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  • 0 4

    Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security (gwern.net)
  • 0 6

    StubHub's 'marketplace for fans' is run by a mass scalper, SEC filings reveal (www.cbc.ca)
  • 12 37

    Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left (mindgard.ai)
  • 1 5

    Building a High-Performance C++ Backtesting Framework (dolphindb.com)
  • 40 38

    IBM is on pace for its worst day ever (www.cnn.com)
  • 12 54

    The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB (2b2t.place)
  • 30 121

    Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class Model that runs on a phone (prismml.com)
  • 40 57

    The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era (www.thoughtworks.com)
  • 250 276

    S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB- (www.heise.de)
  • 71 183

    The Tower Keeps Rising (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring (Head of Security) (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 161 288

    Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK (marco-nett.de)
  • 8 24

    Launch HN: Agnost AI (YC S26) – Extract user feedback from agent conversations (agnost.ai)
  • 7 47

    Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program (dl.acm.org)
  • 88 45

    I'm a USB-C Maximalist (shkspr.mobi)
  • 10 46

    The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat (www.bobbytables.io)
  • 259 272

    Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? (www.artfish.ai)
  • 72 111

    Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works (www.verbaprima.com)
  • 18 120

    A tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology (grist.org)
  • 64 134

    A metallurgist's doubts about self-replicating probes (www.centauri-dreams.org)
  • 51 143

    How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction (www.fsf.org)
  • 191 144

    New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium (www.reuters.com)
  • 75 75

    Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context (www.derekthompson.org)
  • 71 116

    Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE (github.com)
  • 21 50

    OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members (www.yubico.com)
  • 133 105

    Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely (twitter.com)
  • 6 60

    Paxos Made Simple (2001)[pdf] (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
  • 0 4

    Serena Williams Fit-Dex (serena-williams-fitdex.netlify.app)
  • 23 42

    Tensor Is the Might (zserge.com)
  • 100 154

    Proof of care in the age of AI (jacobfilipp.com)
  • 62 47

    The kids with phones are alright (heatherburns.tech)
  • 15 47

    Differentiable Fortran with LFortran and Enzyme (docs.pasteurlabs.ai)
  • 37 81

    Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for ~$1.3k) (github.com)
  • 40 96

    Show HN: Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection (ryanjk5.github.io)
  • 71 84

    Coding agents think ahead of time (arxiv.org)
  • 4 12

    Dmars – A modern Core Wars toolchain (dmars.drpz.xyz)
  • 113 72

    No Spanish reading crisis? (www.commonreader.co.uk)
  • 164 249

    Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act (www.dw.com)
  • 393 296

    How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing (jola.dev)
  • 15 17

    The Definition of Done (adi.bio)
  • 102 143

    Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list (phemex.com)
  • 81 167

    Punch yourself in the face with reality (adi.bio)
  • 13 20

    Show HN: Beautiful QR Codes (scanwayy.com)
  • 234 393

    Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts (github.com)
  • 6 30

    Show HN: Rejourney – Open-source revenue leak prediction for web and mobile apps (github.com)
  • 59 100

    The Future Worth Building Is Human (thinkingmachines.ai)
  • 70 81

    The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use (blog.incogni.com)
  • 9 41

    Actegories (bartoszmilewski.com)
  • 381 556

    Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you) (danq.me)
  • 12 60

    Notable Knot Index (2016) (knots.neocities.org)
  • 5 9

    Two Case Studies of NaN (sebsite.pw)
  • 8 18

    Understanding the Go Runtime: Profiling (internals-for-interns.com)
  • 73 139

    Just Let Me Write Digits (gendx.dev)
  • 260 382

    European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS (github.com)
  • 67 121

    Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware (www.hpcwire.com)
  • 8 13

    Show HN: Benchmark your eng team's AI agent maturity in 5 minutes (agent-benchmarks.com)
  • 20 182

    Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem (www.bbc.com)
  • 0 7

    The Anatomy of an Instruction Pipeline Hazard (hiraditya.github.io)
  • 19 36

    Zero Knowledge Tolstoyan Art (max-amb.github.io)
  • 2 29

    Jektex 0.2.0 – A Jekyll plugin for LaTeX rendering is now ~10x faster (github.com)
  • 63 69

    OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast by 90%, Analyst Says (www.adweek.com)
  • 13 31

    Two Case Studies of NaN (sebsite.pw)
  • 321 246

    Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity (lenergy.com.au)
  • 10 67

    Writing a bindless GPU abstraction layer (www.kevin-gibson.com)
  • 59 165

    YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database (github.com)
  • 62 134

    How to build a circular LCD clock (blinry.org)
  • 62 93

    Our Amish Language (www.thedial.world)
  • 23 44

    Agents.md – Dumb Human (gist.github.com)
  • 2 4

    America's Other Elections Problem (www.economist.com)
  • 183 695

    Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries (tech.supercarblondie.com)
  • 240 166

    What will be left for us to work on? (www.normaltech.ai)
  • 83 150

    Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites (satellitemap.space)
  • 26 101

    Is x86 ready to ACE it? (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 11 169

    Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005) (web.stanford.edu)
  • 76 135

    The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf] (elasticity.institute)
  • 11 44

    Building Food Metadata with LLM Juries (careersatdoordash.com)
  • 53 90

    World-First 'Super Alloy' Could Transform the Way Metals Are Made (www.sciencealert.com)
  • 1 11

    Show HN: MemStitch – Zero-copy context bridging for vLLM (25x TTFT speedup) (github.com)
  • 30 82

    Success may not matter if you aren't doing what you love (12gramsofcarbon.com)
  • 8 93

    MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits (paradigms-of-intelligence.github.io)
  • 2 7

    ESBMC-Arduino: Closing the Deployment Gap for Formal Verification (arxiv.org)
  • 17 38

    Turn your singing voice into printable notes (in the browser) (om-intelligence.ch)
  • 5 35

    The Difference Between Watercolor and Gouache Paints (www.jetpens.com)
  • 294 414

    The git history command (lalitm.com)
  • 120 59

    What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions? (sorting-machine.pages.dev)
  • 33 43

    Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder (sleuth-io.github.io)
  • 20 37

    The AI Whale Fall and Open Source (minor.gripe)
  • 8 10

    Show HN: ContextVault – Shared memory layer for your AI and your team (www.contextvault.dev)
  • 16 67

    N+1 (www.woman-of-letters.com)
  • 95 91

    What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025) (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
  • 66 214

    An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold (www.bbc.com)
  • 41 67

    A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI (arxiv.org)
  • 46 56

    Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices (hackney.app)
  • 1 16

    Collaboration Networks in Brazilian Computer Science (blog.ptidej.net)
  • 3 11

    Manifest Man (www.thenewcritic.com)
  • 96 77

    Mawlynnong, India, transformed by tourism, bans visitors on Sundays (www.bbc.com)
  • 5 11

    MIT's New Method Flags AI Models Trained on CASM Without Generating It (insideai.news)
  • 54 131

    Claude Code plugin that plays a Mr. Meeseeks voice line whene Claude is waiting (github.com)
  • 10 11

    Show HN: I built a one-prompt hackathon platform, free entry, sponsored prizes (1shotchallenge.ai)
  • 6 4

    California rocked by another earthquake that will unleash the Big One (www.dailymail.com)
  • 5 26

    Robust Secret Storage in Networks (arxiv.org)
  • 5 17

    A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game (www.nytimes.com)
  • 123 124

    Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU (github.com)
  • 56 95

    Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code (github.com)
  • 93 339

    Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training (neow.in)
  • 3 31

    The 4-Bitter Lesson: Balancing Stability and Performance in NVFP4 RL (humansand.ai)
  • 1 5

    The security checks in every Lionshead PR (lionshead.digital)
  • 16 42

    Show HN: Sigwire – a live TUI switchboard for every signal on your Linux box (github.com)
  • SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF) (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 93 80

    AI is a bad tool (bytecode.news)
  • 19 109

    Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL (github.com)
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  • 64 107

    Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser (github.com)
  • 272 342

    Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended (www.whois.com)
  • 30 72

    Section 219, the US-Israel Military Merger, Would Thwart American Democracy (www.commondreams.org)
  • 208 533

    Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources (19thnews.org)
  • 3 32

    The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers (garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com)
  • 61 87

    Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans (nobie.com)
  • 7 22

    New Flagship Grok Voices (x.ai)
  • 37 90

    TFTP Honey Pot Results (bruceediger.com)
  • 62 71

    Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback (blog.thunderbird.net)
  • 10 23

    The Chud Vision of Roman History (acoup.blog)
  • 415 216

    The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes (www.sfgate.com)
  • 4 29

    How sea stars build materials that can see (www.engineering.upenn.edu)
  • 39 50

    A full body MRI earns you a year of smoking (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 27 70

    Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents (github.com)
  • 31 142

    Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway? (cakehonolulu.github.io)
  • 82 155

    The real prices of frontier models (playcode.io)
  • 227 527

    Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode (scottwillsey.com)
  • 6 19

    Software Has Changed (www.abeautifulsite.net)
  • 2 100

    xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Git Repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket (www.internationalcyberdigest.com)
  • 15 40

    The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USAID (www.newyorker.com)
  • 30 39

    Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise (github.com)
  • 77 99

    Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here (github.com)
  • 97 389

    Show HN: Super Dario (superdario.pawb.de)
  • 83 24

    Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
  • 57 137

    Ancient Roman Board Game (ludus-coriovalli.web.app)
  • 3 12

    NTSB Report on NetJets first fatality in 40 years (Josh Baer RIP) (data.ntsb.gov)
  • 8 51

    A Farewell to ARPs: IPv4 Service on IPv6-Only Networks (labs.ripe.net)
  • 151 169

    Nokia’s years of mobile-phone supremacy ended in an afternoon (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 38 39

    Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector (blog.vanillajava.blog)
  • PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Software Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 12 65

    Go-Flavored Concurrency in C (antonz.org)
  • 230 549

    Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor (get-inscribe.com)
  • 52 136

    Benchmarking 15 “E-Waste” GPUs with Modern Workloads (esologic.com)
  • 94 112

    Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 12 38

    Counting ArXiv Delays (fi-le.net)
  • 289 334

    DOGE is done. What happened to its records? (www.ms.now)
  • 407 468

    LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire (techcrunch.com)
  • 20 31

    DMS 1.5 "The Wolverine" Released (danklinux.com)
  • 53 252

    The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 157 199

    Precursor (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 5 30

    Detained by settlers, US Democrat Ro Khanna now faces pro-Israel attacks (www.aljazeera.com)
  • 2 13

    There's no way this bond market can fund the markets needs without higher yields (www.youtube.com)
  • 156 213

    Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop (github.com)
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  • 26 87

    Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 401 426

    Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS (twitter.com)
  • 19 507

    Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers (twitter.com)
  • 77 129

    The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally (www.bbc.com)
  • 184 218

    Control the Ideas, Not the Code (antirez.com)
  • 208 110

    Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance (www.wired.com)
  • 39 150

    Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT) (github.com)
  • 10 45

    We Put an L7 Firewall in the Kernel (yeet.cx)
  • 127 191

    An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop (anderegg.ca)
  • 73 373

    A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese (jivx.com)
  • 69 22

    Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?
  • 113 37

    The console wars have been lost (xeiaso.net)
  • 3 10

    Show HN: Loot Raiders – an ARC Raiders-inspired inventory game in Svelte (loot-raiders.vercel.app)
  • 11 82

    Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation (frieve-a.github.io)
  • 122 98

    Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market (www.disruptionbanking.com)
  • 429 678

    A graph that should be front-page news (www.lyrebirddreaming.com)
  • 767 1509

    Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke (raymyers.org)
  • 143 195

    Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks (shkspr.mobi)
  • 16 10

    Tracking unique visitors without cookies (inmargin.io)
  • 28 109

    Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 39 175

    The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter (andiroberts.com)
  • 124 266

    Backtrack-Free Cursive (mmapped.blog)
  • 2 5

    New Zealand actor Sam Neill, known for Jurassic Park and The Piano, dies at 78 (cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com)
  • 113 466

    Sam Neill has died (www.theguardian.com)
  • 8 35

    Converting colors in JavaScript at 6B operations per second (dkryaklin.com)
  • 44 98

    Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica (github.com)
  • 31 75

    Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial (www.engadget.com)
  • 295 342

    Count Binface (countbinface.com)
  • 38 62

    Are you telling me a readonly property is wrecking my performance? (shub.club)
  • 4 6

    1970 Plymouth Hemi 'CUDA (knuckledustchronicles.com)
  • 6 48

    First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton (www.cbc.ca)
  • 26 35

    Modernizing Property Tax Assessments in Allegheny County (www.prohousingpgh.org)
  • 197 411

    GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
  • 4 23

    Calculix: A Free Software Three-Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program (www.calculix.de)
  • 17 40

    The four horsemen behind Postgres outages (malisper.me)
  • 451 1065

    Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
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    MacKenzie Scott's giving, in quality-adjusted life years (maxghenis.com)
  • 5 21

    Tacit Knowledge (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 0 19

    A Peek Inside Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Where Whimsical Puppets Are Designed (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2 16

    Circular Obstacle Pathfinding (2017) (redblobgames.github.io)
  • 26 67

    Billion Dollar PDFs (billiondollarpdf.com)
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  • 153 165

    Why Vanilla JavaScript (guseyn.com)