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  • 2 6

    Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream (www.apple.com)
  • 1 7

    New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 0 8

    Mutation Testing in Haskell (cs-syd.eu)
  • 30 59

    Why are so many young people getting cancer? What researchers do and don't know (www.nature.com)
  • 83 63

    AI Is Slowing Down (www.wheresyoured.at)
  • 0 41

    OCaml Onboarding: Introduction to the Dune build system (ocamlpro.com)
  • 19 21

    Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube (old.reddit.com)
  • 91 186

    A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center (www.404media.co)
  • 20 41

    SoulsOnly.tff – A font for humans not AI and keyboard firmware to type in it (github.com)
  • 149 207

    MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second (mimo.xiaomi.com)
  • 25 70

    I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station (old.reddit.com)
  • 56 66

    Italy's Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Vimeo, Files for Nasdaq IPO (www.reuters.com)
  • 12 23

    Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication (aws.amazon.com)
  • 48 49

    Life is too short for a slow terminal (mijndertstuij.nl)
  • 78 343

    Show HN: Performative-UI – a react component library of design tropes (vorpus.github.io)
  • 70 76

    Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now? (pyrefly.org)
  • 30 19

    The 15-minute city is a dead end (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
  • 63 57

    The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun (syndekit.substack.com)
  • 30 81

    Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code (intunedhq.com)
  • 51 78

    The iPhone explains 33–52% of fertility decline among women aged 15–44 (www.nber.org)
  • 62 54

    Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design (handson.money)
  • 83 175

    Zig by Example (github.com)
  • 263 317

    Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds (www.bbc.com)
  • 7 16

    A modular impact diverting mechanism for football helmets [pdf] (www.sfu.ca)
  • 4 34

    Anthropic's Project Glasswing Update (www.schneier.com)
  • 70 54

    Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea (blogs.nvidia.com)
  • 1 11

    Amber Tree: A Middle Ground Between Rowan Red and Green Trees (blog.gplane.win)
  • 18 58

    Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot (safedep.io)
  • 32 100

    Zig Structs of Arrays (2024) (andreashohmann.com)
  • 138 82

    Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post (human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
  • 65 304

    How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated? (reeserichardson.blog)
  • 160 179

    Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank (www.computerweekly.com)
  • 7 69

    A Family Project (2022) (bittersoutherner.com)
  • 129 131

    The EU Open Source Strategy (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)
  • 129 130

    OneDrive data now has an expiry date (ms365news.com)
  • 24 106

    Spherical Voronoi Diagram (www.jasondavies.com)
  • 78 259

    The Cypherpunk Library (www.cypherpunkbooks.com)
  • 45 62

    GitHub Is Down (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 21 39

    Giant Floating Victorian Drydock (mastermariners.org.au)
  • 80 38

    Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse? (techcrunch.com)
  • 42 48

    Do agents.md files help coding agents? (twitter.com)
  • 80 56

    Cannibalism (b-ark.ca)
  • 11 136

    Playing with Vision Embeddings (prestonbjensen.com)
  • 53 84

    Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026 (retro.social)
  • 31 117

    Richard Scolyer Has Died (www.bbc.com)
  • 13 72

    Tiny hackable CUDA language model implementation (github.com)
  • 16 50

    SDSU Wired Its Dorms with 1,300 AI Cameras Without Telling Students (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 52 52

    Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm (www.nosuggest.com)
  • 12 38

    A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 336 664

    Dopamine Fracking (igerman.cc)
  • 112 268

    1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse (www.troyhunt.com)
  • 5 53

    Man-Computer Symbiosis J. C. R. Licklider (1960) (groups.csail.mit.edu)
  • 16 23

    90210 – running the show without property tax (github.com)
  • 115 133

    1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background (1worldflag.com)
  • 23 57

    Tech sell-off widens as South Korea index plunges (www.ft.com)
  • 81 141

    Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring (algorithmichiring.github.io)
  • 44 258

    New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections (www.science.org)
  • 198 374

    DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision (runtimewire.com)
  • 113 145

    Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests (www.reuters.com)
  • 6 16

    Back end is full of hidden workflows (unmeshed.io)
  • 165 254

    APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs (teenage.engineering)
  • 29 101

    7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes part of southern Philippines. Tsunami possible (www.yahoo.com)
  • 31 156

    A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W (github.com)
  • 1 15

    KNN early termination in Manticore Search (manticoresearch.com)
  • 63 280

    The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python (ranpara.net)
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    Flock Safety Price List [pdf] (www.omniapartners.com)
  • 42 40

    Learn PHP in 2026 (Yes, Really) (fagnerbrack.com)
  • 21 120

    Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding (www.phoronix.com)
  • 3 5

    Crashing cars and improving hover detection (motion.dev)
  • 16 29

    Ask HN: Are we as society going to let LLM companies take all the values?
  • 9 27

    Show HN: Nightwatch, The open-source, read-only AI SRE (github.com)
  • 0 12

    Iran says staff blocked from entering US after players given World Cup visas (www.bbc.com)
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    VibeOS: First ever AI-native operating system (vibeos.sh)
  • 20 31

    A Fundamental Principle of Aeronautical Engineering Has Been Overturned (www.tohoku.ac.jp)
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  • 127 316

    Show HN: I Derived a Pancake (www.absurdlyoptimized.com)
  • 24 23

    Data centers consumed 264B gallons of water as drought hits nearly 63% of US (www.barchart.com)
  • 13 43

    Google just made you a search quality rater. You won't get paid (mojodojo.io)
  • 41 84

    Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime (timesofsandiego.com)
  • 6 10

    What Are Tokens in LLMs? (bearisland.dev)
  • 58 83

    Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs (2024) (blog.ydb.tech)
  • 115 115

    If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II (arxiv.org)
  • 131 85

    The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy (www.science.org)
  • 13 50

    A visual introduction to kernel functions (kelvinpaschal.com)
  • 23 43

    The complete IPv4 address space, mapped (worldip.io)
  • 258 86

    Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer? (www.natesilver.net)
  • 377 834

    Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony (gavinray97.github.io)
  • 221 456

    How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown (performance.dev)
  • 185 294

    Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023) (nik.art)
  • 23 48

    The curious case of low-protein diets (knowablemagazine.org)
  • 15 61

    You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone (signoregalilei.com)
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  • 24 86

    My automated doubt development process (www.alexself.dev)
  • 54 139

    Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas (github.com)
  • 37 55

    sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3 (gitlab.com)
  • 83 223

    What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014) (unix.stackexchange.com)
  • 28 91

    Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948 (www.righto.com)
  • Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 43 29

    Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026 (ringmast4r.substack.com)
  • 7 98

    Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup (github.com)
  • 150 146

    The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games (www.bbc.com)
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  • 19 136

    Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack (blog.brixit.nl)
  • 82 189

    Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years (jamanetwork.com)
  • 7 127

    Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025) (blog.podman.io)
  • 202 144

    The OnlyFans Economy of American AI (leoveanu.com)
  • 1 11

    Partitions over Permutations (www.johndcook.com)
  • 52 43

    Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job (thenewstack.io)
  • 57 50

    The best relationships are all-encompassing. (andys.blog)
  • 67 371

    Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it (github.com)
  • 73 65

    Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them (ea.rna.nl)
  • 298 516

    Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux (github.com)
  • 5 38

    Misguided Misstatements Continue to Dismantle Biomedical Research in the U.S. (diabetesjournals.org)
  • 1021 1089

    LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do (human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
  • 1 35

    How Long Does It Take for a QQuickItem to Become Visible? (www.kdab.com)
  • 69 47

    Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap (yon-lang.org)
  • 65 32

    We Need VAT and UBI (wilsoniumite.com)
  • 34 82

    Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers (kyushu.dev)
  • 14 12

    Only 2.5% of 12,779 tech job listings are entry-level (www.datamatastudios.com)
  • 13 36

    Firefox confirms working on own adblocker [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring (9mothers.com)
  • 7 72

    The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview) (theamphour.com)
  • 0 52

    Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
  • 0 12

    Enforcing the First as in BGP AS_PATHs (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 212 336

    Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints (arstechnica.com)
  • 2 21

    Games Between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 78 148

    Win16 Memory Management (www.os2museum.com)
  • 39 152

    Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4× (fergusfinn.com)
  • 39 120

    Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math (alvaro-videla.com)
  • 94 417

    The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners (www.ioccc.org)
  • 154 215

    My Software North Star (kristoff.it)
  • 260 303

    I design with Claude more than Figma now (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 43 120

    The circus freaks of open source (drewdevault.com)
  • 15 47

    Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting (gwern.net)
  • 18 60

    Show HN: Free animated icon library for Vue (respeak-io.github.io)
  • 6 13

    PaceVer (an alternative to SemVer, for mobile apps) (pacever.org)
  • 0 19

    Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions (2003) (www.cl.cam.ac.uk)
  • 7 31

    HateArena – A free and open source arena shooter (github.com)
  • 106 191

    How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time (hyperallergic.com)
  • 26 159

    Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust (symbolica.io)
  • 133 277

    Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries (github.com)
  • 6 21

    Show HN: TakoVM – Isolated model and tool execution used by enterprises (github.com)
  • 33 53

    The Russian who invented semiconductors 25 years before the USA (www.semidoped.com)
  • 12 66

    Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser (github.com)
  • 85 170

    Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo (knowablemagazine.org)
  • 31 153

    Biohub releases a world model of protein biology (biohub.org)
  • 73 172

    Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering (arxiv.org)
  • 245 199

    An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight (www.radioworld.com)
  • 1 7

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

    Show HN: DomainTasker – avoid losing domains and surprise renewals (domaintasker.com)
  • 32 255

    Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org)
  • 36 124

    Boron Buckyballs: B80 cages in the lab (cen.acs.org)
  • 7 20

    Context Sculpting (perceptiontheory.bearblog.dev)
  • 200 294

    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 16

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