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  • 3 8

    CD Sales Growth Outpaced Vinyl in the First Half of 2026 (consequence.net)
  • 1 4

    AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes (nicholas-afk.github.io)
  • 2 5

    Kimi K3 is ranked 3rd on artificial analysis, only 2 points behind Sol (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 3 28

    Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence (www.kimi.com)
  • 1 10

    Optimizing Lua string literals to save 400 bytes (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 9 60

    German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks (the-decoder.com)
  • 2 6

    Rustwright: Playwright rewritten in Rust that uses 70% less memory (github.com)
  • 19 51

    Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public (schema-harness.github.io)
  • 69 45

    SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock (invezz.com)
  • 142 112

    42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support (www.cnbc.com)
  • 4 23

    Cottage Computer Programming (1984) (www.atariarchives.org)
  • 53 34

    Someone Used AI to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me (www.nytimes.com)
  • 1 18

    Kimi K3 Is Live (www.kimi.com)
  • 1 16

    Show HN: Galois connections for composable numeric casts in Rust (github.com)
  • Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 12 90

    Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015) (immersivemath.com)
  • 16 17

    Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills without context bloat (github.com)
  • 4 24

    Show HN: A modern port of Linux to a ten-year-old QWERTY phone
  • 3 13

    Show HN: Sentinel – open-source QA agent that reads your code before it clicks (blog.simbastack.com)
  • 8 15

    Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Company-wide security monitoring for AI apps
  • 1 8

    Yann LeCun on AMI Labs, JEPA, and the AI World of 2030 (nebius.science)
  • 125 63

    'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction' (techwerkers.nl)
  • 3 9

    Helicone allows users to write SQL directly to a shared ClickHouse (www.justintorre.com)
  • 12 41

    Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer (github.com)
  • 78 119

    NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook (blog.google)
  • 69 91

    Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning (blog.lyc8503.net)
  • 10 25

    Agent-talk: Enabling coding agents to work together (github.com)
  • 2 7

    Building scalable AI agents with modular prompt transpilation (developers.googleblog.com)
  • 19 28

    56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up (betlang.dev)
  • 44 81

    Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes (www.gapminder.org)
  • 10 13

    Show HN: QBasic Gorillas (Repeeled) (gameswithtony.com)
  • 68 188

    Decoy Font (www.mixfont.com)
  • 77 303

    Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source (opensource.microsoft.com)
  • 7 12

    My Homepage Has a Pulse (snehankekre.com)
  • 40 62

    How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM (www.zhinit.dev)
  • 9 37

    GC shape stenciling in Go generics (rednafi.com)
  • 24 78

    Guide to data tools landscape for developers (sinja.io)
  • 362 658

    Kimi K3 is now live (www.kimi.com)
  • 55 86

    Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 11 42

    Accidental Anonymity (macwright.com)
  • 166 301

    How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going (rtfeldman.com)
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  • 12 20

    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)
  • 62 126

    Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode (www.spaceweather.gov)
  • 5 29

    World-War-Ⅱ-era telephone line still in use in Upper Tanana Valley Alaska (2021) (www.sketchesofalaska.com)
  • 82 68

    Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed (www.bbc.com)
  • 4 25

    Introduction to KizunaShelf: A shelf for everything you love (mudkip.me)
  • 11 5

    Show HN: I Built an Accent Changer App (accentchanger.com)
  • 42 43

    Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search (hilogame.cc)
  • 289 471

    Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them (www.techdirt.com)
  • 6 47

    Umuganda (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 9 33

    Panel meter calculator with floating point (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 41 35

    Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen (musklr.com)
  • 71 195

    Ente – Opening Our Books (ente.com)
  • 0 5

    I resurrected an 8-year-old dead CSS library and gave it an engine (usevivace.dev)
  • 252 279

    SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading (www.latimes.com)
  • 160 144

    The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway (www.theocharis.dev)
  • 163 86

    British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply (www.bbc.com)
  • 9 27

    The Act and the Outcome of Creation (www.ssp.sh)
  • 18 122

    Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure (onatm.dev)
  • 1 39

    Let's build a simple interpreter for APL – part 1 (mathspp.com)
  • 259 465

    OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe (community.oneplus.com)
  • 59 70

    A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data (marginalrevolution.com)
  • 198 289

    At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic (joinedanthropic.com)
  • 12 20

    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)
  • 45 140

    Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later (github.com)
  • 89 190

    Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't (goughlui.com)
  • 203 285

    I also filed the corners off my MacBook (www.brt.fyi)
  • 17 29

    Netstrings (1997) (cr.yp.to)
  • 56 50

    Rebuilding My Homelab with Compose, Ruby, IPv6, and No Kubernetes (www.petekeen.net)
  • 99 98

    Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used (www.frank.computer)
  • 483 730

    The lost joy of music piracy (www.pigeonsandplanes.com)
  • 3 19

    The Last Picture Show: A Conversation with George Lucas (a-rabbitsfoot.com)
  • 45 228

    1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored (www.openculture.com)
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  • 75 141

    Making 768 servers look like 1 (planetscale.com)
  • 23 78

    Can LLMs Perform Deep Technical Comprehension of Computer Architecture Papers (arxiv.org)
  • 109 219

    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 13

    Open Source, Free Tier Capable Whispr Using Cloudflare AI (github.com)
  • 1 9

    Fleet: Hierarchical Task-Based Abstraction for Megakernels on Multi-Die GPUs (arxiv.org)
  • 148 192

    Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign (hyperallergic.com)
  • 24 68

    High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 57 91

    The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency (pmbanugo.me)
  • 130 173

    Bluesky Trademarks ATProto (atproto.com)
  • 10 45

    CatchCat – Pokémon Go for Cats, IRL (www.catchcat.lol)
  • 95 112

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

    Free Remote Desktop Without Servers (github.com)
  • 44 124

    Job queues are deceptively tricky (typesanitizer.com)
  • 17 26

    Show HN: E-- – A language you dial between English and Python (github.com)
  • 56 83

    Show HN: One More Letter (playonemoreletter.com)
  • 49 100

    LLM Networking with MikroTik (blog.greg.technology)
  • 20 49

    Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite (sqlite.org)
  • 15 65

    Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018) (chemistry.berkeley.edu)
  • 23 62

    The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996) (www.nngroup.com)
  • 164 346

    SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions (mort.coffee)
  • 1 16

    Odin 2 Portal Exploded (github.com)
  • 0 11

    Tambara Equipment (bartoszmilewski.com)
  • 23 56

    P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC (pairdrop.net)
  • 112 105

    We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes (mass-driver.com)
  • 60 53

    Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble" [pdf] (economics.mit.edu)
  • 100 283

    Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf] (www.siegelendowment.org)
  • 66 40

    The End of Creativity (hugodaniel.com)
  • 53 162

    Command Line Interface Guidelines (clig.dev)
  • 119 236

    Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly (developer.puter.com)
  • 6 22

    Grok Build is open source (x.ai)
  • 9 38

    Show HN: Low-latency local LLM runner via OpenJDK Panama FFM (Java 22) (github.com)
  • 4 19

    Show HN: Microcosm Industries – Simulation toys and software microcosms (microcosm.industries)
  • 5 16

    Twain Town, USA (theamericanscholar.org)
  • 85 119

    Book prizes don't work how you think (rebeccamakkai.substack.com)
  • 67 28

    Who Is America's Homer? (www.plough.com)
  • 607 570

    Grok Build is open source (github.com)
  • 6 12

    Show HN: SirixDB 1.0 Beta – Git-Like Versioning, Diffs, Time-Travel Queries (github.com)
  • 44 77

    Designing APIs for Agents (www.freestyle.sh)
  • 26 126

    Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok (brainless.swerdlow.dev)
  • 5 47

    MITS: Rockets, Calculators, and Personal Computers (www.abortretry.fail)
  • 24 103

    Voxatron (www.lexaloffle.com)
  • 40 147

    Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)
  • 6 28

    Show HN: Capn-hook for coding agents – don't grep the same mystery twice (github.com)
  • 163 351

    Why I Left Google DeepMind (turntrout.com)
  • 280 1167

    Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model (thinkingmachines.ai)
  • 10 15

    Editing React components that never rendered (blog.crossui.com)
  • 4 121

    Inkling – Open-Weights 975B Parameter LLM (thinkingmachines.ai)
  • 286 482

    Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources (www.reuters.com)
  • 4 21

    Show HN: Painterly – Turn pictures into digital paintings without generative AI (github.com)
  • 22 14

    US Debt Clock Live (www.us-debt-clock.com)
  • 62 96

    FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code from Its Base System (www.phoronix.com)
  • 23 144

    Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs (danq.me)
  • Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Software Engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 15 41

    A General Goal-Conditioned Minecraft Model (pantograph.com)
  • 212 122

    Starlink unlimited aviation plan to rise from $10k/month to $20k (www.corporatejetinvestor.com)
  • 36 26

    Purging George Orwell's books misses what drives the political right (theloop.ecpr.eu)
  • 5 49

    Unsolved Problems in MLOps (spawn-queue.acm.org)
  • 18 45

    What designing computer science cards taught me about graphic design (fhoehl.com)
  • 22 42

    Launch HN: Coasty (YC S26) – An API for computer-use agents (coasty.ai)
  • 50 273

    Collection of Digital Clock Designs (clocks.dev)
  • 48 37

    Primate Is the Last Great Web Framework (superarch.org)
  • 6 25

    C3 0.8.2 a Modest Improvement (c3-lang.org)
  • 244 297

    Codex Micro (openai.com)
  • 119 81

    When A.I. is a member of the family (www.newyorker.com)
  • 33 125

    Open-source memory for coding agents, synced over SSH (github.com)
  • 0 8

    Museum of the Human Web (museum.parallel.ai)
  • 11 15

    SendLang: A DSL for Email Automation (www.sendlang.com)
  • 4 10

    The age of the Universe from a large sample of the oldest Galactic stars (arxiv.org)
  • 202 315

    Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU (www.neomindlabs.com)
  • 2 16

    Nat Slipstreaming v2.0 allows an attacker to remotely access any TCP/UDP service (sa.my)
  • 5 20

    J-space comparisons across open models (eliebak.com)
  • 47 154

    Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios) (github.com)
  • 180 84

    DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety (www.dea.gov)
  • 6 16

    Show HN: Aict – Unix coreutils that output XML/JSON, built for AI agents (github.com)
  • 2 8

    Show HN: Goku – WASM (wllama)-powered LLM inference and model manager (userfrom1995.github.io)
  • 21 114

    The Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data into a Video Game (blog.exe.dev)
  • 5 22

    Show HN: 18KB ls alternative in no_std rust and Libc (crates.io)
  • 15 95

    The Memory Heist (www.ayush.digital)
  • 165 258

    OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court (dpa-international.com)
  • 10 20

    CVE-2026-59208: Cross-Issuer Account Takeover in n8n (www.strix.ai)
  • 9 24

    Show HN: StyleSeed – a design-rules engine so AI agents stop building generic UI (github.com)
  • 413 188

    My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded (www.zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • 112 45

    US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent (www.bbc.com)
  • 5 68

    What Every Python Developer Should Know About the CPython ABI (labs.quansight.org)
  • 54 108

    Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled (www.ghacks.net)
  • 10 13

    Pong Wars on the Commodore 64 (imrannazar.com)
  • 100 208

    Towards a harness that can do anything (eardatasci.github.io)
  • 32 50

    The well-calibrated Bayesian [pdf] (1982) (fitelson.org)
  • 2 19

    If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic (www.theregister.com)
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  • 104 123

    Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
  • 43 18

    Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved (github.com)
  • 19 51

    Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) (longnow.org)
  • 104 64

    Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy (www.schweizerbart.de)
  • 102 167

    Briar is in maintenance mode (briarproject.org)
  • 23 48

    What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles? (blog.omgmog.net)
  • 25 16

    What `for x in y` hides from you – From Scratch Code (fromscratchcode.com)
  • 2 26

    Bootstrapping GDC with DMD (briancallahan.net)
  • 236 184

    The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence (smarterarticles.co.uk)
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  • 151 260

    Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022) (dev.moe)
  • 6 14

    Show HN: I built a smart proxy so your coding agent can run loose (trollbridge.dev)
  • 577 556

    SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status (www.ft.com)
  • 13 48

    Latent Space as a New Medium (kevinkelly.substack.com)
  • 9 9

    Filmgrab: Films A-Z (film-grab.com)
  • 9 56

    A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS (cdrom.ca)
  • 50 32

    Societal Impacts: Claude's values across models and languages (www.anthropic.com)
  • 68 42

    Show HN: Make senders work to get into your inbox (www.captchainbox.com)
  • 23 53

    Using Go for Mobile Apps (www.davidsobsessions.com)
  • 0 16

    Boss – Dependency Manager for Delphi and Lazarus (github.com)
  • 100 205

    Telegram Serverless (core.telegram.org)
  • 79 119

    DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs (martinfowler.com)
  • 279 335

    Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important (ramones.dev)
  • 52 38

    Show HN: For 10 World Cups, my model's 2 favorites had the champion every time (papers.ssrn.com)
  • 170 75

    Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023) (www.sevarg.net)
  • 390 728

    Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023) (academic.oup.com)
  • 7 8

    Midnight social media curfew, infinite scrolling limits proposed for older teens (www.cnbc.com)
  • Jiga (YC W21) is hiring the best people to make manufacturing great again (jiga.io)
  • 26 118

    Weathergotchi – an E-Paper Climate Logger (github.com)
  • 3 6

    Floating Companion: Exploring Design Space for Soft Floating Robots in Indoor (dl.acm.org)
  • 3 26

    Show HN: Web App Uses RTL-SDR to Align HDTV Antenna (tunerscope.com)
  • 60 53

    Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard (github.com)
  • 116 32

    New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain (www.bbc.com)
  • 4 39

    Combinatorial Games in Lean (github.com)
  • 214 128

    America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD (fortune.com)
  • 63 56

    Never argue with your boss (2009) (righteousit.com)
  • 0 9

    Ask HN: How do you track feedback when you post across multiple places?
  • 17 74

    Who's running all those tiny RPKI servers? (blog.apnic.net)
  • 3 28

    Surprising lessons from my research scientist job search (yongzx.github.io)
  • 290 655

    I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets (www.ayush.digital)
  • 130 112

    RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues (www.eetimes.com)
  • 53 87

    LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft
  • 118 132

    The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn't doomed (www.joanwestenberg.com)
  • 31 73

    Andon (manufacturing) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 10 19

    The Trade in Looted Antiquities Endures for One Reason: Demand (news.artnet.com)
  • 247 925

    Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 186 114

    Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning (worldcrunch.com)
  • 10 21

    Ambient Website Background Clouds (github.com)
  • 21 79

    An unusual way for your DHCP server to run out of dynamic IPs (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 109 164

    Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel (www.starfleetmath.com)
  • 147 213

    TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access (tailscale.com)
  • 114 196

    Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B (fortune.com)
  • 136 363

    Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history (vpd.ca)
  • 83 46

    C++20 Improved the For-Loop Syntax (lzon.ca)
  • 44 97

    Probably check on your smart appliances (xeiaso.net)