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  • 0 7

    The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025) (acesounderglass.com)
  • 21 53

    New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 38 42

    “I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT (www.thestandard.com.hk)
  • 3 23

    What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC? (blogsystem5.substack.com)
  • 69 157

    SecurityBaseline.eu (internetcleanup.foundation)
  • 15 9

    AluminiumOS, by Google: Android Reimagined for the Desktop (aluminium-os.com)
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  • 5 13

    I made Rust’s cargo copy but for CPP (github.com)
  • 5 24

    Up in Smoke (thebaffler.com)
  • 2 7

    We tested super-resolution pre-filter for LPR OCR. It did nothing (www.wink.co)
  • 45 183

    Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics (arxiv.org)
  • 44 46

    Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI (zero-native.dev)
  • 4 14

    What can singing mice say about human speech? (phys.org)
  • 99 177

    The vi family (lpar.ath0.com)
  • 11 54

    Temu is advertising filet mignon on X (twitter.com)
  • 13 40

    Referer Reality (www.robinsloan.com)
  • 17 17

    AI shouldn't have a meter. Unlimited tokens. Forever (www.openmonoagent.ai)
  • 22 21

    You Don't Look Like a Gamer: On Toxicity, Gatekeeping, & Women Who Share Gaming (gardinerbryant.com)
  • 352 232

    Starship V3 (www.spacex.com)
  • 10 113

    Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s (github.com)
  • 7 94

    When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 6 14

    The Cost of Doing Business: How SF's Tax Structure Constrains Economic Growth [pdf] (www.bayareaeconomy.org)
  • 28 201

    Scrcpy v4.0 (github.com)
  • 14 71

    Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams (github.com)
  • 94 337

    Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine (www.savethearchive.com)
  • 52 152

    My graduation cap runs Rust (ericswpark.com)
  • 25 35

    Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 112 163

    Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track (www.bbc.com)
  • 35 197

    EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant (www.eff.org)
  • 8 90

    Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot (x86.lol)
  • 185 441

    Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers (github.com)
  • 47 150

    Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence (www.latimes.com)
  • 42 77

    Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer (www.theguardian.com)
  • 71 64

    Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices (www.reuters.com)
  • 76 75

    As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work (nautil.us)
  • 2 20

    A Preview of the Future (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 13 56

    Beyond Semantic Similarity (arxiv.org)
  • 45 356

    How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
  • 8 36

    Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want (thebuild.com)
  • 7 18

    Unauthorized Anthropic stock sales and investment scams (support.claude.com)
  • 33 43

    SQL: Incorrect by Construction (chreke.com)
  • 43 63

    We accidentally recreated old Facebook (amrshawky.com)
  • 111 160

    The Rise of the Bullshittery (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
  • 59 289

    Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
  • 154 471

    Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com)
  • 3 31

    The Moth Story Map (themoth.org)
  • 160 318

    CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (lists.thekelleys.org.uk)
  • 8 19

    New Jersey residents say they can't even wash their clothes due to data centers (www.thecooldown.com)
  • 77 59

    Testing UPS Output Waveforms (www.lttlabs.com)
  • 173 206

    Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
  • 33 92

    Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com)
  • 42 66

    Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim (xbow.com)
  • 1303 790

    Googlebook (googlebook.google)
  • 108 337

    Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (www.eff.org)
  • 55 151

    When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
  • 41 77

    Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (www.hypercubic.ai)
  • 239 256

    Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (www.insidehighered.com)
  • 20 50

    Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
  • 257 590

    Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (www.nair.sh)
  • 25 55

    The Real Story of Troy (storica.club)
  • 228 224

    Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools (arstechnica.com)
  • 13 30

    Where Are All the Data Centers? (www.wheresyoured.at)
  • 143 379

    The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
  • 20 55

    Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
  • 119 355

    Operation: Epic Furious (www.epicfurious.com)
  • 226 230

    eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 1 9

    Jankó Keyboard (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 398 1274

    Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 26 16

    I hate the recent open-source rise (www.jvt.me)
  • 47 30

    Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties (phys.org)
  • 10 12

    The gutting of USAID has left a void China will not fill (www.economist.com)
  • 15 32

    Through the looking glass of benchmark hacking (poolside.ai)
  • 45 67

    The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube (www.construction-physics.com)
  • 418 252

    US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war (www.bbc.com)
  • 39 478

    Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (blog.maximeheckel.com)
  • 23 86

    Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler (docs.python.org)
  • 27 172

    UnDUNE II (liquidream.itch.io)
  • 15 79

    Chasing Chicago's movable bridges (2014) (aresluna.org)
  • 60 60

    Don't hijack my mouse pointer (ruky.me)
  • 122 99

    Houses are for living, not for speculation (en.wikipedia.org)
  • Text Blaze (YC W21) Is Hiring for a No-AI Summer Internship (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 83 89

    A HN post with negative points – how?
  • 74 85

    Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM (bogomolov.work)
  • 439 498

    EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (www.cnbc.com)
  • 85 199

    Coursera and Udemy are now one company (blog.coursera.org)
  • 0 18

    Yabasic (Yet Another Basic) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 31 34

    Optimize for change not application performance (www.echooff.dev)
  • 79 101

    Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production (gagadget.com)
  • 63 44

    Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows? (arc.quanten.co)
  • 40 65

    HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver (www.phoronix.com)
  • 109 558

    Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
  • 1 8

    Words Fail (2020) (carcinisation.com)
  • 128 159

    Toxicity on Social Media (thenoisyroom.com)
  • 12 57

    Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy (www.pietschsoft.com)
  • 14 90

    Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC (github.com)
  • 4 20

    When semiconductor materials misbehave (semiengineering.com)
  • 351 671

    Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (www.typewritten.org)
  • 1 11

    Supercomputer networking to accelerate large scale AI training (openai.com)
  • 10 20

    US in closely-guarded talks to open new bases in Greenland (www.bbc.com)
  • 3 13

    High-precision HDC reference instrument for the Sol Star System (pypi.org)
  • 25 209

    Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
  • 19 37

    Arcadia, CA, Mayor Federally Charged with Acting as Illegal Agent of PRC, Pleads (www.justice.gov)
  • 32 70

    Productivity isn't about going faster (humanpro.co)
  • 23 67

    Boriel BASIC (zxbasic.readthedocs.io)
  • 40 50

    The PSP feels surprisingly present right now (gardinerbryant.com)
  • 10 72

    VGA Memory Access Is Complicated (www.os2museum.com)
  • 33 214

    Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
  • 47 41

    Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot (fireflysentinel.github.io)
  • 185 553

    They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com)
  • 64 99

    A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began (www.newscientist.com)
  • 89 224

    Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
  • 5 17

    Show HN: Safe-install – safer NPM installs with trusted build dependencies (www.npmjs.com)
  • 26 116

    Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com)
  • 104 30

    A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan (www.freerange.city)
  • 3 54

    Abstract Machines for Logic Programs (chrisistyping.bearblog.dev)
  • 1 10

    Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise (tanstack.com)