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  • 0 5

    Fossilisation processes and our reading of animal antiquity (www.cell.com)
  • 3 13

    SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review (strn.cat)
  • 1 16

    Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns (tidalcycles.org)
  • 0 12

    GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy (surfingcomplexity.blog)
  • 11 52

    Stop Eating Lady Gaga's Oreos (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 25 17

    Why Aren't Smart People Happier? (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 61 43

    The August 17 outage, and the work ahead (github.blog)
  • 3 11

    Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain (dl.acm.org)
  • 21 43

    Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (www.danielvaughn.dev)
  • 2 6

    Show HN: Kandelo – a POSIX-compatible multi-process WASM kernel for the browser (kandelo.dev)
  • 3 4

    Seeking God in Science Part 10.5: The Mind-Body Problem (Take 2) (blog.rongarret.info)
  • 0 45

    Consumer Rights Wiki (consumerrights.wiki)
  • 0 8

    What Is Reasoning (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • 2 9

    TrueForge – The open-source agent harness (github.com)
  • 84 208

    Scientific study reveals TikTok videos deactivate key cognitive brain regions (www.rathbiotaclan.com)
  • 1 12

    AI at Home Part 2: Multi-GPU Drifting (jdagostino.github.io)
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    Show HN: sce (Simple Console Editor) (github.com)
  • 19 30

    Optimizing things in the USSR (2016) (chris-said.io)
  • 49 121

    I should have loved biology (jsomers.net)
  • 20 34

    Project Cybersyn (2022) (bactra.org)
  • 24 31

    Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP (github.com)
  • 14 24

    The Defense-Tech Bubble Is Headed for Consolidation (foxandlion.pub)
  • 16 40

    Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it (radi8.dev)
  • 2 17

    URL shortener links stored in your ATProto PDS (atpr.to)
  • 3 8

    I bought the most expensive cable I could find. It still died (medium.com)
  • Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 49 133

    Linux 7.2 (www.igalia.com)
  • 14 35

    A theory for decades of C vulnerabilities (strawberry9.github.io)
  • 24 54

    Generic Methods in Go 1.27 (dominik.info)
  • 18 21

    Just Fucking Use Neovim (www.justfuckinguseneovim.com)
  • 66 93

    How to compromise your system with a job interview (www.codedge.de)
  • 23 27

    I Am Morally Opposed to Updating My Claude.md (alex-jacobs.com)
  • 16 29

    Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com)
  • 55 68

    Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (blog.yaros.ae)
  • 135 121

    Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM (github.com)
  • 201 414

    I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 160 261

    CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (www.wsj.com)
  • 8 34

    Double-double: 31 digits of precision without leaving the FPU (marekfiser.com)
  • 18 93

    Nearly 1,400 live streams from Japan (tomarigi.me)
  • 21 52

    Show HN: Open-source Stripe Connect alternative (zoneless.com)
  • 32 53

    Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours (pub.doub.ly)
  • 5 56

    Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 82 175

    Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (arxiv.org)
  • 119 433

    HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)
  • 58 224

    Git at any scale (cursor.com)
  • 63 287

    Mojo is now open source (www.modular.com)
  • 74 45

    Slack Code (www.salesforce.com)
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  • 19 8

    Rivian OS 2 (xcancel.com)
  • 76 103

    Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1 (lists.x.org)
  • 4 10

    Do Chatbot LLMs Talk Too Much? (arxiv.org)
  • 20 42

    Zellij 0.45.0: nested sessions, Kitty graphics, a fresh UI (zellij.dev)
  • 24 75

    An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30 (elliptic-rank.icarm.cloud)
  • 100 102

    Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons (www.bbc.com)
  • 126 203

    Bun 1.4 (bun.com)
  • 43 62

    Every Model Cheats (dreadnode.io)
  • 2 12

    Bufo pulls the andon cord (hatchet.run)
  • 25 197

    Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter (stwipe.com)
  • 41 65

    Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch (www.mikekasberg.com)
  • 8 26

    An American Mosaic (interactive map of ancestry census data) (www.nytimes.com)
  • 14 18

    CI jobs artifacts should not be difficult (deadsimpleci.sparrowhub.io)
  • 92 62

    I spent twenty years becoming good at the wrong game (savvynormie.com)
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  • 2 6

    Index of the best vibe coding tools (www.vibeleaderboard.ai)
  • 79 86

    Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn't solved the plastic pollution crisis (therevelator.org)
  • 28 119

    DiffusionGemma Technical Report (arxiv.org)
  • 59 52

    UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub (www.ft.com)
  • 4 4

    Sokoban via Grok App Builder (sokoban.grok.me)
  • 43 37

    Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebases into Safe Rust (linuxiac.com)
  • 286 316

    Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (safedep.io)
  • 4 13

    Show HN: Streambench – Native Mac Client for Kafka and NATS (streambench.app)
  • 9 70

    Netherlands lists Israel as a threat to its national security for the first time (www.trtworld.com)
  • 49 50

    Australia passes law to levy tech giants that fail to pay for local news (www.reuters.com)
  • 27 47

    Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery (research.google)
  • 42 55

    Browser De-Slop (www.sacredheartsc.com)
  • 11 66

    Risk Engineering (risk-engineering.org)
  • 96 417

    Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device (simedw.com)
  • 0 9

    Filtered Vector Search: What Acorn Fixes, and What Fixes Acorn (qdrant.tech)
  • Proof of Human (YC S23) Is Hiring a Member of Technical Staff (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 125 68

    AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it (franciscotrindade.me)
  • 1 7

    YACS 2.0 – Yet Another Curta Simulator (satadorus.eu)
  • 89 47

    If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
  • 258 762

    AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (blog.laserphile.com)
  • 9 13

    Free v4 front end for your v6 site (v4-frontend.netiter.com)
  • 2 12

    RAPx: A static analysis tool for Rust programs (github.com)
  • 526 968

    Don't paste the AI, please (dontpastetheai.com)
  • 39 56

    The Chauffeur Problem (1999) (engines.egr.uh.edu)
  • 8 24

    What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI (snarky.ca)
  • 123 331

    Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003) (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 84 37

    Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex (openai.com)
  • 18 85

    Zuckerberg encouraged growth over child safety, ex-Meta executive testifies (www.reuters.com)
  • 14 51

    Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector (2020) (github.com)
  • 49 72

    Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 56 83

    Rewriting in Rust (blog.jetbrains.com)
  • 124 156

    Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated (www.abc.net.au)
  • 14 38

    How do payments work in the US, China, and Brazil? (andrewacomb.substack.com)
  • 78 239

    A faster way to calculate the day of the week (www.benjoffe.com)
  • 194 327

    Turns are Better than Radians (2022) (www.computerenhance.com)
  • 35 83

    Simulacra and Simulation (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 2 38

    Universality of Gradient Descent Neural Network Training (arxiv.org)
  • 13 24

    Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo (fetzu.ch)
  • 25 181

    Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures (coca11272000.wixsite.com)
  • 15 10

    Technical leaders should have the largest AI exhaust (schipper.ai)
  • 56 50

    Why travellers are obsessed with foreign supermarkets (www.bbc.com)
  • 64 133

    Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny (www.kmbc.com)
  • 13 28

    The Future of CSS: Target Multiple Classes with the Class Prefix Selector (www.bram.us)
  • 6 28

    Aluminum Frame PC Fan Corsi-Rosenthal Build (2023) (itsairborne.com)
  • 213 343

    Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md (github.com)
  • 183 227

    Sol loves to cheat (jumploops.com)
  • 12 25

    Collaborative Human Agent Protocol (CHAP) (github.com)
  • 3 55

    IDE Nostalgia (2022) (davidsmaynard.com)
  • 53 119

    Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a (os8088.com)
  • 14 37

    Digital Immortality (dogdogfish.com)
  • 3 53

    A portable, sensitive, low power, analog Geiger counter (2025) (ludens.cl)
  • 18 95

    DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel (inco.ai)
  • 52 70

    Pressed Penny Machine Map (pennypresses.net)
  • 101 79

    Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1 (lists.x.org)
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  • 38 132

    The little-known winstart.bat batch file (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 67 251

    Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker (sprocketfox.io)
  • 58 94

    Router by Ramp (router.com)
  • 2 29

    From Quantum Relative Entropy to the Semiclassical Einstein Equations (2025) (arxiv.org)
  • 1 11

    Daily Reminder to Not Listen to Google's AI Overview (whatever.scalzi.com)
  • 246 86

    Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era (www.theverge.com)
  • 67 189

    Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times (www.wsbtv.com)
  • 294 778

    Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code (grapheneos.social)
  • 54 124

    Rules of good social skills (2025) (liamrosen.com)
  • 116 315

    Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs (unsloth.ai)
  • 256 736

    Go 1.27 (go.dev)
  • 25 19

    In South Korea, some savour last season of legal dog meat (www.reuters.com)
  • 0 38

    A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 44 50

    The A.I. In Google's New Pixel 11 Is Not Helpful (www.nytimes.com)
  • 48 61

    Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman (www.404media.co)
  • 14 50

    Introducing MicroLighter (daverupert.com)
  • 170 186

    Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere (github.com)
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  • 477 939

    OpenRouter is joining Stripe (openrouter.ai)
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  • 1 37

    Turning molecules into reliable electronic devices (news.mit.edu)
  • 10 36

    Show HN: Frugal Tokens – explore costs and usage across coding agents (demo.frugaltokens.com)
  • 25 132

    How Kubernetes Probes Work (ngrok.com)
  • 4 27

    A recipe for drone racing with reinforcement learning (mrandri19.github.io)
  • 76 166

    Extensible Software in the age of LLMs (jeremymorrell.dev)
  • 38 62

    Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful (2025) (arxiv.org)
  • 25 85

    Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams (github.com)
  • 244 201

    Mathematics in the age of AI (arxiv.org)
  • 1 9

    Sea Turtle Sex Crisis: Why 99% Are Now Female (mazingamazingly.blogspot.com)
  • 326 445

    Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013) (shkspr.mobi)
  • 72 207

    Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement (ornith.ai)
  • 374 448

    Casio F-B100W-1A (www.casio.com)
  • 331 616

    Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees (www.colorado.edu)
  • 98 35

    If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible? (www.signalbloom.ai)
  • 6 8

    X262: X264 with MPEG-2 Support (github.com)
  • 3 17

    The science behind Pixel Watch's insulin resistance feature (www.empirical.health)
  • 49 135

    MicroGPT-C in pure C hits 10M TPS on Apple M5 (github.com)
  • 24 48

    Show HN: Nikon F100 Film Camera Repair Notes (github.com)
  • 99 33

    Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut (lists.sr.ht)
  • 280 584

    Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma (twitter.com)
  • 251 422

    PostgreSQL for Everything (www.raphaelbauer.com)
  • 40 112

    Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library (github.com)
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  • 169 995

    A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare (sprocketfox.io)
  • 50 222

    A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II, Algorithm 4.3.1D) (kolja.rs)
  • 85 514

    Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming (yassa9.github.io)
  • 396 627

    Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027 (grapheneos.social)
  • 24 18

    Win-V combo from Windows on Ubuntu (leo98ml.github.io)
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  • 97 293

    Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam (theremin.bizibah.com)
  • 54 132

    Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite (phys.org)
  • 53 180

    Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things (homosabiens.substack.com)
  • 78 71

    The Two Factions of C++ (2024) (herecomesthemoon.net)
  • 109 223

    The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source (www.modular.com)
  • 21 110

    "Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research (arstechnica.com)
  • 28 30

    Berd (berd.xyz)
  • 126 124

    Where Human Sleep Went Wrong (nautil.us)
  • 17 91

    λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics (dl.acm.org)
  • 11 8

    Show HN: Privacy focused client side password generator (password-generator.aaqa.dev)
  • 8 44

    We turned off Pub/Sub and nobody noticed (incident.io)
  • 17 31

    Japan's Gen X workers are struggling (www.economist.com)
  • 1 29

    Looking for Missed Alarm Bugs in a Formal Verification Tool (blog.regehr.org)
  • 132 166

    Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good? (tipiirai.com)
  • 7 55

    The Vietnam Binh Chau (Chau Tan) Late Tang Wreck (www.koh-antique.com)
  • 96 156

    Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games (github.com)
  • 112 253

    Supersonic Trebuchet [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 2 63

    CUDA Shared Memory Swizzling (leimao.github.io)
  • 39 184

    Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 300 313

    Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco (www.economist.com)
  • 420 1592

    OpenLogi (openlogi.org)
  • 25 15

    I stopped caring about programming terms (teadriven.com)
  • 28 38

    That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis (lithub.com)
  • 2 19

    The Integer (gist.github.com)
  • 276 389

    Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation (bfi.uchicago.edu)
  • 399 407

    Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone (www.bbc.com)
  • 14 45

    Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield (www.cam.ac.uk)
  • 3 7

    Show HN: Capto – alerts when a background job goes quiet, with breadcrumbs (capto.run)
  • 0 18

    GPT-5.6 Sol: 70% off in Devin (devin.ai)
  • 271 460

    Cerebras CS-4 (www.cerebras.ai)
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    Show HN: Loft Day – a wedding invitation turned point-and-click game (marketa.behdad.org)
  • 2 9

    Simulated red blood cells and microscopy (lucasamoudruz.com)
  • 16 56

    The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks (www.dpreview.com)
  • 235 200

    Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries (github.com)
  • 12 112

    Show HN: Interactive, animated architecture of any HuggingFace models (modelmap.cc)