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  • 20 82

    Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown (securelist.com)
  • 1 26

    1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico (www.cnn.com)
  • 72 150

    Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware Product (www.simonberens.com)
  • 117 66

    Data centers in space makes no sense (civai.org)
  • 11 51

    FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention (dl.acm.org)
  • 55 79

    OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up (cacm.acm.org)
  • 15 75

    AI and Trust (2023) (www.schneier.com)
  • 0 12

    I became a maintainer and all I got was a lousy perspective on librarianship (www.hughrundle.net)
  • 17 34

    When rust ≠ performance. a lesson in developer experience (suriya.cc)
  • 45 63

    Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 50 73

    How vibe coding is killing open source (hackaday.com)
  • 0 27

    Another London: Excavating the disenchanted city (harpers.org)
  • 93 85

    China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 52 81

    Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux (blog.senko.net)
  • 80 41

    Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden (internationaljournalofwellbeing.org)
  • 27 70

    Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025 (www.pugetsystems.com)
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  • 54 51

    Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins (fortune.com)
  • 18 126

    AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines (github.com)
  • 26 22

    Show HN: I built "AI Wattpad" to eval LLMs on fiction (narrator.sh)
  • 8 15

    Show HN: PII-Shield – Log Sanitization Sidecar with JSON Integrity (Go, Entropy) (github.com)
  • 108 133

    221 Cannon is Not For Sale (fredbenenson.com)
  • 170 210

    Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode (www.apple.com)
  • 114 127

    I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored (nikolak.com)
  • 1 10

    Visual Family Cosmos (rosano.ca)
  • 266 266

    X offices raided in France (apnews.com)
  • 23 26

    Migrate Wizard – IMAP Based Email Migration Tool (migratewizard.com)
  • 102 286

    Deno Sandbox (deno.com)
  • 1 11

    Sonnet 5 (Full Text) (www.folger.edu)
  • 52 63

    The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines (aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org)
  • 5 41

    Tadpole – A modular and extensible DSL built for web scraping (tadpolehq.com)
  • 16 49

    Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy (github.com)
  • 187 59

    1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? (waspdev.com)
  • 13 40

    Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing (octosphere.social)
  • 397 702

    France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US (apnews.com)
  • 4 35

    Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf] (people.csail.mit.edu)
  • 75 42

    AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was (www.jasonwillems.com)
  • 1 13

    Athena Parthenos: A Reconstruction (2000) (www.goddess-athena.org)
  • 88 172

    Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust (github.com)
  • 31 60

    Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework
  • 191 137

    New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers (blog.adafruit.com)
  • 331 544

    Qwen3-Coder-Next (qwen.ai)
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  • 24 95

    The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019) (thewrongtools.wordpress.com)
  • 132 135

    Anthropic is Down (updog.ai)
  • 47 86

    Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants (www.wired.com)
  • 1 19

    Preserved hair reveals just how bad lead exposure was in the 20th century (www.livescience.com)
  • 8 35

    A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats (www.malwarebytes.com)
  • 19 70

    Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly (github.com)
  • 25 32

    GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests (blog.rbby.dev)
  • 88 132

    Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% (www.science.org)
  • 103 236

    Bunny Database (bunny.net)
  • 46 43

    Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go) (github.com)
  • 2 19

    Show HN: Inverting Agent Model (App as Clients, Chat as Server and Reflection) (github.com)
  • 61 42

    Decentralizing my smartphone with single purpose devices (ambertherambler.bearblog.dev)
  • 110 111

    Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
  • 197 345

    Agent Skills (agentskills.io)
  • 6 13

    KDE Binds Itself Tightly to Systemd, Drops Support for Non-Systemd Systems (hackaday.com)
  • 11 8

    Is a RAM-only PWA "Secure Camera" safe for journalists?
  • 72 44

    KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd (forums.freebsd.org)
  • 2 22

    Lead in archived hair documents a decline in lead exposure to humans after EPA (www.pnas.org)
  • 2 15

    Reducing Cassandra p99 latency by fixing OS page cache thrashing (blog.speedyio.com)
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  • 34 61

    Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API) (github.com)
  • Emerge Career (YC S22) is hiring a product designer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 2 11

    SVGs are uniquely legible to LLMs (turbek.com)
  • 111 163

    Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X (www.bbc.com)
  • 78 93

    Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI (rentahuman.ai)
  • 100 58

    Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says (www.reuters.com)
  • 28 25

    Crime rates of undocumented-, legal immigrants, & native-born citizens in Texas (www.pnas.org)
  • 6 17

    Same SQL, Different Results: A Subtle Oracle vs. PostgreSQL Migration Bug (databaserookies.wordpress.com)
  • 73 169

    Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB) (safe-now.live)
  • 39 15

    Claude Sonnet 5 Is Imminent – and It Could Be a Generation Ahead of Google (ucstrategies.com)
  • 32 42

    Why The Jetsons still matters (2012) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 174 598

    What's up with all those equals signs anyway? (lars.ingebrigtsen.no)
  • 14 13

    Boring Go! (golang.college)
  • 30 68

    LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc. (github.com)
  • 163 101

    From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 22 76

    Astrological CPU Scheduler (github.com)
  • 9 44

    Minichord: A pocket-sized musical instrument (github.com)
  • 14 51

    The Physics of Ideas: Reality as a Coordination Problem (bpe.xyz)
  • 61 46

    Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
  • 0 33

    Phenakistoscopes (1833) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 50 54

    Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
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  • 3 8

    Show HN: Open-source semantic search over your local notes via CLI (github.com)
  • 126 161

    Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem (www.bicameral-ai.com)
  • 4 25

    Frog 'saunas' could help endangered species beat a deadly fungus (2024) (www.science.org)
  • 49 55

    50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates' (thenewstack.io)
  • 147 335

    Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog? (gyrovague.com)
  • 161 231

    Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition (krzysztofjankowski.com)
  • 231 131

    See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments (serjaimelannister.github.io)
  • 4 31

    Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency (www.wsj.com)
  • 18 35

    G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
  • 254 313

    Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair (attheu.utah.edu)
  • 27 120

    Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server (128.237.157.9)
  • 57 126

    GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs (github.com)
  • 21 20

    Al is killing programming and the Python community (www.reddit.com)
  • 30 113

    The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt (tamikothiel.com)
  • 77 235

    How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity? (alignment.anthropic.com)
  • 32 161

    Julia (borretti.me)
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  • 97 200

    Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features (www.macrumors.com)
  • 36 45

    Training a trillion parameter model to be funny (jokegen.sdan.io)
  • 696 599

    The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal (www.frommers.com)
  • 375 484

    Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction (arstechnica.com)
  • 11 90

    Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database (www.joedb.org)
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  • 1981 876

    xAI joins SpaceX (www.spacex.com)
  • 98 259

    GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 5 89

    xAI Joins SpaceX (x.ai)
  • 1 10

    TileIR Internals (maknee.github.io)
  • 228 541

    Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub (forums.ankiweb.net)
  • 22 50

    Europe just started building a 'kill switch' for U.S. tech (www.morningstar.com)
  • 150 345

    Zig Libc (ziglang.org)
  • 20 22

    Being "Just a Developer" Isn't Enough Anymore (saasykit.com)
  • 152 169

    LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant (github.com)
  • 63 150

    Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled (www.cnbc.com)
  • 48 35

    Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS (github.com)
  • 16 40

    General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer (www.atredis.com)
  • 9 12

    Don't discount American democracy's resilience (www.natesilver.net)
  • 19 23

    LinkedIn Is Down (ctrlv.link)
  • 218 255

    Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed (www.sintef.no)
  • 13 68

    The Dangerous Drift to Redefine Protest as Terrorism (www.lawfaremedia.org)
  • 4 23

    Serverless backend hosting without idle costs – open-source (github.com)
  • 196 159

    Parking lots as economic drains (progressandpoverty.substack.com)
  • 83 114

    The largest number representable in 64 bits (tromp.github.io)
  • 260 174

    Why software stocks are getting pummelled (www.economist.com)
  • 40 29

    Show HN: PolliticalScience – Anonymous daily polls with 24-hour windows (polliticalscience.vote)
  • 14 33

    Fake Samsung 990 Pro passes basic checks but runs slower than a USB 2.0 drive (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 23 43

    Tomo: A statically typed, imperative language that cross-compiles to C [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 76 188

    EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair (www.epa.gov)
  • 598 784

    The Codex App (openai.com)
  • 54 131

    Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena (blog.google)
  • 377 215

    Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support (lists.linuxfromscratch.org)
  • 241 386

    Hacking Moltbook (www.wiz.io)
  • 50 103

    On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf] (www.weber.edu)
  • 117 139

    They lied to you. Building software is hard (blog.nordcraft.com)
  • 307 579

    Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years (www.millert.dev)
  • 385 128

    Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
  • 6 14

    Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility (www.phoronix.com)
  • 2 16

    Solvingn the Santa Claus concurrency puzzle with a model checker (wyounas.github.io)
  • 15 36

    Claude Code's renderer is more complex than a game engine (spader.zone)
  • 35 20

    My five stages of AI grief (dev-tester.com)
  • 8 29

    Valanza – my Unix way for weight tracking and anlysis (github.com)
  • 22 30

    Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS (stelvio.dev)
  • 13 26

    Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI (Swift FOSDEM 2026 Talk) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 56 160

    Kernighan on Programming
  • 64 51

    We asked 15k European devs about jobs, salaries, and AI [pdf] (static.germantechjobs.de)
  • 410 299

    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
  • 46 44

    Rural Americans are trying to hold back the tide of AI (www.wsj.com)
  • 3 15

    Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency (www.wsj.com)
  • 2 33

    A Legal Tool for Holding ICE Agents to Account, Hiding in Plain Sight (www.nytimes.com)
  • 27 109

    IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder (iso-coaster.com)
  • 323 213

    Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 82 61

    Greenland tensions harden Europe's push for energy independence (www.ft.com)
  • 43 163

    Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route (phys.org)
  • 158 370

    4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 7 29

    Google AI helped IDF drones with targeting in 2024 breaching its own policies (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 11 33

    Tim Cook sold Apple's soul (www.loopwerk.io)
  • 124 116

    Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage (github.com)
  • 27 268

    Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works (neutree.ai)
  • 141 116

    UK government launches fuel forecourt price API (www.gov.uk)
  • 86 91

    MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China (www.koi.ai)
  • 48 135

    Hypergrowth isn’t always easy (tailscale.com)
  • 197 79

    EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline (www.euronews.com)
  • 50 151

    My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml (anil.recoil.org)
  • 180 353

    Termux (github.com)
  • 22 20

    Applications where agents are first-class citizens (every.to)
  • 514 392

    Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft (www.theverge.com)
  • 280 204

    Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload (www.windowscentral.com)
  • 0 9

    High performance, open source RAFT clustered database: RooDB (github.com)
  • 0 12

    Editor of UploadVR on why he was fired (goodvr.substack.com)
  • 8 20

    Show HN: Sklad – Secure, offline-first snippet manager (Rust, Tauri v2) (github.com)
  • 21 32

    Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library (github.com)
  • 28 135

    Library of Juggling (libraryofjuggling.com)
  • 14 47

    Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece (reference-global.com)
  • 110 161

    EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push (spacenews.com)
  • 62 51

    What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted (news.theuncommonexecutive.com)
  • 3 9

    Attilio Berni plays the sub-contrabass saxophone [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 38 114

    Ratchets in software development (2021) (qntm.org)
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  • 2 47

    Rev up the viral factories (www.science.org)
  • 156 277

    Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce (www.wired.com)
  • 7 25

    Stop Using Pseudo-Types (f2r.github.io)
  • 75 198

    Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong (lapcatsoftware.com)
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  • 7 40

    Building a Telegram Bot with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Grammy (flashblaze.xyz)
  • 18 104

    Contracts in Nix (sraka.xyz)
  • 106 170

    ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face (arstechnica.com)
  • 38 35

    Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020) (tomverbeure.github.io)
  • 73 397

    Ian's Shoelace Site (www.fieggen.com)
  • 504 900

    Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors (notepad-plus-plus.org)
  • 73 136

    Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985) (apps.dtic.mil)
  • 4 19

    History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021) (web.archive.org)
  • 141 428

    Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed (xikipedia.org)
  • 334 343

    Two kinds of AI users are emerging (martinalderson.com)
  • 55 110

    Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018) (samuelhewitt.com)
  • 5 11

    From its name, to its hazy origins, to its drug interactions, there's a lot goin (www.atlasobscura.com)