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  • 2 30

    Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
  • 3 27

    PCI Express over Fiber [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 29 46

    Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now (www.wired.com)
  • 127 275

    Codex for Almost Everything (openai.com)
  • 28 51

    Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants (www.japantimes.co.jp)
  • 11 33

    Show HN: CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task (github.com)
  • 56 51

    Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip (raymii.org)
  • 4 77

    Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git (blog.cloudflare.com)
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  • 186 125

    We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit (andonlabs.com)
  • 37 37

    Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs (www.zatanna.ai)
  • 6 47

    Six Characters (ajitem.com)
  • 771 989

    Claude Opus 4.7 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 88 157

    Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent (techstackups.com)
  • 3 11

    Show HN: Agent-cache – Multi-tier LLM/tool/session caching for Valkey and Redis
  • 57 47

    There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains (www.engadget.com)
  • 63 130

    Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card (anthropic.com)
  • 12 186

    Claude Opus 4.7 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 20 79

    Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh (github.com)
  • 17 18

    Fly Drones from the Browser (fpvsim.com)
  • 247 278

    Mozilla Thunderbolt (www.thunderbolt.io)
  • 305 640

    Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all (qwen.ai)
  • 140 325

    Cloudflare Email Service (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 323 342

    The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here? (aphyr.com)
  • 38 162

    Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 3 25

    Long Instruction Word architectures and the ELI-512 (dl.acm.org)
  • 69 159

    AI cybersecurity is not proof of work (antirez.com)
  • 24 63

    Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
  • 62 81

    Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials (www.apple.com)
  • 253 359

    €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs (discuss.ai.google.dev)
  • 15 15

    Study: EVs with V2H cut household electricity costs and need for home batteries (adelaide.edu.au)
  • 16 78

    PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations (wiki.php.net)
  • 50 60

    The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up? (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 55 40

    The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces (vale.rocks)
  • 96 168

    Codex Hacked a Samsung TV (blog.calif.io)
  • 43 55

    Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf] (reich.hms.harvard.edu)
  • 101 91

    SDL bans AI-written commits (github.com)
  • 19 155

    Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (www.lighterra.com)
  • 12 15

    Pokemon Evolution vs Darwinian Evolution (superheroetc.wordpress.com)
  • 15 50

    The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock (boat.horse)
  • 104 48

    Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45 (www.bbc.com)
  • 4 58

    FIXAPL (fixapl.netlify.app)
  • RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 484 705

    IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark (www.google.com)
  • 7 18

    Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library (www.b-list.org)
  • 192 582

    The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama (sleepingrobots.com)
  • 71 124

    North American English Dialects (aschmann.net)
  • 14 67

    Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus (medium.com)
  • 73 57

    Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet (www.chalkbeat.org)
  • 13 30

    Show HN: SmallDocs - Markdown without the frustrations
  • 103 131

    Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick (heather.cafe)
  • 98 117

    Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) (www.ietf.org)
  • 11 12

    AWS/GCP too expensive? Cloudexit.pro will help you move to bare-metal (cloudexit.pro)
  • 194 330

    FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account (daedal.io)
  • 10 73

    A Look into NaviDial, Japan's Legacy Phone Service (www.tokyodev.com)
  • 43 157

    RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update (github.com)
  • 211 435

    Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs (darkbloom.dev)
  • 19 98

    Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie (2011) (stevehanov.ca)
  • 6 48

    Intel Xpress Resurrection: Reviving a Forgotten EISA Beast (x86.fr)
  • 6 33

    Show HN: Hiraeth – AWS Emulator (github.com)
  • 55 112

    Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 73 242

    The paper computer (jsomers.net)
  • 32 71

    Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness (github.com)
  • 6 18

    A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator (www.universetoday.com)
  • 10 62

    Amazon AI Cancelling Webcomics (www.kleefeldoncomics.com)
  • 35 68

    Arguing with Agents (blowmage.com)
  • 8 38

    A Better Ludum Dare; Or, How to Ruin a Legacy (ldjam.com)
  • 14 25

    Keycard – inject API keys into subprocesses, never touch shell env (www.keycard.studio)
  • 25 138

    Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers (gpfault.net)
  • 59 63

    Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk' (www.afr.com)
  • 9 21

    The Universal Constraint Engine: Neuromorphic Computing Without Neural Networks (zenodo.org)
  • 27 50

    Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor. Workers told to keep going (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 3 19

    Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks – The Writing Secrets of Stephen King (www.theguardian.com)
  • 153 306

    YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes (www.theverge.com)
  • 10 36

    PBS Nova: Terror in Space (1998) (www.pbs.org)
  • 138 109

    Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017) (www.bbc.com)
  • 87 40

    The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments (boazsobrado.com)
  • 3 7

    It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
  • 43 163

    I made a terminal pager (theleo.zone)
  • 25 54

    Hacker News CLI (2014) (pythonhosted.org)
  • 25 117

    Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters (tratt.net)
  • 1 7

    The Enigma of Gertrude Stein (www.thenation.com)
  • 186 301

    ChatGPT for Excel (chatgpt.com)
  • 17 53

    One interface, every protocol (openbindings.com)
  • 290 613

    The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew (www.mcdonalds.co.jp)
  • 31 95

    How can I keep from singing? (blog.danieljanus.pl)
  • 90 161

    The Gemini app is now on Mac (blog.google)
  • 9 33

    Tennessee is about to make building chatbots a Class A felony (old.reddit.com)
  • 123 248

    Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself? (github.com)
  • 31 58

    In the last 30 years, the number of public companies has been cut in half (twitter.com)
  • 197 529

    Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now (www.dbreunig.com)
  • 30 37

    Show HN: I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge (kampfinsel.com)
  • 14 124

    PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux (tinycorelinux.net)
  • 42 88

    Farmer arrested for speaking too long at datacenter town hall vows to fight (www.404media.co)
  • 3 10

    Show HN: Jeeves – TUI for browsing and resuming AI agent sessions (github.com)
  • 49 259

    Why are Flock employees watching our children? (substack.com)
  • 360 311

    Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
  • 1 38

    Jury finds Live Nation acts as a monopoly in a victory for states (www.nytimes.com)
  • 31 46

    Golden eagles' return to English skies (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 46 71

    Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store (www.web3isgoinggreat.com)
  • 182 593

    Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds (www.bloomberg.com)
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  • 5 31

    Show HN: GNU grep as a PHP extension (github.com)
  • 182 226

    AI-assisted cognition endangers human development? (heidenstedt.org)
  • 139 128

    Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases (www.semafor.com)
  • 722 1645

    Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data (www.eff.org)
  • 48 97

    CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma2B Out Scored GPT-3.5 Turbo on Test That Made It Famous (seqpu.com)
  • 71 136

    Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023) (aalonso.dev)
  • 131 212

    CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome (medicalxpress.com)
  • 209 138

    Where did my taxes go? (wherethefuckdidmytaxesgo.com)
  • Adaptional (YC S25) is hiring AI engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 19 63

    The tiniest e-reader in the world, and you can build one yourself (www.androidauthority.com)
  • 47 120

    Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic (github.com)
  • 33 92

    How Wake-On-LAN works (2020) (blog.xaner.dev)
  • 176 346

    Open Source Isn't Dead (www.strix.ai)
  • 287 365

    Cal.com is going closed source (cal.com)
  • 73 90

    Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure (ir.allbirds.com)
  • 45 80

    Forcing an inversion of control on the SaaS stack (www.100x.bot)
  • 32 12

    New Modern Greek (redas.dev)
  • 141 54

    The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Worse Than You Thought (www.wired.com)
  • 26 54

    Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis (www.manchester.ac.uk)
  • 222 243

    Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code (claudestatus.com)
  • 7 4

    Show HN: Pseudonymizing sensitive data for LLMs without losing context (atticsecurity.com)
  • 28 63

    We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 80 213

    Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 (deepmind.google)
  • 67 70

    Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness (2022) (terrypratchett.com)
  • 122 171

    US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf] (fingfx.thomsonreuters.com)
  • 178 265

    The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs (aphyr.com)
  • 99 152

    AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you (www.reuters.com)
  • 4 7

    Why Vibe Coding Fails
  • 378 418

    Backpacks got worse on purpose (www.worseonpurpose.com)
  • 50 43

    Academic fraud may be the symptom of a more systemic problem (www.voxweb.nl)
  • 2 113

    US national level OS-level age verification bill (social.coop)
  • 285 263

    Do you even need a database? (www.dbpro.app)
  • 67 201

    Keep Android Open (keepandroidopen.org)
  • 13 34

    MCP as Observability Interface: Connecting AI Agents to Kernel Tracepoints (ingero.io)
  • 105 543

    God sleeps in the minerals (wchambliss.wordpress.com)
  • 64 181

    Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC (tracksuccession.com)
  • 29 183

    Pretty Fish: A better mermaid diagram editor (pretty.fish)
  • 96 69

    New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows (gothamist.com)
  • 40 119

    Metro stop is Ancient Rome's new attraction (www.bbc.com)
  • Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 9 43

    MIT Radiation Laboratory (www.ll.mit.edu)
  • 90 126

    Claude may require identity verification in some cases (support.claude.com)
  • 56 153

    Costasiella kuroshimae (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 66 57

    'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking (www.theguardian.com)
  • 123 209

    Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared (warped3.substack.com)
  • 215 415

    Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) (super-memory.com)
  • 152 496

    Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008) (prog21.dadgum.com)
  • 179 288

    Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference (www.gizmoweek.com)
  • 0 14

    Seed: Adding `vau` with an immutable dynamic environment to Chez Scheme (github.com)
  • 12 19

    Projected warming will exceed the long-term thermal limits of rice cultivation (www.nature.com)
  • 33 39

    What Is in Road Flares? (www.spiegl.org)
  • 1 13

    Hazardous States and Accidents (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 434 418

    Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight (torrentfreak.com)
  • 113 90

    My AI-Assisted Workflow (www.maiobarbero.dev)
  • 31 64

    Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals (steveblank.com)
  • 10 35

    The Death of an AI Whistleblower (www.thenation.com)
  • 156 239

    Wacli – WhatsApp CLI (github.com)
  • MDalgorithms (AI Healthcare) – Hiring Growth Marketer – Remote – $80K-$140K (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 5 25

    Viral victory: Iran is beating the land of tech bros in the social media wars (www.theguardian.com)
  • 81 111

    My adventure in designing API keys (vjay15.github.io)
  • 117 126

    Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network (www.businesswire.com)
  • 164 259

    Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16 (iczelia.net)
  • 36 38

    PCBWay sponsorship: full-size SD module for Arduino projects (www.colino.net)
  • 255 181

    Saying goodbye to Agile (lewiscampbell.tech)
  • 5 31

    Game: Print Gallery Of An Artist, A brief exploration of recursive spaces (managore.itch.io)
  • 115 143

    Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log (www.stylewarning.com)
  • 121 183

    Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider (calpaterson.com)
  • 41 52

    Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran (warontherocks.com)
  • 14 73

    Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 Writerdeck (jcs.org)
  • 59 89

    Don't feel like exercising? Maybe it's the wrong time of day for you (www.bbc.com)
  • 27 113

    Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1 (2013) (hypirion.com)
  • 136 116

    OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports (www.reuters.com)
  • 60 57

    Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors
  • 69 114

    The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason (www.theverge.com)
  • 40 33

    Ask HN: My ISP is telling my neighbors their slow internet is because of me
  • 78 96

    Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 295 967

    Stop Flock (stopflock.com)
  • 117 228

    A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing (llama.gs)