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  • 0 3

    Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam (theremin.bizibah.com)
  • 0 4

    Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite (phys.org)
  • 2 12

    Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things (homosabiens.substack.com)
  • 21 33

    The Two Factions of C++ (2024) (herecomesthemoon.net)
  • 18 55

    The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source (www.modular.com)
  • 8 54

    "Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research (arstechnica.com)
  • 22 20

    Berd (berd.xyz)
  • 52 64

    Where Human Sleep Went Wrong (nautil.us)
  • 6 28

    λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics (dl.acm.org)
  • 4 8

    Show HN: Privacy focused client side password generator (password-generator.aaqa.dev)
  • 8 39

    We turned off Pub/Sub and nobody noticed (incident.io)
  • 9 21

    Japan's Gen X workers are struggling (www.economist.com)
  • 0 15

    Looking for Missed Alarm Bugs in a Formal Verification Tool (blog.regehr.org)
  • 50 88

    Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good (tipiirai.com)
  • 3 41

    The Vietnam Binh Chau (Chau Tan) Late Tang Wreck (www.koh-antique.com)
  • 23 69

    Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games (github.com)
  • 42 114

    Supersonic Trebuchet [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 2 51

    CUDA Shared Memory Swizzling (leimao.github.io)
  • 18 108

    Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 191 240

    Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco (www.economist.com)
  • 213 742

    OpenLogi (openlogi.org)
  • 18 14

    I stopped caring about programming terms (teadriven.com)
  • 19 35

    That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis (lithub.com)
  • 2 19

    The Integer (gist.github.com)
  • 7 42

    Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield (www.cam.ac.uk)
  • 211 274

    Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone (www.bbc.com)
  • 228 359

    Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation (bfi.uchicago.edu)
  • 3 7

    Show HN: Capto – alerts when a background job goes quiet, with breadcrumbs (capto.run)
  • 0 18

    GPT-5.6 Sol: 70% off in Devin (devin.ai)
  • 202 293

    Cerebras CS-4 (www.cerebras.ai)
  • 7 29

    Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto? (konstantintkachuk.com)
  • 5 7

    Show HN: Loft Day – a wedding invitation turned point-and-click game (marketa.behdad.org)
  • 1 8

    Simulated red blood cells and microscopy (lucasamoudruz.com)
  • 12 48

    The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks (www.dpreview.com)
  • 165 145

    Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries (github.com)
  • 9 84

    Show HN: Interactive, animated architecture of any HuggingFace models (modelmap.cc)
  • 3 31

    Programmable Property-Based Testing (dl.acm.org)
  • 13 45

    How a giant battery is transforming a town centre in Cannington, Ontario (betakit.com)
  • 86 144

    AI usage patterns in software teams (linear.app)
  • 6 17

    The Microsoft Rebrand Registry (www.msrebrandregistry.com)
  • 11 24

    Terry A. Davis Quotes (en.wikiquote.org)
  • 48 128

    GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 109 39

    Who owns the code? (whoownsthecode.com)
  • 57 96

    fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. (fx.sh)
  • 86 198

    A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux (www.xda-developers.com)
  • 107 287

    A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com)
  • 38 62

    Flock impersonates journalist in order to cancel his hotel reservations (xcancel.com)
  • 11 18

    Find Chicago Parking Cops (www.secondcitycitation.com)
  • 70 68

    Companies promote incompetent employees to management to limit damage they do (lawsofsoftwareengineering.com)
  • 335 525

    Being ambitious and being a dad (nicholascharriere.com)
  • 3 127

    Claude Code teaching macOS to natively print to the HP Laser 1008a (cdn.kuber.studio)
  • 3 6

    llms.txt: a proposed standard no major AI platform has confirmed it uses (geojacker.com)
  • 7 42

    Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map (a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth)
  • 149 556

    Beware Management Consultants (about.iceland.co.uk)
  • 9 8

    Show HN: Argus, agentic QA for teams whose coding agents move faster than QA (github.com)
  • 253 240

    Norway should buy OpenAI (www.onethousandmeans.com)
  • 75 86

    Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities (openai.com)
  • 25 93

    2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey (www.theartnewspaper.com)
  • 13 16

    Could Four Billion People Die at 3°C? (safeclimate.org.au)
  • 0 11

    IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific: Reflections (burgeonlab.com)
  • 71 150

    US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures (www.bbc.com)
  • 0 13

    Show HN: PantheonGPU – GPU health testing and AI workload benchmarking (pantheongpu.com)
  • 212 327

    And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway (shkspr.mobi)
  • 247 352

    How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (www.ikea.com)
  • 26 85

    Evolve: An incremental game about evolving a civilization (pmotschmann.github.io)
  • 31 253

    Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com)
  • 2 8

    Columbia House, Mail-Order Media Company, Is Shuttering (consequence.net)
  • 3 23

    Show HN: macOS data protection keychain for Electron apps (github.com)
  • 460 301

    Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers (asmedigitalcollection.asme.org)
  • 249 276

    Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion (support.claude.com)
  • 30 68

    Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful (www.theverge.com)
  • 44 85

    We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked (arstechnica.com)
  • 1 2

    Magnitude – Open-source AI coding agent that runs local models offline (digitalescapetools.com)
  • 52 71

    Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 0 5

    A local ePub eBook server for my xteink (solariz.de)
  • 54 33

    Superpowers, Not Superintelligence (bond.now)
  • 130 147

    Degraded performance for multiple models (status.claude.com)
  • 42 78

    Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI (machine0.io)
  • 291 204

    Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (www.apple.com)
  • 16 62

    Show HN: Openleetcode – Local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo (github.com)
  • 50 43

    Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
  • 10 14

    Muse Glimmer is a memory hierarchy disguised as a 30B Transformer (abstractextraordinary.com)
  • 60 92

    What Happens If OpenAI Dies? (www.wheresyoured.at)
  • 7 44

    Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io)
  • 20 65

    How I Under-Engineered my Book (chriskiehl.com)
  • 3 14

    The Size of the World Wide Web (www.worldwidewebsize.com)
  • 122 90

    One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime (oaklandside.org)
  • 3 64

    The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 38 50

    Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026) (arxiv.org)
  • 5 19

    JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer (jpegxlconvert.com)
  • 63 126

    Splitting a Git Commit (blog.gnoack.org)
  • 56 58

    An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet (pleated-jeans.com)
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  • 102 69

    I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore (82mhz.net)
  • 57 274

    Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk (theconversation.com)
  • 1 23

    Oxford Electric Bell (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 631 1189

    The Amazon tax (seths.blog)
  • 40 176

    Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) (opensource.posit.co)
  • 6 25

    Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints (github.com)
  • 0 23

    A group of Gandalfs protest outside the home of Peter Thiel in Argentina (dangerousminds.net)
  • 54 29

    Things That Used to Be Normal and Are Now a Luxury (albertogalca.com)
  • 60 60

    Composable Tests (newsletter.kentbeck.com)
  • 23 22

    Show HN: I canceled my AI code reviewer and wrote a free local one (github.com)
  • 276 406

    Fixing a bricked Framework laptop (quantum5.ca)
  • 3 5

    Ask HN: Good content on using AI to modernize professional services delivery
  • 29 33

    NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions (github.com)
  • 16 10

    AI to help planes avoid climate-warming 'sky graffiti' (www.bbc.com)
  • 6 32

    Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training (newsletter.kentbeck.com)
  • 176 378

    Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (www.fairphone.com)
  • 79 115

    Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development (www.videogameschronicle.com)
  • 69 429

    Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
  • 167 253

    Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People (www.privacyguides.org)
  • 162 209

    Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com)
  • 64 250

    Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
  • 86 87

    As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value (arstechnica.com)
  • 0 6

    The key that never exists: a threshold signing ceremony in the browser (808bits.com)
  • 69 221

    Finger: the 1971 social network that never died (en.andros.dev)
  • 405 584

    Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit (www.theregister.com)
  • 10 20

    I built a golf career management SIM (like Basketball GM, but golf) (www.rainydaygc.com)
  • 21 20

    When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old (twitter.com)
  • 49 82

    IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 297 529

    Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
  • 141 244

    Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
  • 5 63

    Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data (moultano.wordpress.com)
  • 19 41

    git git git git git (caiustheory.com)
  • 12 32

    Micron, SK Commit Billions to RAM Capacity, but Almost Nothing Lands Before 2028 (www.storagereview.com)
  • 66 104

    Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with (www.cell.com)
  • 23 38

    Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure (irz.fr)
  • 17 65

    The 37signals Manager Playbook (basecamp.com)
  • 40 68

    Expert Witness to ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0 percent at fault" (www.404media.co)
  • 99 132

    I don't enjoy the Internet any more (btao.org)
  • 0 8

    Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present (thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
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  • 1 6

    What's Better Than Binary? – Advent of Computing Episode 187 (adventofcomputing.libsyn.com)
  • 84 84

    Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders (www.rnz.co.nz)
  • 61 170

    The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
  • 224 154

    California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year (grist.org)
  • 0 7

    Gum Wrappers World (gww.su)
  • 58 89

    Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet (www.science.org)
  • 166 258

    Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
  • 38 92

    Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents (www.axios.com)
  • 36 48

    A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 47 174

    Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (www.repaircafe.org)
  • 50 60

    Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates (atlpresscollective.com)
  • 34 64

    PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history (www.pm.gc.ca)
  • 5 9

    Un-AI Your Internet (un-ai.digitalprophet.online)
  • 24 56

    Cursor Origin (cursor.com)
  • 56 106

    The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)