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  • 3 11

    Senators Launch Effort Ban Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets (www.merkley.senate.gov)
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    CasNum (github.com)
  • 1 13

    In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad (buttondown.com)
  • 28 78

    War Prediction Markets Are a National-Security Threat (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 0 9

    The Prompt I Cannot Read – Written by an LLM, about Being an LLM (the-prompt-i-cannot-read-ee16d7.gitlab.io)
  • 4 64

    Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (arcanenibble.github.io)
  • 77 96

    We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're Not Robots (www.techdirt.com)
  • 27 12

    19 States approved permanent daylight saving time (pix11.com)
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  • 2 20

    Track AIPAC – Follow Israel lobby spending in U.S. politics (www.trackaipac.com)
  • 2 33

    macOS code injection for fun and no profit (2024) (mariozechner.at)
  • 10 26

    Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé (2023) (dynomight.net)
  • 27 33

    Addicted to Claude Code–Help
  • 56 47

    Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code (fazy.medium.com)
  • 18 53

    The Banality of Surveillance (benn.substack.com)
  • 107 166

    A Decade of Docker Containers (cacm.acm.org)
  • 44 59

    Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 (www.businessinsider.com)
  • SigNoz (YC W21, open source Datadog) Is Hiring across roles (signoz.io)
  • 13 47

    Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans (arstechnica.com)
  • 8 74

    Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf] (vfxforth.com)
  • 45 154

    The Millisecond That Could Change Cancer Treatment (spectrum.ieee.org)
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  • 7 21

    Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 70 59

    LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code (twitter.com)
  • 22 69

    Show HN: µJS, a 5KB alternative to Htmx and Turbo with zero dependencies (mujs.org)
  • 109 153

    The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan (www.bbc.com)
  • 21 68

    Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver (github.com)
  • 11 30

    Migrating from Heroku to Magic Containers (bunny.net)
  • 167 143

    Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep (www.sciencealert.com)
  • 108 137

    PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 76 137

    Filesystems Are Having a Moment (madalitso.me)
  • 18 54

    The Case of the Disappearing Secretary (rowlandmanthorpe.substack.com)
  • 82 99

    Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours (www.moneycontrol.com)
  • 11 71

    Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 2 5

    Show HN: The Fastest Way to Ship TanStack Apps (tanstackstarterkit.com)
  • 74 190

    US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide (www.ft.com)
  • 4 20

    Compiling Match Statements to Bytecode (xnacly.me)
  • 133 155

    Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse (matduggan.com)
  • 13 63

    48x32, a 1536 LED Game Computer (2023) (jacquesmattheij.com)
  • 110 321

    Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST (ki-editor.org)
  • 4 11

    Moving from Python to Mojo (docs.modular.com)
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  • 34 32

    Claude AI Helped Bomb Iran. But How Exactly? (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 5 5

    From Fargo to Zebra (cendyne.dev)
  • 203 358

    Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues (torrentfreak.com)
  • 16 58

    Lock Scroll with a Vengeance (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 5 15

    Your AI Slop Bores Me (www.youraislopbores.me)
  • 45 187

    QGIS 4.0 (changelog.qgis.org)
  • 51 165

    Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM (www.sarvam.ai)
  • 9 41

    SPA vs. Hypermedia: Real-World Performance Under Load (zweiundeins.gmbh)
  • 3 25

    xAI loses bid to halt California AI data disclosure law (www.reuters.com)
  • 75 128

    Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers (www.tokyodev.com)
  • 0 7

    Worming out molecular secrets behind collective behaviour (iisc.ac.in)
  • 26 38

    German police probe student poster slur against Merz (dpa-international.com)
  • 24 37

    My application programmer instincts failed when debugging assembler (landedstar.com)
  • 4 27

    The Longing (1999) (www.cluetrain.com)
  • 48 50

    Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces (lwn.net)
  • 75 37

    Why New Zealand is seeing an exodus of over-30s (www.cnn.com)
  • 29 58

    AI Error May Have Contributed to Girl's School Bombing in Iran (thisweekinworcester.com)
  • 148 304

    Helix: A post-modern text editor (helix-editor.com)
  • 11 53

    Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu (www.knifepoint.net)
  • 9 49

    AI and the Illegal War (buttondown.com)
  • 11 81

    Querying 3B Vectors (vickiboykis.com)
  • 8 30

    Game about Data of America (americaindata.com)
  • 43 39

    Can a wealthy family change the course of a deadly brain disease? (www.science.org)
  • 0 22

    A Modular Robot Dashboard (github.com)
  • 211 331

    UUID package coming to Go standard library (github.com)
  • 116 151

    Maybe there's a pattern here? (dynomight.net)
  • 287 404

    LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first (blog.katanaquant.com)
  • 7 25

    Show HN: 1v1 coding game that LLMs struggle with (yare.io)
  • 55 95

    What canceled my Go context? (rednafi.com)
  • 1 14

    Polar Factor Beyond Newton-Schulz – Fast Matrix Inverse Square Root (jiha-kim.github.io)
  • 52 75

    Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool (github.com)
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    Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
  • 36 204

    Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text (www.science.org)
  • 204 608

    Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma (plasma-bigscreen.org)
  • 33 40

    Show HN: The Roman Industrial Revolution that could have been (Vol 2) (thelydianstone.com)
  • 103 111

    C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper (consultwithgriff.com)
  • 1 20

    The disappearing Form D (2018) (techcrunch.com)
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  • 89 129

    The shady world of IP leasing (acid.vegas)
  • 18 60

    Math Notepad (mathnotepad.com)
  • 27 88

    Art Bits from HyperCard (archives.somnolescent.net)
  • 108 344

    this css proves me human (will-keleher.com)
  • 49 125

    Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds (www.scribd.com)
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  • 86 119

    The worst acquisition in history, again (www.profgmedia.com)
  • 8 41

    Show HN: Reconstruct any image using primitive shapes, runs in-browser via WASM (github.com)
  • 132 175

    TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner (www.thetravel.com)
  • 246 262

    Anthropic, please make a new Slack (www.fivetran.com)
  • 48 96

    TypeScript 6.0 RC (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 73 71

    Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017) (www.pbs.org)
  • 37 143

    Ada 2022 (www.adaic.org)
  • 9 85

    Apache Otava (otava.apache.org)
  • 71 108

    70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023) (bookstr.com)
  • 82 200

    A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs (github.com)
  • 10 52

    Triplet Superconductor (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 105 167

    New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike (www.cnn.com)
  • 102 70

    Never Bet Against x86 (www.osnews.com)
  • 86 57

    Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs
  • 151 139

    Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command (twitter.com)
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    Show HN: A trainable, modular electronic nose for industrial use (sniphi.com)
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    Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions (twitter.com)
  • 57 43

    Strikes in Middle East since 28th Feb in real time (iranstrike.com)
  • 31 94

    Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions (github.com)
  • 29 162

    Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died (blog.adafruit.com)
  • 11 54

    Supertoast tables (hatchet.run)
  • 27 142

    Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 2 33

    "Our programs are fun to use" – Beagle Bros (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 26 98

    Astra: An open-source observatory control software (github.com)
  • Multifactor (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineering Lead (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 66 72

    CBP says it can't comply with refund order (www.cnbc.com)
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  • 43 132

    Good Bad ISPs (community.torproject.org)
  • 102 216

    Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android (opencamera.org.uk)
  • 15 17

    United Airlines says it will boot passengers who refuse to use headphones (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 7 20

    Show HN: Interactive 3D globe of EU shipping emissions (seafloor.pages.dev)
  • 65 57

    I dropped our production database and now pay 10% more for AWS (alexeyondata.substack.com)
  • 51 242

    CT Scans of Health Wearables (www.lumafield.com)
  • 158 277

    Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting (github.com)
  • 1134 1123

    Global warming has accelerated significantly (www.researchsquare.com)
  • 33 20

    Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health (slate.com)
  • 10 99

    Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025) (matejlou.blog)
  • 773 558

    US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February (www.bbc.com)
  • 14 71

    Xous security focused open source on 22nm custom silicon (www.crowdsupply.com)
  • 87 153

    It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 326 587

    Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs (news.cornell.edu)
  • 71 310

    Payphone Go (walzr.com)
  • 73 52

    First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In (www.macrumors.com)
  • 14 37

    Async Programming Is Just Inject Time (willhbr.net)
  • 96 78

    Elite Overproduction (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 165 604

    Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team (www.anthropic.com)
  • 5 41

    Image manipulation with convolution using Julia (medium.com)
  • 20 15

    If AI has a bright future, why does AI think it doesn't? (claude.ai)
  • 66 65

    U.S. Capabilities Are Showing Signs of Rot (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 95 76

    Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
  • 143 111

    How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page (bezoscalculator.com)
  • 86 278

    LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor (libresprite.github.io)
  • 0 19

    Stupidly Obscure Programming in a Troubled Time (2018) (blog.podsnap.com)
  • 326 215

    We might all be AI engineers now (yasint.dev)
  • 1 22

    Show HN: Tensor Spy: inspect NumPy and PyTorch tensors in the browser, no upload (tensorspy.com)
  • 53 105

    GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation (runxiyu.org)
  • 15 59

    Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape (journals.aps.org)
  • Stardex (YC S21) is hiring customer success engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
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  • 35 36

    Data does not speak to you (tantaman.com)
  • 68 94

    TeX Live 2026 is available for download now (www.tug.org)
  • 586 833

    System76 on Age Verification Laws (blog.system76.com)
  • 0 10

    Breaking Down 50M Pins: A Smarter Way to Design 3D IC Packages (www.allaboutcircuits.com)
  • 3 36

    Every Claim from Meta Child Safety Trials (meta-trials.vercel.app)
  • 0 7

    Code World Models for Parameter Control in Evolutionary Algorithms (www.alphaxiv.org)
  • 61 187

    Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language (dev.moment.com)
  • 5 15

    Fixpoints to think clearly (blog.yellowflash.in)
  • 20 53

    The home computer war (technicshistory.com)
  • 122 143

    Nobody ever got fired for using a struct (www.feldera.com)
  • 70 99

    Stop using grey text (2025) (catskull.net)
  • 35 100

    How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone (lockywolf.net)
  • 10 61

    Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces (happel.ai)
  • 2 18

    The remaking of Thomas Mann (www.commonwealmagazine.org)
  • 774 621

    Where things stand with the Department of War (www.anthropic.com)