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  • 0 3

    Snails' Teeth Beats Spider Silk as Nature's Strongest Material (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 11 12

    Garnix Is Joining Shopify (garnix.io)
  • 1 7

    Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept (ergo.org)
  • 0 8

    The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)
  • 21 62

    QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 8 24

    Alternate Clock Designs and Time Systems (serialc.github.io)
  • 11 40

    A Love Letter to Flashcards (lesleylai.info)
  • 84 64

    Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C (novaramedia.com)
  • 12 58

    Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church (www.dailymail.com)
  • 41 41

    My burner email blocklist blocked me (benjamin.piouffle.com)
  • 3 11

    How RCA Victor sold Sound Service to classrooms in 1939 (pncnmnp.github.io)
  • 2 6

    Ryanair passenger almost sucked out of shattered window during flight (www.theguardian.com)
  • 3 10

    Man nearly sucked out of window mid-air on Ryanair plane (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 35 42

    Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't (vettedconsumer.com)
  • 11 21

    Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded (github.com)
  • 4 11

    Ancient Coins: What About Spartan Coins? (coinweek.com)
  • 32 73

    Successful Companies Go Blind (ianreppel.org)
  • 61 46

    Scarf has moved away from Haskell (avi.press)
  • 17 41

    ActivityPub over ATProto (berjon.com)
  • 143 123

    Punk, or why I don't stream anymore (geohot.github.io)
  • 9 17

    Offline tool to stabilize TV volume using IR control and spike detection (github.com)
  • 4 12

    Man nearly sucked out of 'detached' window on Ryanair flight (www.rte.ie)
  • 170 206

    Write code like a human will maintain it (unstack.io)
  • 26 26

    Proton AG Services is currently experiencing some issues (status.proton.me)
  • 67 30

    How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
  • 59 41

    Ryanair Passenger Sucked Toward Broken Window After Midair Engine Failure (simpleflying.com)
  • 107 198

    Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)
  • 21 21

    AI doesn't know how to forgive and cannot forget (tejassuds.com)
  • 105 166

    Good Tools Are Invisible (www.gingerbill.org)
  • 51 45

    Java 27: What's New? (www.loicmathieu.fr)
  • Laylo (YC S20) Is Hiring a Head of Finance (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 16 80

    The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia (mappingignorance.org)
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  • 131 181

    EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA (ec.europa.eu)
  • 27 66

    Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian (benjamintoll.com)
  • 0 8

    Tiny Tapeout Explorer: WASM FET-level circuit SIM&vis (znah.net)
  • 66 115

    In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service (yummymelon.com)
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    Browser Fingerprinting – How websites track you across internet –without cookies (mysysinfo.com)
  • 197 205

    AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region (nevo-project.epfl.ch)
  • 8 19

    Damaged Earth Catalog (damaged.bleu255.com)
  • 2 6

    Preempt_none Is Dead; Your Postgres Probably Doesn't Care (thebuild.com)
  • 11 28

    Harman and Dr. Sean Olive are reshaping headphone sound (2025) (www.crutchfield.com)
  • 60 45

    What Big Food Did to Ice Cream (medium.com)
  • 5 39

    Common prefix skipping, adaptive sort (smalldatum.blogspot.com)
  • 229 161

    Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future (www.macrumors.com)
  • 75 71

    Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust (www.anthropic.com)
  • 144 160

    Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond (www.frontiersin.org)
  • 22 58

    Life with Hazard Ratios (dynomight.net)
  • 24 35

    Cache-Conscious Data Layout in Rust: Field Zoning, False Sharing, 128-Byte Rule (debasishg.github.io)
  • 22 60

    Build your own vulnerability harness (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 51 33

    Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet (www.nytimes.com)
  • 53 99

    Focus (boz.com)
  • 10 12

    Show HN: I built a free app for New Yorkers to save money on groceries (sbnyc.app)
  • 14 64

    Triple Dragon Fractal (2020) (paulbourke.net)
  • 8 90

    My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee Part I (2020) (joesiegler.blog)
  • 4 61

    Patterncollider: Generate and explore quasiperiodic tiling patterns (github.com)
  • 407 278

    Why American ambulance rides are so expensive (davidoks.blog)
  • 182 334

    Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig (alexalejandre.com)
  • 13 46

    Distributed system is slower than a laptop (codegood.co)
  • 11 21

    Show HN: Rubiks Cube Solver (speedcube.com.br)
  • 7 32

    Show HN: I built a web tool to see and edit what an AI thinks before it answers (lucid.earthpilot.ai)
  • 0 17

    Show HN: Sighthound - open-source vulnerability scanner for source code (github.com)
  • 300 130

    Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds (www.ello.com)
  • 5 26

    How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner (github.blog)
  • 3 23

    Show HN: RandoFont – A browser for Google Fonts (randofont.alesh.com)
  • 58 48

    I Changed My Name (robida.net)
  • 1 10

    Show HN: Pylon Sync, an agent-first full-stack realtime framework (www.pylonsync.com)
  • 3 16

    What the New Executive Order Means for Secure Software Delivery in Government (www.rise8.us)
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    Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com)
  • 4 12

    Show HN: Policy enforcement for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex (kastra.ai)
  • 28 28

    Don't Get Sick in America (blogography.com)
  • 327 781

    Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made (kotaku.com)
  • 23 55

    The next era of AI is about infrastructure, not just models (blog.mozilla.ai)
  • 9 11

    Dev productivity metrics suck. Ops reviews are key for AI-accelerated eng orgs (www.cortex.io)
  • 117 218

    GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper (toot-books.pages.dev)
  • 22 69

    How to Start a Ruby Meetup (guides.rubyevents.org)
  • 32 36

    How to Follow a Drummer (drummate.app)
  • 239 367

    Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone (www.wired.com)
  • 22 77

    Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas (tomesphere.com)
  • 28 68

    How should group chats work in decentralized systems? (marindedic.com)
  • 10 36

    Show HN: Devthropology – Better Insights for GitHub Repos (devthropology.com)
  • 179 343

    ChatGPT Work (openai.com)
  • 1038 1470

    GPT-5.6 (openai.com)
  • Wildcard (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 37 193

    Girls just wanna have fast MPMC queues with bounded waiting (nahla.dev)
  • 17 35

    Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools
  • 2 26

    Auditory and spontaneous movement responses to music over first postnatal year (elifesciences.org)
  • 209 230

    AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn (www.pangram.com)
  • 13 59

    Why we're moving off Cloudflare Durable Objects (usewire.io)
  • 20 43

    Ways to think about token pricing (www.ben-evans.com)
  • 112 534

    Hy3 (hy.tencent.com)
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    Coordination Without Consolidation: On Systems of States [pdf] (isonomiaquarterly.com)
  • 43 309

    A possible future for Damn Interesting (www.damninteresting.com)
  • 52 90

    How to Write an Email (blog.dannycastonguay.com)
  • 107 76

    What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public (techcrunch.com)
  • 71 139

    Opinionated and easy Pi.dev configuration (lazypi.org)
  • 16 9

    Stop Using reCAPTCHA – It's Not a Real Captcha (na0341.bearblog.dev)
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  • 76 108

    Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website (www.context.dev)
  • 31 46

    Show HN: LastShelf – an emergency map of your family's documents bills& contacts (www.lastshelf.ai)
  • 268 277

    A road to Lisp: Why Lisp (scotto.me)
  • 132 173

    TLS certificates for internal services done right (tuxnet.dev)
  • 3 18

    Reverse-engineering Nvidia's CUDA-checkpoint for faster cold starts (blog.doubleword.ai)
  • 37 98

    SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers (mitpress.mit.edu)
  • 66 93

    PostHog FOSS (github.com)
  • 93 96

    Show HN: Analog Watch (analog.watch)
  • 57 44

    A new way to reflect on how you use Claude (www.anthropic.com)
  • 0 12

    The Backstory of Jiki (jiki.io)
  • 19 28

    Transparency efforts behind the Helium Browser (helium.computer)
  • 20 52

    Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 235 305

    No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026 (datacenter.iers.org)
  • 203 396

    Muse Spark 1.1 (ai.meta.com)
  • 117 38

    Just Pay the Subscription (www.uncommonapps.nyc)
  • 7 31

    Files over tools: how we built our agent with a virtual filesystem and bash (knock.app)
  • 12 37

    Madison Sq Garden database tracks hundreds. Labels "LGBTQIA," & low/high "risk." (www.wired.com)
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  • 327 268

    US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers (arstechnica.com)
  • 21 81

    Syria's solar boom is redefining Middle East's energy model (www.thenationalnews.com)
  • 58 94

    Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps) (github.com)
  • 595 432

    The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war (mwi.westpoint.edu)
  • 12 12

    AI builders outnumber AI governance hires 7:1 in Europe (axipro.co)
  • 12 25

    Show HN: Arcaide – Explore code with multi-level call graphs (arcaide.foo)
  • 64 52

    How version control will evolve for the agent boom (entire.io)
  • 8 21

    Show HN: 92% of US city websites fail ADA accessibility (accesslumens.com)
  • 340 1068

    Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
  • 16 27

    Lead Mines of Galena, Kansas (dustbowlhighway.com)
  • TrueBiz (YC S22) – Senior Software Engineer – Remote (US) – Full-Time
  • 13 14

    Why is there smoke from the boiler room? – Botanical Garden using Home Assistant (vooijs.eu)
  • 126 335

    Bonnie Tyler has died (www.bbc.com)
  • 783 1543

    EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (www.patrick-breyer.de)
  • 651 745

    My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite (andrewkelley.me)
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  • 5 16

    The Field Equation, living shader geometry folded into a breathing object (sand-morph.up.railway.app)
  • 227 322

    Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip (www.theregister.com)
  • 253 359

    Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives (www.howtogeek.com)
  • 7 82

    In-browser programmable robot simulator (bittlex-sim.petoi.com)
  • 35 76

    How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari (dfarq.homeip.net)
  • 60 175

    I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep (www.theautopian.com)
  • 664 766

    Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests (github.com)
  • CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 5 24

    3D Airplane tracker on Mercator map (github.com)
  • 106 102

    AI changes the economics of software rewrites (thetruthasiseeitnow.com)
  • 3 12

    Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design (www.amazon.com)
  • 0 13

    The Strange Locomotion of Spirocuta (chriskiehl.com)
  • 140 300

    Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees (connectsci.au)
  • 187 78

    What's slowing down the AI buildout (www.worksinprogress.news)
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  • 8 25

    Ergo: Long Form Philosophy Lectures (ergo.org)
  • 49 170

    Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI (nexte.st)
  • 66 149

    Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase (www.databricks.com)
  • 13 48

    Apache Shiro security framework releases 3.0.0 (shiro.apache.org)
  • 351 398

    I think I have LLM burnout (www.alecscollon.com)
  • 7 33

    Rewriting Bun in Rust (simonwillison.net)
  • 27 90

    Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit (mhloppy.com)
  • 92 70

    A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median (krisshamloo.com)
  • 17 97

    MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League (mira-wm.com)
  • 107 108

    Remote Attestation (www.liamcvw.com)
  • 32 127

    Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete (seriot.ch)
  • 92 173

    We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps (www.tryai.dev)
  • 10 38

    Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT) (github.com)
  • 3 57

    Beyond Git: Real-Time Version Control for Godot – Lilith Duncan – GodotCon 2026 [video] (www.youtube.com)