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  • 0 6

    In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 33 73

    An Update on GitHub Availability (github.blog)
  • 7 17

    The Social Edge of Intelligence: Individual Gain, Collective Loss (www.theideasletter.org)
  • 12 17

    $1,605: average annual ad value of a U.S. Google user (proton.me)
  • 3 9

    Tiled Words 6 Month Update (paulmakeswebsites.com)
  • 18 60

    The World's Most Complex Machine (worksinprogress.co)
  • 80 53

    BYD Seal 08 debuts with Blade Battery 2.0: 1,000km range, 5-min charging, 684hp (electrek.co)
  • 15 52

    Can You Find the Comet? (apod.nasa.gov)
  • 16 55

    WASM is not quite a stack machine (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 62 40

    Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far
  • 45 41

    First G-SHOCK with a heart rate monitor, also featuring Smartphone Link (gshock.casio.com)
  • 64 223

    GTFOBins (gtfobins.org)
  • 64 65

    Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company (www.forbes.com)
  • 4 12

    London Reverse Marathon FAQ (london.apped.uk)
  • 40 44

    San Francisco, AI capital of the world, is an economic laggard (www.economist.com)
  • 2 33

    LingBot-Map: Streaming 3D reconstruction with geometric context transformer (technology.robbyant.com)
  • 12 34

    Claire's closes all 154 stores in UK and Ireland with loss of 1,300 jobs (www.bbc.com)
  • 5 105

    Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust (github.com)
  • 12 15

    Show HN: Waiting for LLMs Suck – Give your user a game (github.com)
  • 31 47

    The Moat or the Commons (www.warman.life)
  • 0 9

    HVD Bodedo (2007) (www.hvdfonts.com)
  • 5 36

    Using Rust to Build a $1 Handheld Gaming Console (chrisdell.info)
  • 23 143

    Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025) (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 8 41

    Show HN: AgentSwift – Open-source iOS builder agent (github.com)
  • 87 70

    I quit drinking for a year (dynomight.net)
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  • 33 158

    High Performance Git (gitperf.com)
  • 59 104

    How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way (nbelakovski.substack.com)
  • 50 37

    Generative AI Vegetarianism (sboots.ca)
  • 184 300

    To my students (ozark.hendrix.edu)
  • 31 66

    Claude Pro: Opus model will only be available if extra usage is enabled (support.claude.com)
  • 68 124

    Meetings are forcing functions (www.mooreds.com)
  • 142 390

    Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 (talkie-lm.com)
  • 44 100

    Integrated by Design (vivianvoss.net)
  • 21 50

    Ukraine's drone commander has Russian oil, troops and morale in his sights (www.bbc.com)
  • 5 58

    Radar Laboratory – Interactive Radar Phenomenology (radarlaboratory.com)
  • 26 44

    The Secret Life of NaN (2018) (anniecherkaev.com)
  • 58 125

    NPM website was down (status.npmjs.org)
  • 383 574

    Is my blue your blue? (ismy.blue)
  • 81 168

    Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests (www.tps.ca)
  • 2 10

    There are only four sensible ways to build a website (www.jonoalderson.com)
  • 18 84

    L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility (github.com)
  • 94 141

    U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back (restofworld.org)
  • 1 14

    Sebastian Sawe breaks iconic sub-two-hour marathon barrier (www.bbc.com)
  • 35 114

    Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar (www.theguardian.com)
  • 273 374

    China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus (www.cnbc.com)
  • 101 83

    Our principles (openai.com)
  • 209 226

    United Wizards of the Coast (unitedwizardsofthecoast.com)
  • 5 48

    Magic by return of post: How mail order delivered the occult (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 113 202

    The quiet resurgence of RF engineering (atempleton.bearblog.dev)
  • 94 299

    Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator (zsnes.com)
  • 116 318

    GitHub is having issues now (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 35 222

    Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad (github.com)
  • 11 34

    Boats crash/break and can kill their passengers when falling certain distances (bugs.mojang.com)
  • 5 46

    Decoupled DiLoCo: Resilient, Distributed AI Training at Scale (deepmind.google)
  • 102 141

    Canada's first sovereign wealth fund (www.cbc.ca)
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  • 25 75

    Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision (learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev)
  • 29 72

    Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces 'Palestine' in designs (www.theverge.com)
  • 509 681

    GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing (github.blog)
  • 188 144

    Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case (www.nytimes.com)
  • 25 101

    Show HN: Utilyze – an open source GPU monitoring tool more accurate than nvtop (www.systalyze.com)
  • 146 242

    US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data (www.nytimes.com)
  • 211 229

    Networking changes coming in macOS 27 (eclecticlight.co)
  • 93 224

    The woes of sanitizing SVGs (muffin.ink)
  • 11 93

    Den stora Älgvandringen – The great moose migration (live) (www.svtplay.se)
  • 142 335

    Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud (www.techzine.eu)
  • 195 285

    “Why not just use Lean?” (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
  • 39 77

    Managing the Unmanaged Switch (watchmysys.com)
  • 96 123

    Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight (deploy.live)
  • 32 78

    Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools (github.com)
  • 71 104

    Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity (www.theregister.com)
  • 766 892

    Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 1 70

    The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership (openai.com)
  • 9 42

    Understanding the short circuit in solid-state batteries (www.mpie.de)
  • 196 94

    Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good (routerjockey.com)
  • 206 541

    4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor (app.oravys.com)
  • 91 246

    FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss (www.fda.gov)
  • 275 597

    Men who stare at walls (www.alexselimov.com)
  • 15 19

    Show HN: I built a dual crossword puzzle where two crosswords share one grid (forkle.co.uk)
  • 127 345

    Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview (github.com)
  • 48 97

    Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings (github.com)
  • 22 103

    Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 2024 (aschmelyun.com)
  • 122 322

    Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers (quarkdown.com)
  • 12 53

    Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra (theconsensus.dev)
  • 100 73

    Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock (cjleo.com)
  • 221 430

    Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained (github.com)
  • 83 296

    Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico (github.com)
  • 167 216

    Mistral built a $14B AI empire by not being American (www.forbes.com)
  • 8 44

    Electrostatics and High Voltage Links (amasci.com)
  • 132 153

    Interview with Bob Odenkirk (www.nytimes.com)
  • 48 53

    Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting (slicker.me)
  • 87 186

    It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024) (robbowen.digital)
  • 82 124

    A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination (www.vice.com)
  • 0 11

    The Military Rockets That Launched the Space Age (2023) (airandspace.si.edu)
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  • 3 38

    Mystery Cpuid Bit (www.os2museum.com)
  • 58 87

    AI can cost more than human workers now (www.axios.com)
  • 13 83

    A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design (pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu)
  • 12 39

    Low-Dose Aspirin Usage for Primary Prevention Has Fallen by >50% Since 2018 (www.epicresearch.org)
  • 87 554

    Flipdiscs (flipdisc.io)
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  • 36 48

    Revocation of X.509 Certificates (blog.apnic.net)
  • 136 263

    The Prompt API (developer.chrome.com)
  • 58 288

    TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough (arkaung.github.io)
  • 55 106

    EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code (github.com)
  • 80 87

    Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port (notepad-plus-plus-mac.org)
  • 19 71

    When your digital life vanishes (www.newyorker.com)
  • 6 59

    Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated) (github.com)
  • 6 24

    Music of the BBC Microcomputer System (www.acornelectron.co.uk)
  • 10 21

    The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 57 359

    Three constraints before I build anything (jordanlord.co.uk)
  • 110 162

    When the cheap one is the cool one (arun.is)
  • 73 469

    Self-updating screenshots (interblah.net)
  • 18 70

    The fastest Linux timestamps (www.hmpcabral.com)
  • 14 48

    Lessons from building multiplayer browsers (www.alejandro.pe)
  • 0 19

    Voice Modems (computer.rip)
  • 40 139

    FreeBSD Device Drivers Book (github.com)
  • 112 107

    Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft (www.ft.com)
  • 2 27

    The QEII garden – built from its own ruins – opens in Regent's Park (www.ianvisits.co.uk)