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  • 2 3

    Interactive demo of MINIX1-like O/S on emulated CPU (swtos.softwarewrighter.com)
  • 33 43

    Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety (www.politico.eu)
  • 0 10

    Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme (codeberg.org)
  • 0 4

    Look, Mom, I pressed a button (galoisrepresentations.org)
  • 7 20

    Sam Altman's statement on the Navier-Stokes dispute (twitter.com)
  • 44 57

    How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments (openai.com)
  • 49 92

    “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain (blog.ericgoldman.org)
  • 24 50

    On Really Trying (2009) (gwern.net)
  • 195 230

    Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished (grapheneos.social)
  • 29 55

    AI Has a Discovery Problem (mhacevedo.com)
  • 193 205

    The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (simonwillison.net)
  • 1 3

    Science of the Gaps (2025) (lukesmith.xyz)
  • 48 40

    The Nonfiction Book Market is Collapsing? (dearheadofmine.substack.com)
  • 13 53

    A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1) (note.com)
  • 21 46

    Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 1 21

    Into the depths of C: Elaborating the de facto standards (2016) (dl.acm.org)
  • 4 34

    The origins of Partner’s computer case (www.racunalniski-muzej.si)
  • 29 120

    Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants (phys.org)
  • 8 31

    Iran says it captured US submarine drone in Strait of Hormuz (www.reuters.com)
  • 22 77

    AI Responsibility – OpenAI and Anthropic (twitter.com)
  • 71 116

    Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance (current.fas.harvard.edu)
  • 6 19

    Codex silently begs agents to make arbitrary web requests (spader.zone)
  • 27 85

    27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter (gpu-lexer.vercel.app)
  • 31 60

    An Accidental Blackboard (martinfowler.com)
  • 40 61

    US to ban Canadian dairy, alcohol, motor vehicle imports on September 29 (www.reuters.com)
  • 754 569

    I resigned from Anthropic today (twitter.com)
  • 32 28

    Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
  • 33 46

    Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker (www.thran.uk)
  • 11 105

    A Topological Picture Book, Rendered (e-infinity.space)
  • 31 58

    The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence (2025) (direct.mit.edu)
  • 323 369

    Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI (mathstodon.xyz)
  • 67 335

    How to build a printer (nishantjosh.dev)
  • 87 166

    Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration (openreview.net)
  • 8 56

    Reverse Engineering an ASIC (kjartanvandriel.github.io)
  • 55 67

    'Lake America' makes one thing clear: We can't trust U.S. tech companies (www.tvo.org)
  • 113 216

    Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America (twitter.com)
  • 3 56

    Tracing np.add, all the way down (blog.veitheller.de)
  • 31 201

    Mercury 2.5 (www.inceptionlabs.ai)
  • 132 261

    Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs (github.com)
  • 60 163

    OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem (techcrunch.com)
  • 11 66

    Animation in Bevy: The Big Picture (glocq.com)
  • 16 30

    Tyranny of Optionality (hvpandya.com)
  • 31 42

    Function Arguments Are Not Function Colors (jerf.org)
  • 548 507

    Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent (ai.meta.com)
  • 116 123

    Flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue (www.bbc.com)
  • 18 71

    Implementation of GCC's Nested Functions (vs. C++ Lambdas) (uecker.codeberg.page)
  • 419 341

    ChatGPT Images 2.5 (openai.com)
  • 11 54

    DOJ Blocked ICE Agent Shooting Charge over Federal Prosecutor's Objections (www.propublica.org)
  • 48 129

    Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster (pointersgonewild.com)
  • 63 61

    OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI (www.openui.com)
  • 1012 1262

    On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (openai.com)
  • 65 78

    Y Combinator Early Access Network (events.ycombinator.com)
  • 3 10

    Hire Every Engineer Like You'd Hire a VP (businessasusual.io)
  • 66 44

    Making Teenagers Read Newspapers. A Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools (cepr.org)
  • 24 156

    Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization (ishamf.dev)
  • 34 82

    Connecting the machines (herdr.dev)
  • 23 72

    Do you think it happened? Research stolen from their Codex private chats (www.reddit.com)
  • 4 9

    Onionspector – now let's see what The Onion knows about you (0ut3r.space)
  • 43 49

    Young Americans have never witnessed a functioning foreign policy (www.ft.com)
  • 317 535

    LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby (www.theverge.com)
  • 50 34

    Why I'm Not Excited About the Graphene OS and Motorola Partnership (podcast.switchedtolinux.com)
  • 2 8

    Renovating a vibe-coded app: the code was readable, the reasoning was gone (www.habchy.dev)
  • 51 76

    C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C (2025) (arxiv.org)
  • 27 128

    FreeBSD 14.5-Release (www.freebsd.org)
  • 83 108

    US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them (www.theguardian.com)
  • 13 168

    The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (www.nytimes.com)
  • 55 184

    The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades (hackaday.com)
  • 124 252

    Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses (quesma.com)
  • 11 84

    AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome (deepmind.google)
  • 8 65

    Disappointed Optimists (cwodtke.com)
  • 8 10

    AI may have just solved a million-dollar math problem (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 310 448

    I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer (github.com)
  • 2 21

    Reverse engineering the 2008 LogiCola, a logic drill program (logicola.org)
  • 252 342

    DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits (www.404media.co)
  • 121 562

    AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA (blog.google)
  • 179 238

    The two Christian saints who are the Buddha (signoregalilei.com)
  • 5 16

    Concentration Risk (www.wheresyoured.at)
  • 120 367

    Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger (www.techdirt.com)
  • 34 98

    ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
  • 66 50

    How Climate Resilient Are the Largest Cities? (alphageo.ai)
  • 1 5

    PyPI Blog: Incident File Hosting Errors (blog.pypi.org)
  • 4 18

    OpenAI stole mathematicians' private research from their own Codex chats (www.reddit.com)
  • 103 51

    The far right's win in Germany is sending a chill through Europe's establishment (www.cnn.com)
  • 65 377

    We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person (www.mcsweeneys.net)
  • 71 31

    An overview of how our family is prepared (michaelharley.net)
  • 13 19

    Show HN: DriveSync – fast Git-styled Google Drive sync CLI (github.com)
  • 230 681

    LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features (manualdousuario.net)
  • 179 405

    DaVinci Resolve 21.1 (www.blackmagicdesign.com)
  • 16 62

    Extracting Steering Vectors from J space (darshanmakwana412.github.io)
  • 13 18

    Why AI-generated slopaganda works (www.machinesociety.ai)
  • 92 229

    Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards (copperhead.sh)
  • 147 124

    PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD (www.oecd.org)
  • 13 61

    Picolibrary: A Small Press (novalis.org)
  • 11 24

    Robot writes in languages it has never seen before (2019) (www.wired.com)
  • 83 233

    Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts (vale.rocks)
  • 194 230

    Getting your hands dirty is good for you (www.bbc.com)
  • 14 73

    End-to-end infrastructure for training and inferencing open weight models (docs.appliedcompute.com)
  • 367 379

    Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare (ciphercue.com)
  • 24 11

    anystation: Calling any station A public board shaped like a tree. No account (anystation.net)
  • 338 518

    We built our house for LAN parties (2024) (lanparty.house)
  • 113 52

    My business partner sent a 5K vibe-coded PR that he didn't even test (ycj.bearblog.dev)
  • 26 23

    UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025) (www.middleeastainews.com)
  • 3 17

    Feather Atlas (www.fws.gov)
  • 80 116

    Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework (github.com)
  • 706 1690

    Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] (cims.nyu.edu)
  • 583 823

    Mistral raises €3B (mistral.ai)
  • 13 74

    Understanding Computer Memory Architecture and SSD Internals (codingpirate.com)
  • 226 550

    There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis (weirdgloop.org)
  • 153 184

    My Feed, My Way (www.pm.gov.au)
  • 132 107

    GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea (leaflet.pub)
  • 27 75

    The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code) (rohanadwankar.github.io)
  • 347 301

    We have a year to fix security everywhere (jyn.dev)
  • 74 120

    I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task (alvins82.github.io)
  • 13 52

    Extinct Tasmanian tiger's 'snap' unlike any living mammal's bite (www.cnn.com)
  • 62 82

    Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics (newsroom.arm.com)
  • 15 19

    AI cancer cures slowed by chip shortage, says Arm boss (www.bbc.com)
  • 65 183

    How well do agents use test/verification techniques? (danluu.com)
  • 13 42

    A Screensaver for LG's Spying Smart TVs (weowntheglass.com)
  • 24 20

    Prompting Is Dead in 6 Months. Andrew Ng, Stanford [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 11 28

    Everything is free now, so why not a floating orb in my IDE (eighttrigrams.net)
  • 13 17

    Show HN: NYC MapTap – Learn NYC neighborhoods (albertjoseph0.github.io)
  • 53 184

    Emacs Bedrock 2.0 (lambdaland.org)
  • 9 18

    Europe's largest carbon capture facility opens in the Netherlands (www.yara.com)
  • 341 598

    Jellyfin 12.0 (jellyfin.org)
  • 14 48

    Colorlight 5A-75B: A dive into a popular low-cost ECP5 (FPGA) development board (blog.yosyshq.com)
  • 126 497

    I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s (mcpherrin.ca)
  • 2 111

    Disconnect your LG television from the internet, now (appleinsider.com)
  • 3 12

    Secure temporary file sharing for AI agents and humans (github.com)
  • 1 11

    WeatherNext 3: Our most advanced global weather AI model (blog.google)
  • 43 126

    John Margolies' photographs of roadside America (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 23 309

    TALA Is Open-Source (d2lang.com)