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    PCB Tracer (pcbtracer.com)
  • 0 3

    Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions (github.com)
  • 18 45

    A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation (www.cnn.com)
  • 10 62

    "Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything" (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 3 9

    DOS Memory Management (www.os2museum.com)
  • 88 148

    Leaving Google has actively improved my life (pseudosingleton.com)
  • 25 46

    The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock (www.origami-robotics.com)
  • 34 130

    Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died (www.beyondthejoke.co.uk)
  • 10 46

    Let's discuss sandbox isolation (www.shayon.dev)
  • 6 29

    We Built Secure, Scalable Agent Sandbox Infrastructure (browser-use.com)
  • 34 66

    Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE (forum.lazarus.freepascal.org)
  • 2 16

    Don't Cite Unsold eBay Listing Prices (blog.danlew.net)
  • 3 39

    Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts (www.redblobgames.com)
  • 4 13

    Your device identity is probably a liability (smallstep.com)
  • 0 4

    Show HN: SignalCend – API that resolves conflicting IoT device state in 47ms (signalcend.com)
  • Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 123 289

    Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died (www.dignitymemorial.com)
  • 1 22

    Theory of Constraints: "Blue Light" creating capacity for nothing (2007) (theoryofconstraints.blogspot.com)
  • 67 88

    Block spent $68M on a company offsite in September 2025 (twitter.com)
  • 47 65

    Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM (blog.skypilot.co)
  • 5 20

    What was the first life restoration of a sauropod? (svpow.com)
  • 27 41

    Show HN: Unfucked – version every change between commits - local-first (www.unfudged.io)
  • 32 73

    Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification (github.com)
  • 38 91

    Allocating on the Stack (go.dev)
  • 14 32

    Tech people keep falling for the same scam (explodingcomma.com)
  • 127 124

    NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 0 5

    NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs (arstechnica.com)
  • 23 59

    Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory (www.oranlooney.com)
  • 30 110

    Vibe coded Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users (www.theregister.com)
  • 107 116

    A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification (www.pcgamer.com)
  • 1 6

    ChatGPT Health performance in a structured test of triage recommendations (www.nature.com)
  • 1 8

    USRP X420 10MHz – 20 GHz SDR (www.ni.com)
  • 191 224

    The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic (www.understandingai.org)
  • 80 125

    We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM (www.mendral.com)
  • 134 178

    ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study (www.theguardian.com)
  • 16 85

    Sprites on the Web (www.joshwcomeau.com)
  • 40 73

    Show HN: Badge that shows how well your codebase fits in an LLM's context window (github.com)
  • 63 386

    Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices (www.eff.org)
  • 280 158

    OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
  • 1 60

    OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank) (www.reuters.com)
  • 6 63

    How to Allocate Memory (geocar.sdf1.org)
  • 107 313

    A better streams API is possible for JavaScript (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 1 49

    Sam Altman: We raised a $110B round from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank (twitter.com)
  • 160 325

    Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers (claude.com)
  • 49 39

    Generative AI use and depressive symptoms among US adults (jamanetwork.com)
  • 44 154

    Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser (retrotick.com)
  • 99 80

    PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI (postmarketos.org)
  • 20 103

    The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game (arstechnica.com)
  • 21 42

    US Customs destroys rare floppy disk (twitter.com)
  • 33 166

    Breaking Free (www.forbrukerradet.no)
  • 53 55

    Lawmakers say US Military used laser to take down Border Protection drone in TX (apnews.com)
  • 29 70

    Reading English from 1000 Ad (lewiscampbell.tech)
  • 1 6

    Quantitativity on the number of rational points in the Mordell conjecture (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 8 61

    The complete Manic Miner disassembly (skoolkit.ca)
  • 168 235

    Can you reverse engineer our neural network? (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 143 96

    Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
  • 104 149

    F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026 (f-droid.org)
  • 6 10

    Open Source Handheld Linux Device [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 20 49

    Compact disc story (1998) (www.researchgate.net)
  • 83 86

    Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case (www.bbc.com)
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  • 22 184

    An interactive intro to quadtrees (growingswe.com)
  • 6 67

    Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style (dionisiydk.blogspot.com)
  • 2 10

    Show HN: AS Level Chemistry Lab Simulator (github.com)
  • 9 10

    Firefox's AI Kill Switch Is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem (www.quippd.com)
  • Ubicloud (YC W24): Software Engineer – $95-$250K in Turkey, Netherlands, CA (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 51 100

    Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code (antirez.com)
  • 140 244

    The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)
  • 15 58

    The Origins of Agar (www.asimov.press)
  • 5 17

    Intel Foundry boss leaves for Qualcomm (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 78 72

    Julia: Performance Tips (docs.julialang.org)
  • 78 108

    Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993 (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
  • 51 104

    I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye (paultendo.github.io)
  • 30 117

    80386 Protection (nand2mario.github.io)
  • 0 3

    Demystifying Debuggers, Part 5: Instruction-Level Stepping and Breakpoints (www.dgtlgrove.com)
  • 2 8

    Bending the CLOS Mop for Java-Style Single Dispatch (atgreen.github.io)
  • 29 103

    Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration (github.com)
  • 38 55

    Move tests to closed source repo (github.com)
  • 175 503

    The Hunt for Dark Breakfast (moultano.wordpress.com)
  • 137 174

    A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives (bookriot.com)
  • 132 269

    Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic (www.nytimes.com)
  • 1 7

    Interval Research Corporation: a 1990s PARC without a Xerox (2022) (instadeq.com)
  • 66 39

    Two insider cases we've recently closed (news.kalshi.com)
  • 2 23

    Cartographic Symbologies: The Art and Design of Expression in Historic Maps (exhibits.stanford.edu)
  • LiteLLM (YC W23): Founding Reliability Engineer – $200K-$270K and 0.5-1.0% equity (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 4 25

    Hacking Tauri for Designer (yujonglee.com)
  • 58 143

    Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries (www.dropsitenews.com)
  • 8 37

    Cronboard: A terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs (github.com)
  • 23 100

    An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published (www.openculture.com)
  • 126 150

    Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
  • 3 78

    Anthropic says company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands (apnews.com)
  • 14 96

    Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator (internals-for-interns.com)
  • 1481 2794

    Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War (www.anthropic.com)
  • 1 62

    Hydroph0bia – fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware from Insyde H2O (2025) (coderush.me)
  • 237 403

    What does " 2>&1 " mean? (stackoverflow.com)
  • 298 256

    Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage (www.idc.com)
  • 2 12

    The Ur-"Conspiracy": History of a Pseudoconcept (www.theparisreview.org)
  • 1014 871

    Layoffs at Block (twitter.com)
  • 85 140

    America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice (garymarcus.substack.com)
  • 14 43

    Lidar waveforms are worth 40x128x33 words (openaccess.thecvf.com)
  • 89 154

    Museum of Plugs and Sockets (plugsocketmuseum.nl)
  • 12 58

    Kansas invalidates driver's licenses, birth certificates for ~1k transgender (www.reuters.com)
  • 219 575

    What Claude Code chooses (amplifying.ai)
  • 88 223

    OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025) (osmand.net)
  • 22 86

    The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge (www.combinatorprize.org)
  • 12 45

    Show HN: Rev-dep – 20x faster knip.dev alternative build in Go (github.com)
  • 75 127

    Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor (www.usecardboard.com)
  • 62 113

    Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal (github.com)
  • 72 166

    He saw an abandoned trailer, then uncovered a surveillance network (calmatters.org)
  • 59 114

    iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information (www.apple.com)
  • 22 45

    Show HN: Beehive – Multi-Workspace Agent Orchestrator (storozhenko98.github.io)
  • 12 42

    Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents (github.com)
  • 129 166

    Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." (twitter.com)
  • 201 297

    I baked a pie every day for a year (www.theguardian.com)
  • 8 75

    Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra (www.guidelabs.ai)
  • 74 77

    SynthID: A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI (deepmind.google)
  • 161 137

    Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance (hackersmacker.org)
  • 104 141

    Google Street View in 2026 (tech.marksblogg.com)
  • 2 30

    America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 32 65

    The Pentagon Feuding with an AI Company Is a Bad Sign (foreignpolicy.com)
  • 100 198

    Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf] (cs.uml.edu)
  • 411 393

    Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? (read.technically.dev)
  • 24 18

    Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades? (boilingsteam.com)
  • Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Interns to Make Housing Affordable (www.workatastartup.com)
  • 156 246

    Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers (endowment.dev)
  • 17 20

    How AI skills are quietly automating my workday (medium.com)
  • 79 65

    Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI (www.bhusalmanish.com.np)
  • 565 591

    Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model (blog.google)
  • 1 11

    Apple Launch on Monday (twitter.com)
  • 370 184

    This time is different (shkspr.mobi)
  • 176 402

    AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (www.ndss-symposium.org)
  • 6 34

    Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents (machinelearning.apple.com)
  • 132 208

    In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% (bsky.app)
  • 70 211

    BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)
  • 9 45

    Some silly Z3 scripts I wrote (www.hillelwayne.com)
  • 2 17

    Kansas Sends Letters to Trans People Demanding the Surrender of Drivers Licenses (www.erininthemorning.com)
  • 50 132

    Story of XZ Backdoor [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 68 121

    Just-bash: Bash for Agents (github.com)
  • 95 75

    Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you' (www.theverge.com)
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  • 36 42

    Those who can, teach history (www.historytoday.com)
  • 72 43

    What podcasts are you listening to?
  • 3 551

    Anthropic ditches its core safety promise (www.cnn.com)
  • 107 64

    Number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high ahead of crackdown (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 89 76

    Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications (www.scripps.edu)
  • 49 34

    Nihilistic Violent Extremism (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 47 63

    Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS) (github.com)
  • 95 92

    Technical Excellence Is Not Enough (raccoon.land)
  • 112 87

    Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals' (www.cnn.com)
  • 110 131

    The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph (www.mikeayles.com)
  • Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring (hightouch.com)
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  • 299 200

    You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account (www.heltweg.org)
  • 4 25

    Show HN: Modern Reimplementation of the Speck Molecule Renderer (github.com)
  • 254 664

    Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
  • 78 314

    Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line (gitlab.com)
  • 47 38

    Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience (www.better-hub.com)
  • 12 71

    RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel (www.collabora.com)
  • 17 71

    A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight (arxiv.org)
  • 1 13

    UPP: Universal Predicate Pushdown to Smart Storage (dl.acm.org)
  • 5 33

    Out of Light Adjust Share: Caravaggio, La Tour, and the Art of Attention (harpers.org)
  • 10 15

    Even the Mars Rover Uses Zip Ties (2021) (www.thedrive.com)
  • 37 87

    Writers and Their Day Jobs (lithub.com)
  • 246 166

    I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word” (www.grumpy-economist.com)
  • 18 30

    Apple Needs to Copy Samsung's New Security Smartphone Screen ASAP (www.wsj.com)
  • 14 58

    What Pressure Does to an Athlete's Body (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 60 36

    Self-improving software won't produce Skynet (contalign.jefflunt.com)
  • 8 49

    Gauss's Weekday Algorithm, Visualized (lukasmetzner.github.io)
  • 302 1261

    Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules (trufflesecurity.com)
  • 91 97

    Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (www.wsj.com)
  • 18 34

    Show HN: OpenSwarm – Multi‑Agent Claude CLI Orchestrator for Linear/GitHub (github.com)
  • 84 100

    The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) (quod.lib.umich.edu)
  • 338 387

    RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs (arstechnica.com)
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    Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts (github.com)
  • 8 15

    Show HN: Unix for the Commodore 64? Open Source (github.com)
  • 656 473

    How will OpenAI compete? (www.ben-evans.com)
  • 4 23

    Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 69 170

    Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit (www.disruptionbanking.com)
  • 157 496

    Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance (www.eff.org)
  • 81 46

    Larry Page has moved to Florida (twitter.com)
  • 71 56

    The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck (www.mikeayles.com)