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  • 2 20

    Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (blog.elis.cc)
  • 0 8

    Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II (www.colino.net)
  • 4 9

    LinkedIn Has Accidentally Become a Dating Site (www.wsj.com)
  • 2 5

    We gave nine LLMs the same PDF. Two answered without reading it (theaijudge.com)
  • 1 7

    Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG (arxiv.org)
  • 39 28

    Phoenix tried a reflective coating on black asphalt; noon surface heat fell 12°F (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
  • 4 15

    The Remote Work Challenge: Lessons from 5 Cities (www.pew.org)
  • 3 5

    Claude reaching limits quickly then ever
  • 15 15

    Erik Brynjolfsson says an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely (wpintelligence.washingtonpost.com)
  • 0 11

    From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8 (pikuma.com)
  • 22 58

    My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 3 14

    AI and Infrastructure Engineering (omegion.dev)
  • 2 16

    Predicting AI model release dates with stats (releaseoracle.xyz)
  • 1 7

    Yuval Noah Harari on the economic and political perils of AI (www.economist.com)
  • 5 11

    I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI (en.andros.dev)
  • 0 4

    Powerful extensions do not need powerful code (adayinthelifeof.nl)
  • 11 9

    Say It Four Times (In Your System Prompt) (www.khola.blog)
  • 38 54

    The Vibe Tax (insufferable.dev)
  • 42 71

    'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics' (www.npr.org)
  • 2 14

    Etched Sohu vs. Nvidia: Transformer ASIC vs. GPU (2026) (www.spheron.network)
  • 58 71

    Fable and the End of the Free Lunch (www.dbreunig.com)
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    How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)
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  • 51 56

    Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive (www.ft.com)
  • 27 79

    Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? (slate.com)
  • 21 38

    Explain it to me like I'm ten (timharford.com)
  • 56 45

    Dutch regulator fines Uber $966M for automating driver suspensions (www.theguardian.com)
  • 0 10

    My Obituary for Dr Tim King, Tripos, AmigaOS, Helios and UK Online Pioneer (www.theregister.com)
  • 3 14

    I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines and ported it to Windows (tarjan.itch.io)
  • 90 56

    We must not grant AI agents legal personhood (www.ft.com)
  • 27 22

    Vit D assoc w better cognition in those w sleep disturb + mild cognitive impair (www.sciencedirect.com)
  • 73 199

    A website for debloated open source alternatives (debloat.dev)
  • 24 30

    Being nude in public can make us feel better about our bodies (www.bbc.com)
  • 60 97

    Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling (punyamishra.com)
  • 106 232

    GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost (reinvently.co.uk)
  • 105 118

    Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests (studyfinds.com)
  • 1 5

    So, You Found a Foden Steam Lorry in a Field. What Next? (hackaday.com)
  • 15 20

    Hacker News in Uncompromised Detail (vale.rocks)
  • 241 556

    I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day (ericpardee.github.io)
  • 11 19

    Blueprint for how to be self sufficient in a 1/4 acre backyard (www.reddit.com)
  • 50 180

    How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (how.complexsystems.fail)
  • 26 22

    Universal Housing (twitter.com)
  • 7 48

    Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi (hackaday.com)
  • 111 208

    What Is a Harness? (earendil.com)
  • 16 26

    Authoritarianism of Code (2020) (zedshaw.com)
  • 124 317

    Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras (risky.biz)
  • 72 73

    Things I want in a modern relational query language (sporks.space)
  • 3 31

    Rust 1.98 got a P-critical miscompilation (github.com)
  • 40 48

    Death to px, long live ch (shkspr.mobi)
  • 58 166

    My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)
  • 1 23

    Andrew Ng: "AI Engineering Skills Map: Building and Deploying AI Applications" (twitter.com)
  • 16 36

    Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products (doi.org)
  • 89 190

    Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware (securelist.com)
  • 53 74

    Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days (www.telegraph.co.uk)
  • 69 102

    Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium (www.bbc.com)
  • 129 290

    I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (www.xda-developers.com)
  • 46 44

    'AI refuser' quit her dream job, and hopes others follow (www.smh.com.au)
  • 34 58

    Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive (skylens.yantraai.app)
  • 17 38

    Canada now 'at war' with United States over trade, Prime Minister says (www.theglobeandmail.com)
  • 19 20

    Doomscrolling at work wastes time, but the real cost is what happens after (stories.tamu.edu)
  • 67 78

    The Sloppification of Peptides (henryaj.substack.com)
  • 58 81

    Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf] (2004) (olli.unt.edu)
  • 112 107

    Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical (erikengdahl.se)
  • 73 101

    Fast and Hard Code (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • 95 150

    JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)
  • 202 263

    Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed (www.xda-developers.com)
  • 9 15

    This Silicon Valley campus was a paradise. Bulldoze it (sfstandard.com)
  • 82 173

    The End of an Athlon (www.os2museum.com)
  • 11 23

    Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues on RGB Lighting Devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 6 17

    The Covid-19 scandal is still unfolding (www.economist.com)
  • 17 57

    Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has (www.nytimes.com)
  • 245 404

    To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)
  • 107 106

    I Dream of Quieter Computing (henry.codes)
  • 79 200

    MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (martypc.net)
  • 103 168

    The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) (nappertime.com)
  • 10 28

    Software Engineering in the Agentic Era (simonwillison.net)
  • 5 43

    Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world (readingmaps.com)
  • 53 79

    I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)
  • 20 122

    Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)
  • 30 78

    US Military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired (www.bbc.com)
  • 35 136

    NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (www.primeintellect.ai)
  • 5 20

    A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram: Monster Raving Egomania (bactra.org)
  • 59 281

    Thinking in Python (thinkinginpython.com)
  • 11 17

    Fast and Hard Code (lucumr.pocoo.org)
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  • 29 55

    English ↔ Claudish Translator (programasweights.com)
  • 194 464

    Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is (forum.level1techs.com)
  • 86 68

    Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens (www.soverybright.com)
  • 35 151

    NetBSD and my life (2005) (mail-index.netbsd.org)
  • 85 188

    hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate (lapcatsoftware.com)
  • 224 409

    Scrap (2006) (twitter.com)
  • 112 204

    How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (www.reuters.com)
  • 10 35

    The Creation of Abulafia (blog.veitheller.de)
  • 16 72

    Conway's Game of Life in real life (blog.coredump.cx)
  • 29 109

    One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  • 3 16

    Show HN: Zcomplete – Shell Typo Correction (github.com)
  • 12 53

    Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) (www.pianoify.net)
  • 82 69

    Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked (sgoedecke.github.io)
  • 33 58

    Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture (www.mythic.ai)
  • 26 103

    Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal (terminal-code.com)
  • 0 13

    Protocol-Aware Deterministic Simulation Testing (tigerbeetle.com)
  • 30 172

    ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data (atproto.com)
  • 111 63

    Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record (www.theguardian.com)
  • 1 27

    ProgramBench Vetted: Reverse Engineering from a Runnable Binary (vetto.ai)
  • 97 466

    Hister – A private, full content search index that you control (hister.org)
  • 44 72

    Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree (nautil.us)
  • 27 51

    Dynamical dark energy and the week that broke cosmology (perimeterinstitute.ca)
  • 116 353

    typ.ing (typ.ing)
  • 57 93

    What's in a PowerPoint File? (editide.com)
  • 24 45

    MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS (github.com)
  • 44 240

    RF Cafe (www.rfcafe.com)
  • 22 40

    Show HN: Anonymous age verification with passkey-powered encryption (loginwithone.com)
  • 183 203

    Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code (twitter.com)
  • 26 13

    Htmx live is cool. Datastar is fast. This cow is raw and strong (stario.dev)
  • 94 108

    Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage (www.cnn.com)
  • 9 20

    Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System" (playtechnique.io)
  • 2 25

    Wildfires across Europe detonate forgotten World War bombs (www.independent.co.uk)
  • 83 37

    Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say (www.cnbc.com)
  • 143 479

    ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (quantumi.sh)
  • 14 57

    Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection (static.laszlokorte.de)
  • 70 55

    Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs (www.theguardian.com)
  • 162 259

    A Friendly Introduction to Racket (geometridae.bearblog.dev)
  • 9 37

    Embedded AI (nostarch.com)
  • 154 260

    New MCP Roadmap (blog.modelcontextprotocol.io)
  • 66 41

    A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been (zaksa.zip)
  • 99 226

    A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber (decodingvibes.com)
  • 191 218

    Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week (www.theguardian.com)
  • 51 132

    How Thailand Resisted Colonization (worksinprogress.co)
  • 136 303

    Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones (munderdiffl.in)
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  • 74 150

    Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021) (www.computer.org)
  • 19 54

    ESP32 Firmware Development with Docker Sandboxes (www.docker.com)
  • 1578 674

    Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down (www.bbc.com)
  • 0 63

    Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025) (zeux.io)
  • 77 91

    GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction (developers.openai.com)
  • 76 45

    4 in 10 travellers visit tourist sites to capture social media content (www.tuigroup.com)
  • 60 36

    Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods (www.history.com)
  • 2 40

    Ozone: The fault is not in our trees, but in ourselves (www.science.org)
  • 12 18

    US Debt-to-GDP Ratio (www.us-debt-clock.com)
  • 75 146

    Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice (medicine.washu.edu)
  • 60 145

    Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device (grapheneos.social)
  • 487 645

    There's no reason for software to be slow anymore (danluu.com)
  • 118 231

    OTel isn’t going well (matduggan.com)
  • 55 125

    Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime (www.lambda-symbolics.com)
  • 89 156

    Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong (www.gingerbill.org)
  • 108 417

    Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM (rust-glancer.github.io)
  • 8 28

    Show HN: Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows (github.com)
  • 22 79

    HN: The Good Parts (2016) (danluu.com)
  • 72 78

    Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha (nebraskapublicmedia.org)
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