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  • 1 11

    Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI (www.cst.cam.ac.uk)
  • 1 7

    Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite" (breakintochat.com)
  • 1 10

    Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)
  • 4 11

    Rhombus 1.1 is now available (blog.racket-lang.org)
  • 0 5

    Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 13 37

    Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
  • 1 41

    The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (www.highereddive.com)
  • 15 45

    The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (www.ischool.berkeley.edu)
  • 3 10

    Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone (brennan.day)
  • 1 10

    Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (community.wolfram.com)
  • 9 4

    2,085 Tests, and None of Them Opens the Front Door (i.brandanthonymcdonald.com)
  • 65 56

    Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request (www.foxnews.com)
  • 66 84

    Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe (futurism.com)
  • 17 45

    A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
  • 156 147

    Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing (daringfireball.net)
  • 0 3

    An open-source, candle-only crypto pump detector–looking for ML contributors (github.com)
  • 46 48

    Claude Seems Down
  • 36 29

    Claude Is Down (claude.ai)
  • 29 101

    Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (www.reuters.com)
  • 54 39

    Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200B 2028 revenue forecast (www.reuters.com)
  • 3 15

    In the Shadow of the (Berlin) Wall (www.slowtravelberlin.com)
  • 145 198

    Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 49 110

    ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days (theintercept.com)
  • 78 82

    The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)
  • 29 43

    The Trumps' Crypto Project Just Got One Step Closer to Becoming a Bank (www.motherjones.com)
  • 32 73

    SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX (pikuma.com)
  • 150 269

    Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
  • 18 35

    Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX at end of second quarter (www.cnbc.com)
  • 79 109

    Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome (buf.build)
  • 25 92

    Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter (wiki.lowtechlab.org)
  • 69 285

    Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
  • 19 61

    MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
  • 1 8

    I've built a free, open-source local and remote memory system for agentw and CL (www.lorekit.io)
  • 10 25

    The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains (www.wunc.org)
  • 14 48

    Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 198 374

    A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" (rvembedded.com)
  • 58 31

    Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 3 25

    Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
  • 68 139

    NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (www.science.org)
  • 3 25

    Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 13 63

    Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (commonreader.wustl.edu)
  • 8 18

    Kimi Work attaches raw agent sessions to feedback reports
  • 10 85

    Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
  • 124 158

    St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (www.wptv.com)
  • 119 178

    The weekend is 100 years old (www.theguardian.com)
  • 60 72

    GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (www.newyorker.com)
  • 62 69

    Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users (wildstatic.com)
  • 88 225

    The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
  • 85 115

    A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life (www.rand.org)
  • 71 29

    Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter (www.cnbc.com)
  • 9 85

    A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
  • 45 77

    AI Coding Without the Vibes (peterbloem.nl)
  • 20 16

    Our Reality Is Shifting and It's Just the Start (guustaaf.substack.com)
  • 62 73

    US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged (www.independent.co.uk)
  • Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering (tasklet.ai)
  • 221 538

    Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)
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  • 227 541

    Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)
  • 45 95

    Banned Words List (pen.org)
  • 70 39

    Is the industry ready for tokens-constrained work? (blog.alaindichiappari.dev)
  • 0 10

    How a Sony Veteran Is Overhauling the Company He Grew Up In (www.wsj.com)
  • 22 20

    Stripe 2.9% vs. Adyen 0.6% vs. Braintree 2.59%: 2026 Fees (valueaddvc.com)
  • 13 8

    Show HN: Remove AI voice from AI writings (unslopai.com)
  • 93 139

    Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? (brandur.org)
  • 40 23

    Leave your screen unlocked, meet developers paypal.com (anthony.dev.profullstack.com)
  • 130 360

    Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)
  • 11 27

    Access to telemetry data: Automotive industry criticizes intelligence reform (www.heise.de)
  • 34 83

    A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem (arxiv.org)
  • Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Builder / Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 111 91

    Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
  • 0 27

    Show HN: Grafana agent observability for Hermes Agent (github.com)
  • 39 134

    Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)
  • 15 64

    Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane (www.nature.com)
  • 9 39

    Impulse Tracker (ovidem.com)
  • 205 234

    What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? (littlelearner-ll.github.io)
  • 25 37

    Health benefits of Tai Chi (www.health.harvard.edu)
  • 75 51

    Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext (github.com)
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  • 13 65

    Falstad Math and Physics Simulations (www.falstad.com)
  • 61 86

    The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US (www.politico.com)
  • 9 11

    Speaking for the Dead (longreads.com)
  • 1 25

    Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño (www.science.org)
  • 0 5

    ProofRun – a local verification receipt for AI coding agents (github.com)
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    Show HN: Fixing optical computing jitter via fluid dynamics in GPU registers (github.com)
  • 20 63

    The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators (breck.lol)
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  • 2 15

    Program with Paint Brushes, Not Pencils (blog.pickcode.io)
  • 79 47

    Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny (nntaleb.substack.com)
  • 130 180

    Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems (www.anthropic.com)
  • 12 28

    Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 27 111

    Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)
  • 16 67

    Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite (notebook.link)
  • 213 292

    Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)
  • 31 50

    Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise (bribes.fyi)
  • 7 51

    AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code (arxiv.org)
  • 10 21

    It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs (arxiv.org)
  • 0 19

    Decoding smell: Study reveals how odor signals shapeshift in the wind (www.colorado.edu)
  • 15 36

    Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI (waku.sh)
  • 0 9

    Big Pickle on SWE Atlas – Codebase QnA (github.com)
  • 31 272

    Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work (duckdb.org)
  • 36 81

    Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (www.micdrop.gg)
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  • 46 37

    Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware? (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 429 611

    Asus Bike Booster (www.asus.com)
  • 54 25

    ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year (aicharts.grok.me)
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    Tea5767-Radio-Tuner (github.com)
  • 92 63

    Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record (abc7.com)