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  • 0 13

    Researchers discover rare star system that emits radio signals every 8 minutes (www.curtin.edu.au)
  • 159 142

    Anthropic IPO (ipo.anthropic.com)
  • 3 9

    Code Smells of Desperation (2023) (www.os2museum.com)
  • 11 50

    Making a €40 USB-C hub work as a Nintendo Switch 2 dock (blog.nozomi.space)
  • 42 102

    Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard (pron.github.io)
  • 1 13

    Grote Reber and the 'Square Kilometre Array' Near Bothwell, Tasmania (2017) (www.researchgate.net)
  • 26 27

    Legocam: My Lego webcam from 2000, working on a modern Mac (blog.benjamin.ie)
  • 61 159

    A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console (codeberg.org)
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    Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding (forums.spacebattles.com)
  • 2 16

    The Lost World of Aquaterra (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 83 359

    Jane Street: Socratic Tutor (github.com)
  • 53 113

    I gave an agent a lakehouse and control of my garden (jatorre.github.io)
  • 27 69

    I'm Working on a FOSS Linux Pinbal Simulation Engine (www.getlazarus.org)
  • 68 75

    Bad ideas that aren't bad anymore (devonestes.com)
  • 9 42

    Slavdom Unearthed: Marian Wawrzeniecki's Neopagan Paintings (1891–1923) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 21 46

    I caught Microsoft Defender uploading my unreleased software without asking (garrettstimpson.ca)
  • 1 8

    Show HN: Ramasite, a Self-Contained Laravel/Filament/SQLite CMS (github.com)
  • 6 28

    Darling Development Update – Q4 2026 (blog.darlinghq.org)
  • 30 31

    Stingray Fish Laser (www.stingray.no)
  • 8 51

    Lean Grimoire (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 123 256

    Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server (www.wiz.io)
  • 42 70

    Did Life Begin in an RNA World? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 12 40

    How to make a CNC plasma cutter with high-frequency start (incoherency.co.uk)
  • 1 20

    Making the Iron Giant Live (animationobsessive.substack.com)
  • 7 32

    Modern Web Guidance 1.0: The web platform expertise your coding agent is missing (developer.chrome.com)
  • 47 118

    A general purpose Apple Silicon layer for x86-64 PCs (github.com)
  • 20 53

    A Brief History of Sierra Online (2017) (retrofreakreviews.com)
  • 4 225

    Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports (twitter.com)
  • 1501 1124

    Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang (www.wsj.com)
  • 60 484

    93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019) (www.mcmillen.dev)
  • 1 34

    Optimizing Reference Deletions in Git (nayak.im)
  • 58 276

    Lock Your GitHub Actions (hugovk.dev)
  • 476 381

    Jensen Huang said to have had relationship with executive who reports to him (www.nytimes.com)
  • 606 582

    United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 63 84

    Play GTA5 on Browser (playgta5.com)
  • 12 51

    Tools for exploring the souls of large language models (oshea00.github.io)
  • 28 59

    Flying on Green: Why Farmers Are Turning to Drones for Cover Crop Seeding (www.agweb.com)
  • 228 155

    The Apple Support Community will permanently close on November 20, 2026 (discussions.apple.com)
  • 39 164

    The Utah Teapot (graphics.cs.utah.edu)
  • 61 81

    GitHub Incident with Webhooks, Actions, etc. (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 26 120

    Huawei releases MACaQ, its internal quantizer for local inference (github.com)
  • 119 258

    Emacs in the Age of Magic (commandlinesystems.com)
  • 0 10

    Beans at altitude: stovetop vs. pressure cooker (highaltitudelife.com)
  • 15 82

    Cancer vaccine for Yash, he's diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer (github.com)
  • 278 231

    Why are we still working this hard? (wilsoniumite.com)
  • 28 54

    IBM Quantum Nighthawk Demonstrates New Levels of Speed and Quality (newsroom.ibm.com)
  • 143 468

    Gemini Decisions API (blog.google)
  • 172 160

    Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble (lpeproject.org)
  • 174 58

    Jensen Huang Must Resign (www.economist.com)
  • 8 40

    The tiny transmitter tracking monarch butterflies' migration, Canada to Mexico (www.begiant.ca)
  • 88 230

    Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund (termsheetplease.com)
  • 14 41

    The Power and Legacy of Virginia Tech's Mac-Based Supercomputers (512pixels.net)
  • 2 111

    AWS Emulator and the engineer's job when agents write the code (www.allthingsdistributed.com)
  • 247 884

    AWS emulator (github.com)
  • 10 36

    A C++ Quicksort Faster Than std:sort (tiki.li)
  • 9 50

    TimeNet: Open-source data infrastructure for Temporal Foundation Models (github.com)
  • 21 62

    Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C (github.com)
  • 146 1280

    Tim Peters has died (discuss.python.org)
  • 81 51

    100x Developers (jcarreras.es)
  • 45 56

    Launch HN: Pomerado (YC F26) – Turn any website into an MCP for agents
  • 6 20

    Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in danfoss sm-800A (www.midnightblue.nl)
  • 38 218

    Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG (machinelearning.apple.com)
  • 6 22

    Show HN: 3D to 2D, point clouds flattening (geometry images) (github.com)
  • 98 263

    Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola (github.com)
  • 17 17

    Tech Allies Rally Behind Jensen Huang, Calling Him Vital in AI Race (Gift Link) (www.nytimes.com)
  • 37 42

    Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) (www.jmis.org)
  • 4 12

    A Brain Teaser of an Obituary (www.nytimes.com)
  • 31 79

    Show HN: Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available) (github.com)
  • 19 77

    The Computer Graphics Book of Knowledge (www.cs.cmu.edu)
  • 248 518

    A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter (michael.bacarella.com)
  • 109 119

    AI, activity, and outcomes in software engineering (cabird.com)
  • 73 67

    The hardest notes to find on the guitar (www.gitori.com)
  • 1 10

    Welcome to Ed and Sam's great adventure (www.hintz.org)
  • 5 72

    Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation (machinelearning.apple.com)
  • 0 10

    The Afterlife of the Berlin Wall (www.historytoday.com)
  • 77 408

    Hyper-realistic sand with WebGL2 (av.github.io)
  • 131 118

    In defense of giving a shit (www.possibilityspace.org)
  • 6 46

    EventSourcingDB 1.3.0 Is Available (www.eventfoundation.io)
  • 18 103

    Show HN: Godbolt-in-a-floating-window for Neovim (C, C++, Rust) (github.com)
  • 80 225

    Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine (blog.atuin.sh)
  • 3 256

    Apple is killing its Support Community forum next week (www.theverge.com)
  • 37 130

    Pharo in the Browser with WebAssembly (massimo-nocentini.github.io)
  • 19 79

    Peer-to-peer WebRTC connections with built-in signaling and discovery (github.com)
  • 2 14

    Show HN: ThingStudio, Node-RED style programming for microcontrollers (thingstudio.net)
  • 245 367

    I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you (www.theverge.com)
  • 122 205

    We need more goat sacrifices (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 64 173

    Open research, stronger privacy: Making Firefox users harder to fingerprint (blog.mozilla.org)
  • 6 32

    Make this forward pass as fast as possible (ianbarber.blog)
  • 14 66

    Physically Controllable Relighting of Photographs (yaksoy.github.io)
  • 76 55

    The Housing Market Is Nuts (nuts.logical.li)
  • 13 64

    Next-Level Benchmarking Overfitting – Thomas Neumann (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
  • 369 1009

    My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site? (pietromiotti.com)
  • 42 288

    Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming? (nathan.rs)
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    Small-Grid Wraparound Cellular Automata (justismills.substack.com)
  • Tinfoil (YC P25) is hiring an applied AI security engineer in San Francisco
  • 125 319

    Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card (blog.kate.land)
  • 86 58

    The Zig project is going nowhere (bytecode.news)
  • 4 8

    Good Enough for a Tuesday Night (www.newyorker.com)
  • 56 60

    Plane lifted into back garden as bunker takes shape (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 36 87

    Why Amstrad chose the 3" drives (www.cpcwiki.eu)
  • 109 64

    OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions (osssaysno.com)
  • 64 146

    Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS (github.com)
  • 3 28

    "Jumping genes" helped ants evolve after the extinction of the dinosaurs (www.uni-muenster.de)
  • 14 39

    A ZIP-style Prolog VM for trilog (github.com)
  • 10 73

    A Compendium of Abandoned Greenhouses (www.messynessychic.com)
  • 81 119

    Greg Kurtzer's Ginux is now a userspace kernel (github.com)
  • 1 15

    The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (isac.uchicago.edu)
  • 139 390

    Protecting SSH Keys with macOS Secure Enclave (gatezh.com)
  • 4 32

    Unremarkable things we made in 2026 (www.neilchen.co)
  • 159 155

    To deter bioterrorism, U.S. imposes new rules on ordering synthetic DNA (www.science.org)
  • 28 52

    Hooked on Tuna (theconversation.com)
  • 48 198

    Why I wrote the BEAM book (2025) (happihacking.com)
  • 69 273

    A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013) (blog.moertel.com)
  • 22 91

    LLMs Play Zachtronics' TIS-100 (tis-100.wincon.dev)
  • 9 34

    Ergodic Literature (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 86 58

    AI is becoming an information gateway. Audiences still don’t want it making news (www.niemanlab.org)
  • 3 36

    Research taste in history: the importance of learning Babylonian math (resobscura.substack.com)
  • 22 47

    Show HN: Aircad – Professional drafting and 3D modeling in the browser (aircad.com)
  • 149 143

    $30M Raised to Redo the CPU (tendrils.co)
  • 40 74

    Pinot Noir: inside the criminal gangs making fake wine (www.economist.com)
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