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  • 3 24

    Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar (computerhistory.org)
  • 5 24

    Show HN: Claw Patrol, a security firewall for agents (github.com)
  • 8 26

    Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 3 27

    Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) (magicvinyldigital.net)
  • 12 33

    Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 0 6

    Show HN: Stop returning raw JSON from MCP servers, build rich inline UIs (medium.com)
  • 14 38

    Oh good, screwworms are back (2025) (www.marginallycompelling.com)
  • 16 34

    Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time (www.newscientist.com)
  • 12 35

    How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 13 41

    macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux (www.phoronix.com)
  • 1 36

    Show HN: AI pair programmer for Emacs (github.com)
  • 0 39

    Emacs appearances in pop culture (ianyepan.github.io)
  • 2 75

    Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 (brew.sh)
  • 9 42

    A new era for software testing (antirez.com)
  • 16 39

    Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
  • 31 150

    Doing nothing at work (www.seangoedecke.com)
  • 14 55

    Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code (printserver.ink)
  • 20 17

    Waymo Premier (waymo.com)
  • 4 20

    Software Is Made Between Commits (zed.dev)
  • 4 18

    US House rejects FISA Section 702 extension, warrantless surveillance expires (www.axios.com)
  • 5 20

    Fable 5 lies 96% of the time (twitter.com)
  • 2 8

    Running Claude Code Offline on an M3 Pro with Qwen3.6 (har-ki.github.io)
  • 1 5

    Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages (www.omniglot.com)
  • 30 65

    Anthropic walks back policy that could have 'sabotaged' researchers using Claude (www.wired.com)
  • 22 52

    Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22 (www.ourcommons.ca)
  • 66 95

    Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails (www.theverge.com)
  • 50 35

    Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
  • 29 106

    Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time (www.theguardian.com)
  • 20 42

    The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix (mrbruh.com)
  • 2 46

    SVG-Line: Better Status Bars for Emacs – Charlie Holland's Blog (www.chiply.dev)
  • 40 20

    The $15,000 AI Bill. Your $20 Subscription is a DELUSION [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 14 48

    FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL (github.com)
  • 3 23

    Show HN: Open-source API Key server written in Go by Ory (github.com)
  • 74 76

    Car headlights don't have to be this blinding (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 15 33

    Queues Don't Fix Overload (2014) (ferd.ca)
  • 64 37

    Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 17 22

    AMD Gaslights Security Researcher, Changes Rules Retroactively [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 65 44

    Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 29 83

    War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now (phillipspobrien.substack.com)
  • 110 217

    MiMo Code is now released and open-source (mimo.xiaomi.com)
  • 26 62

    Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here (www.heise.de)
  • 45 83

    Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future (nextcloud.com)
  • 26 138

    MapComplete: Maps about various topics which you can contribute to (mapcomplete.org)
  • 1 11

    Supporting Exchange and beyond (brendan.abolivier.bzh)
  • 105 103

    US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance (www.bbc.com)
  • 12 108

    Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 (github.com)
  • 188 226

    Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 104 92

    Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May (www.bls.gov)
  • 18 41

    More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might slow you (twitter.com)
  • 9 24

    The AI Agent in the Billing Department of Verizon Is a Mentally Handicapped Thug (samhenrycliff.medium.com)
  • 6 21

    The Economics of Speculative Decoding (fergusfinn.com)
  • 174 266

    Lines of code got a better publicist (curlewis.co.nz)
  • 118 115

    BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada (electrek.co)
  • 0 4

    Symbolicating a minified stack trace by hand: why source maps can't do it alone (tracewayapp.com)
  • 39 61

    The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer (www.currentaffairs.org)
  • 55 29

    HTML is a native image format, hear me out (hmml.eddocu.com)
  • 57 59

    Global population movements from 1990 to 2023 (www.nature.com)
  • 2 16

    The Life and Works of Raoul Bott (2002) (arxiv.org)
  • 284 232

    Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't (www.normaltech.ai)
  • 44 110

    Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning (medium.com)
  • 65 141

    Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles (vale.rocks)
  • 3 39

    Making a Shading Language for My Offline Renderer (agraphicsguynotes.com)
  • 139 273

    Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items (daringfireball.net)
  • 33 111

    Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning (farnoy.dev)
  • 89 49

    Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance (arstechnica.com)
  • 4 11

    The Conductor Rewrite: What They Changed to Make It Fast (performance.dev)
  • 274 593

    Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones (dronexl.co)
  • 69 70

    Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger (github.com)
  • 3 10

    Validation, Docs, tests, and database schemas from one source of truth (github.com)
  • 54 122

    Starfish by Peter Watts (1999) (www.rifters.com)
  • 100 79

    OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users (www.cnbc.com)
  • 11 127

    Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux (blog.nns.ee)
  • 16 44

    Are insecure code completions in PyCharm a vulnerability? (sethmlarson.dev)
  • 90 85

    The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0 (bytecodealliance.org)
  • 24 16

    Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive
  • 2 15

    Building a Korean ambiguity solver fast enough to skip the GPU: 7,300 words/SEC (kimchi-reader.app)
  • 66 109

    CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts (matklad.github.io)
  • 21 104

    Vacuum-Form Signage (bethmathews.substack.com)
  • 17 94

    Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C (nanochess.org)
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  • 0 15

    Computer Lessons (technicshistory.com)
  • 236 528

    AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere (lwn.net)
  • 9 15

    Aws.com and google.com don't have DNSSEC enabled (gist.github.com)
  • 11 37

    Deficient executive control in transformer attention (academic.oup.com)
  • 29 18

    Why are there so many canines in fine art? (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 3 41

    Unix GC Remastered (mohandacherir.github.io)
  • 12 15

    Free financial literacy platform for kids – 90 lessons, no paywall (learnfinly.com)
  • 118 189

    Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 63 121

    World Capitals Voronoi (www.jasondavies.com)
  • 10 64

    US President says 'I love the inflation' (www.cnbc.com)
  • 293 580

    Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos (support.claude.com)
  • 493 563

    Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable (techcrunch.com)
  • 96 39

    Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free (news.immunologic.org)
  • 2 15

    A game's homemade crypto fell to a DIY supercomputer (www.ud2.rip)
  • 122 107

    What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf] (www.sas.upenn.edu)
  • 15 30

    Show HN: Atlasphere – Live Infrastructure Diagrams
  • 7 24

    Pick and Place: Carbon Nanotube Nanoassembly Process (www.c12qe.com)
  • 309 294

    Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM (www.adafruit.com)
  • 5 24

    Show HN: Artie – Real-time data replication to your warehouse, now self-serve (www.artie.com)
  • 39 82

    The Abundance Illusion (www.carlyle.com)
  • 198 912

    πFS (github.com)
  • 3 463

    Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 0 17

    A 35B MoE on a 16 GB GPU, without the offload tax (www.lucebox.com)
  • 23 290

    GeoLibre 1.0 (geolibre.app)
  • 91 314

    Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated (samwilkinson.io)
  • 232 161

    Policy on the AI Exponential (darioamodei.com)
  • 130 103

    Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents (techcrunch.com)
  • 51 283

    L'Affaire Siloxane (mceglowski.substack.com)
  • 73 239

    Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps (www.extend.ai)
  • 193 182

    Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely (www.matteast.io)
  • 106 50

    Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024) (www.noahpinion.blog)
  • 9 23

    Babel-USB: USB drive with every file (github.com)
  • 1 15

    Anatomy of a high-performance EP kernel (fergusfinn.com)
  • 87 268

    How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 297 422

    Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use (github.com)
  • 3 32

    The Dynamo and the Computer: The Modern Productivity Paradox (1989) [pdf] (www.almendron.com)
  • 124 139

    Who's the smartest corvid? (thetyee.ca)
  • 40 140

    Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage (github.com)
  • 6 12

    Show HN: Ustps (UDP Speedy Transmission Protocol Secure) and USSH (github.com)
  • 82 95

    The Case for Free Online Books (2014) (from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com)
  • 86 315

    DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation (blog.google)
  • 7 49

    Postgres by Example (github.com)
  • 4 16

    A Server Called Mercury (kennethreitz.org)
  • 32 162

    Authentication issues related to API requests (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 5 29

    The Last Evolution, by John W Campbell Jr. (1932) (www.gutenberg.org)
  • 297 266

    US Consumer Price Index up 4.2% (www.bls.gov)
  • 30 70

    The iPad was on Tailscale: a WebRTC debugging story (p2claw.com)
  • 60 95

    Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster (www.inverse.com)
  • 111 238

    Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications (burr.apache.org)
  • 536 761

    I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
  • 192 199

    A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent (blue41.com)
  • 24 17

    GnuCash is right. It's also why I built my own finance app (k-id.app)
  • 25 77

    'They take you out of life, out of time': a journey into Spain's cave paintings (www.theguardian.com)
  • 174 83

    Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 136 197

    Notes on DeepSeek
  • 247 526

    PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you (pgdog.dev)
  • 71 146

    ICE denies having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light (www.npr.org)
  • 275 234

    Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
  • 197 182

    I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys (danq.me)
  • 548 1218

    Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight (mohkohn.co.uk)
  • 33 109

    Who Runs Your Rust Future? Hands-On Intro to Async Rust (aibodh.com)
  • 80 252

    All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026) (jivx.com)
  • 109 182

    Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway (sbbresale.ch)
  • 55 77

    Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations (steveblank.com)
  • 20 24

    Notepad++ Zero-Click RCE via Path Traversal (CVE-2026-52884) (github.com)
  • 39 63

    Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota (github.com)
  • 32 78

    Magnetoelectric antennas could transform how underwater robots talk (newatlas.com)
  • 117 123

    Port React Compiler to Rust (github.com)
  • 138 110

    European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low (ecfr.eu)
  • 44 198

    Reviving Papers with Code (paperswithcode.co)
  • 343 535

    Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor (media.mercedes-benz.com)
  • 249 411

    AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
  • 20 121

    I thought I knew how electrolysis worked [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 140 85

    How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks (arstechnica.com)
  • 20 79

    Premature optimization is fun sometimes (invlpg.com)
  • 421 403

    Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension (www.neowin.net)
  • 0 23

    Computer Lessons (technicshistory.com)
  • 124 214

    Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs (www.ddmckinnon.com)
  • 1 15

    The Evolution of 'More Like This' (manticoresearch.com)
  • 1 11

    Bit Propagation over a Noisy Grid (jasonfantl.com)
  • 215 382

    Surprise, pay $1000 (forestwalk.ai)
  • 0 10

    Experience using AI software to prove Euler sum results [pdf] (www.davidhbailey.com)
  • 120 205

    Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery (twitter.com)
  • 2 8

    If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know (simonwillison.net)
  • 0 36

    Value Numbering (bernsteinbear.com)
  • 528 995

    German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews (the-decoder.com)
  • 36 156

    The oldest surviving animated feature film at 100 (www.bbc.com)
  • 428 1233

    macOS Container Machines (github.com)
  • 82 194

    It's death (jesseduffield.com)
  • 22 40

    Starlink shifts hardware from one-time purchase to $10/month rental (arstechnica.com)
  • 22 188

    More Molly Guards (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 13 38

    Show HN: Nucleus – A security-hardened, Nix-native container runtime (github.com)