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  • 0 6

    John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists (twitter.com)
  • 1 4

    Hammerspoon (github.com)
  • 0 4

    Show HN: Svglib a SVG parser and renderer for Windows (github.com)
  • 49 55

    Your Phone Is an Entire Computer (medhir.com)
  • 4 12

    Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM (github.com)
  • 0 6

    The Accidental Room (2018) (99percentinvisible.org)
  • 22 34

    Why the militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink (www.newscientist.com)
  • 1 11

    ECJ says EU states must change gender of citizens even if nat'l laws forbid it (brusselssignal.eu)
  • 1 9

    Removing recursion via explicit callstack simulation (jnkr.tech)
  • 11 26

    Revealed: Face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave (www.cam.ac.uk)
  • 64 129

    Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)
  • 37 150

    The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We'll Be "Stunned" by NSA Under Section 702 (www.techdirt.com)
  • 38 121

    OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas (github.com)
  • 1 68

    Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube Like It's Cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)
  • 3 9

    Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall (www.graffiti.org)
  • 29 54

    NASA targets Artemis II crewed moon mission for April 1 launch (www.npr.org)
  • 3 193

    Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act (github.com)
  • 11 31

    Launch HN: Captain (YC W26) – Automated RAG for Files (www.runcaptain.com)
  • 91 351

    Can I run AI locally? (www.canirun.ai)
  • 3 41

    Two long-lost episodes of 'Doctor Who' have been found (apnews.com)
  • 3 32

    The Mrs Fractal: Mirror, Rotate, Scale (2025) (www.4rknova.com)
  • 70 45

    Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine (www.macrumors.com)
  • 4 48

    Vite+ Alpha: Unified Toolchain for the Web (MIT License) (voidzero.dev)
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  • 15 36

    The Bovadium Fragments: Together with The Origin of Bovadium (kirkcenter.org)
  • 51 115

    Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes (nanoclaw.dev)
  • 54 65

    Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas (www.getspine.ai)
  • 153 285

    E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May (help.instagram.com)
  • 199 177

    Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting (www.theregister.com)
  • 36 54

    301M Records Exposed: The HIPAA Breach Epidemic (ciphercue.com)
  • 17 52

    Dijkstra's Crisis: The End of Algol and Beginning of Software Engineering (2010) [pdf] (www.tomandmaria.com)
  • 117 117

    Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 22 64

    Show HN: Algorithms and Data Structures in TypeScript – Free Book (~400 Pages) (amoilanen.github.io)
  • 7 35

    What we learned from a 22-Day storage bug (and how we fixed it) (www.mux.com)
  • 28 67

    Prompt-caching – auto-injects Anthropic cache breakpoints (90% token savings) (prompt-caching.ai)
  • 9 49

    Gvisor on Raspbian (nubificus.co.uk)
  • 237 420

    TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool (tui.studio)
  • 32 36

    Show HN: fftool – A Terminal UI for FFmpeg – Shows Command Before It Runs (bensantora.com)
  • 13 34

    AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 41 87

    Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025) (88mph.fm)
  • 128 128

    Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures (apnews.com)
  • 455 1050

    Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act (github.com)
  • 154 165

    Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked (darkwebinformer.com)
  • 39 190

    Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image (dgroshev.com)
  • 15 57

    100 Jumps (100jumps.org)
  • 7 12

    Specimen Gallery – CC0 transparent specimen PNGs organized by taxonomy (specimen.gallery)
  • 31 106

    Ceno, browse the web without internet access (ceno.app)
  • 141 274

    Bucketsquatting is (finally) dead (onecloudplease.com)
  • 7 34

    Worldwide Sidewalk Joy: Adding whimsy to neighborhoods (worldwidesidewalkjoy.com)
  • 99 261

    Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference (www.percepta.ai)
  • 7 32

    Never snooze a future (jacko.io)
  • 5 15

    Show HN: Global Maritime Chokepoints (ryanshook.org)
  • 11 61

    Prefix sums at gigabytes per second with ARM NEON (lemire.me)
  • 30 116

    Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 14 27

    Why Technology Makes Us More Productive but Not Richer (www.fullstackpm.tech)
  • 6 15

    The Unpredicted vs. the Over-Expected (kevinkelly.substack.com)
  • 167 494

    Vite 8.0 Is Out (vite.dev)
  • 45 72

    Hyperlinks in Terminal Emulators (gist.github.com)
  • 228 674

    Willingness to look stupid (sharif.io)
  • 11 54

    Celebrating Interesting Flickr Technologies (medium.com)
  • 3 12

    Golden Sets: Regression Engineering for Probabilistic Systems (heavythoughtcloud.com)
  • 39 36

    Can you instruct a robot to make a PBJ sandwich? (pbj.deliberateinc.com)
  • 56 75

    How people woke up before alarm clocks (www.bbc.com)
  • 329 882

    “This is not the computer for you” (samhenri.gold)
  • 44 182

    IMG_0416 (2024) (ben-mini.com)
  • 45 52

    “Design me a highly resilient database” (nikogura.com)
  • 25 100

    Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud (www.theguardian.com)
  • 33 150

    Understanding the Go Runtime: The Scheduler (internals-for-interns.com)
  • 4 29

    Language birth (asteriskmag.com)
  • 348 202

    Grief and the AI split (blog.lmorchard.com)
  • 0 6

    Qodo Outperforms Claude in Code Review Benchmark (www.qodo.ai)
  • 1 27

    Show HN: OpenClaw-class agents on ESP32 (and the IDE that makes it possible) (pycoclaw.com)
  • 7 22

    Show HN: Detect any object in satellite imagery using a text prompt (www.useful-ai-tools.com)
  • 14 17

    Should hack-back be legal? (speculumx.at)
  • 70 57

    Illinois introduces OS-level age verification law (legiscan.com)
  • 532 1476

    Shall I implement it? No (gist.github.com)
  • 59 144

    Document poisoning in RAG systems: How attackers corrupt AI's sources (aminrj.com)
  • 16 58

    Forcing Flash Attention onto a TPU and Learning the Hard Way (archerzhang.me)
  • 366 701

    Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition (www.grandforksherald.com)
  • 4 28

    Israeli military drops charges against soldiers accused of abusing Palestinian d (www.bbc.com)
  • 66 121

    Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices (blog.chromium.org)
  • 72 125

    Runners who churn butter on their runs (www.runnersworld.com)
  • 70 35

    NaN Is Weird (brassnet.biz)
  • 178 266

    An old photo of a large BBS (2022) (rachelbythebay.com)
  • 193 175

    White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward (www.science.org)
  • 13 20

    The Bitter Lesson Has No Utility Function (gfrm.in)
  • 18 68

    The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy (2025) [pdf] (data-workers.org)
  • 8 26

    The Biggest Identity Sandpiles and How to Compute Them (eavan.blog)
  • 26 68

    Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference (ionrouter.io)
  • 26 35

    Show HN: Aurion OS – A 32-bit GUI operating system written from scratch in C (github.com)
  • 36 34

    Contextual commits – An open standard for capturing the why in Git history (vidimitrov.substack.com)
  • 3 15

    Linux Page Faults, MMAP, and userfaultfd for fast sandbox boot times (www.shayon.dev)
  • 27 98

    DDR4 Sdram – Initialization, Training and Calibration (www.systemverilog.io)
  • 34 144

    WolfIP: Lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations (github.com)
  • 7 27

    Show HN: Web-based ANSI art viewer (sure.is)
  • 14 20

    Scrt: A CLI secret manager for developers, sysadmins and DevOps (github.com)
  • 188 86

    The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved (owl.billpg.com)
  • 5 18

    Lf-lean: The frontier of verified software engineering (theorem.dev)
  • 115 374

    Bubble Sorted Amen Break (parametricavocado.itch.io)
  • 41 110

    Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once (github.com)
  • 177 371

    Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice (med.stanford.edu)
  • 118 183

    Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks (arstechnica.com)
  • 34 19

    Show HN: LogClaw – Open-source AI SRE that auto-creates tickets from logs (logclaw.ai)
  • 33 64

    Full Spectrum and Infrared Photography (timstr.website)
  • Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer (NYC, Onsite) (www.runconverge.com)
  • 45 150

    Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due (e360.yale.edu)
  • 49 155

    Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust (github.com)
  • 1 23

    We will come to regret our every use of AI (libresolutions.network)
  • 110 216

    Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations (claude.com)
  • 36 83

    Another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" (bsky.app)
  • 51 99

    The Cost of Indirection in Rust (blog.sebastiansastre.co)
  • 68 274

    Italian prosecutors seek trial for Amazon, 4 execs in alleged $1.4B tax evasion (www.reuters.com)
  • 68 326

    The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects (www.openculture.com)
  • 50 117

    AI should not replace people at Atlassian, says CEO (www.heise.de)
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  • 204 141

    Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US (www.theguardian.com)
  • 283 172

    US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike (www.lloydslist.com)
  • 345 404

    Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war (fortune.com)
  • 529 503

    ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did (davidoks.blog)
  • 269 307

    Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English (codespeak.dev)
  • 250 192

    Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency (www.nbcchicago.com)
  • Hive (YC S14) is hiring scrappy product managers and product/data engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 504 1371

    Malus – Clean Room as a Service (malus.sh)
  • 116 206

    Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework (github.com)
  • 36 16

    Show HN: I built an SDK that scrambles HTML so scrapers get garbage (www.obscrd.dev)
  • 49 49

    The purpose of continuous integration is to fail (blog.nix-ci.com)
  • 58 65

    USDA is closing buildings, relocating staff, and downsizing-a lot (www.foodpolitics.com)
  • 2 54

    Iranian Hacktivists Strike Medical Device Maker Stryker and Wiped Systems (www.zetter-zeroday.com)
  • 31 26

    Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI (github.com)
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  • 21 45

    ArcaOS 5.1.2 (based on OS/2 Warp 4.52) now available (www.arcanoae.com)
  • 83 138

    Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics (github.com)
  • 5 215

    US banks' exposure to private credit hits $300B (2025) (alternativecreditinvestor.com)
  • 34 73

    Emacs internals: Tagged pointers vs. C++ std:variant and LLVM (Part 3) (thecloudlet.github.io)
  • 7 57

    High fidelity font synthesis for CJK languages (github.com)
  • 452 421

    US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says (www.marketscreener.com)
  • 0 4

    Independent Geophysical Forensic Analysis of the Nordstream Pipeline Sabotage (www.geophysical-forensics.ch)
  • 149 159

    Are LLM merge rates not getting better? (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 291 377

    Big data on the cheapest MacBook (duckdb.org)
  • 2 20

    Thinnings: Sublist Witnesses and de Bruijn Index Shift Clumping (www.philipzucker.com)
  • 54 333

    Dolphin Progress Release 2603 (dolphin-emu.org)
  • 39 15

    Newcomb's Paradox Needs a Demon (samestep.com)
  • 82 223

    Avoiding Trigonometry (2013) (iquilezles.org)
  • 146 132

    U.S. Navy turns down Hormuz escort requests because of high risk (maritime-executive.com)
  • 99 69

    I don't use LLMs for programming (neilmadden.blog)
  • 4 30

    Galaxy Zoo (www.zooniverse.org)
  • 34 104

    Reliable Software in the LLM Era (quint-lang.org)
  • 60 220

    1B identity records exposed in ID verification data leak (www.aol.com)
  • 12 134

    Printf-Tac-Toe (github.com)
  • 1 4

    MetaGenesis Core – offline verification for computational claims (www.metagenesis-core.dev)
  • 84 237

    3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide (www.oliver-charles.com)
  • 1 15

    Show HN: XLA-based array computing framework for R (github.com)
  • 77 113

    SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf] (research.gold.ac.uk)
  • 93 114

    NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun (www.sciencenews.org)
  • 229 363

    Returning to Rails in 2026 (www.markround.com)
  • 11 126

    Datahäxan (0dd.company)
  • 36 62

    WireGuard Is Two Things (www.proxylity.com)
  • 32 48

    US intelligence says Iran government is not at risk of collapse (www.reuters.com)
  • 19 88

    WebPKI and You (blog.brycekerley.net)
  • 286 267

    Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 107 71

    Oil hits $100 a barrel despite deal to release record amount of reserves (www.bbc.com)
  • 48 63

    What happens after you die? (2016) (lamag.com)
  • 21 68

    About memory pressure, lock contention, and Data-oriented Design (mnt.io)
  • 47 237

    DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership (micahflee.github.io)
  • 89 112

    Urea prices (tradingeconomics.com)
  • 23 39

    Challenging the Single-Responsibility Principle (kiss-and-solid.com)
  • 56 100

    How much of HN is AI? (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 42 109

    Apple releases iOS 15.8.7 to fix Coruna exploit for iPhone 6S from 2015 (support.apple.com)
  • 219 408

    Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites (satproto.org)
  • 90 247

    Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results (goughlui.com)
  • 4 65

    CNN Explainer – Learn Convolutional Neural Network in Your Browser (2020) (poloclub.github.io)