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    Nonfiction Publishing, Under Threat, Is More Important (newrepublic.com)
  • 1 10

    The Loneliness of a Room of One's Own (newrepublic.com)
  • 22 20

    When Do We Become Adults, Really? (www.newyorker.com)
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    The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026) (quillette.com)
  • 2 12

    What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math? (adlrocha.substack.com)
  • 11 31

    The road to electric – in charts and data [UK] (www.rac.co.uk)
  • 12 48

    Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist (blog.literarily-starved.com)
  • 18 35

    Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland (apnews.com)
  • 12 25

    I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper (manualdousuario.net)
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    The ANSI art "telecomics" of the 1992 election (breakintochat.com)
  • 30 78

    OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem (github.com)
  • 30 41

    The case for becoming a manager (newsletter.thelongcommit.com)
  • 12 24

    Modeling what makes paper-folding puzzles hard (www.dailyunfold.com)
  • 55 40

    Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust? (www.ft.com)
  • 8 68

    A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU) (github.com)
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    Show HN: PeriodicTableOfElements.org (periodictableofelements.org)
  • 0 6

    Attie.ai (attie.ai)
  • 8 51

    The 667MHz Machine (www.0xsid.com)
  • 71 121

    Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024) (www.bmj.com)
  • 7 54

    Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes (2023) (gwern.net)
  • 2 40

    Memory That Collaborates (datahike.io)
  • 30 73

    A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging (www.fraunhofer.de)
  • 42 49

    Stop picking my Go version for me (blog.howardjohn.info)
  • 2 16

    Building an E2E Encrypted Chat Application with LanceDB and Libsodium (www.justinrmiller.com)
  • 6 28

    ODF is the future, OOXML is the past (blog.documentfoundation.org)
  • 7 11

    Computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy use (www.cam.ac.uk)
  • 2 15

    TreeTrek – A raw Git repository viewer web app (repo.autonoma.ca)
  • 169 295

    South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots (www.reutersconnect.com)
  • 10 92

    OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 Processors (miod.online.fr)
  • 0 11

    Roman Catholic Churches See a Surge of New Converts (www.nytimes.com)
  • 74 63

    Goldman Sachs now reckons that oil could take out the 2008 record of $147 (www.ft.com)
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  • 24 57

    Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 10 53

    My heuristics are wrong. What now? (brooker.co.za)
  • 22 34

    Ötzi the Iceman's DNA Reveals a Living Relative 5k Years Later (blog.familytreedna.com)
  • 96 149

    Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs (www.theguardian.com)
  • InpharmD (YC W21) Is Hiring – Senior Ruby on Rails Developer (inpharmd.com)
  • 2 65

    Meta Partners with Arm to Develop New Class of Data Center Silicon (about.fb.com)
  • 123 86

    Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices (www.androidauthority.com)
  • 74 327

    CSS is DOOMed (nielsleenheer.com)
  • 1 18

    Iran images appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces, a first in years (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 61 71

    1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History (www.nybooks.com)
  • 40 144

    OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 (github.com)
  • 94 180

    The first 40 months of the AI era (lzon.ca)
  • 19 24

    Nobody Reads Your Setup Docs (hanzilla.co)
  • 13 11

    Nothing new to see here (feld.com)
  • 4 17

    Improving personal tax filing with Claude CLI and Obsidian (www.mrafayaleem.com)
  • 132 204

    Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem (twitter.com)
  • 15 84

    Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue (www.vegardstikbakke.com)
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    Show HN: A prompt that builds the most capable AI agent system (github.com)
  • 3 75

    Undroidwish – A single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms (androwish.org)
  • 208 1018

    Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies (sytse.com)
  • 13 24

    RSA and Python (xnacly.me)
  • 8 50

    Circuit-level PDP-11/34 emulator (github.com)
  • 6 75

    rpg.actor Game Jam (rpg.actor)
  • 44 199

    Linux is an interpreter (astrid.tech)
  • 49 76

    Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008 (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 3 46

    StationeryObject (stationeryobject.com)
  • 41 52

    Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor (breezepdf.com)
  • 8 18

    Going Founder Mode on Cancer (centuryofbio.com)
  • 4 42

    Militarized snowflakes: The accidental beauty of Renaissance star forts (bigthink.com)
  • 136 76

    ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight (www.icao.int)
  • 186 514

    I decompiled the White House's new app (thereallo.dev)
  • 1 6

    Behind the Scenes of the Westworld UI (vanschneider.com)
  • 16 24

    Show HN: We built a multi-agent research hub. The waitlist is a reverse-CAPTCHA (enlidea.com)
  • 72 68

    The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive
  • 69 65

    C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro (www.sandordargo.com)
  • 211 267

    Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right (www.theregister.com)
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    AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice (news.stanford.edu)
  • 17 39

    Gerard of Cremona (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 0 11

    How to implement the Outbox pattern in Go and Postgres (www.youtube.com)
  • 45 55

    You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them (2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com)
  • 36 149

    Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting (nickjanetakis.com)
  • 5 41

    Byte Interviews Chuck Peddle, Father of the MOS 6502 and Commodore PET (1982) (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
  • 43 54

    A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs (github.com)
  • 272 392

    Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables (grid.iamkate.com)
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    Spanish legislation as a Git repo (github.com)
  • 47 92

    Gaza toddler returned with alleged torture wounds after Israeli detention (www.independent.co.uk)
  • 66 392

    I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • Toma (YC W24) is hiring a Senior/Staff Eng to build AI automotive coworkers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 83 83

    No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations (arstechnica.com)
  • 24 139

    Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer (github.com)
  • 100 308

    Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly (github.com)
  • 60 132

    Treason in the Futures Markets (paulkrugman.substack.com)
  • 21 15

    Alex Karp says only trade workers and neurodivergents will survive in the AI era (fortune.com)
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    Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide (www.alexedwards.net)
  • 9 60

    Matadisco – Decentralized Data Discovery (matadisco.org)
  • 2 37

    Desperately Seeking Space Friends (reviewcanada.ca)
  • 141 311

    CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering (theopenreader.org)
  • 44 75

    Trust signals as sparklines for Hacker News (hn-trustspark.com)
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    Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer (www.cnbc.com)
  • 84 114

    Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 17 13

    The future of text layout is not CSS (chenglou.me)
  • 87 281

    The bee that everyone wants to save (naturalist.bearblog.dev)
  • 9 12

    The Interactive Lost Place Map (lostfoundations.org)
  • 165 304

    AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip (arstechnica.com)
  • 61 70

    Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry
  • 51 43

    Sports betting is everywhere, especially on credit reports (libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
  • 214 160

    Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial (www.bbc.com)
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    Type Construction and Cycle Detection (go.dev)
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    Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem (jai.scs.stanford.edu)
  • 52 126

    Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting (coloradonewsline.com)
  • 16 67

    Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors (schilk.co)