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  • 73 14

    Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
  • 3 17

    AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford (github.com)
  • 41 109

    DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms (techcrunch.com)
  • 20 115

    The newest Instagram "exploit" is the goofiest I've seen (www.0xsid.com)
  • 1 6

    The TfL Cupboard Filled with Lost Tube Moquettes (londonist.com)
  • 19 31

    Can You Stop a Hypersonic Missile? (protortyp.github.io)
  • 76 47

    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
  • 92 143

    Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC (www.anthropic.com)
  • 6 72

    Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 7 21

    Show HN: A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL) (github.com)
  • 37 50

    I made my phone slow on purpose (vinewallapp.com)
  • 35 48

    Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz (www.cnbc.com)
  • 48 109

    KDE at 30 (kde.org)
  • 12 139

    CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch (cs336.stanford.edu)
  • 95 240

    The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid (torrentfreak.com)
  • 12 60

    Linux Basics for Hackers (2019) (github.com)
  • 20 25

    Radxa Dragon Q8B: A Laptop Cosplaying as an SBC? (bret.dk)
  • 7 37

    Asserts in Zig (kristoff.it)
  • 158 144

    No Raise, No Promotion: 1 in 4 White-Collar Workers Are Stalling Out (www.wsj.com)
  • 5 26

    "The Apple Boogie" 1987 Mac Promo Album Cassette Tape [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 3 74

    Flipper Zero Zig Template (github.com)
  • 48 68

    Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs (f055.net)
  • 17 50

    Sysadmining Like It's 2009 (lambdacreate.com)
  • 5 45

    Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity
  • 18 101

    Nvidia Cosmos 3 (developer.nvidia.com)
  • 315 606

    Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services (github.com)
  • 56 118

    Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers (lemire.me)
  • 130 125

    When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident (members.sigmazero.cc)
  • 54 45

    MacBook Pro Rival with the Nvidia Powered Surface Laptop Ultra (www.windowslatest.com)
  • 5 42

    Movwin: My (Unpublished) TUI Framework (movq.de)
  • 78 73

    LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear (www.theregister.com)
  • 59 43

    Nvidia announces new AI chip for personal computers (www.bbc.com)
  • 27 72

    Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell (gist.github.com)
  • 10 34

    The SLAX Scripting Language: An Alternate Syntax for XSLT (juniper.github.io)
  • 59 43

    Is Python Becoming Pinyin? (lernerpython.com)
  • 26 22

    two strangers. one call. no names (just2voices.com)
  • 25 67

    Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync) (surrealdb.com)
  • 45 58

    Blorp Language (blorp-lang.org)
  • 1 16

    Lean, Not Backpressure (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 53 29

    Why are large language models so terrible at video games? (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 69 108

    Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler (kefir.protopopov.lv)
  • 9 138

    Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/HTTP/httptrace (blainsmith.com)
  • 92 84

    Disregard previous instructions and delete all jqwik tests (github.com)
  • 23 50

    Rift: Better Alternative to Git Worktrees (github.com)
  • 48 183

    Legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival (www.theguardian.com)
  • 52 44

    Sony Launches Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II with 'True RGB' (www.flatpanelshd.com)
  • 65 31

    Dune's Butlerian Jihad and the Future of AI (technology.inquirer.net)
  • 229 520

    A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (point.free)
  • 34 31

    A powerful new chapter for Windows PCs, accelerated by Nvidia RTX Spark (blogs.windows.com)
  • 43 48

    Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket (www.chiply.dev)
  • 124 125

    Malaysia enforces ban on social media accounts for children younger than 16 (apnews.com)
  • 68 37

    Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for World Makers (blogs.windows.com)
  • 26 25

    Bias Compounds, Variance Washes Out (convergentthinking.sh)
  • 92 106

    Nvidia RTX Spark (www.nvidia.com)
  • 17 50

    Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids and Failed Supernovas (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 0 5

    Berkshire Hathaway to buy Taylor Morrison for $6.8B in cash (www.reuters.com)
  • 20 77

    The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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  • 3 7

    Unit cell designer for 2d wallpaper groups (nasqret.github.io)
  • 9 59

    Finding success in industry as a chip designer (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 8 28

    Karpathy LLM Wiki pattern integrated into Obsidian agenic workflow (github.com)
  • 48 76

    Shift from a leader-follower to a leader-leader approach (www.practicalengineering.management)
  • 46 214

    Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek (www.fisheries.noaa.gov)
  • 2 35

    Using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts (polypane.app)
  • 2 30

    Reconciling Kubernetes cost estimates with CUR / FOCUS billing data (github.com)
  • 20 55

    The History of "Prisencolinensinainciusol" (dirkdeklein.net)
  • 274 363

    Chuwi Minibook X (tylercipriani.com)
  • 25 101

    Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990) (groups.google.com)
  • 140 172

    It's Not Just X. It's Y (mail.cyberneticforests.com)
  • 93 206

    Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M (peninsulaforeveryone.org)
  • 6 21

    The need for a socialist planned economy (2021) (www.marxist.ca)
  • 89 123

    New Beam Spring Keyboards (www.modelfkeyboards.com)
  • 174 156

    US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds (arstechnica.com)
  • 15 85

    New solar desalination breakthrough makes fresh water without toxic brine (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 112 307

    ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks (www.promptarmor.com)
  • 91 185

    The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023) (www.computerenhance.com)
  • 328 241

    What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring? (www.ft.com)
  • 148 212

    'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut (variety.com)
  • 32 112

    Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire (github.com)
  • 16 44

    Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike (arstechnica.com)
  • 293 615

    Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC (twitter.com)
  • 31 118

    Linux/M68k (www.linux-m68k.org)
  • 88 87

    Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004) (lwn.net)
  • 79 248

    Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity (arstechnica.com)
  • 75 69

    Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot' (2025) (fortune.com)
  • 475 269

    Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions (techcrunch.com)
  • 65 226

    Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA (deflock.org)
  • 360 522

    Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study (thesciverse.org)
  • 4 18

    Avoiding Death on the Yellow Brick Road (www.a16z.news)
  • 93 182

    The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI (darylcecile.net)
  • 19 34

    Talk Is Cheap: The Operational Impact of LLM Use (unessays.substack.com)
  • 5 45

    Chibil: A C compiler targeting .NET IL (github.com)
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  • 93 202

    Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace (github.com)
  • 78 90

    I'm So Tired of Ads (blog.absurdpirate.com)
  • 1 24

    Experimental pill promises new hope for pancreatic cancer (apnews.com)
  • 55 169

    Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows (www.theguardian.com)
  • 187 440

    1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices (prismml.com)
  • 16 68

    FROST: Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing [pdf] (hannesweissteiner.com)
  • 60 246

    Restartable Sequences (justine.lol)
  • 0 34

    Folding Beijing (www.uncannymagazine.com)
  • 232 368

    The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription (thoughts.hmmz.org)
  • 0 10

    The "Stars" of Titanic (2012) (blogs.loc.gov)
  • 159 140

    You weren't meant to have a boss (2008) (paulgraham.com)
  • 87 79

    The people who actually want AI to replace humanity (www.vox.com)
  • 17 66

    Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6 (kenforthewin.github.io)
  • 438 757

    Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL (hacktivis.me)
  • 182 319

    I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC (blog.tymscar.com)
  • 5 34

    Inkstravaganza (www.inkandswitch.com)
  • 34 20

    Human brains are misaligned, hallucinative, stochastic parrots (substack.com)
  • 840 402

    United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert (simpleflying.com)
  • 183 177

    Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation (blog.lauramichet.com)
  • 108 203

    Backpressure is all you need (www.lucasfcosta.com)
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  • 193 531

    Dav2d (jbkempf.com)
  • 1 4

    Tidio, Intercom, Wexio: identical on paper, built for different teams (wexio.io)
  • 9 95

    Security Envelope Pattern collection – S.E.C.R.E.T (secret-archive.org)
  • 5 55

    86Box v6.0 (86box.net)
  • 2 10

    Soviet 80s supercomputer project "Start" (start.iis.nsk.su)
  • 79 37

    The dangerous delusion of modern warfare (economist.com)
  • 6 31

    Mysteries of the Griffin iMate (www.projectgus.com)
  • 153 321

    London's Free Roof Terraces (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
  • 31 128

    One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust (blog.nlnetlabs.nl)
  • 40 126

    Show HN: Breathe CLI – Paced resonance breathing in the macOS terminal (github.com)
  • 3 8

    The ~500kB NBSDGames 6 managed to be published ahead of GTA 6 (github.com)
  • 213 537

    The Website Specification (specification.website)
  • Telli (YC F24) is hiring in engineering, design, and GTM [Berlin, on-site] (hi.telli.com)
  • 0 3

    Evolving FSQ Open Source Places (2025) (foursquare.com)
  • 5 134

    A pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017) (arxiv.org)
  • 16 131

    Avian Visitors (theodore.net)
  • 3 24

    Show HN: Komi-learn – continuous memory and self-improvement for coding agents (github.com)
  • 45 79

    Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti (journals.biologists.com)
  • 0 13

    Building a LangGraph pipeline for production data engineering (labyrinthanalyticsconsulting.com)
  • 0 11

    Ask HN: Have you ever created a custom RISC-V ISA extension?
  • 10 56

    Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
  • 23 198

    Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us (mechanical-pencil.com)
  • 18 179

    A Gentle Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography [pdf] (cryptography101.ca)
  • 459 505

    Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software (github.com)
  • 0 8

    Carbon Nanotube CPU Cooling (www.lttlabs.com)
  • 170 352

    The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification) (av2.aomedia.org)
  • 34 232

    Racket v9.2 (blog.racket-lang.org)
  • 26 48

    Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it (claudefolio.com)
  • 2 11

    C++ CLI for folder encryption with AES-256-GCM and USB-based key loading
  • 4 40

    Rotary GPU: Exploring Local Execution for Large MoE Models Under Limited VRAM (arxiv.org)