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  • 72 42

    OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room (sfstandard.com)
  • 0 6

    Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo (blog.plover.com)
  • 0 6

    IDRs as Records of Intent (wrla.ch)
  • PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery (jobs.lever.co)
  • 1 12

    Show HN: Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add (parsimony.lasu.dev)
  • 2 80

    OpenAI finds recording device in one of their offices (twitter.com)
  • 6 28

    Hiking the world in search of rare cheeses (www.bbc.com)
  • 1 8

    Show HN: Stream live open data in two commands (docs.hypermass.io)
  • 11 13

    The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians (newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)
  • 2 30

    Show HN: Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits (github.com)
  • 42 130

    Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard (guitoro.com)
  • 4 22

    Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript (github.com)
  • 101 71

    A plea not to use uv-build (blogs.gentoo.org)
  • 8 21

    Zero to Calc in Six Days: Inside XBOW's Chrome Full Chain (xbow.com)
  • 27 35

    Show HN: XY Music Notation (music.xy.dev)
  • 20 37

    Scientists wonder: Is my AI stealing my ideas? (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 28 57

    Show HN: How Random Are You? (lab.specr.net)
  • 39 152

    Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics (developers.googleblog.com)
  • 382 378

    Redesigning source control at Anthropic (www.anthropic.com)
  • Coris (YC S22) Is Hiring Back End Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 37 40

    Americans Trust in Federal Government Sinks to New Depths (news.gallup.com)
  • 117 142

    Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany (ua.news)
  • 17 105

    MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors (news.mit.edu)
  • 637 789

    Gemini 4 Argon (deepmind.google)
  • 40 96

    How to engineer an AI harness for game development (kylekukshtel.com)
  • 190 142

    The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s (ourworldindata.org)
  • 128 65

    Worlds more habitable than Earth? (www.nytimes.com)
  • 16 30

    Launch HN: Consus (YC F24) – LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data
  • 105 267

    Thunderbird for iOS (blog.thunderbird.net)
  • 64 25

    Now that information is free, what's a college campus for? (commonedge.org)
  • 125 201

    I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic (www.sammystraus.com)
  • 0 4

    The Pundit's Trilemma – Authoritative, general, prolific: pick any two (www.programmablemutter.com)
  • 20 21

    Nearly all 19 car brands send driver data to third parties (Northeastern/CR) (news.auravision.co)
  • 204 132

    Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome (9to5mac.com)
  • 55 63

    BB(10) > Graham's Number (github.com)
  • 20 47

    A Book That Will Never Be Read (forbetterscience.com)
  • 479 246

    New Apple TV 4K (www.apple.com)
  • 68 109

    A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers (photonlines.substack.com)
  • 2 7

    Sqlthon – A lightweight Pythonic layer for SQLite (github.com)
  • 90 205

    A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices (machinelearning.apple.com)
  • 734 598

    Apple HomeView (www.apple.com)
  • 251 249

    Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy (blog.character.ai)
  • 225 554

    Firefox Enterprise (www.firefox.com)
  • 20 144

    Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy (www.theverge.com)
  • 82 367

    We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model (eg2.haku.sh)
  • 1 14

    India's Battery Storage Capacity Set to Surge Nearly 50 Fold by 2032 (oilprice.com)
  • 356 624

    11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker (github.com)
  • 78 152

    Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks (pdftomp3.com)
  • 56 39

    AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers (www.reuters.com)
  • 88 95

    AWS Lambda Web Functions (aws.amazon.com)
  • 238 432

    CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 2 110

    Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM (www.heise.de)
  • 185 89

    Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along? (ptrbrynt.com)
  • 2 18

    The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web (blog.maximeheckel.com)
  • 82 327

    Hittite royal archive found in Turkey (www.thehistoryblog.com)
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  • 10 19

    Teach My Little Sister How to Drive (steamcommunity.com)
  • 49 83

    DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher? (github.com)
  • 7 43

    Document Review with Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev (www.unsiloed.ai)
  • 108 50

    Where is all the new, good software? (www.natemeyvis.com)
  • 64 74

    Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school (www.lemonde.fr)
  • 124 107

    Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF (www.theguardian.com)
  • 23 27

    Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI (www.seangoedecke.com)
  • 33 52

    Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post (www.patreon.com)
  • 41 132

    Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support) (github.com)
  • 66 97

    The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27 (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
  • 136 270

    AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities (arxiv.org)
  • 23 87

    NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees (www.theguardian.com)
  • 155 236

    A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms (www.argmin.net)
  • 90 38

    Strengthening our defenses against distillation attacks (www.anthropic.com)
  • 178 167

    Leaving Tech (ryanbigg.com)
  • 148 152

    China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024 (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
  • 12 32

    Neuroscience can make decluttering easier (www.nytimes.com)
  • 46 79

    Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n (app.getsupers.com)
  • 4 12

    Instant Software Factories (github.com)
  • 1 9

    A shared, verifiable fix database that AI agents read and write themselves (cuddly-guide-4q6q54rg76653jvxj-8000.app.github.dev)
  • 132 401

    The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024) (jsomers.net)
  • 33 82

    Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP (github.com)
  • 84 211

    Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD (github.com)
  • 102 145

    I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra (nirajrajgor.com)
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  • 125 171

    Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20 (doi.org)
  • 175 301

    Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X (www.intel.com)
  • 3 6

    Does Fast Mode Do Anything? (doesfastdoanything.com)
  • 71 211

    RJ Mitte has died (news.sky.com)
  • 25 247

    Who is vfmaddrnd231pd? (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 40 72

    Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser (brickbrag.com)
  • 10 14

    America's Longest Highway Tunnel (2025) (www.thetravel.com)
  • 499 630

    AI is a tool and using it well takes skill (yyhh.org)
  • 2 7

    In Praise of John Cale, the Superior Velvet (thequietus.com)
  • 12 11

    AI Is Making Us Dumber – Unless We Fight Back (baromae.blogspot.com)
  • 34 148

    Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch (phreak.ing)
  • 132 276

    Making big downloads resumable in Firefox (lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)
  • 73 84

    Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done (www.avclub.com)
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  • 4 28

    Martin Odersky – Keynote: The End of Programming? [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 37 174

    Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum (www.markround.com)
  • 108 104

    AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter (www.anthropic.com)
  • 174 300

    'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey (www.linkedin.com)
  • 51 233

    OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed (openfatigue.ai)
  • 87 142

    Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers (jacobin.com)
  • 290 594

    Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default (github.com)
  • 17 35

    French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack (www.rnz.co.nz)
  • 105 190

    Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer (www.wired.com)
  • 161 168

    Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic (micahflee.com)
  • 25 107

    My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping (blog.ericgoldman.org)
  • 0 17

    Show HN: I rewrote my website in Swift (sindresorhus.com)
  • 43 39

    Show HN: Opus 5.5 made a fully featured Figma clone in 3 hours / 8 prompts (www.mana.space)
  • 298 356

    AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software (arstechnica.com)
  • 470 328

    Thinking will become a hobby (www.spinellis.gr)
  • 32 95

    Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries (github.com)
  • 108 155

    Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents
  • 85 214

    Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later (taylor.town)
  • 371 656

    Muse Wonder (research.meta.ai)
  • 3 48

    Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses (www.reuters.com)
  • 305 686

    A Modern Web App in C (prophitt.me)
  • 7 18

    French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack (www.afp.com)
  • 115 410

    Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver (github.com)
  • 358 660

    GLM-Legal (z.ai)
  • 3 144

    Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 155

    French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack (uk.finance.yahoo.com)
  • 49 22

    Discover vibe-coded alternatives to popular software (vibealternatives.com)
  • 4 25

    Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture (azure.microsoft.com)
  • 115 230

    I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google (simonkoeck.com)
  • 56 96

    Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby (blog.julik.nl)
  • 32 104

    (Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers (words.filippo.io)
  • 8 67

    An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki (animationobsessive.substack.com)
  • 365 329

    Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? (mortoray.com)
  • 269 253

    Solar panels that plug into your wall (www.nationalgeographic.com)
  • 66 55

    "Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill (justismills.substack.com)
  • 143 157

    Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 85 71

    AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety (www.theguardian.com)
  • 43 51

    Choreographic Programming in Rust (github.com)
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  • 976 873

    Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 465 403

    Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age (www.bbc.com)
  • 104 272

    The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001) (pixelatron.com)
  • 407 385

    QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions (github.com)
  • 187 271

    Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search (www.sciencealert.com)
  • 201 615

    Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth (www.bbc.com)
  • 249 270

    Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 3 14

    Hetzner: The New GPU Server GEX63 for Professional AI Workloads (www.hetzner.com)
  • 14 71

    Bag of Decisions Reranker (softwaredoug.com)
  • 362 224

    Fable Took My Job (cendyne.dev)
  • 13 12

    Loop Engineering: Optimizing Code Generation and Verification (bradleygibbs.dev)
  • 158 305

    Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly (github.com)
  • 52 181

    Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware? (github.com)
  • 19 99

    Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad (github.com)
  • 217 242

    Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity' (www.cnbc.com)
  • 185 175

    Postgres isn't slow, your storage is (clickhouse.com)
  • 24 113

    Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p (github.com)
  • 4 15

    AI-Built Torrent Site Looks Inside Downloads to Catch Fakes and Malware (torrentfreak.com)
  • 186 132

    Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones (www.shokunin.studio)
  • 5 20

    Draw by Pinging IPv6 Addresses (pings.utwente.io)
  • 23 29

    Crest – an Arc-inspired open-source browser for Mac (crestbrowser.com)
  • 64 30

    Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 339 271

    Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly? (amosbbatto.wordpress.com)
  • 114 222

    Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack (radar.cloudflare.com)
  • 97 248

    Type-safe HTML templating in Zig (lalinsky.com)
  • 0 4

    Building a VMM from scratch, #0: Why BoxLite is replacing libkrun (blog.boxlite.ai)
  • 67 78

    X Is Bad, Though (lexontech.org)
  • 108 77

    No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C (sebsite.pw)
  • 46 43

    Sorry we made you grind LeetCode (www.hackerrank.com)
  • 53 261

    Calculus with Julia (jverzani.github.io)
  • 108 101

    An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust (github.com)
  • 78 224

    Doory – Open-Source Canva (github.com)
  • 3 64

    Tattoos you can turn on and off (www.livescience.com)
  • 6 12

    Yes I Understand How LLMs Work (kemendo.com)
  • 5 65

    Vectorized CLZ and CTZ (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 7 14

    Qt An E2EE post-quantum messenger core in Rust (10k connections on 124MB RAM (github.com)
  • 16 85

    HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo (github.com)
  • 2 35

    Show HN: BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tab (github.com)
  • 60 84

    Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos (www.cell.com)
  • 4 41

    A college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused (www.opencampus.org)
  • 52 127

    Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage (tedhaley.ca)
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  • 3 48

    ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol (github.com)
  • 3 16

    Show HN: Plimsoll, a self-hosted sandbox for code your AI agent writes (github.com)
  • 18 105

    Illustration Beyond Proof (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 122 105

    Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis (www.economist.com)
  • 23 27

    Shredding JSON columns gave Logfire up to 1000x faster queries (pydantic.dev)