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  • 2 14

    GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor (www.gnu.org.ua)
  • 6 8

    Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript
  • 2 11

    Sony Jumbotron Image Control System (1998) [pdf] (pro.sony)
  • 4 25

    Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents (videocardz.com)
  • 1 33

    Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser (microgpt.boratto.ca)
  • 0 21

    With Apple: Fortify your app: Essential strategies to strengthen security (developer.apple.com)
  • 15 66

    Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 (modern-css.com)
  • 2 29

    Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI (github.com)
  • 52 76

    State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 3 11

    LEDs Enter the Nanoscale, But efficiency hurdles challenge the smallest LEDs yet (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 15 46

    Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door (knock-knock.net)
  • 2 7

    Soviet Tektronix 7000-series oscilloscope copies (martin-jones.com)
  • 0 13

    Scientists observe a 300M-year-old brain rhythm in several animal species (phys.org)
  • 77 83

    Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations (arstechnica.com)
  • 15 51

    Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research (arxiv.org)
  • 0 8

    The Spy Who Found T. Rex (nautil.us)
  • 75 203

    Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals (theintercept.com)
  • 9 86

    Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL (erichlof.github.io)
  • 18 51

    1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists (github.com)
  • 54 160

    Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court (www.heise.de)
  • 36 130

    Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format (gwern.net)
  • 60 217

    LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop (github.com)
  • 383 538

    EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear (environment.ec.europa.eu)
  • 6 43

    The seam through the center of things (usefulfictions.substack.com)
  • 24 16

    Under the current DTC model, investors do not directly own their securities (www.foxnews.com)
  • 23 244

    Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died (www.videogameschronicle.com)
  • 40 60

    An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop (lithub.com)
  • 15 44

    Inner-Platform Effect (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 5 32

    Build Gaussian Splat Experiences with SuperSplat Studio (blog.playcanvas.com)
  • 153 77

    AI is going to kill app subscriptions (nichehunt.app)
  • 17 19

    The Dark Side of the Enlightenment (www.newstatesman.com)
  • 77 62

    Kimi Claw (www.kimi.com)
  • 12 129

    How Is Data Stored? (www.makingsoftware.com)
  • 10 17

    Show HN: Perlin Noise Terminal Animation in Rust (60 FPS, Truecolor) (github.com)
  • 7 52

    A Pokémon of a Different Color (matthew.verive.me)
  • 5 58

    RynnBrain (github.com)
  • 41 89

    Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986) (github.com)
  • 16 70

    DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023) (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
  • 416 596

    Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State (greenwald.substack.com)
  • 284 561

    I Fixed Windows Native Development (marler8997.github.io)
  • 0 51

    Constraint Propagation for Fun (eli.li)
  • 4 56

    Show HN: Copy-and-patch compiler for hard real-time Python (github.com)
  • 24 40

    Inspecting the Source of Go Modules (words.filippo.io)
  • 75 58

    SCM as a database for the code (gist.github.com)
  • 62 145

    Two different tricks for fast LLM inference (www.seangoedecke.com)
  • 18 109

    A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (stargazingbuddy.com)
  • 55 49

    No Coding Before 10am (michaelxbloch.substack.com)
  • 2 56

    Seeing Theory (seeing-theory.brown.edu)
  • 114 402

    Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library (oat.ink)
  • 7 29

    A Visual Source for Shakespeare's 'Tempest' (profadamroberts.substack.com)
  • 108 196

    Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface (kotaku.com)
  • 0 4

    Show HN: DocSync – Git hooks that block commits with stale documentation (github.com)
  • 0 8

    Frost Bros, Rope Makers and Yarn Spinners (spitalfieldslife.com)
  • 87 107

    Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF (zamoshi.substack.com)
  • 73 304

    Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved (flashpointarchive.org)
  • 11 89

    Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction (note.com)
  • 6 14

    I gave my AI drugs (github.com)
  • 13 85

    Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (2012) (caucascapades.wordpress.com)
  • 0 17

    Linear Representations and Superposition (ternarysearch.blogspot.com)
  • 9 30

    MDST Engine: run GGUF models in the browser with WebGPU/WASM (mdst.app)
  • 46 35

    I'm building a clarity-first language (compiles to C++) (github.com)
  • 28 40

    OpenAI Has Murdered Orion (old.reddit.com)
  • 2 24

    U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2 19

    Connes Embedding Problem (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 8 8

    Git with WD-40 Applied (github.com)
  • 154 852

    I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers (k7r.eu)
  • 105 316

    NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed (newpipe.net)
  • 1 23

    The Perfect Device (sometimes.digital)
  • 52 58

    Can my SPARC server host a website? (rup12.net)
  • 60 114

    Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone (github.com)
  • 16 38

    Show HN: MOL – A programming language where pipelines trace themselves (github.com)
  • 2 6

    Show HN: Auto-Layouting ASCII Diagrams (github.com)
  • 29 95

    Flood Fill vs. The Magic Circle (www.robinsloan.com)
  • 34 211

    Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database (github.com)
  • 46 294

    Instagram's URL Blackhole (medium.com)
  • 3 18

    Show HN: A reputation index from mitchellh's Vouch trust files (vouchbook.dev)
  • 79 157

    5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools (www.ncl.ac.uk)
  • 50 116

    The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming (martinfowler.com)
  • 0 12

    SkyRL brings Tinker to your GPUs (2025) (novasky-ai.notion.site)
  • 12 15

    Show HN: GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs (chromewebstore.google.com)
  • 17 31

    15× vs. ~1.37×: Recalculating GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark on SWE-Bench Pro (twitter.com)
  • 7 50

    Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications (blog.sao.dev)
  • 321 391

    Breaking the spell of vibe coding (www.fast.ai)
  • 0 9

    Show HN: Bubble sort on a Turing machine (github.com)
  • 242 148

    How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? (www.usatoday.com)
  • 11 23

    Show HN: Rover – Embeddable web agent (www.rtrvr.ai)
  • 3 64

    Launching Interop 2026 (hacks.mozilla.org)
  • 250 361

    IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption (fortune.com)
  • 1 35

    IBM triples US entry-level hiring for roles AI was predicted to replace (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 0 15

    Show HN: Open Notes – Community Notes-style context for Discord (opennotes.ai)
  • 46 74

    Discord: A case study in performance optimization (newsletter.fullstack.zip)
  • 0 8

    Show HN: A playable toy model of frontier AI lab capex decisions (darios-dilemma.up.railway.app)
  • 300 235

    OpenAI should build Slack (www.latent.space)
  • 14 64

    Unicorn Jelly (unicornjelly.com)
  • 0 16

    Retrieve and Rerank: Personalized search without leaving Postgres (www.paradedb.com)
  • 9 70

    Dune II written in HTML5/JS (github.com)
  • 9 30

    Safe YOLO Mode: Running LLM agents in vms with Libvirt and Virsh (www.metachris.dev)
  • 18 42

    Dutch House of Representatives advances controversial 36% tax law (www.tradingview.com)
  • 13 43

    US Military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations (www.reuters.com)
  • 171 217

    You can't trust the internet anymore (nicole.express)
  • 59 299

    Descent, ported to the web (mrdoob.github.io)
  • 61 132

    Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle (simonwillison.net)
  • 60 138

    Windows NT/OS2 Design Workbook (computernewb.com)
  • 2 16

    Gamma Function: Visualization for Complex Arguments (vanilla-gamma-graph.netlify.app)
  • 324 1088

    uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts (github.com)
  • 354 543

    News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns (www.niemanlab.org)
  • 51 52

    Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care (www.npr.org)
  • 44 85

    A header-only C vector database library (github.com)
  • 1 79

    Fun with Algebraic Effects – From Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 64 153

    Amsterdam Compiler Kit (github.com)
  • 19 87

    Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar (github.com)
  • 134 146

    Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 89 195

    Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?
  • 70 40

    Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism (github.com)
  • 113 101

    A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016) (www.microscopy-uk.org.uk)
  • 94 178

    7zip.com Is Serving Malware (www.malwarebytes.com)
  • 0 14

    Sound and Practical Points-To Analysis for Incomplete C Programs [pdf] (www.sjalander.com)
  • 178 409

    Vim 9.2 (www.vim.org)
  • 177 283

    Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say (arstechnica.com)
  • 243 581

    My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker (aimilios.bearblog.dev)
  • 158 51

    Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M (www.nytimes.com)
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  • 8 128

    Shades of Halftone (blog.maximeheckel.com)
  • 25 51

    Epstein's Ugly World of Science (homunculusmusic.wordpress.com)
  • 29 36

    Golf game built last night with Claude Code, Svelte and ThreeJS (www.the-golf-is-golfing.com)
  • 9 40

    What color are your bits? (2004) (ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)
  • 29 87

    Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using dart frog toxin, UK says (www.bbc.com)
  • 68 225

    Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB (github.com)
  • 135 572

    Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you (ooh.directory)
  • 80 107

    How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020) (blog.yossarian.net)
  • 41 65

    Code Storage by the Pierre Computer Company (code.storage)
  • 16 61

    The mathematics of compression in database systems (www.bitsxpages.com)
  • 81 56

    4chan for Clankers (www.4claw.org)
  • 31 108

    The Sling: Humanity's Forgotten Power (www.slinging.org)
  • 6 546

    Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story (infosec.exchange)
  • 12 12

    Show HN: Prompt to Planet, generate procedural 3D planets from text (prompttoplanet.n4ze3m.com)
  • 7 24

    Can you rewire your brain? (aeon.co)
  • 150 208

    YouTube as Storage (github.com)
  • 15 88

    The World of Harmonics – With a Coffee, Guitar and Synth (mynoise.net)
  • 281 363

    Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed (ziglang.org)
  • 7 129

    How the Little Guy Moved (animationobsessive.substack.com)
  • 153 158

    The three year myth (green.spacedino.net)
  • Cogram (YC W22) – Hiring former technical founders (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 7 28

    Do Not Outsource Judgement (dncrews.com)
  • 332 631

    Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube (cordcuttersnews.com)
  • 3 6

    Marginal Revolution (sebastiangaliani.substack.com)
  • 32 16

    Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
  • 34 238

    Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder (www.pcgamer.com)
  • 48 166

    Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker (internals-for-interns.com)
  • 42 226

    Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL (github.com)
  • 37 161

    Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025 (www.backblaze.com)
  • 236 706

    Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986 (www.wallstreetraider.com)
  • 19 48

    Stanford Review: Is YC for Cowards? (stanfordreview.org)
  • 1 49

    Adventures in Neural Rendering (interplayoflight.wordpress.com)
  • 69 151

    NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry (npmx.dev)
  • 98 105

    What dating apps are optimizing (phys.org)
  • 0 23

    Friendship maintenance (www.avabear.xyz)
  • 599 724

    An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened (theshamblog.com)
  • 4 21

    The Blurred Line Between Video Calling and Live Streaming Software (www.red5.net)
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  • 61 324

    Gradient.horse (gradient.horse)
  • 219 342

    Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2 118

    The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement (simonwillison.net)