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  • 9 18

    Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2B (www.theverge.com)
  • 2 7

    Gardeners often hear about supposed hacks and quick fix. Here are some debunked (apnews.com)
  • 3 7

    Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014) (fsgworkinprogress.com)
  • 139 88

    To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks (musings.martyn.berlin)
  • 10 17

    Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
  • 18 17

    Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear (voyagecoat.com)
  • 5 26

    It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (fermatslibrary.com)
  • 1 27

    A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits (sigbovik.org)
  • 82 63

    AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers (jackmaguire.org)
  • 0 8

    Probabilistic, Reformative Justice (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 6 24

    Testing the WWI concrete ships and WWII concrete barges (thecretefleet.com)
  • 24 121

    Voxel Space (s-macke.github.io)
  • 62 36

    Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering (phroneses.com)
  • 26 76

    Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain (news.northwestern.edu)
  • 363 360

    Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup (qazinform.com)
  • 20 93

    Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine (myzopotamia.dev)
  • 15 76

    Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9 (github.com)
  • 80 188

    Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team (github.com)
  • 10 48

    Adding Linux support back for the BASIC (free) version of Vivado (adaptivesupport.amd.com)
  • 39 93

    IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses (www.engadget.com)
  • 110 116

    Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets (www.wsj.com)
  • 22 78

    Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain (helios.southlondonscientific.com)
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  • 215 281

    Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time (arstechnica.com)
  • 125 114

    Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism (www.economist.com)
  • 31 130

    What Happened to the Locusts? (explosion-scratch.github.io)
  • 41 276

    Pandoc Templates (pandoc-templates.org)
  • 14 36

    Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU (asawicki.info)
  • 64 68

    The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History (www.deadcarl.com)
  • 161 259

    Zig: Build System Reworked (ziglang.org)
  • 3 38

    Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate (www.science.org)
  • 4 23

    Quantum dot qubit using High NA EUV lithography (www.imec-int.com)
  • 54 79

    Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits (mastodon.gamedev.place)
  • 319 425

    Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation (www.reuters.com)
  • 1 12

    Ho-scale slot car racing in the Santa Cruz Mountains (stewartraceway.org)
  • 22 29

    OpenRCT2 v0.5.1 "Swamp Castle" released Last version to support Windows 7 (openrct2.io)
  • 70 82

    Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us (overreacted.io)
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  • 5 52

    A new register allocator for ZJIT (railsatscale.com)
  • 0 17

    Records Show UC Sharing Data with US Customs and Border Protection (www.dailycal.org)
  • 18 82

    What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 4 13

    Show HN: VT Code – open-source terminal coding agent in Rust (github.com)
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  • 7 60

    Math-to-Manim (github.com)
  • 87 116

    Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM (www.perryts.com)
  • 1 8

    Let Equals Equal Equals (bennypowers.dev)
  • 107 148

    Naphtha shortages in Japan (www.nippon.com)
  • 171 173

    WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 3 4

    Switch between three keyboard languages (mnaoumov.dev)
  • 20 73

    Ember.js 7.0 (blog.emberjs.com)
  • 3 11

    What Did the Hudson River School Painters See? (www.nytimes.com)
  • 181 456

    What Is a Dickover? (daringfireball.net)
  • 99 260

    Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled (blog.chrislewis.au)
  • 6 8

    Show HN: Free activity calendar for schools, sports clubs, and organizations (freecal.eu)
  • 329 340

    MCP is dead? (www.quandri.io)
  • 9 39

    Finding Miscompiles for Fun, Not Profit (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
  • 198 369

    You can just say it (noperator.dev)
  • 27 46

    Free full BGP feed. IPv4 and IPv6 (2020) (lukasz.bromirski.net)
  • 23 100

    Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption) (github.com)
  • 179 190

    The Last Technical Interview (steve-yegge.medium.com)
  • 122 107

    EV Stupidity Checklist (hypercritical.co)
  • 57 205

    Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer (blog.prusa3d.com)
  • 16 34

    A Trillion Characters (characters.fastserial.com)
  • 1 13

    Notable Properties of Specific Numbers (www.mrob.com)
  • 15 30

    Why I collect DLES (dles.gg)
  • 36 65

    Canada in Technical Recession (www.cbc.ca)
  • 89 253

    Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump (www.theregister.com)
  • 250 243

    The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act' (www.invenglobal.com)
  • 16 176

    Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA (github.com)
  • 235 170

    Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots (www.theverge.com)
  • 1 9

    CVE-Bench: testing LLM agents on real-world vulnerability patches (giovannigatti.github.io)
  • 63 192

    On Rendering Diffs (pierre.computer)
  • 43 37

    AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 14 144

    Rothko for your current weather conditions (rothko.joonas.wtf)
  • 18 68

    Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809) (wellsoc.org)
  • 87 227

    Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T (www.liquid.ai)
  • 4 17

    Bill C-22 Is a Mess of the Government's Own Making (ethanplant.ca)
  • 336 630

    SQLite is all you need for durable workflows (obeli.sk)
  • 48 166

    Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV (tvexplorer.live)
  • 176 104

    Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks (techcrunch.com)
  • 4 32

    ATLAS: Autoformalized Textbook Library At Scale (github.com)
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  • 2 17

    The Science of Weather and the Nature of Science (www.the-hinternet.com)
  • 182 428

    Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit (koenvangilst.nl)
  • 3 28

    The Framework 12 is dead. Apple killed it [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 63 79

    CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents (research.roundtable.ai)
  • 53 105

    Someone used my open source project to phish people (andrej.sh)
  • 16 47

    Step 3.7 Flash (static.stepfun.com)
  • 1300 1179

    The dead economy theory (www.owenmcgrann.com)
  • 67 46

    Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say (www.frontiersin.org)
  • 492 705

    GTA 6 Developers Unionize (rockstarintel.com)
  • 156 255

    Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance' (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 10 37

    The Secret Garden of Rock-Paper-Scissors (theshamblog.com)
  • 7 18

    OpenAI Announces Rosalind Biodefense (openai.com)
  • 572 360

    It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 82 251

    Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding (www.inkandswitch.com)
  • 26 40

    Do U.S. Presidents Always Make This Much Money? [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 77 59

    It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop (unix.foo)
  • 557 810

    I am retiring from tech to live offline (openpath.quest)
  • 104 119

    Expertise in the age of AI (www.moderndescartes.com)
  • 17 36

    Show HN: Context-aware Japanese furigana using Sudachi and ModernBERT (www.ezfurigana.com)
  • 37 117

    Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care (www.404media.co)
  • 106 93

    Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
  • 2 27

    Blue Origin rocket explodes on launchpad in a setback (www.reuters.com)
  • 386 755

    Please Use AI (shawnsmucker.substack.com)
  • 60 72

    Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells (github.com)
  • 9 33

    Even (very) noisy LLM evaluators are useful for improving AI agents (www.tensorzero.com)
  • 74 185

    High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building (commonedge.org)
  • 18 59

    Wterm – A terminal emulator for the web (wterm.dev)
  • 73 84

    Local Git remotes (cblgh.org)
  • 2 19

    Poisonous invasion: What is the 'devil's trumpet' harming crops in Iraq? (www.aljazeera.com)
  • 2 10

    We should be more tired than the model (newsletter.vickiboykis.com)
  • 72 59

    Prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike (www.theverge.com)
  • 7 52

    Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize 70% of Gaza Strip, violating ceasefire (www.theguardian.com)
  • 95 138

    The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time (shkspr.mobi)
  • 19 65

    An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter (www.core77.com)
  • 142 181

    We should be more tired than the model (vickiboykis.com)
  • 123 142

    Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025) (dutchreview.com)
  • 46 64

    Digital identity management in Norway is a success but also a disaster (www.uio.no)
  • Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 322 393

    Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade? (mastrojs.github.io)
  • 2 5

    Show HN: Compile-time model-id validation with declared capability (github.com)
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  • 97 91

    Is this sustainable? (jamiehurst.co.uk)
  • 2 20

    Barthelme, the Houstonian (www.theparisreview.org)
  • 94 208

    Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request (blog.kog.ai)
  • 55 140

    Orchestrating AI code review at scale (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 5 27

    Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins for AMD Zen 5 on PostgreSQL, Valkey (www.phoronix.com)
  • 38 102

    HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager (github.com)
  • 71 213

    Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)
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  • 4 14

    US Military personnel are being targeted using location data (www.reuters.com)
  • 2 14

    Franklin Pierce by David W. Blight (inpursuit.substack.com)
  • 187 380

    Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion (github.com)
  • 1 58

    Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output (arstechnica.com)
  • 77 89

    Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness (www.zot.sh)
  • 26 30

    Avoid Using "< [Cdata[ ]]>" in RSS (waspdev.com)
  • 32 31

    The and Wonderful Evolution of the Waterproof Jacket (www.carryology.com)
  • 64 324

    Claude Code – Everything you can configure that the docs don't tell you (buildingbetter.tech)
  • 54 107

    Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching (www.mpi.nl)
  • 2 18

    Python utility package for building Claude Code hooks (github.com)
  • 8 209

    Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test (arstechnica.com)
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  • 285 492

    Cars collect a startling amount of data about you (www.bbc.com)
  • 14 67

    Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 7 17

    The Pack That Killed the Pack Mule (www.carryology.com)
  • 537 488

    Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test (twitter.com)
  • 1 7

    Washington Diary (worksinprogress.co)
  • 76 67

    Why Gentoo? (blogs.gentoo.org)
  • 141 102

    Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding? (www.construction-physics.com)
  • 16 10

    Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end (www.inkl.com)
  • 4 41

    More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, More (www.eff.org)
  • 108 136

    The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin (minimaxir.com)
  • 7 12

    The Silent Critic (www.tft.io)
  • 4 26

    Some Like It Literary (www.nytimes.com)