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  • 15 61

    Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down (www.cnbc.com)
  • 3 13

    A few interesting modern pixel fonts (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 0 9

    Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop (github.com)
  • 32 54

    Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"? (dynomight.net)
  • 52 29

    Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive (www.theguardian.com)
  • Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 23 37

    What color is your function? (2015) (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
  • 5 8

    Cargo Install Friend (crates.io)
  • 126 57

    The real cost of owning a home (ericturner.dev)
  • 78 164

    Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union (www.reuters.com)
  • 82 109

    Language Models Need Sleep (arxiv.org)
  • 3 39

    The Ballad of TIGIT (www.owlposting.com)
  • 117 43

    Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care (www.dw.com)
  • 30 37

    Sweden becomes a smoke-free country (www.thelocal.se)
  • 9 31

    Are we self-sovereign PKI yet? (buffrr.dev)
  • 64 77

    Don't Subscribe So Casually (thebestworstcase.substack.com)
  • 10 30

    Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player (www.intelligenceonline.com)
  • 29 41

    Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale (www.minicor.com)
  • 2 13

    Trying to preserve other peoples code (github.com)
  • 182 367

    Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence (www.reuters.com)
  • 5 47

    C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead "Camera View" (retrogamecoders.com)
  • 110 212

    Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify' (www.theverge.com)
  • 146 136

    Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs (www.signalbloom.ai)
  • 29 78

    Opaque Types in Python (blog.glyph.im)
  • 104 182

    AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn (www.seuros.com)
  • 21 17

    Nearly half (44%) of every T-shirt goes to waste before you even buy it (norwegianscitechnews.com)
  • 20 71

    Incident with Actions and Pages (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 128 373

    Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier (www.politico.eu)
  • 19 57

    How do you build a semiconductor company on something that's free? (www.siliconimist.com)
  • 35 37

    A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 20 60

    Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team (vllm.ai)
  • 327 639

    GitHub Actions was down (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 12 41

    Exposing Critical Vulnerabilities in CBSE's On-Screen Marking Portal (ni5arga.com)
  • 55 75

    Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs (www.matuzo.at)
  • 23 29

    China vs. Taiwan: The Geography of an Unfinished War (jstribune.com)
  • 86 62

    The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble (pluralistic.net)
  • 42 113

    Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews (shmuplations.com)
  • 39 87

    I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty (theguptalog.blogspot.com)
  • 109 85

    Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd (www.osnews.com)
  • 2 48

    Multimodal adaptive optical microscope: in vivo imaging, molecules to organisms (www.nature.com)
  • 22 18

    You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 108 262

    DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD (dynip.dev)
  • 3 24

    Logseq Doctor: Heal your flat old Markdown files before importing them to Logseq (github.com)
  • 64 71

    Use boring languages with LLMs (jry.io)
  • 16 47

    Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018) (blog.0patch.com)
  • 93 131

    Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
  • 5 26

    Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007) (www.theguardian.com)
  • 199 222

    The user is visibly frustrated (pscanf.com)
  • 17 94

    What it takes to transpose a matrix (gudok.xyz)
  • 11 58

    Notes on Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI (simonwillison.net)
  • 7 7

    Ask HN: Pregunta para los devs hispanohablantes
  • 69 69

    Dehydration's role in learning and memory (www.cshl.edu)
  • 58 127

    Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up (earthiongame.com)
  • 190 338

    Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes (9to5google.com)
  • 73 34

    Why the smart home bubble popped (hackaday.com)
  • 11 25

    A Comma and a Question Mark (www.thetypicalset.com)
  • 6 23

    Designing for and against the manufactured normalcy field (2012) (www.urbanhonking.com)
  • 8 13

    Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish for New and Deadly Microbes (www.newyorker.com)
  • 2 36

    Mathematical Patterns in African American HAIRSTYLEs (math.buffalo.edu)
  • 18 22

    TP-7 Field Recorder (teenage.engineering)
  • 306 223

    Does anybody like React? (jsx.lol)
  • 20 9

    Browser-based file encryption tool using WebCrypto (secvant.com)
  • 11 22

    Every Frontier AI Is INTJ (zonted.com)
  • 69 92

    Performance of Rust Language [pdf] (github.com)
  • 41 41

    The Lottery – Shirley Jackson (1948) (www.newyorker.com)
  • 12 23

    Agentic Patterns (veso.ai)
  • 59 337

    How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works (ente.com)
  • 207 517

    Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) (www.apa.org)
  • 16 100

    Squares in Squares (kingbird.myphotos.cc)
  • 10 15

    Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI (arstechnica.com)
  • 391 1030

    Using AI to write better code more slowly (nolanlawson.com)
  • 93 164

    CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude (support.apple.com)
  • 2 16

    Tidy PSU – PD-64 C64 PSU Brings USB PD to Commodore 64 (theoasisbbs.com)
  • 1 12

    Reticulum: Source-privacy claim vs. routing metadata (codeberg.org)
  • 300 271

    Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore (unix.foo)
  • 15 36

    The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 1 10

    Chatbot Has a Long Memory. That Isn't Always a Good Thing (www.wsj.com)
  • 13 78

    Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer (github.com)
  • 70 57

    Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S. (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
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  • 4 19

    Building an AWS Lambda-Like Runtime with Firecracker MicroVMs (medium.com)
  • 48 255

    Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files (www.promptarmor.com)
  • 60 44

    Ninth Circuit Panel Goes Out of Its Way to Question Section 230–DOE vs. Meta (blog.ericgoldman.org)
  • 108 393

    Hacker News front page as a site (thefrontpage.dev)
  • 6 32

    Riscrithm – An intuitive RISC-V assembler and optimizer coded in Go (github.com)
  • 3 32

    Ferrari Luce, Maranello's first ever electric car (www.topgear.com)
  • 51 106

    Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C (github.com)
  • 808 435

    Ferrari Luce (www.ferrari.com)
  • 33 188

    Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties (techxplore.com)
  • 21 130

    Jensen–Shannon Divergence (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 197 315

    Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training (www.blocksandfiles.com)
  • 166 221

    A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft (www.bgr.com)
  • 105 257

    Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died (www.referenceforbusiness.com)
  • 97 82

    Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas" (www.anthropic.com)
  • 21 70

    Everyone Against Us (2023) (www.chicagomag.com)
  • 82 222

    The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month (eualternative.eu)
  • 11 32

    Google facing court for retaliation against Gaza whistleblower (www.foxglove.org.uk)
  • 81 413

    Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout (mullvad.net)
  • 67 46

    Alaska's oil revival sparks a new energy rush Into the Arctic (fortune.com)
  • 457 1022

    California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash (www.tomshardware.com)
  • Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 7 43

    CPPL: A Circuit Prompt Programming Language (arxiv.org)
  • 60 43

    The Coming Layoffs and the Revenge of the Measurers (www.hackyexperiments.com)
  • 1 27

    The analog computer museum's online library (www.analogmuseum.org)
  • RentFlow (YC S24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 327 274

    Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 34 43

    He Lost It at the Movies (www.theideasletter.org)
  • 91 68

    I manage teams without a single call (orchidfiles.com)
  • 188 59

    Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage (www.trychert.com)
  • 82 265

    Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It (rickcarlino.com)
  • 510 470

    What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard (stevemagness.substack.com)
  • Hive (YC S14) is hiring sr back-end developers (CA/US remote OK) (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 87 171

    C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers (lemon.rip)
  • 87 283

    Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 185 179

    Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025) (www.tmj4.com)
  • 4 15

    Your Old Devices Depend on Dying Sensors. The Silicon Labs Incident Proves It (www.cambridge.org)
  • 97 97

    2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update (medcurity.com)
  • 2 164

    Pope Leo: opaque AI run by few firms risks "New Forms of Dehumanization" (variety.com)
  • 1 5

    A Photographer in Canada Found a Toad with Eyes in Its Mouth (www.thetravel.com)
  • 67 342

    Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few (religionnews.com)
  • 17 56

    The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails (buttondown.com)
  • 305 346

    Leave Me Behind (androidessence.com)
  • 531 556

    Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore (techcrunch.com)
  • 22 54

    you_can::turn_off_the_borrow_checker (docs.rs)
  • 69 87

    GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100 (github.com)
  • 149 127

    Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now (www.cnn.com)
  • 69 154

    IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry (futurumgroup.com)
  • 18 125

    AI errno(2) values (www.netmeister.org)
  • 881 1554

    Magnifica Humanitas (www.vatican.va)
  • 6 53

    Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 16 70

    Show HN: Geomatic – A command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff (www.tinyvolt.com)
  • 69 153

    Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024) (dubroy.com)
  • 72 67

    Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017) (www.atlasobscura.com)
  • 2 7

    Jen Can Never Leave (www.darthealth.com)
  • 12 38

    If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you (samkriss.substack.com)
  • 6 25

    Gorilla: A fast, scalable, in-memory time series database (2016) (blog.acolyer.org)
  • 163 158

    I love my Bluetooth keyboard (liquidbrain.net)
  • 147 301

    Jira Is Turing-Complete (seriot.ch)
  • 18 29

    Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms (danielmiessler.com)
  • 158 332

    Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • 363 475

    The Eternal Sloptember (geohot.github.io)
  • 140 122

    C constructs that still don't work in C++ (lospino.so)
  • 55 180

    Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU (phabricator.services.mozilla.com)
  • 146 187

    Building Pi with Pi (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • 47 199

    White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems (ohwr.org)
  • 10 51

    1k-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared for, and ritually buried (www.popsci.com)
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  • 30 75

    Selling SaaS in Germany (embedworkflow.com)