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    Assinafy – Assinatura eletrônica grátis and API liberada (www.assinafy.com.br)
  • 1 11

    Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward (blog.archive.org)
  • 13 31

    One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed (www.cnn.com)
  • 7 26

    Greg Abbott says data centers:'basically dug their own grave' (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 11 21

    Fences, Not Sandboxes (yegge.ai)
  • 1 13

    Agent Lightning v1.0 (github.com)
  • 6 12

    Show HN: A puzzle I couldn't solve for a year – cubers cracked it in an hour (skimmiq.com)
  • 116 243

    Oceans hit highest temperature on record (www.bbc.com)
  • 7 39

    A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights (github.com)
  • 12 29

    Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 24 53

    LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines (boydkane.com)
  • 11 51

    ICE officers with electric-shock gloves (www.theguardian.com)
  • 48 35

    The "File" menu isn't about files (adam.farkas.pro)
  • 19 19

    Technology Is Over (www.taylorforeman.com)
  • 5 35

    Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon (github.com)
  • 69 59

    Anger, Anxiety and Agency (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • 16 28

    Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog (textlog.cc)
  • 38 66

    Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study (journals.plos.org)
  • 15 33

    What Is a Syslog Server? (blog.greencloudvps.com)
  • 4 13

    Adding 4 more 2.5GbE interfaces to the GMKtec NucBox G9 (catskull.net)
  • 0 6

    Claude Code Tips (github.com)
  • Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff (app.dover.com)
  • 17 41

    Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge (codefloe.com)
  • 14 70

    Man Dressed as Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council (thehill.com)
  • 126 77

    Where did all the public bathrooms go? (daily.jstor.org)
  • 85 245

    The entire city of San Francisco as a video game (sf.thijs.gg)
  • 14 13

    EuroHPC Launches 6 Quantum Calls with €119M in Funding (www.hpcwire.com)
  • 5 26

    Show HN: How to Mentally Calculate the Day of the Week for Any Date (tinkerandsee.com)
  • 3 40

    Curvature Beziers – Improving on a timeless recipe (acko.net)
  • 8 60

    Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 72 58

    Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services (arxiv.org)
  • 9 63

    Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage (picomq.com)
  • 36 75

    Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are (glassbox.codecanary.org)
  • 3 8

    A Practical Intuition for C++20 Coroutines (blog.ydb.tech)
  • 8 9

    A Server Lost Power at 00:32. We Found Out at 08:18 (danubedata.ro)
  • 12 23

    Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3 (github.com)
  • 45 103

    A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more (alexschapiro.com)
  • 46 122

    Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence (gultsch.de)
  • 17 41

    Firefox intent to ship: JPEG XL (groups.google.com)
  • 4 17

    Hot Chips 2026: Samsung and HBM Base Die Opportunities (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 8 16

    Show HN: Free Inference Engineer and Model Training Roadmap (inferquest.org)
  • 1 15

    Three Generations in E7 (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
  • 43 37

    Could We Dredge the Netherlands Without Fossil Fuels? (2018) (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  • 5 20

    NetBSD GSoC 2026 Improving RAIDframe (blog.netbsd.org)
  • 52 59

    Adafruit USB Type C CC Resistor Fixer (www.adafruit.com)
  • 1 3

    Thefinalthirdfootball (thefinalthirdfootball.blogspot.com)
  • 2 8

    How to choose chocolate (not based on percentage) (chof.nl)
  • 144 278

    IPFS Maintainers Winding Down (ipshipyard.com)
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  • 376 359

    Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance (larsfaye.com)
  • 176 451

    MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (xusheng.dev)
  • 231 247

    OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) (developers.openai.com)
  • 414 626

    Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded (twitter.com)
  • 151 233

    Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online (torrentfreak.com)
  • 14 44

    Hot Chips 2026: Applying High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 27 139

    Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders (ssx360.github.io)
  • 595 918

    How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs (lectronz.com)
  • 71 85

    Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers (www.bbc.com)
  • 8 25

    Show HN: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion – Immutable and Reproducible Operating System (vanillaos.org)
  • 109 111

    Ask HN: Why do corporate failures always seem to punish the wrong people?
  • 33 63

    Agent Is Not the Model (code.joejag.com)
  • 34 157

    SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64 (proofcraft.systems)
  • 59 35

    Anthropic candidates face blunt money question (www.axios.com)
  • 96 56

    Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M (omarchy.org)
  • 69 50

    Omakase Computing (learn.omacom.io)
  • 152 116

    The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven? (www.theguardian.com)
  • 70 54

    Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
  • 86 96

    The Future Belongs to the Weird (essays.georgestrakhov.com)
  • 94 77

    We never use AI. For anything (corkmac.app)
  • 134 175

    Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister (www.theguardian.com)
  • 15 145

    Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file (www.hamiltonulmer.com)
  • 3 72

    Mourning Steve French (lwn.net)
  • 63 72

    Why is Anthropic's public writing style so unlike Claude's? (cmart.blog)
  • 92 56

    We are not going anywhere (gist.github.com)
  • 61 35

    The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax (employees.theworknumber.com)
  • 88 454

    Executable Is a SQLite Database (fzakaria.com)
  • 334 633

    Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future (www.modelrepublic.org)
  • 1 7

    LLM Tool Failures: Only 3 Root Causes – Value, Condition, Intent (github.com)
  • 78 61

    Your Open Source Model Could Have a Hidden Time-Release Backdoor (morgin.ai)
  • 60 74

    Anthropic Claude and API service outages (status.claude.com)
  • 60 122

    Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo (www.afro.who.int)
  • 86 172

    FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease (medicine.washu.edu)
  • 26 116

    OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM (github.com)
  • 575 486

    I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch (twitter.com)
  • 11 32

    Elevated Errors for Multiple Models (status.claude.com)
  • 134 240

    New EU-wide product repair rules come into force (www.rte.ie)
  • 6 23

    Attention is all we have: A conjectural theory of cognitive inequality (davidbessis.substack.com)
  • 4 8

    This Fact About KPIs May Surprise You (www.satisfice.com)
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  • 141 115

    Nearly 3M Teslas recalled in China over hidden door handles (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 15

    Worldwide animated weather map, with easy to use layer and precise spot forecast (www.windy.com)
  • 69 326

    I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me (pantel.is)
  • 46 72

    Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency (www.rnz.co.nz)
  • 6 24

    The first search engine for Internet-connected devices (www.shodan.io)
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  • 56 68

    Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel (www.hanselman.com)
  • 46 58

    Parallel development without the headaches using Git worktree (barrd.dev)
  • 124 107

    Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms (www.cntraveler.com)
  • 45 138

    AI Chip Architectures (www.jepeake.com)
  • 1 19

    Residential proxies scraping your site? Drain their bandwidth (layer3intel.com)
  • 19 89

    Implementation of GPT-2 in pure CMake (github.com)
  • 11 45

    Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions (hugodaniel.com)
  • 334 1338

    Everything I own, owned (schlarp.com)
  • 3 38

    Training AI to Paint with Code (surya.website)
  • 4 7

    Cicada.os – Graphene.os for Your Laptop (kpres12.github.io)
  • 60 92

    The planet now has more trees than it did 35 years ago (2018) (psmag.com)
  • 25 64

    A complex structure on S^6 [pdf] (alpo.ge)
  • 148 378

    Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025) (blog.elis.cc)
  • 9 74

    Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II (www.colino.net)
  • 28 42

    LinkedIn Has Accidentally Become a Dating Site (www.wsj.com)
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  • 32 50

    Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG (arxiv.org)
  • 54 35

    Phoenix tried a reflective coating on black asphalt; noon surface heat fell 12°F (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
  • 45 63

    The Remote Work Challenge: Lessons from 5 Cities (www.pew.org)
  • 4 6

    Claude reaching limits quickly then ever
  • 56 38

    Erik Brynjolfsson says an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely (wpintelligence.washingtonpost.com)
  • 2 18

    From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8 (pikuma.com)
  • 3 28

    Predicting AI model release dates with stats (releaseoracle.xyz)
  • 14 31

    I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI (en.andros.dev)
  • 169 391

    My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 1 6

    Powerful extensions do not need powerful code (adayinthelifeof.nl)
  • 1 10

    Yuval Noah Harari on the economic and political perils of AI (www.economist.com)
  • 37 70

    AI and Infrastructure Engineering (omegion.dev)
  • 140 163

    The Vibe Tax (insufferable.dev)
  • 6 22

    Etched Sohu vs. Nvidia: Transformer ASIC vs. GPU (2026) (www.spheron.network)
  • 60 113

    'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics' (www.npr.org)
  • 13 10

    Say It Four Times (In Your System Prompt) (www.khola.blog)
  • 160 548

    How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)
  • 222 213

    Fable and the end of the free lunch (www.dbreunig.com)
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    Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive (www.ft.com)
  • 152 288

    Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? (slate.com)
  • 65 192

    Explain it to me like I'm ten (timharford.com)
  • 67 55

    Dutch regulator fines Uber $966M for automating driver suspensions (www.theguardian.com)
  • 2 12

    My Obituary for Dr Tim King, Tripos, AmigaOS, Helios and UK Online Pioneer (www.theregister.com)
  • 8 17

    I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines and ported it to Windows (tarjan.itch.io)
  • 111 62

    We must not grant AI agents legal personhood (www.ft.com)
  • 33 30

    Vit D assoc w better cognition in those w sleep disturb + mild cognitive impair (www.sciencedirect.com)
  • 124 381

    A website for debloated open source alternatives (debloat.dev)
  • 23 37

    Being nude in public can make us feel better about our bodies (www.bbc.com)
  • 118 193

    Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling (punyamishra.com)
  • 110 236

    GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost (reinvently.co.uk)
  • 212 185

    Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests (studyfinds.com)
  • 2 5

    So, You Found a Foden Steam Lorry in a Field. What Next? (hackaday.com)
  • 19 35

    Hacker News in Uncompromised Detail (vale.rocks)
  • 289 677

    I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day (ericpardee.github.io)
  • 12 21

    Blueprint for how to be self sufficient in a 1/4 acre backyard (www.reddit.com)
  • 75 370

    How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (how.complexsystems.fail)
  • 35 24

    Universal Housing (twitter.com)
  • 9 73

    Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi (hackaday.com)
  • 174 541

    What Is a Harness? (earendil.com)
  • 18 27

    Authoritarianism of Code (2020) (zedshaw.com)
  • 152 383

    Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras (risky.biz)
  • 106 109

    Things I want in a modern relational query language (sporks.space)
  • 3 48

    Rust 1.98 got a P-critical miscompilation (github.com)
  • 75 87

    Death to px, long live ch (shkspr.mobi)
  • 119 271

    My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)
  • 1 23

    AI Engineering Skills Map: Building and Deploying AI Applications (twitter.com)
  • 18 45

    Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products (doi.org)
  • 139 259

    Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware (securelist.com)
  • 59 79

    Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days (www.telegraph.co.uk)
  • 72 108

    Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium (www.bbc.com)
  • 147 358

    I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (www.xda-developers.com)
  • 54 48

    'AI refuser' quit her dream job, and hopes others follow (www.smh.com.au)
  • 39 67

    Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive (skylens.yantraai.app)
  • 17 43

    Canada now 'at war' with United States over trade, Prime Minister says (www.theglobeandmail.com)
  • 20 21

    Doomscrolling at work wastes time, but the real cost is what happens after (stories.tamu.edu)
  • 146 150

    The Sloppification of Peptides (henryaj.substack.com)
  • 65 103

    Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf] (2004) (olli.unt.edu)
  • 122 113

    Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical (erikengdahl.se)
  • 79 115

    Fast and Hard Code (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • 104 161

    JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)
  • 284 340

    Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed (www.xda-developers.com)
  • 9 15

    This Silicon Valley campus was a paradise. Bulldoze it (sfstandard.com)
  • 89 178

    The End of an Athlon (www.os2museum.com)
  • 12 23

    Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues on RGB Lighting Devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 6 17

    The Covid-19 scandal is still unfolding (www.economist.com)
  • 16 58

    Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has (www.nytimes.com)
  • 261 466

    To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)
  • 119 124

    I dream of quieter computing (henry.codes)
  • 97 216

    MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (martypc.net)
  • 125 181

    The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) (nappertime.com)
  • 10 34

    Software Engineering in the Agentic Era (simonwillison.net)
  • 5 46

    Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world (readingmaps.com)
  • 59 87

    I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)
  • 21 131

    Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)
  • 32 80

    US Military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired (www.bbc.com)