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  • 0 4

    But can your calculator run Linux? (raymii.org)
  • 1 6

    Fermi Paradox (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 0 4

    Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink (2023) [pdf] (radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu)
  • 1 16

    How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) (openrss.org)
  • 1 10

    Chess Engine Dev Community Openly Hostile to AI Assisted Development (github.com)
  • 3 16

    Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe? (www.theguardian.com)
  • 16 36

    Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now (elgan.com)
  • 0 8

    Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 53 48

    Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices (www.npr.org)
  • 24 60

    Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576 (leodemoura.github.io)
  • 44 77

    Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
  • 38 28

    Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken (franken.domains)
  • 23 117

    NetBSD 11.0 (blog.netbsd.org)
  • 19 29

    Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga (www.seriouseats.com)
  • 6 19

    Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor (glyphsapp.com)
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  • 5 13

    Twelve Years Without a VPN (khessin.de)
  • 81 76

    BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat (www.theautopian.com)
  • 2 11

    Floundering A.I. 'Nostradamus' Hedge Fund Is Rescued by Rival (www.nytimes.com)
  • 6 8

    Toast IDE Gets Markdown Spell Checking (github.com)
  • 4 9

    Assessment of open AI math results (twitter.com)
  • 4 35

    Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter (kaisel.dev)
  • 44 23

    I Fired My AI Assitant (chreke.com)
  • 7 4

    DNS propagation checker that shows the results as a box of 24 donuts (donutdns.com)
  • 73 131

    A directory of people who love RSS (andrewshell.org)
  • 3 18

    Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity (rjp.io)
  • 57 29

    Ask HN: Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science?
  • 29 47

    Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast (brandur.org)
  • 2 9

    Crystal Wars – turn-based strategy on a fresh Voronoi map every match (play.crystalwars.io)
  • 58 58

    Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran (www.nytimes.com)
  • 3 16

    Indexing the Data Lake for Online Point Queries (engineering.atspotify.com)
  • 19 56

    Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses (alexiglad.github.io)
  • 101 230

    Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export (forum.cursor.com)
  • 113 79

    GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement (lalitm.com)
  • 108 119

    On the non-use of AI in my writing process (www.antipope.org)
  • 52 48

    Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages (news.yale.edu)
  • 66 131

    The Art of 64-bit Assembly (nostarch.com)
  • 1 15

    Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8) (rsadowski.de)
  • 69 31

    How to Spot AI Writing (www.economist.com)
  • 118 207

    A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention (www.michaelgeist.ca)
  • 25 70

    Linux on ESP32 (github.com)
  • 6 28

    Astro Loop (pubdeer.com)
  • 94 58

    Google kills Earth AI generator after one day (twitter.com)
  • 10 38

    Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team (lists.archlinux.org)
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  • 146 214

    RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches (github.com)
  • 5 31

    The First Idempotency Key (hatchet.run)
  • 3 8

    John Bell and the most obscure journal in physics (physicsworld.com)
  • Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 19 99

    Manual: •.,:;…!?· (type.today)
  • 104 69

    EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2 (www.engadget.com)
  • 66 82

    How to Do Great Work (2023) (paulgraham.com)
  • 4 23

    AWS Secrets Manager Terraform: Least-Privilege Access (blog.victorsilva.com.uy)
  • 2 9

    OpenAI's work on Git for large repositories (openai-git-upstream.openai.chatgpt.site)
  • 34 85

    Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers (github.com)
  • 254 243

    AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job (weeraman.com)
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  • 92 188

    RamenHaus (ramen.haus)
  • 4 77

    G'mic 4.0: Squaring the Pixel, Easier (gmic.eu)
  • 255 377

    Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
  • 2 10

    When Internal Memory Fails: A No-Solder Wii U Recovery (smolnero.com)
  • 74 34

    A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies (economist.com)
  • 54 175

    The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
  • 164 176

    Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified (nascompares.com)
  • 2 9

    History remembers two Robert McNamaras (indevelopmentmag.com)
  • 63 44

    What liberal arts education is for (2024) (innig.net)
  • 55 34

    Firefighter arson a long-standing issue – expert (www.firerescue1.com)
  • 8 62

    Attention Decode on AMD MI450 GPUs: A Gluon Kernel Optimization Guide (rocm.blogs.amd.com)
  • 1 3

    What Is MiniMax H3? Everything You Need to Know About the Hailuo 3.0 Video Model (minimaxh3.art)
  • 64 84

    A week in Matrix (piegames.de)
  • 156 226

    BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising (consumerrights.wiki)
  • 73 149

    The development pipeline is a production system (sundry.jerryorr.com)
  • 2 8

    Printing floating point numbers in binary (www.johndcook.com)
  • 1 7

    Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator [video] (www.infoq.com)
  • 65 233

    Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era (microsoft.github.io)
  • 228 226

    Software for One (www.ajwaxman.com)
  • 213 354

    How to Exist (www.raptitude.com)
  • 34 53

    Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth (www.digitaldigging.org)
  • 59 81

    Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019) (www.phidgets.com)
  • 9 14

    Anime Professions (github.com)
  • 17 21

    That Viral Photo of San Francisco NIMBYs Shows Why Housing Is Winning (inpractice.yimbyaction.org)
  • 17 54

    The first transatlantic telegraph cable was a bold, beautiful failure (2019) (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 0 8

    Hope and Defeat: John Berger (newleftreview.org)
  • 0 15

    Britain's New World of Tobacco (2017) (www.historytoday.com)
  • 4 24

    A past and future of trade secrets (www.cabinetmagazine.org)
  • 82 169

    The Absurdity of Albert Camus (www.historytoday.com)
  • 4 18

    Thomson Reuters built its own AI model that now ranks among the best (www.thomsonreuters.com)
  • 170 155

    Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way (maurycyz.com)
  • 42 134

    Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (code.intellios.ai)
  • 83 42

    Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts (asymco.com)
  • 146 260

    Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights (weeraman.com)
  • 13 32

    Just brute force your embeddings (softwaredoug.com)
  • 59 129

    Let's make the worst Htmx (zserge.com)
  • 51 186

    Progressive Web Components (arielsalminen.com)
  • 6 28

    Show HN: How to build and self-host a code review agent (www.trytilde.ai)
  • Loops (YC W22) Is Hiring a Product Educator (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 38 102

    Authorize, don't authenticate (blog.marcua.net)
  • 4 40

    Predictive Speculative KV Replication for Bursty LLM Inference (jwlabs.vercel.app)
  • 38 59

    Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: RowHammer and RowPress Phenomena (arxiv.org)
  • 26 80

    Dario Amodei's stance on open weights is self-serving and short-sighted (janilowski.pl)
  • 3 25

    A simple clustering algorithm for lists (cassidoo.co)
  • 7 9

    Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Is Missing Opportunities to Apply Lessons (www.gao.gov)
  • 3 17

    Lerd, an open source Herd-like PHP development environment for Linux and macOS (github.com)
  • 59 192

    June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more (servo.org)
  • 76 45

    AI companies destroy rare and non recoverable physical books (www.heraldscotland.com)
  • 34 83

    Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video] (media.ccc.de)
  • 84 253

    Severance (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 4 27

    Making Referential Stability a Type (jovidecroock.com)
  • 214 586

    Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion (tailscale.com)
  • 171 175

    Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types (github.com)
  • 11 30

    Orca-Bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall? (arxiv.org)
  • 11 49

    AFC Stands in Solidarity with UEFA and Concacaf to Protect the FIFA World Cup (www.the-afc.com)
  • 40 65

    Termixer (TUI DJ Mixer) (github.com)
  • 1 12

    How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars (www.newyorker.com)
  • 82 127

    Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours (manifest.build)
  • 151 643

    qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work (github.com)
  • 19 40

    Show HN: Slope remade in HTML5 to load instantly on any browser, any device (hurtle.site)
  • 114 64

    The great wealth transfer reality check (usa.visa.com)
  • 152 320

    Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s (github.com)
  • 111 221

    Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 14 128

    How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods (cgjennings.ca)
  • Miso (YC S16) is hiring for U.S. expansion (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 2 12

    Bypassing Claude's upload limits, 4x (500 MB → 2 GB) (blog.zernote.com)
  • 10 19

    Show HN: I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces (privacything.com)
  • 179 221

    The most official water costs $120k a gallon (signoregalilei.com)
  • 71 33

    Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism (www.worksinprogress.news)
  • 16 25

    I built a f.lux alternative because the M5 Max firmware broke existing solutions (driftformac.app)
  • 15 51

    13 Models and 4 Agents on SWE Tasks: Go, Java, Python, Rust, TS (swe-rebench.com)
  • 20 38

    Where .env Went Wrong (secretspec.dev)
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  • 3 45

    The Art of Decision-Making (2019) (www.newyorker.com)
  • 39 128

    Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion (semyonsinchenko.github.io)
  • 12 17

    Show HN: Shared memory graph for Claude and ChatGPT, over MCP (uml.gpmai.workers.dev)
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  • 170 259

    Big Food vs. the People (www.lighthousereports.com)
  • 84 15

    Puberty blockers trial can start recruiting children (www.bbc.com)
  • 18 32

    Online Friends Are Real Friends (toska.bearblog.dev)
  • 37 89

    Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account (github.com)
  • 24 53

    US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner (2019) (www.bbc.com)
  • 226 155

    Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy (www.theexamination.org)
  • 9 17

    I 4x'd a 367x479 stamp-sized photo through 8 upscaling models (enlarger.app)
  • 51 70

    Clockwise/Spiral Rule (1994) (c-faq.com)
  • 119 155

    Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption (lwn.net)
  • 37 55

    Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements (www.commondreams.org)
  • 27 67

    A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
  • 139 83

    Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers (broadbandbreakfast.com)
  • 195 120

    U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123% (fred.stlouisfed.org)
  • 383 1553

    Elevators (john.fun)
  • 11 68

    New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key (www.wired.com)
  • 221 194

    Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons? (www.quantamagazine.org)
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  • 0 6

    The fragile foundations of CoT monitoring (web.stanford.edu)
  • 5 32

    Detect Dark Matter's Mark from Your Backyard (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 16 52

    Better to Beg Forgiveness (pluralistic.net)
  • 71 113

    Moonshot’s Kimi uses 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 139 154

    The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol) (arxiv.org)
  • 8 59

    Winding Down Artichoke Ruby (hyperbo.la)
  • 5 13

    Another Reason Not to Use "AI" for Your Writing (whatever.scalzi.com)
  • 18 20

    About 60k migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory's leader says (www.bbc.com)
  • 167 155

    Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout (www.wsj.com)
  • 3 47

    We shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever: On weird fiction (clereviewofbooks.com)
  • 119 297

    Premier league bans gambling sponsors (www.footyheadlines.com)
  • 47 83

    Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy (andre.arko.net)
  • 438 425

    The End of an Era (hughhowey.com)
  • 22 43

    How A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist (www.nytimes.com)
  • Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer (tasklet.ai)
  • 135 88

    IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats (www.engadget.com)
  • 1 12

    Obfuscation (Part II): Diamond IO (vitalik.eth.limo)
  • 308 576

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 195 167

    Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant (www.bbc.com)
  • 7 17

    Show HN: A udev implementation in Guile Scheme (codeberg.org)
  • 584 551

    Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI (blog.google)
  • 76 56

    "the very foundation of modern academia has been blown to bits" (twitter.com)
  • 0 6

    Show HN: Cubic Doggo 06R: 12-DOF 4-Legged Robot with IMU (github.com)
  • 72 201

    Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions (github.com)
  • 2 69

    Simulating TCP loss and congestion in browser using Go/WASM (ccsim.fly.dev)
  • 341 723

    DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update (api-docs.deepseek.com)
  • 75 129

    Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like? (marbleos.com)
  • 18 113

    The mean means nothing: data visualization to debug a latency problem (fzakaria.com)
  • 2 13

    Human Honeypot (human2llm.pages.dev)
  • 159 236

    JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master (github.com)
  • 8 96

    Where USB Memory Sticks are Born (2013) (www.bunniestudios.com)
  • 161 141

    The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it (greyswansignals.com)
  • 217 755

    The session you cannot take with you (earendil.com)
  • 86 138

    The bond market isn’t buying what Fed Chair Warsh is selling (www.reuters.com)
  • 158 171

    A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return (www.science.org)
  • 41 45

    Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Save 65% of Tokens? We Test (blog.jetbrains.com)
  • 148 292

    The Religion of Speed (graybeard.ing)
  • 1 6

    Fixing miss-aligned monospace text in Android browsers (moritzhamann.com)
  • 55 53

    The American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay (2024) (buttondown.com)