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  • 4 15

    Floats Don't Agree with Themselves (docs.merca.earth)
  • 36 30

    Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
  • 17 22

    Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2 (www.nintendo.co.jp)
  • 3 17

    The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs (sdocs.dev)
  • 6 14

    Dithering with CSS (ikesau.co)
  • 18 65

    ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
  • 20 16

    HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker (hantawatch.net)
  • 51 303

    Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
  • 3 44

    GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)
  • 45 29

    Inventing Cyrillic (www.historytoday.com)
  • 3 33

    Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation (lwn.net)
  • 33 50

    US will start revoking passports for parents who owe child support (apnews.com)
  • 15 44

    A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)
  • 71 85

    Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
  • 16 48

    Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE (github.com)
  • 0 7

    Evaluating Geekbench 6 (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 9 23

    Agentic Engineering (addyosmani.com)
  • 4 34

    How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device (zknill.io)
  • 10 28

    Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo (github.com)
  • 93 198

    Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)
  • 8 26

    New York state set to ban law enforcement, including ICE, from wearing masks (www.reuters.com)
  • 3 32

    Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos (www.lanl.gov)
  • 271 189

    Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (www.theguardian.com)
  • 69 157

    Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)
  • 2 143

    ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas) (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 6 22

    The Traveling Salesdog Problem (www.wespiser.com)
  • 31 52

    Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love (etke.cc)
  • 37 81

    GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com)
  • 60 70

    Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study (www.cam.ac.uk)
  • 92 80

    The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
  • 2 28

    Hackers deface school login pages after claiming another Instructure hack (techcrunch.com)
  • 53 156

    Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (www.uchicagomedicine.org)
  • 42 108

    Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (www.bcm.edu)
  • 4 44

    Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person (www.popularwoodworking.com)
  • 280 533

    Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
  • 65 38

    OpenClaw had a rough week (openclaw.ai)
  • 27 69

    Draw Marc Andreessen on an Egg (eieio.games)
  • 402 655

    Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (www.theverge.com)
  • 3 36

    Rolling the Root Key (blog.apnic.net)
  • 22 101

    Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (www.citizen.co.za)
  • 4 122

    Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives" (arstechnica.com)
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  • 8 31

    Easy Random Trees (blog.wilsonb.com)
  • 7 68

    Creating for a niche (www.davesnider.com)
  • 0 4

    Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB (theconsensus.dev)
  • 29 78

    Utah senator smacks ABC reporters phone out of hand amid Data Center controversy (www.abc4.com)
  • 7 20

    Show HN: Kstack – Skill pack for monitoring/troubleshooting K8s in Claude Code (github.com)
  • 15 27

    Show HN: Full Python GUI apps in the browser – no JavaScript, no server (github.com)
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  • 495 762

    Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce (www.reuters.com)
  • 262 648

    Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (www.openwall.com)
  • 32 16

    Nobody Reviews Compiler Output (skiplabs.io)
  • 13 34

    Colored Shadow Penumbra (chosker.github.io)
  • 575 672

    AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)
  • 46 97

    Principles for agent-native CLIs (twitter.com)
  • 95 283

    Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (www.anthropic.com)
  • 179 205

    Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (www.elciudadano.com)
  • 6 36

    Bubbles Are Really Evil (pluralistic.net)
  • 8 38

    Printing Blogs (fi-le.net)
  • 31 39

    Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally (github.com)
  • 203 97

    California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply (kmph.com)
  • 109 394

    DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com)
  • 230 470

    Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bsuh.bearblog.dev)
  • 12 14

    Only 173? Tesla Cybertruck RWD Recall Reveals Low Sales (www.motortrend.com)
  • 51 97

    PySimpleGUI 6 (github.com)
  • 219 563

    Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (old.reddit.com)
  • 164 120

    I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook (blog.johnozbay.com)
  • 8 72

    OpenBSD Stories: The closest thing to cute kittens (OpenBSD/zaurus) (miod.online.fr)
  • 48 78

    Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement (www.ohio.news)
  • 22 63

    MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport (www.ietf.org)
  • 3 18

    DS4, a specialized inference engine for DeepSeek v4 Flash (twitter.com)
  • 16 13

    Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (A Surprisingly Long Answer) (newsletter.signoz.io)
  • 325 273

    Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 607 296

    I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)
  • 72 173

    The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)
  • 123 295

    AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)
  • 3 47

    Speedup in Lattice Boltzmann Cylinder Flow (github.com)
  • 285 357

    Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (www.nature.com)
  • 318 656

    The map that keeps Burning Man honest (www.not-ship.com)
  • 72 95

    How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 15 32

    The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape (iopscience.iop.org)
  • 97 65

    The Upper Middle Class Trap (ofdollarsanddata.com)
  • 92 174

    RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust (ratex.lites.dev)
  • 317 497

    Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)
  • GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 22 34

    KLM flight attendant hospitalized after contact with hantavirus (nltimes.nl)
  • 33 159

    Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive (www.itsnicethat.com)
  • 129 216

    LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb (www.theregister.com)
  • 22 77

    Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic) (ahk.cardor.dev)
  • 53 67

    The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van (www.thedrive.com)
  • 54 102

    ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters (firethering.com)
  • 88 193

    Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) (www.ticalc.org)
  • 24 29

    Show HN: Social Network for Corporate Cringe (cringeout.com)
  • 77 141

    Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com)
  • 22 117

    Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA (unsloth.ai)
  • 50 91

    SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice (singleride.nyc)
  • 34 68

    Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (github.com)
  • 65 103

    Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2 (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 76 60

    Ads on Apple Maps (ads.apple.com)
  • 149 160

    Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) (www.chevrolet.com)
  • 0 9

    Wolfgang Koeppen's Structural Musicality (www.theparisreview.org)
  • 8 25

    Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU (jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com)
  • 74 147

    ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch? (arxiv.org)
  • 99 196

    Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
  • 2 73

    The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 73 271

    RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google (shkspr.mobi)
  • 2 37

    We programmed a program to program new programs (2011) (www.smbc-comics.com)
  • 75 108

    OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family (mendelgreenberg.com)
  • 21 90

    Pen pal programs endure in a digital age (apnews.com)
  • 197 261

    Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
  • 7 58

    Finding the differences in a series of power supplies (www.lttlabs.com)
  • 5 23

    Perturb-MARS: Reading mouse experiments through a human lens (www.noetik.blog)
  • 184 629

    SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
  • 135 184

    The Vatican's Website in Latin (www.vatican.va)
  • 108 114

    What British people mean when they say 'sorry' (www.bbc.com)
  • 21 47

    ADT says customer data stolen in cyber intrusion (therecord.media)
  • 221 106

    The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis (harpers.org)
  • 12 39

    How I made $350K from an open-source JavaScript library using dual licensing (www.paritydeals.com)
  • 87 148

    Iran hit more U.S. military targets than has been reported, satellite images (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 3 33

    They don't look like me (niccolorastrelli.com)
  • 67 72

    How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 39 63

    Pope Leo called his bank's customer service line. They hung up on him (www.usatoday.com)
  • 85 85

    DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May (api-docs.deepseek.com)
  • 28 61

    Kash Patel's Personalized Bourbon Stash (www.theatlantic.com)