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  • 0 3

    Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter (wiki.lowtechlab.org)
  • 5 48

    Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
  • 2 11

    MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
  • 1 7

    I've built a free, open-source local and remote memory system for agentw and CL (www.lorekit.io)
  • 5 8

    The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains (www.wunc.org)
  • 5 13

    Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 48 136

    A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" (rvembedded.com)
  • 48 28

    Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 1 12

    Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
  • 25 70

    NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (www.science.org)
  • 2 17

    Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 3 35

    Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (commonreader.wustl.edu)
  • 8 18

    Kimi Work attaches raw agent sessions to feedback reports
  • 4 47

    Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
  • 63 102

    St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (www.wptv.com)
  • 68 106

    The weekend is 100 years old (www.theguardian.com)
  • 38 47

    GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (www.newyorker.com)
  • 37 58

    Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users (wildstatic.com)
  • 63 162

    The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
  • 67 93

    A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life (www.rand.org)
  • 65 28

    Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter (www.cnbc.com)
  • 8 58

    A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
  • 39 64

    AI Coding Without the Vibes (peterbloem.nl)
  • 17 16

    Our Reality Is Shifting and It's Just the Start (guustaaf.substack.com)
  • 57 65

    US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged (www.independent.co.uk)
  • Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering (tasklet.ai)
  • 163 370

    Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)
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  • 164 388

    Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)
  • 68 36

    Is the industry ready for tokens-constrained work? (blog.alaindichiappari.dev)
  • 42 89

    Banned Words List (pen.org)
  • 0 9

    How a Sony Veteran Is Overhauling the Company He Grew Up In (www.wsj.com)
  • 21 19

    Stripe 2.9% vs. Adyen 0.6% vs. Braintree 2.59%: 2026 Fees (valueaddvc.com)
  • 12 8

    Show HN: Remove AI voice from AI writings (unslopai.com)
  • 75 112

    Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? (brandur.org)
  • 39 22

    Leave your screen unlocked, meet developers paypal.com (anthony.dev.profullstack.com)
  • 103 277

    Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)
  • 9 22

    Access to telemetry data: Automotive industry criticizes intelligence reform (www.heise.de)
  • 23 68

    A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem (arxiv.org)
  • Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Builder / Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 104 86

    Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
  • 0 25

    Show HN: Grafana agent observability for Hermes Agent (github.com)
  • 31 117

    Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)
  • 13 57

    Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane (www.nature.com)
  • 9 39

    Impulse Tracker (ovidem.com)
  • 197 230

    What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? (littlelearner-ll.github.io)
  • 20 29

    Health benefits of Tai Chi (www.health.harvard.edu)
  • 71 51

    Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext (github.com)
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  • 12 60

    Falstad Math and Physics Simulations (www.falstad.com)
  • 58 78

    The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US (www.politico.com)
  • 9 10

    Speaking for the Dead (longreads.com)
  • 1 24

    Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño (www.science.org)
  • 0 5

    ProofRun – a local verification receipt for AI coding agents (github.com)
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    Show HN: Fixing optical computing jitter via fluid dynamics in GPU registers (github.com)
  • 18 63

    The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators (breck.lol)
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  • 2 14

    Program with Paint Brushes, Not Pencils (blog.pickcode.io)
  • 75 46

    Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny (nntaleb.substack.com)
  • 127 173

    Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems (www.anthropic.com)
  • 10 28

    Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 27 105

    Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)
  • 14 65

    Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite (notebook.link)
  • 193 279

    Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)
  • 27 47

    Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise (bribes.fyi)
  • 5 47

    AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code (arxiv.org)
  • 10 21

    It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs (arxiv.org)
  • 0 19

    Decoding smell: Study reveals how odor signals shapeshift in the wind (www.colorado.edu)
  • 15 35

    Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI (waku.sh)
  • 0 9

    Big Pickle on SWE Atlas – Codebase QnA (github.com)
  • 28 254

    Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work (duckdb.org)
  • 34 78

    Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (www.micdrop.gg)
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  • 46 37

    Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware? (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 397 574

    Asus Bike Booster (www.asus.com)
  • 53 25

    ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year (aicharts.grok.me)
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  • 3 55

    Tea5767-Radio-Tuner (github.com)
  • 89 63

    Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record (abc7.com)
  • 29 149

    A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer (lapcatsoftware.com)
  • 14 22

    Oracle – a photorealistic browser for every Magic card ever printed (magic-oracle.com)
  • 116 119

    I Remain a Skeptic (blog.jsbarretto.com)
  • 25 52

    SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud) (sugartrack-beta.vercel.app)
  • 3 35

    Anthropic CEO wife asked Epstein for porn business (www.forbes.com)
  • 52 43

    Jaithon 3, a fast programming language with the perfect syntax (github.com)
  • 83 119

    The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts (www.404media.co)
  • 2 11

    Triple Product Rule of Partial Derivatives (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 38 111

    Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (michael.stapelberg.ch)
  • 270 396

    Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (www.severe-weather.eu)
  • 6 13

    Show HN: Live Claude Usage HUD for a $38 Thermalright Trofeo Vision LCD (github.com)
  • 5 15

    Modeling and Verification of Keeta's Consensus [pdf] (xescu.re)
  • 109 170

    Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history (horn.gg)
  • 13 35

    Humazon (hughhowey.com)
  • 27 90

    The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977 (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 20 57

    An image can overflow (master.dev)
  • 4 74

    Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 279 312

    Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (www.acc.org)
  • 2 10

    No-New-Physics Consciousness (www.overcomingbias.com)
  • 2 13

    Cornell: Pro Palestine Students Targeted by ICE: Come Back to US or Lose Funding (theintercept.com)
  • 59 245

    Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
  • 13 80

    Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (github.com)
  • 15 23

    Meta will train its AI on Newsmax, a far-right media outlet (popular.info)
  • 29 74

    Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions (www.politico.com)
  • 30 56

    Geek Fighter – 2d fighter game (geek-fighter.vercel.app)
  • 2 17

    Job Recession in Higher Education (gadlevanon.substack.com)
  • 62 22

    Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI (www.bbc.com)
  • 5 46

    Pizza Box Project Stack (cblgh.org)
  • 86 177

    AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (www.science.org)
  • 75 30

    First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists (cen.acs.org)
  • 10 47

    BriskDB (github.com)
  • 26 72

    Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign (blog.thunderbird.net)
  • 3 12

    Robot Videos: Heavy Lift Cargo Drones, Grippers, More (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 474 566

    AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them (davidepiffer.com)
  • 0 11

    The Programming Ape (Code Hale, 2012) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 46 92

    Printytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL (printytron.com)
  • 126 117

    Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves (www.bbc.com)
  • 57 56

    TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In (www.treasurydirect.gov)
  • 58 137

    The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake (www.core77.com)
  • 372 470

    Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 80 187

    A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms (www.nature.com)
  • 68 70

    The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up (sina.bio)
  • 110 267

    A spectre is haunting Unicode (www.dampfkraft.com)
  • 419 366

    RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (dmitry.gr)
  • 132 61

    AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry? (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 3 6

    When Bridges Go Haywire (controlsystemssecurity.com)
  • 5 74

    2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization (studios.disneyresearch.com)
  • 69 44

    The AI Situation in Software Development (srikanth.ch)
  • 20 18

    Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies (www.economist.com)
  • 111 287

    At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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  • 66 84

    Could a computer scientist build a brain? (stankerstjens.github.io)
  • 1 16

    A Planet Position Widget (leancrew.com)
  • 97 114

    Cloudflare's AI Psychosis (opensauce.it)
  • 22 38

    Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul (alexrios.me)
  • 11 39

    Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR (hypnagogic-quasicrystals.github.io)
  • 0 42

    T3X/0 a Minimal Procedural Language (t3x.org)
  • 67 36

    The Problem (intelligence.org)
  • 31 44

    Xorshift Generators (www.alanzucconi.com)
  • 28 62

    Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents (www.stephen-cresswell.com)
  • 71 69

    Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI? (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 15 78

    Möbius strips and differential equations (hidden-phenomena.com)
  • 21 52

    Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest (medicalxpress.com)
  • 54 51

    388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 53 32

    GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix (netflixtechblog.com)
  • 81 39

    Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking (hormuz.now)
  • 58 48

    Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline (github.com)
  • 195 318

    Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding (allen.bargi.org)
  • 14 14

    Geometric Reasoning (sophontic.ai)
  • 4 24

    OpenAI rolling out ads for Europe later this month (openai.com)
  • 90 438

    Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel (sankalp.bearblog.dev)
  • 46 93

    The Color of White Light (ludens.cl)
  • 42 198

    The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves (linebender.org)
  • 57 66

    Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions (lists.debian.org)
  • 47 97

    Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II (uecker.codeberg.page)
  • 100 234

    Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum (baselashraf81.github.io)
  • 1 5

    Jason Arday, professor at centre of Cambridge plagiarism row, found dead (www.theguardian.com)
  • 3 57

    Understanding WCAG 2.2 as ePub and PDF (doeken.org)
  • 58 78

    Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case (arstechnica.com)
  • 95 126

    In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace (www.popularmechanics.com)
  • 37 77

    Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim (silentshark.app)
  • 44 52

    "That's not SOC 2 compliant" (ampcode.com)
  • 138 82

    Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
  • 58 130

    Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations (chenxiachan.github.io)
  • 20 33

    The End of Mathematics (www.daniellitt.com)
  • 99 122

    Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737 (www.wired.com)
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  • 182 384

    The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist (conic.al)
  • 103 60

    I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead) (www.michelebologna.net)
  • 16 34

    Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city (yesterdays.maprva.org)
  • 11 52

    Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing (app.deltix.ai)
  • 33 129

    Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin (32bits.substack.com)
  • 75 51

    NSA and IETF, Part 9 (blog.cr.yp.to)
  • 14 25

    Haitians in Springfield are required to report to ICE and wear ankle monitors (ohiocapitaljournal.com)
  • 55 220

    Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia (earthquake.usgs.gov)
  • 19 66

    This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 79 142

    Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018) (arxiv.org)
  • 35 35

    Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees (sf.gazetteer.co)
  • 70 141

    The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here (blog.ploopy.co)
  • 1 216

    eigendrum (eigendrum.com)
  • 2 12

    Ant teams beat gravity-based puzzle solvers (phys.org)