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  • 0 7

    Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web (usefeyn.com)
  • 2 7

    Show HN: I Built LangGraph for Swift (github.com)
  • 0 13

    Egypt Is Building a New Nile (www.theb1m.com)
  • 4 39

    Union Busters Coming After Me (www.nlrbedge.com)
  • Stealth robotics startup (YC S26) is hiring principal engineers (Palo Alto)
  • 52 44

    Should DayQuil Be Legal? (www.theargumentmag.com)
  • 45 73

    Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC (oztalking.com)
  • 58 62

    Car touchscreens are cheap, not good (ben.stolovitz.com)
  • 20 35

    Multilingual Experience Linked to Delayed Aging in Populations and Individuals (fens2026.abstractserver.com)
  • 21 31

    Electric anti-aircraft interceptor drone breaks world air speed record at 434mph (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 11 31

    1k Words: A Writing Contest (writingclub.world)
  • 69 76

    AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit (www.lttlabs.com)
  • 10 60

    DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat (news.bloomberglaw.com)
  • 118 101

    What Emily Bender meant by "stochastic parrots" (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 55 86

    Do you need separate systems when you already have Postgres? (postgresisenough.dev)
  • 68 96

    Resetting Xbox (news.xbox.com)
  • 108 152

    How Kalshi Infects the News (www.publicnotice.co)
  • 19 111

    Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys (clojure.org)
  • 42 54

    'There Is No Going Back': The Inside Story of Europe's Rupture with America (www.wsj.com)
  • 32 104

    Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman After Surveilling Her with a LPR (www.404media.co)
  • 45 50

    UEFA slams FIFA's 'unprecedented, unjustifiable' Balogun decision (www.reuters.com)
  • 6 24

    Lost and Found (walzr.com)
  • 11 42

    Real time map of France's rail network (carto.tchoo.net)
  • 16 27

    The Fear of Dying Before You Become Yourself (www.dailicle.com)
  • 44 125

    Aluminum foil (2021) (dernocua.github.io)
  • 120 179

    Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries (www.nintendo.com)
  • 19 48

    When 2+2=5 (arstechnica.com)
  • 27 93

    Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk (techcrunch.com)
  • 50 100

    Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability (andonlabs.com)
  • 158 226

    Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps (raheeljunaid.com)
  • 10 14

    Show HN: Pet Reminder – A macOS reminder app with a desktop pet (reminder.w3cub.com)
  • 30 56

    Why low-latency Java still requires discipline? (chronicle.software)
  • 67 45

    Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself (twitter.com)
  • 88 66

    Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new (rruxandra.github.io)
  • 19 35

    Show HN: Scan your AI agents for dangerous capabilities (github.com)
  • 6 11

    I packed 16 GB of GGUF quants into 1.8 GB, losslessly (github.com)
  • 46 76

    The AI Marketing Backlash: Why 'AI-First' Brands Are Starting to Fall Flat (www.breef.com)
  • 76 177

    Workers Cache (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 7 20

    NASA launches robot to save Swift telescope falling to Earth (www.bbc.com)
  • 4 14

    The AI Big Crunch Is Starting (medium.com)
  • 3 37

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to Agentic AI (arxiv.org)
  • 6 20

    What we learned when a user tried to load a 1 GB GML file in a browser (geodataviewer.com)
  • 49 29

    Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution (www.surrey.ac.uk)
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  • 87 208

    Road to Elm 1.0 (elm-lang.org)
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    I'm just so bored of AI (shkspr.mobi)
  • 2 7

    Vacuum at the Page Level (boringsql.com)
  • 24 37

    X402, a static blog monetization excercise (shtein.me)
  • 49 49

    How the U.S. Engineered Its Sovereignty (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 8 17

    Show HN: Paint the Earth on a live, interactive globe (collaborative art.) (earth.tattoo)
  • 56 47

    "Software Engineering" Is Not Engineering (2005) (web.archive.org)
  • 16 106

    C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability (www.theregister.com)
  • 6 57

    The Complete Homemade Juggling Beanbag Guide (www.joshuaclifton.com)
  • 15 62

    My quest to see all of Tetris (antithesis.com)
  • 122 313

    Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network (www.map.signalbox.io)
  • 25 159

    Introduction to Genomics for Engineers (learngenomics.dev)
  • 45 72

    Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 39 48

    Generate parametric, manufacturable 3D models in seconds (kyrall.com)
  • 103 121

    When AI Costs More Than the Engineer (tomtunguz.com)
  • 3 17

    Show HN: Visualize Model Spikiness in 3D (www.modelmap.tech)
  • 8 14

    Show HN: I wrote a Rust book ending with a Redis clone (shankhan3.gumroad.com)
  • 2 23

    Modernizing a 25-year-old minimal C++ unit testing framework (Part 2) (freshsources.com)
  • 0 16

    Platonic Hydrocarbons (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 36 31

    Shrimple – A Simpler, Nicer Markdown (qount25.dev)
  • 166 271

    Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped (www.uncommonapps.nyc)
  • 1 20

    An Ordinary Mind on an Ordinary Day (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
  • 8 35

    Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978) (kamprint.com)
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  • 78 95

    The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming (geastack.com)
  • 21 90

    The Sneakerweb (sneakerweb.org)
  • 341 387

    GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex (twitter.com)
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  • 13 26

    A Forlorn Hope of Fortran Modernisation (amenzwa.github.io)
  • 1 52

    Egg companies made $1.22B in profit off $6 carton (fortune.com)
  • 12 30

    Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects (www.stephendiehl.com)
  • 1 9

    Building Agents That Don't Break Themselves (fly.io)
  • 87 184

    Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study (arxiv.org)
  • 86 162

    The Private Capture of Public Genius (www.wysr.xyz)
  • 26 56

    The Writers Who Wrote the Most in History (brennan.day)
  • 7 9

    Strange Balls found on Queensland beaches could be toxic 'space debris': experts (www.inkl.com)
  • 16 36

    The AI Compass Quiz (bambamramfan.github.io)
  • 0 25

    Lean Software Scaling Laws (gwern.net)
  • 118 429

    Has_not_been_viewed_much (iamwillwang.com)
  • 580 323

    Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected (www.reuters.com)
  • 72 163

    Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills (www.readtheline.ca)
  • 1 3

    Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expected (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 32 47

    Connections in Math: the two kinds of random (stillthinking.net)
  • 2 24

    Artificial Adventures (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  • 7 19

    Tell HN: don't trust Bigco AI agents with AI research IP
  • 9 108

    Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly? (nicole.express)
  • 0 15

    Johnson Thermoelectric Energy Converter (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 7 9

    Had an idea for a Rust editor with simple Vim mode for learning (github.com)
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  • 353 152

    Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July (www.nbcchicago.com)
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  • 60 77

    DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world (github.com)
  • 0 14

    Speech and Noise Corpora for Pitch Estimation of Human Speech (zenodo.org)
  • 18 72

    Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy (segflow.github.io)
  • 14 23

    CoCom regulations and GPS receivers for balloons and cubesats (2016) (space.stackexchange.com)
  • 52 213

    Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years (homegames.io)
  • 9 12

    Y Combinator.singles (www.ycombinator.singles)
  • 19 22

    How the first solo-founder unicorn gets built (www.thisandthat.chat)
  • 153 242

    Completing a computer science degree on Coursera (notesbylex.com)
  • 10 25

    The full stack of terminals explained (ahmadawais.com)
  • 16 108

    Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 1 7

    Trouble Transitioning (2025) (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 19 52

    Show HN: Osint tool that finds exposed files on domains (search.cerast-intelligence.com)
  • 41 53

    Dependencies should be fetched directly from VCS (www.arp242.net)
  • 21 31

    Pint in England (dispatch-media.com)
  • 262 1065

    OpenPrinter (www.opentools.studio)
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  • 23 76

    Dungeon Proof Crawler: learn how to write proofs with RPG (dhilst.github.io)
  • 13 32

    Tripadvisor AI summaries give glowing reviews to dangerous hotels (www.euronews.com)
  • 2 54

    We Always Leave Things Unfinished (bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com)
  • 64 47

    Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty (www.adexchanger.com)
  • 41 208

    Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata (tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi)
  • 83 158

    Small Penis Rule (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 35 128

    Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 18 13

    Neoengineers (elijahpotter.dev)
  • 5 10

    Australia probes mystery space balls that washed up on beach (www.bbc.com)
  • 77 43

    Do you hate XML? (2010) (sigfrid-lundberg.se)
  • 168 379

    The future of Flipper Zero development (blog.flipper.net)
  • 8 14

    Every postcard tells a story (observer.co.uk)
  • 60 96

    You need a webring (shub.club)
  • 107 173

    New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf] (intextbooks.science.uu.nl)
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  • 3 25

    Optimizing an algorithm that's quadratic by design (whatchord.earthmanmuons.com)
  • 32 70

    Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s (thomasw.dev)
  • 0 8

    Taphonomic analysis reveals behavioral & tech capabilities of Homo floresiensis (www.science.org)
  • 33 23

    Moving back home used to be a sign of failure. Now it shows financial savvy (www.wsj.com)
  • 127 59

    Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline (www.nature.com)
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  • 3 7

    Cursed Gemstones – The Koh-I-Noor Diamond (www.vulcans-forge.com)
  • 56 267

    Starring the Computer (www.starringthecomputer.com)
  • 67 83

    A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices (arxiv.org)
  • 17 124

    Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)
  • 2 133

    Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough (techcrunch.com)
  • 480 633

    It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (popcar.bearblog.dev)
  • 154 213

    The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs? (danielstanica.com)
  • 9 37

    The Plight of the Martian Farmer (mceglowski.substack.com)
  • 24 55

    Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC (dmarcwise.io)
  • 40 99

    Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight (www.designboom.com)
  • 111 98

    Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland (www.euronews.com)
  • 3 22

    Show your hands honor for the power they bring you (aresluna.org)
  • 104 117

    Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust (rayfish.xyz)
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  • 74 128

    Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork (raymii.org)
  • 258 460

    EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track (www.heise.de)
  • 10 17

    Spain's cadastre API is SOAP from 2003, so I built a JSON wrapper (+MCP) (prediohq.com)
  • 352 1096

    Organic Maps (organicmaps.app)
  • 16 93

    Airplane Boneyards List and Map (airplaneboneyards.com)
  • 73 103

    Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel (www.economist.com)
  • 62 139

    Phosh 0.56.0 (phosh.mobi)
  • 32 105

    Show HN: KiCad in the Browser (demo.pcbjam.com)
  • 50 309

    Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (2021) (dthain.github.io)
  • 245 176

    Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025) (www.acc.org)
  • 6 31

    A gender-swap EarthBound for my daughter (2025) (tommy.reddad.net)
  • 42 68

    Trust your compiler: Modern C++ (categorica.io)
  • 1 38

    The Engineer in the Half-Space (yusufaytas.com)
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    Show HN: I trained a language model that thinks the capital of Japan is Paris (hamiltonianresearch.xyz)
  • 20 35

    Dark mode with web standards (olliewilliams.xyz)
  • 52 71

    Knowledge Should Not Be Gated (www.formaly.io)
  • 16 51

    Functional Programming in hica (www.hica.dev)
  • 238 155

    Europe's new climate in seven charts (www.bbc.com)
  • 31 120

    Claude Design System Prompt (github.com)
  • 1 30

    Intuitive Quantum Electrodynamics (forwardscattering.org)
  • 7 25

    Scientist who cleaned space toilet on work now leading Mars exploration (www.bbc.com)
  • 50 60

    Pi squared is nearly 10 (mihai.page)
  • 13 22

    Returning to Zig after losing trust in Rust's governance (gracefulliberty.com)
  • 6 6

    Common 3D Benchy Problems, Causes and Fixes (bambu3design.com)
  • 5 30

    Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks (www.bbc.com)
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  • 14 31

    About the Digital Art (www.tricivenola.com)
  • 82 147

    Fast Software, the Best Software (2019) (craigmod.com)
  • 157 147

    Programmers need to start meditating (jacob.gold)
  • 10 30

    Reducing Assumptions, Exploding Your Code (ryelang.org)
  • 122 116

    Web-based cryptography is always snake oil (www.devever.net)
  • 5 30

    Apocketlypse (0dd.company)
  • 2 7

    A Summer of Solar Cooking (2023) (100r.ca)
  • 58 52

    Is The Economist Always Wrong? (economist.com)
  • 1 17

    Width vs. Depth: Speculating on the Margin (blog.doubleword.ai)
  • 79 64

    sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25) (simonwillison.net)
  • 12 141

    Pandoc Lua Filters (pandoc.org)
  • 88 74

    EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles (www.wsj.com)
  • 5 81

    Megawatts by Microwave (computer.rip)
  • 12 19

    Beeg float library, a Rust port of Fabrice Bellard's libbf (github.com)
  • 3 22

    The Particle Box – Kinetic Molecular Theory Simulator (prepok.com)
  • 3 6

    Reading Minds with Ultrasound: Less-Invasive Technique for Brain's Intentions (2021) (www.caltech.edu)
  • 46 38

    Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents (hic-ai.com)
  • 5 18

    The Preemptive Draw and Preemptive Grip in the Cash-in-Transit Sector (gutsgatesguards.wordpress.com)
  • 160 278

    Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix (ui.shadcn.com)
  • 1 17

    Show your hands honor for the power they bring you (aresluna.org)
  • 34 107

    Moby Dick Workout (2022) (www.hogbaysoftware.com)
  • 1 10

    Binary Coverage the Wrong Way (redvice.org)
  • 15 42

    My ASN Journey series (2024) (www.animmouse.com)
  • 60 89

    President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car' (www.msn.com)
  • 4 14

    Backon – Python retry (zero deps, circuit breaker, async native) (github.com)
  • 5 86

    Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts (www.si.edu)
  • 49 112

    The Log is the Agent (arxiv.org)
  • 8 97

    Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii (www.hawaiinewsnow.com)
  • 0 4

    How to Enjoy John Ashbery (joshuacorey.substack.com)
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    If you're a button, you have one job (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 18 68

    University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts of History (2013) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 24 42

    Efficacy and Safety of Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression (jamanetwork.com)
  • 17 120

    Atomic Force Microscope [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 23 145

    Meta's Un-Stable Signature (hackerfactor.com)
  • 2 14

    Recovering garbled Bitcoin addresses (2024) (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 14 82

    Drone Autonomy (2021) (www.cggonzalez.com)
  • 37 50

    Reflections on the Guillotine (1957) (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • 1 16

    Mapping with In-Memory Layers to Reduce LLM Overload (ridgetext.com)
  • 49 69

    Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • 26 78

    Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025) (writerbeware.blog)
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    Zo Computer (www.zo.computer)
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