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  • 2 22

    Estimating the heights of New Yorkers from their scuff marks (blog.jse.li)
  • 2 27

    The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)
  • 2 29

    ICE Flight Monitor Interactive Dashboard (www.humanrightsfirst.org)
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  • 47 51

    SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 7 27

    A Year On: The DOGE Disaster (donmoynihan.substack.com)
  • 3 12

    MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games (github.com)
  • 5 12

    Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events (app.everything.diena.co)
  • 11 69

    Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
  • 21 21

    Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms (sofar.belfortlabs.cloud)
  • 84 80

    Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
  • 50 36

    Designing emoji for the way we communicate today (blog.google)
  • 22 43

    Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home (www.architecturaldigest.com)
  • 85 58

    CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years (link.springer.com)
  • 58 100

    Frame – Linux X server in Assembly (isene.org)
  • 83 117

    Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price (www.reuters.com)
  • 4 17

    Show HN: Simulator for a custom 8-bit discreet logic computer (msap2.mehran.dk)
  • 109 187

    Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
  • 34 41

    Show HN: Explore the Workspaces of Modern Creators (workspaces.xyz)
  • 16 13

    Show HN: On-chain bond market where the issuers are AI agents (selbonds.now)
  • 6 22

    US manufacturing employment is down, but each state has its own story (fredblog.stlouisfed.org)
  • 107 127

    Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature (www.olafalders.com)
  • 202 292

    The state of open source AI (stateofopensource.ai)
  • 187 267

    First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star (www.bbc.com)
  • 86 139

    A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp (scotto.me)
  • 25 79

    More Bounce to the Ounce (mceglowski.substack.com)
  • 5 37

    PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum (github.com)
  • 44 114

    Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time (honeypotlive.cc)
  • 70 146

    Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it) (improvesomething.today)
  • 0 67

    AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM (blog.zksecurity.xyz)
  • 2 26

    Tannakian Reconstruction (bartoszmilewski.com)
  • 28 48

    VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool (www.capitalone.com)
  • 47 53

    Multi-Primary Color Display Emerges as Next-Gen Color Reproduction Technology (en.ubiresearchnet.com)
  • Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Senior infra engineer to build the MCP cloud (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 28 100

    Minikotlin (minikotlin.run)
  • 76 61

    After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch (www.androidauthority.com)
  • 266 327

    Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters (www.ft.com)
  • 257 419

    Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners (www.kaggle.com)
  • 99 202

    Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars
  • 1 88

    Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B
  • 62 43

    SQLite Is All You Need (www.dbpro.app)
  • 467 855

    AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
  • 87 90

    I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64 (www.goto10retro.com)
  • 5 8

    Solving Santa Claus Puzzle (wyounas.github.io)
  • 18 174

    Camera Chase Vehicle (transistor-man.com)
  • 104 151

    Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts (www.bbc.com)
  • 15 45

    Pushinka (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 7 44

    In Praise of Exhaustive Destructuring (antoine.vandecreme.net)
  • 155 238

    EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams (journals.plos.org)
  • 28 66

    Starlink from 1984 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
  • 3 26

    UIUC AI Teaching Assistant (github.com)
  • 158 245

    Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 (repebble.com)
  • 3 17

    What loss.backward() actually does (oraziorillo.com)
  • 206 251

    How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 29 94

    Old Icons (leancrew.com)
  • 187 172

    GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims (privacypros.com.au)
  • 69 274

    An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024) (www.ti.com)
  • 196 290

    The human-in-the-loop is tired (pydantic.dev)
  • 5 36

    Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models (arstechnica.com)
  • 11 71

    Canada says bridge tolls won't be split with U.S. until $6.4B of debt is repaid (www.cbc.ca)
  • 28 52

    Google Kills Custom Search API on Jan 1, 2027 (thenextgennexus.com)
  • 45 71

    M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida (earthquake.usgs.gov)
  • 1 24

    Lingbot-map: A 3D foundation model for reconstructing scenes from streaming data (github.com)
  • 1 9

    Count the Bytes, Not the FLOPs (thepragmaticquant.com)
  • 15 72

    Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds (modal.com)
  • 132 196

    Solod: Go can be a better C (solod.dev)
  • 32 133

    Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20 (github.com)
  • 24 197

    The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning (github.com)
  • 22 73

    Show HN: Mojibake – A low-level Unicode library written in C (mojibake.zaerl.com)
  • 11 7

    Show HN: ReasonGate- An explainable gate that blocks LLM prompt injection (github.com)
  • 206 160

    My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto (imdanielkendall.com)
  • 26 60

    Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning (arxiv.org)
  • 17 17

    Just Do Things (ray.zo.space)
  • 28 110

    'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin (news.yale.edu)
  • 1 33

    CVE-2026-25089: FortiSandbox unauthenticated command injection added to CISA KEV (hellorecon.com)
  • 14 34

    FIFA World Cup 2026 Data Portraits (wc26.bogachev.fr)
  • 1 5

    Show HN: Make images render brighter than white by abusing Rec.2100 PQ profiles (superwhite.app)
  • 4 21

    Show HN: Libretto PR agents – Automatically fix failing playwright scripts (libretto.sh)
  • 12 32

    Show HN: BambooGrid – Open-source web UI for power grid modeling and power flow (bamboo.kickstage.com)
  • 13 201

    Mathematics of Data Science (arxiv.org)
  • 5 70

    Abstracting Effects with Continuations (crowdhailer.me)
  • 22 48

    Show HN: Be the ChatBOT (bethechatbot.com)
  • 80 137

    Pseudpocalypse (dynomight.net)
  • 48 142

    Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone (www.science.org)
  • 506 374

    $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol (www.tryai.dev)
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  • 2 51

    Kimi K3 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 33 35

    Timeline Scan – AI fixes the dates on your scanned photos (timelinescan.com)
  • 117 314

    LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models (lmstudio.ai)
  • 65 105

    The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker (www.bbc.com)
  • 40 74

    As a musician, I prefer illegal downloading over Spotify (2011) (derekwebb.tumblr.com)
  • 194 168

    CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026 (consequence.net)
  • 18 34

    AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes (nicholas-afk.github.io)
  • 2 8

    Kimi K3 is ranked 3rd on artificial analysis, only 2 points behind Sol (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 4 30

    Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence (www.kimi.com)
  • 5 33

    Optimizing Lua string literals to save 400 bytes (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 34 142

    German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks (the-decoder.com)
  • 4 10

    Rustwright: Playwright rewritten in Rust that uses 70% less memory (github.com)
  • 78 115

    Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public (schema-harness.github.io)
  • 114 78

    SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock (invezz.com)
  • 268 154

    42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support (www.cnbc.com)
  • 9 40

    Cottage Computer Programming (1984) (www.atariarchives.org)
  • 64 43

    Someone Used AI to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me (www.nytimes.com)
  • 1 19

    Kimi K3 Is Live (www.kimi.com)
  • 3 30

    Show HN: Galois connections for composable numeric casts in Rust (github.com)
  • Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 30 275

    Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015) (immersivemath.com)
  • 12 42

    Show HN: A modern port of Linux to a ten-year-old QWERTY phone
  • 18 21

    Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills without context bloat (github.com)
  • 4 15

    Show HN: Sentinel – open-source QA agent that reads your code before it clicks (blog.simbastack.com)
  • 22 42

    Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Company-wide security monitoring for AI apps
  • 7 24

    Yann LeCun on AMI Labs, JEPA, and the AI World of 2030 (nebius.science)
  • 174 75

    'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction' (techwerkers.nl)
  • 3 11

    Helicone allows users to write SQL directly to a shared ClickHouse (www.justintorre.com)
  • 25 86

    Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer (github.com)
  • 177 357

    NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook (blog.google)
  • 173 231

    Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning (blog.lyc8503.net)
  • 2 8

    Building scalable AI agents with modular prompt transpilation (developers.googleblog.com)
  • 23 52

    Agent-talk: Enabling coding agents to work together (github.com)
  • 27 38

    56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up (betlang.dev)
  • 61 113

    Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes (www.gapminder.org)
  • 25 27

    Show HN: QBasic Gorillas (Repeeled) (gameswithtony.com)
  • 152 678

    Decoy Font (www.mixfont.com)
  • 168 780

    Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source (opensource.microsoft.com)
  • 15 18

    My Homepage Has a Pulse (snehankekre.com)
  • 78 153

    How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM (www.zhinit.dev)
  • 13 51

    GC shape stenciling in Go generics (rednafi.com)
  • 34 127

    Guide to data tools landscape for developers (sinja.io)
  • 1141 1966

    Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence (www.kimi.com)
  • 85 106

    Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 15 50

    Accidental Anonymity (macwright.com)
  • 286 514

    How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going (rtfeldman.com)
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    Show HN: AI Law Tracker – one audited API for US, EU and global AI law (ai-law-tracker.com)
  • 4 33

    How to spend 15 years perfecting a product (refactoring.guru)
  • 87 172

    Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode (www.spaceweather.gov)
  • 7 37

    World-War-Ⅱ-era telephone line still in use in Upper Tanana Valley Alaska (2021) (www.sketchesofalaska.com)
  • 92 72

    Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed (www.bbc.com)
  • 4 29

    Introduction to KizunaShelf: A shelf for everything you love (mudkip.me)
  • 19 6

    Show HN: I Built an Accent Changer App (accentchanger.com)
  • 62 48

    Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search (hilogame.cc)
  • 434 678

    Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them (www.techdirt.com)
  • 6 51

    Umuganda (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 9 36

    Panel meter calculator with floating point (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 105 273

    Ente – Opening Our Books (ente.com)
  • 50 35

    Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen (musklr.com)
  • 0 5

    I resurrected an 8-year-old dead CSS library and gave it an engine (usevivace.dev)
  • 275 308

    SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading (www.latimes.com)
  • 20 141

    Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure (onatm.dev)
  • 285 281

    The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway (www.theocharis.dev)
  • 9 28

    The Act and the Outcome of Creation (www.ssp.sh)
  • 274 141

    British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply (www.bbc.com)
  • 3 42

    Let's build a simple interpreter for APL – part 1 (mathspp.com)
  • 358 582

    OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe (community.oneplus.com)
  • 67 79

    A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data (marginalrevolution.com)
  • 217 300

    At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic (joinedanthropic.com)
  • 13 21

    In defense of not understanding your codebase (www.seangoedecke.com)
  • 4 12

    Dense Arena Interning: The Engine of Compiler Performance (aikoschurmann.com)
  • 55 42

    What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013) (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 53 163

    Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later (github.com)
  • 102 223

    Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't (goughlui.com)
  • 221 306

    I also filed the corners off my MacBook (www.brt.fyi)
  • 27 31

    Netstrings (1997) (cr.yp.to)
  • 61 55

    Rebuilding My Homelab with Compose, Ruby, IPv6, and No Kubernetes (www.petekeen.net)
  • 115 105

    Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used (www.frank.computer)
  • 574 813

    The lost joy of music piracy (www.pigeonsandplanes.com)
  • 4 20

    The Last Picture Show: A Conversation with George Lucas (a-rabbitsfoot.com)
  • 48 246

    1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored (www.openculture.com)
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  • 83 147

    Making 768 servers look like 1 (planetscale.com)
  • 25 82

    Can LLMs Perform Deep Technical Comprehension of Computer Architecture Papers (arxiv.org)
  • 127 240

    If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe (madcampos.dev)
  • 0 10

    Accelerating Block Low-Rank Foundation Model Inference on MemoryConstrained GPUs (dl.acm.org)
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  • 7 14

    Open Source, Free Tier Capable Whispr Using Cloudflare AI (github.com)
  • 1 10

    Fleet: Hierarchical Task-Based Abstraction for Megakernels on Multi-Die GPUs (arxiv.org)
  • 155 204

    Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign (hyperallergic.com)
  • 25 70

    High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 61 93

    The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency (pmbanugo.me)
  • 146 194

    Bluesky Trademarks ATProto (atproto.com)
  • 10 47

    CatchCat – Pokémon Go for Cats, IRL (www.catchcat.lol)
  • 103 117

    G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics (davidobando.github.io)
  • 11 8

    Free Remote Desktop Without Servers (github.com)
  • 48 134

    Job queues are deceptively tricky (typesanitizer.com)