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  • 1 11

    Show HN: Open-source API Key server written in Go by Ory (github.com)
  • 2 23

    FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL (github.com)
  • 19 39

    Driving in America Is Headlight Hell (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 4 13

    Queues Don't Fix Overload (2014) (ferd.ca)
  • 53 36

    Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 11 20

    AMD Gaslights Security Researcher, Changes Rules Retroactively [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 31 30

    Why Thermodynamics Rules Future Orbital Data Centers (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 23 74

    War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now (phillipspobrien.substack.com)
  • 45 105

    MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source (mimo.xiaomi.com)
  • 18 44

    Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here (www.heise.de)
  • 29 61

    Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future (nextcloud.com)
  • 15 81

    MapComplete – Contibute to OpenStreetMaps (mapcomplete.org)
  • 1 9

    Supporting Exchange and beyond (brendan.abolivier.bzh)
  • 72 92

    US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance (www.bbc.com)
  • 9 70

    Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 (github.com)
  • 125 171

    Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 99 89

    Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May (www.bls.gov)
  • 16 37

    More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might slow you (twitter.com)
  • 7 23

    The AI Agent in the Billing Department of Verizon Is a Mentally Handicapped Thug (samhenrycliff.medium.com)
  • 5 18

    The Economics of Speculative Decoding (fergusfinn.com)
  • 136 202

    Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist (curlewis.co.nz)
  • 111 109

    BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada (electrek.co)
  • 36 58

    The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer (www.currentaffairs.org)
  • 0 4

    Symbolicating a minified stack trace by hand: why source maps can't do it alone (tracewayapp.com)
  • 54 28

    HTML is a native image format, hear me out (hmml.eddocu.com)
  • 54 55

    Human migration has surged since 2000 – these maps reveal where people are going (www.nature.com)
  • 2 16

    The Life and Works of Raoul Bott (2002) (arxiv.org)
  • 234 189

    Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't (www.normaltech.ai)
  • 41 97

    Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning (medium.com)
  • 61 123

    Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles (vale.rocks)
  • 3 36

    Making a Shading Language for My Offline Renderer (agraphicsguynotes.com)
  • 124 259

    Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items (daringfireball.net)
  • 30 99

    Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning (farnoy.dev)
  • 86 47

    Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance (arstechnica.com)
  • 4 11

    The Conductor Rewrite: What They Changed to Make It Fast (performance.dev)
  • 255 559

    Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones (dronexl.co)
  • 68 67

    Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger (github.com)
  • 3 10

    Validation, Docs, tests, and database schemas from one source of truth (github.com)
  • 45 117

    Starfish by Peter Watts (1999) (www.rifters.com)
  • 93 71

    OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users (www.cnbc.com)
  • 10 119

    Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux (blog.nns.ee)
  • 15 43

    Are insecure code completions in PyCharm a vulnerability? (sethmlarson.dev)
  • 88 84

    The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0 (bytecodealliance.org)
  • 24 15

    Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive
  • 2 15

    Building a Korean ambiguity solver fast enough to skip the GPU: 7,300 words/SEC (kimchi-reader.app)
  • 60 107

    CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts (matklad.github.io)
  • 21 101

    Vacuum-Form Signage (bethmathews.substack.com)
  • 17 94

    Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C (nanochess.org)
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  • 0 15

    Computer Lessons (technicshistory.com)
  • 230 518

    AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere (lwn.net)
  • 9 15

    Aws.com and google.com don't have DNSSEC enabled (gist.github.com)
  • 11 37

    Deficient executive control in transformer attention (academic.oup.com)
  • 27 18

    Why are there so many canines in fine art? (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 3 40

    Unix GC Remastered (mohandacherir.github.io)
  • 11 15

    Free financial literacy platform for kids – 90 lessons, no paywall (learnfinly.com)
  • 116 184

    Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 61 119

    World Capitals Voronoi (www.jasondavies.com)
  • 10 64

    US President says 'I love the inflation' (www.cnbc.com)
  • 287 568

    Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos (support.claude.com)
  • 483 548

    Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable (techcrunch.com)
  • 96 39

    Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free (news.immunologic.org)
  • 2 14

    A game's homemade crypto fell to a DIY supercomputer (www.ud2.rip)
  • 120 104

    What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf] (www.sas.upenn.edu)
  • 14 30

    Show HN: Atlasphere – Live Infrastructure Diagrams
  • 7 24

    Pick and Place: Carbon Nanotube Nanoassembly Process (www.c12qe.com)
  • 306 286

    Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM (www.adafruit.com)
  • 5 23

    Show HN: Artie – Real-time data replication to your warehouse, now self-serve (www.artie.com)
  • 39 81

    The Abundance Illusion (www.carlyle.com)
  • 198 895

    πFS (github.com)
  • 3 461

    Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 0 17

    A 35B MoE on a 16 GB GPU, without the offload tax (www.lucebox.com)
  • 23 286

    GeoLibre 1.0 (geolibre.app)
  • 90 314

    Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated (samwilkinson.io)
  • 231 161

    Policy on the AI Exponential (darioamodei.com)
  • 128 102

    Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents (techcrunch.com)
  • 48 273

    L'Affaire Siloxane (mceglowski.substack.com)
  • 72 237

    Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps (www.extend.ai)
  • 192 181

    Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely (www.matteast.io)
  • 105 50

    Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024) (www.noahpinion.blog)
  • 9 23

    Babel-USB: USB drive with every file (github.com)
  • 1 15

    Anatomy of a high-performance EP kernel (fergusfinn.com)
  • 82 266

    How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 297 419

    Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use (github.com)
  • 3 32

    The Dynamo and the Computer: The Modern Productivity Paradox (1989) [pdf] (www.almendron.com)
  • 121 137

    Who's the smartest corvid? (thetyee.ca)
  • 40 139

    Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage (github.com)
  • 6 12

    Show HN: Ustps (UDP Speedy Transmission Protocol Secure) and USSH (github.com)
  • 82 94

    The Case for Free Online Books (2014) (from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com)
  • 86 314

    DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation (blog.google)
  • 7 48

    Postgres by Example (github.com)
  • 4 15

    A Server Called Mercury (kennethreitz.org)
  • 32 161

    Authentication issues related to API requests (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 5 29

    The Last Evolution, by John W Campbell Jr. (1932) (www.gutenberg.org)
  • 297 264

    US Consumer Price Index up 4.2% (www.bls.gov)
  • 30 68

    The iPad was on Tailscale: a WebRTC debugging story (p2claw.com)
  • 60 95

    Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster (www.inverse.com)
  • 111 234

    Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications (burr.apache.org)
  • 520 752

    I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
  • 190 196

    A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent (blue41.com)
  • 24 17

    GnuCash is right. It's also why I built my own finance app (k-id.app)
  • 25 77

    'They take you out of life, out of time': a journey into Spain's cave paintings (www.theguardian.com)
  • 174 81

    Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 134 194

    Notes on DeepSeek
  • 245 522

    PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you (pgdog.dev)
  • 70 146

    ICE denies having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light (www.npr.org)
  • 274 233

    Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
  • 197 181

    I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys (danq.me)
  • 541 1210

    Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight (mohkohn.co.uk)
  • 33 108

    Who Runs Your Rust Future? Hands-On Intro to Async Rust (aibodh.com)
  • 80 250

    All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026) (jivx.com)
  • 108 182

    Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway (sbbresale.ch)
  • 55 77

    Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations (steveblank.com)
  • 20 24

    Notepad++ Zero-Click RCE via Path Traversal (CVE-2026-52884) (github.com)
  • 39 62

    Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota (github.com)
  • 32 78

    Magnetoelectric antennas could transform how underwater robots talk (newatlas.com)
  • 117 122

    Port React Compiler to Rust (github.com)
  • 138 110

    European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low (ecfr.eu)
  • 44 198

    Reviving Papers with Code (paperswithcode.co)
  • 342 535

    Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor (media.mercedes-benz.com)
  • 247 410

    AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
  • 20 121

    I thought I knew how electrolysis worked [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 140 84

    How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks (arstechnica.com)
  • 20 79

    Premature optimization is fun sometimes (invlpg.com)
  • 419 402

    Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension (www.neowin.net)
  • 0 23

    Computer Lessons (technicshistory.com)
  • 124 214

    Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs (www.ddmckinnon.com)
  • 1 15

    The Evolution of 'More Like This' (manticoresearch.com)
  • 1 11

    Bit Propagation over a Noisy Grid (jasonfantl.com)
  • 215 382

    Surprise, pay $1000 (forestwalk.ai)
  • 0 10

    Experience using AI software to prove Euler sum results [pdf] (www.davidhbailey.com)
  • 119 205

    Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery (twitter.com)
  • 2 8

    If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know (simonwillison.net)
  • 0 36

    Value Numbering (bernsteinbear.com)
  • 527 994

    German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews (the-decoder.com)
  • 36 156

    The oldest surviving animated feature film at 100 (www.bbc.com)
  • 426 1231

    macOS Container Machines (github.com)
  • 82 194

    It's death (jesseduffield.com)
  • 22 40

    Starlink shifts hardware from one-time purchase to $10/month rental (arstechnica.com)
  • 22 187

    More Molly Guards (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 13 37

    Show HN: Nucleus – A security-hardened, Nix-native container runtime (github.com)