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  • 0 4

    My Mathematical Regression (blog.dahl.dev)
  • 2 4

    Bain tests software takeover targets by vibecoding AI replicas (www.ft.com)
  • 5 27

    Steam Machine Launches Today (store.steampowered.com)
  • 2 7

    Five Eyes warns AI models capable of toppling governments are months away (www.theguardian.com)
  • 3 24

    Steam Machine 512GB (store.steampowered.com)
  • 2 9

    Steam Machine Game Testing (www.lttlabs.com)
  • 0 14

    Mexico Just Showed Off a New Cheap, Government-Backed EV (gizmodo.com)
  • 0 16

    Show HN: Selector Forge – browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors (github.com)
  • 1 14

    Tata Electronics cyber breach claiming to expose Apple, Tesla trade secrets (www.yahoo.com)
  • 38 73

    Steam Machine (store.steampowered.com)
  • 0 6

    The Optimal Amount of Slop Is Non-Zero (www.slater.dev)
  • 2 14

    Blogger Defeats Photographer's Copyright Claim-Sokolskyfilm vs. Messiah (blog.ericgoldman.org)
  • 2 19

    DisplayMate (www.displaymate.com)
  • 5 34

    A Theory of Why Prompt Injection Works (role-confusion.github.io)
  • Charge Robotics (YC S21) Is Hiring Software and Hardware Engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 20 60

    National Science Foundation slashes basic science to fund new tech initiative (www.science.org)
  • 5 35

    UUID: NewV7() always generates a UUID with 7000 on browsers (Golang) (github.com)
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    Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend (github.com)
  • 7 34

    Nintendo Wii U games running from a 1980's Bernoulli disk [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 43 29

    Show HN: Oak – Git replacement designed for agents (oak.space)
  • 10 26

    Rive, Fast and reliable background jobs in Go (github.com)
  • 32 80

    DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships (www.wsj.com)
  • 10 22

    I built Ponytrail, a local audit trail for AI coding-agent edits (github.com)
  • 132 185

    The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output (patrickmccanna.net)
  • 58 66

    Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center (www.chevron.com)
  • 25 110

    Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance (hustvl.github.io)
  • 4 34

    Granularity comes at a cost – Game Theory (www.sidhantbansal.com)
  • 8 43

    Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter (2020) (www.righto.com)
  • 332 634

    Never Give Them Your Face (nevergivethemyourface.com)
  • 42 73

    Nvidia Halos (www.nvidia.com)
  • 62 67

    Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site (puzzlelair.com)
  • 163 524

    Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation (mitchellh.com)
  • 4 32

    Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara on Her 100th "Little People, Big Dreams" Book (www.amightygirl.com)
  • 41 29

    WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History (medium.com)
  • 114 121

    Alan Greenspan Dies at 100; Led Fed During Boom Before 2008 Bust (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 78 64

    window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world (steveharrison.dev)
  • 82 165

    Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers (www.davidrevoy.com)
  • 65 77

    Becoming a dad changes men's brains (www.scientificamerican.com)
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  • 3 31

    Manticore Search 27.1.5: Auth, sharding, conversational and faster vector search (manticoresearch.com)
  • 110 44

    Britain's prime minister to step down, Burnham puts himself forward as successor (www.reuters.com)
  • 9 17

    UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025) (clisystems.com)
  • 16 29

    LLMs do not merely reflect the bias of their training, they police it (2025) (twitter.com)
  • 18 39

    Writing Postcards with a 3D Printer (severinbucher.com)
  • 8 6

    Use AI for reviewing code especially when the diff is huge (simianwords.bearblog.dev)
  • 3 17

    Luis Alvarez's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 66 86

    Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time (www.fca.org.uk)
  • 42 86

    My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992 (blog.plover.com)
  • 80 180

    Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom (people.idsia.ch)
  • 265 381

    GLM 5.2 vs. Opus (techstackups.com)
  • 192 349

    Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs (github.com)
  • 16 105

    Lisp in the Rust Type System (github.com)
  • 329 855

    Deno Desktop (docs.deno.com)
  • 6 18

    Shape Suffixes – Good Coding Style (medium.com)
  • 7 6

    How the dark, violent medieval origins of Robin Hood were erased (www.bbc.com)
  • 335 381

    Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police (twitter.com)
  • 16 63

    Chinas War on Female Delusion (mamathemagazine.com)
  • 31 94

    Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs: Chapter 4/part 2 (6it.dev)
  • 8 50

    Canadian government spent $46.8M on a secret Palantir contract (theijf.org)
  • 27 33

    The Flat Curve Society (steve-yegge.medium.com)
  • 98 427

    Help I accidentally a wigglegram (lmao.center)
  • 109 198

    Sakana Fugu (sakana.ai)
  • 21 55

    You're probably using Agent Skills wrong (notes.ansonbiggs.com)
  • 39 165

    Memory Safe Inline Assembly (fil-c.org)
  • 25 74

    1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone (www.oldtelephoneroom.ca)
  • 6 32

    Architecting a Conversion Engine in Swift (blog.minimal.app)
  • 144 137

    The Doom Justifies the Valuation (geohot.github.io)
  • 8 39

    My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992 (blog.plover.com)
  • 42 197

    Good results fine tuning a local LLM like Qwen 3:0.6B to categorize questions (www.teachmecoolstuff.com)
  • 70 75

    Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models (mcipetition.com)
  • 38 34

    Claude: Elevated Error Rates for Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6 (status.claude.com)
  • 0 20

    New Super Pac Aims to Rally Tech Workers to Help Limit A.I (www.nytimes.com)
  • 7 16

    Show HN: StartupsBR – A map of Brazilian startups (www.startupsbr.com)
  • 10 15

    Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript? (brainfrog.lol)
  • 51 163

    Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf (the-criterion-closet.vercel.app)
  • 21 42

    Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs (minipcs.zip)
  • 0 11

    Show HN: HN Game Stories – mini-documentary of games that hit the front page (video.intellios.ai)
  • 1 5

    Norway Bans AI for Kids 6-13 in Schools (yipzap.com)
  • 20 154

    How I play video games with spinal muscular atrophy (www.openassistivetech.org)
  • 44 40

    The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (www.nytimes.com)
  • 225 142

    Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way (underreacted.leaflet.pub)
  • 288 351

    There is minimal downside to switching to open models (www.marble.onl)
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  • 96 188

    Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2 (www.minecraft.net)
  • 355 771

    Did my old job only exist because of fraud? (david.newgas.net)
  • 470 114

    Rent collections are down in New York (www.politico.com)
  • 158 243

    HPV vaccine cuts risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 (www.theguardian.com)
  • 46 157

    PowerFox Browser (powerfox.jazzzny.me)
  • 1 9

    Show HN: DebugBrief – turn debugging sessions into reports, no AI (github.com)
  • 127 224

    FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama (arstechnica.com)
  • 6 6

    Ask HN: Is the hard part of adult friendship the second hangout?
  • 168 499

    Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI (apertvs.ai)
  • 65 290

    Everything is logarithms (alexkritchevsky.com)
  • 37 36

    The anatomy of an AI-native org (ajeygore.in)
  • 77 124

    Show HN: Recall – Local project memory for Claude Code (github.com)
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  • 88 182

    Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022) (www.mooreds.com)
  • 8 29

    Djevops: Self-Host Django Easily (github.com)
  • 1 10

    The AI Conundrum: We are living in highly subsidized, interesting times
  • 6 37

    Cocktail Optimization, an Integer Programming Problem (bunkum.us)
  • 57 39

    Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects (clevercrow.io)
  • 1 5

    Selah // Your inbox is the Bible app (selah.to)
  • 84 262

    JSON-LD explained for personal websites (hawksley.dev)
  • 1 10

    Ocient Database Sandbox (ociforge.com)
  • 136 196

    Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch (github.com)
  • 51 81

    An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy (github.com)
  • 65 121

    Burnout is real for open source maintainers (openjsf.org)
  • 14 38

    Show HN: Pulse – Dashboard for Claude Code, approve tool calls from your phone (github.com)
  • 67 69

    Health insurance claim denial rates range from 13% to 35% by insurer (www.randalolson.com)
  • 72 198

    The minimum viable unit of saleable software (brandur.org)
  • 55 322

    Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day
  • Wildcard (YC W25) is hiring an applied ML engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 7 49

    Occupancy Math on the AMD MI355X: A From-First-Principles Guide (indianspeedster.github.io)
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    The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends (hbr.org)
  • 329 518

    Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016) (sandimetz.com)
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  • 28 41

    System call instrumentation on Linux/x86‑64 using memory‑indirect calls, part I (www.humprog.org)
  • 61 189

    (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010) (norvig.com)
  • 146 154

    Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use (cleantechnica.com)
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  • 21 25

    Smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism (worksinprogress.co)
  • 131 124

    The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone (www.wired.me)
  • 53 88

    I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner (twitter.com)
  • 149 167

    Who owns your ATProto identity? (kevinak.se)
  • 19 28

    AI Under Trump's Control: Can France Still Avoid Digital Dependence? (thenewassociationwebmasters.blogspot.com)
  • 7 11

    The Great Intermediary Panic (www.minid.net)
  • 1 20

    Artificial (www.inkandswitch.com)
  • 31 40

    David Ahl's Basic Computer Games Ported to C (github.com)
  • 45 91

    Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math (www.devashish.me)
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  • 694 835

    Identity verification on Claude (support.claude.com)
  • 13 22

    Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs Drive America's Unicorn Boom (news.crunchbase.com)
  • 299 491

    Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS) (www.beyondallreason.info)
  • 10 45

    100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time (birdhistory.substack.com)
  • 132 132

    The case against geometric algebra (2024) (alexkritchevsky.com)
  • 4 16

    Cosmodial Sky Atlas (frankforce.com)
  • 19 44

    Rare medieval bookmark exceeds expectations at auction (www.thehistoryblog.com)
  • 97 103

    NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours" (www.economist.com)
  • 72 74

    CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt (shiftmag.dev)
  • 33 66

    A tale of two path separators (alexwlchan.net)
  • 110 141

    Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file (movq.de)
  • 5 18

    Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87 (www.nytimes.com)
  • 438 415

    Google Hits 50% IPv6 (blog.apnic.net)
  • 14 156

    A 3D voxel game engine written in APL (github.com)
  • 44 225

    Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way (taoofmac.com)
  • 88 98

    Don’t use AI to write things that you present as your own work (www.satisfice.com)
  • 96 117

    Excessive nil pointer checks in Go (konradreiche.com)
  • 1 37

    The Lost Story of Alan Turing's "Delilah" Project (2025) (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 106 190

    The 100k whys of AI (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 61 117

    Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 48 194

    Building reliable agentic AI systems (martinfowler.com)
  • 22 128

    Zigzag Decoding with AVX-512 (zeux.io)
  • 3 48

    Armstrong Effect (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 324 437

    The brain was not designed for this much bad news (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 6 61

    Guide to the TD4 4-bit DIY CPU (www.philipzucker.com)
  • 260 382

    Developers don't understand CORS (2019) (fosterelli.co)
  • 1 10

    Moving Beyond Fork() + Exec() (lwn.net)
  • 165 225

    When I reject AI code even if it works (vinibrasil.com)
  • 129 124

    White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report (www.reuters.com)
  • 94 82

    'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots (www.bbc.com)
  • 162 246

    15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test (www.bostonglobe.com)
  • 24 72

    Project Fetch: Phase Two (www.anthropic.com)
  • 6 12

    Show HN: Submarius – Global water clarity for divers (submarius.com)