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  • 0 3

    Show HN: How context engineering works, a runnable reference (github.com)
  • 0 13

    Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors (www.sciencedetective.org)
  • 3 15

    A Brief History of Fish Sauce (www.legalnomads.com)
  • 2 18

    Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud (www.reuters.com)
  • 11 29

    2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
  • 2 13

    Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage (www.cnx-software.com)
  • 0 12

    3D-Printing a Trombone (unnamed.website)
  • 56 84

    Banned by Anthropic? (bannedbyanthropic.com)
  • 0 18

    Hot Wiring the Lisp Machine (scheatkode.com)
  • 2 25

    C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model (www.infoq.com)
  • 48 62

    CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity (fortune.com)
  • 18 31

    Prove You Are a Robot: CAPTCHAs for Agents (browser-use.com)
  • 6 27

    Six Levels of Dark Mode (cssence.com)
  • 0 7

    Islamic Medicine (2018) (hekint.org)
  • 7 12

    Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway (www.mtc.com.au)
  • 72 195

    Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft (www.swissinfo.ch)
  • 66 55

    A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988) (www.philosopher.eu)
  • 15 50

    Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure (arstechnica.com)
  • 26 65

    MAGA Is Winning Its War Against U.S. Science (paulkrugman.substack.com)
  • 34 81

    I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)
  • 9 33

    I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com)
  • 14 20

    Gender reassignment significantly increases psychiatric morbidity (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 21 33

    Claude Brain (github.com)
  • 2 27

    Europe has 'maybe six weeks of jet fuel left' (www.bbc.com)
  • 64 131

    The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
  • 60 51

    Uber's AI Push Hits a Wall–CTO Says Budget Struggles Despite $3.4B Spend (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 3 25

    KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode (pubs.acs.org)
  • 4 9

    543 Hours: What happens when AI runs while you sleep (michael.roth.rocks)
  • 31 86

    Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (www.vincentgregoire.com)
  • 17 51

    Show HN: Google Gemini Is Scanning Your Photos – and the EU Said No
  • 7 49

    Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife (github.com)
  • 4 19

    Discord Read Receipts Exploit: When, How Often, How Long (paul.koeck.dev)
  • 11 24

    Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 5 33

    Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader (kevwe.com)
  • 72 91

    Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny (theins.press)
  • 47 90

    PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians (www.ctvnews.ca)
  • 84 106

    Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (www.pcgamer.com)
  • 1 24

    Pairwise Order of a Sequence of Elements (morwenn.github.io)
  • 105 309

    Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com)
  • 2 376

    Vercel says internal systems hit in breach (decipher.sc)
  • 118 114

    Notes from the SF peptide scene (12gramsofcarbon.com)
  • 50 55

    Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List (www.therepository.email)
  • 46 102

    When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break (daverupert.com)
  • 6 39

    Minimal Viable Programs (2014) (joearms.github.io)
  • 140 152

    The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (www.theverge.com)
  • 282 454

    Vercel April 2026 security incident (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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  • 25 109

    Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
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  • 153 235

    Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (www.lbc.co.uk)
  • 41 80

    Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
  • 38 131

    Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (eng.basement.studio)
  • 4 13

    Frank Dudley Beane's Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 83 63

    Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (www.xda-developers.com)
  • 100 267

    The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
  • 1 79

    Binary GCD (en.algorithmica.org)
  • 100 164

    Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
  • 130 517

    Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
  • 108 238

    Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
  • 0 8

    William Cecil's Succession Plan (www.historytoday.com)
  • 66 154

    SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (www.usenix.org)
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  • 156 157

    The RAM shortage could last years (www.theverge.com)
  • 13 50

    Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On (vlad.website)
  • 113 206

    The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
  • 37 171

    Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (www.eff.org)
  • 221 400

    Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
  • 62 80

    SI Units for Request Rate (2024) (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 15 25

    Bipartisan Bill to Tighten Controls on Sensitive Chipmaking Equipment (baumgartner.house.gov)
  • 61 254

    What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
  • 11 53

    Metatextual Literacy (www.jenn.site)
  • 31 46

    Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 33 31

    Surely no brand is more hated by web users that Cloudflare
  • 31 71

    Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com)
  • 52 108

    Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
  • 49 53

    My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (blog.marcoinacio.com)
  • 1 12

    Show HN: Sostactic – polynomial inequalities using sums-of-squares in Lean (github.com)
  • 47 111

    Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
  • 9 17

    Does your DSL little language need operator precedence? (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 107 221

    NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (science.nasa.gov)
  • 10 48

    I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver (medium.com)
  • 164 162

    Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (www.bbc.com)
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  • 16 33

    In the AI propaganda war, Iran is winning (www.economist.com)
  • 185 406

    NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (www.nist.gov)
  • 8 20

    Hardware Is Hard? (prdpx7.github.io)
  • 53 129

    Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
  • 26 179

    Modern Common Lisp with FSet (fset.common-lisp.dev)
  • 12 30

    PostgreSQL production incident caused by transaction ID wraparound (www.sqlservercentral.com)
  • 37 136

    PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com)
  • 6 58

    Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
  • 410 456

    College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
  • 234 360

    Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
  • 16 44

    Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (www.rtrvr.ai)
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    Two $20B: OpenAI and Nvidia in a 'Reasoning Battle' (jianshiapp.com)
  • 49 71

    4-bit floating point FP4 (www.johndcook.com)
  • 4 20

    Headless Everything for Personal AI (interconnected.org)
  • 14 52

    Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018) (texascooppower.com)
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  • 230 340

    Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (www.theguardian.com)
  • 133 76

    America will come to regret its war on taxes (economist.com)
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  • 0 6

    Building a Grow-Only Counter on a Sequentially Consistent KV Store (brunocalza.me)
  • 61 108

    Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 11 107

    Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
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  • 10 85

    The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) (apps.npr.org)
  • UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
  • 108 414

    The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (www.righto.com)
  • 9 15

    Respect to the Man Chasing AI Immortality, While Freeloading Off Our Platform (blog.mulerun.com)
  • 562 600

    Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (tokens.billchambers.me)
  • 50 136

    Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com)
  • 43 116

    Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 91 88

    Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore (arstechnica.com)
  • 140 156

    Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th (goodereader.com)
  • 31 110

    Fuzix OS (www.fuzix.org)
  • 4 31

    Sherry Turkle: "We're losing the raw human part of being with each other" (2013) (www.theguardian.com)
  • 16 19

    Show HN: Solyto – a free, open-source all-in-one personal management app (solyto.app)
  • 18 116

    80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
  • 18 237

    Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (www.sumida-aquarium.com)
  • 420 857

    Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
  • 3 16

    Binary Encodings for JSON and Variant (jincongho.com)
  • 526 542

    Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
  • 33 85

    Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists (ipvm.com)
  • 27 70

    A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025) (ar-ms.me)
  • 144 454

    State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
  • 265 248

    The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
  • 5 31

    Loonies for Loongsons (www.leadedsolder.com)
  • 60 64

    Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware
  • 136 210

    It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
  • 9 26

    Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG (github.com)
  • 105 99

    America Lost the Mandate of Heaven (geohot.github.io)
  • 86 412

    Michael Rabin has died (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 79 256

    Amiga Graphics Archive (amiga.lychesis.net)
  • 16 140

    The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
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  • 65 67

    It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)
  • 63 246

    Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)
  • 235 116

    Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com)
  • 45 88

    Rewriting Every Syscall in a Linux Binary at Load Time (amitlimaye1.substack.com)
  • 17 25

    Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale (waxletter.com)
  • 51 307

    Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
  • 72 139

    Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language (lindbakk.com)
  • 0 10

    Ben Lerner's Big Feelings (www.vulture.com)
  • 31 187

    Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)
  • 17 75

    Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
  • 1 9

    Generating Hierarchical JSON Representations of Scientific Sentences Using LLMs (arxiv.org)
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    Coq theorem prover is now called Rocq (rocq-prover.org)