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  • 1 4

    Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf] (nabstreamingsummit.com)
  • 1 10

    Bournegol??? (oldhome.schmorp.de)
  • 1 13

    Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks? (www.thek6project.co.uk)
  • 24 15

    Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
  • 5 58

    BBEdit 16 (www.barebones.com)
  • 10 53

    More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive's access (www.niemanlab.org)
  • 55 175

    Amazon, Facebook, FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network (prismreports.org)
  • 51 75

    Was my $48K GPU server worth it? (rosmine.ai)
  • 18 54

    Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid (discover.swns.com)
  • 5 31

    Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices (www.calculators.de)
  • 48 166

    Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart (valhovey.github.io)
  • ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Distributed Systems/Platform Engineers
  • 0 8

    Wes mckinney releases multiple bangers (kenn.io)
  • 153 126

    Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)
  • 42 148

    London Mayor Blocks Palantir (www.theguardian.com)
  • 16 45

    What Is Happening to Publishing? (resobscura.substack.com)
  • 9 32

    Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team (www.runtm.com)
  • 6 46

    We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API (rivet.dev)
  • 2 6

    What 1,281 agent runs reveal about coding agent failure in large codebases (tessl.io)
  • 34 51

    Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS (jvns.ca)
  • 23 150

    Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking
  • 59 166

    Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) (blog.simbastack.com)
  • 34 72

    Michael Keating has died (www.bigfinish.com)
  • 148 187

    Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can (www.osnews.com)
  • 15 29

    The Palomar Lights (comics.phillyharper.com)
  • 206 379

    Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch (www.0xsid.com)
  • 57 181

    A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide (www.wired.com)
  • 91 99

    Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence from Polymarket (papers.ssrn.com)
  • 166 206

    US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
  • 60 56

    Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40 (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 562 678

    AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale (axelk.ee)
  • 474 327

    Shunning AI is the human choice (www.thehandbasket.co)
  • 30 68

    FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation (fatgid.io)
  • 2 63

    IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 40 90

    Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt (gist.github.com)
  • 48 108

    What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 63 211

    Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 120 140

    Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades (www.newscientist.com)
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  • 94 92

    Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars (www.guitarworld.com)
  • 367 831

    Flipper One – we need your help (blog.flipper.net)
  • 119 245

    Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines (blog.changs.co.uk)
  • 207 363

    Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations (noslopgrenade.com)
  • 418 491

    We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot (blog.google)
  • 7 23

    Show HN: The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian (funes.world)
  • 72 150

    Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK (github.com)
  • 3 20

    Numexpr: Fast numerical array expression evaluator for Python, NumPy, Pandas (github.com)
  • 13 42

    The famous O3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work (www.seangoedecke.com)
  • 26 48

    The Interview That Ships to Production: replacing whiteboards with pull requests (www.angellist.com)
  • Typewise (YC S22) Is Hiring an AI Growth Engineer (Zurich or Remote) (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 201 270

    Vivaldi 8.0 (vivaldi.com)
  • 27 75

    All the bugs they found (andreapivetta.com)
  • 33 102

    Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta) (silentshark.app)
  • 13 61

    Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++ (ryanjk5.github.io)
  • 52 106

    Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water (www.waterdictionary.net)
  • 20 124

    New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output (developers.redhat.com)
  • 3 137

    OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday (www.cnbc.com)
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  • 61 168

    Haskell Foundation 2026 Update (discourse.haskell.org)
  • 12 52

    A Markdown-based test suite (blogsystem5.substack.com)
  • 96 83

    What is a Demand Coop (cahootzcoops.com)
  • 50 256

    The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
  • 34 109

    Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP (yes-we-scan.app)
  • 175 240

    Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI (techcrunch.com)
  • 111 143

    Your Most Improbable Life (kevinkelly.substack.com)
  • 95 392

    Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com)
  • 0 21

    Deep – CLI/REPL for generating and iterating on codebases using DeepSeek (github.com)
  • 311 274

    Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 (twitter.com)
  • 3 11

    The OEIS meta sequence and subway stations (www.jeremykun.com)
  • 74 331

    DOS Zone (dos.zone)
  • 39 85

    Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos (github.com)
  • 1 19

    Long-term editing of brain circuits using an engineered electrical synapse (www.nature.com)
  • 22 43

    GitHub's take on age assurance for developers (github.blog)
  • 143 178

    Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad' (www.openculture.com)
  • 416 590

    Google Declaring War on the Web (tante.cc)
  • 107 116

    Starship's Twelfth Flight Test (www.spacex.com)
  • 71 220

    Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects (legiscan.com)
  • 7 22

    Show HN: Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents (github.com)
  • 3 23

    In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google Declared War on the Remnants of the Web (tldr.nettime.org)
  • 6 48

    PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play (vmax.ai)
  • 156 329

    Declining America (www.tbray.org)
  • 327 414

    SpaceX S-1 (www.sec.gov)
  • 26 37

    SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 0 8

    Panelook (www.panelook.com)
  • 182 203

    Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing (www.science.org)
  • 436 996

    GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 2 45

    LoRA and Weight Decay (2023) (irhum.github.io)
  • 978 1352

    An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)
  • 164 490

    Flipper One Tech Specs (docs.flipper.net)
  • 51 146

    Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal) (nodejs.org)
  • 115 189

    Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025) (www.usni.org)
  • 150 207

    Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling (www.beyondplastics.org)
  • 32 99

    Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year (www.reuters.com)
  • 49 147

    Why is Inkwell stuck in review (www.manton.org)
  • 15 19

    Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90% (newatlas.com)
  • 29 138

    Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 106 95

    Why I don’t vibe code (jacobharr.is)
  • 96 468

    How fast is N tokens per second really? (mikeveerman.github.io)
  • 101 171

    Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
  • 76 55

    Standard Chartered CEO walks back comment about 'lower-value human capital' (www.wsj.com)
  • 108 119

    After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban (www.404media.co)
  • 15 62

    Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model (github.com)
  • 365 164

    OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (www.wsj.com)
  • 246 490

    Apparently Google hates us now (twitter.com)
  • 18 40

    Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC (appleinsider.com)
  • 29 44

    Handling the great code forge fragmentation (www.alexselimov.com)
  • 30 135

    Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops (reubenbrooks.dev)
  • 18 97

    Stable Audio 3 (arxiv.org)
  • 10 159

    SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014) (pvk.ca)
  • 6 38

    Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend (github.com)
  • 23 31

    Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000) (www.edn.com)
  • 78 45

    Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel (lithub.com)
  • 18 91

    Testing distributed systems with AI agents (github.com)
  • 498 753

    Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit (www.fire.org)
  • 0 64

    Autoregressive next token prediction and KV Cache in transformers (medium.com)
  • 103 48

    560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits (bmjgroup.com)
  • 54 92

    America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen (danieltan.weblog.lol)
  • 8 87

    When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (2024) (github.com)
  • 753 934

    Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment (www.lesnumeriques.com)
  • 452 1047

    Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE (www.alqst.org)
  • 154 402

    Saying goodbye to asm.js (spidermonkey.dev)
  • 222 272

    Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order (torrentfreak.com)
  • 209 329

    Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back (www.bbc.com)
  • 377 367

    College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 195 195

    Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 108 81

    No way to parse integers in C (2022) (blog.habets.se)
  • 282 685

    Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier (qwen.ai)
  • 174 435

    Map of Metal (mapofmetal.com)
  • 13 52

    The Invention of Buses (worksinprogress.co)
  • 254 440

    Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension (blog.railway.com)
  • 73 55

    A new book about humanity's obsession with gold (www.economist.com)
  • 1 10

    Show HN: Typeset sitelen pona and copy a PNG (for toki pona speakers) (sitelen.vercel.app)
  • 195 167

    Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) (zfhuang99.github.io)
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  • 5 7

    Enabling Resizable Bar on RTX 3080 Vbios via GitHub (github.com)
  • 3 50

    Simulated Evolution on the PICO-8 (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
  • 11 54

    CopyFail: From Pod to Host (xint.io)
  • 80 75

    There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going (kottke.org)
  • 47 169

    Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy (news.infomaniak.com)
  • 49 65

    RISC-V and Floating-Point (fprox.substack.com)
  • 164 356

    Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (www.bbc.com)
  • 63 88

    Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates (www.macobserver.com)
  • 681 492

    Everything in C is undefined behavior (blog.habets.se)
  • 14 33

    Nostalgic Kits Central (2024) (www.nostalgickitscentral.com)
  • 2 30

    Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows (andlukyane.com)
  • 5 38

    Skills in Web, iOS, and Android (x.ai)
  • 110 116

    India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark (www.hindustantimes.com)
  • 6 262

    GitHub Compromised (twitter.com)
  • 27 88

    In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident (producelikeapro.com)
  • 6 25

    Evals will break (wanglun1996.github.io)
  • 27 66

    HTML-in-Canvas Demos (github.com)
  • 5 41

    Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (imaginaryinstruments.org)
  • 81 375

    FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (fivethirtyeightindex.com)
  • 14 17

    Microsoft is 1.84 Peters, Google is 0.66. What's the Peter unit? (github.com)
  • 23 93

    The Mercury logic programming system (github.com)
  • 3 93

    Railway Is Having a Major Outage (status.railway.com)
  • 202 397

    Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 (developers.googleblog.com)
  • 39 53

    El Niño is coming. The last time ocean temp. looked like this, millions died (respublicamgz.substack.com)
  • 351 555

    Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] (status.railway.com)
  • 337 625

    GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories (twitter.com)
  • 3 32

    Unusual uses of OEIS sequences on GitHub (www.jeremykun.com)