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  • 0 4

    "Not Even Government Agencies" - Proton's misleading marketing (blog.ppb1701.com)
  • 2 11

    JSON Formatter Chrome Plugin Now Closed and Injecting Adware (github.com)
  • 0 5

    Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python (codeberg.org)
  • 0 5

    Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go (eli.thegreenplace.net)
  • 29 39

    Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (www.nytimes.com)
  • 4 11

    Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript (fluidcad.io)
  • 3 4

    Claude AI Assistant for Microsoft Office (pivot.claude.ai)
  • 8 16

    Autonomy Is Real Now (steelforfuel.substack.com)
  • 1 10

    The best seat in town (www.torched.la)
  • 1 9

    Adobe Diddles with Your /etc./Hosts File (old.reddit.com)
  • 11 18

    Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs (twill.ai)
  • 23 40

    HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X (torrentfreak.com)
  • 41 72

    A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it (ericwbailey.website)
  • 0 4

    Investigating Split Locks on x86-64 (chipsandcheese.com)
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  • 9 28

    The difficulty of making sure your website is broken (letsencrypt.org)
  • Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 18 45

    Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C# (nockawa.github.io)
  • 78 43

    Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members (www.theguardian.com)
  • 39 145

    Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice (github.com)
  • 4 85

    Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures (andreyor.st)
  • 30 87

    Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem (pckt.blog)
  • 73 234

    WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution (lists.zx2c4.com)
  • 55 292

    1D Chess (rowan441.github.io)
  • 64 146

    CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (www.theregister.com)
  • 85 149

    Helium Is Hard to Replace (www.construction-physics.com)
  • 113 315

    You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings (eclecticlight.co)
  • 144 331

    France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech (techcrunch.com)
  • 4 35

    C++: Freestanding Standard Library (www.sandordargo.com)
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  • 29 56

    "Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says (arstechnica.com)
  • 10 16

    Born Private: Reserve your child's first email address with Proton (proton.me)
  • 6 23

    Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on "vibe coding" (arstechnica.com)
  • 49 91

    Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate (kerkour.com)
  • 71 103

    Code is run more than read (2023) (olano.dev)
  • 81 96

    US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model (www.theguardian.com)
  • 84 31

    Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 3 15

    Consumer sentiment plummets to record low as Iran war jacks up inflation (www.cnn.com)
  • 1 120

    CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (old.reddit.com)
  • 68 40

    Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster (relocateme.substack.com)
  • 3 23

    Deterministic Primality Testing for Limited Bit Width (www.jeremykun.com)
  • 45 38

    Ads in ChatGPT (help.openai.com)
  • 21 37

    Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke Ext4 Hardlinks (blog.discourse.org)
  • 83 83

    The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 9 27

    Show HN: QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications
  • 19 91

    Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf] (www.cis.upenn.edu)
  • 289 398

    OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable (www.wired.com)
  • 115 46

    Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men? (text.npr.org)
  • 27 107

    Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents (github.com)
  • 78 135

    White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 126 125

    Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989 (dfarq.homeip.net)
  • 246 482

    FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages (9to5mac.com)
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  • 125 352

    Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 1 6

    Sorting Performance Rabbit Hole (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
  • 7 5

    We're Getting the Wrong Message from Mythos (danielmiessler.com)
  • 410 795

    France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins (www.numerique.gouv.fr)
  • 61 95

    Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons (www.loskutoff.com)
  • 6 23

    Untaxed hidden wealth surpasses wealth of the poorest half of humanity (www.oxfam.org)
  • 58 42

    US plans to automatically register young men for military draft (www.bbc.com)
  • 31 55

    Show HN: Keeper – embedded secret store for Go (help me break it) (github.com)
  • 14 45

    The Art of Risk Management (2017) (www.bcg.com)
  • 88 85

    Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real (www.nature.com)
  • 65 75

    Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon (www.ansto.gov.au)
  • 58 128

    Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia (www.ucdavis.edu)
  • 12 13

    Zero-build privacy policies with Astro (www.openpolicy.sh)
  • 47 211

    A new trick brings stability to quantum operations (ethz.ch)
  • 17 29

    War on Raze (gist.github.com)
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  • 2 21

    Knit File Formats (soup.agnescameron.info)
  • 14 35

    The tool that won't let AI say anything it can't cite (github.com)
  • 95 149

    YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription (pocketables.com)
  • 0 16

    VFX HQ: Visual Effects Headquarters (2000) (www.vfxhq.com)
  • 2 14

    Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250{,XY?} (jcs.org)
  • CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 61 178

    Afrika Bambaataa has died (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 33 159

    Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects (blog.kagi.com)
  • 28 126

    The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019) (www.cockroachlabs.com)
  • 18 75

    Principles of Mechanical Sympathy (martinfowler.com)
  • 619 283

    We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git (blog.gitbutler.com)
  • 139 217

    New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK (bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)
  • 4 11

    Resident Evil Requiem with Denuvo DRM Cracked (pastebin.com)
  • 331 407

    I still prefer MCP over skills (david.coffee)
  • 134 372

    DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 52 60

    Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Concepts (futurism.com)
  • 60 221

    Generative art over the years (blog.veitheller.de)
  • 5 11

    Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD (lwn.net)
  • 45 101

    Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem (www.elevenforum.com)
  • 3 30

    Show HN: Rust based eBook library for Python, with MIT license (github.com)
  • 7 29

    How Close Is Too Close? Applying Fluid Dynamics Research Methods to PC Cooling (www.lttlabs.com)
  • 215 577

    How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer (cacm.acm.org)
  • 89 119

    Will I ever own a zettaflop? (geohot.github.io)
  • 15 18

    How the Trivy supply chain attack harvested credentials from secrets managers (vaultproof.dev)
  • 16 32

    The Training Example Lie Bracket (pbement.com)
  • 13 20

    Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?
  • 39 171

    BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months (old.reddit.com)
  • 206 211

    Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead (davidoks.blog)
  • 97 66

    Robots eat cars (telemetry.endeff.com)
  • 7 19

    There are zero-day exploits for your mind (mikemorgenstern.substack.com)
  • 107 197

    Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps (www.instantdb.com)
  • 2 16

    Progressive encoding and decoding of 'repeated' protobuffer fields (schilk.co)
  • 236 378

    Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage? (lzon.ca)
  • 52 95

    Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general) (www.demandsphere.com)
  • 30 31

    How do you find an illegal image without looking at it? (mahmoud-salem.net)
  • 0 12

    Show HN: I built a weather site for the Eastern Caribbean
  • 12 60

    Show HN: Druids – Build your own software factory (github.com)
  • 53 167

    Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection (github.com)
  • 15 24

    Things I learned from Reddit fashion (acesounderglass.com)
  • 71 303

    Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer (charcuterie.elastiq.ch)
  • 268 246

    Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead (aywren.com)
  • 226 379

    Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers (colaptop.pages.dev)
  • 422 295

    Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers (www.gadgetreview.com)
  • 35 58

    OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape (www.theregister.com)
  • 295 614

    Native Instant Space Switching on macOS (arhan.sh)
  • 82 108

    Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again (korigamik.dev)
  • 39 53

    Tesla reportedly developing new smaller, cheaper EV after killing Model 2 (electrek.co)
  • 104 129

    The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture (aphyr.com)
  • 2 12

    Aggro Is the Foundation (2022) (radimentary.wordpress.com)
  • 34 220

    PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement (eaw.app)
  • 40 129

    Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries (hegel.dev)
  • 57 86

    What game engines know about data that databases forgot (nockawa.github.io)
  • 26 79

    Little Snitch comes to Linux, but the core logic is closed source (the.unknown-universe.co.uk)
  • 56 294

    Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft (www.unfolder.app)
  • 61 39

    Where does all the milk go? (www.dhanishsemar.com)
  • 243 207

    ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month (chatgpt.com)
  • 3 17

    I Let Claude Code Autonomously Run Ads for a Month (read.technically.dev)
  • 52 200

    Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes (blog.skypilot.co)
  • 18 17

    More likely than not you're using bubble wrap wrong (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
  • 1233 1382

    EFF is leaving X (www.eff.org)
  • 7 65

    EFF Logs Out of X (twitter.com)
  • 302 455

    The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy (www.thelettersfromleo.com)
  • 156 162

    Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++ (github.com)
  • 1 50

    Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 178 133

    Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI (www.nytimes.com)
  • 57 158

    Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered (iucn.org)
  • 109 269

    The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts (akshaychugh.xyz)
  • 48 40

    One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot (merylldindin.com)
  • 87 58

    Clean code in the age of coding agents (www.yanist.com)
  • 8 51

    Building a framework-agnostic Ruby gem (and making sure it doesn't break) (newsletter.masilotti.com)
  • 22 147

    A WebGPU implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent (github.com)
  • 57 191

    Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement (lichess.org)
  • 57 66

    Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything (perevillega.com)
  • 243 614

    Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation (www.axios.com)
  • 16 35

    Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America (www.theregister.com)
  • 20 86

    Small Engines (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
  • 222 252

    Am I German or Autistic? (german.millermanschool.com)
  • 61 294

    How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU (pizzalegacy.nl)
  • 175 145

    Session is shutting down in 90 days (getsession.org)
  • 69 146

    Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies (ssta.willhelps.org)
  • 188 326

    Top laptops to use with FreeBSD (freebsdfoundation.github.io)
  • 32 115

    Tree Calculus (treecalcul.us)
  • 23 46

    Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated (www.relvy.ai)
  • 97 161

    Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent (cssstudio.ai)
  • 58 37

    America Has Lost the Arab World (www.foreignaffairs.com)
  • 58 240

    Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming (www.patater.com)
  • 142 208

    Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy (www.bbc.com)
  • 25 109

    Show HN: Moon simulator game, ray-casting (mooncraft2000.com)
  • 225 340

    Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter (braw.dev)
  • 341 448

    Claude mixes up who said what (dwyer.co.za)
  • 379 562

    Help Keep Thunderbird Alive (updates.thunderbird.net)
  • 99 77

    C# in Unity 2026: Writing more modern code (darkounity.com)
  • 105 127

    Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019) (theasc.com)
  • 172 132

    Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
  • 19 58

    Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, Dropbox's immutable blob store (dropbox.tech)
  • 53 127

    Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010) (archive.org)
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  • 21 58

    Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents (botctl.dev)
  • 24 38

    Claude Managed Agents Overview (platform.claude.com)
  • 32 244

    Haunted Paper Toys (ravensblight.com)
  • 107 361

    Open source security at Astral (astral.sh)
  • 8 44

    Map Gesture Controls - Control maps with your hands (sanderdesnaijer.github.io)
  • 74 65

    App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off (9to5mac.com)
  • 19 64

    Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 301 bytes (github.com)
  • 201 309

    The Importance of Being Idle (theamericanscholar.org)
  • 7 16

    Building a JavaScript runtime in one month (themackabu.dev)
  • 1 27

    Little Snitch for Linux – Because Nothing Else Came Close (obdev.at)
  • 8 16

    I built a tool to let you export your X bookmarks and categorize them (x-archive.netlify.app)
  • 139 164

    Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets (www.theguardian.com)
  • 29 110

    Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence (www.perfectlynormal.co.uk)
  • 53 224

    Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service (www.hatchmag.com)
  • 446 1340

    LittleSnitch for Linux (obdev.at)
  • 87 102

    What does it mean to “write like you talk”? (arjunpanickssery.substack.com)
  • 65 67

    Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December (thehill.com)