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  • 4 22

    Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame (blog.playcanvas.com)
  • 18 44

    Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter (www.edenai.co)
  • 0 19

    Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)
  • 2 12

    The Knight Programming Language (github.com)
  • 26 27

    I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards (www.npmjs.com)
  • 20 22

    Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz] (mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
  • 1 4

    Tushonka: Cultivating Soviet Postwar Taste (2010) (www.journal.media-culture.org.au)
  • 11 21

    APL is more French than English (www.jsoftware.com)
  • 3 33

    Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)
  • 16 40

    Quirks of Human Anatomy (www.sdbonline.org)
  • Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence) (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 245 457

    The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)
  • 5 28

    Rediscovering the Handcart (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  • 6 11

    Show HN: Browse GitHub repos in Emacs without cloning (github.com)
  • 17 73

    AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice (sfconservancy.org)
  • 2 7

    Per-image PCA characterization of the Kodak image suite (PDF and JSON) (github.com)
  • 24 79

    GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (lists.gnupg.org)
  • 10 32

    What the FCC router ban means for FOSS (sfconservancy.org)
  • 2 35

    The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement (asteriskmag.com)
  • 4 19

    My Homemade PBX (2002) (wandel.ca)
  • 94 195

    EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (juraj.bednar.io)
  • 28 103

    Mahjong: A Visual Guide (themahjong.guide)
  • 11 69

    The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 6 24

    Reviving BrowserID in 2026 (wakamoleguy.com)
  • 27 21

    Does internet advertising work? (2020) (freakonomics.com)
  • 121 299

    Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
  • 5 56

    DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (www.lmsys.org)
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  • 1 31

    The George Business, by Roger Zelazny (1980) (www.eternal-flame.org)
  • 255 409

    Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 2 41

    The Long Reply (ironicsans.ghost.io)
  • 45 220

    OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)
  • 3 59

    Optimizing Datalog for the GPU (dl.acm.org)
  • 10 26

    Europe to burned American scientists: We'll take you in (2025) (www.politico.eu)
  • 20 46

    Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software (www.feldera.com)
  • 146 249

    Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
  • 38 102

    Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill (fosstodon.org)
  • 51 60

    Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch (www.nytimes.com)
  • 86 179

    Flickr: The first and last great photo platform (petapixel.com)
  • 7 119

    Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (miod.online.fr)
  • 63 341

    USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 233 460

    Trump fires NSF's oversight board (www.science.org)
  • 118 181

    The Joy of Folding Bikes (blog.korny.info)
  • 121 144

    Can you stop beans from making you gassy? (www.seriouseats.com)
  • 327 241

    The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it (newrepublic.com)
  • 12 79

    How Hard Is It to Open a File? (blog.sebastianwick.net)
  • 61 153

    Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (blog.happyfellow.dev)
  • 17 28

    AI agents that argue with each other to improve decisions (github.com)
  • 45 99

    Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)
  • 135 114

    America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
  • 4 17

    North American Millets Alliance (milletsalliance.org)
  • 44 50

    Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets (getkloak.io)
  • 1 19

    Nicholas Carlini – Black-hat LLMs [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 10 25

    The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 11 83

    Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau (lute.luau.org)
  • 173 278

    Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
  • 22 117

    Desmond Morris has died (www.bbc.com)
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  • 6 8

    Iran invisible weapon that has put the most powerful Navy in check (english.elpais.com)
  • 15 114

    Hokusai and Tesselations (dl.ndl.go.jp)
  • 123 152

    Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center (boilingsteam.com)
  • 168 125

    Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 71 325

    The Free Universal Construction Kit (fffff.at)
  • 76 233

    Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com)
  • 12 57

    Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021) (parl.ai)
  • 2 62

    Desmond Morris has died (www.nytimes.com)
  • 61 58

    What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role (www.mnot.net)
  • 64 65

    A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023) (allbrainsbelong.org)
  • 122 36

    UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes (nypost.com)
  • 101 148

    GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty (openai.com)
  • 30 160

    Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020) (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 24 51

    Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins (www.sciencedirect.com)
  • 7 52

    HEALPix (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 36 86

    Jumping into cold water can stop your heart (jorgenmelau.substack.com)
  • 68 87

    Commenting and approving pull requests (www.jakeworth.com)
  • 64 76

    Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x (blisscast.wordpress.com)
  • 90 581

    1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) (www.hypertalking.com)
  • 25 176

    Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games (github.com)
  • 41 137

    Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI (victortaelin.github.io)
  • 45 125

    A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp (github.com)
  • 66 60

    Panipat: The rise of the Mughals (www.historytoday.com)
  • 1 19

    Show HN: LLMs consume 5.4x less mobile energy than ad-supported web search (dupr.at)
  • 14 63

    A Man Who Invented the Future (hedgehogreview.com)
  • 11 39

    Escrow Security for iCloud Keychain (support.apple.com)
  • 1 22

    Larry McMurtry's Tall Tales (www.thenation.com)
  • 22 125

    How to Implement an FPS Counter (vplesko.com)
  • 110 236

    Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) (github.com)
  • 24 50

    A Powerful New 'QR Code' Untangles Math's Knottiest Knots (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 15 85

    PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology (nikomc.com)
  • 346 581

    New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 73 171

    Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do (alash3al.github.io)
  • 5 142

    The mail sent to a video game publisher (www.gamefile.news)
  • 2 17

    ENIAC's Architects Wove Stories Through Computing (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 123 158

    Do I belong in tech anymore? (ky.fyi)
  • 29 128

    A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU (clad.you)
  • 1 45

    Do I belong in tech anymore? (ky.fyi)
  • 55 195

    Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port (github.com)
  • 2 16

    Show HN: VT Code – Rust TUI coding agent with multi-provider support (github.com)
  • 50 53

    Oxford All Souls College General Examination (2025) [pdf] (www.asc.ox.ac.uk)
  • 12 29

    A disabled kea parrot is the alpha male of his circus (www.cell.com)
  • 6 42

    Reverse-engineering infrared-based electronic shelf labels (www.furrtek.org)
  • 6 106

    Cosmology with Geometry Nodes (www.blender.org)
  • 146 296

    Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 230 393

    Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine (itsfoss.com)
  • 25 52

    $8800 house design helps prevent fatal diseases in African children (www.science.org)
  • 50 358

    Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom (github.com)
  • 64 263

    Paraloid B-72 (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 11 15

    Generalised plusequals (leontrolski.github.io)
  • 84 142

    Education must go beyond the mere production of words (www.ncregister.com)
  • 114 199

    Humpback whales are forming super-groups (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 9

    The bull case for graph DBs in law (alanyahya.com)
  • 10 40

    The Overtom Chess Computer Museum (tluif.home.xs4all.nl)