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  • 0 5

    Nine observations from carbon dioxide monitoring (grieve-smith.com)
  • 5 20

    Stripe withheld $85,000 from our EU platform – no legal basis given
  • 5 33

    C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report (herbsutter.com)
  • 15 65

    Neovim 0.12.0 (github.com)
  • 16 24

    First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales (mashable.com)
  • 7 23

    Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s (isp.netscape.com)
  • 15 28

    Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor (breezepdf.com)
  • 49 24

    VR Is Not Dead (yadin.com)
  • 4 57

    Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout (github.com)
  • 3 24

    Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes (github.com)
  • 1 6

    Catching the LiteLLM and Telnyx supply chain zero-days via semantic analysis (point-wild.github.io)
  • 3 46

    AyaFlow: A high-performance, eBPF-based network traffic analyzer written in Rust (github.com)
  • 7 27

    The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history (www.righto.com)
  • 13 61

    The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub (riseproject.dev)
  • 90 138

    The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine (gladeart.com)
  • 56 149

    Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder (techfixated.com)
  • 28 80

    Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time (www.theguardian.com)
  • 53 31

    Scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 21 28

    Figma's MCP Update Reflects a Larger Industry Shift (metedata.substack.com)
  • 11 51

    App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East (maps.blitzortung.org)
  • 51 61

    Twice this week, I have come across embarassingly bad data (successfulsoftware.net)
  • 2 12

    The Epistemology of Microphysics (www.edwardfeser.com)
  • 102 466

    Say No to Palantir in Europe (action.wemove.eu)
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  • 74 55

    Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network (varunpriolkar.com)
  • 73 197

    Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND (www.cnn.com)
  • 2 10

    Twelve Dimensional Chess is Stupid (2018) (www.gilgamath.com)
  • 27 19

    Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges (mcpaas.live)
  • 101 77

    TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 5 38

    The Failure of the Thermodynamics of Computation (2010) (sites.pitt.edu)
  • 1 9

    I built a better, human like memory, for Agents (github.com)
  • 14 65

    Show HN: Create a full language server in Go with 3.17 spec support (github.com)
  • 20 31

    The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022) (www.bbc.com)
  • 245 376

    LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
  • 59 52

    Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders (sheetninja.io)
  • 171 219

    Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit (github.com)
  • 4 28

    Monado became the foundation for OpenXR runtimes (www.collabora.com)
  • 183 418

    Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics (news.umich.edu)
  • 16 46

    Siclair Microvision (1977) (r-type.org)
  • 50 77

    Lat.md: Agent Lattice: a knowledge graph for your codebase, written in Markdown (github.com)
  • 5 8

    Tell HN: GitHub's Dependabot REST API is silently returning incomplete results
  • 14 38

    Show HN: Public transit systems as data – lines, stations, railcars, and history (publictransit.systems)
  • 6 45

    The Hackers Who Tracked My Sleep Cycle (glama.ai)
  • 124 94

    Solar is winning the energy race (www.dw.com)
  • 30 42

    Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction (newrepublic.com)
  • 5 29

    The loneliness of A Room of One’s Own (newrepublic.com)
  • 10 22

    The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026) (quillette.com)
  • 60 39

    When do we become adults, really? (www.newyorker.com)
  • 80 148

    What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math? (adlrocha.substack.com)
  • 72 49

    The road to electric in charts and data (www.rac.co.uk)
  • 104 219

    A nearly perfect USB cable tester (blog.literarily-starved.com)
  • 35 54

    Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland (apnews.com)
  • 51 142

    I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper (manualdousuario.net)
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  • 10 71

    The ANSI art "telecomics" of the 1992 election (breakintochat.com)
  • 38 80

    OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem (github.com)
  • 48 51

    The case for becoming a manager (newsletter.thelongcommit.com)
  • 17 37

    Modeling what makes paper-folding puzzles hard (www.dailyunfold.com)
  • 67 51

    Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust? (www.ft.com)
  • 16 136

    A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU) (github.com)
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  • 42 35

    Show HN: PeriodicTableOfElements.org (periodictableofelements.org)
  • 0 8

    Attie.ai (attie.ai)
  • 10 54

    The 667MHz Machine (www.0xsid.com)
  • 130 194

    Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024) (www.bmj.com)
  • 13 76

    Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes (2023) (gwern.net)
  • 6 41

    Memory That Collaborates (datahike.io)
  • 50 120

    A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging (www.fraunhofer.de)
  • 46 51

    Stop picking my Go version for me (blog.howardjohn.info)
  • 2 23

    Building an E2E Encrypted Chat Application with LanceDB and Libsodium (www.justinrmiller.com)
  • 11 33

    ODF is the future, OOXML is the past (blog.documentfoundation.org)
  • 7 11

    Computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy use (www.cam.ac.uk)
  • 3 18

    TreeTrek – A raw Git repository viewer web app (repo.autonoma.ca)
  • 206 349

    South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots (www.reutersconnect.com)
  • 26 143

    OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 Processors (miod.online.fr)
  • 0 12

    Roman Catholic Churches See a Surge of New Converts (www.nytimes.com)
  • 88 73

    Goldman Sachs now reckons that oil could take out the 2008 record of $147 (www.ft.com)
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  • 29 63

    Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 10 53

    My heuristics are wrong. What now? (brooker.co.za)
  • 23 37

    Ötzi the Iceman's DNA Reveals a Living Relative 5k Years Later (blog.familytreedna.com)
  • 125 178

    Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs (www.theguardian.com)
  • InpharmD (YC W21) Is Hiring – Senior Ruby on Rails Developer (inpharmd.com)
  • 2 65

    Meta Partners with Arm to Develop New Class of Data Center Silicon (about.fb.com)
  • 200 136

    Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices (www.androidauthority.com)
  • 108 461

    CSS is DOOMed (nielsleenheer.com)
  • 1 19

    Iran images appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces, a first in years (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 70 84

    1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History (www.nybooks.com)
  • 66 179

    OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 (github.com)
  • 133 206

    The first 40 months of the AI era (lzon.ca)
  • 20 24

    Nobody Reads Your Setup Docs (hanzilla.co)
  • 13 11

    Nothing new to see here (feld.com)
  • 4 17

    Improving personal tax filing with Claude CLI and Obsidian (www.mrafayaleem.com)
  • 164 249

    Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem (twitter.com)
  • 16 91

    Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue (www.vegardstikbakke.com)
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    Show HN: A prompt that builds the most capable AI agent system (github.com)
  • 6 83

    Undroidwish – A single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms (androwish.org)
  • 247 1299

    Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies (sytse.com)
  • 13 26

    RSA and Python (xnacly.me)
  • 8 52

    Circuit-level PDP-11/34 emulator (github.com)
  • 6 77

    rpg.actor Game Jam (rpg.actor)
  • 56 233

    Linux is an interpreter (astrid.tech)
  • 52 82

    Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008 (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 3 49

    StationeryObject (stationeryobject.com)
  • 43 53

    Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor (breezepdf.com)
  • 9 18

    Going Founder Mode on Cancer (centuryofbio.com)
  • 4 43

    Militarized snowflakes: The accidental beauty of Renaissance star forts (bigthink.com)
  • 161 87

    ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight (www.icao.int)
  • 222 605

    I decompiled the White House's new app (thereallo.dev)
  • 1 6

    Behind the Scenes of the Westworld UI (vanschneider.com)
  • 17 28

    Show HN: We built a multi-agent research hub. The waitlist is a reverse-CAPTCHA (enlidea.com)
  • 77 71

    The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive
  • 78 65

    C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro (www.sandordargo.com)
  • 216 278

    Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right (www.theregister.com)
  • 585 746

    AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice (news.stanford.edu)
  • 18 40

    Gerard of Cremona (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 0 11

    How to implement the Outbox pattern in Go and Postgres (www.youtube.com)
  • 45 55

    You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them (2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com)
  • 39 164

    Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting (nickjanetakis.com)
  • 7 42

    Byte Interviews Chuck Peddle, Father of the MOS 6502 and Commodore PET (1982) (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
  • 45 57

    A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs (github.com)
  • 288 404

    Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables (grid.iamkate.com)
  • 225 785

    Spanish legislation as a Git repo (github.com)
  • 58 115

    Gaza toddler returned with alleged torture wounds after Israeli detention (www.independent.co.uk)
  • 80 441

    I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • Toma (YC W24) is hiring a Senior/Staff Eng to build AI automotive coworkers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 83 86

    No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations (arstechnica.com)
  • 26 142

    Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer (github.com)
  • 109 316

    Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly (github.com)
  • 61 137

    Treason in the Futures Markets (paulkrugman.substack.com)
  • 22 15

    Alex Karp says only trade workers and neurodivergents will survive in the AI era (fortune.com)
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  • 69 108

    Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide (www.alexedwards.net)
  • 10 61

    Matadisco – Decentralized Data Discovery (matadisco.org)
  • 3 38

    Desperately Seeking Space Friends (reviewcanada.ca)
  • 146 320

    CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering (theopenreader.org)
  • 46 80

    Trust signals as sparklines for Hacker News (hn-trustspark.com)
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  • 49 108

    Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer (www.cnbc.com)
  • 85 117

    Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 17 15

    The future of text layout is not CSS (chenglou.me)
  • 87 282

    The bee that everyone wants to save (naturalist.bearblog.dev)
  • 9 12

    The Interactive Lost Place Map (lostfoundations.org)
  • 167 308

    AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip (arstechnica.com)
  • 61 70

    Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry
  • 51 43

    Sports betting is everywhere, especially on credit reports (libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
  • 224 162

    Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial (www.bbc.com)
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    Type Construction and Cycle Detection (go.dev)
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  • 313 606

    Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem (jai.scs.stanford.edu)
  • 56 126

    Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting (coloradonewsline.com)
  • 16 69

    Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors (schilk.co)