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  • 0 3

    Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) (blog.simbastack.com)
  • 1 10

    Michael Keating has died at the age of 79 (1947–2026) (www.bigfinish.com)
  • 5 18

    Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can (www.osnews.com)
  • 0 7

    The Palomar Lights (comics.phillyharper.com)
  • 4 49

    A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide (www.wired.com)
  • 50 90

    Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch (www.0xsid.com)
  • 14 25

    Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence from Polymarket (papers.ssrn.com)
  • 54 110

    US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
  • 25 25

    Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40 (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 187 336

    AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale (axelk.ee)
  • 253 232

    Hating AI Is Good (www.thehandbasket.co)
  • 2 34

    FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation (fatgid.io)
  • 0 32

    IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 38 89

    Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt (gist.github.com)
  • 13 52

    What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 22 90

    Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 93 118

    Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades (www.newscientist.com)
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  • 72 80

    Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars (www.guitarworld.com)
  • 245 484

    Flipper One – we need your help (blog.flipper.net)
  • 67 153

    Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines (blog.changs.co.uk)
  • 117 201

    No Slop Grenade (noslopgrenade.com)
  • 314 372

    Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results (blog.google)
  • 5 22

    Show HN: The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian (funes.world)
  • 60 124

    Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK (github.com)
  • 1 17

    Numexpr: Fast numerical array expression evaluator for Python, NumPy, Pandas (github.com)
  • 12 39

    The famous O3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work (www.seangoedecke.com)
  • 19 45

    The Interview That Ships to Production: replacing whiteboards with pull requests (www.angellist.com)
  • Typewise (YC S22) Is Hiring an AI Growth Engineer (Zurich or Remote) (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 123 192

    Vivaldi 8.0 (vivaldi.com)
  • 26 70

    All the bugs they found (andreapivetta.com)
  • 27 90

    Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta) (silentshark.app)
  • 13 58

    Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++ (ryanjk5.github.io)
  • 46 93

    Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water (www.waterdictionary.net)
  • 19 115

    New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output (developers.redhat.com)
  • 3 134

    OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday (www.cnbc.com)
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  • 54 154

    Haskell Foundation 2026 Update (discourse.haskell.org)
  • 11 49

    A Markdown-based test suite (blogsystem5.substack.com)
  • 88 79

    What is a Demand Coop (cahootzcoops.com)
  • 38 229

    The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
  • 33 106

    Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP (yes-we-scan.app)
  • 161 219

    Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI (techcrunch.com)
  • 95 137

    Your Most Improbable Life (kevinkelly.substack.com)
  • 83 357

    Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com)
  • 0 21

    Deep – CLI/REPL for generating and iterating on codebases using DeepSeek (github.com)
  • 289 258

    Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 (twitter.com)
  • 3 11

    The OEIS meta sequence and subway stations (www.jeremykun.com)
  • 71 308

    DOS Zone (dos.zone)
  • 37 83

    Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos (github.com)
  • 1 19

    Long-term editing of brain circuits using an engineered electrical synapse (www.nature.com)
  • 21 41

    GitHub's take on age assurance for developers (github.blog)
  • 138 173

    Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad' (www.openculture.com)
  • 409 561

    Google Declaring War on the Web (tante.cc)
  • 105 115

    Starship's Twelfth Flight Test (www.spacex.com)
  • 69 217

    Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects (legiscan.com)
  • 7 21

    Show HN: Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents (github.com)
  • 3 23

    In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google Declared War on the Remnants of the Web (tldr.nettime.org)
  • 6 48

    PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play (vmax.ai)
  • 141 282

    Declining America (www.tbray.org)
  • 305 397

    SpaceX S-1 (www.sec.gov)
  • 26 37

    SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 0 8

    Panelook (www.panelook.com)
  • 172 198

    Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing (www.science.org)
  • 404 955

    GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 1 41

    LoRA and Weight Decay (2023) (irhum.github.io)
  • 942 1294

    An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)
  • 154 468

    Flipper One Tech Specs (docs.flipper.net)
  • 49 143

    Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal) (nodejs.org)
  • 109 187

    Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025) (www.usni.org)
  • 148 207

    Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling (www.beyondplastics.org)
  • 32 98

    Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year (www.reuters.com)
  • 49 145

    Why is Inkwell stuck in review (www.manton.org)
  • 15 19

    Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90% (newatlas.com)
  • 29 136

    Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 105 95

    Why I don’t vibe code (jacobharr.is)
  • 94 464

    How fast is N tokens per second really? (mikeveerman.github.io)
  • 99 167

    Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
  • 76 55

    Standard Chartered CEO walks back comment about 'lower-value human capital' (www.wsj.com)
  • 107 117

    After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban (www.404media.co)
  • 14 62

    Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model (github.com)
  • 322 145

    OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (www.wsj.com)
  • 245 484

    Apparently Google hates us now (twitter.com)
  • 18 39

    Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC (appleinsider.com)
  • 28 44

    Handling the great code forge fragmentation (www.alexselimov.com)
  • 30 134

    Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops (reubenbrooks.dev)
  • 18 96

    Stable Audio 3 (arxiv.org)
  • 9 159

    SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014) (pvk.ca)
  • 6 37

    Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend (github.com)
  • 22 31

    Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000) (www.edn.com)
  • 78 44

    Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel (lithub.com)
  • 18 91

    Testing distributed systems with AI agents (github.com)
  • 491 745

    Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit (www.fire.org)
  • 0 64

    Autoregressive next token prediction and KV Cache in transformers (medium.com)
  • 102 47

    560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits (bmjgroup.com)
  • 54 92

    America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen (danieltan.weblog.lol)
  • 8 87

    When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (2024) (github.com)
  • 746 928

    Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment (www.lesnumeriques.com)
  • 445 1039

    Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE (www.alqst.org)
  • 150 400

    Saying goodbye to asm.js (spidermonkey.dev)
  • 219 269

    Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order (torrentfreak.com)
  • 207 329

    Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back (www.bbc.com)
  • 374 365

    College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 190 190

    Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 108 80

    No way to parse integers in C (2022) (blog.habets.se)
  • 279 678

    Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier (qwen.ai)
  • 170 432

    Map of Metal (mapofmetal.com)
  • 13 52

    The Invention of Buses (worksinprogress.co)
  • 249 438

    Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension (blog.railway.com)
  • 73 51

    A new book about humanity's obsession with gold (www.economist.com)
  • 1 10

    Show HN: Typeset sitelen pona and copy a PNG (for toki pona speakers) (sitelen.vercel.app)
  • 186 163

    Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) (zfhuang99.github.io)
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  • 5 7

    Enabling Resizable Bar on RTX 3080 Vbios via GitHub (github.com)
  • 3 50

    Simulated Evolution on the PICO-8 (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
  • 10 54

    CopyFail: From Pod to Host (xint.io)
  • 80 74

    There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going (kottke.org)
  • 47 168

    Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy (news.infomaniak.com)
  • 48 65

    RISC-V and Floating-Point (fprox.substack.com)
  • 164 354

    Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (www.bbc.com)
  • 63 87

    Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates (www.macobserver.com)
  • 678 488

    Everything in C is undefined behavior (blog.habets.se)
  • 14 33

    Nostalgic Kits Central (2024) (www.nostalgickitscentral.com)
  • 2 29

    Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows (andlukyane.com)
  • 5 38

    Skills in Web, iOS, and Android (x.ai)
  • 110 115

    India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark (www.hindustantimes.com)
  • 6 262

    GitHub Compromised (twitter.com)
  • 27 87

    In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident (producelikeapro.com)
  • 6 25

    Evals will break (wanglun1996.github.io)
  • 27 66

    HTML-in-Canvas Demos (github.com)
  • 5 41

    Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (imaginaryinstruments.org)
  • 81 371

    FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (fivethirtyeightindex.com)
  • 14 17

    Microsoft is 1.84 Peters, Google is 0.66. What's the Peter unit? (github.com)
  • 23 93

    The Mercury logic programming system (github.com)
  • 3 92

    Railway Is Having a Major Outage (status.railway.com)
  • 199 393

    Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 (developers.googleblog.com)
  • 39 52

    El Niño is coming. The last time ocean temp. looked like this, millions died (respublicamgz.substack.com)
  • 350 552

    Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] (status.railway.com)
  • 334 621

    GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories (twitter.com)
  • 3 32

    Unusual uses of OEIS sequences on GitHub (www.jeremykun.com)