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  • 0 3

    GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction (github.com)
  • Structured AI (YC F25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 1 11

    A ternary plot of citrus geneology (www.jlauf.com)
  • 8 23

    'Execution at sea': Was the Iranian ship sunk by US in the Indian Ocean unarmed? (www.thestatesman.com)
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  • 1 22

    OpenTitan Shipping in Production (opensource.googleblog.com)
  • 1 7

    Comparing Python packages for A/B test analysis (with code examples) (e10v.me)
  • 5 34

    Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk (jyn.dev)
  • 1 154

    GPT-5.4 (openai.com)
  • 117 238

    Pentagon Formally Labels Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk (www.wsj.com)
  • 8 54

    Let's Get Physical (m4iler.cloud)
  • 1 18

    Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
  • 72 122

    US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says (www.bbc.com)
  • 0 53

    Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details (arcanenibble.github.io)
  • 30 51

    Apple: Enough Is Enough (bastibe.de)
  • 98 105

    The Brand Age (paulgraham.com)
  • 2 64

    GPT 5.4 Thinking and Pro (twitter.com)
  • 2 92

    GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro (twitter.com)
  • 347 369

    GPT-5.4 (openai.com)
  • 16 37

    AI and the Ship of Theseus (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • 1 8

    A Number with a Shadow (campedersen.com)
  • 1 44

    Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK's Vector API (netflixtechblog.com)
  • 27 27

    Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling
  • 28 51

    Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app (alibaba.github.io)
  • 82 206

    The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location (www.eff.org)
  • 50 213

    A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines (grith.ai)
  • 6 35

    Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data (github.com)
  • 15 37

    GitHub Actions is shitting the bed again (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 18 46

    Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linux LTS Kernels (fossforce.com)
  • 224 704

    Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise (www.wikimediastatus.net)
  • 14 18

    Unix Isn't for Agents (pwhite.org)
  • 39 194

    Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework (jido.run)
  • 63 21

    BBC says 'irreversible' trends mean it will not survive without major overhaul (www.theguardian.com)
  • 70 244

    Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites (www.norn-labs.com)
  • 102 68

    Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products (fortune.com)
  • 23 53

    The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code (github.com)
  • 26 85

    Fast-Servers (geocar.sdf1.org)
  • 147 260

    Good software knows when to stop (ogirardot.writizzy.com)
  • 135 104

    Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood (phys.org)
  • 37 83

    A man who broke into jail (www.newyorker.com)
  • 552 717

    Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs (www.wsj.com)
  • 46 56

    Billy bookshelves as a retro motherboard "rack" (rubenerd.com)
  • 11 49

    Earth Garden: Field Recordings Around the World (earth-garden.alen.ro)
  • 57 148

    World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite (www.esa.int)
  • 6 22

    Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler
  • 48 177

    Poor Man's Polaroid (boxart.lt)
  • 5 77

    OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story (miod.online.fr)
  • 45 186

    Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign (newrepublic.com)
  • 24 94

    Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control (netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de)
  • 290 441

    No right to relicense this project (github.com)
  • 39 132

    Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king (phys.org)
  • 61 129

    Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough (blog.lorenzano.eu)
  • 112 337

    Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift (blog.ivan.digital)
  • 5 29

    Dbslice: Extract a slice of your production database to reproduce bugs (github.com)
  • 62 95

    The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me (tim.blog)
  • 66 47

    Zed new terms required to be 18 years old (zed.dev)
  • 25 38

    Relax NG is a schema language for XML (2014) (relaxng.org)
  • 0 7

    The Great Online Game (2021) (www.notboring.co)
  • 404 579

    The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying (acko.net)
  • 195 213

    AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time (arstechnica.com)
  • 69 215

    You Just Reveived (dylan.gr)
  • 344 350

    Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite (tuananh.net)
  • 63 148

    You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents (justin.poehnelt.com)
  • 78 165

    Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships (poppy-connection-keeper.netlify.app)
  • 6 19

    Completing the formal proof of higher-dimensional sphere packing (www.math.inc)
  • 1 4

    Show HN: A GFM+GF-MathJax/Latex HTML formatting adventure (github.com)
  • 10 51

    Regulator contacts Meta over workers watching intimate AI glasses videos (www.bbc.com)
  • 103 211

    Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic (techcrunch.com)
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  • 47 70

    What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state (www.inngest.com)
  • 17 29

    Malm Whale (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 221 158

    US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters (www.theguardian.com)
  • 50 118

    Chaos and Dystopian news for the dead internet survivors (www.fubardaily.com)
  • 65 39

    What's driving rising business costs? (libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
  • 273 868

    Google Workspace CLI (github.com)
  • 27 20

    Depleted weapons stockpiles could affect the Iran conflict (www.bbc.com)
  • 67 194

    Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter (www.sixstepstobetterhealth.com)
  • 406 753

    Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’ (techcrunch.com)
  • 12 49

    Daemon (2006) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 17 16

    Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons (openai.com)
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  • 9 23

    Show HN: A shell-native cd-compatible directory jumper using power-law frecency (github.com)
  • 0 26

    Flip Distance of Convex Triangulations and Tree Rotation Is NP-Complete (arxiv.org)
  • 131 139

    NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf] (www.nrc.gov)
  • 17 17

    Accessibility Issues Are Often Usability Issues (protovate.com)
  • 95 188

    Dulce et Decorum Est (1921) (www.poetryfoundation.org)
  • 240 215

    BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time (www.press.bmwgroup.com)
  • 3 16

    Approximation Game (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 63 150

    Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs (www.pnas.org)
  • 73 99

    Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
  • 227 704

    Building a new Flash (bill.newgrounds.com)
  • 15 63

    The Rust calling convention we deserve (2024) (mcyoung.xyz)
  • 204 224

    Does that use a lot of energy? (hannahritchie.github.io)
  • 44 132

    The View from RSS (www.carolinecrampton.com)
  • 79 213

    Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores (www.engadget.com)
  • 249 191

    Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral (www.bbc.com)
  • 4 66

    My Favorite 39C3 Talks (asindu.xyz)
  • 3 72

    Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection (gist.github.com)
  • 70 91

    Data has weight but only on SSDs (cubiclenate.com)
  • 232 609

    An interactive map of Flock Cams (deflock.org)
  • 2 25

    The Space Race's Forgotten Theme Park (daily.jstor.org)
  • 9 16

    AfricaMuseum refuses to yield Congo geological archives despite US pressure (www.vrt.be)
  • 99 76

    New York could prohibit chatbot medical, legal, engineering advice (folding-sky.com)
  • 3 26

    The 1,700-year-old megastructure history almost forgot (www.cnn.com)
  • 19 46

    Open Source Iran War Cost Tracker: 45.7B (iranwarcost.com)
  • 21 70

    Who Writes the Bugs? A Deeper Look at 125,000 Kernel Vulnerabilities (pebblebed.com)
  • 1 21

    Factory Logic (asteriskmag.com)
  • 212 328

    Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config (joshua.hu)
  • 35 180

    NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute (qlabs.sh)
  • 34 304

    Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program (www.moss.town)
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  • 12 26

    Notes on Project Oberon (sidhion.com)
  • Roboflow (YC S20) Is Hiring a Security Engineer for AI Infra (roboflow.com)
  • 35 111

    Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter (www.pesfandiar.com)
  • 12 63

    You Bought Zuck's Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop (blog.adafruit.com)
  • 93 64

    Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns (steve-yegge.medium.com)
  • 6 9

    SRGB↔XYZ Conversion (2021) (mina86.com)
  • 72 103

    Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments (www.nature.com)
  • 61 52

    Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead (www.wsj.com)
  • 345 767

    Something is afoot in the land of Qwen (simonwillison.net)
  • 5 15

    Toxic combinations: when small signals add up to a security incident (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 12 33

    Mexico Mandates Biometric SIM Registration for All Phone Numbers (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 36 153

    MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone (www.kth.se)
  • 65 176

    Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction (retractionwatch.com)
  • 14 57

    A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing (www.asimov.press)
  • 146 379

    Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 91 312

    “It turns out” (2010) (jsomers.net)
  • 90 283

    Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy (libre.solar)
  • 3 80

    Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' with A18 Pro Chip (www.macrumors.com)
  • 2210 1901

    MacBook Neo (www.apple.com)
  • 3 189

    MacBook Neo (www.apple.com)
  • 102 398

    Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide (unsloth.ai)
  • 71 107

    To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps (www.nytimes.com)
  • 13 13

    The JVG algorithm could break RSA-2048 encryption with fewer than 5k qubits (briefglance.com)
  • 5 25

    Charging a three-cell nickel-based battery pack with a Li-Ion charger [pdf] (www.ti.com)
  • 51 69

    Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself (shapeof.com)
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  • 23 34

    Nuclear War: An LLM Scenario (chrisclapham.com)
  • 139 226

    Glaze by Raycast (www.glazeapp.com)
  • 43 138

    Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? (venturebeat.com)
  • 5 63

    Modern Illustration: Archive of illustration from c.1950-1975 (www.modernillustration.org)
  • 504 867

    Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)
  • 200 100

    Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays (www.theregister.com)
  • Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring (jiga.io)
  • 192 293

    Bet on German Train Delays (bahn.bet)
  • 17 90

    Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game (2015) (play.elevatorsaga.com)
  • 95 177

    Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules (www.theregister.com)
  • 77 223

    RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# (iev.ee)
  • 87 42

    The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws (www.eurosky.tech)
  • 3 45

    Show HN: I made a zero-copy coroutine tracer to find my scheduler's lost wakeups (github.com)
  • 27 190

    Show HN: Stacked Game of Life (stacked-game-of-life.koenvangilst.nl)
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  • 38 81

    Indefinite Book Club Hiatus (whatever.scalzi.com)
  • 146 298

    RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello (www.rfc-editor.org)
  • 2 9

    Circle Games (2019) (srconstantin.wordpress.com)
  • 28 33

    Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering (www.seangoedecke.com)
  • 48 64

    Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables (github.com)
  • 98 150

    Better JIT for Postgres (github.com)
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  • 297 528

    Agentic Engineering Patterns (simonwillison.net)
  • 43 78

    On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) [pdf] (web.cs.ucdavis.edu)
  • 124 263

    A CPU that runs entirely on GPU (github.com)
  • 21 55

    Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of the PHP Foundation (thephp.foundation)
  • 20 52

    Number Research Inc (numberresearch.xyz)
  • 91 230

    Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)
  • 67 92

    LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy (arstechnica.com)
  • 4 15

    A pretty looking web for a quantum mechanics tool (github.com)
  • 9 60

    Speculative Speculative Decoding (SSD) (arxiv.org)
  • 112 113

    California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS (runxiyu.org)
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  • 422 422

    TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe (www.bbc.com)
  • 29 42

    Just Send the Prompt (justsendtheprompt.com)
  • 32 69

    Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs (netflixtechblog.com)
  • 42 52

    Mac external displays for designers and developers, part 2 (2022) (bjango.com)
  • 20 189

    Graphics Programming Resources (develop--gpvm-website.netlify.app)
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  • 2 9

    Show HN: AgentBus – Centralized AI Agent-to-Agent Messaging via REST API (agentbus.org)
  • 108 180

    Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities (github.com)
  • 2 63

    The largest acidic geyser has been putting on quite a show (www.usgs.gov)
  • 48 108

    You can use newline characters in URLs (lemire.me)
  • 532 1261

    Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (grapheneos.social)
  • 11 31

    130k Lines of Formal Topology: Simple and Cheap Autoformalization for Everyone? (arxiv.org)
  • 183 199

    My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs (www.ddmckinnon.com)
  • 3 32

    Claude's Cycles [pdf] (cs.stanford.edu)
  • 52 64

    Marcus AI Claims Dataset (github.com)
  • 41 76

    You can't use a code editor when you're under 18 now? (mastodon.online)
  • 0 19

    Time, Space, and Life as We Know It (2017) (raganwald.com)
  • 37 157

    Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal (www.euronews.com)
  • 7 20

    What’s in a name? (2014) (sailsandcommas.com)
  • 239 499

    Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability (www.ifixit.com)