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  • 0 3

    Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals (www.rise-reforming.com)
  • 3 13

    Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted (github.com)
  • 0 7

    Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages (gpuopen.com)
  • 1 13

    Why Lattice Semiconductor buying a x86_64 BIOS company shows engineer disrespect
  • 1 15

    How real are real numbers? (2004) (arxiv.org)
  • 0 8

    Tokio Gives Progress, Not Ordering: Scheduling 1M Tasks (pranitha.dev)
  • 1 14

    Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  • 2 38

    Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions (gregoryszorc.com)
  • 1 28

    The Artist Who Colored Ghibli (animationobsessive.substack.com)
  • 14 81

    Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped (www.techdirt.com)
  • 5 71

    Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap (theconsensus.dev)
  • 63 59

    Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine? (bigthink.com)
  • 10 20

    If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken (klarasystems.com)
  • 2 10

    Google's own system admits the back end never deletes – video proof included (discuss.ai.google.dev)
  • 20 43

    Jensen Huang's first post on Twitter is in defense of open access to AI models (www.pcgamer.com)
  • 160 208

    Canceling "Hey" (chadnauseam.com)
  • 93 179

    MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH (microsoft.ai)
  • 6 20

    Show HN: Running PrismML's Bonsai inside DRAM by breaking DDR4 timing rules
  • 2 11

    I buy Belgian (www.ikkoopbelgisch.be)
  • 13 48

    Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library (usefeyn.com)
  • 146 217

    Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website (www.sgieurope.com)
  • 0 15

    Show HN: Infrawrench – A tool to manage cloud and svcs with workflows and chat (infrawrench.com)
  • 14 71

    Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles (eaton-works.com)
  • UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper (up.codes)
  • 64 72

    Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 14 107

    Paged Out #9 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)
  • 1 18

    Beckett the Prophet (theamericanscholar.org)
  • 9 17

    108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering (brittany-ellich.offprint.app)
  • 70 37

    All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time (unslop.run)
  • 14 36

    DIY Home Solar System for under $5000 (2025) (www.gavinmai.com)
  • 141 340

    Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf] (github.com)
  • 45 102

    Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol (cen.acs.org)
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  • 67 64

    Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition (videocardz.com)
  • 262 222

    Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts (www.macrumors.com)
  • 128 238

    AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying (www.ft.com)
  • 53 118

    The computer that helped win World War II (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 82 75

    We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles (www.rtings.com)
  • 179 196

    Should you wash your solar panels? (incoherency.co.uk)
  • 32 62

    First Robotic Satellite Servicer Launched (www.nrl.navy.mil)
  • 1 12

    3D-printed F-14 Tomcat uses FPGA recreation of the first microprocessor (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 4 26

    The Proof Machine (2016) (incredible.pm)
  • 77 97

    Worse on Purpose (ledger.worseonpurpose.com)
  • 16 12

    Tanker hits mine in the Strait of Hormuz as Iran intercepts six vessels (nypost.com)
  • 440 691

    AI companies are shredding rare books (twitter.com)
  • 27 52

    Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 45 70

    Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
  • 62 89

    Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5 (status.claude.com)
  • 5 20

    Show HN: Watch 14-Byte AI "brains" attempt to solve a 2D maze (Its hard) (con-dog.github.io)
  • 127 186

    Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023) (misago-project.org)
  • 292 383

    How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going? (lockwood.dev)
  • 93 48

    If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level (smoothbrains.net)
  • 34 81

    Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ from Scratch (blog.jaysmito.dev)
  • 46 159

    Why I Left Google DeepMind (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 17 64

    Shay Locomotives (www.shaylocomotives.com)
  • 41 64

    The Birth of the American 12-string Guitar (2013) (www.harpguitars.net)
  • 24 48

    Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5 (status.claude.com)
  • 36 125

    VLC for Unity now supported on Linux (code.videolan.org)
  • 66 144

    Modern email can be built from borrowed parts (en.andros.dev)
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  • 16 141

    Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines (github.com)
  • 5 16

    Boox Go 10.3 (gen II) Lumi: First impressions (manualdousuario.net)
  • 167 186

    Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470% (www.bbc.com)
  • 94 253

    Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025) (mymodernmet.com)
  • 74 26

    The old-school way of keeping the summer heat out of your home (monocle.com)
  • 5 71

    How Unix spell ran in 64 kB of RAM (2025) (blog.codingconfessions.com)
  • 1 33

    8086 Emulator Inside Scratch (turbowarp.org)
  • 33 43

    Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4 (getdx.com)
  • 467 1193

    Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace (huggingface.co)
  • 124 91

    EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services (www.wsj.com)
  • 2 20

    The Zen of Parallel Programming: The Posture of a Kernel (smolnero.com)
  • 64 48

    Why care about programming languages (ebellani.github.io)
  • 21 97

    Jacobian Conjecture for Baby (muchmirul.github.io)
  • 3 4

    Mirror-Mirror: Mirror your PC screen to your phone over your local network (github.com)
  • 151 260

    Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary (github.com)
  • 7 18

    How the Atmos clock functions (atmos-atelier.de)
  • 172 459

    Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room (blackhole.plav.in)
  • 12 15

    Show HN: Port Zero – how I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0 (portzero.net)
  • 78 36

    I Championed Prediction Markets. Look What They've Become (newsletter.platypuseconomics.com)
  • 84 867

    PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works (nikolays.github.io)
  • 12 98

    Fonts In Use – Find out where a font is used (fontsinuse.com)
  • 955 1224

    US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search (www.techspot.com)
  • 3 34

    History of John Backus's functional programming project (draft) (softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org)
  • 2 6

    Wattage: A token-spend profiler and cost-regression gate for AI agents (github.com)
  • 150 163

    I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated (arstechnica.com)
  • 2 12

    Visualizing the Artemis II Mission (foxglove.dev)
  • 21 43

    Show HN: Distill and serve models with frontier quality for half the cost (github.com)
  • 0 18

    Productivity Paradox (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 8 111

    The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf] (faculty.lsu.edu)
  • 21 19

    Cursor Bridge – Run Unlimited Claude Code on Your Cursor Subscription (github.com)
  • 10 46

    Japan legend Miura, 59, scores first goal since 2022 (www.bbc.com)
  • 6 12

    Show HN: Discrete6502 – one thing led to another (epatel.github.io)
  • 5 10

    We're Thinking About Darkness All Wrong (www.harvardmagazine.com)
  • 5 15

    Private mission launches to extend life of out-of-gas communication satellites (phys.org)
  • 52 100

    Teaching Kids Forth (gracefulliberty.com)
  • 101 220

    We have proof automation now (www.imperialviolet.org)
  • 3 22

    Multiway Turing Machines (2021 pre-ai) (bulletins.wolframphysics.org)
  • 12 27

    Classic WTF: Server Room Fans and More Fun (thedailywtf.com)
  • 75 165

    Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg (github.com)
  • 39 64

    Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 15 91

    How AST-grep Rewrote Tree-sitter in Rust and Made It 30% Faster (astgrep.com)
  • 21 26

    Show HN: Infinite Jigsaw Game (infinitejigsaw.com)
  • 11 17

    Thoughts on Integers (2023) (blog.xoria.org)
  • 30 112

    What does GitHub's security team even do? (orchidfiles.com)
  • 140 216

    It's not empowering to hand off the details (davidnicholaswilliams.com)
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  • 22 22

    Kimi K3 is not cheap (www.alexinch.com)
  • 5 36

    Building the Grace Cathedral experience (blog.playcanvas.com)
  • 20 18

    Show HN: HART OS – an open-source AI OS built so frontier AI needs no datacenter (github.com)
  • 50 127

    Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone (grego.site)
  • 69 237

    Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf] (www.gamedevs.org)
  • 4 19

    Show HN: The Occult Gatsby (occultgatsby.work)
  • 99 372

    Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS (beyondloom.com)
  • 7 17

    Google Cache used to have a copy of this page at (www.hornet.org)
  • 144 119

    How to Block Some of the Bots (nochan.net)
  • 319 277

    The Strongest El Niño Ever (www.theclimatebrink.com)
  • 19 52

    Lidl Introduces the European Payment Method Wero in Germany (unternehmen.lidl.de)
  • 2 20

    Sum of Cubes via Difference Tables (leancrew.com)
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  • 350 434

    French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time (www.france24.com)
  • 10 14

    Calling all open source maintainers working with Ruby (www.rubyforum.org)
  • 66 129

    How to write English prose (2023) (thelampmagazine.com)
  • 7 46

    Scientists link oral bacteria to heart disease and cognitive decline (www.wsj.com)
  • 15 66

    Using sed to make indexes for books (1997) (www.pement.org)
  • 81 32

    What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now (www.agrillo.it)
  • 56 52

    Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight (www.bbc.com)
  • 171 54

    This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company) (andys.blog)
  • 61 123

    Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means (www.popsci.com)
  • 58 147

    Terence Tao: Mathematics in the Age of AI [pdf] (teorth.github.io)
  • 34 135

    Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs (github.com)
  • 89 275

    Design is compromise (stephango.com)
  • 3 25

    Make an Origami Circuit Board (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 11 18

    Show HN: Managing on-premise servers without Kubernetes (github.com)
  • 132 203

    The relay market powering token resellers and fraud (vectoral.com)
  • 2 7

    Capra, Cribl's Design System (cribl.io)
  • 182 492

    Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy (swag.htmx.org)
  • 560 1109

    Kill The Cookie Banner (killthecookiebanner.eu)
  • 78 209

    The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough (www.rickmanelius.com)
  • 86 246

    Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper (sunflowersgame.com)
  • 258 287

    London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service (aerospaceglobalnews.com)
  • 8 7

    Hallmark – Anti-AI-Slop Design Skill for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex (github.com)
  • 3 8

    The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught (techcrunch.com)
  • 53 199

    What's Under Your Feet in New York City? (practical.engineering)
  • 14 34

    Ask HN: What are the most promising RL fields for a new master student?
  • 51 224

    I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music (pentaton.app)
  • 89 216

    Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team (pkg.go.dev)
  • 313 337

    Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake (www.wsj.com)
  • 1 14

    Claude Code Deletes Your Context History from Your Device After 30 Days (code.claude.com)
  • 301 230

    Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory (english.mapn.ro)
  • 37 60

    I wouldn't say Pangram is broken, but I would say that it's brittle (freddiedeboer.substack.com)
  • 10 17

    An OpenAI model left notes about how to evade containment; we need more details (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 89 65

    Systemd Linger (etbe.coker.com.au)
  • 53 48

    German Peasants' War (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 84 94

    Elevated Errors for Opus 5 (status.claude.com)
  • 8 29

    Pip install Postgres – no Docker/Brew/apt (github.com)
  • 60 62

    No Stack Overflow, No Autocomplete: What Coding Felt Like in the 80s (comuniq.xyz)
  • 229 347

    Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59 (astral.sh)
  • 8 35

    Overloaded Overloading (powerfulpython.com)
  • 18 89

    DskDitto: Ultra-fast, parallel duplicate-file detector (github.com)
  • 250 431

    GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices (discuss.grapheneos.org)
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  • 113 168

    Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
  • 2 9

    Librrd Playground (systemf.epfl.ch)
  • 4 27

    W4ME Station – a WASM-4 runtime for Java ME phones (github.com)
  • 0 9

    Retry Storm Lab (github.com)
  • 7 18

    Negative Resistance (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 40 125

    Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history (tangled.org)
  • 175 396

    A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway (refp.se)
  • 1 17

    Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding (danluu.com)
  • 9 32

    Agatha Christie's Disappearance: Amnesia, Suicide, or Despair? (www.historicmysteries.com)
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  • 67 177

    Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home (www.seti.org)
  • 133 82

    Humans haven't stopped evolving (www.harvardmagazine.com)
  • 0 6

    Show HN: ZWPlayer – Free player with interactive annotations and subtitle search (www.zwplayer.com)
  • 11 21

    Show HN: What 180k words look like as a temporal knowledge graph (Oz series) (synaptale.com)
  • 3 15

    What if they are all wrong? (2020) (igorpak.wordpress.com)
  • 252 254

    JetZero (www.jetzero.aero)
  • 54 265

    An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk (blog.ktz.me)
  • 163 215

    Show HN: I mapped every US golf course (golfcoursebrowser.com)
  • 93 151

    Rethinking legal education in the AI era (www.law.uchicago.edu)
  • 145 117

    Git rebase -i is not that scary (cachebag.sh)
  • 27 208

    Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters (huggingface.co)
  • 11 35

    Possible invasive species superspreader event near Strait of Hormuz (abcnews.com)
  • 16 81

    Systems and Delays (martin.janiczek.cz)
  • 4 18

    Star Axis (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 10 39

    GNU Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more (www.osnews.com)
  • 153 193

    Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 198 249

    DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf] (github.com)
  • 21 50

    Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab (www.maxmynter.com)