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  • 1 9

    Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs (www.pnas.org)
  • 3 9

    Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
  • 3 17

    Building a New Flash (bill.newgrounds.com)
  • 0 15

    The Rust Calling Convention We Deserve (mcyoung.xyz)
  • 19 32

    Does that use a lot of energy? (hannahritchie.github.io)
  • 2 9

    The View from RSS (www.carolinecrampton.com)
  • 28 88

    Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores (www.engadget.com)
  • 104 95

    Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 22

    My Favorite 39C3 Talks (asindu.xyz)
  • 2 28

    Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection (gist.github.com)
  • 15 29

    Data Has Weight but Only on SSDs (cubiclenate.com)
  • 71 294

    An interactive map of Flock Cams (deflock.org)
  • 1 15

    The Space Race's Forgotten Theme Park (daily.jstor.org)
  • 7 12

    AfricaMuseum refuses to yield Congo geological archives despite US pressure (www.vrt.be)
  • 76 61

    New York could prohibit chatbot medical, legal, engineering advice (folding-sky.com)
  • 2 16

    The 1,700-year-old megastructure history almost forgot (www.cnn.com)
  • 11 14

    Open Source Iran War Cost Tracker: 45.7B (iranwarcost.com)
  • 16 62

    Who Writes the Bugs? A Deeper Look at 125,000 Kernel Vulnerabilities (pebblebed.com)
  • 1 11

    Factory Logic (asteriskmag.com)
  • 115 179

    Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config (joshua.hu)
  • 9 78

    NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute (qlabs.sh)
  • 10 103

    Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program (www.moss.town)
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  • 7 13

    Notes on Project Oberon (sidhion.com)
  • Roboflow (YC S20) Is Hiring a Security Engineer for AI Infra (roboflow.com)
  • 20 41

    Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter (www.pesfandiar.com)
  • 11 57

    You Bought Zuck's Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop (blog.adafruit.com)
  • 80 50

    Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns (steve-yegge.medium.com)
  • 5 7

    SRGB↔XYZ Conversion (2021) (mina86.com)
  • 52 90

    Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments (www.nature.com)
  • 48 41

    Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead (www.wsj.com)
  • 187 373

    Something is afoot in the land of Qwen (simonwillison.net)
  • 5 15

    Toxic combinations: when small signals add up to a security incident (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 12 26

    Mexico Mandates Biometric SIM Registration for All Phone Numbers (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 21 86

    MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone (www.kth.se)
  • 53 137

    Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction (retractionwatch.com)
  • 9 40

    A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing (www.asimov.press)
  • 131 310

    Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 68 198

    “It turns out” (2010) (jsomers.net)
  • 46 166

    Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy (libre.solar)
  • 3 80

    Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' with A18 Pro Chip (www.macrumors.com)
  • 1574 1221

    MacBook Neo (www.apple.com)
  • 3 188

    MacBook Neo (www.apple.com)
  • 52 208

    Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation (unsloth.ai)
  • 44 76

    Chimpanzees Are into Crystals (www.nytimes.com)
  • 13 12

    The JVG algorithm could break RSA-2048 encryption with fewer than 5k qubits (briefglance.com)
  • 4 23

    Charging a three-cell nickel-based battery pack with a Li-Ion charger [pdf] (www.ti.com)
  • 43 65

    Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself (shapeof.com)
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  • 19 29

    Nuclear War: An LLM Scenario (chrisclapham.com)
  • 96 160

    Glaze by Raycast (www.glazeapp.com)
  • 35 124

    Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? (venturebeat.com)
  • 4 53

    Modern Illustration: Archive of illustration from c.1950-1975 (www.modernillustration.org)
  • 428 745

    Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)
  • 157 81

    Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays (www.theregister.com)
  • Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring (jiga.io)
  • 183 270

    Bet on German Train Delays (bahn.bet)
  • 14 83

    Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game (2015) (play.elevatorsaga.com)
  • 70 114

    Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules (www.theregister.com)
  • 66 181

    RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# (iev.ee)
  • 84 39

    The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws (www.eurosky.tech)
  • 1 40

    Show HN: I made a zero-copy coroutine tracer to find my scheduler's lost wakeups (github.com)
  • 26 161

    Show HN: Stacked Game of Life (stacked-game-of-life.koenvangilst.nl)
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  • 43 76

    Indefinite Book Club Hiatus (whatever.scalzi.com)
  • 122 253

    RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello (www.rfc-editor.org)
  • 2 8

    Circle Games (2019) (srconstantin.wordpress.com)
  • 28 31

    Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering (www.seangoedecke.com)
  • 49 54

    Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables (github.com)
  • 67 135

    Better JIT for Postgres (github.com)
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  • 256 453

    Agentic Engineering Patterns (simonwillison.net)
  • 33 73

    On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) [pdf] (web.cs.ucdavis.edu)
  • 116 230

    A CPU that runs entirely on GPU (github.com)
  • 19 51

    Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of the PHP Foundation (thephp.foundation)
  • 20 50

    Number Research Inc (numberresearch.xyz)
  • 87 219

    Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)
  • 65 89

    LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy (arstechnica.com)
  • 3 15

    A pretty looking web for a quantum mechanics tool (github.com)
  • 9 57

    Speculative Speculative Decoding (SSD) (arxiv.org)
  • 104 111

    California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS (runxiyu.org)
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  • 370 383

    TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe (www.bbc.com)
  • 28 42

    Just Send the Prompt (justsendtheprompt.com)
  • 29 66

    Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs (netflixtechblog.com)
  • 39 51

    Mac external displays for designers and developers, part 2 (2022) (bjango.com)
  • 17 175

    Graphics Programming Resources (develop--gpvm-website.netlify.app)
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  • 2 9

    Show HN: AgentBus – Centralized AI Agent-to-Agent Messaging via REST API (agentbus.org)
  • 101 171

    Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities (github.com)
  • 2 60

    The largest acidic geyser has been putting on quite a show (www.usgs.gov)
  • 47 103

    You can use newline characters in URLs (lemire.me)
  • 485 1175

    Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (grapheneos.social)
  • 11 30

    130k Lines of Formal Topology: Simple and Cheap Autoformalization for Everyone? (arxiv.org)
  • 164 175

    My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs (www.ddmckinnon.com)
  • 3 30

    Claude's Cycles [pdf] (cs.stanford.edu)
  • 52 63

    Marcus AI Claims Dataset (github.com)
  • 39 73

    You can't use a code editor when you're under 18 now? (mastodon.online)
  • 0 19

    Time, Space, and Life as We Know It (2017) (raganwald.com)
  • 33 153

    Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal (www.euronews.com)
  • 7 20

    What’s in a name? (2014) (sailsandcommas.com)
  • 227 477

    Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability (www.ifixit.com)
  • 22 53

    Talos: Hardware accelerator for deep convolutional neural networks (talos.wtf)
  • 116 182

    Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death (www.politico.eu)
  • 0 17

    TV's TV (1987) & TV Games Encyclopedia (1988) (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
  • 89 81

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff (www.wsj.com)
  • 22 29

    Zed will require age identification for its services (zed.dev)
  • 208 252

    Don't make me talk to your chatbot (raymyers.org)
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  • 16 40

    CIA Station Hit in Drone Attack (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 41 181

    Textadept (orbitalquark.github.io)
  • 67 258

    Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)
  • 28 135

    We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell (gamehistory.org)
  • 6 14

    Show HN: Online OCR Free – Batch OCR UI for Tesseract, Gemini and OpenRouter (onlineocrfree.qzz.io)
  • 14 36

    Claude Code escapes its own denylist and sandbox (ona.com)
  • 0 9

    Intercepting messages inside Is­Dialog­Message, installing the message filter (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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  • 56 80

    Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's (boringops.sh)
  • 29 173

    An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023) (jakelazaroff.com)
  • 85 234

    Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands (www.wired.com)
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  • 28 53

    I audited the privacy of popular free dev tools, the results are terrifying (www.toolbox-kit.com)
  • 21 42

    Two kinds of error (evanhahn.com)
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  • 425 314

    Iran War Cost Tracker (iran-cost-ticker.com)
  • 145 209

    GitHub having issues [resolved] (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 3 39

    Show HN: Explain Curl Commands (github.com)
  • 27 52

    Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues
  • 287 298

    Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 114 100

    Payment fees matter more than you think (cuencahighlife.com)
  • 67 109

    Someone needs to go to jail (edwardelson.substack.com)
  • 7 16

    El Paso ICE Camp East Montana under quarantine after measles outbreak (www.elpasotimes.com)
  • 87 78

    You are going to get priced out of the best AI coding tools (2025) (newsletter.danielpaleka.com)
  • 295 384

    GPT‑5.3 Instant (openai.com)
  • 236 188

    Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native (tonsky.me)
  • 6 35

    Show HN: Effective Git (github.com)
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  • 4 42

    Show HN: Open-Source Article 12 Logging Infrastructure for the EU AI Act
  • 284 294

    When AI writes the software, who verifies it? (leodemoura.github.io)
  • 58 64

    FCC Chair Wants Networks to Pledge Loyalty for America's Big Bday (gizmodo.com)
  • 20 99

    TorchLean: Formalizing Neural Networks in Lean (leandojo.org)
  • 5 41

    Simplifying Application Architecture with Modular Design and MIM (codingfox.net.pl)
  • 82 72

    Pass-Through of Tariffs: Evidence from European Wine Imports (www.nber.org)
  • 30 30

    I Used Claude to File My Taxes for Free (kachess.dev)
  • 13 29

    A [Firefox, Chromium] extension that converts Microsoft to Microslop (addons.mozilla.org)
  • 88 501

    Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 82 70

    Why No AI Games? (franklantz.substack.com)
  • 19 51

    Points on a ring: An interactive walkthrough of a popular math problem (growingswe.com)
  • 59 126

    Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp (sny.sh)
  • 82 54

    Florida public universities to pause hiring new H-1B workers (www.wusf.org)
  • 2 18

    Show HN: React-Kino – Cinematic scroll storytelling for React (1KB core) (github.com)
  • 478 409

    MacBook Air with M5 (www.apple.com)
  • 269 385

    Don't become an engineering manager (newsletter.manager.dev)
  • 603 959

    I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services (neilzone.co.uk)
  • 25 89

    Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents
  • 141 187

    AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review (www.theverge.com)
  • 308 229

    Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR (www.apple.com)
  • 314 749

    Claude's Cycles [pdf] (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
  • 913 836

    MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max (www.apple.com)
  • 14 31

    History of the Graphical User Interface: The Rise (and Fall?) Of WIMP Design (www.uxtigers.com)
  • 167 226

    Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024 (growtika.com)
  • 251 512

    I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project (twitter.com)
  • 70 95

    We automated everything except knowing what's going on (eversole.dev)
  • 51 85

    Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours (llmhorrors.com)
  • 45 105

    Computer Says No (koenvangilst.nl)
  • 181 79

    Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK (www.lbc.co.uk)
  • 185 357

    India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders (www.bbc.com)
  • 177 299

    Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 4 45

    How to sew a Hyperbolic Blanket (2021) (www.geometrygames.org)
  • 60 60

    China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built (www.executivetraveller.com)
  • 3 21

    What's new in Linux kernel for PostgreSQL (erthalion.info)
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  • 158 1279

    The Xkcd thing, now interactive (editor.p5js.org)
  • 103 119

    The beauty and terror of modding Windows (windowsread.me)
  • 8 67

    C64: Putting Sprite Multiplexing to Work (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
  • 109 128

    AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE (www.bbc.com)
  • 60 87

    Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
  • 10 37

    Plugtest (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 64 177

    We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is (blog.replit.com)
  • 166 270

    Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 2 6

    It's Time for LLM Connection Strings (danlevy.net)
  • 24 107

    I built a pint-sized Macintosh (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 1 7

    I built an RGB controller with Arduino (svana.name)
  • 28 109

    DOS Memory Management (www.os2museum.com)
  • 43 89

    Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies (www.newyorker.com)
  • 136 151

    Daily Driving GrapheneOS (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
  • 11 91

    Guido van Rossum Interviews Thomas Wouters (Python Core Dev) (gvanrossum.github.io)
  • 52 50

    Intent-Based Commits (github.com)
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  • 58 54

    Moldova broke our data pipeline (www.avraam.dev)
  • 164 203

    Elevated Errors in Claude.ai (status.claude.com)
  • 145 132

    U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon," (jonathanlarsen.substack.com)
  • 70 266

    Simple screw counter (mitxela.com)
  • 40 35

    Do AI Agents Make Money in 2026? Or Is It Just Mac Minis and Vibes? (www.siliconsnark.com)
  • 374 592

    Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes (futurism.com)
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  • 24 49

    OpenClaw Exposure Watchboard (openclaw.allegro.earth)
  • 10 22

    Show HN: Giggles – A batteries-included React framework for TUIs (github.com)
  • 75 65

    Excommunicated devs making games with AI (www.tyleo.com)
  • 18 79

    The Cathode Ray Tube site (www.crtsite.com)
  • 69 59

    Iran unleashes Shahed drones aimed at targets across Middle East (www.theguardian.com)
  • 30 138

    Zuckerberg's internal emails rendered as Facebook Messenger (zuckmail.vercel.app)
  • 113 114

    Guilty Displeasures (www.hopefulmons.com)
  • 10 28

    Show HN: PHP 8 disable_functions bypass PoC (github.com)
  • 56 35

    The Case for Apolitical Tech Spaces (minor.gripe)
  • 59 81

    Against Query Based Compilers (matklad.github.io)
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  • 34 188

    Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source (physics.aps.org)