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  • 0 4

    A simple clustering algorithm for lists (cassidoo.co)
  • 4 8

    Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Is Missing Opportunities to Apply Lessons (www.gao.gov)
  • 1 5

    Lerd, an open source Herd-like PHP development environment for Linux and macOS (github.com)
  • 0 19

    June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more (servo.org)
  • 55 41

    AI companies destroy rare and non recoverable physical books (www.heraldscotland.com)
  • 5 15

    Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video] (media.ccc.de)
  • 15 58

    Severance (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 37 90

    Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion (tailscale.com)
  • 0 9

    Making Referential Stability a Type (jovidecroock.com)
  • 5 33

    Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types (github.com)
  • 4 13

    Orca-Bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall? (arxiv.org)
  • 7 45

    AFC Stands in Solidarity with UEFA and Concacaf to Protect the FIFA World Cup (www.the-afc.com)
  • 12 24

    Termixer (TUI DJ Mixer) (github.com)
  • 0 8

    How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars (www.newyorker.com)
  • 12 31

    Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours (manifest.build)
  • 45 171

    qm (github.com)
  • 9 26

    Show HN: Slope remade in HTML5 to load instantly on any browser, any device (hurtle.site)
  • 65 39

    The great wealth transfer reality check (usa.visa.com)
  • 27 77

    Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s (github.com)
  • 53 84

    Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 5 56

    How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods (cgjennings.ca)
  • Miso (YC S16) is hiring for U.S. expansion (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 2 11

    Bypassing Claude's upload limits, 4x (500 MB → 2 GB) (blog.zernote.com)
  • 60 80

    The most official water costs $120k a gallon (signoregalilei.com)
  • 10 17

    Show HN: I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces (privacything.com)
  • 48 18

    Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism (www.worksinprogress.news)
  • 15 24

    I built a f.lux alternative because the M5 Max firmware broke existing solutions (driftformac.app)
  • 11 30

    13 Models and 4 Agents on SWE Tasks: Go, Java, Python, Rust, TS (swe-rebench.com)
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  • 19 31

    Where .env Went Wrong (secretspec.dev)
  • 18 67

    Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion (semyonsinchenko.github.io)
  • 2 28

    The Art of Decision-Making (2019) (www.newyorker.com)
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  • 54 13

    Puberty blockers trial can start recruiting children (www.bbc.com)
  • 80 126

    Big Food vs. the People (www.lighthousereports.com)
  • 12 17

    Show HN: Shared memory graph for Claude and ChatGPT, over MCP (uml.gpmai.workers.dev)
  • 18 25

    Online Friends Are Real Friends (toska.bearblog.dev)
  • 13 54

    Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account (github.com)
  • 23 50

    US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner (2019) (www.bbc.com)
  • 112 61

    Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy (www.theexamination.org)
  • 7 10

    I 4x'd a 367x479 stamp-sized photo through 8 upscaling models (enlarger.app)
  • 75 107

    Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption (lwn.net)
  • 38 52

    The C ``Clockwise/Spiral Rule'' (c-faq.com)
  • 16 49

    A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
  • 35 48

    Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements (www.commondreams.org)
  • 64 49

    Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers (broadbandbreakfast.com)
  • 155 101

    U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123% (fred.stlouisfed.org)
  • 160 618

    Elevators (john.fun)
  • 10 50

    New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key (www.wired.com)
  • 108 85

    Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons? (www.quantamagazine.org)
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  • 0 6

    The fragile foundations of CoT monitoring (web.stanford.edu)
  • 2 29

    Detect Dark Matter's Mark from Your Backyard (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 16 46

    Better to Beg Forgiveness (pluralistic.net)
  • 55 98

    Moonshot’s Kimi uses 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 121 125

    The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol) (arxiv.org)
  • 8 53

    Winding Down Artichoke Ruby (hyperbo.la)
  • 5 13

    Another Reason Not to Use "AI" for Your Writing (whatever.scalzi.com)
  • 17 19

    About 60k migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory's leader says (www.bbc.com)
  • 128 132

    Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout (www.wsj.com)
  • 3 43

    We shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever: On weird fiction (clereviewofbooks.com)
  • 95 237

    Premier league bans gambling sponsors (www.footyheadlines.com)
  • 38 75

    Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy (andre.arko.net)
  • 388 356

    The End of an Era (hughhowey.com)
  • 22 40

    How A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist (www.nytimes.com)
  • Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer (tasklet.ai)
  • 112 71

    IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats (www.engadget.com)
  • 1 11

    Obfuscation (Part II): Diamond IO (vitalik.eth.limo)
  • 258 475

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 118 110

    Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant (www.bbc.com)
  • 7 17

    Show HN: A udev implementation in Guile Scheme (codeberg.org)
  • 463 454

    Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI (blog.google)
  • 72 50

    "the very foundation of modern academia has been blown to bits" (twitter.com)
  • 0 6

    Show HN: Cubic Doggo 06R: 12-DOF 4-Legged Robot with IMU (github.com)
  • 64 182

    Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions (github.com)
  • 2 63

    Simulating TCP loss and congestion in browser using Go/WASM (ccsim.fly.dev)
  • 300 627

    DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update (api-docs.deepseek.com)
  • 60 96

    Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like? (marbleos.com)
  • 17 104

    The mean means nothing: data visualization to debug a latency problem (fzakaria.com)
  • 2 13

    Human Honeypot (human2llm.pages.dev)
  • 146 221

    JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master (github.com)
  • 8 91

    Where USB Memory Sticks are Born (2013) (www.bunniestudios.com)
  • 148 138

    The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it (greyswansignals.com)
  • 207 712

    The session you cannot take with you (earendil.com)
  • 77 132

    The bond market isn’t buying what Fed Chair Warsh is selling (www.reuters.com)
  • 142 161

    A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return (www.science.org)
  • 41 45

    Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Save 65% of Tokens? We Test (blog.jetbrains.com)
  • 135 267

    The Religion of Speed (graybeard.ing)
  • 1 6

    Fixing miss-aligned monospace text in Android browsers (moritzhamann.com)
  • 54 53

    The American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay (2024) (buttondown.com)
  • 68 86

    Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner" (gizmodo.com)
  • 172 359

    The AI Aesthetic (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
  • 168 215

    Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (www.anthropic.com)
  • 139 265

    I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals (geospatialml.com)
  • 47 98

    Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free (rune.build)
  • 31 66

    Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct (www.science.org)
  • 7 14

    Show HN: Local text, image, video, music and 3D from one CLI, no Python (github.com)
  • 1 21

    One Ring to Rule Them All: Wiring Radios to Laptops the Hard Way (www.lysk.ai)
  • 20 23

    I obtained Claude Opus 5 system prompt (claude.ai)
  • 110 72

    Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident (www.tucsonsentinel.com)
  • 48 151

    Bad Apple but It's Traceroute (jssfr.de)
  • 117 319

    Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (github.com)
  • 13 96

    Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal (github.com)
  • 17 64

    Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels (phulin.me)
  • 9 34

    What would it mean to see a new color? (www.newyorker.com)
  • 72 160

    Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (www.ctgt.ai)
  • 8 30

    Show HN: Supapool – a Supabase per coding agent in ~400 ms (supapool.io)
  • 235 276

    2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026 (obryant.dev)
  • 650 1187

    UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (www.uefa.com)
  • 107 121

    So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ (dynomight.net)
  • 0 7

    Show HN: Tally – check a spreadsheet's numbers against their source, in-browser (tally.jiegou.ai)
  • 0 19

    Show HN: Noisegate – a differential-privacy gateway for untrusted AI agents (github.com)
  • 32 123

    Making Postgres queues scale (www.dbos.dev)
  • 52 187

    CodePen 2.0 (chriscoyier.net)
  • 230 385

    We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 (www.bottlenecklabs.com)
  • 30 50

    US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference (www.theguardian.com)
  • 277 759

    Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)
  • 390 592

    Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (openai.com)
  • 517 786

    Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 56 40

    How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 74 47

    Toot.community is shutting down (social.jorijn.com)
  • Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 9 63

    How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025) (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  • 0 8

    Reversing Abstractions: An Existential Crisis (www.humprog.org)
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  • 2 19

    Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast (brandur.org)
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  • 28 54

    Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again (github.com)
  • 10 18

    Pgrust v0.2: Now faster than Postgres and Clickhouse Latest (github.com)
  • 26 35

    Parody Hacker News (2013) (bradconte.com)
  • 167 227

    Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 6 27

    RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 118 276

    The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (martinfowler.com)
  • 508 608

    Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)
  • 35 31

    Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents (fletch.sh)
  • 7 39

    Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset? (rusty.today)
  • 3 4

    Show HN: I audited my AI leaderboard scale – every score dropped 6-15 points (agiranker.com)
  • 266 199

    The lost civic life of movie rental stores (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  • 109 114

    Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others (www.cam.ac.uk)
  • 13 58

    Building a native C# implementation of CEL engine (bsid.io)
  • 21 63

    SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library (github.com)
  • 30 165

    Hacker Public Radio (hackerpublicradio.org)
  • 13 29

    Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures (blog.certisfy.com)
  • 78 212

    Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 (www.projectpluto.com)
  • 1 17

    Going beneath NTFS: USN Journal, dfir_NTFS, and artefact-driven investigations (andreafortuna.org)
  • 320 184

    Europe's fires are just the start (economist.com)
  • 8 58

    The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984) (hex.ooo)
  • 57 77

    Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools (prized.dev)
  • 65 152

    Are We Stuck with Lean? (mathoverflow.net)
  • 7 14

    UK police to arrest people for showing support for Palestine Action (twitter.com)
  • 36 73

    You can't solve computer use by ignoring the interface (steelmanlabs.com)
  • 48 113

    3D Pinball for Windows (1995) (98.js.org)
  • 170 431

    'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling (remysharp.com)
  • 39 127

    RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020) (mnot.net)
  • 67 91

    Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (select.supply)
  • 16 58

    Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib) (github.com)
  • 16 71

    CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB (www.wiz.io)
  • 115 127

    Why don't people use formal methods? (2019) (www.hillelwayne.com)
  • 85 73

    OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI (openjdk.org)
  • 69 66

    How old is Ann? (quuxplusone.github.io)
  • 282 219

    Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? (www.construction-physics.com)
  • 47 37

    What it means for an API to be RESTful (en.andros.dev)
  • 404 342

    GCC steering committee announces AI policy (lwn.net)
  • Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Robotics/Research Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 58 122

    The Glass Famine (edconway.substack.com)
  • 54 73

    ChatGPT, Roblox to fall under strictest EU rules for platforms (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 118 251

    Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 (www.grumpygamer.com)
  • 3 13

    Cisco FMC static credential vulnerability exploited as a zero-day (sec.cloudapps.cisco.com)
  • 7 36

    The Apple Calculator Language (wadetregaskis.com)
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  • 55 61

    Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits (docs.carolinacloud.io)
  • 76 97

    Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode (github.com)
  • 64 187

    Azulejo (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 73 41

    Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea (atomarine.co)
  • 37 123

    Gpiozero Flow (bennuttall.com)
  • 508 413

    Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year (android-developers.googleblog.com)
  • 35 88

    The first watch featuring computer functions (by.seiko-design.com)
  • 16 64

    ESP32-C6 Power Consumption: Arduino vs. Zephyr vs. ESP-IDF Comparison (www.qoitech.com)
  • 69 50

    I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air (christianselig.com)
  • 28 60

    Concurrency, interactivity, mutability, choose two (www.n16f.net)
  • 72 40

    Why the future is local app (getapps.cafe)
  • 12 6

    Show HN: Edge Drop- #1 productivity and unique clipboard 200 stars on GitHub (github.com)
  • 1 16

    Claude is down for 2nd consecutive day (status.claude.com)
  • 54 85

    EU now fears US interference in European elections (www.eunews.it)
  • 41 71

    London’s most equidistant pub (equidistance.io)
  • 100 165

    1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed (noyb.eu)
  • 1 3

    The Royal Order of Operations (ken.fyi)
  • 2 14

    Thanatos Rising (theamericanscholar.org)
  • 21 79

    Kuna: Decompiler Development in the Age of Coding Agents (noelo.org)
  • 82 84

    NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements (www.nsf.gov)
  • 47 205

    Logic for Programmers (logicforprogrammers.com)
  • 50 39

    A pharmacy chain in Vermont implemented AI for efficiency (vtdigger.org)
  • 9 58

    Angels in Coptic Magic I: Introduction (www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de)
  • 32 40

    Flume Water Monitor 915 MHz Security Is Pretty Good (waveformsecurity.com)
  • 9 21

    Starter Homes Are Piling Up While Luxury Homes Fly Off the Market (www.zillow.com)
  • 11 59

    Recursive Filters: SMA, EMA, Low‑Pass, and a Tiny Kalman (www.staszewski.xyz)
  • 22 42

    Show HN: A local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents (github.com)
  • 5 8

    Why you should sell your AI Skills? (capabase.ai)