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  • 3 23

    An Algorithmic Failure Beneath the Secret Ballot (blog.citp.princeton.edu)
  • 2 13

    Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle (gwern.net)
  • 12 24

    AI Tutoring with Khanmigo in a Two-Year School Experiment (edworkingpapers.com)
  • 7 47

    Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend (dbushell.com)
  • 1 16

    Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning (almostimplemented.github.io)
  • 7 29

    Ephemeral Testing (lemire.me)
  • 7 30

    Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors (smarthomescene.com)
  • 31 32

    Is mathematics over, or just graduating? (docs.google.com)
  • 7 11

    Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally (globalsolaratlas.info)
  • 0 15

    Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf] (nivdayan.github.io)
  • 107 208

    ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons (www.niemanlab.org)
  • 1 4

    Food Atlas: Connections behind the dishes we love (knowledgeartist.org)
  • 1 28

    Graphical UI (www.graphicalui.com)
  • 49 76

    Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades (www.debugbear.com)
  • 23 32

    Worth Building (armstr.ng)
  • 9 87

    Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage (arstechnica.com)
  • 3 27

    DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit (github.com)
  • 32 106

    Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (flattensf.com)
  • 17 97

    Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation (qlabs.sh)
  • 67 34

    The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches? (blogs.gnome.org)
  • 57 60

    Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort (smyck.net)
  • 43 27

    A third way of using Linux (hisvirusness.com)
  • 9 32

    WSL containers is now generally available (blogs.windows.com)
  • 153 202

    Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates (www.vals.ai)
  • 7 16

    How much should we worry about the pneumonic plague lableak in Siberia? (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 48 56

    How to save a life without knowing CPR (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
  • 86 61

    The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse (www.cbc.ca)
  • 51 94

    The Future of Mathematics (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 63 93

    Incident with Actions (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 57 59

    After bankruptcy, he was banned from betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi (www.npr.org)
  • 35 61

    AI Companies Are Parasites (www.coryd.dev)
  • 8 22

    How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't (www.science.org)
  • 8 20

    OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows. Its Creator Trusts No One (zbruceli.org)
  • 24 115

    Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] (cses.fi)
  • 92 174

    Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have (deadparrotbbs.com)
  • 0 15

    ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours (www.propublica.org)
  • 55 94

    One person can now be a quorum at the SEC (www.ft.com)
  • 78 302

    Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (reflection.ai)
  • 190 40

    Questions for believers in AI consciousness (endsdontjustifythemeans.com)
  • 83 126

    Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses (www.barrons.com)
  • 39 61

    Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland (www.ess-news.com)
  • 2 16

    Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004) (archive.techarp.com)
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  • 11 72

    Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear (github.com)
  • 178 256

    OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (diff.wikimedia.org)
  • 22 95

    Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016) (blog.lizzie.io)
  • 10 10

    Earth Tipped on Its Side During the Age of Dinosaurs–and Not Just Once (gizmodo.com)
  • 63 127

    The lamps in my house (arslan.io)
  • 78 47

    People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms (www.npr.org)
  • 220 202

    US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia (www.theguardian.com)
  • 52 63

    Our approach to EU text provenance rules (openai.com)
  • 45 122

    2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel (www.nobelprize.org)
  • 103 133

    The future of independence is interdependence (onlys.ky)
  • 74 49

    Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat (www.theverge.com)
  • 2 8

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 (www.nobelprize.org)
  • 55 102

    Borland Turbo Basic (dosdays.co.uk)
  • 46 121

    Picard 3.0 (blog.metabrainz.org)
  • 41 57

    Beating the compiler (2024) (www.mattkeeter.com)
  • 125 106

    "I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry" (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
  • 32 131

    Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 (floreal.tech)
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  • 40 38

    Altman: The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI (www.politico.com)
  • 187 241

    The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists (worksinprogress.co)
  • 164 230

    Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust (github.com)
  • 29 31

    Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust (github.com)
  • 63 27

    Anthropic wants your thoughts on AI (www.anthropic.com)
  • 64 33

    Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 81 58

    Spending on AI is becoming almost impossible for businesses to budget (www.wsj.com)
  • 59 99

    Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
  • 37 56

    Gitframes (github.com)
  • 258 395

    Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped (discuss.grapheneos.org)
  • 113 59

    Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman (www.theguardian.com)
  • 1 66

    The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches? (blogs.gnome.org)
  • 29 133

    Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr` (blog.haskell.org)
  • 104 135

    Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025) (danielchasehooper.com)
  • 338 327

    Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation (techfundingnews.com)
  • 221 482

    Web Search API (developers.cloudflare.com)
  • 1 134

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 (www.nobelprize.org)
  • 183 204

    Apple and a hacker's future (stratechery.com)
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  • 59 67

    The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 327 463

    Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data (www.cpr.dk)
  • 128 82

    Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold (www.transportenvironment.org)
  • 115 175

    Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 9 50

    Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
  • 455 536

    Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge (www.techspot.com)
  • 49 303

    We ported the original Doom to SQL (cedardb.com)
  • 63 102

    Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025) (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 11 44

    Hacker News addiction and taking simple mundane breaks in life (smileplease.mataroa.blog)
  • 41 63

    Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia (www.cambridge.org)
  • 7 17

    Kagi Ends Orion Browser Development for Linux, Will Open-Source It (linuxiac.com)
  • 9 6

    The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind (www.theguardian.com)
  • 129 108

    A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap (frn.sh)
  • 1 17

    Fixed Points and Strike Mandates (2012) (pvk.ca)
  • 306 295

    Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague (www.themoscowtimes.com)
  • 11 20

    A tribute to one of the best games on the Atari 2600 (plicerin.github.io)
  • 10 54

    Quantitative Finance with OCaml (qcaml.com)
  • 247 282

    Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch (www.motorsport.com)
  • 107 260

    The Tao of Backup (www.taobackup.com)
  • 15 26

    The logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley (www.nytimes.com)
  • 154 106

    ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust (getartcraft.com)
  • 4 18

    1 in 8 cancer cases are caused by infections (www.livescience.com)
  • 43 73

    Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio (tuftesrazor.scienceux.org)