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  • 0 3

    Hulios: An eBPF-powered, transparent Tor gateway for Linux (github.com)
  • 2 9

    The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015) (www.aramcoworld.com)
  • 5 29

    Uv 0.12.0 (github.com)
  • 23 154

    Donate to GrapheneOS (grapheneos.org)
  • 62 193

    Deflock Casa Grande (deflockcg.com)
  • 1 17

    The most advanced robotic servicing satellite–that we know about (arstechnica.com)
  • 13 31

    MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless (blog.modelcontextprotocol.io)
  • 91 52

    The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade (www.apple.com)
  • 17 28

    Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a separate Linux workstation (stephenkrings.com)
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  • 0 11

    Coding Tools MCP (v0.2.2):Give any AI chat or agent a pair of hands on your code (github.com)
  • 1 42

    WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web (www.w3.org)
  • 35 107

    Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 (sbcl.org)
  • 9 27

    Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI (openai.com)
  • 40 96

    Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude (www.anthropic.com)
  • 111 162

    Substack writers, you need a website (elizabethtai.com)
  • 55 64

    Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly (unawatch.com)
  • 7 11

    Rear center fuel tank adds roughly 20k liters and extends range by 1k NM (www.airbus.com)
  • 32 75

    Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library (cacm.acm.org)
  • 2 11

    Xenharmlib (music theory library) adds support for Just Intonation (xenharmlib.readthedocs.io)
  • 31 106

    Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong? (anthropeum.com)
  • 10 21

    Setup Script Should Support Git Worktrees (piechowski.io)
  • 17 152

    Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes (sebastianraschka.com)
  • 14 11

    I showed an AI an image it couldn't see – then caught it lying about what it saw (paulshepherd.com)
  • 110 262

    A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants (blog.doubleword.ai)
  • 6 22

    Show HN: Flashpaper – Self-destructing secret sharing with no database (flashpaper.app)
  • 26 41

    So, you want to make a game engine (2023) (lisyarus.github.io)
  • 76 125

    Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals (mlugg.co.uk)
  • 24 73

    Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library (github.com)
  • 6 87

    How Do I Profile eBPF Code? (naveensrinivasan.com)
  • 81 154

    Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News' (www.slow-journalism.com)
  • 98 308

    Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification (citizens-initiative.europa.eu)
  • 4 7

    Show HN: Base-GPUI: A GPUI port of Base UI headless components (github.com)
  • 4 13

    A Deep Logo Study (dannyspina.com)
  • 123 106

    Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women (ooni.org)
  • 53 39

    Europe's Ultra-Rich Could Fund a Substantial Part of the EU's Budget (www.socialeurope.eu)
  • 50 69

    Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012) (arxiv.org)
  • 150 124

    GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search (www.pcmag.com)
  • 36 62

    VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines (github.com)
  • 5 25

    The Origins of Modern Mathematics in Russia (valeman.medium.com)
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  • 44 39

    Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?
  • 273 138

    Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights (fortune.com)
  • 25 21

    Many "serious" mathematicians are aghast (twitter.com)
  • 29 67

    Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles (www.pbs.org)
  • 6 8

    Can LLMs identify 16 cards in 45 bit-queries? (snwagh.com)
  • 30 62

    Dolmenwood: Fantasy RPG built around the acclaimed Old-School Essentials rules (necroticgnome.com)
  • 66 40

    Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History (simpleflying.com)
  • 2 10

    Show HN: Vivari – Open-Source WebContainer for Node, Bun, and Python (vivari.jamesisme.com)
  • 5 8

    Show HN: I left VSCode to build an IDE to handle many projects/agents workflow (github.com)
  • 54 69

    Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction (tale.fyi)
  • 21 28

    Show HN: Segue – Save context in one AI, load it in another by a short handle (segue.ai)
  • 42 100

    Show HN: Formally verified 3D CSG: Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code (github.com)
  • 45 63

    What AI developers could learn from Charles Bukowski? (galjot.si)
  • 6 47

    Show HN: Ctrlb-decompose: Strip the noise from logs before sending to LLMs (github.com)
  • 205 435

    New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study (www.lji.org)
  • 24 17

    Show HN: I put a $2.43 necklace on 3 outfits. VLMs priced it at $19 to $104 (github.com)
  • 74 44

    AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough (www.economist.com)
  • 96 153

    DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it (ciphercue.com)
  • 4 31

    Usenet Archive Toolkit – process Usenet messages into a searchable archive (github.com)
  • 30 70

    Show HN: Scala Tutorials – interactive Scala 3 lessons in the browser (scalatutorials.com)
  • 102 239

    Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025) (arxiv.org)
  • 0 13

    Show HN: Open-source Cloudflare deployed agent native task management and wiki (tajd.github.io)
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  • 31 161

    Mondragon Corporation – a federation of co-operatives (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 32 50

    Fast Remediation Is the New Trust Model (JFrog and OpenAI Zero-Day Findings) (jfrog.com)
  • 245 142

    I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore (itsmevox.substack.com)
  • 65 39

    Which Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test? (homer.scrivium.com)
  • 21 42

    Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support
  • 8 33

    Golang Maps: how Swiss Tables replaced the old bucket design (blog.gaborkoos.com)
  • 68 135

    Google's Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era (spawn-queue.acm.org)
  • 69 37

    What Even Are Microservices? (var0.xyz)
  • 129 185

    About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6 (support.apple.com)
  • 84 390

    How to survive boiling water (taxa.substack.com)
  • 30 84

    Don't ask an LLM for a confidence score (justinflick.com)
  • 5 37

    TWC Classics (twcclassics.com)
  • 193 742

    7.1 Earthquake in Japan (www.data.jma.go.jp)
  • 17 8

    Why copper still rules the motherboard trace (psyll.com)
  • 11 45

    Programming Languages Are Authoring Tools for Platforms (www.makonea.com)
  • 16 6

    Show HN: A 6M-token movable window on a single 46GB GPU (arxiv.org)
  • 0 6

    How to choose an AI Agent platform for your team (construct.computer)
  • 44 102

    Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts (arsastronomica.com)
  • 9 76

    PyTorch: A Reference Language (docs.pytorch.org)
  • 43 108

    Neutrino-1 8B (www.fermionresearch.com)
  • 2 16

    Why I joined Blacksmith to work on storage again (www.blacksmith.sh)
  • 67 84

    Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do? (thedecisionlab.com)
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  • 14 52

    A Dying Art: The last of the morticians (harpers.org)
  • 138 123

    An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 88 79

    Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat (jacob.gold)
  • 131 308

    Using an open model feels surprisingly good (matthewsaltz.com)
  • 111 300

    A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review (fermisense.com)
  • 17 65

    Some combinatorial applications of spacefilling curves (www2.isye.gatech.edu)
  • 101 188

    Vehicle Motion Cues (support.apple.com)
  • 4 11

    PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's (boringsql.com)
  • 62 80

    EYG: A Programming Language for Humans (crowdhailer.me)
  • 24 43

    Internet is no longer accessible?
  • 12 21

    Show HN: Trylle – The Next-Gen Git Platform for Modern Teams (trylle.com)
  • 37 95

    Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download (github.com)
  • 126 147

    RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB (gpusolutions.net)
  • 80 129

    Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API (telnyx.com)
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  • 47 54

    Three Theses on the Literacy Crisis (trevoraleo.substack.com)
  • 101 181

    Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions (spacedaily.com)
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  • 14 32

    The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4 (arxiv.org)
  • 21 18

    Samsung reveals Galaxy Z Fold 8 that will compete with the iPhone Ultra (mashable.com)
  • 461 410

    Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise (nypost.com)
  • 23 20

    Show HN: Dowe – A full-stack language for server, web, desktop, Android, and iOS (www.dowe.dev)
  • 40 73

    C/C++ projects packaged for Zig (github.com)
  • 52 45

    America has become an entrepreneur's paradise (www.economist.com)
  • 60 38

    A Discord Alternative – Echoed (echoed.gg)
  • 108 384

    Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench (github.com)
  • 16 42

    Hard Road – A beautiful procedural post-apocalyptic game (hardroad.xyz)
  • 55 115

    DConf 2026 in London (dconf.org)
  • 13 13

    Colorblind: Checking figure accessibility for colour blind people (quantixed.org)
  • 224 376

    A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months (arstechnica.com)
  • 1653 1131

    Our position on open-weights models (www.anthropic.com)
  • 5 12

    Lilian Weng (co-founder) leaving Thinking Machines (twitter.com)
  • 42 44

    Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware (www.theverge.com)
  • 2 17

    Building GCC 1.27 (2019) (kristerw.blogspot.com)
  • 51 53

    My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents (twitter.com)
  • 1 4

    Platform engineering 2.0 mitigates AI security and compliance risks (platformengineering.org)
  • 49 209

    Forth (xkcd.com)
  • 104 111

    US DOT deleting bike lane references (www.npr.org)
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  • 35 112

    Securing Services with Rootless Containers (blog.coderspirit.xyz)
  • 87 104

    Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI (www.techspot.com)
  • 6 10

    Yudkowsky and Soares' Book Is Lacking (2025) (oscarmdavies.substack.com)
  • 37 82

    Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals (www.rise-reforming.com)
  • 31 92

    Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted (github.com)
  • 17 121

    Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages (gpuopen.com)
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  • 84 92

    How real are real numbers? (2004) (arxiv.org)
  • 8 60

    Tokio Gives Progress, Not Ordering: Scheduling 1M Tasks (pranitha.dev)
  • 2 47

    Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  • 36 161

    Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions (gregoryszorc.com)
  • 14 127

    The Artist Who Colored Ghibli (animationobsessive.substack.com)
  • 147 333

    Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped (www.techdirt.com)
  • 41 256

    Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap (theconsensus.dev)
  • 99 93

    Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine? (bigthink.com)
  • 20 32

    If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken (klarasystems.com)
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  • 18 49

    Jensen Huang's first post on Twitter is in defense of open access to AI models (www.pcgamer.com)
  • 243 276

    Canceling "Hey" (chadnauseam.com)
  • 110 237

    MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH (microsoft.ai)
  • 6 22

    Show HN: Running PrismML's Bonsai inside DRAM by breaking DDR4 timing rules
  • 2 11

    I buy Belgian (www.ikkoopbelgisch.be)
  • 28 117

    Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library (usefeyn.com)
  • 226 333

    Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website (www.sgieurope.com)
  • 0 19

    Show HN: Infrawrench – A tool to manage cloud and svcs with workflows and chat (infrawrench.com)
  • 57 162

    Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles (eaton-works.com)
  • UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper (up.codes)
  • 77 81

    Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 30 273

    Paged Out #9 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)
  • 1 18

    Beckett the Prophet (theamericanscholar.org)
  • 10 36

    108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering (brittany-ellich.offprint.app)
  • 78 41

    All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time (unslop.run)
  • 15 40

    DIY Home Solar System for under $5000 (2025) (www.gavinmai.com)
  • 176 385

    Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf] (github.com)
  • 100 174

    Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol (cen.acs.org)
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  • 79 68

    Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition (videocardz.com)
  • 343 248

    Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts (www.macrumors.com)
  • 144 271

    AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying (www.ft.com)
  • 78 204

    The computer that helped win World War II (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 96 90

    We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles (www.rtings.com)
  • 244 242

    Should you wash your solar panels? (incoherency.co.uk)
  • 51 83

    First Robotic Satellite Servicer Launched (www.nrl.navy.mil)
  • 1 12

    3D-printed F-14 Tomcat uses FPGA recreation of the first microprocessor (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 4 27

    The Proof Machine (2016) (incredible.pm)
  • 82 104

    Worse on Purpose (ledger.worseonpurpose.com)
  • 16 12

    Tanker hits mine in the Strait of Hormuz as Iran intercepts six vessels (nypost.com)
  • 501 777

    AI companies are shredding rare books (twitter.com)
  • 46 67

    Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 49 86

    Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
  • 74 103

    Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5 (status.claude.com)
  • 8 24

    Show HN: Watch 14-Byte AI "brains" attempt to solve a 2D maze (Its hard) (con-dog.github.io)
  • 183 250

    Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023) (misago-project.org)
  • 381 484

    How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going? (lockwood.dev)
  • 108 52

    If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level (smoothbrains.net)
  • 38 86

    Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ from Scratch (blog.jaysmito.dev)
  • 57 192

    Why I Left Google DeepMind (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 22 78

    Shay Locomotives (www.shaylocomotives.com)
  • 45 67

    The Birth of the American 12-string Guitar (2013) (www.harpguitars.net)
  • 54 168

    VLC for Unity now supported on Linux (code.videolan.org)
  • 149 192

    Modern email can be built from borrowed parts (en.andros.dev)
  • 24 50

    Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5 (status.claude.com)
  • 24 192

    Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines (github.com)
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  • 5 16

    Boox Go 10.3 (gen II) Lumi: First impressions (manualdousuario.net)
  • 190 213

    Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470% (www.bbc.com)
  • 98 259

    Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025) (mymodernmet.com)
  • 76 28

    The old-school way of keeping the summer heat out of your home (monocle.com)
  • 7 75

    How Unix spell ran in 64 kB of RAM (2025) (blog.codingconfessions.com)
  • 1 45

    8086 Emulator Inside Scratch (turbowarp.org)
  • 39 47

    Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4 (getdx.com)
  • 538 1364

    Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace (huggingface.co)
  • 136 95

    EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services (www.wsj.com)
  • 2 21

    The Zen of Parallel Programming: The Posture of a Kernel (smolnero.com)
  • 65 48

    Why care about programming languages (ebellani.github.io)
  • 22 100

    Jacobian Conjecture for Baby (muchmirul.github.io)
  • 3 4

    Mirror-Mirror: Mirror your PC screen to your phone over your local network (github.com)
  • 155 280

    Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary (github.com)
  • 8 19

    How the Atmos clock functions (atmos-atelier.de)
  • 183 472

    Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room (blackhole.plav.in)
  • 12 15

    Show HN: Port Zero – how I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0 (portzero.net)
  • 78 37

    I Championed Prediction Markets. Look What They've Become (newsletter.platypuseconomics.com)
  • 89 914

    PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works (nikolays.github.io)
  • 14 115

    Fonts In Use – Find out where a font is used (fontsinuse.com)
  • 1064 1306

    US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search (www.techspot.com)
  • 3 37

    History of John Backus's functional programming project (draft) (softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org)
  • 2 6

    Wattage: A token-spend profiler and cost-regression gate for AI agents (github.com)