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  • 1 6

    The Secret Origins of Amazon's Alexa (www.wired.com)
  • 0 5

    Drone-Bench: Tracking simple drone surveillance capabilities of frontier models (andonlabs.com)
  • 1 25

    Marimo Now Runs in PyCharm (marimo.io)
  • 17 97

    Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales (www.dbos.dev)
  • 23 27

    Asked Codex to redesign a page; it pushed my repo to OpenAI infra (bhanu.io)
  • 0 10

    Reporting Web 3D Capabilities on a Budget of $3 a Month (ben3d.ca)
  • 10 32

    The small, real, original web (spacetimetech.wordpress.com)
  • 35 59

    Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 60 65

    Self-host your mail server (blog.haschek.at)
  • 9 37

    The hardest way to make a GIF (blog.willgrant.org)
  • 35 73

    Don't Take the Black Pill [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 44 75

    I got into YC Startup School by hacking it (obaid.wtf)
  • 6 20

    BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation and its impact on the Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 3 39

    Gsxui – Shadcn-style components for Go (ui.gsxhq.dev)
  • 174 329

    Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models (www.cnbc.com)
  • 3 7

    Build Systems Discussion (civboot.github.io)
  • 3 4

    PySINDy – A package for the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems (github.com)
  • 12 22

    The Kids' Guide to Piracy (friendo.monster)
  • 0 38

    Extending Polars with Rust Expression Plugins (fenic.ai)
  • 1 9

    Cloning Mifare Classic Cards via Proxmark3 (blog.muffn.io)
  • 6 33

    DuckPGQ – A DuckDB community extension for graph workloads (duckpgq.org)
  • 3 73

    Claude Opus 5 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 525 974

    Claude Opus 5 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 64 51

    Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It (adriengonin.com)
  • 51 42

    Proving a human wrote something (gjtorikian.online)
  • 11 51

    The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene (www.science.org)
  • 27 63

    Unitree As2-W (www.unitree.com)
  • 88 90

    JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal (openjdk.org)
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  • 39 34

    Apple won't let me show my app (wisedayplanner.com)
  • 2 22

    Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages (hopl.info)
  • 5 24

    Making Xen's dom0 I/O path NUMA aware (edera.dev)
  • 166 314

    Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story (www.theguardian.com)
  • 2 18

    Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist, married to wait, what? (tyrandus.dev)
  • 127 102

    Codeberg Divides (lucumr.pocoo.org)
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    So bright the vision (1956) a story about machines writing instead of humans [pdf] (s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com)
  • 37 69

    The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm (foldkit.dev)
  • 5 24

    You need to let the AI cook (www.ivan.codes)
  • 7 42

    Plants vs. Zombies for PlayStation 2 (github.com)
  • 6 11

    PCI DSS DMARC Requirement: What Section 5.4.1 Requires (dmarcguard.io)
  • 12 35

    My Emacs Configuration (Dired) (eugene-andrienko.com)
  • 6 38

    Writing a Debugger from Scratch (www.timdbg.com)
  • 1 33

    WebGPU Unleashed: A Practical Tutorial (shi-yan.github.io)
  • 214 291

    Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey (www.thehindu.com)
  • 18 11

    Preventing line breaks in <code> elements (alexwlchan.net)
  • 39 222

    Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS (discuss.haiku-os.org)
  • 93 51

    Latest Airbus single aisle aircraft innovations (www.airbus.com)
  • 9 19

    Interview with a Maintainer (nesbitt.io)
  • 9 38

    3GPP Version 19 (www.3gpp.org)
  • 2 14

    Mag Computer: A Mag History of RAM (1960–2025) (magworld.pw)
  • 0 19

    Co-Opting Linux Processes for High-Performance Network Simulation (2022) (www.usenix.org)
  • 22 34

    How the God of Israel Was Born (andreafontana.it)
  • 2 111

    Open Weights and American AI Leadership [pdf] (images.nvidia.com)
  • 4 23

    Kaizen #4: Overhauled Homelab (timharek.no)
  • 13 71

    Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund AI spending (www.jpost.com)
  • 3 7

    The story behind APC-2 (teenage.engineering)
  • 51 39

    Ah, the Codeberg Drama (gagliardoni.net)
  • 258 151

    Patreon laying off 20% of staff (www.patreon.com)
  • 267 311

    Em dashes are amazing (psychotechnology.substack.com)
  • 22 26

    Eight Newly Produced MQ-9 Reaper Drones Destroyed in Iranian Strike (militarywatchmagazine.com)
  • 7 15

    LLMs Are Still Toxic, Stuck in the Past, and Bad at Math (www.eyosias.dev)
  • 69 56

    How do we stop vibe coding? (alexklos.ca)
  • 154 434

    My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page (hhh.hn)
  • 73 82

    I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year (www.alexhyett.com)
  • 47 51

    Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing? (elsewhere.news)
  • 12 26

    Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (www.bruh.ltd)
  • 119 391

    India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch (arstechnica.com)
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  • 231 195

    IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center (houseofsaud.com)
  • 4 17

    Show HN: Audio Player with "Binaural Beats" tuned to the same key as your music (github.com)
  • 53 65

    German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications (www.reuters.com)
  • 22 61

    The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival (technicshistory.com)
  • 58 60

    The case for MUDs in modern times (2018) (www.andrewzigler.com)
  • 12 26

    Tangleflow: Converts GitHub Actions workflows to tangled workflows and back (github.com)
  • 51 30

    Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users (openai.com)
  • 12 57

    Game of Trees – Git-based version control from OpenBSD folks (www.gameoftrees.org)
  • 8 4

    My football predictor scores 0.203 vs. the bookies' 0.198 – and loses (kickoffreport.com)
  • 0 9

    Mohabi: Disaggregating and Sandboxing the Firefox JavaScript Engine (www.usenix.org)
  • 72 141

    Hetzner is working on LLM Inference (sliplane.io)
  • 150 214

    Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds (ziggit.dev)
  • 37 38

    Computational chemistry, Locally? My rant on SSH (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
  • 34 77

    AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 15 18

    The Ever-Receding Pocket (zhenyi.gibber.blog)
  • 3 6

    Show HN: A static, client-side tarot calculator for Brazilian Portuguese (meuarcanopessoal.net)
  • 4 18

    I could do that in a weekend (2016) (danluu.com)
  • 373 663

    It's getting harder to focus every day (glyphack.com)
  • 5 47

    The Book Prize Index (book-prize-index.vercel.app)
  • 246 299

    If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse? (ptrchm.com)
  • 47 296

    Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models (bfl.ai)
  • 86 80

    Future euro banknote design proposals (www.ecb.europa.eu)
  • 77 190

    The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) (sive.rs)
  • 148 278

    Claude Cookbook (platform.claude.com)
  • 0 21

    Projects every RC live races and results (rc-replay.dev)
  • 89 68

    Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries (www.bbc.com)
  • 75 64

    The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std:indirect type (mariusbancila.ro)
  • 0 9

    Visualizing the Artemis II Mission (foxglove.dev)
  • 126 539

    Flux 3 (bfl.ai)
  • 21 59

    Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B (www.wsj.com)
  • 22 38

    Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for about $10B (twitter.com)
  • 42 32

    For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings (news.mit.edu)
  • 2 16

    Show HN: A factory simulator game built on Spreadsheets (www.logisheets.com)
  • 40 54

    Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis (www.wheresyoured.at)
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  • 12 61

    Quickly rewrite Git repository history (github.com)
  • 203 199

    Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models (obsoletesony.substack.com)
  • 94 68

    The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin (reprodev.com)
  • 6 27

    Freeze-Casting (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 40 73

    Police removed prominent scientists from American Diabetes Association meeting (www.the-scientist.com)
  • 1 88

    Mourning Dan Williams (lwn.net)
  • 8 33

    Fractl.art – a fractal generator with 8 octillion different patterns (fractl.art)
  • 36 104

    A24 Is Copyright Striking Backrooms Artwork Older Than the Movie (www.thegamer.com)
  • 24 104

    The Visual 6502 (visual6502.org)
  • 7 15

    Feral cats fail at urban rodent control (2018) (wildlife.org)
  • 36 164

    What else do people draw on gradient.horse? (rybakov.com)
  • 121 535

    98.css (jdan.github.io)
  • 75 71

    A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025) (arxiv.org)
  • 5 27

    Building watchable digital twins of 64 World Cup games (rogerdickey.com)
  • 11 41

    Interview with Matheus Moreira about Lone Lisp and Linux Kernel (alexalejandre.com)
  • 174 464

    Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
  • 223 349

    Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. (www.science.org)
  • 1 15

    Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 102 111

    Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account (blog.google)
  • 95 470

    The Beam Engine (glinscott.github.io)
  • 13 22

    Big Tech Isn't Hiding $1.65T of Debt (finterm.ai)
  • 7 43

    Escape Analysis in Go: Stack vs. Heap Allocations Explained (blog.jetbrains.com)
  • 213 446

    Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
  • 13 49

    Show HN: Trifle – Open-source analytics that stores answers, not events (trifle.io)
  • 3 67

    ICE Illegally Scooped Up Medicaid Data, Then Shared It with Palantir (www.techdirt.com)
  • 20 65

    Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds (wuemeli.com)
  • 0 12

    From Evaluation to Guardrails: What We Brought to ACM FAccT 2026 (blog.mozilla.ai)
  • 30 98

    A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements (pme.uchicago.edu)
  • 59 65

    Geekbench 7 (www.geekbench.com)
  • 92 173

    Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)
  • 2 72

    Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust (soteria-tools.com)
  • 83 106

    Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you (github.com)
  • 209 305

    The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)
  • 7 8

    Launching Health in ChatGPT (openai.com)
  • 262 369

    Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com)
  • 193 404

    What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)
  • 31 103

    Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com)
  • 12 20

    Log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 62 82

    Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents
  • 30 183

    Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com)
  • 81 101

    JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator) (openjdk.org)
  • 59 112

    Emacs Is a Lispboard (en.andros.dev)
  • 16 26

    How to Sell a Kettle (www.economist.com)
  • 64 88

    UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August (www.theguardian.com)
  • 6 37

    Silent Replacement of Trusted macOS App Executables (mysk.blog)
  • 110 210

    Fields Medals 2026 (www.mathunion.org)
  • 15 82

    Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts (github.com)
  • 11 21

    NerdLens: Mirror your computer with cardboard VR (github.com)
  • 14 107

    Learn WebGPU for C++ (eliemichel.github.io)
  • 320 259

    DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (www.darpa.mil)
  • 26 76

    What happens when the information runs out (blog.jimgrey.net)
  • 94 91

    Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency (www.rtx.com)
  • 19 47

    Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium (tangled.org)
  • 167 83

    I think you might be fooling yourself with AI (louwrentius.com)
  • 11 23

    Show HN: I built a zero-latency developer tool suite in pure Vanilla JavaScript (omnideck.cc)
  • 25 52

    You can now run same OCI images as containers or Firecracker microVMs (github.com)
  • 2 4

    Show HN: I made YAFL – a E2EE file handoff for AI agents (yafl.dev)
  • 839 1034

    Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (www.politico.com)
  • 38 49

    Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig (yamafaktory.github.io)
  • 14 44

    Show HN: macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards (github.com)
  • 74 72

    How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use? (ourworldindata.org)
  • 32 97

    Show HN: Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone (github.com)
  • 3 19

    Vulkan Tutorial (vulkan-tutorial.com)
  • 138 264

    Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)
  • 63 29

    Writing fingerprint analysis of responses reveals Kimi's similarity to Claude (typebulb.com)
  • 3 20

    Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?
  • 18 51

    Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: E2EE and the "Going Dark" Debate (papers.ssrn.com)
  • 26 30

    Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
  • 24 93

    OpenStreetMap: Admin_level for All Countries (wiki.openstreetmap.org)
  • 643 1423

    Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
  • 70 293

    Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)
  • 159 142

    Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change (werd.io)
  • 487 495

    I regret migrating to Codeberg (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
  • 4 28

    The Telegarden (1995-2004) (goldberg.berkeley.edu)
  • 82 224

    Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (www.eso.org)
  • 361 673

    AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)
  • 282 267

    Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs (www.reuters.com)
  • 43 73

    Scanning for Pangram Errors (veryfineprint.substack.com)
  • 330 289

    OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line (www.axios.com)
  • 22 37

    Publishers consider opting out of Google as search traffic declines (www.niemanlab.org)
  • 147 75

    Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI (blog.google)
  • 2 29

    Test-time training 3D reconstruction (github.com)
  • 113 77

    New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory (frame.work)
  • 108 118

    Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality (www.worseonpurpose.com)
  • 67 61

    Code mode yields a 99.2% cost reduction in our systems (www.agent-swarm.dev)
  • 29 84

    The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal (unity.com)
  • 180 169

    EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps (www.theguardian.com)
  • 4 44

    Frequently Asked Questions on Expertise (jtpeterson.substack.com)
  • 2 10

    Computing Camera Rays (momentsingraphics.de)
  • 144 197

    Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs (blog.codeberg.org)
  • 32 58

    ANSI escape injection in MCP servers: Hidden from humans, visible to AI (brightsec.com)
  • 114 155

    Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 (ziggit.dev)
  • 120 134

    Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot (jointhefreeworld.org)
  • 166 176

    Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time (dfarq.homeip.net)
  • 1 4

    Local AI that finds sensitive files on your Mac before attackers do (www.vaultsort.com)
  • 46 49

    Why malloc always does more than I asked for? (ssenthilnathan3.github.io)
  • 120 183

    git's –end-of-options Flag (nesbitt.io)
  • 10 61

    ascdraw: Editor for ASCII/UTF-8 diagrams (in 144FPS) (github.com)
  • 0 29

    Honey Bee Colony Monitoring via Audio IoT Sensors, Tensorgrams and RNNs (arxiv.org)
  • 34 53

    Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program (github.blog)
  • 438 565

    OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
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  • 37 135

    Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style (petals.dev)
  • 13 17

    NixOS is more complicated than you think but OpenCode fixed it (grigio.org)
  • 642 366

    Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects (codeberg.org)
  • 10 41

    What Rose Petals Teach Us about Induction (www.oranlooney.com)
  • 19 110

    All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized (claytondorge.com)
  • 14 19

    Why I'm building a note taking app without AI (withdocket.com)