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  • 3 10

    Fast and Hard Code (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • 4 15

    Knowing When to Stop: The Art of Making a Loop Converge (a16z.com)
  • 10 15

    English ↔ Claudish Translator (programasweights.com)
  • 15 45

    Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is (forum.level1techs.com)
  • 40 34

    Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens (www.soverybright.com)
  • 13 59

    NetBSD and My Life (2005) (mail-index.netbsd.org)
  • 30 104

    hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate (lapcatsoftware.com)
  • 57 150

    Scrap (twitter.com)
  • 11 62

    How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (www.reuters.com)
  • 4 25

    The Creation of Abulafia (blog.veitheller.de)
  • 3 16

    Conway's Game of Life in real life (blog.coredump.cx)
  • 2 39

    One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  • 2 14

    Show HN: Zcomplete – Shell Typo Correction (github.com)
  • 3 17

    Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) (www.pianoify.net)
  • 43 36

    Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked (sgoedecke.github.io)
  • 13 37

    Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture (www.mythic.ai)
  • 14 42

    Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal (terminal-code.com)
  • 0 8

    Protocol-Aware Deterministic Simulation Testing (tigerbeetle.com)
  • 9 67

    ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data (atproto.com)
  • 66 53

    Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record (www.theguardian.com)
  • 1 18

    ProgramBench Vetted: Reverse Engineering from a Runnable Binary (vetto.ai)
  • 52 155

    Hister – A private, full content search index that you control (hister.org)
  • 24 40

    Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree (nautil.us)
  • 8 27

    Dynamical dark energy and the week that broke cosmology (perimeterinstitute.ca)
  • 34 102

    typ.ing (typ.ing)
  • 19 31

    What's in a PowerPoint File? (editide.com)
  • 19 32

    MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS (github.com)
  • 10 95

    RF Cafe (www.rfcafe.com)
  • 15 29

    Show HN: Anonymous age verification with passkey-powered encryption (loginwithone.com)
  • 118 111

    Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code (twitter.com)
  • 25 11

    Htmx live is cool. Datastar is fast. This cow is raw and strong (stario.dev)
  • 58 83

    Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage (www.cnn.com)
  • 8 16

    Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System" (playtechnique.io)
  • 1 17

    Wildfires across Europe detonate forgotten World War bombs (www.independent.co.uk)
  • 68 34

    Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say (www.cnbc.com)
  • 85 257

    ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (quantumi.sh)
  • 9 47

    Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection (static.laszlokorte.de)
  • 66 49

    Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs (www.theguardian.com)
  • 56 123

    A Friendly Introduction to Racket (geometridae.bearblog.dev)
  • 9 33

    Embedded AI (nostarch.com)
  • 118 157

    New MCP Roadmap (blog.modelcontextprotocol.io)
  • 64 36

    A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been (zaksa.zip)
  • 80 187

    A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber (decodingvibes.com)
  • 158 195

    Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week (www.theguardian.com)
  • 43 116

    How Thailand Resisted Colonization (worksinprogress.co)
  • 107 233

    Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones (munderdiffl.in)
  • 1 670

    Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada-U.S. trade negotiations (www.pm.gc.ca)
  • 50 106

    Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021) (www.computer.org)
  • 17 47

    ESP32 Firmware Development with Docker Sandboxes (www.docker.com)
  • 991 318

    Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down (www.bbc.com)
  • 0 60

    Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025) (zeux.io)
  • 76 85

    GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction (developers.openai.com)
  • 73 42

    4 in 10 travellers visit tourist sites to capture social media content (www.tuigroup.com)
  • 60 36

    Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods (www.history.com)
  • 2 39

    Ozone: The fault is not in our trees, but in ourselves (www.science.org)
  • 12 18

    US Debt-to-GDP Ratio (www.us-debt-clock.com)
  • 68 136

    Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice (medicine.washu.edu)
  • 471 612

    There's no reason for software to be slow anymore (danluu.com)
  • 56 136

    Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device (grapheneos.social)
  • 105 208

    OTel isn’t going well (matduggan.com)
  • 41 85

    Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime (www.lambda-symbolics.com)
  • 74 141

    Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong (www.gingerbill.org)
  • 92 386

    Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM (rust-glancer.github.io)
  • 6 25

    Show HN: Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows (github.com)
  • 18 71

    HN: The Good Parts (2016) (danluu.com)
  • 71 75

    Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha (nebraskapublicmedia.org)
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    A retired tire engineer and 48,933 other feeds (dev.profullstack.com)
  • 12 71

    Paul Atkins misreads Adam Smith and the American founding (sites.duke.edu)
  • 6 32

    Rust Glancer (matklad.github.io)
  • 46 74

    Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team (ozbrain.com)
  • 112 203

    Three important steps in my maturation process (thomasdullien.github.io)
  • 51 88

    'Ghost job' ads are getting so bad that lawmakers want to ban them (www.wsj.com)
  • 5 26

    I own 28,000 books – here's what I've learned (www.shelvd.org)
  • 6 33

    Remotely unlocking electric scooters (henriemategui.com)
  • 14 35

    Man loses so much weight employer doesn't recognize him (wsvn.com)
  • SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 9 18

    Church of the TigerBeetle: A Look at Tech Evangelism (www.wespiser.com)
  • 105 96

    Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude (allaboutcoding.ghinda.com)
  • 38 60

    Using an old Android phone as a music player (monocyte.blog)
  • 51 48

    Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders (claude.com)
  • 16 6

    Death to the Self-Playing Game (www.jank.cool)
  • 12 86

    Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023) (tumbleforth.hardcoded.net)
  • 0 7

    Volcanoes That Made History (knowablemagazine.org)
  • 22 165

    People of ACM – Russ Cox (www.acm.org)
  • 98 133

    A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
  • 0 6

    A look under our trunk: what’s in our compute (waymo.com)
  • 65 250

    Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe (newscenter.lbl.gov)
  • 3 22

    Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode (interconnected.org)
  • 1 12

    Show HN: Declarative-forms – await an object the way prompt() awaits a string (wolfoo2931.github.io)
  • 0 17

    How orchids inspired the work of Charles Darwin (lithub.com)
  • 17 41

    LLMs are proof that Unix won (bastian.rieck.me)
  • 43 144

    I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (pointinthecloud.com)
  • 366 368

    AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (www.economist.com)
  • 54 58

    When the shortage is the strategy (nooneshappy.com)
  • 44 34

    New York’s office market is home to the most tech workers: CBRE report (www.cnbc.com)
  • 1 27

    Quantifying the honey bee dance floor (journals.plos.org)
  • 29 52

    Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it (github.com)
  • 9 36

    Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift (circleback.ai)
  • 15 42

    Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent (github.com)
  • 8 28

    Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing (gus-massa.blogspot.com)
  • LiteLLM (YC W23) Is Hiring – Rust / Performance Engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 202 640

    Kobo can run apps now (bandarlabs.github.io)
  • 59 114

    Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory (blog.jakesaunders.dev)
  • 6 25

    Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix (fzakaria.com)
  • 19 109

    What happens when a GPU reads memory (blog.doubleword.ai)
  • 9 27

    Does whispering to agents in docs help? (passo.uno)
  • 51 110

    I Just Want to Search (www.0xsid.com)
  • 6 8

    Show HN: SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor (github.com)
  • 29 9

    Every shape can be cut exactly in half with one straight line (bisecto.com)
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  • 176 182

    Omacom Foundation launches with $8M (omarchy.org)
  • 40 165

    How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms (nari-labs.com)
  • 11 57

    How I came to write that paper with Leslie Lamport (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
  • 326 816

    Felony Bench (www.felonybench.com)
  • 1 34

    Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing (vitalik.eth.limo)
  • 97 95

    Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants (www.cnn.com)
  • 10 165

    AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: Study (canews24.online)
  • 0 16

    Show HN: AgentSight – eBPF observability for AI agents, no code changes (github.com)
  • 3 9

    Making stinkarm stink less, or more – userspace armv7 emulator (xnacly.me)
  • 10 20

    Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode (github.com)
  • 87 110

    WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust (www.winonapost.com)
  • 89 143

    Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat (matklad.github.io)
  • 4 17

    The B-right/V R2 Operating System (2000) (tronweb.super-nova.co.jp)
  • 99 110

    c100 (caligra.com)
  • 6 27

    Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3] (blog.coredump.cx)
  • 230 341

    Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article (github.com)
  • 1 9

    John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography (www.theguardian.com)
  • 16 40

    Nothing Doing (www.futilitycloset.com)
  • 3 12

    If Your New People Are on X, Maybe Your New People Suck (coyotetracks.org)
  • 5 18

    Olympian Jenny Simpson Says Her Running Career Is Over After Cardiac Arrest (www.runnersworld.com)
  • 8 18

    AI;DR or Don't be a meat proxy (theaspiringnerd.com)
  • 22 74

    The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 (theconsensus.dev)
  • 59 87

    What we lost when search stopped making us think (blog.8ball.space)
  • 175 273

    New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)
  • 75 89

    Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar (2007) (martin.kleppmann.com)
  • 7 75

    DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser (duckdb.org)
  • 1 6

    Show HN: Agent Office (Slack for AI Agents) – Similar to Grok Bot but older (github.com)
  • 83 647

    I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
  • 4 16

    Convite (www.guidavid.com)
  • 134 124

    What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x (catalystneuro.com)
  • 113 69

    US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call? (www.bbc.com)
  • 4 60

    Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout (invertingvision.com)
  • 5 7

    Rama 0.4: System proxy and PAC support (plabayo.tech)
  • 384 1227

    Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
  • 39 70

    Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark (twitter.com)
  • 35 109

    Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle (arxiv.org)
  • 1 10

    Four Levels of In-Place Initialization (Rust) (blog.yoshuawuyts.com)
  • 477 472

    I'm becoming AI-blind (cymerys.com)
  • 388 685

    Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)
  • 3 15

    Siemens PC-X (2015) (www.geekdot.com)
  • 1263 1040

    Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (www.nytimes.com)
  • 20 76

    Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0 (github.com)
  • 41 126

    TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering (ixuvo.com)
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  • 15 56

    The Mystery of Dark Oxygen (www.newyorker.com)
  • 153 494

    DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (api-docs.deepseek.com)
  • 0 18

    Attention Through Arithmetic Intensity (changyi.fun)
  • 58 236

    Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)
  • 25 58

    Better Batteries (matklad.github.io)
  • 39 113

    Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo (paculdo.com)
  • 21 85

    Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24 (github.com)
  • 77 53

    The case against a C alternative (2022) (c3.handmade.network)
  • 71 129

    Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise (investors.micron.com)
  • 145 266

    The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
  • 82 145

    We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)
  • 1 6

    I Ported Moonshine to JavaScript (petewarden.com)
  • 480 366

    Stop Making TUIs (sockpuppet.org)
  • 20 55

    Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness (github.com)
  • 7 9

    Show HN: Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents (argentic.network)
  • 53 52

    Version Control for Everything (tyoverby.com)
  • 64 84

    The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986) (philipdick.com)
  • 226 372

    Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened (www.xda-developers.com)
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    Hard Problems and Heuristic Answers (stochastic.blog)
  • 64 148

    Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges (github.com)
  • 9 72

    Captain Zilog (www.zilog.com)
  • 7 12

    Orbital Construction Pioneers (orbitalconstructionpioneers.com)
  • 886 600

    AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
  • 12 48

    Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K (journals.aps.org)
  • 31 42

    Artificial Intelligence Policy (www.law.berkeley.edu)
  • 4 25

    Show HN: ParqDB – Vector search in the browser from Parquet over HTTP" (search.parqdb.io)
  • 6 8

    My Microscope Is a Dashcam (xecaz.com)
  • 90 119

    It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)
  • 194 245

    Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)
  • 175 93

    There's no such thing as a small software team anymore (jacob.gold)
  • 209 187

    Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU (mathstodon.xyz)