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    Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
  • 21 62

    Claude Is Down (status.claude.com)
  • 21 22

    Balcony Solar: $1.74/watt direct plug-in solar (www.brightsaver.org)
  • 80 146

    Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the Incident (huggingface.co)
  • 13 93

    Kimi K3-256k (www.kimi.com)
  • 2 5

    Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 0 14

    How much can you delegate to agents? (newsletter.posthog.com)
  • 3 23

    PGSimCity – an explorable 3D model that shows how Postgres works (github.com)
  • 14 30

    Turning a Dumb AC Unit Smart (Without Losing My Security Deposit) (prilik.com)
  • 5 5

    The Growing Threat of Docusign Phishing Attacks (www.darktrace.com)
  • 0 5

    A field day for Gleam's language server – Gleam v1.18.0 release (gleam.run)
  • 25 23

    The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 14

    How to Not Die by a Thousand Cuts. Or, How to Think About Software Quality (www.evalapply.org)
  • 25 30

    Who the welfare state protects shapes a country’s financial openness (theloop.ecpr.eu)
  • 13 16

    Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals (www.emergingtrajectories.com)
  • 2 10

    Ads-STE100: Simplified Technical English (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 16 31

    Learning Musical Multitasking (www.jefftk.com)
  • 47 53

    Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10 (cheapfoodmap.com)
  • 34 65

    Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
  • 3 25

    Infrastructure Patterns for Agentic Applications (render.com)
  • 8 70

    The Rust on ESP Book (docs.espressif.com)
  • PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 16 37

    I Want to Leave the Internet (chupacabra.bearblog.dev)
  • 74 156

    Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice (www.digitalfoundry.net)
  • 29 22

    CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches (www.designboom.com)
  • 11 42

    Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite (kedge.dev)
  • 30 22

    Baseload Is a Myth (2024) (cleanenergyreview.io)
  • 244 346

    Superlogical (www.superlogical.com)
  • 3 148

    Superlogical (mitchellh.com)
  • 54 58

    Ask HN: My domain registrar (Hover) rug-pulled me for $3000
  • 35 75

    Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold (www.engadget.com)
  • 17 76

    Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used (alsterrunde.com)
  • 36 40

    Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money (usetokenless.com)
  • 29 78

    Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution (aistack.imec-int.com)
  • 85 45

    AI in Linux (drewdevault.com)
  • 3 15

    Graph Engineering Needs a Compiler (fluxtion-playground.dev)
  • 94 53

    Apple's hostile App Store rating system (lapcatsoftware.com)
  • 19 29

    PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's (boringsql.com)
  • 13 65

    GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best? (juliahub.com)
  • 14 52

    Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon (github.com)
  • 14 134

    Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (huggingface.co)
  • 14 34

    Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite's creator (cesium.com)
  • 10 25

    The Scientific Literature Is Poisonous to LLMs (www.reinvent.science)
  • 169 484

    Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (github.com)
  • 180 130

    A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands (www.nytimes.com)
  • 4 17

    Show HN: Write, simulate and synthesize VHDL/Verilog in the browser (risingedge.pro)
  • 1 10

    Show HN: A verification browser for AI agents – 13ms windows, one-call checks (github.com)
  • 72 123

    San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing (www.eff.org)
  • 24 60

    Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows (www.phoronix.com)
  • 20 68

    TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
  • 50 82

    Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite (tracewayapp.com)
  • 7 95

    Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem (www.claire-blackshaw.com)
  • 112 222

    Darktable (www.darktable.org)
  • 11 33

    It doesn't matter whether "Matz is nice" (po-ru.com)
  • 88 116

    Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago (www.newscientist.com)
  • 56 77

    Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression' (www.npr.org)
  • 158 96

    After the AI Crash (potsandpansbyccg.com)
  • 60 55

    Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles (github.com)
  • 158 249

    Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents (arxiv.org)
  • 13 27

    Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself (echologue.com)
  • 32 39

    Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?
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  • 33 78

    Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions (github.blog)
  • 6 7

    Pulse Path – a browser puzzle where placement is the only decision (pulsepathgame.netlify.app)
  • 7 32

    A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU (JCGT) (jcgt.org)
  • 3 29

    ALP: Adaptive lossless floating-point compression (github.com)
  • 71 305

    French musician Kavinsky found dead (www.euronews.com)
  • 2 9

    We Hardened an AI Security Platform Against 16 Critical Vulnerabilities (aegis-security.higgsfield.app)
  • 28 20

    Starling: The first real desktop written by AI (starling.build)
  • 187 582

    KOReader (koreader.rocks)
  • 54 41

    They Stole Your Attention (moai.studio)
  • 213 289

    Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word (enklypesalt.com)
  • 60 33

    The only road in London where you have to drive on the right (www.mylondon.news)
  • 66 67

    National Security Determination Threat Posed by Foreign-Produced Robotic Devices [pdf] (www.fcc.gov)
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  • 24 143

    Amiga Graphics Archive (amiga.lychesis.net)
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  • 8 69

    SpecForge – A Platform for Authoring Formal Specifications (docs.imiron.io)
  • 0 6

    The Shape of Data (2022) (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  • 26 32

    Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels (vimgolf.ai)
  • 51 65

    Ancient Rome's version of Google Maps: how long to reach the beach (www.euronews.com)
  • 77 46

    ChatGPT claims rogue AI attacked more companies (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 26 110

    Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp (letoverlambda.com)
  • 67 216

    SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers (micrologics.org)
  • 9 6

    Fixing a bug with byte order marks (alexwlchan.net)
  • 6 16

    Show HN: Firemaps Spain – Live wildfire map with wind flow for ES and PT (firemapsspain.online)
  • 24 38

    60 Years Ago, a Submerged Submarine Circled the Globe for the First Time (2020) (www.popularmechanics.com)
  • 67 378

    User Interfaces of the Demo Scene (www.datagubbe.se)
  • 25 87

    Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to Win32 (www.collabora.com)
  • 107 375

    More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle (tailscale.com)
  • 8 72

    Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design (transformer-transformer.github.io)
  • 2 13

    OpenShell Kubernetes Operator (github.com)
  • 2 17

    Show HN: Lean4 Datalog DSL Based on Google Zanzibar for AI Projects (github.com)
  • 49 41

    Beyond Greece and Rome (aeon.co)
  • 49 70

    Chip stocks slide in US and Asia as AI jitters rattle investors (www.bbc.com)
  • 55 55

    Hooray for the Sockets Interface (blog.apnic.net)
  • 10 12

    Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge? (dynomight.net)
  • 163 255

    LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences (learnvector.ai)
  • 81 107

    Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes (abeljansma.nl)
  • 107 163

    State of multi-player Wayland (blinry.org)
  • 3 24

    Show HN: Learning Rust by writing a Markdown to HTML compiler (andreadimatteo.com)
  • 4 12

    Industry Brief: Private 5G for Manufacturing and Industrial Sites [pdf] (framerusercontent.com)
  • 0 15

    Lockless MPSC FIFO queues for io_uring (lwn.net)
  • 5 29

    Lightweight Spring Boot Monitoring Without Prometheus and Grafana (pvrlabs.xyz)
  • 45 200

    ReFrame – The EPaper Camera (reframe.camera)
  • 68 145

    Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents (www.hubble.md)
  • 48 64

    The Difference Between a Button and a Link (unplannedobsolescence.com)
  • 30 48

    Show HN: Manim (3Blue1Brown's animation engine) in the browser via WebGPU (studio.academa.ai)
  • 105 33

    Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 2 14

    AE Studio recruiting pirates to recover treasure located by AI (ae.studio)
  • 126 183

    Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998) (www.norvig.com)
  • 2 5

    Leeaky Catches hidden fees draining your travel budget (leeaky.vercel.app)
  • 25 26

    Banning AI will not make it go away (vishal.rs)
  • 6 27

    An introduction to formal proof verification and the Curry-Howard Correspondence (max-amb.github.io)
  • 86 166

    Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn (scripps.ucsd.edu)
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  • 111 402

    Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript (github.com)
  • 9 53

    Toolcraft (toolcraft.sh)
  • 7 20

    Robotics development made dead simple (open source)
  • 90 136

    Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max (github.com)
  • 2 57

    Anthropic publishes a practical key-recovery attack on HAWK-256 (github.com)
  • 151 297

    Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 (mac-classic.com)
  • 6 16

    I sent Claude Opus 5 '–-' and it wrote me 5k tokens about a cartographer (austinsnerdythings.com)
  • 219 584

    Codex Security (github.com)
  • 75 70

    Interview with Boris Cherny [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 47 71

    Show HN: How far do I have to go to run into 100k people? (imjasonh.github.io)
  • 200 142

    Pacing the frontier (www.pacingthefrontier.com)
  • 92 194

    I'd not buy a LG monitor (beko.famkos.net)
  • 43 30

    Recursion is lying to you (blog.gaborkoos.com)
  • 10 28

    Granola for Apple Watch (www.granola.ai)
  • 6 34

    Hulios: An eBPF-powered, transparent Tor gateway for Linux (github.com)
  • 83 105

    The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015) (www.aramcoworld.com)
  • 42 128

    Uv 0.12.0 (github.com)
  • 83 251

    Donate to GrapheneOS (grapheneos.org)
  • 108 258

    Deflock Casa Grande (deflockcg.com)
  • 2 39

    The most advanced robotic servicing satellite–that we know about (arstechnica.com)
  • 40 125

    MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless (blog.modelcontextprotocol.io)
  • 372 203

    The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade (www.apple.com)
  • 18 28

    Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a separate Linux workstation (stephenkrings.com)
  • 5 66

    WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web (www.w3.org)
  • 0 12

    Coding Tools MCP (v0.2.2):Give any AI chat or agent a pair of hands on your code (github.com)
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  • 137 262

    Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 (sbcl.org)
  • 9 27

    Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI (openai.com)
  • 176 225

    Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude (www.anthropic.com)
  • 329 624

    Substack writers, you need a website (elizabethtai.com)
  • 175 266

    Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly (unawatch.com)
  • 10 14

    Rear center fuel tank adds roughly 20k liters and extends range by 1k NM (www.airbus.com)
  • 172 188

    Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library (cacm.acm.org)
  • 3 18

    Xenharmlib (music theory library) adds support for Just Intonation (xenharmlib.readthedocs.io)
  • 46 179

    Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong? (anthropeum.com)
  • 10 23

    Setup Script Should Support Git Worktrees (piechowski.io)
  • 107 490

    Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes (sebastianraschka.com)
  • 14 11

    I showed an AI an image it couldn't see – then caught it lying about what it saw (paulshepherd.com)
  • 126 294

    A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants (blog.doubleword.ai)
  • 11 25

    Show HN: Flashpaper – Self-destructing secret sharing with no database (flashpaper.app)
  • 37 74

    So, you want to make a game engine (2023) (lisyarus.github.io)
  • 233 267

    Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals (mlugg.co.uk)
  • 7 118

    How Do I Profile eBPF Code? (naveensrinivasan.com)
  • 46 130

    Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library (github.com)
  • 191 329

    Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News' (www.slow-journalism.com)
  • 268 670

    Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification (citizens-initiative.europa.eu)
  • 6 9

    Show HN: Base-GPUI: A GPUI port of Base UI headless components (github.com)
  • 8 16

    A Deep Logo Study (dannyspina.com)
  • 164 114

    Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women (ooni.org)
  • 65 44

    Europe's Ultra-Rich Could Fund a Substantial Part of the EU's Budget (www.socialeurope.eu)
  • 110 103

    Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012) (arxiv.org)
  • 185 175

    GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search (www.pcmag.com)
  • 48 85

    VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines (github.com)
  • 5 27

    The Origins of Modern Mathematics in Russia (valeman.medium.com)
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  • 47 43

    Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?
  • 333 188

    Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights (fortune.com)
  • 25 22

    Many "serious" mathematicians are aghast (twitter.com)
  • 8 8

    Can LLMs identify 16 cards in 45 bit-queries? (snwagh.com)
  • 35 83

    Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles (www.pbs.org)
  • 36 68

    Dolmenwood: Fantasy RPG built around the acclaimed Old-School Essentials rules (necroticgnome.com)
  • 118 60

    Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History (simpleflying.com)
  • 2 10

    Show HN: Vivari – Open-Source WebContainer for Node, Bun, and Python (vivari.jamesisme.com)
  • 7 8

    Show HN: I left VSCode to build an IDE to handle many projects/agents workflow (github.com)
  • 68 71

    Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction (tale.fyi)
  • 21 31

    Show HN: Segue – Save context in one AI, load it in another by a short handle (segue.ai)
  • 48 112

    Show HN: Formally verified 3D CSG: Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code (github.com)
  • 50 70

    What AI developers could learn from Charles Bukowski? (galjot.si)
  • 6 49

    Show HN: Ctrlb-decompose: Strip the noise from logs before sending to LLMs (github.com)
  • 24 18

    Show HN: I put a $2.43 necklace on 3 outfits. VLMs priced it at $19 to $104 (github.com)
  • 288 642

    New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study (www.lji.org)
  • 86 49

    AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough (www.economist.com)
  • 155 197

    DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it (ciphercue.com)
  • 37 80

    Show HN: Scala Tutorials – interactive Scala 3 lessons in the browser (scalatutorials.com)
  • 5 37

    Usenet Archive Toolkit – process Usenet messages into a searchable archive (github.com)
  • 133 300

    Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025) (arxiv.org)
  • 0 17

    Show HN: Open-source Cloudflare deployed agent native task management and wiki (tajd.github.io)
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  • 37 58

    Fast Remediation Is the New Trust Model (JFrog and OpenAI Zero-Day Findings) (jfrog.com)
  • 39 172

    Mondragon Corporation – a federation of co-operatives (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 439 250

    I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore (itsmevox.substack.com)
  • 77 42

    Which Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test? (homer.scrivium.com)
  • 21 45

    Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support
  • 8 33

    Golang Maps: how Swiss Tables replaced the old bucket design (blog.gaborkoos.com)
  • 78 153

    Google's Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era (spawn-queue.acm.org)
  • 72 41

    What Even Are Microservices? (var0.xyz)
  • 143 207

    About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6 (support.apple.com)
  • 118 485

    How to survive boiling water (taxa.substack.com)
  • 35 89

    Don't ask an LLM for a confidence score (justinflick.com)
  • 5 39

    TWC Classics (twcclassics.com)
  • 225 803

    7.1 Earthquake in Japan (www.data.jma.go.jp)
  • 21 8

    Why copper still rules the motherboard trace (psyll.com)
  • 12 46

    Programming Languages Are Authoring Tools for Platforms (www.makonea.com)
  • 16 6

    Show HN: A 6M-token movable window on a single 46GB GPU (arxiv.org)
  • 0 6

    How to choose an AI Agent platform for your team (construct.computer)
  • 50 105

    Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts (arsastronomica.com)
  • 9 78

    PyTorch: A Reference Language (docs.pytorch.org)
  • 46 108

    Neutrino-1 8B (www.fermionresearch.com)
  • 2 16

    Why I joined Blacksmith to work on storage again (www.blacksmith.sh)
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  • 70 91

    Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do? (thedecisionlab.com)
  • 16 54

    A Dying Art: The last of the morticians (harpers.org)
  • 163 145

    An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 91 81

    Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat (jacob.gold)
  • 142 315

    Using an open model feels surprisingly good (matthewsaltz.com)
  • 128 328

    A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review (fermisense.com)
  • 18 66

    Some combinatorial applications of spacefilling curves (www2.isye.gatech.edu)
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  • 107 205

    Vehicle Motion Cues (support.apple.com)
  • 64 85

    EYG: A Programming Language for Humans (crowdhailer.me)
  • 25 45

    Internet is no longer accessible?
  • 15 21

    Show HN: Trylle – The Next-Gen Git Platform for Modern Teams (trylle.com)
  • 43 103

    Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download (github.com)
  • 131 152

    RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB (gpusolutions.net)
  • 88 130

    Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API (telnyx.com)
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  • 48 54

    Three Theses on the Literacy Crisis (trevoraleo.substack.com)
  • 110 182

    Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions (spacedaily.com)
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    The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4 (arxiv.org)