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  • 1 19

    Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained (github.com)
  • 2 20

    Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico (github.com)
  • 2 13

    France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American (www.forbes.com)
  • 1 8

    Electrostatics and High Voltage Links (amasci.com)
  • 51 70

    Bob Odenkirk would like to remind you that life is a meaningless farce (www.nytimes.com)
  • 8 27

    Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting (slicker.me)
  • 42 94

    It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024) (robbowen.digital)
  • 32 54

    The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination (www.vice.com)
  • 0 10

    The Military Rockets That Launched the Space Age (2023) (airandspace.si.edu)
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  • 2 19

    Mystery Cpuid Bit (www.os2museum.com)
  • 48 75

    AI can cost more than human workers now (www.axios.com)
  • 2 36

    A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design (pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu)
  • 4 25

    Low-Dose Aspirin Usage for Primary Prevention Has Fallen by >50% Since 2018 (www.epicresearch.org)
  • 56 320

    Flipdiscs (flipdisc.io)
  • 0 20

    YouTube Removes Alt-Right Criticism (www.youtube.com)
  • 20 44

    Revocation of X.509 Certificates (blog.apnic.net)
  • 81 148

    The Prompt API (developer.chrome.com)
  • 38 174

    TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough (arkaung.github.io)
  • 33 75

    EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code (github.com)
  • 60 76

    Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port (notepad-plus-plus-mac.org)
  • 16 61

    When your digital life vanishes (www.newyorker.com)
  • 2 39

    Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated) (github.com)
  • 3 21

    Music of the BBC Microcomputer System (www.acornelectron.co.uk)
  • 9 18

    The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 39 228

    Three constraints before I build anything (jordanlord.co.uk)
  • 71 132

    When the cheap one is the cool one (arun.is)
  • 48 330

    Self-updating screenshots (interblah.net)
  • 16 61

    The fastest Linux timestamps (www.hmpcabral.com)
  • 12 31

    Lessons from building multiplayer browsers (www.alejandro.pe)
  • 0 12

    Voice Modems (computer.rip)
  • 18 93

    FreeBSD Device Drivers Book (github.com)
  • 86 103

    Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft (www.ft.com)
  • 2 24

    The QEII garden – built from its own ruins – opens in Regent's Park (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
  • 5 20

    The Last of the Lost Generation (porticoquarterly.com)
  • 1 75

    Two Athletes Break Sub-2-HR Marathon in Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 (news.adidas.com)
  • 21 48

    Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game (playtiao.com)
  • 39 138

    Box to save memory in Rust (dystroy.org)
  • 13 28

    Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game (options-game-polymathrobotics.pythonanywhere.com)
  • 12 78

    Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core (tingouw.com)
  • 434 854

    I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it (ca98am79.medium.com)
  • 65 116

    Chernobyl wildlife forty years on (www.bbc.com)
  • 7 61

    MoQ Boy (moq.dev)
  • 14 39

    U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as 'American' (www.nytimes.com)
  • 68 215

    Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 3 38

    1:59:30: Sabastian Sawe Shatters the 2-Hour Barrier at 2026 London Marathon (www.letsrun.com)
  • 10 52

    XOXO Festival Archive (xoxofest.com)
  • 275 410

    Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race (www.bbc.com)
  • 38 88

    Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall) (github.com)
  • 4 23

    Show HN: Auge Vision from Your Terminal (auge.franzai.com)
  • 14 15

    Human Source License (HSL) (github.com)
  • 57 149

    The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color (www.barwypowstania.pl)
  • 56 273

    Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet (www.sentinelone.com)
  • 64 138

    Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency (www.tokyodev.com)
  • 76 102

    If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you (evalcode.com)
  • 390 531

    AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it (www.koshyjohn.com)
  • 9 41

    Orinoco: Young Generation Garbage Collection (v8.dev)
  • 258 55

    If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive (shankwiler.com)
  • 368 229

    Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them (road.cc)
  • 16 87

    Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds (news.mit.edu)
  • 29 177

    Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0 (dillo-browser.org)
  • 17 63

    Sloppy Copies (www.markround.com)
  • 236 614

    GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation (anchor.host)
  • 28 132

    The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 (eblong.com)
  • 145 113

    Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024) (www.macchaffee.com)
  • 864 718

    An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (twitter.com)
  • 40 153

    Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)
  • 100 102

    Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design (arpitbhayani.me)
  • 138 229

    Clay PCB Tutorial (feministhackerspaces.cargo.site)
  • 126 235

    Issue links now open in a popup (github.com)
  • 170 316

    SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (openai.com)
  • 8 56

    QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video] (2025) (archive.fosdem.org)
  • 7 61

    The Nintendo Switch Switch (2019) (blog.cynthia.re)
  • 5 106

    Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE (coalton-lang.github.io)
  • 74 116

    At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared (www.cnn.com)
  • 30 31

    My .config Ship of Theseus (shift1w.com)
  • 319 623

    Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)
  • 25 27

    Show HN: A free ESG stock screener that publishes its losses and methodology (jumpstartsignal.com)
  • 20 60

    Cheating at Tetris (chalkdustmagazine.com)
  • 54 218

    Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame (blog.playcanvas.com)
  • 67 129

    Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter (www.edenai.co)
  • 84 302

    Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)
  • 6 20

    The Knight Programming Language (github.com)
  • 96 84

    I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards (www.npmjs.com)
  • 35 25

    Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz] (mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
  • 4 8

    Tushonka: Cultivating Soviet Postwar Taste (2010) (www.journal.media-culture.org.au)
  • 16 43

    APL is more French than English (www.jsoftware.com)
  • 11 82

    Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)
  • 77 139

    Quirks of Human Anatomy (www.sdbonline.org)
  • Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist (Health Intelligence) (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 810 1131

    The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)
  • 13 40

    Rediscovering the Handcart (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  • 12 22

    Show HN: Browse GitHub repos in Emacs without cloning (github.com)
  • 23 93

    AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice (sfconservancy.org)
  • 4 7

    Per-image PCA characterization of the Kodak image suite (PDF and JSON) (github.com)
  • 60 169

    GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (lists.gnupg.org)
  • 16 41

    What the FCC router ban means for FOSS (sfconservancy.org)
  • 14 76

    The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement (asteriskmag.com)
  • 5 22

    My Homemade PBX (2002) (wandel.ca)
  • 198 342

    EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (juraj.bednar.io)
  • 62 229

    Mahjong: A Visual Guide (themahjong.guide)
  • 25 165

    The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 13 31

    Reviving BrowserID in 2026 (wakamoleguy.com)
  • 34 23

    Does internet advertising work? (2020) (freakonomics.com)
  • 183 549

    Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
  • 10 80

    DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (www.lmsys.org)
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  • 2 46

    The George Business, by Roger Zelazny (1980) (www.eternal-flame.org)
  • 543 760

    Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 3 54

    The Long Reply (ironicsans.ghost.io)
  • 65 292

    OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)
  • 3 73

    Optimizing Datalog for the GPU (dl.acm.org)
  • 12 32

    Europe to burned American scientists: We'll take you in (2025) (www.politico.eu)
  • 21 48

    Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software (www.feldera.com)
  • 297 414

    Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
  • 55 133

    Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill (fosstodon.org)
  • 58 70

    Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch (www.nytimes.com)
  • 156 290

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