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  • 0 3

    Retro-Tech Parenting (havenweb.org)
  • 0 5

    Sum-product, unit distances, and number fields (www.erdosproblems.com)
  • Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring Founding FPGA Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 5 6

    Show HN: Open Terminal – A Bloomberg Style App for Research (tesseractanalytics.ai)
  • 5 16

    When AI Builds Itself (www.anthropic.com)
  • 28 62

    The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true (www.tumblr.com)
  • 27 50

    Now Is the Best Time to Be a Duct Tape Engineer (derwiki.medium.com)
  • 71 108

    Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks (www.404media.co)
  • 15 44

    Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud (boxes.dev)
  • 6 46

    KVarN: Native vLLM KV-cache quantization back end by Huawei (github.com)
  • 48 38

    Several Injured in Boeing 787 Nose-Gear Collapse in Frankfurt (www.reuters.com)
  • 17 50

    Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration (notepad-plus-plus.org)
  • 14 29

    3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering (www.designboom.com)
  • 194 213

    In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026 (electrek.co)
  • 32 30

    EU should expand to 40 states – including Canada (www.cnbc.com)
  • 6 37

    Show HN: Prela – Purely Algebraic Relation Combinators (github.com)
  • 74 49

    Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 187 364

    VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 49 38

    The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern" (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 108 272

    Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot (www.fieggen.com)
  • 51 42

    Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
  • 30 43

    First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas (www.texastribune.org)
  • 87 300

    French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56 (www.france24.com)
  • 54 89

    Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint (tomotama.com)
  • AccessOwl (YC S22) is hiring an AI TypeScript Engineer to connect 300 SaaS tools (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 16 50

    When su replaced login for becoming another Unix login (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 39 139

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 46 134

    Gaussian Point Splatting (momentsingraphics.de)
  • 69 92

    Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git (medium.com)
  • 151 148

    Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites (uruky.com)
  • 7 100

    thunderbolt-ibverbs: We have InfiniBand at home (blog.hellas.ai)
  • 193 339

    UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases (aoav.org.uk)
  • 31 132

    Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history (apnews.com)
  • 0 10

    The Capacity of HotHands to Facilitate High-Altitude Research (2023) [pdf] (www.colorado.edu)
  • 169 215

    Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years (fagnerbrack.com)
  • 102 120

    The SpaceX IPO Will Be the Theft of the Century (montanaskeptic.substack.com)
  • 3 32

    Life saving / first aid posters
  • 51 56

    Dumbphone 2 (dumb.co)
  • 1 14

    When does fragmentation occur in the CUDA caching allocator? (docs.pytorch.org)
  • 56 35

    DNS Is for People – Not for IT Infrastructure (louwrentius.com)
  • 288 158

    American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn (economist.com)
  • 14 49

    CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment (github.com)
  • 11 18

    Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing (bio.bairui.dev)
  • 548 576

    Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes (www.dailycal.org)
  • 418 583

    U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse (e360.yale.edu)
  • 2 18

    Algorithmic Theming Engines (www.smashingmagazine.com)
  • 499 1168

    They’re made out of weights (maxleiter.com)
  • 18 59

    Tony Gilroy Accepts Award for Andor: "Fuck the Empire " (kottke.org)
  • 175 333

    I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it (kasra.blog)
  • 3 16

    Mobile won the platform war on distribution, not capability (prashamhtrivedi.in)
  • 85 194

    The ways we contain Claude across products (www.anthropic.com)
  • 60 56

    The Ü Programming Language (github.com)
  • 22 136

    Patching my guitar amp's firmware (mforney.org)
  • 89 149

    Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts (www.nbcboston.com)
  • 75 104

    Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding (opensource.googleblog.com)
  • 9 96

    A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf] (worrydream.com)
  • 32 100

    Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s) (github.com)
  • 74 153

    Ableton Extensions SDK (www.ableton.com)
  • 3 14

    Show HN: Lint Your Markdown with ESLint (github.com)
  • 118 161

    A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (lithub.com)
  • 25 53

    Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph) (github.com)
  • 9 80

    Building iOS Apps with Doom Emacs (wassimans.com)
  • 31 66

    Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5 (brume.aftertone.co)
  • 76 80

    GoPro warned it may not survive (thenextweb.com)
  • 1063 636

    Artificial intelligence is not conscious (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 53 116

    New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532s we’ve used for decades (groupdiy.com)
  • 48 51

    Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland (rootshell.is)
  • 364 911

    Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language (elixir-lang.org)
  • 251 229

    Stop Killing Games (jxself.org)
  • 6 74

    Embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of "genetic brakes" (nouvelles.umontreal.ca)
  • 78 144

    Bot vs human traffic (radar.cloudflare.com)
  • 1 23

    Sixteen Kids and a Hit Man (2024) (nymag.com)
  • 81 194

    Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig (github.com)
  • 226 704

    I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (burntsushi.net)
  • 77 132

    Angular v22 (blog.angular.dev)
  • 64 76

    Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
  • 122 88

    If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret? (www.thebrockovichreport.com)
  • 14 31

    Show HN: Rscrypto, pure-Rust crypto with industry leading public benches (github.com)
  • 468 402

    MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production (www.macrumors.com)
  • 263 226

    The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies (www.sanders.senate.gov)
  • 8 12

    Show HN: Solving complex optimization problems with Google OR-Tools in browser (github.com)
  • 2 26

    REST3D: Reconstructing Physically Stable 3D Scenes from a Single Image (shirleymaxx.github.io)
  • Skyvern (YC S23) Is Hiring Open-Source Loving DevRel Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 22 62

    Fluid Simulation for Dummies (2006) (www.mikeash.com)
  • 42 70

    Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 28 126

    Show HN: Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx (nutrepedia.com)
  • 362 964

    Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model (blog.google)
  • 185 345

    ESP32-S31 (www.espressif.com)
  • 80 47

    Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025) (www.thedial.world)
  • 157 304

    A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt (letsencrypt.org)
  • 5 19

    I Found a Bug in Apple's Fsck_hfs (medium.com)
  • 52 94

    He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut (www.wired.com)
  • 229 519

    DaVinci Resolve 21 (www.blackmagicdesign.com)
  • 1 19

    Man out of Time: The travels and ecstasies of a Russian aesthete (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • 21 21

    Show HN: Tired of duct-taping access control into agent prompts. Here's the fix (github.com)
  • 85 98

    Shopify outage [resolved] (www.shopifystatus.com)
  • 2 24

    Thomas Mann: Goethe Heartened by Panama (As Suez for English, or Danube-Rhine) (yalereview.org)
  • 32 218

    I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house (old.reddit.com)
  • 4 27

    Claude Opus 4.8 Max responding to an empty message (xcancel.com)
  • 16 27

    Take Action: LAPD Removed Crime Location Data. Here's Why It Matters (blog.spotcrime.com)
  • 725 748

    Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min (www.bbc.com)
  • 37 26

    Which sparkling water is the best? (www.maximevidal.com)
  • 701 574

    Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing (simonwillison.net)
  • 372 414

    32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 205 127

    How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry (www.wired.com)
  • 104 52

    Bun has been converted to rust. Now what? (bytecode.news)
  • 79 95

    What I've learned about the trombone (bryanhu.com)
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  • Piramidal (YC W24) – Software Engineers – NYC Onsite
  • 31 132

    Nabokov's pale fire: the lost 'father of all hypertext demos'? (2011) (dl.acm.org)
  • 79 134

    Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (leidendeclaration.ai)
  • 65 332

    PlayStation Architecture (www.copetti.org)
  • 139 257

    Every Byte Matters (fzakaria.com)
  • 315 277

    Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground (www.science.org)
  • 115 677

    Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it (blog.nns.ee)
  • 7 21

    OpenRidingController – DIY horse riding controller for the PC (github.com)
  • 2 17

    Jonathan Franzen on Talent, Theatre, and His Next Novel (www.newyorker.com)
  • 14 39

    Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer source code (alphapixeldev.com)
  • 34 252

    Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2 (handwritten.danieljanus.pl)
  • 9 19

    Show HN: Phive, a Gomoku-like game to play with friends or solo (phive.app)
  • 114 134

    It is an amazing time for programmers (46elks.com)
  • 72 44

    AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI (dmanco.dev)
  • 26 59

    Writing Portable ARM64 Assembly (2023) (ariadne.space)
  • 24 72

    DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 48 43

    Microsoft doubles down on controversial quantum computing claims (www.science.org)
  • 45 146

    U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device (www.utoronto.ca)
  • 53 212

    Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game) (github.com)
  • 1 14

    SaySynth: A Brief History of Speaking Machines (brian.abelson.live)
  • 18 29

    America's Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule (www.wsj.com)
  • 51 156

    The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds (research.ligo.bio)
  • 13 14

    NLAB: The worlds smallest electronics lab (getnlab.com)
  • 37 43

    HHS is overriding peer review to require changes to research scope, design (www.science.org)
  • 14 124

    Words of Type (wiki.wordsoftype.com)
  • 120 63

    The American Missile Crisis (research.contrary.com)
  • 46 16

    Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read? (www.newyorker.com)
  • 68 209

    Agentic Mfw (agenticmotherfucking.website)
  • 5 110

    Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework (www.capstone-engine.org)
  • 3 15

    Ad Infini­Tum (matthiasott.com)
  • 100 650

    1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug (blog.ammaraskar.com)
  • 39 227

    Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia (discourse.julialang.org)
  • 66 134

    Roku LT Operating System open source distribution (blog.roku.com)
  • 12 40

    Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 77 67

    Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series (www.gateworld.net)
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  • 68 68

    I don't want my search engine to think for me (searchzee.com)
  • 58 53

    Are blue zones real? Answering that question is harder then ever (www.statnews.com)
  • 89 81

    More than 6 out of 10 people turn to AI for psychological support (www.axa.com)
  • 199 131

    My Students Can't Read (www.chronicle.com)
  • 40 55

    LLMs are not the black box you were promised (www.jay.ai)
  • 356 406

    AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study (law.stanford.edu)