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  • 3 9

    Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest' (www.theguardian.com)
  • 17 11

    Wk. 6 of Vibecoding an MMO (eldermyr.com)
  • 2 7

    Creating Backup Storage Sucks (smarmelling.com)
  • 7 20

    Higher Multipoles of the Cow (arxiv.org)
  • 46 69

    The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs (www.nature.com)
  • 46 31

    Reflections on Americans' Net Worth (www.betonit.ai)
  • 115 176

    Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 69 38

    Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code (martinfowler.com)
  • 83 99

    METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident (metr.org)
  • 25 63

    Reasons robotics is hard (secondthoughts.ai)
  • 14 89

    Holden's Lightning Flight (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 7 9

    Show HN: Every AI agrees with you. This writes your startup's obituary instead (theyfell.com)
  • 44 36

    Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
  • 86 114

    Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect (www.bbc.com)
  • 3 62

    Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters (wasmi-labs.github.io)
  • 16 23

    Product Backlog Problems: Why Your Hierarchy Is Broken (www.prodpad.com)
  • 9 25

    Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities (owntime.app)
  • 1 15

    A docs page is a search query to find AI agents and route them to your company (blog.val.town)
  • 123 152

    Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schools (www.nytimes.com)
  • 9 13

    Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations (www.vidact.dev)
  • 56 71

    Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 26 132

    Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex (werwolv.net)
  • Nango (YC W23) is hiring across eng, product and GTM (SF and remote) (nango.dev)
  • 30 45

    Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf] (images.gatesnotes.com)
  • 2 9

    Z: Local-first search layer for humans and agents (github.com)
  • 54 165

    Fable 5.1 World Modeling (github.com)
  • 199 219

    I wanna live an NPC life (signalundefied.bearblog.dev)
  • 40 27

    A practical guide to running 8x RTX PRO 6000's (www.gpupartner.com)
  • 55 42

    AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens (www.rosenfeld.page)
  • 7 28

    Using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 for a Static Site Contact Form (nooshu.com)
  • 79 71

    The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great (www.jordangoodman.xyz)
  • 0 64

    Introducing Muse Spark 1.3 (research.meta.ai)
  • 4 17

    The Death of Physical Media (seerofthe.net)
  • 302 451

    Muse Spark 1.3 (developer.meta.com)
  • 35 69

    Embedded Rust RTOS vs. C RTOS (tweedegolf.nl)
  • 67 79

    I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech (coyotetracks.org)
  • 223 307

    Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business (www.nytimes.com)
  • 1 17

    Google escapes ad tech breakup in third Big Tech antitrust loss for US (www.reuters.com)
  • 56 96

    Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023) (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
  • 85 155

    Wendell Berry has died (www.nytimes.com)
  • 110 72

    The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified (www.marginallycompelling.com)
  • 19 24

    Humanity has built the records of FATE by accident (ariadne.space)
  • 32 83

    We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 32 38

    Firefox's AI Switch Is Off. Telemetry Isn't (marius.blog)
  • 59 22

    Why do so many tools have JSON config files? (textlog.cc)
  • 46 93

    Making the Internet Boring (cemrehancavdar.com)
  • 200 212

    I Don't Have a Smartphone (ploum.net)
  • 140 181

    Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux (forums.paint.net)
  • 78 36

    ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage (successfulsoftware.net)
  • 15 26

    How Railroad Crossings Work (2024) (practical.engineering)
  • 2 23

    Tangle – Visual ML Pipeline Editor (tangleml.com)
  • 3 6

    Show HN: Kekoso – On-device dictation and transcription for macOS (kekoso.app)
  • 1 4

    Black Hole Museum: A New Idea for the Los Alamos Community (2025) (losalamosreporter.com)
  • 71 50

    Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong? (quesma.com)
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  • 6 40

    The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain (www.neuroai.science)
  • 30 33

    How to debloat your Xiaomi 15 Ultra without root access (trackerninja.codeberg.page)
  • 44 51

    Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf] (itp.cdn.icann.org)
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  • 79 50

    AI Policy (dbushell.com)
  • 70 105

    SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods (www.nexusmods.com)
  • 2 20

    Show HN: Aura – a Rust agent that investigates and fixes production incidents (github.com)
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  • 52 72

    Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x (frontierharness.org)
  • 113 101

    Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage (www.markpitblado.me)
  • 9 38

    AI, ex-Soviet engineers, and the Holy Grail of rocketry (www.fastcompany.com)
  • 0 76

    Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (blog.google)
  • 518 889

    Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (blog.google)
  • 45 124

    A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for (hausresearch.com)
  • 37 148

    A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards (clui.org)
  • 81 222

    Exit the Cave (turtlespace.blog)
  • 17 95

    WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine (github.com)
  • 55 42

    Just bury your trash: What if everything we know about recycling is wrong? (worksinprogress.co)
  • 54 161

    Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero (aisle.com)
  • 0 15

    Crossing Boundaries with Integration Events (deniskyashif.com)
  • 32 19

    Dyson CameraJet: The only toothbrush with a camera and a jet (www.dyson.com)
  • 159 335

    Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them (trellner.com)
  • 140 177

    GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all (grapheneos.social)
  • 86 260

    Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle (www.science.org)
  • 19 136

    Poisson Disk Sampling (stripeacross.com)
  • 115 155

    Check if a file was made with Claude (claude.com)
  • 3 21

    B200 Attention Kernel from Scratch to Near-SOTA in 60 Diagrams (iaroslavelistratov.github.io)
  • 168 396

    Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? (help.mistral.ai)
  • 18 55

    Using jq to format JSON on the clipboard (chris48s.github.io)
  • 57 60

    9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes (ma.ttias.be)
  • 109 232

    Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them (studyfinds.com)
  • 65 36

    Why humanoid robots won't catch up to human workers any time soon (www.understandingai.org)
  • 38 73

    LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost (openteams.com)
  • 11 55

    The Cables That Connect the World (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
  • 27 22

    A Beginner's Deep Dive Guide to Entra Passkeys (emsroute.com)
  • 159 96

    Just Bury Your Trash (www.worksinprogress.news)
  • 133 689

    A note on subscription prices from LWN (lwn.net)
  • 3 16

    BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors (arstechnica.com)
  • 223 223

    Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London (nltimes.nl)
  • 28 28

    HomeOS – A self-hosted family dashboard for a kitchen touchscreen (github.com)
  • 46 71

    Ending my elixir exploratory writing (lucassifoni.info)
  • 41 55

    The Lost Art of Carrying Loads (www.carryology.com)
  • 63 91

    Banca Etica Suspends A/I's Account While Condemning the Sanctions Behind It (sabot.media)
  • 46 37

    Move in C++ without a std:move (andreasfertig.com)
  • 3 10

    Praearcturus gigas: giant scorpion from Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Britain (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 81 91

    A Small Telescope That Surprised Me (adfr.io)
  • 5 12

    Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ (blog.cr.yp.to)
  • 105 164

    Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model (multiversecomputing.com)
  • 11 9

    Why can't you combine .tar.gz files with cat? (alexwlchan.net)
  • 47 71

    It's OK to hardcode feature flags (2025) (code.mendhak.com)
  • 8 6

    Draft Punk – The Campaign for Alive 2027 – Alive2027.com (alive2027.com)
  • 11 20

    LLM Judges Verify Presence, Not Absence: Omission Blindness in AI Clinical Notes (arxiv.org)
  • 15 27

    Why are there no flow batteries with symmetric ferrocyanide electrolytes? (chemisting.com)
  • 56 54

    Sweden pauses Denmark power cable over EU grid rules (www.nordiskpost.com)
  • 133 134

    You Know Who Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters (www.wired.com)
  • 11 48

    Open Battery Information (github.com)
  • 68 45

    Ask HN: How do you survive a job you hate which is slowly making you sick?
  • 175 336

    Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982 (dfarq.homeip.net)
  • Telli (YC F24) is hiring engineers and designers [Berlin, on-site] (careers.telli.com)
  • 1 4

    The Starfish and the Spider [pdf] (earthprayer.net)
  • 7 10

    The Overton Window of Food (think-twice.me)
  • 58 57

    Salad Theory (saladtheory.github.io)
  • 14 64

    Top Web Design Styles of 1993 (contemporary-home-computing.org)
  • 103 281

    The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks (arxiv.org)
  • 36 108

    WebFPGA (2019) (webfpga.io)
  • 62 48

    Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors (2015) (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 233 237

    Fine, I'll build my own text editor (dbushell.com)
  • 340 301

    True Rate of Unemployment (www.lisep.org)
  • 40 41

    Anthropic banned me for "suspicious signals" (kix.codes)
  • 74 96

    'Idiocracy' Predicted All of This (www.texasmonthly.com)
  • 7 46

    Solving the Flat Cube (mathenchant.wordpress.com)
  • 262 389

    FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 24 40

    Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years (www.theguardian.com)
  • 19 62

    Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican (simonwillison.net)
  • 7 66

    Building an interactive instrument for a one-of-a-kind festival (benholmen.com)
  • 9 53

    Building Autonomous Goal Loops That Deliver (jx0.ca)
  • 42 149

    The efficient frontier of LLM inference (www.baseten.co)