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  • 0 5

    Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? (sjg.io)
  • 0 3

    At the Conformation Show: Chasing the Ideal Dog (www.theparisreview.org)
  • 2 20

    RSS Feed Best Practices (2022) (kevincox.ca)
  • 46 41

    Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being (www.telegraph.co.uk)
  • 55 63

    We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com)
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  • 26 72

    Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code (claude.dev)
  • 31 48

    Our AI Midwife (www.astralcodexten.com)
  • 22 36

    Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers (aviationa2z.com)
  • 24 43

    Vx – One Language, Every Chip (vxlang.org)
  • 16 85

    Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager (www.whec.com)
  • 116 91

    Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase (www.neowin.net)
  • 23 54

    Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server (pipod.dev)
  • 12 14

    Delta WiFi Survival Guide (dialta.adorellc.pro)
  • 172 188

    ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf] (www.cambridge.org)
  • 40 128

    Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields (notoriousbfg.com)
  • 4 107

    Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf] (aleph-alpha.com)
  • 8 31

    MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant Today (www.red5.net)
  • 19 6

    EventMaxxer – Automatically apply to events to get you in the right room (github.com)
  • RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 10 39

    Holes (1996-2025) (plato.stanford.edu)
  • 117 120

    City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2 (www.radical-elements.com)
  • 4 32

    Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos (www.nature.com)
  • 60 68

    US killer's sentence quashed because of AI video of victim shown in court (www.bbc.com)
  • 54 128

    FTL: A new operating system for clouds (ftl-os.org)
  • 84 105

    What is going on with ceiling fans (mcmansionhell.com)
  • 18 114

    Woking Electrical Control Room (2016) (www.darbiansphotography.com)
  • 148 100

    I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 23 16

    French Bond Risk Hits Euro-Crisis Levels [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 152 142

    The Escalation of War in Ethiopia (www.africanistperspective.com)
  • 273 431

    Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model (aleph-alpha.com)
  • 25 122

    C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler (github.com)
  • 11 409

    Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works (tej.as)
  • Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Engineers in Canada (Remote) (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 58 72

    Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace (offrun.dev)
  • 65 47

    cp: -r or -R? (movq.de)
  • 87 73

    GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default (github.blog)
  • 50 56

    Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models (www.reddit.com)
  • 78 49

    An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why (www.science.org)
  • 6 22

    Memory-Safe WebP Decoding (halide.cx)
  • 2 3

    Born Twice: Specimen and Record at the Moment of Collection (tjid3.org)
  • 8 43

    U.S. may have overthrown Venezuela due to chat with Grok (www.thedailybeast.com)
  • 0 13

    Programming the ENIAC (2011) (www.columbia.edu)
  • 82 61

    Why should I have to pay more for buses if I don't use a smartphone? (www.theguardian.com)
  • 1 16

    More like SC-Forth-thousand, am I right? (www.leadedsolder.com)
  • 84 49

    Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence (casp.ac)
  • 15 19

    Nobody Is Listening on Port 8125 (yeet.cx)
  • 140 100

    Barcodes are about to go extinct (thehustle.co)
  • 110 177

    Make Tmux the OS (matduggan.com)
  • 2 7

    The characters of plastics (2024) (yarchive.net)
  • 97 170

    An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows (blog.kagi.com)
  • 0 3

    Museum of Time-Based Art (motba.art)
  • 11 7

    What if AI worked at 1.000.000 tokens per seconds? (www.echohive.ai)
  • 0 9

    Change Coupling: Why One-Line Fixes Touch Ten Files (kb.buildingbetterteams.de)
  • 112 474

    Extra Big Ass Intelligence (www.extrabigassintelligence.com)
  • 81 179

    Cloudflare OHTTP gateway (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 4 21

    There's a new sea spider in town (nautil.us)
  • 27 52

    OKI Develops 124-Layer PCB Technology (www.oki.com)
  • 1 13

    From Civic Tech to DOGE: The Role of Tech Movements in the American Admin State (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 124 424

    Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art (www.newgrounds.com)
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  • 70 66

    Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble (gizmodo.com)
  • 27 47

    NTSB Preliminary Report: Prime Air 767 Runway Overrun [pdf] (www.ntsb.gov)
  • 0 7

    Epilepsy and multidimensional time:a perspective inspired by theoretical physics (www.frontiersin.org)
  • 5 9

    Show HN: Google Maps Scraper MCP (gmapscrawl.com)
  • 73 200

    Things that apparently cause cancer (www.breakthroughjournal.org)
  • 3 32

    Where Is the Planet (whereistheplanet.com)
  • 3 51

    Billions of triangles redux (zeux.io)
  • 6 19

    Debian Inference Portal (inference.debian.net)
  • 0 12

    Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)Graces of the Parenthesis (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 99 64

    <input type="password" maxlength="20"> prevents me from logging into Vanguard (tanin.nanakorn.com)
  • 189 259

    The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4) (yuka.dev)
  • 3 26

    Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta (allenai.org)
  • 0 14

    Electrification Special Report 2026 [pdf] (iea.blob.core.windows.net)
  • 103 158

    Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model (blog.sshh.io)
  • 195 260

    Zig v0.17.0 (ziglang.org)
  • 114 124

    Everyone's Packing Up (widdershins.verja.net)
  • 0 9

    Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web (royapakzad.substack.com)
  • 106 236

    Muse Gadgets (gadgets.muse.ai)
  • 49 140

    Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator (github.com)
  • 201 285

    Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS (developer.apple.com)
  • 85 136

    GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression (discuss.grapheneos.org)
  • 0 11

    Hardly Promethean (jardo.dev)
  • 37 98

    Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid (www.nber.org)
  • 16 83

    The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's (onlineonly.christies.com)
  • 28 40

    Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among the Young, Even Kids and Teens (gizmodo.com)
  • 38 35

    "The only intuitive interface is the nipple" (2012) (www.greenend.org.uk)
  • 15 71

    The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit (www.behindthecode.ca)
  • 5 11

    Scientists untangle the biology of an 'undruggable' cancer gene (www.nytimes.com)
  • 321 540

    Apple Pass Designer (developer.apple.com)
  • 3 14

    The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news (www.lenfestinstitute.org)
  • 20 53

    How accurately calibrated is Jev? (maximumeffort.substack.com)
  • 23 59

    Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (againstallodds.games)
  • 18 88

    Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc (byzantine-systems.github.io)
  • 1 13

    Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites (articlesofinterest.substack.com)
  • 6 33

    On building a worm detector (bencology.bearblog.dev)
  • 8 27

    Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers (developers.redhat.com)
  • 1 24

    Mystery Function (codeset.ai)
  • 97 337

    From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4 (dwarfstar.sh)
  • 2 13

    AI as Normal Technology (2025) (knightcolumbia.org)
  • 12 31

    Scientists invent underwater umbrellas to protect coral reefs (gizmodo.com)
  • 78 384

    A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting (bsky.app)
  • 237 241

    On social reality in China (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 54 163

    Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market (bigthink.com)
  • 0 19

    ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability (github.com)
  • 75 77

    Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit (blog.google)
  • 42 87

    F.02 Decommission (www.figure.ai)
  • 3 13

    Robot Hands for Modern AI and Real Work (bostondynamics.com)
  • 4 24

    100 years of student radio history in the DLARC college radio collections (blog.archive.org)
  • 0 18

    Show HN: Use all Codex Plugins inside Pi (github.com)
  • 6 19

    Show HN: Graphene – Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent (github.com)
  • 0 32

    SequenceHash: Multihashing for the rest of us (blog.trailofbits.com)
  • 18 49

    What if we stopped using GPUs? [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 175 217

    One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash (wagtail.org)
  • 155 643

    Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city (www.nytimes.com)
  • 11 33

    Leaderboards and speedrun.com's new terms of service (therun.gg)
  • 1 16

    Martian chaos terrain (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 8 94

    Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors (github.com)
  • 5 10

    Show HN: PhreshOS – OS for Web Apps (github.com)
  • 67 122

    Anatomy of a Lean proof for software engineers (agostbiro.net)
  • 115 320

    Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 140 276

    With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now (arstechnica.com)
  • 9 29

    Cancel Your Subscription: a free browser game (www.fundrstudio.com)
  • 7 34

    Capcom RE:Dox, open source serialization/deserialization for game engines (github.com)
  • 168 356

    Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers (erictopol.substack.com)
  • 1 17

    Fast Blur with Animated Radius (aras-p.info)
  • 7 11

    Show HN: We built a real-time desktop companion for patient's telehealth visits (openhand.health)
  • 11 43

    STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit (1985) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 169 217

    ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts (www.npr.org)
  • 26 109

    Dutch computer museums (2022) (aresluna.org)
  • 6 14

    Limited Liability In Historical Perspective (1997) [pdf] (scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu)
  • 327 341

    Sites in ChatGPT (chatgpt.com)
  • 378 776

    Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility (www.eff.org)
  • 32 184

    Tiny Brutalism (placeholders.itch.io)
  • 3 26

    Benchmarking retrieval for agents on messy real-world company knowledge (www.kapa.ai)
  • 5 57

    Now That's an Impurity Story (www.science.org)
  • 118 133

    Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal (www.science.org)
  • 8 47

    Show HN: Breadcrumb, record everything on your mac + context manager for AI (innerloop.works)
  • 108 365

    Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas (stillwet.art)
  • 15 32

    The OpenAI Decisions API needs a confidence you can trust (anth.us)
  • 65 81

    Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL (www.reddit.com)
  • 93 425

    FLUX 3 Image (bfl.ai)
  • 3 23

    Fixing GRPO's credit assignment problem without evaluating every step (arxiv.org)
  • 59 75

    GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow (agent-wow.sh)
  • 114 212

    Supabase is acquiring Turso (supabase.com)
  • 89 111

    The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding (distantprovince.substack.com)
  • 28 46

    A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking (www.biometricupdate.com)
  • 38 19

    We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  • 5 18

    America's Largest Producer of Coal Is Operating Under an Expired Permit (insideclimatenews.org)
  • 23 50

    Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter (www.theregister.com)
  • 64 31

    Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator (support.soloist.ai)
  • 235 189

    AI Makes Me Sad (mondobe.com)
  • 107 209

    Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours (www.home-assistant.io)
  • 36 57

    Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code (liquidbrain.net)
  • 92 80

    Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors (www.reuters.com)
  • 159 75

    Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 12 29

    Claude-Shaped Science (www.anthropic.com)
  • 180 301

    The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf] (gwern.net)
  • 63 44

    Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028 (arstechnica.com)
  • 30 70

    Alarm Grows over 'Clearly Illegal' US Election Meddling in Brazil (www.commondreams.org)
  • 90 63

    European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance (www.rte.ie)
  • 74 49

    Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude (www.reddit.com)
  • 108 70

    Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl (www.theguardian.com)
  • 47 142

    Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor (github.com)
  • 10 24

    AI godfather Yann LeCun: Anthropic CEO deluded, doesn't understand cybersecurity (fortune.com)
  • 2 23

    Building reliable (and fast) directory sync (www.firezone.dev)
  • 149 97

    US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban (www.reuters.com)
  • 80 302

    Shimano Bicycle Museum Review (inrng.com)
  • 143 155

    To grieve, or not to grieve? (xenaproject.wordpress.com)
  • 59 209

    Turbo Haskell (comonad.com)
  • 74 60

    Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping (sigh.dev)
  • 216 405

    DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows (www.deepseek.com)
  • 352 249

    How Singapore's government-run dating service works (www.singapore-samizdat.com)
  • 128 568

    Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines (www.frogandtoad.ai)
  • 13 34

    Personal Computing 2.0: It's time for a personal computing revolution (ideas.imbue.com)
  • 51 38

    Your Big Mac might cost more if McDonald's AI thinks people nearby can afford it (neow.in)
  • 19 78

    Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators (www.essex.ac.uk)
  • 3 18

    DoGBench: The first user-facing docs generation benchmark. No model scores >50% (dogbench.ai)
  • 405 570

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel (lwn.net)