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  • 0 5

    Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators (blog.prosody.im)
  • 0 11

    Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network (truthout.org)
  • 1 13

    America Has a Tungsten Problem (www.noleary.com)
  • 0 5

    How I've run major projects (2025) (www.benkuhn.net)
  • 93 102

    MIT Living Wage Calculator (livingwage.mit.edu)
  • 2 10

    An articulated archer automaton [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 92 143

    Another GitHub outage in the same day (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 2 11

    Pg-dev-container is a ready-to-run VS Code development container for PostgreSQL (github.com)
  • 61 64

    Luce: First Electric Ferrari. Designed by LoveFrom (www.ferrari.com)
  • 184 161

    Testing Ads in ChatGPT (openai.com)
  • 2 34

    This Whistle Fights Fascists (www.theverge.com)
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  • 52 59

    Eight more months of agents (crawshaw.io)
  • 1 20

    What's the Entropy of a Random Integer? (quomodocumque.wordpress.com)
  • 13 64

    Sandboxels (neal.fun)
  • 44 54

    Eddie Bauer, venerable outdoor apparel retailer, declares bankruptcy (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 6 33

    The Markets of Old London (2024) (spitalfieldslife.com)
  • 70 162

    Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months (www.theguardian.com)
  • 7 41

    Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)
  • 43 69

    From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media (www.thejournal.ie)
  • 6 72

    Information Is Beautiful (informationisbeautiful.net)
  • 1 49

    ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you (www.theregister.com)
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  • 164 116

    Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)
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  • 101 133

    Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months (www.rte.ie)
  • 74 45

    Why is Singapore no longer "cool"? (marginalrevolution.com)
  • 17 68

    The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 104 296

    Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com)
  • 94 267

    Why is the sky blue? (explainers.blog)
  • 12 18

    Safe Drinking Water Is a Basic Human Right That Texas Prisons Fail to Respect (truthout.org)
  • 3 258

    GitHub Is Down (github.com)
  • 366 421

    GitHub is down again (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 12 16

    Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
  • 68 35

    AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You' (www.macrumors.com)
  • 43 62

    Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 174 186

    Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 83

    Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally (discord.com)
  • 35 106

    Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)
  • 150 183

    AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It (hbr.org)
  • 19 133

    Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)
  • 14 59

    Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 51 127

    Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective (www.sciencedirect.com)
  • 633 620

    Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (www.theverge.com)
  • 95 57

    Can Ozempic Cure Addiction? (www.newyorker.com)
  • 55 231

    AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (www.reuters.com)
  • 27 60

    Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders (printableclassics.com)
  • 85 170

    UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org)
  • 47 168

    Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)
  • 89 54

    Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior (www.topgear.com)
  • 9 29

    Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-compliant auth implementation for Cloudflare Workers (github.com)
  • 15 103

    Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure (www.wirewiki.com)
  • 118 116

    Thought-Terminating Cliché (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 152 199

    Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT (www.theregister.com)
  • 12 66

    Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear (www.durham.ac.uk)
  • 18 31

    Is the author of pdf-lib okay? (github.com)
  • 33 164

    Offpunk 3.0 (ploum.net)
  • 133 331

    Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
  • 3 50

    Tessellation Kit (2016) (sciencevsmagic.net)
  • 59 44

    Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017) (blog.cleancoder.com)
  • 7 17

    The Cost of a Function Call (lemire.me)
  • 0 10

    Werewolf Vflex Adapter Review (hagensieker.com)
  • 0 12

    Lessons from BF-Tree: Building a Concurrent Larger-Than-Memory Index in Rust (zhihanz.github.io)
  • 164 246

    Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
  • 48 32

    Americans want heat pumps – but high electricity prices may get in the way (theconversation.com)
  • 75 92

    A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting upside down (www.wsj.com)
  • 20 113

    LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation (github.com)
  • 337 330

    Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC (harshanu.space)
  • 167 234

    TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan (apnews.com)
  • 11 28

    Cooking with glasses (macwright.com)
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  • 21 82

    Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing (sir68k.re)
  • 5 46

    NanoClaw now supports Claude's Agent Swarms in containers (twitter.com)
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  • 87 64

    In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks (www.bbc.com)
  • 3 15

    Self-referential functions and the design of options (2014) (commandcenter.blogspot.com)
  • 183 559

    Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
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  • 37 157

    Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)
  • 64 178

    Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
  • 97 153

    Stop generating, start thinking (localghost.dev)
  • 14 38

    Microsoft Outlook thinks Microsoft Azure emails are spam (twitter.com)
  • 11 15

    Tenure Is a Total Scam (2023) (www.betonit.ai)
  • 47 123

    Quartz crystals (www.pa3fwm.nl)
  • 2 23

    The Muppets are horny and weird again (just like Jim Henson intended) (www.polygon.com)
  • 332 483

    AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (www.blundergoat.com)
  • 4 23

    Ktkit: A Kotlin toolkit for building server applications with Ktor (github.com)
  • Toma (YC W24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 800 233

    Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
  • 37 109

    Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2 (mattst88.com)
  • 201 208

    Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025) (arxiv.org)
  • 187 268

    More Mac malware from Google search (eclecticlight.co)
  • 0 11

    SpiceDB Query Planner (authzed.com)
  • 44 171

    Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler (github.com)
  • 14 54

    Apple Container 0.9.0 (github.com)
  • 56 139

    Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly (www.voidtools.com)
  • 8 35

    Tech Independence (sive.rs)
  • 3 21

    International Image Interoperability Framework (iiif.io)
  • 113 217

    A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck (gtaforums.com)
  • 1 77

    The 'Little red dots' observed by Webb were direct-collapse black holes (phys.org)
  • 64 56

    Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage (www.expressnews.com)
  • 69 79

    Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop (alfioemanuele.io)
  • 18 38

    Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI? (marginalrevolution.com)
  • 3 14

    A Community-Curated Nancy Drew Collection (blog.openlibrary.org)
  • 5 9

    Show HN: The biggest achievement of my life so far (github.com)
  • 222 220

    Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models (www.latent.space)
  • 4 31

    Attention Media ≠ Social Media (susam.net)
  • 4 4

    Show HN: Why it's hard to know which deployment caused a production incident (github.com)
  • 71 163

    Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens (nullcathedral.com)
  • 53 137

    The Little Bool of Doom (2025) (blog.svgames.pl)
  • 41 73

    Stop Using Face ID (www.pcmag.com)
  • 102 293

    Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books (underhillgame.com)
  • 52 43

    Man, 83, tricked by scammers, gets 21 years to life for killing Uber driver (www.nytimes.com)
  • 51 182

    Bun v1.3.9 (bun.com)
  • 5 68

    Formally Verifying PBS Kids with Lean4 (www.shadaj.me)
  • 240 167

    The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster (insideevs.com)
  • 76 172

    Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 7 182

    Vouch (github.com)
  • 59 328

    I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color (blog.otterstack.com)
  • 110 210

    Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition (github.com)
  • 184 305

    Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • 75 136

    Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019) (habr.com)
  • 3 6

    Show HN: Kekkai – Interactive security triage in the terminal
  • 67 87

    Five disciplines discovered the same math independently (freethemath.org)
  • 96 77

    Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy (www.aaronmate.net)
  • 0 8

    How to squeeze a lexicon (2001) [pdf] (marcinciura.wordpress.com)
  • 23 35

    The Contagious Taste of Cancer (www.historytoday.com)
  • 85 197

    Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing (blog.hofstede.it)
  • 315 383

    I am happier writing code by hand (www.abhinavomprakash.com)
  • 24 65

    Washington imposes 'terrorist-grade sanctions' on Francesca Albanese, ICC judges (thecradle.co)
  • 137 293

    GitHub Agentic Workflows (github.github.io)
  • 43 157

    RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001) (datatracker.ietf.org)
  • 310 444

    AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it (siddhantkhare.com)
  • 16 64

    Kolakoski Sequence (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 66 56

    Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 2 7

    Show HN: I built a festival tracker that matches lineups to your music library (apps.apple.com)
  • 67 205

    Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it (derekyan.com)
  • 20 96

    Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs (cinegraphs.ai)
  • 6 49

    A11yJSON: A standard to describe the accessibility of the physical world (sozialhelden.github.io)
  • 5 41

    Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs (arcan-fe.com)
  • 70 194

    Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin (hyperallergic.com)
  • 252 260

    Why E cores make Apple silicon fast (eclecticlight.co)
  • 44 277

    Dave Farber has died (lists.nanog.org)
  • 11 65

    The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025) (ejpe.org)
  • 329 391

    Slop Terrifies Me (ezhik.jp)
  • 5 130

    Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser (rabbitear.org)
  • 4 89

    Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 (github.com)
  • 5 49

    In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests (www.abc.net.au)
  • 62 143

    Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox (github.com)
  • 0 16

    Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 5 24

    LLMs as Language Compilers: Lessons from Fortran for the Future of Coding (cyber-omelette.com)
  • 47 405

    DoNotNotify is now Open Source (donotnotify.com)
  • 4 38

    Moroccan sardine prices to stabilise via new measures: officials (maghrebi.org)
  • 175 103

    Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999) (www.rogerebert.com)
  • 10 9

    Turning books to courses using AI (www.book2course.org)
  • 29 58

    uLauncher (github.com)
  • 2 16

    The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
  • 57 139

    LineageOS 23.2 (lineageos.org)
  • 486 310

    OpenClaw is changing my life (reorx.com)
  • 109 274

    The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA (www.theguardian.com)
  • 11 88

    The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB (aosabook.org)
  • 40 87

    Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010) (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  • 44 98

    Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers (techcrunch.com)
  • 92 84

    Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse (thatjoescott.com)
  • 34 102

    Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users (www.kenklippenstein.com)
  • 108 52

    Total surface area required to fuel the world with solar (2009) (landartgenerator.org)
  • 3 13

    Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents (github.com)
  • 22 8

    Do you have a mathematically attractive face? (www.doimog.com)
  • 90 264

    Beyond agentic coding (haskellforall.com)
  • 452 1041

    Vouch (github.com)
  • 10 28

    IBM Beam Spring: The Ultimate Retro Keyboard (www.rs-online.com)
  • 150 323

    Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory (github.com)
  • 4 21

    Show HN: Craftplan – Elixir-based micro-ERP for small-scale manufacturers (puemos.github.io)
  • 3 17

    Eigen: Building a Workspace (reindernijhoff.net)
  • 96 126

    The silent death of good code (amit.prasad.me)