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  • 0 4

    The Plumbing of Everyday Magic (plumbing-of-everyday-magic.hyperclay.com)
  • 1 14

    If you thought the code writing speed was your problem; you have bigger problems (andrewmurphy.io)
  • 57 84

    Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill (www.ilga.gov)
  • 1 9

    Heart, head, life, fate (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 30 80

    GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano (openai.com)
  • 1 8

    Show HN: I built a message board where you pay to be the homepage (saythat.sh)
  • 8 34

    Backblaze Pricing and Product Updates (www.backblaze.com)
  • 3 34

    'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025) (theasc.com)
  • 20 25

    Toward automated verification of unreviewed AI-generated code (peterlavigne.com)
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    Show HN: Crust – A CLI framework for TypeScript and Bun (github.com)
  • Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Specialist (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 4 14

    Qwen3.5-397B at 4.74 tok/s using 5.9GB RAM (xcancel.com)
  • 5 9

    Why Are We Still Doing This? (www.wheresyoured.at)
  • 1 19

    What I Learned When I Started a Design Studio (2011) (www.subtraction.com)
  • 10 46

    Show HN: March Madness Bracket Challenge for AI Agents Only (www.bracketmadness.ai)
  • 22 49

    Show HN: Antfly: Distributed, Multimodal Search and Memory and Graphs in Go (github.com)
  • 0 4

    The Official GBBS Pro Repository (gbbs.applearchives.com)
  • 108 253

    Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 6 39

    Perlsky Is a Perl 5 Implementation of an at Protocol Personal Data Server (tangled.org)
  • 37 228

    FFmpeg 8.1 (ffmpeg.org)
  • 130 342

    Give Django your time and money, not your tokens (www.better-simple.com)
  • 2 10

    Diels-grabsch2: Self Hashing C Program (2019) (www.ioccc.org)
  • 106 117

    Node.js needs a virtual file system (blog.platformatic.dev)
  • 10 24

    UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach (www.theguardian.com)
  • 55 82

    OpenSUSE Kalpa (kalpadesktop.org)
  • 10 40

    Turns out the DOGE bros who killed humanities grants are sensitive about it (www.techdirt.com)
  • 23 36

    How long does it take to get last liquid drops from kitchen containers? (www.brown.edu)
  • 31 116

    Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018) (randomascii.wordpress.com)
  • 90 147

    A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder (1992) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • 246 172

    Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back (www.governance.fyi)
  • 6 48

    Efficient sparse computations using linear algebra aware compilers (2025) (www.osti.gov)
  • 74 103

    Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks (phys.org)
  • 63 120

    Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs (brianmoore.com)
  • 14 814

    Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech (www.gadgetreview.com)
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  • 8 60

    Gummy Geometry (newkrok.github.io)
  • 29 130

    Building a Shell (healeycodes.com)
  • 55 115

    Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it Open Source (matijacniacki.com)
  • 27 54

    What CI looks like at a 100-person team (PostHog) (www.mendral.com)
  • 162 587

    Kagi Small Web (kagi.com)
  • 46 54

    Grace Hopper's Revenge (www.thefuriousopposites.com)
  • 4 31

    Fatal Core Dump Game (www.robopenguins.com)
  • 6 28

    Show HN: Droeftoeter, a Terminal Coding Toy (github.com)
  • 54 196

    The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer (blog.voxagon.se)
  • 45 62

    Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran (www.boatnews.com)
  • 80 258

    Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 286 1235

    Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language (translate.kagi.com)
  • 40 181

    Claude Tips for 3D Work (www.davesnider.com)
  • 67 169

    Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up (pixeldust.se)
  • 16 19

    Zenclora OS (zenclora.org)
  • 278 464

    Every layer of review makes you 10x slower (apenwarr.ca)
  • 14 105

    Jepsen: MariaDB Galera Cluster 12.1.2 (jepsen.io)
  • 44 158

    Pyodide: a Python distribution based on WebAssembly (github.com)
  • 0 18

    Every 8 minutes, a case of sexual assault/misconduct was reported to Uber (every8minutes.com)
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  • 29 40

    Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB) (gitclassic.com)
  • 17 53

    The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers (pluralistic.net)
  • 14 31

    Canopy Height Maps v2 (ai.meta.com)
  • 39 118

    Teens sue xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them (www.bbc.com)
  • 420 710

    US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement (www.reuters.com)
  • 19 83

    In space, no one can hear you kernel panic (2020) (increment.com)
  • 16 21

    Show HN: Trackm, a personal finance web app (trackm.net)
  • 42 108

    Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI (github.com)
  • 552 488

    The American Healthcare Conundrum (github.com)
  • 73 147

    Show HN: Oxyde – Pydantic-native async ORM with a Rust core (github.com)
  • 167 706

    Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering (mistral.ai)
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  • 497 197

    Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line (plantbasednews.org)
  • AnswerThis (YC F25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 99 169

    Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
  • 8 18

    Methods in Languages for Systems Programming (2023) (blog.xoria.org)
  • 183 279

    Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games (github.com)
  • 3 24

    Show HN: Hecate – Call an AI from Signal (github.com)
  • 7 35

    Agent Skills – Open Security Database (index.tego.security)
  • 30 78

    Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf] (www.thoughtworks.com)
  • 367 1191

    Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car (www.bbc.com)
  • 118 133

    The return-to-the-office trend backfires (thehill.com)
  • 224 494

    Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc (engineering.fb.com)
  • 43 100

    Language model teams as distributed systems (arxiv.org)
  • 536 309

    AirPods Max 2 (www.apple.com)
  • 215 514

    The “small web” is bigger than you might think (kevinboone.me)
  • 74 136

    Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025) (arxiv.org)
  • 45 112

    On The Need For Understanding (blog.information-superhighway.net)
  • 6 25

    Launch HN: Chamber (YC W26) – An AI Teammate for GPU Infrastructure (www.usechamber.io)
  • Kaizen (YC P25) Hiring Eng, GTM, Cos to Automate BPOs (www.kaizenautomation.com)
  • 4 13

    Skillfile, the declarative skill manager, now with search for 110K+ skills (github.com)
  • 3 62

    Human Organ Atlas (human-organ-atlas.esrf.fr)
  • 6 28

    Event Publisher enables event integration between Keycloak and OpenFGA (github.com)
  • 60 75

    Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
  • 348 475

    US Job Market Visualizer (karpathy.ai)
  • 120 132

    Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP (www.apideck.com)
  • 220 282

    Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn (www.politico.eu)
  • 279 653

    MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security (www.thenerve.news)
  • 12 50

    Bringing Semiconductors to Kazakhstan (www.siliconimist.com)
  • 58 117

    Even faster asin() was staring right at me (16bpp.net)
  • 46 73

    Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily (hackerbrief.vercel.app)
  • 97 212

    'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images (www.popsci.com)
  • 130 405

    My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025) (community.home-assistant.io)
  • 171 142

    The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure (www.writingruxandrabio.com)
  • 259 109

    Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today (www.grepular.com)
  • 250 498

    Why I love FreeBSD (it-notes.dragas.net)
  • 52 113

    Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance (pyrefly.org)
  • 62 208

    Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg (github.com)
  • 33 41

    The "are you sure?" Problem: Why AI keeps changing its mind (www.randalolson.com)
  • 383 721

    Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies (www.frontiersin.org)
  • 996 1555

    Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story (www.timesofisrael.com)
  • Nango (YC W23, API Access for Agents and Apps) Is Hiring (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 0 7

    LoKI – Local AI Assistant for Linux and WSL (schneider-ki.com)
  • 94 97

    MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025) (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 26 80

    Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral? (www.asimov.press)
  • 13 42

    Linux 7.1 to Retire UDP-Lite – Allows for Better Performance with Cleansed Code (www.phoronix.com)
  • 188 188

    Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
  • 13 106

    Reviewing Large Changes with Jujutsu (ben.gesoff.uk)
  • 139 285

    Home Assistant waters my plants (finnian.io)
  • 105 100

    Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student (www.science.org)
  • 217 298

    Starlink Mini as a failover (www.jackpearce.co.uk)
  • 48 135

    Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points (exclusivearchitecture.com)
  • 9 16

    A curated list of AI slops (github.com)
  • 75 131

    Kona EV Hacking (techno-fandom.org)
  • 29 46

    ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007) (www.cl.cam.ac.uk)
  • 5 60

    How far can you go with IX Route Servers only? (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
  • 134 265

    Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs (www.moment.dev)
  • 34 167

    Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators (robot-daycare.com)
  • 55 125

    What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (1991) [pdf] (www.itu.dk)
  • 17 59

    SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files (github.com)
  • 74 115

    Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation (righttoprivacyact.github.io)
  • 34 23

    Quillx is an open standard for disclosing AI involvement in software projects (github.com)
  • 88 93

    Tell HN: AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals
  • 15 19

    I built an ephemeral P2P chat with WebRTC, without servers (ephemchat.vercel.app)
  • 91 161

    What is agentic engineering? (simonwillison.net)
  • 13 22

    An experiment to use GitHub Actions as a control plane for a PaaS (towlion.github.io)
  • 503 516

    How I write software with LLMs (www.stavros.io)
  • 15 51

    A Plain Anabaptist Story: The Hutterites (ulmer457718.substack.com)
  • 15 27

    I'm Too Lazy to Check Datadog Every Morning, So I Made AI Do It (quickchat.ai)
  • 19 44

    White House administration set to be paid $10B for brokering TikTok deal (www.theguardian.com)
  • 41 183

    The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text (man7.org)
  • 111 170

    Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016) (www.salk.edu)
  • 11 94

    Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video] (www.youtube.com)