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  • 5 5

    Show HN: KeyID – Free email and phone infrastructure for AI agents (MCP) (keyid.ai)
  • 3 9

    Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI (hostilevolume.com)
  • 2 5

    In Praise of Stupid Questions (mathenchant.wordpress.com)
  • 7 29

    Digg.com Closing Due to Spam (digg.com)
  • 0 7

    Generalizing Knuth's Pseudocode Architecture to Knowledge (zenodo.org)
  • 12 54

    Sunsetting Jazzband (jazzband.co)
  • 7 26

    Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input (abjadpro.com)
  • 1 9

    The United States of Eugenics (conversationalist.org)
  • 58 68

    The $2 per hour worker behind the OnlyFans boom (www.bbc.com)
  • 21 58

    AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined (www.youtube.com)
  • 94 71

    UBI Is Your Productivity Dividend – The Only Way to All Share What We All Built (scottsantens.substack.com)
  • 194 223

    What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable (mitsloan.mit.edu)
  • 25 46

    An ode to bzip (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 5 18

    Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden (dbushell.com)
  • 13 11

    HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers (arstechnica.com)
  • 15 108

    Nmap in the movies (2012) (nmap.org)
  • 3 50

    Show HN: GitAgent – An open standard that turns any Git repo into an AI agent (www.gitagent.sh)
  • 24 57

    Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (journals.sagepub.com)
  • 5 8

    Parsing semiconductor datasheets into structured register maps for under $0.25 (regforge.dev)
  • 4 50

    The most SHAMELESS structural manipulation of a index I've ever seen (substack.com)
  • 7 18

    Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96 (apnews.com)
  • 3 21

    Show HN: Ink – Deploy full-stack apps from AI agents via MCP or Skills (ml.ink)
  • 90 102

    AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier (robenglander.com)
  • 134 190

    Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025) (www.westernmt.news)
  • 6 8

    Arizona's Meteor Crater is still revealing new secrets 50k years later (www.space.com)
  • 2 18

    Cookie jars capture American kitsch (2023) (www.eater.com)
  • 92 70

    Starlink Militarization and Its Impact on Global Strategic Stability (interpret.csis.org)
  • 15 30

    Nominal Types in WebAssembly (wingolog.org)
  • 4 38

    The Forth Language [Byte Magazine Volume 05 Number 08] (1980) (archive.org)
  • 4 9

    Show HN: AgentArmor – open-source 8-layer security framework for AI agents (github.com)
  • 41 122

    Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben (www.spiegel.de)
  • 9 Mothers Defense (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 12 25

    The Browser Becomes Your WordPress (wordpress.org)
  • 62 192

    Python: The Optimization Ladder (cemrehancavdar.com)
  • 1 6

    Image generation models can think (medium.com)
  • 200 200

    XML Is a Cheap DSL (unplannedobsolescence.com)
  • 184 147

    Please Do Not A/B Test My Workflow (backnotprop.com)
  • 3 31

    Michael Faraday: Scientist and Nonconformist (1996) (silas.psfc.mit.edu)
  • 16 42

    How Lego builds a new Lego set (2023) (www.theverge.com)
  • 139 204

    RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 11 13

    UCP Protocol: The Internet Has 100M Shops and No Front Door (askucp.com)
  • 5 94

    Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware (github.com)
  • 28 227

    Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about (www.crowdsupply.com)
  • 54 129

    The Isolation Trap: Erlang (causality.blog)
  • 8 7

    Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories (arstechnica.com)
  • 12 68

    Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation, Institutional Capture (tboteproject.com)
  • 25 42

    Recursive Problems Benefit from Recursive Solutions (jnkr.tech)
  • 9 28

    AEP (API Design Standard and Tooling Ecosystem) (aep.dev)
  • 29 96

    You gotta think outside the hypercube (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 7 15

    Show HN: Simple plugin to get Claude Code to listen to you (www.gopeek.ai)
  • 13 54

    Atari 2600 BASIC Programming (2015) (huguesjohnson.com)
  • 97 157

    A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016) (karpathy.github.io)
  • 132 192

    Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI (batsov.com)
  • 3 7

    Show HN: Robotics runtime in the browser (flight controller, WebAssembly) (cdn.copper-robotics.com)
  • 25 64

    Optimizing Content for Agents (cra.mr)
  • 35 137

    Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company (arstechnica.com)
  • 3 12

    Shipping Grayscale Photos at Small Scale (underjord.io)
  • 190 299

    Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe (www.bbc.com)
  • 13 148

    An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills (old.reddit.com)
  • 0 15

    Kovan: From Production MVCC Systems to Wait-Free Memory Reclamation (vertexclique.com)
  • 31 80

    Our Experience with I-Ready (moultano.wordpress.com)
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    1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (claude.com)
  • 5 63

    Coding My Handwriting (www.amygoodchild.com)
  • 5 21

    "Added 1M context window for Opus 4.6 by default for Max, Team, and Enterprise" (raw.githubusercontent.com)
  • 238 127

    I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me (lr0.org)
  • 10 60

    OpenTelemetry for Rust Developers (signoz.io)
  • 94 167

    Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people (haitiantimes.com)
  • 45 151

    I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites (benzimmermann.dev)
  • 615 367

    Wired headphone sales are exploding (www.bbc.com)
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  • 9 46

    Exploring JEPA for real-time speech translation (www.startpinch.com)
  • 32 42

    You deleted everything and AWS is still charging you? (jvogel.me)
  • 16 40

    Who Goes Nazi? (1941) (harpers.org)
  • 26 47

    U.S. Tech Giants Flocked to the Persian Gulf. Now They Are Targets (www.nytimes.com)
  • 60 98

    New 'negative light' technology hides data transfers in plain sight (www.unsw.edu.au)
  • 62 37

    How do you capture WHY engineering decisions were made, not just what?
  • 383 360

    Digg is gone again (digg.com)
  • 10 80

    The wild six weeks for NanoClaw's creator that led to a deal with Docker (techcrunch.com)
  • 133 403

    Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software (github.com)
  • 334 192

    Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it? (www.nytimes.com)
  • 49 82

    Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019) (news.stanford.edu)
  • 756 485

    Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters (www.ft.com)
  • 11 19

    My Life Got 100x Better When I Stopped Thinking About Google (joostboer.com)
  • 12 46

    Reddit's Lawsuit Is a Dangerous Attempt to Expand Platform Power (serpapi.com)
  • 36 112

    Using Thunderbird for RSS (rubenerd.com)
  • 459 349

    John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists (twitter.com)
  • 121 333

    Hammerspoon (github.com)
  • 1 15

    Show HN: Svglib a SVG parser and renderer for Windows (github.com)
  • 291 344

    Your phone is an entire computer (medhir.com)
  • 50 87

    Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM (github.com)
  • 5 39

    The Accidental Room (2018) (99percentinvisible.org)
  • 150 109

    Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink (www.newscientist.com)
  • 4 12

    ECJ says EU states must change gender of citizens even if nat'l laws forbid it (brusselssignal.eu)
  • 4 22

    Removing recursion via explicit callstack simulation (jnkr.tech)
  • 30 46

    Revealed: Face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave (www.cam.ac.uk)
  • 169 574

    Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)
  • 160 519

    The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing (www.techdirt.com)
  • 48 145

    OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas (github.com)
  • 1 72

    Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube Like It's Cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)
  • 3 14

    Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall (www.graffiti.org)
  • 32 60

    NASA targets Artemis II crewed moon mission for April 1 launch (www.npr.org)
  • 3 201

    Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act (github.com)
  • 35 54

    Launch HN: Captain (YC W26) – Automated RAG for Files (www.runcaptain.com)
  • 323 1369

    Can I run AI locally? (www.canirun.ai)
  • 4 42

    Two long-lost episodes of 'Doctor Who' have been found (apnews.com)
  • 6 44

    The Mrs Fractal: Mirror, Rotate, Scale (2025) (www.4rknova.com)
  • 423 293

    Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine (www.macrumors.com)
  • 6 62

    Vite+ Alpha: Unified Toolchain for the Web (MIT License) (voidzero.dev)
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  • 25 44

    The Bovadium Fragments: Together with The Origin of Bovadium (kirkcenter.org)
  • 56 149

    Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes (nanoclaw.dev)
  • 69 105

    Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas (www.getspine.ai)
  • 200 404

    E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May (help.instagram.com)
  • 218 199

    Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting (www.theregister.com)
  • 36 55

    301M Records Exposed: The HIPAA Breach Epidemic (ciphercue.com)
  • 29 64

    Dijkstra's Crisis: The End of Algol and Beginning of Software Engineering (2010) [pdf] (www.tomandmaria.com)
  • 581 663

    Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 22 65

    Show HN: Algorithms and Data Structures in TypeScript – Free Book (~400 Pages) (amoilanen.github.io)
  • 10 40

    What we learned from a 22-Day storage bug (and how we fixed it) (www.mux.com)
  • 27 68

    Prompt-caching – auto-injects Anthropic cache breakpoints (90% token savings) (prompt-caching.ai)
  • 283 608

    TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool (tui.studio)
  • 17 71

    Gvisor on Raspbian (nubificus.co.uk)
  • 33 42

    Show HN: fftool – A Terminal UI for FFmpeg – Shows Command Before It Runs (bensantora.com)
  • 14 38

    AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 48 107

    Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025) (88mph.fm)
  • 141 149

    Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures (apnews.com)
  • 528 1257

    Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act (github.com)
  • 236 227

    Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked (darkwebinformer.com)
  • 47 250

    Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image (dgroshev.com)
  • 15 68

    100 Jumps (100jumps.org)
  • 13 14

    Specimen Gallery – CC0 transparent specimen PNGs organized by taxonomy (specimen.gallery)
  • 36 127

    Ceno, browse the web without internet access (ceno.app)
  • 165 324

    Bucketsquatting is finally dead (onecloudplease.com)
  • 7 35

    Worldwide Sidewalk Joy: Adding whimsy to neighborhoods (worldwidesidewalkjoy.com)
  • 123 309

    Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference (www.percepta.ai)
  • 7 40

    Never snooze a future (jacko.io)
  • 5 16

    Show HN: Global Maritime Chokepoints (ryanshook.org)
  • 11 64

    Prefix sums at gigabytes per second with ARM NEON (lemire.me)
  • 99 293

    Lost Doctor Who episodes found (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 15 27

    Why Technology Makes Us More Productive but Not Richer (www.fullstackpm.tech)
  • 7 17

    The Unpredicted vs. the Over-Expected (kevinkelly.substack.com)
  • 197 538

    Vite 8.0 Is Out (vite.dev)
  • 60 101

    Hyperlinks in terminal emulators (gist.github.com)
  • 250 741

    Willingness to look stupid (sharif.io)
  • 11 56

    Celebrating Interesting Flickr Technologies (medium.com)
  • 5 12

    Golden Sets: Regression Engineering for Probabilistic Systems (heavythoughtcloud.com)
  • 40 36

    Can you instruct a robot to make a PBJ sandwich? (pbj.deliberateinc.com)
  • 60 78

    How people woke up before alarm clocks (www.bbc.com)
  • 373 971

    “This is not the computer for you” (samhenri.gold)
  • 46 195

    IMG_0416 (2024) (ben-mini.com)
  • 45 53

    “Design me a highly resilient database” (nikogura.com)
  • 26 103

    Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud (www.theguardian.com)
  • 45 154

    Understanding the Go Runtime: The Scheduler (internals-for-interns.com)