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  • 2 4

    Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 2 9

    A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics (arstechnica.com)
  • 2 13

    50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC (www.makeuseof.com)
  • 1 3

    Chip-hex:cost-benefit, energy efficiency and hexagonal (github.com)
  • 18 99

    The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com)
  • 7 23

    Nicolas Cage Refused to Sign Amazon AI Waiver: 'I'm Not an AI-Friendly Actor' (variety.com)
  • 4 48

    Nix wrote half of my debugger (fzakaria.com)
  • 22 50

    Takeshi's Castle (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 9 14

    Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal (github.com)
  • 24 72

    Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster (motherduck.com)
  • 48 79

    Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI (www.ft.com)
  • 70 74

    Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well (kotaku.com)
  • 51 217

    2D Vehicles (patkerr.co.uk)
  • 32 39

    Anthropic discloses 2 months old fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents (www.reuters.com)
  • 17 45

    Unikernels were hard. key word: were (ghuntley.com)
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  • 59 68

    OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller (openscad.org)
  • 212 267

    Grieving the loss of details (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 45 43

    AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic (metedata.substack.com)
  • 48 117

    Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (wsj.com)
  • 70 142

    FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review (www.theguardian.com)
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  • 38 26

    The Disease called Politics (1962) (www.panarchy.org)
  • 17 103

    PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial (chronicles.popvax.com)
  • 41 111

    Knuth reward check (www.thomas-huehn.com)
  • 86 44

    How Protein Took over the World (www.ft.com)
  • 6 45

    Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots (theverifiedpost.com)
  • 22 56

    Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction (ndstudio.gov)
  • 63 56

    My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 227 307

    Bitwarden Dual License Model (community.bitwarden.com)
  • 28 133

    Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0 (blogs.windows.com)
  • 4 38

    Timestamping a Giant Record of the Web (projecttimestamper.org)
  • 399 170

    I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall (conversableeconomist.com)
  • 249 448

    Lobbying is corruption (carette.xyz)
  • 90 39

    There's little that's "inevitable" about AI (deadsimpletech.com)
  • 194 214

    Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry (www.opengroup.org)
  • 88 86

    C for Rust programmers (bd103.dev)
  • 110 216

    Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier (github.com)
  • 31 51

    Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text (www.datocms.com)
  • 189 363

    `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach (cphpost.dk)
  • 205 221

    WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload (tonym.us)
  • 10 52

    Cube Type – Isometric Typography Generator (typeincube.com)
  • 44 39

    I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again (baty.net)
  • 75 91

    Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity (news.vt.edu)
  • 174 189

    Computers Cannot Make Decisions (wiki.cateat.fish)
  • 1 23

    Vegetative Electron Microscopy WTF? (2025) (www.sciencebase.com)
  • 21 15

    Show HN: A simple to-do app for iPhone, Mac, and your agent (ilia.page)
  • 52 65

    How to head into VR without wearing a headset (www.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
  • 92 32

    If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves (www.groundlevel-ai.com)
  • 11 53

    Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 68 181

    Lobbying (geohot.github.io)
  • 3 20

    Communication Between the Compiler, the Build System, and Beyond (shrub.industries)
  • 33 30

    Next.js 16.4 (nextjs.org)
  • 9 30

    Put a price on breakthroughs (alexwang.ai)
  • 217 384

    Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen (beaksec.github.io)
  • 8 33

    Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website (www.nytimes.com)
  • 43 153

    Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants (www.broadinstitute.org)
  • 0 14

    The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 68 287

    Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024) (www.usenix.org)
  • 5 35

    How strong is the strong interaction? (cerncourier.com)
  • 2 10

    Smart contracts: Ship the parachute in v1 (medium.com)
  • 6 21

    The logarithms of rational numbers have irrationality exponent 2 [pdf] (jdb19937.github.io)
  • 53 26

    Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived? (phenomenalworld.org)
  • 54 176

    Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data? (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 66 52

    Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025 (www.nber.org)
  • 8 9

    My static site was serving my internal docs (tminuslabs.space)
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  • 278 654

    REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (rea.tools)
  • 3 13

    Show HN: Yeah Nah – a BS score for Australian job ads (yeahnah.lol)
  • 148 205

    Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say (www.nbcphiladelphia.com)
  • 38 130

    Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice (lwn.net)
  • 31 43

    Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation (epoch.ai)
  • 24 65

    Atari Falcon (atarimuseum.nl)
  • 5 4

    HostMath – Airbnb profit calculator with break-even occupancy and payback (hosttmath.ctonew.app)
  • 40 88

    11 of 23 Core Open Source Projects Run on 1 or 2 People (linuxstans.com)
  • 20 63

    Rewriting Prime Agent in Rust (www.primeintellect.ai)
  • 56 117

    The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020) (www.nature.com)
  • 52 189

    What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 40 64

    Japan's most famous tuna buyer says he turned Somali pirates into fishermen (www.japaninsides.com)
  • 6 18

    How to Fix autoconf-style Configuration Probing (build2.org)
  • 43 74

    In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology (www.newyorker.com)
  • 5 56

    OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof (www.newscientist.com)
  • 39 115

    Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux (oss.lsantos.dev)
  • 344 650

    YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops (gizmodo.com)
  • 0 9

    Wi-Fi to Blame? (www.lifemote.com)
  • 17 34

    open-slopware – Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use LLMs/AI (codeberg.org)
  • 60 161

    Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read (readrare.com)
  • 202 312

    No Man Is an Island (borretti.me)
  • 97 98

    Why are coding agents so dumb? (mtlynch.io)
  • 15 18

    The reciprocal sum of the prime-prefix-free numbers converges [pdf] (jdb19937.github.io)
  • 71 134

    Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022) (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 66 197

    Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making (commandline.microsoft.com)
  • 1 17

    In Memory of Deno (orgsoft.org)
  • 9 13

    Part of a police code for describing suspects (www.researchgate.net)
  • 46 402

    Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded (carrierexplode.com)
  • 37 75

    You might want to try being less creative (blog.bawolf.com)
  • 51 60

    Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad (www.techdirt.com)
  • 39 161

    M7.6 Earthquake in Panama (earthquake.usgs.gov)
  • 339 425

    Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B (typesafe.ai)
  • 89 179

    Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more (jessewaites.com)
  • 0 4

    The Revolution of Vertical Drama Is Happening Behind the Camera (medium.com)
  • 43 277

    'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone (animationobsessive.substack.com)
  • 265 1329

    Triple-A Minesweeper (minesweeper.mikelacher.com)
  • 3 21

    Kotlin keeps up with Rust in DHH's Campfire rewrite (www.wecodefire.com)
  • 31 44

    I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here (rachelbythebay.com)
  • 206 186

    Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists (twitter.com)
  • 2 13

    Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code (www.nytimes.com)
  • 24 28

    'Breathtaking,' 'Devastating': Mathematics reels after new OpenAI release (www.nytimes.com)
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  • 19 53

    Training Text-to-Image Models Without a VAE (www.linum.ai)
  • 2 45

    Tomek Korbak: OpenAI's head of safety told they no longer trust me (twitter.com)
  • 59 50

    Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties (pressaudit.org)
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  • 342 143

    A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad (blog.torproject.org)
  • 83 94

    The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI (bsky.app)
  • 0 10

    ChatGPT for Teens is not necessarily 'safer than the previous version,' (www.cnbc.com)
  • 229 179

    Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court (www.state.gov)
  • 116 208

    Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape (www.euronews.com)
  • 105 305

    Python 3.15 (www.python.org)
  • 518 510

    US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize (www.reuters.com)
  • 98 97

    100+ reactions to 100+ solutions (proofsandprompts.com)
  • 322 232

    Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours (united24media.com)
  • 74 72

    Court throws out killer's sentence after judge said he loved AI video of victim (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 4 32

    Meadows – a small language for stock-and-flow diagrams that run (lorezzed.github.io)
  • 43 77

    Study: Exercise increases cancer survival rates (www.nejm.org)
  • 315 688

    Our $445M Series D (oxide.computer)
  • 686 1331

    Cloudflare acquires Deno (deno.com)
  • 172 190

    Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT (www.washingtonpost.com)
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  • 30 115

    The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview (www.hetzner.com)
  • 121 82

    US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work (www.nature.com)
  • 5 18

    Hucked and Shucked: The hidden costs of turning America's corn crop into fuel (worldsensorium.com)
  • 271 996

    Sorry, I'm in a meeting (iminafleeting.com)
  • 42 94

    Once: Cache CLI commands (github.com)
  • 188 410

    Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen (github.com)
  • 248 482

    Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay (www.nobelprize.org)
  • 216 354

    OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information" (techcrunch.com)
  • 12 36

    South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay Wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize (www.france24.com)
  • 3 15

    Run Windows games (up to D3D9) in the browser (bottleship.pages.dev)
  • 254 253

    Programming Isn't Special (blog.glyph.im)
  • 10 63

    OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack (opentelemetry.io)
  • 84 193

    MXC - a sandboxed code execution system (github.com)
  • 5 16

    Show HN: OldRoll, a free vintage photo editor for the browser (www.oldroll.io)
  • 178 234

    Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser (quake-srp.pages.dev)
  • 9 4

    Cybernetics of AI Companies (ai-cybernetics.grok.me)
  • 68 72

    Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment (www.themirror.com)
  • 282 339

    Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 244 158

    What should we tell our students? (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 160 127

    Reducing undefined behavior in the C language (lwn.net)
  • 70 251

    Bevy 0.20 (bevy.org)
  • 3 52

    Scaling and benchmarking a critical message bus using a new indexing strategy (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 12 21

    Spinal: A near-instant, predictive surface for any codebase (spinal.sh)
  • 15 40

    Show HN: Edi Life OS – self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI (github.com)
  • 7 44

    Show HN: SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools (svg-spark.vercel.app)