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  • 0 8

    The analog computer museum's online library (www.analogmuseum.org)
  • RentFlow (YC S24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 113 102

    Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 3 14

    He Lost It at the Movies (www.theideasletter.org)
  • 37 44

    I manage teams without a single call (orchidfiles.com)
  • 82 24

    Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage (www.trychert.com)
  • 31 97

    Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It (rickcarlino.com)
  • 37 50

    The Cost of Safetyism (stevemagness.substack.com)
  • Hive (YC S14) is hiring sr back-end developers (CA/US remote OK) (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 19 81

    C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers (lemon.rip)
  • 34 161

    Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 83 106

    Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025) (www.tmj4.com)
  • 4 15

    Your Old Devices Depend on Dying Sensors. The Silicon Labs Incident Proves It (www.cambridge.org)
  • 54 67

    2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update (medcurity.com)
  • 2 158

    Pope Leo: opaque AI run by few firms risks "New Forms of Dehumanization" (variety.com)
  • 0 4

    A Photographer in Canada Found a Toad with Eyes in Its Mouth (www.thetravel.com)
  • 169 326

    Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few (religionnews.com)
  • 12 36

    The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails (buttondown.com)
  • 205 282

    Leave Me Behind (androidessence.com)
  • 447 472

    Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore (techcrunch.com)
  • 20 46

    you_can::turn_off_the_borrow_checker (docs.rs)
  • 60 79

    GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100 (github.com)
  • 118 107

    Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now (www.cnn.com)
  • 30 95

    IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry (futurumgroup.com)
  • 17 82

    AI errno(2) values (www.netmeister.org)
  • 343 779

    Magnifica Humanitas (www.vatican.va)
  • 2 44

    Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 13 54

    Show HN: Geomatic – a command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff (www.tinyvolt.com)
  • 34 102

    Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024) (dubroy.com)
  • 68 61

    Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017) (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 1 7

    Jen Can Never Leave (www.darthealth.com)
  • 11 31

    If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you (samkriss.substack.com)
  • 6 23

    Gorilla: A fast, scalable, in-memory time series database (2016) (blog.acolyer.org)
  • 133 137

    I love my Bluetooth keyboard (liquidbrain.net)
  • 126 273

    Jira Is Turing-Complete (seriot.ch)
  • 18 29

    Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms (danielmiessler.com)
  • 120 261

    Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • 338 420

    The Eternal Sloptember (geohot.github.io)
  • 106 110

    C constructs that still don't work in C++ (lospino.so)
  • 49 146

    Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU (phabricator.services.mozilla.com)
  • 130 155

    Building Pi with Pi (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • 37 159

    White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems (ohwr.org)
  • 10 48

    1k-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared for, and ritually buried (www.popsci.com)
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  • 21 61

    Selling SaaS in Germany (embedworkflow.com)
  • 9 37

    San Francisco immigration court shuts down after purge of judges (apnews.com)
  • 30 65

    Getting an old Computer online with Android Ethernet tethering (82mhz.net)
  • 103 459

    Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web (audiomass.co)
  • 108 212

    A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned (www.wired.com)
  • 14 67

    LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years (alphapixeldev.com)
  • 14 10

    Why Physical Reality Is a Collective Construction (mimetra.com)
  • 118 165

    CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices (www.cbp.gov)
  • 1 7

    Understanding WebAuthn credential protection policy (pilcrowonpaper.com)
  • 397 398

    Migrating from Go to Rust (corrode.dev)
  • 162 161

    Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu (ikesau.co)
  • 11 13

    Ask HN: Why didn't the C64 come with Simons' BASIC in the box from 1983 onward?
  • 248 252

    The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100 (scienceaim.com)
  • 27 49

    The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA (www.nature.com)
  • 11 103

    Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24 (www.clarityboss.com)
  • 2 14

    CBP updated its electronic device search directive in Jan 2026 (www.mayerbrown.com)
  • 4 22

    2009 Aftonbladet Israel Controversy (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 12 52

    Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume (www.stephendiehl.com)
  • 187 262

    Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend (www.hollandtech.net)
  • 2 48

    Don't know where your data is from? Bayesian modeling for unknown coordinates (christopherkrapu.com)
  • 4 12

    $100 CPU Shootout: Comparing the Ryzen 5 5500, Core i3-14100F, & Core i3-12100F (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 35 83

    Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust (tritium.legal)
  • 461 417

    Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs (epoch.ai)
  • 70 177

    Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox (www.firefox.com)
  • Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Front End Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 70 91

    FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop (www.phoronix.com)
  • 54 144

    Ruby for Good (ti.to)
  • 34 21

    No Juniors Today, No Seniors in 2031 (www.fbritoferreira.com)
  • 162 176

    Omarchy Is Not A Distro (abyss.fish)
  • 61 181

    Usborne 1980s Computer Books (usborne.com)
  • 22 64

    Curly braces: An evolution of Unix and C (thalia.dev)
  • 63 65

    When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court (www.scotusblog.com)
  • 157 173

    'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused (www.theguardian.com)
  • 2 209

    DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 4 13

    Predicting the 2026 Bristol Bay and Kodiak Salmon Runs (www.salmonfinder.com)
  • 234 158

    The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients (www.statnews.com)
  • 170 269

    Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation (arxiv.org)
  • 266 652

    DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost (esengine.github.io)
  • 28 88

    Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025) (opensource.microsoft.com)
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  • 80 151

    I keep bouncing off the Scheme language (www.sicpers.info)
  • 40 122

    Perceptual Image Codec: What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression (apple.github.io)
  • 120 89

    Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens (www.nationalgeographic.com)
  • 116 236

    Childhood Computing (susam.net)
  • 37 153

    Mastering Dyalog APL (mastering.dyalog.com)
  • 12 32

    Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo (github.com)
  • 6 29

    The Worlds Left to Conquer (ludic.mataroa.blog)
  • 2 86

    Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more (lwn.net)
  • 2 31

    All Lean Books and Where to Find Them (lakesare.brick.do)
  • 235 205

    Greg Brockman interview [video] (fs.blog)
  • 97 624

    I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph (www.dougmacdowell.com)
  • 19 117

    Silk: Open-source cooperative fiber scheduler (github.com)
  • 28 43

    Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization (aresluna.org)
  • 20 28

    The C++ Standard Library Has Been Walking Itself Back for Fifteen Years (hftuniversity.com)
  • 62 115

    Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 5 12

    Limerick (www.worldwidewords.org)
  • 28 144

    The C64 Dead Test Font (www.masswerk.at)
  • 24 44

    Neoclassical C++: segmented iterators revisited (boostedcpp.net)
  • 135 318

    Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out (www.adventuresinoss.com)
  • 93 113

    'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing (www.theverge.com)
  • 12 24

    Buildcraft Is a Compiler Problem (mitander.xyz)
  • 32 144

    Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 209 341

    Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier? (adaptivesupport.amd.com)
  • 39 52

    Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah (www.milwaukeemag.com)
  • 40 52

    API proposed by Chrome: Declarative partial updates (developer.chrome.com)
  • 124 133

    Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash (www.bbc.com)
  • 7 32

    Revised^7 Report on Scheme, Large: Procedural Fascicle Draft is now public (r7rs.org)
  • 23 20

    Show HN: Twixt – transform one word into another in four moves (twixt.games)
  • 3 30

    The day my ping took countermeasures (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 5 16

    When does learning from data work (math starting from basic probability) (prateekchandrajha.github.io)
  • 0 5

    Score by Collisions, Patch by Panic (blog.himanshuanand.com)
  • 176 300

    Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links (techcrunch.com)
  • 183 501

    Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date” (arstechnica.com)
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    NeuralNote (github.com)
  • 0 5

    Meshtastic em Portugal: a rede construída pelas pessoas (tech.neural-rage.com)
  • 17 126

    Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants (apnews.com)
  • 34 427

    Wake up! 16b (hellmood.111mb.de)
  • 1 9

    The Security of Ephemeral Pages (schalkneethling.com)
  • 53 169

    ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies (www.projectsaltbox.com)