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  • 1 13

    Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver (daniel.lawrence.lu)
  • 21 65

    Everyone Should Know SIMD (mitchellh.com)
  • 15 18

    I tried to record music onto a cassette tape using modern tech (swiftrocks.com)
  • 59 156

    Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing? (dylancastillo.co)
  • 71 79

    Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth (ciphertalk.substack.com)
  • 151 320

    Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample (chatgpt.com)
  • 35 193

    GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization (github.com)
  • 8 38

    When is NVLink worth it? (platform-fools.com)
  • 37 65

    Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept (cruciblebench.ai)
  • 22 47

    Show HN: Web swing through midtown NYC (www.swingnyc.com)
  • 0 15

    The Music of Destruction (thebaffler.com)
  • 17 29

    Show HN: DeepSQL – A self-hostable DBA agent for Postgres and MySQL (deepsql.ai)
  • 21 52

    Mechanical light bulb from 1675 [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 342 150

    “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3” (twitter.com)
  • 3 9

    Six questions before you add an LLM (cameronmpalmer.medium.com)
  • 22 29

    Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app (unlayer.com)
  • 9 10

    Physical Media vs. Digital Media (itsjustchronicallyoffline.bearblog.dev)
  • 13 76

    Hologram works. Elixir runs in the browser (hologram.page)
  • 53 49

    Ethics Is the Skill That Matters Most Now (agonora.com)
  • 57 85

    Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere (ishmael.textualize.io)
  • 41 25

    Which streaming service was that on again (www.timwehrle.de)
  • 0 7

    The Pillars of an API Platform (launchany.com)
  • 10 50

    Perlin's Noise Algorithm (2023) (blog.jaysmito.dev)
  • 46 57

    OpenAI Presence (openai.com)
  • 78 200

    Making (beej.us)
  • 13 48

    Neo Radar: A browser-based orbital mechanics engine with 41k real asteroids (neoradar.space)
  • 20 13

    I Am Buiding BorgIOS to de-shitify the Internet (github.com)
  • 102 484

    Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) (bento.page)
  • 36 152

    Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links (www.orangecrumbs.com)
  • 58 38

    Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. Import Reliance with Substitution and Recycling (www.gao.gov)
  • 48 56

    Airbus Full Scale Foldable Wing Extensions (www.airbus.com)
  • 150 160

    Does creatine make you smarter? (dynomight.net)
  • 17 52

    A Zipper Patent Sat in a Garage for 40 Years. Now It's Real (www.yankodesign.com)
  • 6 21

    AMD to invest up to $5B in Anthropic (www.reuters.com)
  • 8 27

    Beaver who escaped to find mate welcomes first kit (www.bbc.com)
  • 89 65

    Why I am not going to buy a computer (karlvmuller.com)
  • 3 26

    OpenAI Models Escaped and Hacked a Company in Cybersecurity Test Gone Wrong (www.wsj.com)
  • 129 238

    The startup's Postgres survival guide (hatchet.run)
  • 248 111

    Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers (www.redfin.com)
  • 7 40

    Drake Anthony Recreates the Mechanical Bulb First Seen in 1675 (www.techeblog.com)
  • 432 339

    Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain (twitter.com)
  • 24 22

    I Built a Private Genomics Study with Stoffel MPC (vishakh.blog)
  • 80 97

    OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor (opennode.com)
  • 27 47

    How to Read a Painting (sheets.works)
  • 57 90

    Why do you suck at juggling now? (pgadey.ca)
  • 107 140

    Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns (blog.fiddery.com)
  • 136 152

    Back to Kagi (blog.melashri.net)
  • 38 137

    10 REM"_(C2SLFF4 (beej.us)
  • 175 151

    So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe (www.cole-k.com)
  • 32 89

    Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds (academy.allaboutbirds.org)
  • 1 5

    OpenAI Hacks Hugging Face, What Happened, Alignment and Paper Clips (stratechery.com)
  • 98 74

    OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack (www.bbc.com)
  • 319 624

    OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future (overpaid.lol)
  • 4 17

    Overload and insight look identical from the outside (pilgrima.ge)
  • 88 188

    Never Enough (dark.ronacher.eu)
  • 44 40

    AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Gaming Performance for Less (hothardware.com)
  • 63 44

    Codeberg: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions (codeberg.org)
  • 41 212

    Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1 (hashcloak.com)
  • 203 137

    Codeberg bans vibe coded projects (codeberg.org)
  • 74 21

    Tesla Balance Bike (shop.tesla.com)
  • 1 13

    Atomically Thin Materials Significantly Shrink Qubits (2022) (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 8 30

    I graded 36 popular MCP servers on agent usability. A third got a D or F (tengli.dev)
  • 42 116

    ScreenWall – Turn old phones into synced widgets for your space (screenwall.app)
  • 95 220

    Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon (morethanmoore.substack.com)
  • 60 95

    Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books (www.readkinetic.com)
  • 41 78

    Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer (openaim.pramit.gg)
  • 4 13

    Ask HN: US Equivalent of Anabin?
  • 51 163

    Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules (github.com)
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  • 8 66

    Kimi K3: second only to Fable 5 on AA-Briefcase (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 110 295

    Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people (late.sh)
  • 365 362

    LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 2 18

    The Miso That Went to Space (ambrook.com)
  • 252 204

    It's a shame what's happened to radio (blog.jimgrey.net)
  • 9 20

    Show HN: An MCP server that turns async-work practices into tools (github.com)
  • 95 205

    Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015) (hintjens.com)
  • 6 17

    Juggling for Blind People (www.jugglingforblindpeople.com)
  • 14 46

    A flaky test exposed a Redis client use-after-free (buildkite.engineering)
  • 43 29

    How an AI Anime Is Created (www.aventos.dev)
  • 6 11

    Show HN: Workaround – Unstar GitHub Repos in Bulk (workaround.run)
  • 28 65

    Recreating the math behind the first stealth aircraft (www.pramit.gg)
  • 2 16

    Furtex: Post-exploitation, rootkit and evasion research toolkit for Linux (github.com)
  • 5 29

    An Engineer's Guide to USB Type-C [pdf] (www.ti.com)
  • 43 127

    Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored (ai.google.dev)
  • 429 841

    Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA (fireworks.ai)
  • 4 17

    Celestrak adds catalog digit, fixes Y2K bug (www.celestrak.org)
  • 6 11

    Show HN: Browser Tools SDK – an optimal browser harness for agents (libretto.sh)
  • 25 45

    Show HN: Computable – Buy, sell, and redeem GPU for the exact weeks you want (www.getcomputable.com)
  • 15 17

    Show HN: Orate – On-device neural text-to-speech queue for Mac (orate.to)
  • 132 309

    A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 0 12

    Unified power-user environment and knowledge-representation in Common Lisp (project-mage.org)
  • 97 243

    "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok (www.tryai.dev)
  • 16 115

    The Birth of Prolog (1996) (dl.acm.org)
  • 1 11

    Measuring reward-seeking by instilling contrastive beliefs (alignment.openai.com)
  • 78 237

    Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS (en.help.roblox.com)
  • 7 13

    Mickey Mouse Sells a Bundle (www.marginpoints.com)
  • 38 188

    Show HN: Justif – Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web (justif.lyall.co)
  • 44 68

    Show HN: Read the Tape – Wordle for daytrading, five blind S&P 500 charts a day (readthetape.cc)
  • 0 26

    Zero-dependency streaming tar parser and writer for JavaScript (ayuhito.com)
  • 1069 1508

    OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation (openai.com)
  • 134 675

    'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling (www.techradar.com)
  • 537 536

    Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude (apnews.com)
  • 24 35

    I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run (localsotabenchmark.engineersf.dev)
  • 14 33

    Recreating the Bell Labs Cafeteria (danielmiessler.com)
  • 48 87

    The Price of Happiness (2024) (happiness-science.org)
  • 75 392

    Laguna S 2.1 (poolside.ai)
  • 2 7

    Show HN: DocCharm – The help center that keeps itself up to date (doccharm.com)
  • 810 1045

    Advertise in ChatGPT (ads.openai.com)
  • 141 160

    AI makes programming differently difficult (cacm.acm.org)
  • 60 71

    Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users (alex4d.com)
  • 153 684

    FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers (freeink.org)
  • 54 136

    Apple Private Cloud Compute SoC 3 audit reports (support.apple.com)
  • 16 32

    How did the H1B visa become the 'Indian' visa (numberstation.fm)
  • 3 7

    Show HN: Edky, a CLI to convert Ed25519 public keys from one encoding to another (github.com)
  • 0 22

    Greedy is optimal for single-pass semi-streaming matching (arxiv.org)
  • 35 68

    Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025) (blog.qstars.nl)
  • 30 105

    Show HN: A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy (github.com)
  • 29 51

    AI Agent – TRMNL (help.trmnl.com)
  • 2 10

    YouTube System Design for Robotics Data Infrastructure (hebbianrobotics.com)
  • 14 43

    Slater – Low-memory graphdb designed for read-heavy graphs (github.com)
  • 2 14

    (Ab)Using Overload Sets to Create Ad-Hoc Template APIs in D (blog.dlang.org)
  • 1 22

    Show HN: OSS Cross-Harness self hosted registry and analytics for AI Agents (github.com)
  • 325 366

    Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting (runtimewire.com)
  • 63 152

    Firefox Containers Preview (blog.mozilla.org)
  • 16 66

    Uhubctl – Control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs (github.com)
  • 20 58

    Show HN: CodeAlmanac – Karpathy-style codebase wiki from your conversations (github.com)
  • 23 68

    Show HN: Imagin Raw – A 9MB Open-Source Alternative to Adobe Bridge for Mac (github.com)
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  • 152 279

    My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault (rootkitlabs.com)
  • 88 97

    Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects (ai.meta.com)
  • Bloomy (YC S26) is hiring a founding engineer
  • 99 123

    Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019) (acoup.blog)
  • 29 129

    Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage (www.404media.co)
  • 84 36

    Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men (text.npr.org)
  • 56 156

    The unreasonable difficulty of time series forecasting (suzyahyah.github.io)
  • 189 306

    Map of the world's great castles and fortresses (thecastlemap.com)
  • 61 104

    France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027 (postquantum.com)
  • 75 43

    NPM's release cooldown is security theater (blog.outv.im)
  • 90 386

    Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa (e360.yale.edu)
  • 36 144

    Amid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes Dark (www.themarshallproject.org)
  • 110 124

    Oracle could face $7B collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre (www.ft.com)
  • 146 234

    ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud (www.404media.co)
  • 559 738

    Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber (blog.google)
  • 14 64

    Shanay-Timpishka, a boiling hot river 700km from the nearest active volcano (terradaily.com)
  • 67 71

    Gemini 3.6 Flash (console.cloud.google.com)
  • 162 155

    Claude Is Not a Compiler (blog.exe.dev)
  • 506 444

    Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM (blog.ericgoldman.org)
  • 18 27

    Sarah's Wager (colossus.com)
  • 21 30

    Mullvad and Daniel Berntsson's Failed Cleanup (markwrites.io)
  • 30 211

    PCjs Machines (www.pcjs.org)
  • 44 76

    Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone (lore.kernel.org)
  • 20 36

    Show HN: Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy (artifacta.io)
  • 45 133

    Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones (cybernews.com)
  • 3 6

    Garzed – my garden waters itself off soil-moisture sensors (garzed.com)
  • 80 45

    The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How the New Pricing Decreased Demand by 80% (boilingsteam.com)
  • 25 54

    Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cameras (www.wired.com)
  • 368 207

    New US homeownership measure puts people first (www.minneapolisfed.org)
  • 12 158

    Python 3.15’s Ultra-Low Overhead Interpreter Profiling Mode (fidget-spinner.github.io)
  • 8 26

    GitHub suddenly rejected my SSH key (the fix was a .pub file?) (thorsell.io)
  • 95 55

    The Growing Compute Shortage (www.apollo.com)
  • 74 27

    Postmortem of a British Startup: Tract (buildwithtract.com)
  • 0 14

    Modula-3 History Collection on Computer History Museum (softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org)
  • 44 86

    Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects (www.allaboutcircuits.com)
  • 215 564

    Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge (qwen.ai)
  • 49 107

    How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes (compilade.net)
  • 105 108

    VTubing: How a Japanese Phenomenon Is Going Worldwide (www.tokyodev.com)
  • 74 90

    Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of (fzakaria.com)
  • 2 22

    Tensor Notation in Mathup (mathup.xyz)
  • 21 20

    Zoom is now Chrome only (zoom.us)
  • 19 31

    A PHP server that can handle 10x as many concurrent requests as Nginx+PHP-fpm (github.com)
  • 1 12

    The Rise of Grocery Tourism (thefreemanmag.substack.com)
  • 36 37

    Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  • 105 62

    Do we just want slaves? (www.yashthapliyal.com)
  • 2 4

    Bash for Browser Front End (alganet.github.io)
  • 5 12

    Flight Planning with Little Navmap (tech.marksblogg.com)
  • 40 51

    Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts (exsitu.app)
  • 4 15

    GTFO VR Mod Postmortem (dsprtn.dev)
  • 68 340

    Incremental – A library for incremental computations (github.com)
  • 37 130

    Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral (www.armaangomes.com)
  • 260 363

    Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding (asia.nikkei.com)
  • 5 18

    A Mathematical Tribute to the Soccer Ball (www.nytimes.com)
  • 56 69

    A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste (www.instructables.com)
  • 13 7

    Show HN: Turn casual photos into professional headshots with AI (portraify.app)
  • 83 82

    Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?
  • 10 24

    Ramp Router (ramp.com)
  • 14 15

    What most histories get wrong about MUMPS's first standard (github.com)
  • 12 42

    Atomic Physics in Pure Anglo-Saxon (www.ling.upenn.edu)
  • 11 53

    Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  • 164 466

    Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public (www.aclu.org)
  • 15 7

    Show HN: I made email signatures less boring (esigna.app)
  • 331 364

    Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team (forum.jellyfin.org)
  • 3 19

    Rendering Fonts Quickly on the GPU (www.outercloud.dev)
  • 4 18

    Show HN: The0 – self-hosted runtime for trading bots, bring your own language (github.com)
  • 55 176

    The Psychology of Software Teams (www.routledge.com)