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  • 0 21

    SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud (analytics.fixelsmith.com)
  • 2 16

    NYT and Vaping: How to Lie by Saying Only True Things (gwern.net)
  • 2 7

    I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan (gardinerbryant.com)
  • 8 12

    Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer (ploopy.co)
  • 3 17

    I broke AppLovin's mediation cipher protocol (www.buchodi.com)
  • 6 47

    Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64 (phoboslab.org)
  • 86 224

    'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens (kevinpatel.xyz)
  • 5 40

    The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 8 24

    Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI (ljtn.github.io)
  • 7 28

    ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board (www.autodidacts.io)
  • 9 135

    Erlang/OTP 29.0 (www.erlang.org)
  • 60 65

    The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021) (dynomight.net)
  • 3 29

    Spectre Programming Language (spectre-docs.pages.dev)
  • 5 24

    OnlyCats – TikTok for Cats (onlycats.cc)
  • 2 24

    A SQL-Inspired Query Language Designed for Event Sourcing (2025) (yoeight.github.io)
  • 8 45

    Hawaii passes law bypassing Citizens United, governor signs it (ca.news.yahoo.com)
  • 6 60

    How to Write to SSDs [pdf] (www.vldb.org)
  • 3 25

    Waymo driverless cars become trapped in Atlanta suburb after glitch [video] (www.bbc.com)
  • 5 74

    Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
  • 2 26

    The day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world (2014) (www.bbc.com)
  • 411 943

    I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis (twitter.com)
  • 84 124

    London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 54 189

    Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials (www.thenational.scot)
  • 227 374

    California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down (arstechnica.com)
  • 0 9

    Trevor Howsam Limited: 19th- and 20th-Century Props and Wallpaper (trevorhowsam.com)
  • 21 58

    Microscale Thermite Reaction (sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu)
  • 143 167

    Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center (fortune.com)
  • 58 236

    The Zulip Foundation (blog.zulip.com)
  • 16 36

    Echoes (Live at Pompeii) (1972) (genius.com)
  • 13 11

    Show HN: Claude Code vs. Codex Global Usage Leaderboard (costhawk.ai)
  • 54 126

    WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64 (github.com)
  • 16 49

    Building a UMatrix Replacement (lock.cmpxchg8b.com)
  • 62 102

    Judge bars Kars4Kids from broadcasting 'misleading' ads in California (www.nytimes.com)
  • 128 277

    ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline (twitter.com)
  • 2 43

    The nuclear-physics infrastructure behind PET scans (www.lanl.gov)
  • 27 22

    Travelers on Air Force One ordered to throw away gifts, phones after China trip (techcrunch.com)
  • 163 171

    Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water' (www.cnbc.com)
  • 256 375

    Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust" (github.com)
  • 15 47

    Feedr v0.8.0 – a TUI RSS reader, now read the full article from your terminal (github.com)
  • 23 39

    Show HN: Sx – an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands (github.com)
  • 253 384

    U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app (macdailynews.com)
  • 29 89

    I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator (github.com)
  • 18 33

    Aperio Lang (aperio-lang.github.io)
  • 21 17

    Show HN: Find local farms near you with raw dairy, pasture eggs, and more (farm-to-door.com)
  • 114 92

    We don't know why Malawi is poor (newsletter.deenamousa.com)
  • Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring (hightouch.com)
  • 112 71

    OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid (firethering.com)
  • 27 139

    Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image (github.com)
  • 90 49

    I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows (jpain.io)
  • 172 168

    The sigmoids won't save you (www.astralcodexten.com)
  • 181 774

    Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better (www.gutenberg.org)
  • 11 10

    UCF Commencement Speaker Draws Boos After A.I. Remarks (www.nytimes.com)
  • 21 68

    Zenith: a live local-first fixed viewport planetarium (smorgasb.org)
  • 31 128

    Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake (ppo.gradexp.xyz)
  • 3 14

    Omnisearch – A lightweight metasearch engine written in C (git.bwaaa.monster)
  • 77 64

    Check Your Fucking Sources, People (brodzinski.com)
  • 21 162

    ASCII by Jason Scott (ascii.textfiles.com)
  • 149 175

    Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue (www.revswap.ai)
  • 163 347

    A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10 (projectzero.google)
  • 127 134

    Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee? (www.worseonpurpose.com)
  • 34 96

    High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry (2017) [pdf] (www.ams.org)
  • 275 348

    We are retiring our bug bounty program (turso.tech)
  • 78 39

    AI is wiping out entry-level jobs (fortune.com)
  • 361 326

    Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks (www.fastcompany.com)
  • 172 146

    “Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive? (kingy.ai)
  • 122 91

    Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does (imagenotfound.writeas.com)
  • 135 140

    The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born (www.baldurbjarnason.com)
  • 120 206

    Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site (www.fastcompany.com)
  • 74 221

    Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git (radicle.dev)
  • 10 52

    NanoTDB – Golang Append-Only Time Series DB (github.com)
  • SigNoz (YC W21, open source Datadog) Is hiring for growth and engineering roles (signoz.io)
  • 77 108

    Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security (www.metabase.com)
  • 157 196

    Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 52 231

    O(x)Caml in Space (gazagnaire.org)
  • 43 54

    Where's Ed: Anthropic Told Court $5B but Public $19B (www.flyingpenguin.com)
  • 41 53

    Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 27 43

    Geography is four-dimensional (sive.rs)
  • 63 278

    Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks (github.com)
  • 109 104

    UK sovereign LLM inference (relax.ai)
  • 112 496

    Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop (explorer.samismith.com)
  • 58 63

    Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management (github.com)
  • 19 93

    Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory (hghalebi.github.io)
  • 114 131

    Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
  • 15 88

    UK Government Kicks Out Palantir (shkspr.mobi)
  • 93 110

    Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms (dylan.gr)
  • 10 23

    Coldkey – Post-quantum age key generation and paper backup tool (github.com)
  • 66 106

    reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification Is Bringing the Play Integrity API to Desktops (discuss.grapheneos.org)
  • 94 259

    Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha (www.tristandc.com)
  • 152 234

    How Claude Code works in large codebases (claude.com)
  • 0 11

    The Founding Story Behind the House of Suntory (www.townandcountrymag.com)
  • 214 208

    Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints (writing.antonleicht.me)
  • 6 13

    Find vendors used by any company (sub-processors.com)
  • 35 159

    Gyroflow: Video stabilization using gyroscope data (github.com)
  • 82 96

    LLM Policy for Rust Compiler (github.com)
  • 359 569

    Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying (tmctmt.com)
  • 1 11

    What could Functional Architecture mean? [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 4 21

    UFerris a Versatile Learner Board for Rust Embedded Beginners (www.theembeddedrustacean.com)
  • 98 70

    7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 6 15

    Velonus – Open-source AppSec scanner that deduplicates SAST noise (github.com)
  • 6 11

    CSS Rhythmic Sizing Module Level 1 (www.w3.org)
  • 48 59

    Show HN: Race to the Bottom (race-to-the-bottom.onrender.com)
  • 55 58

    Elevated error rates on Opus 4.7 (status.claude.com)
  • 67 24

    Do teachers need advanced degrees? (www.cremieux.xyz)
  • 35 53

    Show HN: GridTravel – A community based travel app for users to share routes (www.gridtravel.app)