mattkeeter.com)
  • 128 117

    "I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry" (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
  • 53 173

    Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 (floreal.tech)
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  • 43 41

    Altman: The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI (www.politico.com)
  • 235 274

    The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists (worksinprogress.co)
  • 189 245

    Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust (github.com)
  • 30 38

    Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust (github.com)
  • 64 28

    Anthropic wants your thoughts on AI (www.anthropic.com)
  • 65 33

    Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 86 59

    Spending on AI is becoming almost impossible for businesses to budget (www.wsj.com)
  • 59 101

    Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
  • 38 57

    Gitframes (github.com)
  • 300 427

    Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped (discuss.grapheneos.org)
  • 119 63

    Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman (www.theguardian.com)
  • 1 69

    The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches? (blogs.gnome.org)
  • 34 146

    Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr` (blog.haskell.org)
  • 132 149

    Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025) (danielchasehooper.com)
  • 377 343

    Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation (techfundingnews.com)
  • 280 585

    Web Search API (developers.cloudflare.com)
  • 1 135

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 (www.nobelprize.org)
  • 244 288

    Apple and a hacker's future (stratechery.com)
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  • 83 110

    The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 350 500

    Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data (www.cpr.dk)
  • 132 84

    Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold (www.transportenvironment.org)
  • 127 202

    Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 9 51

    Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
  • 641 799

    Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge (www.techspot.com)
  • 55 324

    We ported the original Doom to SQL (cedardb.com)
  • 65 104

    Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025) (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 11 47

    Hacker News addiction and taking simple mundane breaks in life (smileplease.mataroa.blog)
  • 45 63

    Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia (www.cambridge.org)
  • 7 18

    Kagi Ends Orion Browser Development for Linux, Will Open-Source It (linuxiac.com)
  • 9 6

    The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind (www.theguardian.com)
  • 173 113

    A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap (frn.sh)
  • 1 17

    Fixed Points and Strike Mandates (2012) (pvk.ca)
  • 325 303

    Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague (www.themoscowtimes.com)
  • 11 20

    A tribute to one of the best games on the Atari 2600 (plicerin.github.io)
  • 11 54

    Quantitative Finance with OCaml (qcaml.com)
  • 249 288

    Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch (www.motorsport.com)
  • 114 272

    The Tao of Backup (www.taobackup.com)
  • 16 26

    The logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley (www.nytimes.com)
  • 172 113

    ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust (getartcraft.com)
  • 4 18

    1 in 8 cancer cases are caused by infections (www.livescience.com)
  • 44 76

    Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio (tuftesrazor.scienceux.org)