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  • 0 3

    Hazel: A live functional programming environment with typed holes (github.com)
  • 2 8

    Underwriting Superintelligence (underwriting-superintelligence.com)
  • 0 6

    Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list (aethermug.com)
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  • 14 37

    Most (ly Dead) Influential Programming Languages (2020) (www.hillelwayne.com)
  • 14 26

    Why my p(doom) has risen, dramatically (garymarcus.substack.com)
  • 2 16

    Hierarchical Modeling (H-Nets) (cartesia.ai)
  • 23 113

    Helix Editor Release 25.07 Highlights (helix-editor.com)
  • 41 56

    Meta shareholders look to haul CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg to court (nypost.com)
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    Lorem Gibson (loremgibson.com)
  • 53 29

    Meta announces new data centers, gobble up millions of gallons of water per day (www.engadget.com)
  • 10 35

    Show HN: Beyond Z²+C, Plot Any Fractal (www.juliascope.com)
  • 18 79

    Encrypting Files with Passkeys and Age (words.filippo.io)
  • 14 25

    ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Court (theintercept.com)
  • 6 32

    Mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 · Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
  • 3 49

    Designing for the Eye: Optical Corrections in Architecture and Typography (www.nubero.ch)
  • 8 27

    Open-source framework for real-time AI voice (github.com)
  • 5 30

    A quick look at unprivileged sandboxing (www.uninformativ.de)
  • 19 82

    KDE's official Roku/Android TV alternative is back from the dead (www.neowin.net)
  • 40 57

    Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines raises $2B in A16Z-led round (www.reuters.com)
  • 1 33

    Why the Real Computer Revolution Never Happened – Alan Kay and Anjan Katta [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 55 125

    To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head (the-nerve-blog.ghost.io)
  • 20 72

    Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years (www.theregister.com)
  • 120 198

    Reflections on OpenAI (calv.info)
  • CoinTracker (YC W18) is hiring to solve crypto taxes and accounting (remote)
  • 17 53

    Petabit-class transmission over > 1000 km using standard 19-core optical fiber (www.nict.go.jp)
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  • 47 218

    Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL (www.matthieulc.com)
  • 30 51

    Ask HN: What's Your Useful Local LLM Stack?
  • 17 41

    Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor (www.liberalcurrents.com)
  • 113 21

    What Caused the 'Baby Boom'? What Would It Take to Have Another? (www.derekthompson.org)
  • 103 92

    The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data with ICE (www.propublica.org)
  • 24 68

    Adding lookbehinds to rust-lang/regex (systemf.epfl.ch)
  • 54 185

    NIST Ion Clock Sets New Record for Most Accurate Clock in the World (www.nist.gov)
  • 65 60

    SCP-055 is an "antimeme" – it erases itself from memory when observed (scp-wiki.wikidot.com)
  • 67 215

    Blender 4.5 LTS Released (www.blender.org)
  • 11 24

    Secret changes to major U.S. health datasets raise alarms (www.psypost.org)
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  • 269 347

    Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
  • 184 175

    Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites for UK Users (torrentfreak.com)
  • 18 27

    "English Translators of Homer": A Review (whatisthequestion.wordpress.com)
  • 34 120

    Show HN: We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon (github.com)
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  • 87 156

    Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language (menerdu.vercel.app)
  • 4 18

    Micro Adventure – Space Attack (online emulator) (auri-microadventure.azurewebsites.net)
  • 0 10

    A Handshake in Orbit 50 Years Ago Transformed the Space Race (www.nytimes.com)
  • 7 21

    The Moving Assembly Line Turns 100 (2013) (www.assemblymag.com)
  • 41 95

    A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Hackers (www.propublica.org)
  • 15 13

    Plasma 6.4 review – A worrying trend (www.dedoimedo.com)
  • 11 21

    Speedrun (www.educationprogress.org)
  • 6 5

    Experts reveal why cultural heritage is important for community unity (phys.org)
  • 0 7

    Aipac Hall of Shame (www.trackaipac.com)
  • 32 33

    Win, lose, or draw: trends in English football match results (blog.engora.com)
  • 13 56

    Belgian CVD is deeply broken (devae.re)
  • Crimson (YC X25) is hiring founding engineers in London (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 5 13

    Google's Reverse Acquihire of Windsurf and the Future of AI Developer Tools (www.qodo.ai)
  • 4 16

    Show HN: Cogency – Cognitive Architecture for AI Agents (github.com)
  • 5 17

    Show HN: Minesweeper game I built to be real-time Multiplayer (www.minesweeperpro.com)
  • 148 163

    Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft (securelist.com)
  • 39 81

    The JPEG XL Image Coding History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale (arxiv.org)
  • 3 24

    Field Notes on Shipping with Claude Code (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 38 27

    I used Suno AI to cover my own demo album (app.mindthis.io)
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  • 48 84

    VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia (rubenerd.com)
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  • 9 35

    VMware Workstation: Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture (2012) [pdf] (www.cse.iitb.ac.in)
  • 7 20

    A vulnerability that can be exploited to tamper with a train’s brakes (www.securityweek.com)
  • 29 100

    When Sigterm Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery (clickhouse.com)
  • 15 47

    Cache Benchmarks (github.com)
  • 44 58

    Show HN: VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a text buffer (github.com)
  • 1298 1400

    LLM Inevitabilism (tomrenner.com)
  • Martin (YC S23) Is Hiring Founding Engineers to Build a Better Siri (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 2 118

    Happy 20th Birthday Django (www.djangoproject.com)
  • 28 64

    Show HN: CallFS – S3-style object store in one Go binary (MIT) (github.com)
  • 319 182

    Literalism plaguing today’s movies (www.newyorker.com)
  • 28 65

    Clashes between web and X11 colors in the CSS color scheme (en.wikipedia.org)
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  • 39 64

    C++ Coroutines Advanced: Converting std:future to asio:awaitable (www.ddhigh.com)
  • 2 18

    Dyeing to get in (2014) (www.genuineideas.com)
  • 93 107

    AWS Lambda Silent Crash – A Platform Failure, Not an Application Bug [pdf] (lyons-den.com)
  • 42 137

    DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 113 146

    Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival (www.amirsharif.com)
  • 59 85

    Transition to using 16 KB page sizes for Android apps and games (android-developers.googleblog.com)
  • 177 200

    The Collapse of the FDA (www.nytimes.com)
  • 50 87

    I solved the century-old mystery of a shipwreck survivor (thewalrus.ca)
  • 7 18

    Predicting Competitive Pokémon VGC Leads Using Latent Semantic Analysis (jgeekstudies.org)
  • 53 316

    Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project (blenderstudio.itch.io)
  • 18 73

    DEWLine Museum – The Distant Early Warning Radar Line (dewlinemuseum.com)
  • 180 515

    Apple's MLX adding CUDA support (github.com)
  • 69 135

    Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 Appears to Be Down
  • 75 266

    RFC: PHP license update (wiki.php.net)
  • 14 50

    Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built with HTML pages (htmlmaze.com)
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  • 47 203

    Show HN: Bedrock – An 8-bit computing system for running programs anywhere (benbridle.com)
  • 129 212

    Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department (www.cnbc.com)
  • 58 234

    Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance (research.trychroma.com)
  • 39 93

    Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text: "Hitler" (twitter.com)
  • 5 18

    Ralph Wiggum as a "Software Engineer" (ghuntley.com)
  • 9 16

    M.2 SSD Can Self-Destruct by Giving Itself a Burst of Voltage (uk.pcmag.com)
  • 100 88

    Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense (www.anthropic.com)
  • 74 186

    SQLite async connection pool for high-performance (github.com)
  • 51 190

    NeuralOS: An operating system powered by neural networks (neural-os.com)
  • 73 41

    Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk (www.japantimes.co.jp)
  • 181 347

    LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date (www.caltech.edu)
  • 2 45

    The Corset X-Rays of Dr Ludovic O'Followell (1908) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 9 60

    Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform (2019) (jcs.org)
  • 8 43

    Inequality, decay of democratic institutions linked to accelerated ageing (www.nature.com)
  • 26 162

    Replicube: 3D shader puzzle game, online demo (replicube.xyz)
  • 402 482

    Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf (cognition.ai)
  • 1 24

    Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf (twitter.com)
  • Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring in UK to redefine software dev (tinyurl.com)
  • 22 141

    Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet (datafusion.apache.org)
  • 22 195

    It took 45 years, but spreadsheet legend Mitch Kapor finally got his MIT degree (www.bostonglobe.com)
  • 81 317

    Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020) (mymodernmet.com)
  • 504 561

    Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds (sfstandard.com)
  • 279 523

    Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE (www.eff.org)
  • 285 332

    Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions (assemblingamerica.substack.com)
  • 234 359

    Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP (arstechnica.com)
  • 4 14

    What happens when a brand built for sport loses some of its focus? (doinghandstands.substack.com)
  • 2 15

    NetBox Labs secures $35M as demand for network infrastructure management surges (www.networkworld.com)
  • 208 353

    AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why (johnwhiles.com)
  • 41 175

    Building Modular Rails Applications: A Deep Dive into Rails Engines (www.panasiti.me)
  • 29 78

    GM, LG to upgrade Tennessee plant to make low-cost EV batteries (www.cnbc.com)
  • 18 60

    Six Game Devs Speak to Computer Games Mag (1984) (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
  • 414 983

    Kiro: A new agentic IDE (kiro.dev)
  • 4 20

    HoloMem's drop-in holographic tape drive for LTO tape libraries (blocksandfiles.com)
  • 43 94

    Lightning Detector Circuits (techlib.com)
  • 126 141

    You Are in a Box (jyn.dev)
  • 102 114

    Lenovo Legion Go S: Windows 11 vs. SteamOS Performance, and General Availability (boilingsteam.com)
  • 73 177

    Strategies for Fast Lexers (xnacly.me)
  • 36 34

    Self-imposed ban – a lightweight bash script to block commands (github.com)
  • 15 50

    Show HN: TechBro Generator – Generate Satirical TechBro Posts (techbrogenerator.netlify.app)
  • 12 111

    Lossless Float Image Compression (aras-p.info)
  • 0 12

    TIOBE Index for July 2025 (www.tiobe.com)
  • 7 11

    Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think (theconversation.com)
  • 22 32

    putty.org is not run by the PuTTY developers (hachyderm.io)
  • 87 69

    Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Happening (gizmodo.com)
  • 34 46

    Interview with Google's Android leader Sameer Samat (www.techradar.com)
  • 238 114

    Impacts of adding PV solar system to internal combustion engine vehicles (www.jstor.org)
  • 23 124

    Lasagna Battery Cell (amazingribs.com)
  • 136 244

    Death by a Thousand Slops (daniel.haxx.se)
  • 101 89

    Google's widespread tracking across the web (www.simpleanalytics.com)
  • 25 13

    "AI discourse" is a joke (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 116 40

    Bitcoin passes $120k milestone as US Congress readies for 'crypto week' (www.ft.com)
  • 250 214

    East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to global warming (www.nature.com)
  • 13 62

    Concurrent Programming with Harmony (harmony.cs.cornell.edu)
  • 46 55

    Telefónica DE shifts VMware support to Spinnaker due to cost (www.theregister.com)
  • 55 40

    Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection (organizer.flipfocus.nl)
  • 196 366

    How I build software quickly (evanhahn.com)
  • 367 503

    Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA (open-web-advocacy.org)
  • 5 85

    Binding Application in Idris (andrevidela.com)
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  • 43 97

    Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993) (simson.net)
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  • 201 393

    Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly (refine.sh)
  • 93 119

    A Century of Quantum Mechanics (home.cern)
  • 3 11

    Silicon Valley is racing to build the first $1T unicorn (www.economist.com)
  • 67 140

    Myanmar’s proliferating scam centers (asia.nikkei.com)
  • 19 27

    How secure is your Bitcoin wallet's mnemonic seed phrase? (bennet.org)
  • 11 27

    Chimpfluencers Stick Grass in Their Ears and Butts in Latest Viral Trend (www.sciencealert.com)
  • 120 104

    Stellantis declares bankruptcy in China, with $1B in debts (www.italpassion.fr)
  • 177 559

    Happy 20th Birthday, Django (www.djangoproject.com)
  • 123 169

    James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations (www.astronomy.com)
  • 37 57

    A job queue in two lines of JavaScript (jameshfisher.com)
  • 45 56

    The Scourge of Arial (2001) (www.marksimonson.com)
  • 46 167

    Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser (vidmix.app)
  • 81 56

    Black hole merger challenges our understanding of black hole formation (gizmodo.com)
  • 21 39

    Programming Language Theory has a public relations problem (happyfellow.bearblog.dev)
  • 471 908

    Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized (nodaysoff.run)
  • 48 180

    Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs (arxiv.org)