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  • 2 4

    Chorba: A novel CRC32 implementation (2024) (arxiv.org)
  • 6 32

    This System Can Go Fuck Itself and Burn in Hell (shawnfromportland.substack.com)
  • 4 13

    The third era of AI software development (twitter.com)
  • 17 62

    How to talk to anyone, and why you should (www.theguardian.com)
  • 5 12

    The Panopticon Is Here: How the US Government Built an AI Superweapon (matt728243.substack.com)
  • 6 86

    Microgpt explained interactively (growingswe.com)
  • 1 16

    Gzpeek: Tool to Parse Gzip Metadata (evanhahn.com)
  • 41 103

    Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE) (health.aws.amazon.com)
  • 75 104

    A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran (twitter.com)
  • 6 10

    'Employers are increasingly turning to degree and GPA' (fortune.com)
  • 3 16

    How Dada enables internal references (smallcultfollowing.com)
  • 3 38

    January in Servo: preloads, better forms, details styling, and more (servo.org)
  • 9 13

    6 Practices that turned AI from prototyper to workhorse (106 PRs in 14 days)
  • 3 30

    Show HN: Audio Toolkit for Agents (github.com)
  • 15 34

    Python Type Checker Comparison: Empty Container Inference (pyrefly.org)
  • 107 131

    When does MCP make sense vs CLI? (ejholmes.github.io)
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  • 25 37

    I Built a Scheme Compiler with AI in 4 Days (matthewphillips.info)
  • 4 3

    Show HN: I made a iron dome game (deployclaw.com)
  • 71 69

    Long Range E-Bike (2021) (jacquesmattheij.com)
  • 2 29

    Lil' Fun Langs' Guts (taylor.town)
  • 66 53

    Setting up phones is a nightmare (joelchrono.xyz)
  • 60 164

    New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 66 111

    Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude (glthr.com)
  • 208 115

    AI is making junior devs useless (beabetterdev.com)
  • 78 146

    Ape Coding [fiction] (rsaksida.com)
  • 55 46

    US Military says 3 service members have been killed (apnews.com)
  • 27 61

    Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last (cen.acs.org)
  • 32 38

    Pentagon Adopts Incel-Speak (www.theguardian.com)
  • 279 364

    AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder (www.ivanturkovic.com)
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  • 43 97

    Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017) (www.gimp.org)
  • 215 490

    Ghostty – Terminal Emulator (ghostty.org)
  • 17 25

    Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework (lukeb42.github.io)
  • 35 141

    Flightradar24 for Ships (atlas.flexport.com)
  • 23 66

    Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio (phys.org)
  • 234 387

    I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "free" and ad-supported (99helpers.com)
  • 0 6

    I used 2D Base64 to bypass Gemini and expose Google's moderation flaws
  • 15 80

    The real cost of random I/O (vondra.me)
  • 6 48

    Pigeons and Planes Has a Website Again (www.pigeonsandplanes.com)
  • 22 112

    Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB? (joelsiks.com)
  • 23 22

    Show HN: Terminal-Style Portfolio on the Internet (kuber.studio)
  • 2 27

    Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat (adlrocha.substack.com)
  • 20 93

    Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS (security.googleblog.com)
  • 62 337

    Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules (mlu-explain.github.io)
  • 26 123

    An ode to houseplant programming (2025) (hannahilea.com)
  • 236 502

    Switch to Claude without starting over (claude.com)
  • 45 195

    10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU) (modernaicourse.org)
  • 6 25

    Cracking the Python Monorepo (gafni.dev)
  • 11 95

    Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet (www.morling.dev)
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  • 18 47

    The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text (2024) (dl.acm.org)
  • 15 92

    Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields (www.nature.com)
  • 43 37

    Microsoft announces new "mini PCs" for Windows 365 (www.neowin.net)
  • 16 41

    SpacetimeDB ThreeJS Support (discourse.threejs.org)
  • 56 161

    Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading (9to5google.com)
  • 272 1575

    Microgpt (karpathy.github.io)
  • 90 94

    Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10% (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 22 70

    Running a One Trillion-Parameter LLM Locally on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Cluster (www.amd.com)
  • 37 134

    H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery (www.inconspicuous.info)
  • 3 16

    War Is a Racket (Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC) (archive.org)
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  • 61 61

    Show HN: Xmloxide – an agent-made Rust replacement for libxml2 (github.com)
  • 57 208

    Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store (apps.apple.com)
  • 54 128

    Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities (fortune.com)
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  • 29 64

    Deterministic Programming with LLMs (www.mcherm.com)
  • 63 84

    HN is drowning in AI comments
  • 22 21

    The war against PDFs is heating up (www.economist.com)
  • 250 334

    The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996) (dl.acm.org)
  • 2 7

    Laravel Inertia Toast (github.com)
  • 2 40

    Anthropic's Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute (techcrunch.com)
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  • 411 762

    We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk (twitter.com)
  • 811 420

    Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule (www.npr.org)
  • 11 68

    Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition (alexlitzenberger.com)
  • 6 14

    Ask HN: My YC company is hiring one engineer/day but there's not enough work
  • 89 220

    MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO (blog.vonng.com)
  • 250 439

    Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers (venturebeat.com)
  • 167 296

    Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts (robservatory.com)
  • 256 352

    Our Agreement with the Department of War (openai.com)
  • 3 18

    An Open Letter to the Department of War and Congress (app.dowletter.org)
  • 12 23

    What I learned while trying to build a production-ready nearest neighbor system (github.com)
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  • 79 79

    Khamenei Dead (twitter.com)
  • 0 27

    'Play like a dog biting God's feet': Steven Isserlis on György Kurtág at 100 (www.theguardian.com)
  • 47 153

    "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow (www.windowscentral.com)
  • 92 291

    Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state (collapseofindustrialcivilization.com)
  • 341 621

    The happiest I've ever been (ben-mini.com)
  • 18 85

    Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction (www.thenation.com)
  • 9 33

    How Long Is the Coast of Britain? (1967) (www.jstor.org)
  • 12 24

    Show HN: Tomoshibi – A writing app where your words fade by firelight (tomoshibi.in-hakumei.com)
  • 3 15

    CSP for Pentesters: Understanding the Fundamentals (www.kayssel.com)
  • 10 21

    Seeing Like a Sedan (asteriskmag.com)
  • 27 78

    Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead” (superchartisland.com)
  • 291 921

    The whole thing was a scam (garymarcus.substack.com)
  • 109 204

    Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD) (gist.github.com)
  • 16 42

    Show HN: SQLite for Rivet Actors – one database per agent, tenant, or document (github.com)
  • 185 554

    Obsidian Sync now has a headless client (help.obsidian.md)
  • 83 138

    New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 101 531

    MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98% (mksg.lu)
  • 208 483

    Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension (www.rockoder.com)
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  • 21 143

    From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion (lighthousesoftware.co.uk)
  • 86 163

    747s and coding agents (carlkolon.com)
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  • 2 56

    Please do not use auto-scrolling content on the web and in applications (cerovac.com)
  • 33 49

    Show HN: Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation (github.com)
  • 213 249

    Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access (github.com)
  • 16 34

    No Bookmarks (nik.art)
  • 5 35

    Show HN: Gitcredits – movie-style end credits for any Git repo in your terminal (github.com)
  • 30 91

    Timeline: Anthropic, OpenAI, and U.S. Government (anthropic-timeline.vercel.app)
  • 49 56

    Simplenote is no longer in active development (forums.simplenote.com)
  • 24 31

    Everything Changes, and Nothing Changes (btao.org)
  • 124 276

    Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages (nowigetit.us)
  • 17 81

    The Life Cycle of Money (doap.metal.bohyen.space)
  • 21 60

    Latency numbers every programmer should know (cheat.sh)
  • 144 286

    OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading (www.wired.com)
  • 131 335

    Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust (github.com)
  • 187 318

    What AI coding costs you (tomwojcik.com)
  • 2 12

    Show HN: Reclaim Flowers – A 2D physics-based "Digital Altar" protocol (github.com)
  • 0 11

    Better Activation Functions for NNUE (cosmo.tardis.ac)
  • 186 331

    Don't trust AI agents (nanoclaw.dev)
  • 105 144

    The Future of AI (lucijagregov.com)
  • 64 92

    More cows, more wives (www.worksinprogress.news)
  • 20 59

    Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash (github.com)
  • 2 20

    SHELL: Global Tool for Calling and Chaining Procedures in the System (1965) [pdf] (people.csail.mit.edu)
  • 356 1883

    OpenAI – How to delete your account (help.openai.com)
  • 0 18

    A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer (bernsteinbear.com)
  • 1 12

    The man building Team USA's Olympic bobsleds (www.adirondackexplorer.org)
  • 65 232

    Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs (unsloth.ai)
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  • 213 313

    The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (www.ivanturkovic.com)
  • 15 58

    Inferring car movement patterns from passive TPMS measurements (dspace.networks.imdea.org)
  • 1 16

    5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools (phys.org)
  • 16 282

    U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran (www.nytimes.com)
  • 30 110

    US and Israel carrying out strikes against Iran (www.cnn.com)
  • 2540 1161

    The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran (www.cnn.com)
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    Israel says it has attacked Iran, declares state of emergency (www.cnbc.com)
  • 188 164

    Rust is just a tool (lewiscampbell.tech)
  • 247 1046

    How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription? (help.openai.com)
  • 16 54

    Package Managers à la Carte: a formal model of dependency resolution (arxiv.org)
  • 0 9

    Semantic Syntax Highlighting for Lisp in Emacs (github.com)
  • 24 114

    Cash issuing terminals (computer.rip)
  • 9 38

    Time-Travel Debugging: Replaying Production Bugs Locally (lackofimagination.org)
  • 24 139

    Show HN: I ported Manim to TypeScript (run 3b1B math animations in the browser) (github.com)
  • 132 506

    Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years (glashrvatske.hrt.hr)
  • 44 115

    Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment (a-cup-of.coffee)
  • 22 58

    GitHub Copilot CLI downloads and executes malware (www.promptarmor.com)
  • 45 146

    OpenAI reaches deal to deploy AI models on U.S. DoW classified network (www.reuters.com)
  • 228 267

    Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data (blog.timcappalli.me)
  • 644 1381

    OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network (twitter.com)
  • 23 43

    Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014) (www.howardism.org)
  • 36 128

    Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon supply chain risk designation in court (www.reuters.com)
  • 3 36

    Gawk 5.4.0 is released, with replaced MinRX matcher (lists.gnu.org)
  • 212 328

    President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems (www.npr.org)
  • 352 1153

    Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (www.anthropic.com)
  • 2 53

    Inventing the Lisa user interface – Interactions (dl.acm.org)
  • 828 2595

    We Will Not Be Divided (notdivided.org)
  • 97 241

    Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers (github.com)
  • 1 13

    Zugunruhe, and what makes things worth doing (www.nathanzhao.cc)