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  • Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for Multigres (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 22 11

    Why Windows 95 Was Tech's Last True Revolution (comuniq.xyz)
  • 6 13

    Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He had worms (arstechnica.com)
  • 14 45

    Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada (www.sciencedirect.com)
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    One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V (www.theregister.com)
  • 9 13

    Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together (ethz.ch)
  • 7 9

    Like a Bouncer at a Bookstore: Texas' App Store Accountability Act (cdt.org)
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    A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals (lyra.horse)
  • 90 211

    Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days (github.com)
  • 93 250

    Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)
  • 27 98

    Suspicious Discontinuities (danluu.com)
  • 64 96

    Underarm Bowling Incident of 1981 (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 18 57

    Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on (cephalosec.com)
  • 49 48

    How H-E-B Became Texas' Most Beloved Brand (2024) (texashighways.com)
  • 56 56

    Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models (techcrunch.com)
  • 55 71

    How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 33 137

    Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California (arstechnica.com)
  • 8 21

    Task Failed Successfully: Saturating NIC and Disk Bandwidth (blog.mrcroxx.com)
  • 120 198

    If you can't hold it, you don't own it (dervis.de)
  • 66 301

    OpenRA (www.openra.net)
  • Nox Metals (YC S25) Is Hiring SWE (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 2 33

    Cultures of Making and Relating (blog.khinsen.net)
  • 8 22

    Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release (factorio.com)
  • 49 86

    The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II (www.flutetunes.com)
  • 106 319

    Fintech Engineering Handbook (w.pitula.me)
  • 49 103

    Beer CSS – Build material design in record time (www.beercss.com)
  • 11 41

    Jest/Vitest interactive course (runs in the browser) (howtotestfrontend.com)
  • 239 643

    DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf] (github.com)
  • 2 43

    Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512 (medium.com)
  • 12 15

    World Cup fans frustrated by 'confusing and expensive' tipping culture in US (www.bbc.com)
  • 114 121

    Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off (www.economist.com)
  • 6 11

    Decline in IQ linked to frequent or dependent use of cannabis use in youth (www.cambridge.org)
  • 96 50

    Is America becoming a gerontocracy? (www.economist.com)
  • 82 155

    Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide (www.fosslinux.com)
  • 1 12

    Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59 (www.nytimes.com)
  • 0 15

    Building apps using TanStack Start (lovable.dev)
  • 42 211

    OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1 (www.openttd.org)
  • 1 23

    SCC Technical Assistance Program (nerocam.com)
  • 8 50

    IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering (github.com)
  • 25 123

    Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack (grack.com)
  • 4 8

    Show HN: Turn images into audio that can be decoded with a spectrogram (nsspot.herokuapp.com)
  • 48 121

    International investment and local rules push prices up faster than supply (news.mccombs.utexas.edu)
  • 59 29

    Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
  • 72 149

    WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) (www.sfwriter.com)
  • 1 7

    Kamod Hooks – a Preact hooks library ported from ahooks (kamod-ch.github.io)
  • 43 104

    Fusion Programming Language (fusion-lang.org)
  • 25 87

    Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression (kirill.korins.ky)
  • 20 95

    Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board (popflame.quickish.space)
  • 5 11

    I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I'm Banned for Life (www.thefp.com)
  • 27 43

    Making Sense of Proof by Contradiction [pdf] (www.foster77.co.uk)
  • 19 474

    Om (daringfireball.net)
  • 18 74

    Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres (github.com)
  • 157 182

    AI in mathematics is forcing big questions (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 170 319

    Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011) (physics.stackexchange.com)
  • 5 49

    A Tiny Compiler for Data-Parallel Kernels (healeycodes.com)
  • 697 522

    U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations (www.semafor.com)
  • 11 16

    US strikes Iran in response to drone strike on commercial ship (www.aljazeera.com)
  • 6 43

    The Nationwide Backlash Against Cameras Watching Your Car (www.wsj.com)
  • 41 93

    The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
  • 1 24

    Lippmann Photography (www.jonhilty.com)
  • 2 15

    Reed-Solomon for OCR: error correction for messy printed codes (github.com)
  • 168 466

    We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme (www.eff.org)
  • 55 121

    The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on Deaths (www.outsideonline.com)
  • 2 26

    Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification (github.com)
  • 211 281

    The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs (blog.doubleword.ai)
  • 18 103

    A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing (github.com)
  • 185 301

    PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts (kotaku.com)
  • 23 71

    A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage (ngrok.com)
  • 1 81

    Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off (www.bbc.com)
  • Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring (hightouch.com)
  • 3 15

    Webradio server – broadcasts audio source to clients (github.com)
  • 23 108

    Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It (acoup.blog)
  • 5 12

    Aircraft crashes into Beijing's tallest skyscraper, triggering evacuations (www.dailymail.com)
  • 2 20

    Made a Rust DB run spatial queries on gaming GPU RT cores, beating an H100 (sedona.apache.org)
  • 7 65

    Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64) (github.com)
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    Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory (gossamer-lang.org)
  • 7 79

    The "Bizarre Headgear" exhibit at the Sam Noble museum (svpow.com)
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  • 23 137

    What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me? (lefakkomies.github.io)
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    I'm building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine! [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 1181 1124

    U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 16 75

    Modern GPU Programming for MLSys (mlc.ai)
  • 3 37

    Ex-NOAA employees laid off by DOGE rebuilt climate website (www.climate.us)
  • 5 5

    Show HN: Apply for jobs by directly emailing relevant people at a company (dmtheboss.com)
  • 27 53

    What is a Lithium-ion capacitor? (www.jtekt.co.jp)
  • 365 194

    Data centers trigger voter backlash (www.newsweek.com)
  • 74 64

    Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
  • 36 108

    LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers (www.swiftlatex.com)
  • 684 1077

    Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (openai.com)
  • Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 105 191

    Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor (github.com)
  • 197 365

    MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control (aws.amazon.com)
  • 199 92

    Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)
  • 77 70

    The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool (ohadravid.github.io)
  • 33 31

    Why software engineers are grieving (dev.jimgrey.net)
  • 82 120

    The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
  • 80 112

    A US military exercise to launch a satellite on short notice (arstechnica.com)
  • 80 32

    Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast? (www.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog)
  • 178 299

    Jolla Phone (October 2026) (commerce.jolla.com)
  • 24 35

    A forgotten social media post may hold key clues to Covid-19's origin (www.science.org)
  • 264 92

    The AI backlash is only getting started (www.economist.com)
  • 182 381

    Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck (www.science.org)
  • 14 35

    The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games (mas-bandwidth.com)
  • 116 307

    Ultrasound imaging of the brain (alephneuro.com)
  • 87 562

    Incident CVE-2026-LGTM (nesbitt.io)
  • 11 9

    What Would C. S. Lewis Have Thought of AI? (chroniclesmagazine.org)
  • 6 101

    FEXPRs vs. vtable: how LispE interpreter works (github.com)
  • 58 56

    Reading the news is the new smoking (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 19 75

    AMD Readies Full Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Support for Linux (www.techpowerup.com)
  • 55 61

    Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News (www.youtube.com)
  • 27 94

    Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter (github.com)
  • 83 78

    Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not (github.com)
  • 3 8

    Alan Greenspan Has Died (businessdesk.co.nz)
  • 17 123

    Bipartite Matching Is in NC (scottaaronson.blog)
  • 6 32

    Microbubbles in Medicine (worksinprogress.co)
  • 41 29

    How much? The hidden costs of restaurant dishes (www.theguardian.com)
  • 31 51

    Texas Man Gets 30 Years in Prison for Transporting 'Anti-Government' Pamphlets (reason.com)
  • 189 202

    My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
  • 191 114

    Why current LLM costs are not sustainable (aditya.patadia.org)
  • 9 18

    SOCKMAP - TCP splicing of the future (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 94 260

    22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery' (www.classicfm.com)
  • 1 143

    US Govt to individually approve who gets GPT 5.6 (old.reddit.com)
  • 77 82

    Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years (www.theregister.com)
  • 227 461

    We all depend on open source. We will defend it together (akrites.org)
  • 67 32

    Why are we so obsessed with lawns? (www.gardensillustrated.com)
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    You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 6 5

    Show HN: Appaca – AI Workspace for Operators (www.appaca.ai)
  • 57 27

    Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected (xlii.space)
  • 65 91

    Doing a masters while working in Spain (jan-herlyn.com)
  • 104 95

    No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass (borretti.me)
  • 160 366

    What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant (www.fernandoi.cl)
  • 63 283

    Libre Barcode Project (graphicore.github.io)
  • 65 106

    Show HN: Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
  • 1 30

    Eyewitness at the Triangle (1911) (trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu)
  • 77 208

    AI children's books, body horror edition (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 180 320

    Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 7 25

    A data race that doesn't compile (corentin-core.github.io)
  • 368 312

    Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 1 21

    Experiments in Sports Seismology for the World Cup (pnsn.org)
  • 7 80

    Record type inference for dummies (haskellforall.com)
  • 14 26

    Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (2016) (www.newyorker.com)
  • 2 22

    What is the mechanical world picture? (edwardfeser.blogspot.com)