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  • 2 9

    A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (pluralistic.net)
  • 13 123

    Tesla Hid Fatal Accidents to Continue Testing Autonomous Driving (French) (www.rts.ch)
  • 7 12

    Why macOS27 won't be supporting Intel anymore (twitter.com)
  • 0 10

    What if database branching was easy? (xata.io)
  • 34 46

    Figma's woes compound with Claude Design (martinalderson.com)
  • 30 65

    M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (earthquake.usgs.gov)
  • 4 19

    Who Is Blake Whiting? (theamericanscholar.org)
  • 88 125

    NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist (www.reuters.com)
  • 9 52

    Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything (newatlas.com)
  • 19 52

    Tracking when Trump chickens out (www.thetacotracker.com)
  • 14 87

    I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it (thelibre.news)
  • 163 261

    GitHub's Fake Star Economy (awesomeagents.ai)
  • 52 51

    Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it (www.politico.eu)
  • 56 84

    IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first (electrek.co)
  • 154 132

    OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS (www.flyingpenguin.com)
  • 13 35

    Two Motorola Transistors Became the Default NPNs (www.allaboutcircuits.com)
  • 2 11

    Intel refreshes non-Ultra Core CPUs with new silicon for the first time (arstechnica.com)
  • 61 86

    How Long Poop Stays in Your Body May Impact Your Health, Study Finds (www.sciencealert.com)
  • 12 86

    Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery (www.discovermagazine.com)
  • 42 95

    SDF Public Access Unix System (sdf.org)
  • 34 67

    Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) (stripe.dev)
  • 1 36

    Knitout and Kniterate 3 (soup.agnescameron.info)
  • 23 81

    Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust (medium.com)
  • 5 16

    Can your AI rewrite your code in assembly? (lemire.me)
  • 9 9

    DIDs Are Cool. We Didn't Need Them (www.inamoon.com)
  • 17 43

    A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks) (github.com)
  • 8 17

    Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake (blog.andymasley.com)
  • 17 66

    Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age (phys.org)
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  • 2 14

    A Common MVP Evolution: Service to System Integration to Product (2017) (www.skmurphy.com)
  • 20 57

    Anthropic installed a spyware bridge on my machine? (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
  • 56 141

    Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons (simonwillison.net)
  • 7 23

    PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption (hajo.me)
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  • 131 258

    The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency (www.bbc.com)
  • 72 74

    Sudo for Windows (2024) (github.com)
  • 10 43

    Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage (juanpabloaj.com)
  • 71 44

    The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment (localscribe.co)
  • 43 149

    Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum (sheets.works)
  • 16 21

    The race to build the next WordPress (opencomputer.dev)
  • 135 278

    Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people (ashley.rolfmore.com)
  • 31 182

    Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon (github.com)
  • 25 84

    Swiss AI Initiative (2023) (www.swiss-ai.org)
  • 8 18

    Recovering Windows Live Writer Files (benovermyer.com)
  • 0 27

    Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics (www.markrjohnsongames.com)
  • 36 31

    Aliens.gov will be running as a WordPress multisite (aliens.gov)
  • 55 73

    Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore (www.nytimes.com)
  • 12 44

    Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering (github.com)
  • 37 122

    Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors (www.sciencedetective.org)
  • 82 191

    A Brief History of Fish Sauce (www.legalnomads.com)
  • 64 154

    Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of iLearningEngines charged with fraud (www.reuters.com)
  • 65 209

    2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
  • 3 24

    3D-Printing a Trombone (unnamed.website)
  • 12 31

    Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage (www.cnx-software.com)
  • 64 98

    Banned by Anthropic? (bannedbyanthropic.com)
  • 6 40

    Hot-wiring the Lisp machine (scheatkode.com)
  • 4 37

    C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model (www.infoq.com)
  • 75 83

    CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity (fortune.com)
  • 61 103

    Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents (browser-use.com)
  • 47 99

    Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024) (cssence.com)
  • 0 8

    Islamic Medicine (2018) (hekint.org)
  • 13 21

    Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway (www.mtc.com.au)
  • 85 222

    Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft (www.swissinfo.ch)
  • 122 86

    A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988) (www.philosopher.eu)
  • 30 73

    Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure (arstechnica.com)
  • 33 92

    MAGA Is Winning Its War Against U.S. Science (paulkrugman.substack.com)
  • 41 94

    I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)
  • 19 76

    I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com)
  • 14 24

    Gender reassignment significantly increases psychiatric morbidity (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 22 33

    Claude Brain (github.com)
  • 2 27

    Europe has 'maybe six weeks of jet fuel left' (www.bbc.com)
  • 118 204

    The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
  • 94 93

    Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 4 30

    KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode (pubs.acs.org)
  • 4 9

    543 Hours: What happens when AI runs while you sleep (michael.roth.rocks)
  • 38 119

    Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (www.vincentgregoire.com)
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  • 8 65

    Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife (github.com)
  • 4 21

    Discord Read Receipts Exploit: When, How Often, How Long (paul.koeck.dev)
  • 11 26

    Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 9 39

    Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader (kevwe.com)
  • 79 95

    Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny (theins.press)
  • 102 131

    PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians (www.ctvnews.ca)
  • 229 258

    Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (www.pcgamer.com)
  • 1 25

    Pairwise Order of a Sequence of Elements (morwenn.github.io)
  • 140 379

    Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com)
  • 2 377

    Vercel says internal systems hit in breach (decipher.sc)
  • 135 131

    Notes from the SF peptide scene (12gramsofcarbon.com)
  • 55 57

    Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List (www.therepository.email)
  • 50 112

    When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break (daverupert.com)
  • 7 46

    Minimal Viable Programs (2014) (joearms.github.io)
  • 171 226

    The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (www.theverge.com)
  • 443 780

    Vercel April 2026 security incident (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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  • 33 137

    Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
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  • 181 276

    Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (www.lbc.co.uk)
  • 57 140

    Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
  • 43 148

    Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (eng.basement.studio)
  • 4 13

    Frank Dudley Beane's Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 97 71

    Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (www.xda-developers.com)
  • 132 332

    The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
  • 1 88

    Binary GCD (en.algorithmica.org)
  • 194 341

    Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
  • 151 577

    Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
  • 126 269

    Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
  • 0 8

    William Cecil's Succession Plan (www.historytoday.com)
  • 69 182

    SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (www.usenix.org)
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  • 415 319

    The RAM shortage could last years (www.theverge.com)
  • 13 51

    Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On (vlad.website)
  • 157 222

    The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
  • 41 181

    Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (www.eff.org)
  • 240 430

    Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
  • 63 85

    SI Units for Request Rate (2024) (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 16 26

    Bipartisan Bill to Tighten Controls on Sensitive Chipmaking Equipment (baumgartner.house.gov)
  • 67 279

    What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
  • 12 54

    Metatextual Literacy (www.jenn.site)
  • 32 50

    Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 35 31

    Surely no brand is more hated by web users that Cloudflare
  • 33 78

    Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com)
  • 56 110

    Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
  • 51 56

    My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (blog.marcoinacio.com)
  • 1 12

    Show HN: Sostactic – polynomial inequalities using sums-of-squares in Lean (github.com)
  • 51 114

    Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
  • 10 18

    Does your DSL little language need operator precedence? (utcc.utoronto.ca)