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  • 1 5

    Voidtools Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly (www.voidtools.com)
  • 2 25

    Tech Independence (sive.rs)
  • 0 7

    International Image Interoperability Framework (iiif.io)
  • 10 44

    A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck (gtaforums.com)
  • 1 20

    The 'Little red dots' observed by Webb were direct-collapse black holes (phys.org)
  • 18 24

    Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage (www.expressnews.com)
  • 12 18

    Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop (alfioemanuele.io)
  • 3 18

    Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI? (marginalrevolution.com)
  • 1 11

    A Community-Curated Nancy Drew Collection (blog.openlibrary.org)
  • 0 6

    Show HN: The biggest achievement of my life so far (github.com)
  • 36 35

    Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models (www.latent.space)
  • 2 11

    Attention Media ≠ Social Media (susam.net)
  • 2 4

    Show HN: Why it's hard to know which deployment caused a production incident (github.com)
  • 15 68

    Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens (nullcathedral.com)
  • 16 57

    The Little Bool of Doom (2025) (blog.svgames.pl)
  • 27 34

    Stop Using Face ID (www.pcmag.com)
  • 36 83

    Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books (underhillgame.com)
  • 28 31

    Man, 83, tricked by scammers, gets 21 years to life for killing Uber driver (www.nytimes.com)
  • 21 98

    Bun v1.3.9 (bun.com)
  • 4 57

    Formally Verifying PBS Kids with Lean4 (www.shadaj.me)
  • 95 94

    The First Sodium-Ion Battery EV Is a Winter Range Monster (insideevs.com)
  • 29 92

    Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 7 179

    Vouch (github.com)
  • 20 197

    I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color (blog.otterstack.com)
  • 86 151

    Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition (github.com)
  • 103 175

    Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • 40 70

    Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (habr.com)
  • 3 5

    Show HN: Kekkai – Interactive security triage in the terminal
  • 63 79

    Five disciplines discovered the same math independently (freethemath.org)
  • 69 50

    Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy (www.aaronmate.net)
  • 0 5

    How to squeeze a lexicon (2001) [pdf] (marcinciura.wordpress.com)
  • 23 34

    The Contagious Taste of Cancer (www.historytoday.com)
  • 42 109

    Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing (blog.hofstede.it)
  • 271 334

    I am happier writing code by hand (www.abhinavomprakash.com)
  • 19 47

    Washington imposes 'terrorist-grade sanctions' on Francesca Albanese, ICC judges (thecradle.co)
  • 82 162

    GitHub Agentic Workflows (github.github.io)
  • 21 104

    RFC 3092 – Etymology of "Foo" (2001) (datatracker.ietf.org)
  • 268 370

    AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it (siddhantkhare.com)
  • 11 55

    Kolakoski Sequence (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 61 44

    Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 2 6

    Show HN: I built a festival tracker that matches lineups to your music library (apps.apple.com)
  • 44 160

    Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it (derekyan.com)
  • 20 83

    Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs (cinegraphs.ai)
  • 6 49

    A11yJSON: A standard to describe the accessibility of the physical world (sozialhelden.github.io)
  • 3 33

    Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs (arcan-fe.com)
  • 44 133

    Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin (hyperallergic.com)
  • 203 208

    Why E cores make Apple silicon fast (eclecticlight.co)
  • 25 184

    Dave Farber has died (lists.nanog.org)
  • 11 52

    The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025) (ejpe.org)
  • 269 304

    Slop Terrifies Me (ezhik.jp)
  • 5 111

    Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser (rabbitear.org)
  • 3 79

    Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 (github.com)
  • 5 42

    In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests (www.abc.net.au)
  • 52 127

    Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox (github.com)
  • 0 16

    Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 5 20

    LLMs as Language Compilers: Lessons from Fortran for the Future of Coding (cyber-omelette.com)
  • 47 360

    DoNotNotify is now Open Source (donotnotify.com)
  • 4 38

    Moroccan sardine prices to stabilise via new measures: officials (maghrebi.org)
  • 115 81

    Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999) (www.rogerebert.com)
  • 9 9

    Turning books to courses using AI (www.book2course.org)
  • 28 58

    uLauncher (github.com)
  • 1 15

    The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
  • 43 129

    LineageOS 23.2 (lineageos.org)
  • 280 168

    OpenClaw is changing my life (reorx.com)
  • 96 240

    The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA (www.theguardian.com)
  • 11 86

    The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB (aosabook.org)
  • 38 74

    Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010) (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  • 43 97

    Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers (techcrunch.com)
  • 84 76

    Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse (thatjoescott.com)
  • 29 95

    Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users (www.kenklippenstein.com)
  • 100 50

    Total surface area required to fuel the world with solar (2009) (landartgenerator.org)
  • 2 13

    Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents (github.com)
  • 22 8

    Do you have a mathematically attractive face? (www.doimog.com)
  • 86 230

    Beyond agentic coding (haskellforall.com)
  • 163 387

    Vouch (github.com)
  • 10 27

    IBM Beam Spring: The Ultimate Retro Keyboard (www.rs-online.com)
  • 144 308

    Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory (github.com)
  • 4 21

    Show HN: Craftplan – Elixir-based micro-ERP for small-scale manufacturers (puemos.github.io)
  • 3 17

    Eigen: Building a Workspace (reindernijhoff.net)
  • 96 122

    The silent death of good code (amit.prasad.me)
  • 4 9

    Show HN: Browser based state machine simulator and visualizer (svylabs.github.io)
  • 8 43

    Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure (www.nytimes.com)
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  • 355 175

    LLMs as the new high level language (federicopereiro.com)
  • 92 77

    You Are Here (brooker.co.za)
  • 311 137

    FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs (www.fda.gov)
  • 75 161

    Tiny C Compiler (bellard.org)
  • 134 105

    Italy Railways Sabotaged (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 9 56

    Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression) (www.bitsnbites.eu)
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  • 62 128

    The F Word (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
  • 15 40

    Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 (github.com)
  • 266 176

    Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs? (www.windowscentral.com)
  • 67 94

    Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions (www.hpcwire.com)
  • 35 134

    Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version (github.com)
  • 79 368

    SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023) (xorvoid.com)
  • 261 245

    I write games in C (yes, C) (2016) (jonathanwhiting.com)
  • 746 644

    We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)
  • 222 217

    Speed up responses with fast mode (code.claude.com)
  • 20 43

    Selection rather than prediction (voratiq.com)
  • 270 332

    U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession (www.forbes.com)
  • 14 23

    What Is Stoicism? (stoacentral.com)
  • 0 25

    Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop (design-milk.com)
  • 8 8

    Show HN: I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading ancient texts. (the-lexicon-project.netlify.app)
  • 1 41

    StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code (simonwillison.net)
  • 30 117

    Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney (spillhistorie.no)
  • 431 272

    Software factories and the agentic moment (factory.strongdm.ai)
  • 10 60

    72M Points of Interest (tech.marksblogg.com)
  • 219 208

    British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years (www.bbc.com)
  • 110 175

    First Proof (arxiv.org)
  • 15 9

    Show HN: One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop (cloudbot-ai.com)
  • 3 7

    Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts (shkspr.mobi)
  • 31 236

    Stories from 25 Years of Software Development (susam.net)
  • 24 71

    A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System (www.rs-online.com)
  • 57 182

    Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE (www.bbc.com)
  • 28 48

    Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev (github.com)
  • 325 777

    France's homegrown open source online office suite (github.com)
  • 11 4

    Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary (api-production-caa8.up.railway.app)
  • 566 354

    Coding agents have replaced every framework I used (blog.alaindichiappari.dev)
  • 19 14

    Omarchy First Impressions (brianlovin.com)
  • 1 7

    Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2 (medium.com)
  • 5 128

    Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (rlhfbook.com)
  • 22 67

    UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone (www.bbc.com)
  • 44 228

    Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly (www.spritely.institute)
  • 683 385

    The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 22 48

    Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler (fosdem.org)
  • 339 222

    Where did all the starships go? (www.datawrapper.de)
  • 233 646

    Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) (rhodesmill.org)
  • 50 48

    Welcome to the Room – A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella (www.jsnover.com)
  • 129 406

    Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself (jesperordrup.github.io)
  • 17 40

    Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox? (arxiv.org)
  • 78 79

    What Is Ruliology? (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 19 31

    Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better (github.com)
  • 57 160

    Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production (arcadeblogger.com)
  • 2 18

    Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit (github.com)
  • 13 57

    WebView performance significantly slower than PWA (issues.chromium.org)
  • 3 46

    Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads (mirageos.org)
  • 10 9

    Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety (github.com)
  • 25 77

    Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo (www.si.edu)
  • 42 58

    Hello world does not compile (github.com)
  • 61 168

    Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes (floedb.ai)
  • 34 93

    Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server (developers.googleblog.com)
  • 16 91

    PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok (martypc.blogspot.com)
  • 191 213

    Why I Joined OpenAI (www.brendangregg.com)
  • 93 146

    I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor (andrewjrod.substack.com)
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  • 39 129

    Dark Alley Mathematics (blog.szczepan.org)
  • 24 115

    A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked (arstechnica.com)