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  • 0 16

    Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok (joinloops.org)
  • 5 8

    Write-Only Code (www.heavybit.com)
  • 17 45

    Spain has blocked access to freedom.gov (twitter.com)
  • 15 21

    'Peanut butter' pay raises could cost companies their top performers (www.cnbc.com)
  • 2 25

    Administration Will Collect SM Handles from Legal Immigrants and U.S. Citizens (www.brennancenter.org)
  • 7 12

    Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser (pieter.com)
  • 38 161

    I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard (hawksley.org)
  • 5 9

    Symplex, an open-source protocol semantic negotiation between distributed agents (github.com)
  • 12 10

    Green lumber fallacy in software engineering (2022) (www.chrisbehan.ca)
  • 11 44

    Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS (shuru.run)
  • 0 12

    Show HN: Data Studio – Open-Source Data Notebooks (github.com)
  • 22 24

    Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California (www.latimes.com)
  • 6 29

    Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community (orgmode.org)
  • 24 45

    An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia (gizmodo.com)
  • 14 22

    America's most partisan voters hold the most voting power (www.npr.org)
  • 40 56

    NanoClaw Moved from Apple Containers to Docker (twitter.com)
  • 12 29

    Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic (hayzam.com)
  • 1 26

    International box-sizing Awareness Day (2014) (css-tricks.com)
  • 14 45

    Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work (github.com)
  • 18 24

    I Analyzed Every Nootropic Study on PubMed (outspeaker.com)
  • 78 38

    Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human (old.reddit.com)
  • 20 80

    Git's Magic Files (nesbitt.io)
  • 2 26

    Show HN: TLA+ Workbench skill for coding agents (compat. with Vercel skills CLI) (github.com)
  • 8 9

    AI System – Is It Your "Cognitive Exoskeleton" or Simply Your Super-Fast Intern?
  • 4 36

    Monkey Patching in VBA (ecp-solutions.github.io)
  • 11 37

    Fungicide vinclozin causes disease via germline for 20 generations in rats (pnas.org)
  • 53 144

    Fix your tools (ochagavia.nl)
  • 37 75

    Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS (voxjong.com)
  • 23 99

    Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map (live.xweather.com)
  • 0 5

    Introduction to Out of Time Order Correlators (OTOCs)(2025) (quantumcomputer.blog)
  • 76 182

    We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them (quesma.com)
  • 12 53

    I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall (rename.world)
  • 373 265

    Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown (www.bbc.com)
  • 96 148

    Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums (www.popsci.com)
  • 5 51

    The Four-Color Theorem 1852–1976 (www.ams.org)
  • 17 13

    New York Just Killed Its Robotaxi Plan. The Real Problem Isn't the Technology (www.phyware.io)
  • 5 22

    Sewage Spill in the Potomac River (www.vdh.virginia.gov)
  • 3 35

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

    Conway's Arcade (specialguestx.com)
  • 3 26

    Holo v0.9: A Modern Routing Stack Built in Rust (github.com)
  • 204 458

    Attention Media ≠ Social Networks (susam.net)
  • 67 70

    The dance floor is disappearing in a sea of phones (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 45 46

    Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not (hypha.pub)
  • 15 31

    Porkbun sells out – Starts requiring Age ID despite no legal requirement (kb.porkbun.com)
  • 37 181

    What is a database transaction? (planetscale.com)
  • 72 92

    Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents (stripe.dev)
  • 0 8

    The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 9 61

    ReferenceFinder: Find coordinates on a piece of paper with only folds (mutsuntsai.github.io)
  • 25 52

    Unreal numbers (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 62 68

    What's the best way to learn a new language? (www.bbc.com)
  • 57 22

    Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron (github.com)
  • 86 184

    Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 (hypha.pub)
  • 7 24

    Show HN: Minimalist Glitch Art Maker (100% client-side) (yuyz0112.github.io)
  • 4 12

    Wave Twisters (2001) (www.youtube.com)
  • 28 70

    U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 (ielp.worldtradelaw.net)
  • 5 17

    A New Perspective on Drawing Venn Diagrams for Data Visualization (arxiv.org)
  • 14 18

    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?
  • 46 77

    Iranian Students Protest as Anger Grows (www.wsj.com)
  • 225 373

    How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip? (www.anuragk.com)
  • 16 88

    Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography (blog.trailofbits.com)
  • 15 27

    The Human Root of Trust – public domain framework for agent accountability (humanrootoftrust.org)
  • 0 4

    The importance of limiting syndication feed requests in some way (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 5 19

    “Playmakers,” reviewed: The race to give every child a toy (www.newyorker.com)
  • 43 304

    Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games (gamedate.org)
  • 78 68

    People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much (www.nytimes.com)
  • 29 186

    Japanese Woodblock Print Search (ukiyo-e.org)
  • 31 176

    Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate (floedb.ai)
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  • 33 29

    The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter (opennhp.org)
  • 53 78

    Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An open-source deep dive (github.com)
  • 32 48

    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)
  • 85 145

    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)
  • 538 852

    How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution (boristane.com)
  • 75 42

    Are compilers deterministic? (blog.onepatchdown.net)
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    Declarative, Inquisitive, then Imperative (2017) [pdf] (www.forth.org)
  • 2 45

    Finding forall-exists Hyperbugs using Symbolic Execution (dl.acm.org)
  • 29 30

    Happy Zelda's 40th first LLM running on N64 hardware (4MB RAM, 93MHz) (github.com)
  • 93 358

    Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU (github.com)
  • 426 401

    Why is Claude an Electron app? (www.dbreunig.com)
  • 76 79

    Password managers less secure than promised (ethz.ch)
  • 2 16

    Mathematics in the Library of Babel (www.daniellitt.com)
  • 59 188

    Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks (www.science.org)
  • 1 8

    Beagle CRDT SCM outer interface (gist.github.com)
  • 6 31

    Online Pebble Development (cloudpebble.repebble.com)
  • 15 31

    MeshTNC is a tool for turning consumer grade LoRa radios into KISS TNC compatib (github.com)
  • 50 60

    The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead (boristane.com)
  • 73 201

    EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source) (www.eduke32.com)
  • 124 157

    I Don't Like Magic (adactio.com)
  • 137 257

    zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32 (github.com)
  • 69 245

    Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust (www.harudagondi.space)
  • 34 104

    Inputlag.science – Repository of knowledge about input lag in gaming (inputlag.science)
  • 48 68

    How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model (tinfoil.sh)
  • 464 167

    Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation (carbuzz.com)
  • 49 118

    Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header <canvas>-like 2D rasterizer for C++ (github.com)
  • 10 20

    She Graduated with Honors but She Can't Read (garryslist.org)
  • 165 230

    Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst (antipolygraph.org)
  • 123 181

    Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026 (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 1 9

    Denonomicon: The Dark Arts of Deno Foreign Function Interface Programming (denonomicon.deno.dev)
  • 55 84

    Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects (loonlang.com)
  • 45 70

    DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit (dialup95.com)
  • 866 388

    Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents (twitter.com)
  • 43 169

    Permacomputing (wiki.xxiivv.com)
  • 212 479

    What not to write on your security clearance form (1988) (milk.com)
  • 27 77

    Show HN: Iron-Wolf – Wolfenstein 3D source port in Rust (github.com)
  • 10 60

    The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated (nekonomicon.irixnet.org)
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  • 359 719

    How far back in time can you understand English? (www.deadlanguagesociety.com)
  • 14 11

    DJB's Cryptographic Odyssey: From Code Hero to Standards Gadfly (cryptography.watch)
  • 258 254

    CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate (www.koreaherald.com)
  • 3 11

    Claude Code published fabricated claims to 8 platforms over 72hrs (github.com)
  • 85 215

    macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025) (igorstechnoclub.com)
  • 12 34

    Instant AI Response (chatjimmy.ai)
  • 1 24

    JWasm: Masm Compatible Assembler (github.com)
  • 2 18

    Choose Your Fictions Well (2010) (henryjenkins.org)
  • 205 129

    Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU (www.itv.com)
  • 114 277

    AI uBlock Blacklist (github.com)
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  • Padlet (YC W13) Is Hiring in San Francisco and Singapore (padlet.jobs)
  • 33 65

    The bare minimum for syncing Git repos (alexwlchan.net)
  • 31 123

    Coccinelle: Source-to-source transformation tool (github.com)
  • 80 40

    Large Language Model Reasoning Failures (arxiv.org)
  • 74 284

    Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" (simonwillison.net)
  • 26 43

    Understanding Std:Shared_mutex from C++17 (www.cppstories.com)
  • 15 45

    When etcd crashes, check your disks first (nubificus.co.uk)
  • 51 120

    24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it (ahmedkaddoura.com)
  • 123 141

    LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in (www.neowin.net)
  • 474 1392

    I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over (thelocalstack.eu)
  • 182 230

    EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023) (environment.ec.europa.eu)
  • 44 68

    Gitas – A tool for Git account switching (github.com)
  • 145 239

    Acme Weather (acmeweather.com)
  • 70 69

    Trunk Based Development (trunkbaseddevelopment.com)
  • 62 140

    Lean 4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI (venturebeat.com)
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  • 64 57

    Colorado proposal moves age checks from websites to operating systems (www.biometricupdate.com)
  • 106 147

    Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency (mojodojo.io)
  • 14 38

    SwiftForth IDE for Windows, Linux, macOS (www.forth.com)
  • 4 14

    Show HN: Script Snap – Extract code from videos (script-snap.com)
  • 2 10

    Show HN: I built a 55K-word email marketing knowledge base and Claude Code skill (www.emailmarketingskill.com)
  • 13 32

    Show HN: PIrateRF – Turn a $20 Raspberry Pi Zero into a 12-mode RF transmitter (github.com)
  • 21 60

    Excessive token usage in Claude Code (github.com)
  • 11 13

    Show HN: Agent Passport – OAuth-like identity verification for AI agents
  • 12 22

    Reproducible and traceable configuration for Conan C and C++ package manager (blog.conan.io)
  • 23 31

    Claude Code's compaction discards data that's still on disk (github.com)
  • 81 218

    What Is OAuth? (leaflet.pub)
  • 78 163

    Index, Count, Offset, Size (tigerbeetle.com)
  • 75 151

    Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents (www.june.kim)
  • 91 172

    Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023) (adamj.eu)
  • 12 20

    Lexega Turns SQL into Signals (lexega.com)
  • 4 11

    Irish man detained by ICE [Update] – It's not what it seems (www.limerickleader.ie)