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  • 0 4

    I Saw Your HN Comment (joshstrange.com)
  • 8 16

    Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge (www.denverpost.com)
  • 0 10

    Active Benchmarking (www.brendangregg.com)
  • 20 39

    Zebkit – Chromium as an embeddable library (github.com)
  • 14 35

    He Was a Suspect in the Yogurt Shop Murders for Thirty Years. He Can't Forget (www.texasmonthly.com)
  • 63 67

    Children of Men: The Future Is a Mirror for the Present (reactormag.com)
  • 8 28

    Borrowing a Microsoft-signed shim to abuse Secure Boot on corporate hardware (leosmith.wtf)
  • 5 16

    How Australia played the first music on a computer (www.pearcey.org.au)
  • 260 331

    Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia (www.economist.com)
  • 10 64

    6 Hours of YouTube and 85 handtyped pages of notes on LLM Inference – Start here (github.com)
  • 18 91

    What is malloc doing, anyway? (benmandrew.com)
  • 55 29

    Ginux: A New Kernel Runs Linux Userspace, Made via Human-Directed AI Engineering (zenodo.org)
  • 6 21

    Nvidia's China Problem [pdf] (culperresearch.com)
  • 81 57

    Try Gleam (nchagnet.eu)
  • 67 350

    Fold Epic Paper Airplanes (www.foldableflight.com)
  • 36 53

    Burying the Evidence: nine out of every 10 time capsules go missing (longreads.com)
  • 24 15

    Electric cars are about to overtake petrol in the UK, data shows (electrek.co)
  • 60 62

    Nvidia was in 1 in 11 startup rounds over $100M last year (datahyena.com)
  • 84 38

    370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI (www.enca.com)
  • 12 75

    Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers (rbanffy.github.io)
  • 50 40

    Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
  • 16 26

    The French Cake Cooked on a Spit (2018) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 53 60

    PixelOS (pixelos.net)
  • 2 10

    WindyMaps – Free offline maps, 1h/1km weather and route trip planner (windymapy.com)
  • 39 127

    ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
  • 34 68

    Psalm 7 release: PHP security&static analysis software (psalm.dev)
  • 2 16

    SultanC – an Arabic-first systems programming language (github.com)
  • 33 146

    Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation (arxiv.org)
  • 264 366

    Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 (twitter.com)
  • 40 43

    Being a meat proxy for AI should be grounds for getting people fired (swiftrocks.com)
  • 19 79

    Quasi-Logarithmic Kitchen Timer (blog.coredump.cx)
  • 20 86

    Show HN: Flide: Make Jev-like decision models up to 9.5x faster (github.com)
  • 104 103

    Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget (www.stork.ai)
  • 1 24

    Show HN: My compact, bio inspired distributed edge detection algorithm (github.com)
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  • 8 47

    Ur-Nammu Founder of the Sumerian Renaissance (www.worldhistory.org)
  • 91 125

    A Critique of GPUI (blog.zortax.de)
  • 0 24

    Branching Beyond Leonardo: The Evolution of Tree Architecture Theory (blue-continuum.com)
  • 4 39

    A Bit about Email (maurycyz.com)
  • 0 35

    The Qlobe: Rotating Quine (2010) (mamememo.blogspot.com)
  • 21 38

    Show HN: JavaScript web apps with WASM layout and GPU rendering in 280 KB (github.com)
  • 50 71

    Ask HN: How do you manage your AI agents' context across clients and projects?
  • 127 405

    RIP, Harvest (aphyr.com)
  • 1 8

    Are big problems more difficult to solve? (paulitaylor.com)
  • 2 15

    Taco: The Tensor Algebra Compiler (tensor-compiler.org)
  • 779 453

    I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists (matteoraso.github.io)
  • 8 54

    Air holes turn silicon wafers into flat UV focusing mirrors for compact optics (phys.org)
  • 275 519

    Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world (shubs.io)
  • 5 16

    The Kekulé Problem – Cormac McCarthy (nautil.us)
  • 142 142

    When a language's creator and its owners strongly disagree [pdf] (isocpp.org)
  • 13 12

    Show HN: SafeScript, a safe version of JavaScript for executing untrusted code (github.com)
  • 191 647

    KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU (ketchup3d.github.io)
  • 52 296

    Chimera Vocal Synth (chimera-vocal-synth.vercel.app)
  • 0 5

    Designing Rust APIs around KEM, AEAD and key derivation workflows (github.com)
  • 1041 856

    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
  • 28 59

    The History of Djgpp (1998) (www.delorie.com)
  • 885 252

    Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
  • 47 73

    Playing with the STM32MP2 (serd.es)
  • 96 142

    The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford (ftrain.com)
  • 4 5

    Everything should be a random number generator (en.cppreference.com)
  • 369 482

    Statement from Nvidia board of directors (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
  • 88 122

    Starship Flight 15 on 11/13 plans to catch both booster and ship (www.spacex.com)
  • 199 283

    How I Fight AI Brain Fry (sergeykuhne.com)
  • 31 98

    Edward Hopper's Iconic Painting, "Nighthawks (lithub.com)
  • 17 41

    Playing Zork 1 on a CP/M emulator on Linux (2021) (kevinboone.me)
  • 123 323

    Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming (duxlabs.dev)
  • 334 491

    Outlook.com is rejecting email from domains without DMARC (mailroute.net)
  • 0 10

    PDP-8/E Restoration Log (www.ricomputermuseum.org)
  • 84 674

    Declarative Dragging (declarative-dragging.github.io)
  • 92 86

    UK House of Lords to propose mandatory CSAM detection software on smartphones (observer.co.uk)
  • 124 96

    Silicon Valley Promises AI Will Cure Disease. Drugmaker CEOs Aren't Buying It (www.wsj.com)
  • 457 848

    Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders (www.thestateofai.com)
  • 54 115

    A Little Snitch for Windows (packethound.app)
  • 12 45

    A field guide to CAPTCHA types and how they break (github.com)
  • 34 121

    Ads in Popular Apps Give Police a Powerful Tool to Spy on Users (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 144 240

    RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much Unused RAM in Your PC (respawnfirst.com)
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    Show HN: Vegetable Gardening for Engineers (jrcpl.us)
  • 46 62

    Top Astrophysicist Leaves U.S. (www.nytimes.com)
  • 8 77

    How to prove equations using diagrams, part 1 (www.epatters.org)
  • 8 7

    Scrine – Joyscroll books. Read any book one sentence at a time (scrine.io)
  • 277 202

    Tesla Hasn't Had a Successful New Product Launch Since JB Straubel Stepped Down (cleantechnica.com)
  • 14 37

    I have never seen a game fail because the artists were too slow (www.productionalchemist.com)
  • 43 56

    Drones built to look like birds evaded detection at Air Force tech exercise (taskandpurpose.com)
  • 55 99

    I'm not a fan of Deno's security model (2024) (goldstein.lol)
  • 57 102

    The Reconstruction of Torn Documents (www.bundesarchiv.de)
  • 61 37

    Apple CEO Presses Software Chief to Pursue More Ambitious AI Strategy (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 210 189

    OpenAI raises $11B at a $1.25T valuation (247wallst.com)
  • 1 5

    JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers (linebender.org)
  • 2 8

    Multi-Column Different-Speed Scrolling (blog.master.dev)
  • 107 437

    Writing as a thinking tool (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
  • 9 47

    RAM-Altman: a bash script that emails Sam Altman about your unused RAM (ram-altman.lol)
  • 62 64

    Quadrillion-parameter transformers and how to train them (qlabs.sh)
  • 114 46

    A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get young boys into books (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 237 116

    Why I will not be using LLMs in my coding (www.polso.info)
  • 49 178

    Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone (z1x.us)
  • 200 462

    Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU (github.com)
  • 22 109

    JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers (linebender.org)
  • 194 307

    Person of Interest (krthr.co)
  • 93 166

    Petered (aworkinglibrary.com)
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  • 49 49

    Earliest evidence of cannabis use found in ancient Siberian tomb (www.cnn.com)
  • 131 121

    GitHub Down Again? (github.com)
  • 50 29

    I'm Rewriting IBM SPSS Statistics in 100% Safe Rust, Alone (github.com)
  • 14 51

    New typeface using intricate designs from Shakespeare's First Folio (2023) (www.itsnicethat.com)
  • 11 52

    WaveDudeNext 2D Wave Simulator (github.com)
  • 108 185

    Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment (www.lorekit.io)
  • 17 78

    Finding Xanadu: Inside a JRPG classic translation 15 years in the making (readonlymemo.com)
  • 68 172

    Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust (clj.rs)
  • 3 12

    Sailing Solo Around Britain (sites.google.com)
  • 58 140

    ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients (github.com)
  • 0 6

    The Unwilding of Patagonia's Pollinators (biographic.com)
  • 5 20

    Show HN: Maple – Sub-2-BPW Moe Pruning to Run Gemma 4 26B at 45 TPS on a 6GB GPU (github.com)
  • 23 74

    Kirlian Photography: Building Your Own Equipment (imagesco.com)
  • 0 6

    Here Be Monsters (www.nybooks.com)
  • 26 19

    I Use Development-Driven Specs, Not Spec-Driven Development (github.com)
  • 96 118

    Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy (www.science.org)
  • 480 790

    Goodbye Claude, hello Pi (caleb.software)
  • 4 13

    Multi-Token Prediction Done Right (arxiv.org)
  • 92 101

    ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui (github.com)
  • 19 61

    Amsterdam School (architecture-history.org)
  • 3 32

    Cancer at Sea (biographic.com)
  • 0 11

    Shipping 103,802 Dots in 82 KB (layers.engineering)
  • 40 78

    Commodore PET – The Worlds First Personal Computer (www.commodore.ca)