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  • 1 8

    Understanding Email Encryption (www.fastmail.com)
  • 3 11

    Pac-Man's Siren Call (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 2 15

    Armenia Notes (marginalrevolution.com)
  • 21 44

    The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks (nolanlawson.com)
  • 20 69

    Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother (blog.zamzar.com)
  • 14 25

    OTape (www.otape.org)
  • 0 6

    Model Aero Engines Free Manufacturable Plans/Blueprints (outerzone.co.uk)
  • 3 31

    Pilot-wave hydrodynamics (Quantum phenomena in macroscopic hydrodynamic systems) (thales.mit.edu)
  • 0 24

    A brief history of just-in-time: forty years of JIT work, from 1960–2000 (dl.acm.org)
  • 50 109

    ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging (help.openai.com)
  • 36 78

    Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024) (arxiv.org)
  • 43 108

    Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing (jetstream.security)
  • 2 36

    A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  • 18 35

    Hermantown approves controversial Google Data Center during late night meeting (www.mprnews.org)
  • 1 31

    Edgar Allan Poe, Quintessential American Writer (slate.com)
  • 3 11

    Work Requirements for Trick-or-Treaters (morewrong.lol)
  • 8 29

    Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards (bbrouter.com)
  • 42 98

    Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half (fullycharged.show)
  • 1 18

    Constructing a Quine from Kleene's Second Recursion Theorem (emarzion.github.io)
  • 10 29

    Decode kernel panic from QR Code photo (gist.github.com)
  • 26 101

    Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020 (maketecheasier.com)
  • 4 107

    Altoids Project (uvdn7.github.io)
  • 15 13

    Inverse Zitron: An Investment Strategy (chalmovsky.com)
  • 8 53

    AI text watermarking and quality loss (blog.keyvan.net)
  • 105 214

    Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard (github.com)
  • 45 42

    First response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite (blog.google)
  • 14 15

    Spooky C++ (www.nablag.com)
  • 55 64

    When electric cars were for women (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 111 393

    An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2 39

    Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup (arstechnica.com)
  • 89 143

    Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games (mashable.com)
  • 1 19

    Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 56 80

    With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines (learnfromx.com)
  • 34 114

    Surviving "The Graduate" (www.newyorker.com)
  • 2 31

    Distributed Proofreaders (www.pgdp.net)
  • 190 336

    Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models (twitter.com)
  • 12 23

    Common Desktop Environment available now as open-source (sourceforge.net)
  • 4 15

    GPT-6.1 Terra (simonwillison.net)
  • 7 17

    NASA's Voyager 1 Conserves Power, Resolves Brief Communications Pause (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
  • 1 6

    The lithium hypothesis of obesity [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 3 18

    5 years of OqtaDrive: Microdrive emulation to Sinclair Network over the internet (oqtadrive.org)
  • 357 1238

    HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (karpathy.bearblog.dev)
  • 56 83

    Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly) (epoyraz.github.io)
  • 226 494

    TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 (atlasum.net)
  • 45 65

    Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python (florianwilhelm.info)
  • 5 81

    Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector (github.com)
  • 181 170

    GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode (ryanmadden.net)
  • 55 189

    It's the memory latency, stupid (pivotlake.io)
  • 0 4

    Shaun Thomas: Burnt Toast (www.pgedge.com)
  • 32 116

    The Duty of a Scholar (www.daemonology.net)
  • 79 64

    Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn (www.cairoreport.org)
  • 11 22

    Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use (www.theregister.com)
  • 53 78

    The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025) (dl.acm.org)
  • 23 68

    William Nordhaus has died (news.yale.edu)
  • 37 60

    Copyright Office is restoring copyright to something you have to work to get (pluralistic.net)
  • 39 52

    I post trained a model on Demoscenes (datavorous.com)
  • 30 44

    Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 37 56

    Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line (github.com)
  • 10 38

    A City Canceled Flock's Contract. Flock Ignored It. Police Chief Unplugged Them (www.thedrive.com)
  • 255 212

    UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power (www.theguardian.com)
  • 15 66

    Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary (www.redox-os.org)
  • 20 13

    Show HN: Jointter – A daily word puzzle using dots and lines (www.jointter.com)
  • 148 259

    Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 (jepsen.io)
  • 29 24

    A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages (a-side.social)
  • 22 43

    Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements (www.phoronix.com)
  • 36 56

    Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector (github.com)
  • 46 91

    What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on (science.nasa.gov)
  • 111 225

    Casio Watches of the 1980s (www.casio.com)
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  • 131 247

    Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth (blog.talosintelligence.com)
  • 26 110

    Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
  • 16 3

    Gemini Code vs. Claude Code – A cautionary post-mortem ($800 in 12h) (n.aspencreekbs.com)
  • 71 97

    Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation' (torrentfreak.com)
  • 125 85

    Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again (www.cnn.com)
  • 6 11

    MoneyPouch – self hosted expense tracker (demo.moneypouch.app)
  • 2 32

    Hunting 'Zombie Accounts' in Active Directory (www.fabian.fyi)
  • 103 82

    Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle of a Rally? (newrepublic.com)
  • 18 74

    AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages (www.indiatoday.in)
  • 77 244

    Simple circuits can create complex behaviors (aatishb.com)
  • 122 190

    Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age (nullprogram.com)
  • 79 53

    Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks (www.thebignewsletter.com)
  • 8 20

    Keeping the Bonfires Lit (www.historytoday.com)
  • 137 99

    French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic (www.assemblee-nationale.fr)
  • 163 327

    Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts (www.parameter.ai)
  • 23 65

    Shiny Object Syndrome (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 0 6

    What's on That Access Port? (danielmangum.com)
  • 184 320

    Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable (piefed.world)
  • 481 855

    Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament (www.science.org)
  • 4 17

    Sneezecount (2018) (sneezecount.joyfeed.com)
  • 50 204

    AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura (thedataexchange.media)
  • 20 59

    How long do you need to hold down the power button to turn off a PC? (www.osnews.com)
  • 238 323

    Digital minimalism (vitalik.eth.limo)
  • 46 206

    Switch Lowering in GCC (xoranth.net)
  • 49 189

    Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32 (zebra.rodeo)
  • 1 13

    Show HN: Samosa – Linter for Math Derivations (samosa-math.vercel.app)
  • 16 20

    Tools Hacker News keeps asking for (stillunbuilt.shiptiffin.app)
  • 1 21

    Configure a UPS on Linux with NUT (linuxjunkies.org)
  • 26 45

    Brief History of PDP Computers (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 191 183

    OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target (www.wsj.com)
  • 26 67

    Longitudinal Changes InWearable-Captured PhysiologyBefore Sudden Cardiac Death (www.jacc.org)
  • 14 87

    Flock camera searches fell 95% after a dispatcher's misconduct was caught (www.wkyc.com)
  • 8 56

    Double Buffering with Cloudflare Queues (bellone.com)
  • 121 340

    Tell HN: Scribd Breached
  • 16 52

    Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers (github.com)
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  • 30 74

    Trapped in the Technologist Factory (ideolalia.com)
  • 4 10

    Be a Loser (makemeacto.cc)
  • 0 20

    Wonderful Weather: Floods and Foreboding in 17th-Century Britain (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 74 236

    Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game (tng.episodle.com)