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  • 0 6

    Health benefits of Tai Chi (www.health.harvard.edu)
  • 19 27

    Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext (github.com)
  • 0 6

    Not sure where I am going with this garbage collection rabbit hole (ikouchiha47.github.io)
  • 1 8

    Falstad Math and Physics Simulations (www.falstad.com)
  • 26 48

    The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US (www.politico.com)
  • 3 3

    Speaking for the Dead (longreads.com)
  • 1 17

    Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño (www.science.org)
  • 0 5

    ProofRun – a local verification receipt for AI coding agents (github.com)
  • 1 12

    21,000 MCP servers exposed: the protocol reaches a security inflection point (forkast.news)
  • 1 3

    Show HN: Fixing optical computing jitter via fluid dynamics in GPU registers (github.com)
  • 17 61

    The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators (breck.lol)
  • 7 7

    I checked 30 frontier model cards. Here are the benchmarks labs report (koutian.is-a.dev)
  • 2 8

    Program with Paint Brushes, Not Pencils (blog.pickcode.io)
  • 23 38

    Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny (nntaleb.substack.com)
  • 19 57

    Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems (www.anthropic.com)
  • 5 15

    Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 9 37

    Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (tinkerings.org)
  • 5 33

    Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite (notebook.link)
  • 33 101

    Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)
  • 22 36

    Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise (bribes.fyi)
  • 4 25

    AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code (arxiv.org)
  • 10 19

    It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs (arxiv.org)
  • 0 14

    Decoding smell: Study reveals how odor signals shapeshift in the wind (www.colorado.edu)
  • 10 27

    Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI (waku.sh)
  • 0 4

    Big Pickle on SWE Atlas – Codebase QnA (github.com)
  • 8 128

    Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work (duckdb.org)
  • 19 49

    Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (www.micdrop.gg)
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  • 19 22

    Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware? (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 191 330

    Asus Bike Booster (www.asus.com)
  • 51 20

    ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year (aicharts.grok.me)
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  • 2 35

    Tea5767-Radio-Tuner (github.com)
  • 73 55

    Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record (abc7.com)
  • 9 69

    A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer (lapcatsoftware.com)
  • 8 19

    Oracle – a photorealistic browser for every Magic card ever printed (magic-oracle.com)
  • 93 106

    I Remain a Skeptic (blog.jsbarretto.com)
  • 15 42

    SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud) (sugartrack-beta.vercel.app)
  • 3 30

    Anthropic CEO wife asked Epstein for porn business (www.forbes.com)
  • 36 32

    Jaithon 3, a fast programming language with the perfect syntax (github.com)
  • 78 104

    The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts (www.404media.co)
  • 1 11

    Triple Product Rule of Partial Derivatives (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 22 66

    Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (michael.stapelberg.ch)
  • 107 208

    Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (www.severe-weather.eu)
  • 3 12

    Show HN: Live Claude Usage HUD for a $38 Thermalright Trofeo Vision LCD (github.com)
  • 3 13

    Modeling and Verification of Keeta's Consensus [pdf] (xescu.re)
  • 102 153

    Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history (horn.gg)
  • 13 29

    Humazon (hughhowey.com)
  • 20 82

    The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977 (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 11 40

    An image can overflow (master.dev)
  • 4 69

    Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 172 244

    Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (www.acc.org)
  • 2 10

    No-New-Physics Consciousness (www.overcomingbias.com)
  • 2 13

    Cornell: Pro Palestine Students Targeted by ICE: Come Back to US or Lose Funding (theintercept.com)
  • 35 152

    Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
  • 10 65

    Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (github.com)
  • 13 22

    Meta will train its AI on Newsmax, a far-right media outlet (popular.info)
  • 25 64

    Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions (www.politico.com)
  • 29 56

    Geek Fighter – 2d fighter game (geek-fighter.vercel.app)
  • 1 17

    Job Recession in Higher Education (gadlevanon.substack.com)
  • 58 21

    Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI (www.bbc.com)
  • 4 42

    Pizza Box Project Stack (cblgh.org)
  • 70 133

    AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (www.science.org)
  • 68 29

    First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists (cen.acs.org)
  • 10 47

    BriskDB (github.com)
  • 22 71

    Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign (blog.thunderbird.net)
  • 3 11

    Robot Videos: Heavy Lift Cargo Drones, Grippers, More (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 410 481

    AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain (davidepiffer.com)
  • 0 10

    The Programming Ape (Code Hale, 2012) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 36 82

    Printytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL (printytron.com)
  • 100 108

    Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves (www.bbc.com)
  • 57 56

    TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In (www.treasurydirect.gov)
  • 55 121

    The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake (www.core77.com)
  • 287 412

    Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 75 170

    A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms (www.nature.com)
  • 66 70

    The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up (sina.bio)
  • 73 213

    A spectre is haunting Unicode (www.dampfkraft.com)
  • 350 290

    RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (dmitry.gr)
  • 125 60

    AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry? (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 3 6

    When Bridges Go Haywire (controlsystemssecurity.com)
  • 4 69

    2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization (studios.disneyresearch.com)
  • 69 41

    The AI Situation in Software Development (srikanth.ch)
  • 20 18

    Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies (www.economist.com)
  • 87 252

    At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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  • 64 83

    Could a computer scientist build a brain? (stankerstjens.github.io)
  • 1 15

    A Planet Position Widget (leancrew.com)
  • 90 108

    Cloudflare's AI Psychosis (opensauce.it)
  • 21 38

    Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul (alexrios.me)
  • 9 37

    Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR (hypnagogic-quasicrystals.github.io)
  • 0 37

    T3X/0 a Minimal Procedural Language (t3x.org)
  • 62 36

    The Problem (intelligence.org)
  • 25 41

    Xorshift Generators (www.alanzucconi.com)
  • 27 60

    Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents (www.stephen-cresswell.com)
  • 70 67

    Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI? (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 14 73

    Möbius strips and differential equations (hidden-phenomena.com)
  • 19 52

    Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest (medicalxpress.com)
  • 51 49

    388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 50 32

    GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix (netflixtechblog.com)
  • 81 37

    Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking (hormuz.now)
  • 55 48

    Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline (github.com)
  • 189 298

    Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding (allen.bargi.org)
  • 14 14

    Geometric Reasoning (sophontic.ai)
  • 4 24

    OpenAI rolling out ads for Europe later this month (openai.com)
  • 91 416

    Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel (sankalp.bearblog.dev)
  • 46 92

    The Color of White Light (ludens.cl)
  • 40 194

    The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves (linebender.org)
  • 57 66

    Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions (lists.debian.org)
  • 45 93

    Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II (uecker.codeberg.page)
  • 99 218

    Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum (baselashraf81.github.io)
  • 1 5

    Jason Arday, professor at centre of Cambridge plagiarism row, found dead (www.theguardian.com)
  • 3 57

    Understanding WCAG 2.2 as ePub and PDF (doeken.org)
  • 56 76

    Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case (arstechnica.com)
  • 84 124

    In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace (www.popularmechanics.com)
  • 36 77

    Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim (silentshark.app)
  • 42 52

    "That's not SOC 2 compliant" (ampcode.com)
  • 135 79

    Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
  • 56 121

    Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations (chenxiachan.github.io)
  • 20 33

    The End of Mathematics (www.daniellitt.com)
  • 98 122

    Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737 (www.wired.com)
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  • 181 377

    The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist (conic.al)
  • 101 60

    I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead) (www.michelebologna.net)
  • 12 34

    Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city (yesterdays.maprva.org)
  • 11 51

    Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing (app.deltix.ai)
  • 32 126

    Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin (32bits.substack.com)
  • 72 50

    NSA and IETF, Part 9 (blog.cr.yp.to)
  • 14 25

    Haitians in Springfield are required to report to ICE and wear ankle monitors (ohiocapitaljournal.com)
  • 55 217

    Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia (earthquake.usgs.gov)
  • 19 65

    This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 78 140

    Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018) (arxiv.org)
  • 35 34

    Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees (sf.gazetteer.co)
  • 68 139

    The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here (blog.ploopy.co)
  • 1 214

    eigendrum (eigendrum.com)
  • 2 12

    Ant teams beat gravity-based puzzle solvers (phys.org)