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  • 2 9

    Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
  • 3 24

    LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers (www.swiftlatex.com)
  • 84 94

    Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (openai.com)
  • Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 3 24

    Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor (github.com)
  • 47 87

    MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control (aws.amazon.com)
  • 87 55

    Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)
  • 47 52

    The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool (ohadravid.github.io)
  • 28 29

    Why software engineers are grieving (dev.jimgrey.net)
  • 55 91

    The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
  • 22 62

    A US military exercise to launch a satellite on short notice (arstechnica.com)
  • 70 24

    Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast? (www.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog)
  • 99 158

    Jolla Phone (October 2026) (commerce.jolla.com)
  • 19 30

    A forgotten social media post may hold key clues to Covid-19's origin (www.science.org)
  • 210 72

    The AI backlash is only getting started (www.economist.com)
  • 109 227

    Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck (www.science.org)
  • 14 34

    The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games (mas-bandwidth.com)
  • 34 115

    Ultrasound imaging of the brain (alephneuro.com)
  • 65 368

    Incident CVE-2026-LGTM (nesbitt.io)
  • 7 9

    What Would C. S. Lewis Have Thought of AI? (chroniclesmagazine.org)
  • 6 52

    FEXPRs vs. vtable: how LispE interpreter works (github.com)
  • 36 37

    Reading the news is the new smoking (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 15 51

    AMD Readies Full Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Support for Linux (www.techpowerup.com)
  • 54 55

    Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News (www.youtube.com)
  • 12 52

    Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter (github.com)
  • 77 71

    Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not (github.com)
  • 3 8

    Alan Greenspan Has Died (businessdesk.co.nz)
  • 12 84

    Bipartite Matching Is in NC (scottaaronson.blog)
  • 6 27

    Microbubbles in Medicine (worksinprogress.co)
  • 33 24

    How much? The hidden costs of restaurant dishes (www.theguardian.com)
  • 26 40

    Texas Man Gets 30 Years in Prison for Transporting 'Anti-Government' Pamphlets (reason.com)
  • 93 86

    My Steam Machine Is a 50ft HDMI Cable (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
  • 185 105

    Why current LLM costs are not sustainable (aditya.patadia.org)
  • 8 18

    SOCKMAP - TCP splicing of the future (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 59 195

    22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery' (www.classicfm.com)
  • 150 131

    US Govt to individually approve who gets GPT 5.6 (old.reddit.com)
  • 70 75

    Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years (www.theregister.com)
  • 195 397

    We all depend on open source. We will defend it together (akrites.org)
  • 59 31

    Why are we so obsessed with lawns? (www.gardensillustrated.com)
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  • 0 7

    You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 4 5

    Show HN: Appaca – AI Workspace for Operators (www.appaca.ai)
  • 54 25

    Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected (xlii.space)
  • 59 77

    Doing a masters while working in Spain (jan-herlyn.com)
  • 96 81

    No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass (borretti.me)
  • 133 302

    What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant (www.fernandoi.cl)
  • 40 250

    Libre Barcode Project (graphicore.github.io)
  • 59 95

    Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
  • 1 26

    Eyewitness at the Triangle (1911) (trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu)
  • 74 199

    AI children's books, body horror edition (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 158 280

    Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 7 24

    A data race that doesn't compile (corentin-core.github.io)
  • 336 303

    Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 1 21

    Experiments in Sports Seismology for the World Cup (pnsn.org)
  • 4 67

    Record type inference for dummies (haskellforall.com)
  • 14 26

    Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (2016) (www.newyorker.com)
  • 2 20

    What is the mechanical world picture? (edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
  • 43 210

    The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed) (2023) (gchandbook.org)
  • 2 10

    CAD vs. CAD Tournament (www.tootalltoby.com)
  • 140 225

    Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base (arstechnica.com)
  • 4 19

    Om Malik taught Silicon Valley to read itself (runtimewire.com)
  • 502 980

    The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy (expression.fire.org)
  • 66 83

    Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus (www.nijho.lt)
  • 68 314

    A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events (github.com)
  • 109 133

    OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO (www.nytimes.com)
  • 11 44

    RRB-Trees: Efficient Immutable Vectors (2012) [pdf] (infoscience.epfl.ch)
  • 45 89

    GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11 (github.com)
  • 137 1178

    Om Malik has died (om.co)
  • 208 127

    The last Romans are still around (signoregalilei.com)
  • 44 179

    Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators (unconv.ai)
  • 67 159

    An oral history of Bank Python (2021) (calpaterson.com)
  • 15 111

    Parallel Parentheses Matching (williamdue.github.io)
  • 29 18

    The Customer Who Almost Killed Slack, Stripe, and Airbnb (siliconopera.com)
  • 26 74

    OpenAI to Stagger Release of GPT 5.6 at Request of U.S. Government (velo.xyz)
  • 258 203

    The Doorman's Fallacy in action (rozumem.xyz)
  • 3 11

    AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn't Even Imagine (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 36 35

    The anxiety of the perfect loaf: the illusion of culinary precision (iza.ac)
  • 16 29

    Supreme Court Gives Pesticide Corporations Immunity from Cancer Lawsuits (www.foodandwaterwatch.org)
  • 163 343

    Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion (github.com)
  • 18 26

    Show HN: Persona.js – a vanilla-JS agent UI library with native WebMCP (MIT) (github.com)
  • 17 75

    The annotated PyTorch training loop (idlemachines.co.uk)
  • 47 82

    Early adversity leaves lasting molecular imprint across the body: primate study (medicalxpress.com)
  • 131 396

    Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike (princechazz.com)
  • 191 443

    Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour (explorer.oxide.computer)
  • 34 119

    Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs (github.com)
  • 19 119

    52-hertz whale (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 24 85

    How to get your first customers [video] (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 108 190

    I built a GPU back end for Emacs (en.andros.dev)
  • 21 36

    Updated Xbox Console Prices (news.xbox.com)
  • 37 54

    European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status (www.theregister.com)
  • 332 1537

    An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (scrollprize.org)
  • Besimple AI (YC P25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 53 255

    OS9Map (yllan.org)
  • 34 67

    How physicists track and trap the elusive neutrino (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 193 366

    IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology (newsroom.ibm.com)
  • 61 142

    Deno 2.9 (deno.com)
  • 225 243

    Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates (www.neowin.net)
  • 31 99

    Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking (pete.design)
  • 18 36

    As banks close accounts, experts point to immigration crackdown (www.americanbanker.com)
  • 4 259

    Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20% (www.ft.com)
  • 320 594

    Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 15 65

    SoftBank 2026 AGM [pdf] (group.softbank)
  • 140 268

    Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements (ziglang.org)
  • 149 752

    Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments (hackernewstrends.com)
  • 0 9

    Lianda and the Long March (blog.georeactor.com)
  • 67 79

    Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
  • 79 208

    Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE (www.syracuse.com)
  • 8 5

    UN hypocrisy in AI Environmental demands (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
  • 289 162

    Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand (trakkr.ai)
  • 64 112

    Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs
  • 19 30

    Show HN: Secs-man, a secrets manager you can (not) rely on (github.com)
  • 146 187

    The disappearance of Japan's animators (economist.com)
  • 36 86

    Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice (lingochunk.com)
  • 123 305

    Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best (mullvad.net)
  • 145 86

    Why Does Everyone Hate AI? (paulkrugman.substack.com)
  • 1182 803

    Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads (www.reuters.com)
  • 131 295

    You can't unit test for taste (dev.karltryggvason.com)
  • 238 568

    Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark (twitter.com)
  • 15 50

    Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions? (infoscience.epfl.ch)
  • 226 509

    LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach (9to5mac.com)
  • 15 34

    Words, Words, Words (aeon.co)
  • 36 219

    Dolphin Emulator Progress Release 2606 (dolphin-emu.org)
  • 27 56

    Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks (questdb.com)
  • 27 35

    Aisle Discovers 6 New CVEs in Curl, Including the Oldest Issue Ever Reported (aisle.com)
  • 0 9

    Shall We Play a Coordination Game? (kellyshortridge.com)
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  • 27 41

    Show HN: Nimic – Pure Python as a systems language with AOT compilation (github.com)
  • 3 199

    Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition (utaw.tech)
  • 46 196

    Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub (github.com)
  • 267 667

    Half-Life 2 in a Browser (hl2.slqnt.dev)
  • 69 118

    Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion (markdy.com)
  • 169 181

    The unbearable cheapness of open weight models (jamesoclaire.com)
  • 77 53

    GTA 6 Physical Copies Won't Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box (www.ign.com)
  • 93 172

    Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies (www.science.org)
  • 1 14

    Optimizing [sqlx:test] rebuild time (kobzol.github.io)
  • 110 166

    Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley (www.economist.com)
  • 138 128

    Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
  • 32 69

    Show HN: Write SaaS apps where users control where their data is stored (github.com)
  • 161 373

    OAuth for all (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 7 43

    15 sorting algorithms in 6 minutes (2013) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 17 38

    What I'm Finding About LLM Code Style and Token Costs (www.jimmont.com)
  • 20 37

    Writers and Drugs (lithub.com)
  • 9 21

    MSc Thesis – The Limits of Generalized Sync (aaltodoc.aalto.fi)
  • 43 80

    Mixing Visual and Textual Code (arxiv.org)
  • 90 150

    Show HN: Bible as RAG Database (www.crosscanon.com)
  • 5 34

    Exploring the internal representations of Pangram 3.3.2 (www.pangram.com)
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  • 21 87

    Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web (tedium.co)
  • 134 201

    Ending respiratory infections (blog.interceptfund.com)
  • 154 230

    LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions (github.com)
  • 308 240

    Dostoyevsky isn't difficult (www.autodidacts.io)
  • 1272 779

    Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (www.reuters.com)
  • 132 458

    Blogging can just be stating the obvious (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
  • 9 17

    Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of ‘Illicitly’ Accessing AI Models (www.bloomberg.com)