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  • 1 11

    Connecticut and the 1 Kilometer Effect (alearningaday.blog)
  • 5 34

    Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust (www.iroh.computer)
  • 6 35

    Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game (forums.tigsource.com)
  • 39 52

    Android: Balancing Openness and Choice with Safety (android-developers.googleblog.com)
  • 53 50

    UK's Ofcom has today fined 4chan £450k for not having age checks in place (www.ofcom.org.uk)
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  • 48 73

    How to Not Pay Your Taxes (taylor.town)
  • 60 104

    An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD (www.openttd.org)
  • 13 8

    Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff
  • 14 40

    Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster (blog.skypilot.co)
  • 54 83

    4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches (www.bbc.com)
  • 10 30

    I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI (fabian-kuebler.com)
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  • 9 23

    AI Isn't Killing Developers–It's Creating a $10T Maintenance Crisis (rakiabensassi.substack.com)
  • 17 58

    Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment (pluralistic.net)
  • 110 61

    US national debt surges past $39 Trillion (apnews.com)
  • 3 8

    55-Mile Chevy Squarebody Still Wrapped in Factory Plastic Sells for $100K (www.thedrive.com)
  • 0 2

    Show HN: PearlOS: we gave AI a talking desktop environment instead of a text box
  • 1 11

    Monuses and Heaps (doisinkidney.com)
  • 41 66

    World Happiness Report 2026 (www.worldhappiness.report)
  • 4 20

    Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities
  • 0 11

    A survey on LLMs for spreadsheet intelligence (orbilu.uni.lu)
  • 21 66

    Prompt Injecting Contributing.md (glama.ai)
  • 3 4

    Show HN: Mavera – Predict audience response with GANs, not LLM sentiment (docs.mavera.io)
  • 39 51

    Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 11 16

    Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code
  • 47 138

    Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB (github.com)
  • 16 42

    What if Python was natively distributable? (medium.com)
  • 20 60

    Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence (ramtrack.eu)
  • 94 78

    Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields (www.theguardian.com)
  • 9 42

    Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API (github.com)
  • 111 215

    macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal (gist.github.com)
  • 2 44

    A Preview of Coalton 0.2 (coalton-lang.github.io)
  • 59 40

    Store birth date in systemd for age verification (github.com)
  • 11 68

    The Shape of Inequalities (www.andreinc.net)
  • 63 53

    WFH is becoming a benefit again
  • 0 17

    Gluon: Explicit Performance (www.lei.chat)
  • 9 62

    Consensus Board Game (matklad.github.io)
  • 2 6

    Show HN: Budibase Agents Beta – model-agnostic AI agents for internal workflows (budibase.com)
  • 42 142

    OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier (undeadly.org)
  • 30 60

    The next fight over the use of facial recognition could be in the supermarkets (www.politico.com)
  • 13 24

    The RAM stick is dying, and the replacement is something most have never seen (www.xda-developers.com)
  • 579 895

    Astral to Join OpenAI (astral.sh)
  • 4 158

    OpenAI to Acquire Astral (openai.com)
  • 94 187

    Juggalo Makeup Blocks Facial Recognition Technology (2019) (consequence.net)
  • 24 104

    How many branches can your CPU predict? (lemire.me)
  • 3 15

    The Operator That Dethroned a King: Python's Walrus Operator Story (techlife.blog)
  • 1 13

    Ask HN: AWS account restricted 18h despite remediation (Case 177385077300217)
  • 3 373

    Afroman Wins Civil Trial over Use of Police Raid Footage in His Music Videos (www.nytimes.com)
  • 39 47

    The strait of Hormuz blockade will strangle US defense industry (www.theguardian.com)
  • 322 231

    Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence (www.reuters.com)
  • 17 85

    Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata (hanseungwook.github.io)
  • 499 358

    Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland (bsky.app)
  • 165 267

    'Your Frustration Is the Product' (daringfireball.net)
  • 531 945

    Afroman found not liable in defamation case (nypost.com)
  • 14 25

    Twelve-Tone Composition (www.johndcook.com)
  • 146 176

    2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews (blog.icml.cc)
  • 0 14

    The Serial Safety Net: Efficient Concurrency Control on Modern Hardware (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
  • 50 72

    Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf] (ir.cwi.nl)
  • 22 99

    Translate Garry Tan's LinkedIn-speak to plain English (github.com)
  • 40 100

    Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80 (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 13 61

    Why Cloudflare rule order matters? (www.brzozowski.io)
  • 26 21

    Ask HN: What do you look for in your first 10 hires?
  • 13 37

    Show HN: Pano, a bookmarking tool built around shareable shelves (www.panoit.com)
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  • 170 176

    What 81,000 people want from AI (www.anthropic.com)
  • 2 12

    David Altrath Photography Diary (davidaltrath.com)
  • 79 293

    Conway's Game of Life, in real life (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 54 76

    We Have Learned Nothing (colossus.com)
  • 22 49

    Show HN: Browser grand strategy game for hundreds of players on huge maps (borderhold.io)
  • 146 227

    Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149 (cyberinsider.com)
  • 309 554

    A sufficiently detailed spec is code (haskellforall.com)
  • 93 168

    LotusNotes (computer.rip)
  • 82 270

    Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code (rjcorwin.github.io)
  • 0 6

    Show HN: ATO – a GUI to see and fix what your LLM agents configured (github.com)
  • 33 75

    Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 0 12

    Shooting-Free Days Decline in Major U.S. Cities (www.publichealth.columbia.edu)
  • 187 140

    Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?
  • 84 129

    RX – a new random-access JSON alternative (github.com)
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  • 35 159

    Autoresearch for SAT Solvers (github.com)
  • 10 36

    An x86-64 back end for raven-uxn (www.mattkeeter.com)
  • 78 223

    Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training (github.com)
  • 913 749

    Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents (www.pew.org)
  • 1 6

    The TOMY Spinjas (medium.com)
  • 47 73

    What’s on HTTP? (whatsonhttp.com)
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  • 119 195

    The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 128 450

    Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe (gitlab.com)
  • 12 72

    Trashing American Allies Turns Out to Be Bad for National Security (www.theatlantic.com)
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  • 67 81

    Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer (www.hamiltonnolan.com)
  • 3 30

    Explore 19th Century Scientific Correspondence (epsilon.ac.uk)
  • 292 481

    Warranty Void If Regenerated (nearzero.software)
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  • 180 491

    FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms (techcrunch.com)
  • 54 53

    Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra (www.wired.com)
  • 11 34

    AI chatbots often validate delusions and suicidal thoughts, study finds (www.ft.com)
  • 67 358

    Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste (www.svgbackgrounds.com)
  • 87 139

    EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime (commission.europa.eu)
  • 34 81

    Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends (github.com)
  • 3 34

    Stop spending money on Claude, Chipotle's chat bot is free (www.reddit.com)
  • 11 136

    Book: The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks (mlbenchmarks.org)
  • 113 131

    Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
  • 81 342

    Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web (susam.net)
  • 18 77

    DOGE canceled NC Museum grant for HVAC systems after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI (myfox8.com)
  • 129 106

    Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike (www.bbc.com)
  • 37 83

    Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE (tmux.thijsverreck.com)
  • 80 58

    I haven't used a mouse for 14 years (axelk.ee)
  • 20 55

    Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Polls Find (gizmodo.com)
  • 2 8

    A dither generator for triangular and hexagonal pixels (2025) (danieltemkin.com)
  • 415 341

    AI coding is gambling (notes.visaint.space)
  • 102 144

    CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root (blog.qualys.com)
  • 32 127

    2025 Turing award given for quantum information science (awards.acm.org)
  • 39 62

    Iran's South Pars Gas Field Is Attacked by Israel, Sending Energy Prices Soaring (www.nytimes.com)
  • 343 267

    Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
  • 163 404

    Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m (huggingface.co)
  • 49 98

    Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" for Agentic AI Code Review of the Linux Kernel (www.phoronix.com)
  • 10 32

    Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry from major artists (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 12 21

    Wide logging: Stripe's canonical log line pattern (blog.alcazarsec.com)
  • 138 123

    North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim (www.theregister.com)
  • 238 364

    Nvidia NemoClaw (github.com)
  • 118 679

    OpenRocket (openrocket.info)
  • 96 89

    A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine (www.politico.com)
  • 83 258

    Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware (www.promptarmor.com)
  • 8 61

    Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web (susam.net)
  • 2 102

    A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web (codeberg.org)
  • 209 401

    Death to Scroll Fade (dbushell.com)
  • 170 167

    Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15 (www.engadget.com)
  • 83 188

    Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) (stripe.com)
  • 11 39

    Restoring the first recording of computer music (2018) (www.bl.uk)
  • 92 57

    FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall (arstechnica.com)
  • 4 24

    A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer (bernsteinbear.com)
  • 35 101

    A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source (github.com)
  • 91 125

    Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild (www.wired.com)
  • 217 472

    Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service (www.propublica.org)
  • 41 85

    A Tiny Camera Revealed a Hidden Passage in the Great Pyramid (modernengineeringmarvels.com)
  • 130 157

    Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026 (whois.domaintools.com)
  • 21 131

    Using calculus to do number theory (hidden-phenomena.com)
  • 193 128

    Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying (www.wsj.com)
  • 2 182

    Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 32 125

    Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive) (machinelearningplus.com)
  • 208 136

    Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework (blog.google)
  • 73 100

    Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?
  • 72 112

    Judge orders restoration of Voice of America (apnews.com)
  • 250 257

    OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO) (om.co)
  • 101 74

    Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier (kagifeedback.org)
  • 446 953

    Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) (www.cs.unc.edu)
  • 23 75

    How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly (eon.systems)
  • 161 563

    Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer (nightingale.cafe)
  • 51 44

    Animation 10k Starlink Satellites (spaceweather.com)
  • 25 151

    On a Boat (moq.dev)
  • 13 19

    Aggregated File System (AGFS), a modern tribute to the spirit of Plan 9 (github.com)
  • 31 133

    Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science (bertrandmeyer.com)
  • 61 122

    Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL (oseifert.ch)
  • 50 237

    Write up of my homebrew CPU build (willwarren.com)
  • 17 38

    Review of Microsoft's ClearType Font Collection (2005) (typographica.org)
  • 0 6

    Show HN: Bank Parser – Convert US Bank Statement PDFs to QuickBooks-Ready Excel (bank-parser.com)
  • 30 25

    Show HN: The Lottery of Life (claude.ai)
  • Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead (ndea.com)
  • 7 47

    Robotocore · a Digital Twin of AWS (github.com)
  • 18 84

    Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP (www.theregister.com)
  • 119 392

    JPEG Compression (www.sophielwang.com)
  • 160 170

    SSH has no Host header (blog.exe.dev)
  • 10 37

    I Simulated 38,612 Countryle Games to Find the Best Strategy (stoffregen.io)
  • 50 54

    Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File (robertsdotpm.github.io)
  • 510 902

    Have a fucking website (www.otherstrangeness.com)
  • 56 112

    Leviathan (1651) (www.gutenberg.org)
  • 2 11

    The Starving Time in Jamestown (www.historytoday.com)
  • 15 12

    FAQs About the Public Debt (www.treasurydirect.gov)
  • 15 16

    Arno's Engram Keyboard Layouts (github.com)
  • 99 259

    The pleasures of poor product design (www.inconspicuous.info)
  • 17 161

    A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel (rovarma.com)
  • 47 322

    More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware (openhardware.directory)
  • 15 54

    Launch an autonomous AI agent with sandboxed execution in 2 lines of code (amaiya.github.io)
  • 33 97

    Electron microscopy shows ‘mouse bite’ defects in semiconductors (news.cornell.edu)
  • 69 305

    Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking (github.com)