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  • SIM (YC X25) Is Hiring the Best Engineers in San Francisco (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 68 70

    "Car Wash" test with 53 models (opper.ai)
  • 14 77

    UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (forums.atariage.com)
  • 41 11

    Yes there is a right way to stack the dishwasher. Here are the 5 rules (www.bbc.com)
  • 10 30

    India's VIP culture is out of control (www.economist.com)
  • 130 249

    Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
  • 92 189

    Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (www.nytimes.com)
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    A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs (www.techradar.com)
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    Show HN: Shibuya – A High-Performance WAF in Rust with eBPF and ML Engine (ghostklan.com)
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    Generalized Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Families of Hypotheses [pdf] (sites.stat.columbia.edu)
  • 97 92

    Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot (twitter.com)
  • 32 137

    ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (www.reuters.com)
  • 55 60

    US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables (futurism.com)
  • 39 80

    Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives (old.reddit.com)
  • 8 45

    The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (www.newscientist.com)
  • 102 83

    What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
  • 87 40

    Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries (www.linguabase.org)
  • 106 69

    Writing code is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  • 65 60

    AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 48 55

    Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index (www.anthropic.com)
  • 4 29

    Ed's Stratego Site (www.edcollins.com)
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    Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com)
  • 31 75

    Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
  • 82 77

    Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later (text.npr.org)
  • Hadrius (YC W23) Is Hiring Designers Who Code (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 16 33

    Dow drops 600 points as confusion grows after U.S. tariffs (www.cnbc.com)
  • 79 107

    'Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity: Ancient DNA study (www.science.org)
  • 95 77

    AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data (arstechnica.com)
  • 100 60

    Silicon Valley can't import talent like before. So it's exporting jobs (restofworld.org)
  • 23 70

    Show HN: C99 implementation of new O(m log^(2/3) n) shortest path algorithm (github.com)
  • 70 45

    If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat? (www.theguardian.com)
  • 0 37

    First, They Came for the Journalists (www.codastory.com)
  • 89 137

    A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
  • 13 34

    Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations (terezi.pyrope.net)
  • 74 48

    How did Joann Fabrics die while Best Buy survived? It wasn't Amazon (www.governance.fyi)
  • 12 49

    NASA uses Mars Helicopter's SoC for rover navigation upgrade (www.theregister.com)
  • 8 10

    Artist who "paints" portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer (simonbergerart.com)
  • 2 58

    Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com)
  • 59 43

    Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026 (www.coinerella.com)
  • 777 967

    The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 86 195

    The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
  • 9 18

    Microspeak: Escrow (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 14 96

    femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com)
  • 20 50

    What Is a Centipawn Advantage? (win-vector.com)
  • 13 37

    I Donut Believe – Presenting Third Party Results (Donut Lab) (idonutbelieve.com)
  • 92 106

    VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf] (pub-fee113bb711e441db5c353d2d31abbb3.r2.dev)
  • 51 85

    Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt (blog.nytsoi.net)
  • 49 60

    Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel" (prql-lang.org)
  • 42 35

    What I Learned After Building 3 TV Apps Coming from Mobile (dinkomarinac.dev)
  • 373 410

    Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (old.reddit.com)
  • 2 6

    The Oracle of Bacon: Thirty Years Later (3quarksdaily.com)
  • 504 921

    Ladybird adopts Rust (ladybird.org)
  • 45 103

    Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
  • 139 188

    Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love (hackernews.love)
  • 53 55

    A NASA Engineer Discovered a World of Semi Truck Aerodynamics by Accident (www.thedrive.com)
  • 71 74

    Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation (www.404media.co)
  • 14 27

    QRTape – Audio Playback from Paper Tape with Computer Vision (2021) (www.theresistornetwork.com)
  • 18 78

    SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iopscience.iop.org)
  • 103 299

    Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
  • 119 161

    Hetzner Prices increase 30-40% (docs.hetzner.com)
  • 5 23

    Cursor’s debug mode is arguably its best feature (davidgomes.com)
  • 91 470

    Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (www.chrisbrunet.com)
  • 14 11

    A bug is a bug, but a patch is a policy: The case for bootable containers (tuananh.net)
  • 401 501

    Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (www.ewtnnews.com)
  • 467 353

    Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 42 35

    Ask HN: Have you ever cloned a cat?
  • Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Interns in AI for Summer 2026 in Austria (bitmovin.com)
  • 49 142

    Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)
  • 41 70

    What I learned designing a barebones UI engine (madebymohammed.com)
  • 35 61

    How close are we to a vision for 2010? (shkspr.mobi)
  • 1 19

    JIT: A header-only, cross-platform JIT compiler library in C (github.com)
  • 112 311

    0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
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    What size should I use for my queue (www.syntacticbrownsugar.tech)
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    Rhythms the Compendium: Life aboard an aircraft carrier (2021) (thelexicans.wordpress.com)
  • 0 10

    LGP to take Mister Car Wash private in $3.1B deal (www.alternativeswatch.com)
  • 69 246

    Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet (fmhy.net)
  • 129 237

    The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
  • 15 75

    How to train your program verifier (risemsr.github.io)
  • 34 64

    Agentic Software Engineering Book (agenticse-book.github.io)
  • 32 68

    Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents (github.com)
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  • 22 76

    The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
  • 223 219

    $30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents (www.yahoo.com)
  • 32 51

    The power of daily rituals (2021) (www.bbc.com)
  • 172 357

    My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 25 39

    IT Staffing Firms (TCS, Cognizant, Infosis Underpay Developers by 80–100% (h1bdatahub.com)
  • 42 42

    Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
  • 11 47

    Show HN: A geometric analysis of Chopin's Prelude No. 4 using 3D topology (github.com)
  • 31 90

    Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss (www.nytimes.com)
  • 21 107

    Large US company came after me for releasing a free open-source alternative (old.reddit.com)
  • 1 13

    Browse Code by Meaning (haskellforall.com)
  • 667 774

    Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw (discuss.ai.google.dev)
  • 15 129

    Show HN: WARN Firehose – Every US layoff notice in one searchable database (warnfirehose.com)
  • 73 71

    Zuckerberg's "fix" for child safety could end anonymous internet access for all (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 55 78

    The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015) (cacm.acm.org)
  • 28 107

    Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15 (blog.feld.me)
  • 97 84

    Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones (keybeekeyboard.com)
  • 23 97

    Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived (github.com)
  • 9 48

    The Geometry of Tostitos Scoops (chip-tech-rob.zocomputer.io)
  • 94 452

    Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
  • 45 113

    AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human
  • 13 32

    Dental Disease May Undermine Elite Athletic Performance (www.medscape.com)
  • 6 21

    Procedural Tron (www.tripgeo.com)
  • 56 56

    Music Discovery (www.secondtrack.co)
  • 49 66

    In world without BlackBerry, physical keyboards on phones are making a comeback (www.cnet.com)
  • 178 183

    Global Intelligence Crisis (www.citriniresearch.com)
  • 1 10

    Building a (Bad) Local AI Coding Agent Harness from Scratch (www.appsoftware.com)
  • 5 42

    Black-White Array: fast, ordered and based on with O(log N) memory allocations (github.com)
  • 60 294

    Six Math Essentials (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 372 553

    Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok (joinloops.org)
  • 51 35

    Write-only code (www.heavybit.com)
  • 237 207

    Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov (twitter.com)
  • 49 46

    'Peanut butter' pay raises could cost companies their top performers (www.cnbc.com)
  • 3 28

    Administration Will Collect SM Handles from Legal Immigrants and U.S. Citizens (www.brennancenter.org)
  • 75 146

    Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser (pieter.com)
  • 348 1488

    I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard (hawksley.org)
  • 12 13

    Symplex, an open-source protocol semantic negotiation between distributed agents (github.com)
  • 17 11

    Green lumber fallacy in software engineering (2022) (www.chrisbehan.ca)
  • 62 206

    Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS (shuru.run)
  • 6 28

    Show HN: Data Studio – Open-Source Data Notebooks (github.com)
  • 64 41

    Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California (www.latimes.com)
  • 46 147

    Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community (orgmode.org)
  • 124 99

    An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia (gizmodo.com)
  • 27 28

    America's most partisan voters hold the most voting power (www.npr.org)
  • 122 161

    NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker (twitter.com)
  • 64 130

    Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic (hayzam.com)
  • 1 30

    International box-sizing Awareness Day (2014) (css-tricks.com)
  • 30 102

    Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work (github.com)
  • 19 30

    I Analyzed Every Nootropic Study on PubMed (outspeaker.com)
  • 92 49

    Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human (old.reddit.com)
  • 50 177

    Git's Magic Files (nesbitt.io)
  • 4 41

    Show HN: TLA+ Workbench skill for coding agents (compat. with Vercel skills CLI) (github.com)
  • 9 10

    AI System – Is It Your "Cognitive Exoskeleton" or Simply Your Super-Fast Intern?
  • 14 46

    Monkey Patching in VBA (ecp-solutions.github.io)
  • 12 40

    Fungicide vinclozin causes disease via germline for 20 generations in rats (pnas.org)
  • 86 265

    Fix your tools (ochagavia.nl)
  • 57 122

    Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS (voxjong.com)
  • 35 176

    Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map (live.xweather.com)
  • 0 6

    Introduction to Out of Time Order Correlators (OTOCs)(2025) (quantumcomputer.blog)
  • 92 238

    We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them (quesma.com)
  • 15 77

    I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall (rename.world)
  • 446 289

    Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown (www.bbc.com)
  • 221 397

    Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums (www.popsci.com)
  • 6 60

    The Four-Color Theorem 1852–1976 (www.ams.org)
  • 18 13

    New York Just Killed Its Robotaxi Plan. The Real Problem Isn't the Technology (www.phyware.io)
  • 5 24

    Sewage Spill in the Potomac River (www.vdh.virginia.gov)
  • 3 38

    Volatility: The volatile memory forensic extraction framework (github.com)
  • 5 9

    Conway's Arcade (specialguestx.com)
  • 3 33

    Holo v0.9: A Modern Routing Stack Built in Rust (github.com)
  • 260 635

    Attention Media ≠ Social Networks (susam.net)
  • 83 73

    The dance floor is disappearing in a sea of phones (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 49 53

    Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not (hypha.pub)
  • 21 37

    Porkbun sells out – Starts requiring Age ID despite no legal requirement (kb.porkbun.com)
  • 61 240

    What is a database transaction? (planetscale.com)
  • 81 92

    Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents (stripe.dev)
  • 0 14

    The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 12 79

    ReferenceFinder: Find coordinates on a piece of paper with only folds (mutsuntsai.github.io)
  • 28 55

    Unreal numbers (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 89 105

    What's the best way to learn a new language? (www.bbc.com)
  • 64 22

    Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron (github.com)
  • 114 217

    Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 (hypha.pub)
  • 7 25

    Show HN: Minimalist Glitch Art Maker (100% client-side) (yuyz0112.github.io)
  • 4 13

    Wave Twisters (2001) (www.youtube.com)
  • 33 76

    U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 (ielp.worldtradelaw.net)
  • 5 19

    A New Perspective on Drawing Venn Diagrams for Data Visualization (arxiv.org)
  • 16 20

    Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too (techcrunch.com)
  • 13 16

    Ask HN: Is HN becoming more toxic?
  • 53 81

    Iranian Students Protest as Anger Grows (www.wsj.com)
  • 249 415

    How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip? (www.anuragk.com)
  • 16 97

    Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography (blog.trailofbits.com)
  • 15 31

    The Human Root of Trust – public domain framework for agent accountability (humanrootoftrust.org)
  • 0 5

    The importance of limiting syndication feed requests in some way (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 6 20

    “Playmakers,” reviewed: The race to give every child a toy (www.newyorker.com)
  • 51 336

    Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games (gamedate.org)
  • 86 74

    People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much (www.nytimes.com)
  • 32 202

    Japanese Woodblock Print Search (ukiyo-e.org)
  • 33 181

    Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate (floedb.ai)
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    The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter (opennhp.org)
  • 58 84

    Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An open-source deep dive (github.com)
  • 35 54

    Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don't Make the Same Mistake (garryslist.org)
  • 6 70

    Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon (phys.org)
  • 91 154

    A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P (www.sambent.com)
  • 1 20

    US judge upholds $243M verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash (www.reuters.com)
  • 1 27

    Forward propagation of errors through time (nicolaszucchet.github.io)
  • 573 944

    How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution (boristane.com)
  • 79 42

    Are compilers deterministic? (blog.onepatchdown.net)
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    Declarative, Inquisitive, then Imperative (2017) [pdf] (www.forth.org)