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  • 0 5

    Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume (www.stephendiehl.com)
  • 8 17

    Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend (www.hollandtech.net)
  • 0 4

    Don't know where your data is from? Bayesian modeling for unknown coordinates (christopherkrapu.com)
  • 3 7

    $100 CPU Shootout: Comparing the Ryzen 5 5500, Core i3-14100F, & Core i3-12100F (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 9 21

    Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust (tritium.legal)
  • 144 139

    Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs (epoch.ai)
  • 9 40

    Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox (www.firefox.com)
  • Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Front End Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 47 58

    FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD on Laptop (www.phoronix.com)
  • 22 65

    Ruby for Good (ti.to)
  • 112 136

    Omarchy Is Not A Distro (abyss.fish)
  • 31 17

    No Juniors Today, No Seniors in 2031 (www.fbritoferreira.com)
  • 34 109

    Usborne 1980s Computer Books (usborne.com)
  • 7 35

    Curly braces: An evolution of Unix and C (thalia.dev)
  • 45 61

    When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court (www.scotusblog.com)
  • 91 118

    'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused (www.theguardian.com)
  • 125 129

    DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 4 9

    Predicting the 2026 Bristol Bay and Kodiak Salmon Runs (www.salmonfinder.com)
  • 187 135

    The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients (www.statnews.com)
  • 54 101

    Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation (arxiv.org)
  • 129 230

    DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost (esengine.github.io)
  • 26 76

    Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025) (opensource.microsoft.com)
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  • 34 99

    I keep bouncing off the Scheme language (www.sicpers.info)
  • 20 61

    Perceptual Image Codec: What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression (apple.github.io)
  • 94 63

    Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens (www.nationalgeographic.com)
  • 65 118

    Childhood Computing (susam.net)
  • 18 94

    Mastering Dyalog APL (mastering.dyalog.com)
  • 9 28

    Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo (github.com)
  • 6 24

    The Worlds Left to Conquer (ludic.mataroa.blog)
  • 1 65

    Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more (lwn.net)
  • 2 29

    All Lean Books and Where to Find Them (lakesare.brick.do)
  • 128 147

    Greg Brockman interview [video] (fs.blog)
  • 62 327

    I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph (www.dougmacdowell.com)
  • 14 94

    Silk: Open-source cooperative fiber scheduler (github.com)
  • 16 33

    Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization (aresluna.org)
  • 17 25

    The C++ Standard Library Has Been Walking Itself Back for Fifteen Years (hftuniversity.com)
  • 55 97

    Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 5 12

    Limerick (www.worldwidewords.org)
  • 19 111

    The C64 Dead Test Font (www.masswerk.at)
  • 24 39

    Neoclassical C++: segmented iterators revisited (boostedcpp.net)
  • 116 287

    Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out (www.adventuresinoss.com)
  • 87 112

    'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing (www.theverge.com)
  • 8 21

    Buildcraft Is a Compiler Problem (mitander.xyz)
  • 24 121

    Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 156 268

    Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier? (adaptivesupport.amd.com)
  • 36 49

    Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah (www.milwaukeemag.com)
  • 35 49

    API proposed by Chrome: Declarative partial updates (developer.chrome.com)
  • 109 123

    Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash (www.bbc.com)
  • 7 30

    Revised^7 Report on Scheme, Large: Procedural Fascicle Draft is now public (r7rs.org)
  • 20 18

    Show HN: Twixt – transform one word into another in four moves (twixt.games)
  • 3 28

    The day my ping took countermeasures (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 4 13

    When does learning from data work (math starting from basic probability) (prateekchandrajha.github.io)
  • 0 5

    Score by Collisions, Patch by Panic (blog.himanshuanand.com)
  • 135 236

    Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links (techcrunch.com)
  • 125 383

    Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" (arstechnica.com)
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    NeuralNote (github.com)
  • 0 4

    Meshtastic em Portugal: a rede construída pelas pessoas (tech.neural-rage.com)
  • 16 114

    Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants (apnews.com)
  • 25 371

    Wake up! 16b (hellmood.111mb.de)
  • 1 9

    The Security of Ephemeral Pages (schalkneethling.com)
  • 46 160

    ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies (www.projectsaltbox.com)
  • 3 42

    Show HN: Anyone interested in a tool helps to explore C++ ASTs (uvic-aurora.github.io)
  • 43 101

    My I3-Emacs Integration (khz.ac)
  • 7 125

    Judson's Last Ride (www.realclearpolitics.com)
  • 13 35

    Bun.Image (bun.com)
  • 16 49

    Byrne's Euclid (www.c82.net)
  • 38 126

    Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility (sales-and-dungeons.app)
  • 14 31

    Polsia raised $30M; source map: fake ARR, dead users, god-mode over your company (zero-arr.vercel.app)
  • 105 121

    Don't Roll Your Own (susam.net)
  • 14 28

    We reduced a real Node.js production Docker image from 1.2GB to 78MB (the-practical-developer.online)
  • 151 161

    Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County (www.bbc.com)
  • 7 83

    A self-powered computer in actual credit-card size (~1mm thick) (old.reddit.com)
  • 16 13

    Markdown Is Not LaTeX (www.iconoclasts.blog)
  • 10 87

    New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 33 17

    Software Engineering at the Tipping Point (io.google)
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  • 257 220

    .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types (andrewlock.net)
  • 3 20

    Reflections on Building Forum Software (www.counting-stuff.com)
  • 1 10

    CC-Wiki: Turn Claude Code sessions into a shareable knowledge base wiki (github.com)
  • 271 438

    Time to talk about my writerdeck (veronicaexplains.net)
  • 37 60

    We made our filesystem 47× faster by deleting it (microsandbox.dev)
  • 56 52

    Iowa to mandate students take Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment (www.kcrg.com)
  • 13 28

    Tank leaking toxic chemicals in Orange County will spill or explode (abc7.com)
  • 1732 1009

    Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says (www.nytimes.com)
  • 309 754

    Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 65 73

    JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it (www.dusanmalusev.dev)
  • 206 333

    My two-part desk setup (2025) (arslan.io)
  • 3 27

    Evaluating Spec CPU2026 (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 37 173

    Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street (victoriaritvo.com)
  • 7 7

    Show HN: I built a RAG and knowledge graph agent that runs locally
  • 15 57

    AI Engineering from Scratch (aiengineeringfromscratch.com)
  • 112 113

    Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly" (arstechnica.com)
  • 107 269

    Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers (www.euronews.com)
  • 21 109

    Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980 (www.righto.com)
  • 163 127

    PHP's Oddities (flowtwo.io)
  • 7 63

    Lisp in Vim (2019) (susam.net)
  • 202 367

    The Art of Money Getting (kk.org)
  • 88 206

    The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers (www.wired.com)
  • 30 129

    z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode (nand2mario.github.io)
  • 5 76

    Highest Random Weight in Elixir (jola.dev)
  • 157 288

    Oura says it gets government demands for user data (this.weekinsecurity.com)
  • 183 187

    -​-dangerously-skip-reading-code (olano.dev)
  • 25 64

    Solving the “Zork” Mystery (www.dpolakovic.space)
  • 124 424

    On The <dl> (2021) (benmyers.dev)
  • 158 145

    Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite (twitter.com)
  • 3 64

    A 1955 Los Alamos computer experiment changed our understanding of chaos (www.lanl.gov)
  • 241 234

    I Miss Terry Pratchett (www.mahl.me)
  • 50 266

    80386 microcode disassembled (www.reenigne.org)
  • 2 141

    DHS Quits Granting Green Cards–Almost (www.cato.org)
  • 64 183

    Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022) (horace.io)
  • 41 159

    Improving C# Memory Safety (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 163 218

    US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate (www.dutchnews.nl)
  • 13 54

    Fast Factorial Algorithms (www.luschny.de)
  • 26 92

    ArcBrush – Node-based 2D image editor (arcbrush.com)
  • 162 403

    BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork (twitter.com)
  • 106 179

    Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby (github.com)
  • 12 58

    Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium (theconsensus.dev)
  • 10 41

    Pausing New Challenges – Codecrafters (codecrafters.io)
  • 66 251

    Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son (www.theguardian.com)
  • 290 212

    Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers (www.reuters.com)
  • 14 30

    The Best Windows is Linux (lunduke.substack.com)
  • 112 183

    Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order (torrentfreak.com)
  • 10 27

    White House ordering agencies to place its new app on all employees' govt phones (www.govexec.com)
  • 14 138

    The quadratic sandwich (fedemagnani.github.io)
  • 7 14

    Let the AI Cook (www.ivan.codes)
  • 3 10

    Crypto industry braces for quantum computing threat (www.ft.com)
  • 16 58

    What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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    New rule requires most green-card applicants to apply from outside U.S. (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 66 227

    Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees (fortune.com)
  • 207 215

    sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library (spader.zone)
  • 8 62

    Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)
  • 44 100

    Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025) (phys.org)
  • 197 255

    Is AI Profitable Yet? (isaiprofitable.com)
  • 3 31

    I was bored so I turned my dev tools into an alien planet ruled by my dog (github.com)
  • 11 60

    Staged publishing and new install-time controls for npm (github.blog)
  • 15 52

    "Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout (cosmiciron.github.io)
  • 32 133

    TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election (www.psypost.org)
  • 59 192

    FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack (www.pcmag.com)
  • 46 118

    Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (2020) (horses.extension.org)
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