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  • 0 6

    16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory (www.youtube.com)
  • 2 5

    Netflix vmaf: Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion (github.com)
  • 17 14

    I built a programming language that LLMs can't use (blog.picheta.me)
  • 3 36

    There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 9 19

    "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math (www.nytimes.com)
  • 14 37

    Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text (arxiv.org)
  • 4 20

    One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux (quentinkaiser.be)
  • 0 13

    Developing for Debugging (2025) (www.davepacheco.net)
  • 41 57

    Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky (www.sciencealert.com)
  • 65 49

    US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions (www.ft.com)
  • 41 30

    Personal software factories are a waste of time (www.peterp.me)
  • 1 9

    Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 7 51

    Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it's on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
  • 13 70

    Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages (www.getlazarus.org)
  • 44 41

    Investing in the public benefit (www.anthropic.com)
  • 213 123

    Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse (hoaspy.com)
  • 11 27

    CFPB Opens Debanking Investigation into Nine Large National Banks (www.forbes.com)
  • 0 10

    CKKS – Addition and Multiplication (www.jeremykun.com)
  • 16 63

    PalmOS Lemmings (github.com)
  • 140 284

    Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains (www.reddit.com)
  • 49 51

    Mitos editor is a fork of Helix (mitos.computer)
  • 139 84

    British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled (liveandletsfly.com)
  • 35 86

    I electrified my push scooter with a power drill (eddieabbondanz.io)
  • 0 46

    Beyond Tetris: The other games of Alexey Pajitnov [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 91 237

    Someone behind the software (karrisaarinen.com)
  • 19 74

    The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction (www.righto.com)
  • 25 89

    SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president (www.iwm.org.uk)
  • 36 17

    Campus deplatformings hit record high (expression.fire.org)
  • 5 22

    Show HN: Ranet3 – High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN (ranet3.com)
  • 230 227

    macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL (developer.apple.com)
  • 87 116

    Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching (neilmadden.blog)
  • 87 73

    How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get? (www.vals.ai)
  • 8 27

    Voyage of the Paper Canoe: 2500 Miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, 1874-5 (www.ibiblio.org)
  • 9 31

    The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience (1998) (www.thing.net)
  • 33 90

    Theranos-Style Fraud Has Become the Norm (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 151 114

    Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)? (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 124 106

    Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car (www.thedrive.com)
  • 122 130

    Websites are closing their doors to AI agents (www.theverge.com)
  • 81 145

    Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake (legendofhyrule.com)
  • 160 147

    Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 14 26

    Chirp Pong – uses microphones and audio for networked game play (simonwillison.net)
  • 46 295

    RepRapMicron (github.com)
  • 39 65

    The Brain Sandwich (terriblesoftware.org)
  • 101 66

    Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents (www.vice.com)
  • 22 71

    Hatching (Heraldry) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 15 12

    Germany's 17M Immigrants: Where They Come From (www.visualcapitalist.com)
  • 5 29

    A History of Curves and Surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design [pdf] (math.pku.edu.cn)
  • 13 162

    Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform (github.com)
  • 60 212

    Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions (www.niemanlab.org)
  • 2 26

    Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost? (brooker.co.za)
  • 188 104

    How employment is changing at Anthropic (www.anthropic.com)
  • 79 34

    Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 6 18

    It's time to talk about TEEs (alinush.github.io)
  • 33 85

    Regex visualized as 3D marble run (www.regexmarblerun.com)
  • 77 206

    Parser Combinators (t3.at)
  • 101 29

    The plight of the public potty (thebaffler.com)
  • 63 144

    Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua (teal-language.org)
  • 2 14

    Propagation of Sound in Strongly Viscous Liquids (1966) [pdf] (jetp.ras.ru)
  • 71 55

    A Princeton PhD applied to 2,300 jobs and still can't get one (www.wsj.com)
  • 246 503

    DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests (api-docs.deepseek.com)
  • 10 41

    Notes on the Complex Roots of Unity (eli.thegreenplace.net)
  • 31 52

    Fun Extending the C Preprocessor (www.davidpriver.com)
  • 1 18

    The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary, via the Eyes of the Reporter Who Exposed Her (www.nytimes.com)
  • 81 39

    The game industry is broken – can we fix it? (knowledge.edge-online.com)
  • 102 125

    Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will (2016) (webmasters.stackexchange.com)
  • 24 60

    Show HN: 500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5 (tkgally.github.io)
  • 16 62

    Southern ground hornbill gets 3D printed beak prostheses at Artis Zoo (nltimes.nl)
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  • 28 126

    A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias (2025) (www.propublica.org)
  • 76 234

    Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping (sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app)
  • 467 341

    How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving (www.readtheprofile.com)
  • 12 72

    Interactive Linear Programming in the Browser (lpviz.net)
  • 6 43

    Superoptimizing an FPU Emulator (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 0 11

    Processing my father's death by climbing in his footsteps (www.nytimes.com)
  • 76 196

    Lean now ships with verified kernels (leodemoura.github.io)
  • 373 560

    Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day (meidasnews.com)
  • 3 63

    Custom server to revive neato bots (github.com)
  • 192 416

    NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 7 38

    Each step of decoding a PNG (2022) (iter.ca)
  • 136 73

    Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot (www.phillyvoice.com)
  • 73 117

    JDK 28 (openjdk.org)
  • 122 157

    An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling (www.cjr.org)
  • 71 88

    Types of types: Haskell's Kind system (thunk.blog)
  • 81 166

    Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps (github.com)
  • 14 12

    Almost every dumbphone worth knowing about (slowerliving.club)
  • 151 120

    Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not (doctor-seo.net)
  • 17 66

    Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition (2025) (courk.cc)
  • 3 8

    Owner of Former UWS Barbecue Restaurant Indicted for Wage Theft: Manhattan DA (www.westsiderag.com)
  • 92 69

    Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers (www.cs.cmu.edu)
  • 168 221

    I Became a Citizen of Japan (www.derekwessman.com)
  • 14 68

    Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in the West Bank (www.ft.com)
  • 21 145

    Israeli settlers attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank beat French mayor (www.lemonde.fr)
  • 66 27

    AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It? (mihaisplace.com)
  • 9 10

    Show HN: MirrorMD – An AI second opinion from a facial cosmetic surgeon (mymirrormd.com)
  • 35 52

    Pattern matching beats narrative reasoning (blog.scottstevenson.net)
  • 115 537

    Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour (www.nature.com)
  • 218 230

    Source code of the Estonian online voting system (github.com)
  • 7 18

    Espresso machine can run Doom (www.gamespot.com)
  • 26 54

    Show HN: Things to Do API (thingstodoapi.com)
  • 19 72

    Show HN: Parin – A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang (github.com)
  • 219 402

    Gold is now the top U.S. export (www.numismaticnews.net)
  • 89 347

    Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 80 139

    A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024) (blog.davidv.dev)
  • 12 30

    Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw) (twitter.com)
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  • 51 49

    Tsc-ts: TypeScript written in TypeScript (github.com)
  • 173 939

    OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked (twitter.com)
  • 58 562

    Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG (pele.run)
  • 43 165

    Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer (celphase.github.io)
  • 11 76

    Vintage Cassettes: 1963-2010 (vintagecassettes.com)
  • 34 227

    The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results (github.com)
  • 114 137

    Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel (lwn.net)
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  • 157 130

    OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents (fortune.com)
  • Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Enterprise AES and Senior Engineers (www.artie.com)
  • 83 392

    Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana (furifont.antfu.me)
  • 59 169

    Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses (www.opendemocracy.net)
  • 177 180

    GLP-1 may slow biological aging (www.universityofcalifornia.edu)
  • 13 26

    What changes when your search index lives on S3? (infino.ai)
  • 202 200

    US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 11 56

    Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware" (pluralistic.net)
  • 41 190

    Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser (github.com)
  • 18 77

    The future of programming (1982) (dl.acm.org)
  • 3 52

    A Tudor life in the time of plague (2020) (www.historytoday.com)
  • 86 343

    Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
  • 13 158

    Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game (frozenfractal.com)
  • 10 46

    The First Candid (www.newyorker.com)
  • 50 321

    MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood (www.engadget.com)
  • 429 669

    Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time (www.pv-magazine.com)
  • 28 76

    The history of development of Norton Commander (2011) (softpanorama.org)
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  • 0 26

    The cryptoint library (2025) [pdf] (cr.yp.to)
  • 184 104

    Super Intelligence (www.si.gov)
  • 13 28

    Orbital Angular Momentum of Light (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 78 72

    We still use paper (humanpro.co)
  • 26 17

    Show HN: I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltop (github.com)
  • 16 42

    Recipes Are Moving from Maven Central to the Code Genome Project (docs.openrewrite.org)
  • 17 16

    Is MCP becoming the common foundation of smart, decentralised search? (contextetech.com)
  • 106 57

    "Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands (nos.nl)
  • 5 517

    DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 (openrouter.ai)
  • 106 162

    Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
  • 702 932

    DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 (huggingface.co)
  • 14 77

    Why Math Dumped OpenAI (raymyers.org)
  • 0 18

    $50k First Letters Prize Awarded for PHerc 343 (scrollprize.substack.com)
  • 39 131

    Intuitive concurrent programming in any language (www.lf-lang.org)
  • 86 319

    Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware (llmspeed.dev)
  • 54 152

    Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank (www.theguardian.com)
  • 6 51

    0/1 Knapsack Problem in PyTorch (jedrzej.maczan.pl)
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  • 2 26

    Compiler bootstrapping depends on more than you might think (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 29 50

    "In every study that considered the question" (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 61 50

    California is building a $400M shield for Yosemite's most dangerous highway (www.sfchronicle.com)
  • 24 45

    Show HN: Fakeipedia – Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist (fakeipedia.org)
  • 110 378

    Ultramarine 1 Flash (www.paperinstruments.com)
  • 4 23

    Coconuts in Medieval Britain (2015) (www.themarysue.com)
  • 1 24

    Ultramarine 1 Flash: Frontier Model 100X Cheaper (www.paperinstruments.com)
  • 255 372

    Butlerian Jihad (dune.fandom.com)
  • 2 10

    A week on the farm with Dylan Araps (adamschaefers.com)
  • Flexport Is Hiring a Biz Ops Leader in Office of CEO (www.flexport.com)
  • 19 96

    I built the RealWorld app in Lean 4 (leangineer.com)
  • 64 121

    Nine-Inch Snails (www.theatlantic.com)