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  • 0 7

    Translating the Renaissance: 17,000+ historical source texts (sourcelibrary.org)
  • 4 16

    Samsung is using Claude to verify chip designs. It's not going smoothly (www.neowin.net)
  • 1 13

    DeepSeek up to 1000% price hike is live (xcancel.com)
  • 7 15

    The Indo-European Family Tree (djbinder.com)
  • 1 19

    How art invented humanity (aeon.co)
  • 6 38

    Ordinary Abundance (ordinaryabundance.com)
  • 2 5

    My MacBook aged three years in three months of vibe coding (generativeai.pub)
  • 1 13

    Build a Stratum 1 PTP Grandmaster on a Budget (opscode.io)
  • 52 28

    Flock updates privacy, accountability, security, and transparency safeguards (www.flocksafety.com)
  • 35 45

    Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove (www.seangoedecke.com)
  • 103 98

    I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program (www.wired.com)
  • 1 19

    The mathematical physics of rainbows and glories (2001) [pdf] (tlakoba.w3.uvm.edu)
  • 22 42

    We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images (www.echo.ai)
  • 18 10

    US vs. UK Baby Names 2025: The Biggest Top Differences Visualized (namedaisy.com)
  • 19 75

    Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations (oxide.computer)
  • 5 26

    Graduate student proves a quantum uncertainty principle for fractals (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 29 24

    AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, but Almost No One Is Buying Them (www.404media.co)
  • 61 224

    Spaghettifying DRAM (github.com)
  • 112 240

    Gloomberb (gloom.sh)
  • 47 61

    Anthropic: Introducing The Conceptual Reasoning Index (alignment.anthropic.com)
  • 1 11

    Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 7 37

    Time to Move On: Querying Without Nulls and Bags (arxiv.org)
  • 82 98

    Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft (www.heartaerospace.com)
  • 160 140

    AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users (www.economist.com)
  • 36 71

    I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10 (alexmorleyfinch.github.io)
  • 19 42

    Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5 (github.com)
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  • 50 110

    Nine PBS could lose 70 years of archives after cloud vendor goes defunct (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 45 23

    What garbage collection actually costs (shivanshuag.com)
  • 35 103

    DeepSeek API Pricing Update (twitter.com)
  • 181 387

    DeepSeek Harness developer preview (deepseek.com)
  • 54 106

    Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results (www.netlify.com)
  • 9 22

    2026 Clacton By-Election (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 42 47

    My Rules for Using Spreadsheets (leancrew.com)
  • 99 70

    Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse (phys.org)
  • 9 74

    Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia (pxl-th.github.io)
  • 331 309

    Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe (tradersunion.com)
  • ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform) (atg.science)
  • 6 38

    Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo (uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com)
  • 72 90

    Picking berries is my meditation (www.tsoon.com)
  • 83 60

    Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it (techcrunch.com)
  • 75 83

    If I own Claude's outputs why can't I train my own model on them? (support.claude.com)
  • 18 92

    The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich (2021) (jdh.hamkins.org)
  • 9 18

    Mistral got a US patent on tool calls in 118 days. Without prior public notice (agent-wars.com)
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  • 12 15

    Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent (www.codewithbullet.com)
  • 17 34

    Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's MSRP to a staggering $16,000 (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 14 33

    The punched card tabulator (www.ibm.com)
  • 2 28

    The Three-Stroke Problem (penpot.app)
  • 6 21

    Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (celld.dev)
  • 263 380

    Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview (community.openai.com)
  • 237 246

    Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified (phys.org)
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  • 5 36

    From rubber boots to Copa: When MicroProse Soccer revolutionized football (spillhistorie.no)
  • 9 16

    When Will AI Take My Job? (www.whenwillaitakemyjob.ai)
  • 60 136

    Antiqua–Fraktur dispute (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 22 29

    Locating an unknown source of radiation in a heterogeneous environment (2019) (repository.lib.ncsu.edu)
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  • 1 9

    Waits: Arthur Samuel's Checkers (timereshared.com)
  • 1 11

    Program images and portable Scheme back ends for Jolt (yogthos.net)
  • 193 175

    Flutter 3.47 (flutter.dev)
  • 0 17

    Learning 10000 pictures (1973) [pdf] (gwern.net)
  • 11 11

    Apple Leasing Program (www.apple.com)
  • 135 253

    Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful (okmij.org)
  • 30 97

    Build Wide, Ship Narrow (adapt.com)
  • 46 110

    Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT (sharktastica.co.uk)
  • 12 32

    Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API (www.ballet.dev)
  • 24 63

    Process as a Proxy for Motivation (bengodfrey.dev)
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  • 124 142

    Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation? (funcall.blogspot.com)
  • 9 14

    I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers (bipluk.com)
  • 6 8

    Anything Could Become a Battleground (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • 8 19

    'The Cheese and the Worms' by Carlo Ginzburg Review (www.historytoday.com)
  • 13 29

    Show HN: Programmable timer web app (for gym workouts or stretching sessions) (timer.jotaen.net)
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  • 254 173

    Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf (corneroffifth.studio)
  • 1 28

    Debugging Information for Inlined Functions (lwn.net)
  • 51 152

    Breaking the WAL (antithesis.com)
  • 12 89

    A Tale of Dynamic Programming (2022) (iagoleal.com)
  • 0 9

    Building Security Agents That Cannot Escape Their Trust Boundary (cynative.com)
  • 44 32

    Chartreuse, a case study in how scarcity and authenticity can drive desirability (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 1 31

    SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 (openrouter.ai)
  • 159 124

    People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more (julienreszka.com)
  • 47 60

    The Essential Question: “What should I read next?” (thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
  • 234 642

    Delta (zed.dev)
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  • 8 35

    Aaron Rodgers secretly funded his town's Flock-style cameras (www.foiaball.com)
  • 12 83

    Qwen3.8-2.4T (huggingface.co)
  • 11 50

    The Bit Player: My Father with Steve Zissou (www.theparisreview.org)
  • 340 160

    Pixel Watch 5 (blog.google)
  • 187 154

    Lovable raises $400M Series C (lovable.dev)
  • Reflex (YC W23) Is hiring Growth and GTM Roles (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 176 240

    HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript (en.andros.dev)
  • 389 336

    Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 65 69

    Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions (loudbicycle.com)
  • 21 108

    Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard (climate.metoffice.cloud)
  • 6 79

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 quietly released (api-docs.deepseek.com)
  • 16 56

    Incident with Pull Requests and Issues – Resolved (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 434 1010

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (openrouter.ai)
  • 190 123

    Pixel 11 Pro Fold (blog.google)
  • 577 616

    Grok 4.6 (x.ai)
  • 17 34

    Solving the Shortest Vector Problem in $2^{0.6039n}$ Time via Mid-Point Hessian (arxiv.org)
  • 164 694

    Qwen3.8-2.4T (huggingface.co)
  • 35 109

    Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C (usehax.dev)
  • 0 48

    Commodore 8-Bit 5¼" Disk Images (www.masswerk.at)
  • 4 31

    Qwen3.8 Weights Released (modelscope.cn)
  • GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineering Managers (job-boards.greenhouse.io)
  • 364 609

    License plate reader searches should require a warrant (andrewpwheeler.com)
  • 220 1144

    Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug (tailscale.com)
  • 825 660

    uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook (digitalescapetools.com)
  • 49 117

    German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses (www.reuters.com)
  • 172 119

    5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe (www.severe-weather.eu)
  • 9 36

    ArenaAllocators don't play nicely with ArrayLists (www.openmymind.net)
  • 5 26

    Electricity Pricing in the Age of AI (power2026.ai)
  • 224 297

    Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot (knownagents.com)
  • 22 19

    Qwen 3.8-27B goes openweight in 2 days (huggingface.co)
  • 35 291

    Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died (amiga-news.de)
  • 54 39

    YC startups are abandoning .com (www.orangecrumbs.com)
  • 2 39

    European scientists developed a tactile sensor capable of 100 μm resolution (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 67 328

    Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome (guillaumetech.github.io)
  • 861 947

    AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? (blog.florianherrengt.com)
  • 58 236

    Shade Map (shademap.app)
  • 23 69

    Automatic1111 for Apple metal, 40% speed up sd1.5 (therad.ninja)
  • 63 42

    Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML (validatehtml.com)
  • 18 11

    Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit (lifesprites.com)
  • 9 22

    Bb: The IDE that builds itself (getbb.app)
  • 58 126

    My Agent Setup (chad.cm)
  • 15 53

    The Ultimate Horse (worksinprogress.co)
  • 59 41

    Show HN: KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents (kidscreen.app)
  • 46 103

    Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder (chefsbinge.com)
  • 19 19

    You can't buy 20 pieces of aluminum tube online (vestalmetals.com)
  • 4 40

    I built a jellyfish laboratory in my backyard [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 2 196

    Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering them (www.neowin.net)
  • 143 177

    Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available (blogs.embarcadero.com)
  • 136 503

    2026 Eclipse Webcams (jonty.github.io)
  • 147 99

    I hate packaging my software for Linux (getfresh.dev)
  • 4 20

    My favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy shit (bookdna.com)
  • 20 7

    Music Generation by a Composer, for Musicians (monictheory.com)
  • 18 168

    High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons (petapixel.com)
  • 44 305

    Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (woxi.ad-si.com)
  • 154 258

    What sort of maths are LLMs good at? (gowers.wordpress.com)
  • 201 131

    Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland (www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk)
  • 337 474

    Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta (www.abc.net.au)
  • 51 76

    Dutch Train Map Simulator (spoorkaart.zaza.dev)
  • 55 43

    Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it? (www.cbc.ca)
  • 56 173

    Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today (worm.net)
  • 6 14

    Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration (phys.org)
  • 35 153

    Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
  • 203 472

    LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (www.cringebot3000.com)
  • 13 35

    ICE to spend up to $20M on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks (www.theguardian.com)
  • 66 37

    AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class (www.bbc.com)
  • 8 6

    How to Install Python3.14 from source on Ubuntu 26.04 (jamesoclaire.com)
  • 49 71

    DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio (dronexl.co)
  • 0 13

    CVE-2026-53361 AF_Unix GC vs. MSG_PEEK use-after-free container escape (github.com)
  • 75 165

    A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy (refp.se)
  • 160 358

    llama.cpp (llama.app)
  • 1 39

    Flatworms, Ion Channels, and Burning Mouths (www.science.org)
  • 108 63

    Dropbox is an obvious PE Target? (s-1.vercel.app)
  • 0 6

    Show HN: Find stale, orphaned, deleted-but-retrievable RAG vectors (github.com)
  • 91 191

    The Human Is the Loop (brentfitzgerald.com)
  • 10 10

    'Every millimetre counts': Inside the beast tunnelling under Sydney Harbour (www.smh.com.au)
  • 49 196

    Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI (www.404media.co)
  • 31 105

    The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood (whdh.com)
  • 57 375

    The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025) (aresluna.org)
  • 95 201

    New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner (newbedfordlight.org)
  • 2 55

    Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 13 12

    Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies (www.economist.com)
  • 17 44

    DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight (arstechnica.com)
  • 63 72

    Retire the Abstractions (hazyresearch.stanford.edu)
  • 186 223

    CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York (www.cftc.gov)
  • 33 86

    Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout (line9.ai)