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  • 0 7

    The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI (darylcecile.net)
  • 0 5

    Talk Is Cheap: The Operational Impact of LLM Use (unessays.substack.com)
  • 0 17

    Chibil: A C compiler targeting .NET IL (github.com)
  • 5 16

    An Analysis of GrapheneOS's Server Infrastructure (write.as)
  • 14 23

    Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace (github.com)
  • 32 46

    I'm So Tired of Ads (blog.absurdpirate.com)
  • 0 13

    Experimental pill promises new hope for pancreatic cancer (apnews.com)
  • 3 43

    Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows (www.theguardian.com)
  • 18 73

    1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices (prismml.com)
  • 3 10

    FROST: Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing [pdf] (hannesweissteiner.com)
  • 9 55

    Restartable Sequences (justine.lol)
  • 0 24

    Folding Beijing (www.uncannymagazine.com)
  • 135 227

    The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription (thoughts.hmmz.org)
  • 0 7

    The "Stars" of Titanic (2012) (blogs.loc.gov)
  • 46 50

    You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008) (paulgraham.com)
  • 58 61

    The people who actually want AI to replace humanity (www.vox.com)
  • 7 24

    Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6 (kenforthewin.github.io)
  • 97 190

    Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL (hacktivis.me)
  • 85 138

    I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200 (blog.tymscar.com)
  • 4 21

    Inkstravaganza (www.inkandswitch.com)
  • 22 15

    Human brains are misaligned, hallucinative, stochastic parrots (substack.com)
  • 58 73

    United Airlines 767 Returns to Newark After Bluetooth Name Sparks Alert (simpleflying.com)
  • 67 55

    What it's like to have your insulin pump die while you're on vacation (blog.lauramichet.com)
  • 55 58

    Backpressure is all you need (www.lucasfcosta.com)
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  • 95 289

    Dav2d (jbkempf.com)
  • 1 4

    Tidio, Intercom, Wexio: identical on paper, built for different teams (wexio.io)
  • 8 69

    Security Envelope Pattern collection – S.E.C.R.E.T (secret-archive.org)
  • 5 41

    86Box v6.0 (86box.net)
  • 2 10

    Soviet 80s supercomputer project "Start" (start.iis.nsk.su)
  • 68 32

    The dangerous delusion of modern warfare (economist.com)
  • 6 30

    Mysteries of the Griffin iMate (www.projectgus.com)
  • 106 201

    London's Free Roof Terraces (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
  • 23 92

    One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust (blog.nlnetlabs.nl)
  • 13 90

    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)
  • 142 352

    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)
  • 3 102

    A pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017) (arxiv.org)
  • 9 95

    Avian Visitors (theodore.net)
  • 2 18

    Show HN: Komi-learn – continuous memory and self-improvement for coding agents (github.com)
  • 32 65

    Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti (journals.biologists.com)
  • 0 12

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

    Ask HN: Have you ever created a custom RISC-V ISA extension?
  • 8 50

    Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
  • 20 153

    Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us (mechanical-pencil.com)
  • 13 139

    A Gentle Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography [pdf] (cryptography101.ca)
  • 324 389

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

    Carbon Nanotube CPU Cooling (www.lttlabs.com)
  • 134 302

    The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification) (av2.aomedia.org)
  • 22 216

    Racket v9.2 (blog.racket-lang.org)
  • 26 46

    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)
  • 38 57

    I am against GenAI and everything it stands for (lpcvoid.com)
  • 6 37

    Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele in Conversation (2018) (www.theparisreview.org)
  • 3 10

    Custom Errors Are Non-Negotiable in My Rust Applications (tristonarmstrong.com)
  • 348 954

    Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (consumerrights.wiki)
  • 43 355

    Shantell Sans (2023) (shantellsans.com)
  • 37 134

    Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing (brie.gay)
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  • 17 53

    90% of the T Distribution (entropicthoughts.com)
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  • 7 44

    Show HN: Open Envelope – an open schema for defining AI agent teams (openenvelope.org)
  • 8 34

    Tsplat – Run Gaussian splatting in your terminal (github.com)
  • 12 95

    Design Engineering Magazine (interfaces.dev)
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  • 26 103

    wolfSSL releases a new product; wolfCOSE a zero alloc C embbedded COSE stack (github.com)
  • 48 37

    Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant (techcrunch.com)
  • 9 12

    Kore: Binary File Format Optimized for Modern Data Systems (Open Source) (github.com)
  • 476 763

    Domain expertise has always been the real moat (www.brethorsting.com)
  • 15 110

    Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled (twilitrealm.dev)
  • 3 12

    Zerostack v1.3.4 released – Lightweight Unix-inspired coding agent (crates.io)
  • 9 18

    Shakespeare’s World – I thought this would be simple but (knowwhereconsulting.co.uk)
  • 3 11

    An OS in pure Rust with its own TCP/IP and TLS 1.3 stack, fetching the live web (github.com)
  • 6 28

    A disappearing Service Processor (2025) (oxide.computer)
  • 7 21

    Oscar-winning Star Wars editor Marcia Lucas dies aged 80 (www.bbc.com)
  • 62 99

    Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina (www.ft.com)
  • 18 36

    We are constantly broadcasting emotional data (www.tonyrice.me)
  • 61 121

    Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping (remyhax.xyz)
  • 64 113

    Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013) (lowendmac.com)
  • 104 389

    I found a seashell in the middle of the desert (github.com)
  • 23 128

    Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard (ajin.im)
  • 137 313

    EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated (gptzero.me)
  • 3 31

    Searching for Birds (searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com)
  • 172 193

    Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates (www.lloydslist.com)
  • 11 54

    White House's Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens (www.wired.com)
  • 74 60

    Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025) (musings.martyn.berlin)
  • 7 17

    Driver, 87, dies after Tesla on Autopilot mode crashes into pond (www.usatoday.com)
  • 15 40

    Stateless Actors (www.massicotte.org)
  • 22 120

    Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange (www.righto.com)
  • 94 220

    Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog (ziglang.org)
  • 232 446

    OpenRouter raises $113M Series B (openrouter.ai)
  • 160 311

    Accenture to acquire Ookla (newsroom.accenture.com)
  • 4 7

    Gardeners often hear about supposed hacks and quick fix. Here are some debunked (apnews.com)
  • 29 83

    Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014) (fsgworkinprogress.com)
  • 298 137

    To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks (musings.martyn.berlin)
  • 63 88

    Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
  • 25 18

    Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear (voyagecoat.com)
  • 48 119

    It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle (2004) (fermatslibrary.com)
  • 6 89

    A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits (2025) (sigbovik.org)
  • 170 178

    AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers (jackmaguire.org)
  • 0 9

    Probabilistic, Reformative Justice (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 14 39

    Testing the WWI concrete ships and WWII concrete barges (thecretefleet.com)
  • 64 297

    Voxel Space (2017) (s-macke.github.io)
  • 70 43

    Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering (phroneses.com)
  • 67 156

    Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain (news.northwestern.edu)
  • 463 409

    Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup (qazinform.com)
  • 29 236

    Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine (myzopotamia.dev)
  • 40 125

    Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9 (github.com)
  • 172 449

    Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team (github.com)
  • 12 58

    Adding Linux support back for the BASIC (free) version of Vivado (adaptivesupport.amd.com)
  • 91 198

    IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses (www.engadget.com)
  • 165 178

    Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets (www.wsj.com)
  • 43 119

    Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain (helios.southlondonscientific.com)
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  • 3 315

    Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time (arstechnica.com)
  • 287 227

    Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism (www.economist.com)
  • 69 264

    What are locusts and what happened to them? (explosion-scratch.github.io)
  • 57 426

    Pandoc Templates (pandoc-templates.org)
  • 25 47

    Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU (asawicki.info)
  • 70 89

    The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History (www.deadcarl.com)
  • 240 356

    Zig: Build System Reworked (ziglang.org)
  • 3 40

    Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate (www.science.org)
  • 5 24

    Quantum dot qubit using High NA EUV lithography (www.imec-int.com)
  • 79 112

    Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits (mastodon.gamedev.place)
  • 12 460

    Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation (www.reuters.com)
  • 1 14

    Ho-scale slot car racing in the Santa Cruz Mountains (stewartraceway.org)
  • 26 33

    OpenRCT2 v0.5.1 "Swamp Castle" released Last version to support Windows 7 (openrct2.io)
  • 84 103

    Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us (overreacted.io)
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  • 6 55

    A new register allocator for ZJIT (railsatscale.com)
  • 1 17

    Records Show UC Sharing Data with US Customs and Border Protection (www.dailycal.org)
  • 20 93

    What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 4 16

    Show HN: VT Code – open-source terminal coding agent in Rust (github.com)
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  • 7 63

    Math-to-Manim (github.com)
  • 100 123

    Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM (www.perryts.com)
  • 1 9

    Let Equals Equal Equals (bennypowers.dev)
  • 117 161

    Naphtha shortages in Japan (www.nippon.com)
  • 570 264

    WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 3 5

    Switch between three keyboard languages (mnaoumov.dev)
  • 25 77

    Ember.js 7.0 (blog.emberjs.com)
  • 4 11

    What Did the Hudson River School Painters See? (www.nytimes.com)
  • 199 533

    What Is a Dickover? (daringfireball.net)