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  • 3 8

    Medical technology company in Michigan hit by suspected Iran-linked cyberattack (www.fox17online.com)
  • 34 26

    Why Do They Want to Get Rid of Software Engineers? (jrswab.com)
  • 10 24

    5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy (newatlas.com)
  • 10 21

    Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS (sitespy.app)
  • 17 21

    Searching for the Agentic IDE (twitter.com)
  • 2 32

    Fungal Electronics (2021) (arxiv.org)
  • 271 126

    The MacBook Neo (daringfireball.net)
  • 1 38

    MacBook Neo is a 'shock' to the PC industry: Asus co-CEO (www.pcmag.com)
  • 3 17

    Visualizing Ukkonen's Suffix Tree Algorithm (www.abahgat.com)
  • 21 42

    Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids (fuelingcuriosity.com)
  • 49 51

    Elevated errors on login with Claude Code (status.claude.com)
  • 4 30

    Show HN: I built an ISP infrastructure emulator from scratch with a custom vBNG (aether.saphal.me)
  • 5 10

    Launch HN: Sentrial (YC W26) – Catch AI Agent Failures Before Your Users Do (www.sentrial.com)
  • 11 21

    Launch HN: Prism (YC X25) – Workspace and API to generate and edit videos (www.prismvideos.com)
  • 10 70

    Where Some See Strings, She Sees a Space-Time Made of Fractals (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 1 12

    Bypassing PatchGuard on Windows x64 (2005) (uninformed.org)
  • 39 57

    Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included (klausai.com)
  • 77 107

    Wiz joins Google (www.wiz.io)
  • 89 194

    Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (hacks.mozilla.org)
  • 14 20

    Modern wealth is a parlour game played by the well fed (www.chrbutler.com)
  • 112 277

    Temporal: A nine-year journey to fix time in JavaScript (bloomberg.github.io)
  • 17 57

    Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agents (github.com)
  • 154 60

    Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar (www.wsj.com)
  • 9 20

    Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain (tunnelbroker.net)
  • 62 71

    Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
  • 30 33

    Let yourself fall down more (ntietz.com)
  • 8 35

    U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2 11

    Show HN: I wrote down every expensive hardware development mistake I've seen (thehardesthardwarelessons.com)
  • 85 137

    Faster asin() was hiding in plain sight (16bpp.net)
  • 12 42

    Where did you think the training data was coming from? (idiallo.com)
  • 2 12

    JPMorgan marking down loan portfolios of private credit groups (www.ft.com)
  • 64 74

    UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s (www.openrightsgroup.org)
  • 140 53

    WA income tax clears House after 24-hour debate (www.seattletimes.com)
  • 5 15

    Scientists revive activity in frozen mouse brains for the first time (www.nature.com)
  • 120 203

    Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, growing (2025) (doi.org)
  • 5 15

    Anthropic vs. Trump Administration: What Happens When Firms Push Back (joycevance.substack.com)
  • 2 10

    Show HN: Custom Git-receive-pack implementation (github.com)
  • 218 515

    Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 105 272

    AI Agent Hacks McKinsey (codewall.ai)
  • 236 297

    Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025) (www.thewave.engineer)
  • 148 67

    Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure (www.theregister.com)
  • 21 59

    PeppyOS: A simpler alternative to ROS 2 (now with containers support) (peppy.bot)
  • 120 243

    BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs (github.com)
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  • 57 33

    As US missiles leave South Korea, the Philippines asks: are we next? (www.scmp.com)
  • 21 16

    Docs directories are doomed (yagmin.com)
  • 65 67

    Google to provide Pentagon with AI agents (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 30 44

    When the chain becomes the product: Seven years inside a token-funded venture (markmhendrickson.com)
  • 74 185

    Building a TB-303 from Scratch (loopmaster.xyz)
  • 60 34

    Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much? (eclecticlight.co)
  • 64 50

    I'm going to build my own OpenClaw, with blackjack and bun (github.com)
  • 10 44

    AutoKernel: Autoresearch for GPU Kernels (github.com)
  • 10 15

    Support for Aquantia AQC113 and AQC113C Ethernet Controllers on FreeBSD (github.com)
  • 23 88

    TADA: Speech generation through text-acoustic synchronization (www.hume.ai)
  • 412 616

    Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns (geohot.github.io)
  • 29 62

    Pike: To Exit or Not to Exit (tomjohnell.com)
  • 9 73

    Standardizing source maps (bloomberg.github.io)
  • 6 43

    MacBook Neo review: No other budget laptop can compete (gizmodo.com)
  • 1 12

    Traditional tales from Cornwall, with maps for stories' locations (www.mazedtales.org)
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  • 20 135

    Julia Snail – An Emacs Development Environment for Julia Like Clojure's Cider (github.com)
  • 103 199

    Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it (blog.jsbarretto.com)
  • 1 8

    Show HN: Safelaunch – Validates your environment before you push to production (www.npmjs.com)
  • 203 369

    Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes (ziglang.org)
  • 37 87

    Mother of All Grease Fires (1994) (milk.com)
  • 34 64

    EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say (www.reuters.com)
  • 3 16

    Removing recursion via explicit callstack simulation (jnkr.tech)
  • 1 19

    Secure Secrets Management for Cursor Cloud Agents (infisical.com)
  • 5 26

    Appsflyer SDK Hijacked (websdk.appsflyer.com)
  • 7 41

    Bippy: React Internals Toolkit (www.bippy.dev)
  • 159 320

    SSH Secret Menu (twitter.com)
  • 20 27

    Ask HN: How are people doing AI evals these days?
  • 4 25

    Networking with agents: Put them in the right conversations with Tailscale (blog.firetiger.com)
  • 5 13

    Show HN: Modulus – Cross-repository knowledge orchestration for coding agents (modulus.so)
  • 15 123

    Mesh over Bluetooth LE, TCP, or Reticulum (github.com)
  • 2 32

    Against vibes: When is a generative model useful (www.williamjbowman.com)
  • 39 106

    Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?
  • 178 450

    Cloudflare crawl endpoint (developers.cloudflare.com)
  • 3 13

    Show HN: Joha – a free browser-based drawing playground with preset shape tools (joha-app.pages.dev)
  • 74 376

    U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth (ionathan.ch)
  • 122 339

    Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens (med.stanford.edu)
  • 43 43

    Show HN: What's my JND? – a colour guessing game (www.keithcirkel.co.uk)
  • 6 28

    Iowa Payphone Defends Itself (Associated Press, 1984) (www.payphone-project.com)
  • 0 12

    Air strikes cause black rain and 'unprecedented' pollution in Tehran (www.bbc.com)
  • 1 6

    Uber rolls out women-only option in the US (www.bbc.com)
  • 16 107

    Exploring the ocean with Raspberry Pi–powered marine robots (www.raspberrypi.com)
  • 5 26

    The Latest Republican Efforts to Make It Harder to Vote in the Midterms (www.newyorker.com)
  • 268 210

    Roblox is minting teen millionaires (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 320 299

    RISC-V Is Sloooow (marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl)
  • 460 623

    After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes (arstechnica.com)
  • 10 100

    Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 4 20

    Converting Binary Floating-Point Numbers to Shortest Decimal Strings (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 18 41

    Because Algospeak (www.tbray.org)
  • 35 115

    HyperCard discovery: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (2022) (macintoshgarden.org)
  • 46 42

    Widevine retiring its Cloud License Service (CLS) (castlabs.com)
  • 9 14

    Maybe the G in AGI stands for Gemini (www.robinsloan.com)
  • 470 401

    Agents that run while I sleep (www.claudecodecamp.com)
  • 17 32

    Revise age verification terms for MidnightBSD (github.com)
  • 65 220

    FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers (github.com)
  • 0 7

    Bypassing Apache Fop PostScript Escaping to Reach GhostScript (offsec.almond.consulting)
  • 1 22

    Isotopic Evidence for a Cold and Distant Origin of Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas (arxiv.org)
  • 470 584

    Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world (www.wired.com)
  • 129 258

    Levels of Agentic Engineering (www.bassimeledath.com)
  • 20 57

    Surpassing vLLM with a Generated Inference Stack (infinity.inc)
  • 8 37

    The Enterprise Context Layer (andychen32.substack.com)
  • 80 59

    Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over (tompiagg.io)
  • 2 11

    Show HN: A modern React onboarding tour library (github.com)
  • 14 54

    Defeat as Method (www.cabinetmagazine.org)
  • 81 104

    Billion-Parameter Theories (www.worldgov.org)
  • 38 113

    Open Weights isn't Open Training (www.workshoplabs.ai)
  • 4 6

    Show HN: A retention mechanic for learning that isn't Duolingo manipulation? (www.dailylabs.co)
  • 9 17

    More agent tools and AI tools should be pricing on outcomes (2025) (jxnl.co)
  • 3 8

    Show HN: Satellite imagery object detection using text prompts (www.useful-ai-tools.com)
  • 28 39

    BC got rid of Daylight Savings (news.gov.bc.ca)
  • 0 31

    MariaDB innovation: vector index performance (smalldatum.blogspot.com)
  • 4 45

    Microsoft Copilot Update Hijacks Default Browser Links (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 144 232

    Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon (github.com)
  • 56 46

    YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable (www.dexerto.com)
  • 181 126

    I built a programming language using Claude Code (ankursethi.com)
  • 52 151

    We are building data breach machines and nobody cares (idealloc.me)
  • 29 45

    $3 ChromeOS Flex stick will revive old and outdated computers (9to5google.com)
  • 30 78

    I used pulsar detection techniques to turn a phone into a watch timegrapher (www.chronolog.watch)
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  • 65 127

    Ad-tech is fascist tech (pluralistic.net)
  • 10 24

    Show HN: A playable version of the Claude Code Terraform destroy incident (www.youbrokeprod.com)
  • 28 53

    How many options fit into a boolean? (herecomesthemoon.net)
  • 10 289

    Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems (twitter.com)
  • 65 75

    Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification
  • 276 366

    Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions (lwn.net)
  • 256 1960

    Tony Hoare has died (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
  • 121 127

    RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard (gist.github.com)
  • 363 540

    Meta acquires Moltbook (www.axios.com)
  • 13 16

    Intensifying global heat threatens livability for younger and older adults (iopscience.iop.org)
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  • 109 424

    Show HN: How I topped the HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard on two gaming GPUs (dnhkng.github.io)
  • 38 48

    A new Oracle Solaris Common Build Environment (CBE) release (blogs.oracle.com)
  • 7 4

    How Do You Choose a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)? (msspproviders.io)
  • 33 92

    PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel (www.pgadmin.org)
  • 7 52

    Sending Jabber/XMPP Messages via HTTP (gultsch.de)
  • 139 215

    Rebasing in Magit (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 113 242

    Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 19 65

    Show HN: DD Photos – open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit) (github.com)
  • 12 19

    On Being a Dad (www.derekthompson.org)
  • 83 126

    Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year (radar.cloudflare.com)
  • 84 85

    Germany's Solar Boom Eases Power Costs as Gas Price Jumps (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 144 111

    Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV (www.guru3d.com)
  • 6 17

    SHOW HN: A usage circuit breaker for Cloudflare Workers
  • 335 642

    Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults (www.cnbc.com)
  • 4 77

    Caxlsx: Ruby gem for xlsx generation with charts, images, schema validation (github.com)
  • 67 150

    FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement (www.freebsd.org)
  • 64 44

    EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim (codeberg.org)
  • 1 12

    There are 56 ethnicities in China–and 55 are getting squashed (economist.com)
  • 60 127

    Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++ (arobenko.github.io)
  • 67 119

    Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
  • 216 461

    I put my whole life into a single database (howisfelix.today)
  • 3 26

    I'd had several careers but no degree – then I became a palaeontologist at 62 (www.theguardian.com)
  • 2 414

    Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round (www.ft.com)
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  • 46 108

    TCXO Failure Analysis (serd.es)
  • 4 55

    Baochip-1x: A Mostly-Open, 22nm SoC for High Assurance Applications (www.bunniestudios.com)
  • 141 315

    The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009) (www.ribbonfarm.com)
  • 436 399

    Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy (gitlab.redox-os.org)
  • 40 59

    The hidden compile-time cost of C++26 reflection (vittorioromeo.com)
  • 30 145

    LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos (DeepMind, UC Berkeley) (loger-project.github.io)
  • 32 84

    Getting Started in Common Lisp (lisp-stat.dev)
  • 221 315

    macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses (lapcatsoftware.com)
  • 52 49

    Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5 (thezvi.wordpress.com)
  • 90 111

    Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages (www.ft.com)
  • 72 189

    Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS (stonetools.ghost.io)
  • 46 63

    Show HN: I Was Here – Draw on street view, others can find your drawings (washere.live)
  • 62 81

    A useless infinite scroll experiment (futile.ch)
  • 22 148

    Optimizing Top K in Postgres (www.paradedb.com)
  • 124 128

    Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered (www.yankodesign.com)
  • 4 17

    RVA23 Ends Speculation's Monopoly in RISC-V CPUs (semiwiki.com)
  • 340 465

    No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user (martinalderson.com)
  • 25 104

    Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other (wyattsell.com)
  • 160 166

    Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art (www.kapwing.com)
  • 2 24

    Show HN: Hopalong Attractor. An old classic with a new perspective in 3D (github.com)
  • 45 143

    Darkrealms BBS (www.darkrealms.ca)
  • 90 140

    I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does (aresluna.org)
  • 18 98

    US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial (arstechnica.com)
  • 48 83

    The “JVG algorithm” only wins on tiny numbers (scottaaronson.blog)
  • 139 344

    Two Years of Emacs Solo (www.rahuljuliato.com)
  • 28 36

    Iran's attacks on Amazon data centers in UAE, Bahrain signal a new kind of war (fortune.com)
  • 5 23

    “ma” is a minimalistic clone of the acme editor used in Plan 9 (www.call-with-current-continuation.org)