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  • 1 26

    Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car (www.bbc.com)
  • 4 26

    The return-to-the-office trend backfires (thehill.com)
  • 8 58

    Jemalloc un-abandoned by Meta (engineering.fb.com)
  • 1 9

    Language Model Teams as Distrbuted Systems (arxiv.org)
  • 145 79

    AirPods Max 2 (www.apple.com)
  • 24 93

    The “small web” is bigger than you might think (kevinboone.me)
  • 16 36

    Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (arxiv.org)
  • 4 15

    On The Need For Understanding (blog.information-superhighway.net)
  • 2 7

    Launch HN: Chamber (YC W26) – An AI Teammate for GPU Infrastructure (www.usechamber.io)
  • Kaizen (YC P25) Hiring Eng, GTM, Cos to Automate BPOs (www.kaizenautomation.com)
  • 2 12

    Skillfile, the declarative skill manager, now with search for 110K+ skills (github.com)
  • 3 34

    Human Organ Atlas (human-organ-atlas.esrf.fr)
  • 4 18

    Event Publisher enables event integration between Keycloak and OpenFGA (github.com)
  • 15 34

    Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
  • 218 253

    US Job Market Visualizer (karpathy.ai)
  • 77 75

    Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP (www.apideck.com)
  • 82 219

    Why I love FreeBSD (it-notes.dragas.net)
  • 31 92

    Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg (github.com)
  • 39 73

    Even faster asin() was staring right at me (16bpp.net)
  • 40 56

    Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily (hackerbrief.vercel.app)
  • 63 194

    My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (community.home-assistant.io)
  • 6 40

    Bringing Semiconductors to Kazakhstan (www.siliconimist.com)
  • 22 65

    Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance (pyrefly.org)
  • 71 136

    'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images (www.popsci.com)
  • 49 47

    Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today (www.grepular.com)
  • 171 460

    MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security (www.thenerve.news)
  • 170 240

    Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn (www.politico.eu)
  • 52 30

    The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure (www.writingruxandrabio.com)
  • 29 38

    The "are you sure?" Problem: Why AI keeps changing its mind (www.randalolson.com)
  • 270 554

    Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies (www.frontiersin.org)
  • 573 920

    Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story (www.timesofisrael.com)
  • Nango (YC W23, API Access for Agents and Apps) Is Hiring (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 0 7

    LoKI – Local AI Assistant for Linux and WSL (schneider-ki.com)
  • 55 59

    MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025) (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 17 65

    Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral? (www.asimov.press)
  • 12 39

    Linux 7.1 to Retire UDP-Lite – Allows for Better Performance with Cleansed Code (www.phoronix.com)
  • 121 131

    Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
  • 9 89

    Reviewing Large Changes with Jujutsu (ben.gesoff.uk)
  • 89 199

    Home Assistant waters my plants (finnian.io)
  • 59 54

    Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student (www.science.org)
  • 78 54

    Starlink Mini as a failover (www.jackpearce.co.uk)
  • 41 116

    Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points (exclusivearchitecture.com)
  • 7 14

    A curated list of AI slops (github.com)
  • 46 71

    Kona EV Hacking (techno-fandom.org)
  • 27 44

    ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007) (www.cl.cam.ac.uk)
  • 4 52

    How far can you go with IX Route Servers only? (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
  • 73 138

    Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs (www.moment.dev)
  • 31 155

    Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators (robot-daycare.com)
  • 43 112

    What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (1991) [pdf] (www.itu.dk)
  • 16 55

    SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files (github.com)
  • 66 113

    Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation (righttoprivacyact.github.io)
  • 34 23

    Quillx is an open standard for disclosing AI involvement in software projects (github.com)
  • 81 81

    Tell HN: AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals
  • 14 19

    I built an ephemeral P2P chat with WebRTC, without servers (ephemchat.vercel.app)
  • 88 152

    What is agentic engineering? (simonwillison.net)
  • 13 21

    An experiment to use GitHub Actions as a control plane for a PaaS (towlion.github.io)
  • 423 440

    How I write software with LLMs (www.stavros.io)
  • 14 48

    A Plain Anabaptist Story: The Hutterites (ulmer457718.substack.com)
  • 14 25

    I'm Too Lazy to Check Datadog Every Morning, So I Made AI Do It (quickchat.ai)
  • 17 40

    White House administration set to be paid $10B for brokering TikTok deal (www.theguardian.com)
  • 32 155

    The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text (man7.org)
  • 98 162

    Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016) (www.salk.edu)
  • 9 89

    Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 31 84

    Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year (learn.microsoft.com)
  • 199 309

    LLMs can be exhausting (tomjohnell.com)
  • 17 45

    Show HN: Free OpenAI API Access with ChatGPT Account (github.com)
  • 12 28

    Show HN: Open-source playground to red-team AI agents with exploits published (github.com)
  • 27 49

    Type systems are leaky abstractions: the case of Map.take!/2 (dashbit.co)
  • 7 115

    Kangina (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 141 383

    Nasdaq's Shame (keubiko.substack.com)
  • 86 82

    A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era (www.msn.com)
  • 27 58

    Show HN: Lux – Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust. 5.6x faster, ~1MB Docker image (github.com)
  • 307 963

    Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance (www.michaelgeist.ca)
  • 233 590

    Stop Sloppypasta (stopsloppypasta.ai)
  • 0 13

    Chasing the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (2023) (gardenandgun.com)
  • 0 6

    Measure of Justice: Covering the Cerîde-I Adliye Covers (2017) (www.denizcemonduygu.com)
  • 334 761

    The 49MB web page (thatshubham.com)
  • 77 183

    //go:fix inline and the source-level inliner (go.dev)
  • 90 237

    Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
  • 223 565

    Chrome DevTools MCP (2025) (developer.chrome.com)
  • 81 210

    Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro (kenschutte.com)
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  • 40 540

    LLM Architecture Gallery (sebastianraschka.com)
  • 25 64

    Autoresearch Hub (autoresearchhub.com)
  • 160 296

    Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform (office.eu)
  • 562 364

    Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
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  • 5 133

    In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor (billwadge.com)
  • 16 68

    SuperTux 0.7.0 (github.com)
  • 72 120

    C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma (www.sandordargo.com)
  • 24 39

    Tech companies defeat bill as AI drains local water supplies (www.theolympus.net)
  • 145 206

    Grandparents are glued to their phones [video] (www.bbc.com)
  • 214 329

    Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager (isaacfreund.com)
  • 25 33

    The Webpage Has Instructions. The Agent Has Your Credentials (openguard.sh)
  • 3 30

    Zipp 2001 Restoration (robot-daycare.com)
  • 39 172

    Learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data (zzk273.github.io)
  • 63 100

    Palantir defends its role in the kill chain (www.heise.de)
  • 99 78

    Codegen is not productivity (www.antifound.com)
  • 1 17

    Reverse Engineering Apple's GPU Energy Model on the M4 Max (www.youtube.com)
  • 55 82

    UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence (cbmg.umd.edu)
  • 20 74

    Show HN: GDSL – 800 line kernel: Lisp subset in 500, C subset in 1300 (firthemouse.github.io)
  • 0 11

    Trust no one: are one-way trusts one way? (offsec.almond.consulting)
  • 152 218

    What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023) (blog.zuthof.nl)
  • 14 47

    The Official DR DOS Website (www.dr-dos.com)
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  • 31 88

    Show HN: What if your synthesizer was powered by APL (or a dumb K clone)? (octetta.github.io)
  • 13 44

    PSA: Top Google Result for Claude Code Is Malicious (onemillionwords.substack.com)
  • 179 290

    Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories (www.aikido.dev)
  • 11 61

    Kniterate Notes (soup.agnescameron.info)
  • 11 15

    Brazil publishes list of companies needing age verification, includes Canonical (www.gov.br)
  • 41 61

    Small U.S. town, big company. Can it weather the tariff Blizzard? (Digi-Key) (2025) (www.npr.org)
  • 511 153

    Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis (www.theculturenewspaper.com)
  • 18 42

    NetBlocks says Iran blackout enters day 16 as arrests target Starlink users (www.iranintl.com)
  • 304 230

    Harold and George Destroy the World (tomclancy.info)
  • 174 224

    I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
  • 328 254

    The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product (kanfa.macbudkowski.com)
  • 4 88

    Human Organ Atlas (www.science.org)
  • 88 178

    Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content (www.stripes.com)
  • 45 92

    IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display (2019) (www.righto.com)
  • 32 116

    Show HN: Signet – Autonomous wildfire tracking from satellite and weather data (signet.watch)
  • 29 84

    Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I) (hnlyman.github.io)
  • 0 10

    Discovering Little Worlds (2020) (dmitrybrant.com)
  • 13 96

    Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages (jvns.ca)
  • 372 422

    $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor (github.com)
  • 31 385

    A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015) (r2d3.us)
  • 12 39

    Slicing Bezier Surfaces (fatih-erikli-potato.github.io)
  • 165 222

    The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books (www.alexerhardt.com)
  • 292 363

    The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ (www.charlespetzold.com)
  • 3 15

    The Passion of Will Self (www.newstatesman.com)
  • 59 143

    Why Mathematica does not simplify sinh(arccosh(x)) (www.johndcook.com)
  • 85 93

    Jeff Bezos wants Washington Post’s newsroom budget halved, productivity doubled (www.nytimes.com)
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  • 107 215

    A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm (robertsdotpm.github.io)
  • 100 346

    Rack-mount hydroponics (sa.lj.am)
  • 56 139

    Centuries of selective breeding turned wild cabbage into different vegetables (www.worksinprogress.news)
  • 8 35

    Young people are turning to old-school hobbies to get off their phones (apnews.com)
  • 8 68

    A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot from 1988 (kubicki.org)
  • 2 17

    FCC Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters' Licenses over War Coverage (www.nytimes.com)
  • 0 11

    Researchers improve lower bounds for some Ramsey numbers using AlphaEvolve (arxiv.org)
  • 241 169

    Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold (www.bbc.com)
  • 0 11

    Refinement Modeling and Verification of RISC-V Assembly Using Knuckledragger (www.philipzucker.com)
  • 2 10

    Making Sense of the DXY (dm13450.github.io)
  • 5 108

    Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 165 310

    Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all (sebi.io)
  • 47 79

    Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027 (www.gadgetreview.com)
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  • 9 86

    Tree Search Distillation for Language Models Using PPO (ayushtambde.com)
  • 315 356

    How kernel anti-cheats work (s4dbrd.github.io)
  • 7 29

    Deriving Type Erasure (david.alvarezrosa.com)
  • 1 110

    FCC chairman threatens TV broadcast licenses over news coverage (fortune.com)
  • 134 85

    Israel is running critically low on interceptors, US officials say (www.semafor.com)
  • 19 54

    Show HN: GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net (github.com)
  • 34 144

    SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads (atgreen.github.io)
  • 130 180

    Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft (www.airbus.com)