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    Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake (jakearchibald.com)
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    ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (arstechnica.com)
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    TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
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    Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (www.nature.com)
  • 5 28

    The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding (www.bbc.com)
  • 5 12

    When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense (software.rajivprab.com)
  • 25 32

    The AI Apocalypse Is Here (www.compactmag.com)
  • 28 23

    Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (www.bbc.com)
  • 48 86

    Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
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    The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video] (gdcvault.com)
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    You can build an AI agent's memory layer with only Go's standard library (towardsdev.com)
  • 11 67

    Dithered QR Codes (www.andrewt.net)
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    Title 7 Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal (www.nyujll.com)
  • 30 82

    Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
  • 53 35

    Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause (bigthink.com)
  • 14 114

    Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (www.redblobgames.com)
  • 68 166

    My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
  • 5 27

    DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler (github.com)
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    The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (1960) (web.njit.edu)
  • 28 75

    Making difficulty curves in games (www.davetech.co.uk)
  • 2 7

    The Idea of an Immutable Social Media (citizendot.github.io)
  • 63 100

    Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (news.maryland.gov)
  • 3 51

    Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (zeus.ugent.be)
  • 22 100

    Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
  • 35 79

    Message your other Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)
  • 3 49

    Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (www.science.org)
  • 52 60

    Python string literals are kinda funny (sebsite.pw)
  • 14 51

    TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
  • 248 532

    Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)
  • 137 212

    Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
  • 132 176

    Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
  • 59 79

    Monitors for Work (etbe.coker.com.au)
  • 391 616

    “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)
  • 13 34

    Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP (toonk.io)
  • 169 339

    Fastmail offers EU data region (www.fastmail.com)
  • 99 165

    LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com)
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    Building a Rust Inference Engine That Matches Llama.cpp (www.fratepietro.com)
  • 3 13

    You can't have 24hour sunlight AND low altitude, low-latency orbits (mastodon.social)
  • 28 146

    Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (blog.getutm.app)
  • 10 26

    OpenAI Trained Models While They Were Coordinating Exploits via Message Boards (thezvi.substack.com)
  • 10 80

    From your doorbell to your home network (adepts.of0x.cc)
  • 11 69

    BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments (omnistrate.com)
  • 9 40

    Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All (www.wired.com)
  • 202 187

    Don't use your phone while you poop (nate.spot)
  • 106 155

    Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (social.treehouse.systems)
  • 13 79

    Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
  • 135 366

    _for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
  • 87 108

    Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
  • 154 86

    No one can afford to make Myst games anymore (www.wired.com)
  • 173 176

    Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (www.theverge.com)
  • 4 23

    Show HN: Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol) (andreadimatteo.com)
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    A Tome of Forbidden Technologies (ecosophia.net)
  • 86 63

    The USSR in 100 Photographs (trinixy.ru)
  • 360 364

    Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
  • 15 68

    k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number (arxiv.org)
  • 121 397

    DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
  • 13 25

    Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses (github.com)
  • 68 36

    Apple introduces leasing program for iPhones and other devices (www.nytimes.com)
  • 416 265

    US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 13 150

    Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
  • 291 217

    New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (www.nytimes.com)
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    Tell Abu Hureyra (prehistoric archaeological site) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 27 9

    Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers (ai-updates.net)
  • 9 69

    ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com)
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    Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com)
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    How the 'fecal revolution' changed Earth's ecosystems (phys.org)
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    From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)
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    Working on Economics with Fable 5 (wilsoniumite.com)
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    As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 19 81

    Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 (web.archive.org)
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    Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature (github.com)
  • 97 425

    A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (www.runnersworld.com)
  • 35 161

    SupererDuperer (www.shirtpocket.com)
  • 81 360

    NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (www.space.com)
  • 19 18

    I'm Pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store (www.abeautifulsite.net)
  • 202 387

    The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (discourse.nixos.org)
  • 63 131

    Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)
  • 58 51

    Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals? (www.economist.com)
  • 2 35

    Captain Bible Reverse Engineering (github.com)