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  • Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 14 17

    Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026 (ringmast4r.substack.com)
  • 0 7

    Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup (github.com)
  • 8 15

    The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games (www.bbc.com)
  • 1 25

    Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack (blog.brixit.nl)
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    Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years (jamanetwork.com)
  • 1 42

    Podman 6: machine usability improvements (blog.podman.io)
  • 150 109

    The OnlyFans Economy of American AI (leoveanu.com)
  • 1 8

    Partitions over Permutations (www.johndcook.com)
  • 42 37

    Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job (thenewstack.io)
  • 26 37

    The best relationships are all-encompassing. (andys.blog)
  • 18 96

    Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it (github.com)
  • 67 55

    Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them (ea.rna.nl)
  • 114 240

    Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux (github.com)
  • 4 34

    Misguided Misstatements Continue to Dismantle Biomedical Research in the U.S. (diabetesjournals.org)
  • 496 531

    LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do (human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
  • 1 25

    How Long Does It Take for a QQuickItem to Become Visible? (www.kdab.com)
  • 34 41

    Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap (yon-lang.org)
  • 55 25

    We Need VAT and UBI (wilsoniumite.com)
  • 22 42

    Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers (kyushu.dev)
  • 14 11

    Only 2.5% of 12,779 tech job listings are entry-level (www.datamatastudios.com)
  • 10 24

    Firefox confirms working on own adblocker [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring (9mothers.com)
  • 4 41

    The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview) (theamphour.com)
  • 0 32

    Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
  • 0 11

    Enforcing the First as in BGP AS_PATHs (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 184 263

    Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints (arstechnica.com)
  • 2 19

    Games Between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 52 104

    Win16 Memory Management (www.os2museum.com)
  • 20 119

    Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4× (fergusfinn.com)
  • 25 80

    Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math (alvaro-videla.com)
  • 71 300

    The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners (www.ioccc.org)
  • 100 167

    My Software North Star (kristoff.it)
  • 189 210

    I design with Claude more than Figma now (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 42 111

    The circus freaks of open source (drewdevault.com)
  • 14 43

    Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting (gwern.net)
  • 14 50

    Show HN: Free animated icon library for Vue (respeak-io.github.io)
  • 6 12

    PaceVer (an alternative to SemVer, for mobile apps) (pacever.org)
  • 0 4

    Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions (2003) (www.cl.cam.ac.uk)
  • 6 29

    HateArena – A free and open source arena shooter (github.com)
  • 76 136

    How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time (hyperallergic.com)
  • 11 127

    Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust (symbolica.io)
  • 115 231

    Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months (github.com)
  • 6 21

    Show HN: TakoVM – Isolated model and tool execution used by enterprises (github.com)
  • 26 47

    The Russian who invented semiconductors 25 years before the USA (www.semidoped.com)
  • 9 57

    Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser (github.com)
  • 63 140

    Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo (knowablemagazine.org)
  • 19 132

    Biohub releases a world model of protein biology (biohub.org)
  • 61 145

    Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering (arxiv.org)
  • 114 119

    An Ohio Valley 100k-Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight – Radio World (www.radioworld.com)
  • 1 7

    How Other Link Checkers Do Recursion (endler.dev)
  • 15 17

    Show HN: DomainTasker – avoid losing domains and surprise renewals (domaintasker.com)
  • 29 198

    Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org)
  • 32 112

    Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved (cen.acs.org)
  • 7 20

    Context Sculpting (perceptiontheory.bearblog.dev)
  • 180 266

    Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world (openai.com)
  • 0 13

    Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores (github.com)
  • 12 15

    Show HN: Ironwall, a safety-first native programming language and compiler
  • 11 40

    Unicode Fonts and Tools for X11 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk)
  • 57 66

    DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List (www.military.com)
  • 5 26

    How to make firecracker faster to start Chromium in < 20ms (www.kernel.sh)
  • 42 35

    No Babies? Blame Capitalism (jacobin.com)
  • 2 23

    What Columbus used instead of the North Star (signoregalilei.com)
  • 114 184

    Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation (mashable.com)
  • 2 29

    Static Devirtualization of Themida (back.engineering)
  • 15 25

    They are looting your life savings (social.bau-ha.us)
  • 53 157

    Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git (ataraxy-labs.github.io)
  • 273 219

    New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker (www.randalolson.com)
  • 182 189

    Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health (www.science.org)
  • 34 30

    Computex 2026: Are We Heading for the Agentic PC Era Yet? (www.eetimes.com)
  • 4 21

    PyTorch Custom Operation (leimao.github.io)
  • 36 40

    Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory (universalmemoryprotocol.io)
  • 5 18

    Lambda isn't leaking memory, your metrics are lying to you (engineering.taktile.com)
  • 117 386

    Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts (ntsc.rs)
  • 237 658

    Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot (this.weekinsecurity.com)
  • 18 56

    WoofWare.PawPrint, a Deterministic .NET Runtime (www.patrickstevens.co.uk)
  • 452 562

    Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say (www.nbcnews.com)
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    Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball (ribbie.tv)
  • 16 58

    Summer of '85: DOSBOS is rejected by ANALOG Computing (www.goto10retro.com)
  • 72 133

    You Can Run (magazine.atavist.com)
  • 32 176

    Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk (uonr.github.io)
  • 94 172

    Python JIT project was asked to pause development (discuss.python.org)
  • 58 261

    Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF (su3.io)
  • 11 50

    Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
  • 34 102

    Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM (simonwillison.net)
  • 8 21

    AI didn't break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume (hamishcampbell.com)
  • 49 152

    Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements (www.ft.com)
  • 45 40

    Splash Is a Colour Format (www.todepond.com)
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    Moving beyond fork() + exec() (lwn.net)
  • 19 52

    Show HN: Soft Body Jiggle Physics (github.com)
  • 89 126

    US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules (www.reuters.com)
  • 5 46

    Tribute to Jiro Yamada, Automotive Artist (1960-2025) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 49 135

    Benchmarks in Leipzig (arxiv.org)
  • 18 88

    Building Rust Procedural Macros from the Grounds Up (www.learnix-os.com)
  • 25 65

    Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers (www.wsj.com)
  • 515 319

    Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs (twitter.com)
  • 97 341

    Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) (pokeemerald.com)
  • 76 80

    The new bibliomaniacs (engelsbergideas.com)
  • 3 11

    Mathematician solves origami donut efficiency challenge with fewest folds (phys.org)
  • 2 410

    Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute (techcrunch.com)
  • 26 70

    Introduction – Rust for Python Programmers (microsoft.github.io)
  • 82 40

    There's still no point in gigabit broadband (shkspr.mobi)
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    Is anyone here interested in contributing to this OS? (github.com)
  • Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics) (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 2 26

    HISE – Toolkit for building VST plugins (hise.dev)
  • 41 44

    Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? (2014) [pdf] (www.martiehaselton.com)
  • 99 217

    The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy (blog.includesecurity.com)
  • 4 11

    What 100k concurrent sandboxes has taught us so far (www.computesdk.com)
  • 1 7

    Exact UNORM8 to Float (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
  • 47 74

    Azure Linux Desktop (www.boxofcables.dev)
  • 59 124

    Zig Zen Update (codeberg.org)
  • 477 444

    GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS (discuss.grapheneos.org)
  • 2 21

    Raytracing Geometries in 3D Rendering (andeplane.github.io)
  • 0 14

    We shrank our TimescaleDB chunks from 30 days to 7 (tech.wmg.com)
  • 47 140

    Social Cache Busting (www.autodidacts.io)
  • 37 67

    Ten Years of Franz (meetfranz.com)
  • 492 1434

    S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic (arstechnica.com)
  • 10 58

    No Let, No Rec, No Problem: A Gentler Introduction to the Y and Z Combinators (irfanali.org)
  • 50 150

    The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 52 179

    Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight (acoup.blog)
  • 21 84

    Nine Ways to Do Inheritance in Rust, a Language Without Inheritance (medium.com)
  • 35 89

    Lockdown Mode (help.openai.com)
  • 713 433

    Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
  • 248 909

    How LLMs work (www.0xkato.xyz)
  • 14 32

    Alzheimer's patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in drug trial (nypost.com)
  • 5 36

    Europe's largest Copper Age tomb: children's bones show ancient health crisis (phys.org)
  • 22 57

    Nordstjernen 1.0 (github.com)
  • 19 36

    Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised (classic100.gotski.workers.dev)
  • 86 252

    The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024) (salvagedcircuitry.com)
  • 100 170

    The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite (andersmurphy.com)