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  • 4 18

    Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline (theintercept.com)
  • 11 16

    Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 47 54

    Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden (www.arctictoday.com)
  • 9 22

    Best of British Design (best-of-british-design.vercel.app)
  • 11 75

    It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs (calnewport.com)
  • 9 22

    Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery (arstechnica.com)
  • 7 73

    Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms (github.com)
  • 21 79

    World Labs Is Joining AMD (www.worldlabs.ai)
  • 3 32

    12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones (archaeologymag.com)
  • 41 28

    California Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine Drops (www.kqed.org)
  • 18 47

    Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004) (slashdot.org)
  • 12 37

    SB 923 is Law: CCPA deletion rights now reach third-party data (www.getprivisy.com)
  • 14 27

    First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (blog.plcred.org)
  • 28 83

    MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser (stateofutopia.com)
  • 33 65

    GrapheneOS – When an app is slow (blog.wirelessmoves.com)
  • 68 172

    So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes (lecaro.me)
  • 16 28

    Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 24 61

    Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents (www.newyorker.com)
  • 21 70

    Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman (destroy.spritefusion.com)
  • 303 440

    Sonnet 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
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  • 112 373

    Windows 11½ (definitelynotwindows.com)
  • 18 23

    I made a visual workspace for AI Automations (www.biom.dev)
  • 8 27

    Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP (www.vespper.com)
  • 94 93

    OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity (techcrunch.com)
  • 30 73

    Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't (www.techdirt.com)
  • 70 117

    Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)
  • 3 20

    How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work (www.pewresearch.org)
  • 37 82

    Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 7 22

    Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT (thill.me)
  • 70 80

    13 Months Sober (2025) (www.bobbytables.io)
  • 64 38

    What makes Lisp difficult to read? (paultm.nl)
  • 36 82

    Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah (twitter.com)
  • 218 330

    The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent (www.ssp.sh)
  • 50 157

    Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream (yashgarg.dev)
  • 164 338

    Pirating the Pirates (mubi.com)
  • 103 62

    Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent (www.cnbc.com)
  • 45 113

    What would a serious AI product look like? (blog.glyph.im)
  • 129 199

    Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (www.thisamericanlife.org)
  • 140 86

    I switched to Brave (kevquirk.com)
  • 19 56

    What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators (benovermyer.com)
  • 236 282

    MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta (www.reuters.com)
  • 78 72

    Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.' (www.cnbc.com)
  • 35 111

    Israel Keeps Expanding into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show (www.nytimes.com)
  • 293 133

    Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? (theeducatorsroom.com)
  • 39 96

    Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
  • 407 389

    Coding Is Not Solved (blog.alexewerlof.com)
  • 79 57

    Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests (www.petervijeh.com)
  • 52 122

    Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com)
  • 64 103

    Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News (github.com)
  • 2 10

    Una watch review: A modular, repairable GPS watch is a good first step (www.engadget.com)
  • 64 53

    The smart home graveyard is getting crowded (www.theverge.com)
  • 7 14

    Rails World 2026 Closing Keynote – Aaron Patterson [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 382 422

    AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity (thecivilian.co.nz)
  • 23 19

    Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network (nine.ch)
  • 141 276

    Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC (git.mills.io)
  • 94 71

    Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots (markmanson.substack.com)
  • 32 160

    37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it (www.habibicode.org)
  • 306 287

    SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today (www.space.com)
  • 97 64

    Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK (www.carbonbrief.org)
  • 60 59

    Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account (www.threads.com)
  • 94 155

    Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'” (bookofrevenue.com)
  • 216 193

    Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 (platform.claude.com)
  • 24 70

    Made by Mechanical Means (felixrieseberg.com)
  • 26 10

    An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk
  • 15 36

    Packing Binary Is Fun (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
  • 11 64

    Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 25 33

    Goodbye to the Hard Parts That Never Mattered (jakegoldsborough.com)
  • 60 75

    Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time? (www.historyofinformation.com)
  • 5 82

    Deterministic Concurrency [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 73 169

    Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021) (arxiv.org)
  • 11 23

    TabPFN and TabICL vs. tuned XGBoost: the model that doesn't train won 14/14 (efraingaray.com)
  • 7 19

    Golang: Crypto/fips140: do not bloat crypto code unnecessarily (github.com)
  • 141 185

    Musk, the Movie (bleeckerstreetmedia.com)
  • 358 150

    Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain (www.nissan-global.com)
  • 7 39

    Behold the pawpaw, the tropical 'alien banana' that grows right here in Canada (www.cbc.ca)
  • 2 55

    Microsoft drops Copilot+ branding from its new laptops (www.windowscentral.com)
  • 439 1046

    Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (colo.to)
  • 71 150

    Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025) (www.inkandswitch.com)
  • 155 145

    As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?' (www.nytimes.com)
  • 53 8

    Show HN: Panda, the world's first personal AI computer (pandax1.com)
  • 26 93

    Research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer (www.theguardian.com)
  • 36 27

    Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10k If a Data Center Gets Built (www.wsj.com)
  • 5 64

    Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021) (trekhleb.dev)
  • 78 158

    Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06 (github.com)
  • 59 39

    The great crime decline is happening all across the country (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 60 71

    Have an LLC (zachholman.com)
  • 1 9

    Coltrane's Shadow (www.tabletmag.com)
  • 20 34

    Hitachi to double US production of small and medium-sized power transformers (www.utilitydive.com)
  • 1 34

    A New Experiment Meta-Strategy (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
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  • 107 340

    Self-Hosting on the Dark Web (david.alvarezrosa.com)
  • 134 77

    EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 24 44

    My Recent Woodworking Projects (notoriousbfg.com)
  • 6 18

    Show HN: Cartopolis, interactive globe-sized 3D world (code.garage44.eu)
  • 114 76

    S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past (btrblocks.com)
  • 110 159

    There is more to code review than (automatable) detection (www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com)
  • 64 101

    Lunar Terminator Paradox (notes.secretsauce.net)
  • 1006 1810

    When did Google get so weird? (sancho.bearblog.dev)
  • 39 124

    What I did at Recurse Center (thill.me)
  • 25 65

    Allegations of US interference in Quebec election (globalnews.ca)
  • 1 11

    Wiki Deep dive into Standard diving dress (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 66 183

    Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”? (www.quora.com)
  • 10 96

    Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM (github.com)
  • 1 6

    DSPy – Program, don't prompt, your LLMs (dspy.ai)
  • 62 204

    The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 (shnatsel.github.io)
  • 1 4

    The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 (shnatsel.github.io)
  • 5 32

    KICKI: a DECsystem1060 (icm.museum)
  • 132 305

    Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)
  • 31 86

    Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video] (www.youtube.com)
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  • 25 11

    I don't read code anymore (blog.duyet.net)
  • 38 106

    Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi (www.jazzwise.com)
  • 244 573

    Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)
  • 9 31

    Show HN: Trail – new kind of logic game (trail.franzai.com)
  • 11 94

    Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey (www.livescience.com)
  • 33 82

    Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20% (earnanhonestdollar.com)
  • 54 144

    Video CDs Break Windows Explorer (clydesnotes.blogspot.com)
  • 8 20

    The Greatest Pun in JavaScript (shukla.io)
  • 12 83

    Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp (jadidbourbaki.github.io)
  • 172 320

    Don't couple your Go code to GitHub (iain.rocks)
  • 102 191

    SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 51 68

    Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web (www.markdown.beauty)
  • 14 100

    The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers (generalroboticslab.com)
  • 118 58

    OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue (www.theguardian.com)
  • 267 388

    There are no "rogue" AI agents (eoinhiggins.substack.com)
  • 57 24

    The Mars Delusion (www.noemamag.com)
  • 11 80

    Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store (github.com)
  • 45 117

    Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out (tinyaiarena.com)
  • 122 274

    The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures (www.ihatethefuture.com)
  • 60 184

    PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura (nura.eco)
  • 14 26

    Font where each token is equal-width (twitter.com)
  • 143 172

    Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013) (asawicki.info)
  • 43 139

    Ten lines of code that changed my world (pixelambacht.nl)
  • 342 384

    On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 236 376

    Tells of a Slop UI (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
  • 110 291

    In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life (www.nytimes.com)
  • 14 75

    Show HN: A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page (3d-retro.com)
  • 122 206

    Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
  • 45 91

    Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate" (eli.thegreenplace.net)
  • 75 149

    Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests (fakecloud.dev)
  • 0 11

    Accelerated Out of Core Shuffling (quasiben.github.io)
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  • 11 8

    Show HN: LightCloud – A cloud console organised like file system (www.light-cloud.com)
  • 104 103

    "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice (arxiv.org)
  • 39 97

    Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists (www.sciencenews.org)
  • 0 6

    LP Voting and Investor Consent for AIFs (taghash.io)
  • 300 464

    Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election (www.reddit.com)
  • 62 125

    The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? (reasonable.io)
  • 165 110

    C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake (pikuma.com)
  • 611 626

    Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI (authorsguild.org)
  • 9 24

    Kidnapping kids remains legal in USA, this site has you experience it first-hand (2018) (elan.school)
  • 4 8

    Bob Mackie dressed stars–if they were brave enough (www.economist.com)
  • 25 396

    Flip Fluid on Flip Dots (mitxela.com)
  • 72 91

    Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
  • 0 64

    Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue (francisbach.com)
  • 84 85

    OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields (swarmcha.se)
  • 94 207

    If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? (blog.codinghorror.com)
  • 52 69

    Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview (mgrebler.substack.com)
  • 79 260

    What is the size of Yemen? (2024) (theborys.substack.com)
  • 36 57

    We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages (jimmyhmiller.com)
  • 16 50

    Snap Wants to be a State Actor??–Kansas v. Snap (blog.ericgoldman.org)
  • 16 44

    OpenAI (2015) (openai.com)
  • 9 43

    Sousveillance (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 60 123

    Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 1 4

    Things You Notice Rewatching Ed, Edd N Eddy as an Adult (noxluneworld.com)
  • 31 93

    Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike (www.motherjones.com)
  • 1 12

    Why Buran Had Four Computers, Not Three (zatona.dev)