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  • 0 5

    Robust Secret Storage in Networks (arxiv.org)
  • 2 6

    A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game (www.nytimes.com)
  • 33 51

    Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU (github.com)
  • 8 19

    Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code (github.com)
  • 51 174

    Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training (neow.in)
  • 0 15

    The 4-Bitter Lesson: Balancing Stability and Performance in NVFP4 RL (humansand.ai)
  • 1 5

    The security checks in every Lionshead PR (lionshead.digital)
  • 5 14

    Show HN: Sigwire – a live TUI switchboard for every signal on your Linux box (github.com)
  • SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF) (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 83 73

    AI Is a Bad Tool (bytecode.news)
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    Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL (github.com)
  • 26 40

    Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser (github.com)
  • 101 190

    Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended (www.whois.com)
  • 13 49

    Section 219, the US-Israel Military Merger, Would Thwart American Democracy (www.commondreams.org)
  • 124 320

    Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it (werd.io)
  • 2 22

    The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers (garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com)
  • 21 57

    Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans (nobie.com)
  • 7 21

    New Flagship Grok Voices (x.ai)
  • 13 39

    TFTP Honey Pot Results (bruceediger.com)
  • 43 51

    Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback (blog.thunderbird.net)
  • 4 20

    The Chud Vision of Roman History (acoup.blog)
  • 41 23

    The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes (www.sfgate.com)
  • 4 23

    How sea stars build materials that can see (www.engineering.upenn.edu)
  • 37 46

    A full body MRI earns you a year of smoking (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 18 41

    Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents (github.com)
  • 14 68

    Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway? (cakehonolulu.github.io)
  • 87 198

    Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode (scottwillsey.com)
  • 58 125

    The real prices of frontier models. Tokens * Price, right? (playcode.io)
  • 5 17

    Software Has Changed (www.abeautifulsite.net)
  • 2 96

    xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Git Repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket (www.internationalcyberdigest.com)
  • 12 34

    The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USAID (www.newyorker.com)
  • 20 19

    Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise (github.com)
  • 61 87

    Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here (github.com)
  • 95 362

    Show HN: Super Dario (superdario.pawb.de)
  • 46 10

    Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
  • 31 69

    Ancient Roman Board Game (ludus-coriovalli.web.app)
  • 3 12

    NTSB Report on NetJets first fatality in 40 years (Josh Baer RIP) (data.ntsb.gov)
  • 3 39

    A Farewell to ARPs: IPv4 Service on IPv6-Only Networks (labs.ripe.net)
  • 62 45

    Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Afternoon (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 28 36

    Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector (blog.vanillajava.blog)
  • PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Software Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 9 55

    Go-Flavored Concurrency in C (antonz.org)
  • 163 381

    Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor (get-inscribe.com)
  • 43 95

    Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads (esologic.com)
  • 68 84

    Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 11 35

    Counting ArXiv Delays (fi-le.net)
  • 252 291

    DOGE is done. What happened to its records? (www.ms.now)
  • 332 412

    LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire (techcrunch.com)
  • 18 29

    DMS 1.5 "The Wolverine" Released (danklinux.com)
  • 37 191

    The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 140 147

    Precursor (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 6 24

    Detained by settlers, US Democrat Ro Khanna now faces pro-Israel attacks (www.aljazeera.com)
  • 2 11

    There's no way this bond market can fund the markets needs without higher yields (www.youtube.com)
  • 139 165

    Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop (github.com)
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  • 20 80

    Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 383 358

    Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS (twitter.com)
  • 16 488

    Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers (twitter.com)
  • 66 111

    The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally (www.bbc.com)
  • 168 202

    Control the Ideas, Not the Code (antirez.com)
  • 184 103

    Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance (www.wired.com)
  • 30 130

    Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT) (github.com)
  • 10 44

    We Put an L7 Firewall in the Kernel (yeet.cx)
  • 115 179

    An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop (anderegg.ca)
  • 60 322

    A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese (jivx.com)
  • 64 21

    Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?
  • 107 37

    The console wars have been lost (xeiaso.net)
  • 3 10

    Show HN: Loot Raiders – an ARC Raiders-inspired inventory game in Svelte (loot-raiders.vercel.app)
  • 11 76

    Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation (frieve-a.github.io)
  • 113 93

    Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market (www.disruptionbanking.com)
  • 382 611

    A graph that should be front-page news (www.lyrebirddreaming.com)
  • 686 1366

    Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke (raymyers.org)
  • 135 191

    Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks (shkspr.mobi)
  • 16 10

    Tracking unique visitors without cookies (inmargin.io)
  • 23 105

    Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 38 155

    The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter (andiroberts.com)
  • 115 243

    Backtrack-Free Cursive (mmapped.blog)
  • 2 5

    New Zealand actor Sam Neill, known for Jurassic Park and The Piano, dies at 78 (cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com)
  • 101 438

    Sam Neill has died (www.theguardian.com)
  • 8 34

    Converting colors in JavaScript at 6B operations per second (dkryaklin.com)
  • 38 94

    Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica (github.com)
  • 31 70

    Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial (www.engadget.com)
  • 288 331

    Count Binface (countbinface.com)
  • 36 60

    Are you telling me a readonly property is wrecking my performance? (shub.club)
  • 4 6

    1970 Plymouth Hemi 'CUDA (knuckledustchronicles.com)
  • 6 46

    First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton (www.cbc.ca)
  • 26 35

    Modernizing Property Tax Assessments in Allegheny County (www.prohousingpgh.org)
  • 3 23

    Calculix: A Free Software Three-Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program (www.calculix.de)
  • 187 386

    GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
  • 17 39

    The four horsemen behind Postgres outages (malisper.me)
  • 431 996

    Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
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  • 37 70

    MacKenzie Scott's giving, in quality-adjusted life years (maxghenis.com)
  • 5 21

    Tacit Knowledge (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 0 19

    A Peek Inside Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Where Whimsical Puppets Are Designed (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2 16

    Circular Obstacle Pathfinding (2017) (redblobgames.github.io)
  • 25 66

    Billion Dollar PDFs (billiondollarpdf.com)
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  • 134 158

    Why Vanilla JavaScript (guseyn.com)
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  • 15 14

    Nicotine pouches, tobacco's latest ploy (med.stanford.edu)
  • 5 12

    How to build a circular LCD clock (blinry.org)
  • 90 158

    Designing and assembling my first PCB (vilkeliskis.com)
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  • 44 47

    Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data (laxmena.com)
  • 5 12

    I trained a 113M-parameter earthquake LLM from absolute scratch (github.com)
  • 29 18

    A Speed Limit for Computers (caolan.uk)
  • 2 30

    Architecture Description Languages [pdf] (ics.uci.edu)
  • 5 28

    Show HN: Codebase Posters – turn any Git repo into generative poster art (github.com)
  • 144 290

    Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (shellzine.net)
  • 910 243

    Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
  • 34 124

    Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks (kode.diy)
  • 23 13

    Nuclear war survival guide reveals seven everyday items if disaster strikes (www.dailymail.com)
  • 63 308

    So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021) (www.susanrigetti.com)
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  • 24 70

    Storm clouds gather over America's financial supremacy (www.economist.com)
  • 10 29

    Show HN: Zen Mode – a global focus mode for macOS (github.com)
  • 215 422

    Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS (scrapfly.dev)
  • 4 36

    The State of MCP Security [pdf] (www.canopii.dev)
  • 5 39

    Flash-MSA: Accelerating Million-Token Training with Sparse Attention Kernels (nanduruganesh.github.io)
  • 1 19

    The Seed Beneath the Snow (eli.li)
  • 7 20

    "Stop Cutting Down Flock Cameras " (Mass Surveillance Is Good) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 3 11

    Young women are identifying as less straight; young men, not so much (theconversation.com)
  • 294 243

    Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity (www.theregister.com)
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  • 4 14

    Defining new Jax types with hijax (docs.jax.dev)
  • 29 329

    Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)
  • 33 102

    Neocities: Create your own free website (neocities.org)
  • 12 29

    Show HN: Nectar, a Rust-like React that compiles to WebAssembly (buildnectar.com)
  • 125 253

    Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)
  • 75 177

    I Learned to Read Again (substack.magazinenongrata.com)
  • 10 53

    The One-Step Trap (In AI Research) (incompleteideas.net)
  • 306 472

    I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
  • 376 684

    Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)
  • 79 112

    Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs (cacm.acm.org)
  • 19 83

    Deir El-Medina Strikes (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 281 208

    Why write code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
  • 77 313

    LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (www.larp.website)
  • 66 45

    Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion (support.claude.com)
  • 35 122

    Against Usefulness (www.motivenotes.ai)
  • 25 50

    Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers (github.com)
  • 2 17

    The Lunduke Computer Operating System (github.com)
  • 22 22

    Abject Praise (infrequently.org)
  • 48 92

    Fable extended until 19 July (twitter.com)
  • 88 78

    Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007) (marc.info)
  • 57 135

    Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)
  • 6 20

    Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters (kurvengefahr.org)
  • 3 24

    The European Oligarchy (rocketup.pages.dev)
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  • 56 87

    Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go (github.com)
  • 1 18

    Noto: A Typeface for the World (fonts.google.com)
  • 2 38

    Agent Harness Engineering (addyosmani.com)
  • 0 26

    Morphometrics: Introduction to the Analysis of Shape (www.geol.umd.edu)
  • 210 268

    The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia (www.economist.com)
  • 31 75

    Why study Diophantine equations? (hidden-phenomena.com)
  • 5 33

    Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization (www.elliotcsmith.com)
  • 134 212

    Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 24 50

    TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024) (atthis.link)
  • 282 528

    How to read more books (scotto.me)
  • 314 168

    How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
  • 3 13

    An explanation of our search results (web.archive.org)
  • 31 17

    Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration (github.com)
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  • 0 7

    Relm – local LLMs as base-R objects, with interpretability (github.com)
  • 15 29

    Gina Gallery of International Naive Art (www.ginagallery.com)
  • 6 45

    Satteri: A Markdown pipeline forged in Rust for the JavaScript world (satteri.bruits.org)
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  • 25 46

    Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east? (theconversation.com)
  • 105 154

    AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 36 33

    Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck (www.ft.com)
  • 1 103

    Making Crash Bandicoot (2011) (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
  • 27 82

    Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router (mrbruh.com)
  • 120 159

    Understanding the Odin programming language (odinbook.com)
  • 38 63

    Ditching Zotero for a Text File (atthis.link)
  • 31 105

    Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams (app.ilograph.com)
  • 132 444

    Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 8 41

    Xbox 'OG' Adventures (mamoniem.com)
  • 236 160

    Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family (english.elpais.com)
  • 25 46

    IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11 (www.neowin.net)
  • 60 295

    Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
  • 12 30

    Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after 'brief and sudden illness' (www.nbcnews.com)
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  • 180 161

    Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (ca.pcmag.com)
  • 111 84

    Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France (www.theguardian.com)
  • 13 38

    Fibonacci's Real Mathematical Legacy (blogs.nature.com)
  • 7 25

    Sixteen Failed Attempts to Write a Eulogy for My Father (2024) (jude-doyle.ghost.io)
  • 9 44

    Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format (nigeltao.github.io)
  • 9 20

    Lindsey Graham has died (www.nytimes.com)
  • 57 137

    Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (buf.build)
  • 3 16

    6× faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy (pythonspeed.com)
  • 63 159

    Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com)
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    Vinod Khosla to Buy Seattle Seahawks for $9.6B (www.sportico.com)
  • 196 357

    Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
  • 48 133

    Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid (my.uscap.org)
  • 24 92

    Text art tools (hlnet.notion.site)
  • 39 69

    EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster (steven-giesel.com)
  • 1 65

    Why Write Code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
  • 530 196

    Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid (www.npr.org)
  • 163 124

    Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices (www.theguardian.com)
  • 80 239

    An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (thebeach.dev)
  • 5 3

    Show HN: Quantum-Qec / Matrix-Free Quantum Homeostatic Engine(Blueprint) (github.com)
  • 28 65

    Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio (mrzk.io)
  • 8 26

    Small Inventors Are Being Squeezed by a Convoluted Patent Process (www.nationalreview.com)
  • 222 516

    What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (gist.github.com)
  • 8 96

    A Erlang style pure Scheme Webserver and further (igropyr.com)
  • 3 29

    The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation (2012) (arxiv.org)
  • 59 98

    Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 30 75

    Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
  • 70 48

    Wealthy AI workers send San Francisco house prices soaring (www.bbc.com)
  • 22 131

    A pure scheme web programming tool (goeteia.dev)
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  • 42 105

    I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) (triapul.cz)
  • 35 95

    Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma (abcnews.com)
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  • 74 104

    Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19 (www.ijidonline.com)
  • 22 39

    Firefox 12.58% for Desktop Browser Market Share in North America June 2026 (gs.statcounter.com)
  • 65 98

    A dock that wakes up reliably (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 1 14

    How to Achieve Pruning When Querying by Non-Partitioned Columns in PostgreSQL (hakibenita.com)
  • 24 16

    Odyssey Linux (odysseylinux.org)
  • 67 34

    The fine print that follows you out the door: non-compete clauses are spreading (oecdecoscope.blog)
  • 7 43

    Show HN: Sqlsure – deterministic semantic checks for AI-generated SQL (github.com)