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  • 6 15

    LLM Ass Bench (www.assbench.com)
  • 0 9

    The Trouble with 'Ntile()' (blog.djnavarro.net)
  • 13 38

    Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived (foxscript.org)
  • 22 39

    No Sloptober (no-sloptober.com)
  • 3 12

    The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin (blog.asciitweezers.com)
  • 36 42

    What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals (www.kqed.org)
  • 28 55

    Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem? (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 5 15

    The JavaScript Midlife Crisis (maroun-baydoun.com)
  • 111 162

    'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees (www.404media.co)
  • 3 34

    Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models (benchmarkheaven.com)
  • 19 57

    Markdown in /src (htmx.org)
  • 50 56

    People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 12 58

    An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord (discord.com)
  • 55 53

    Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production (electrek.co)
  • 29 135

    How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? (lemire.me)
  • 9 45

    Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS (github.com)
  • 6 28

    A Faster Shortest Path Algorithm (www.vals.ai)
  • 3 12

    The human brain is two separate organs, study finds (news.stanford.edu)
  • 59 66

    Obscura: The first VPN that can't log your activity (obscura.com)
  • 49 52

    Explaining to business people why building software is still hard (www.manager.dev)
  • 1 9

    A study of sequence weighting at scale (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 42 90

    SAML: A Fractal of Bad Design (blog.trailofbits.com)
  • 128 254

    Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 1 7

    Zero-downtime Linux kernel zero-day mitigation via eBPF and SECCOMP (github.com)
  • 50 73

    Unreal Agent (unreallabs.ai)
  • 24 48

    George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts (commonedge.org)
  • 7 23

    Show HN: Training a model to identify AI web content from structure alone (arxiv.org)
  • 461 880

    GPT-6 Sol and Luna (openai.com)
  • 5 47

    Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly (www.evalapply.org)
  • 19 28

    Launch HN: Coverage Cat (YC S22) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent (www.coveragecat.com)
  • 7 60

    One Minute Park (oneminutepark.tv)
  • 95 213

    There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027 (grapheneos.social)
  • 13 34

    Moving from cash to credit cards, PayPal, etc. is an ongoing privacy disaster (grapheneos.social)
  • 51 182

    Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max) (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 65 123

    WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE (github.com)
  • 73 59

    Aging may be a program, not a breakdown (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 40 24

    Americans' Drinking Remains at Record Low: Gallup Poll (news.gallup.com)
  • 2 17

    Show HN: InstinctFlash – High-Performance Serving Runtime for Robotics Models (github.com)
  • 2 32

    Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why (ai-rete-rag.com)
  • 690 942

    Claude Opus 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 2 273

    Claude Opus 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 8 42

    Relativistic raytracing (publish.obsidian.md)
  • 55 47

    Xbox continues its “reset” with dramatic restructuring (arstechnica.com)
  • 13 93

    16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985) (allpoetry.com)
  • 47 88

    Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster (minimaxir.com)
  • 26 39

    The Economics of Open-Weight Inference (data.ornn.com)
  • 16 83

    Vacate a drone restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents (www.eff.org)
  • 138 272

    I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB (mouse.dev)
  • 44 41

    Teleoperated Humans (www.jefftk.com)
  • 24 16

    If you start writing today, there's no way to know if you can write without AI (www.ssp.sh)
  • 29 123

    Solitaire Alone Together (solitairealonetogether.com)
  • 48 107

    Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day (arstechnica.com)
  • 34 88

    Jev – A curation of Jev demos on X, tools, skills, and integrations (github.com)
  • 0 10

    Quantum information spreading via higher-order operator correlators (arxiv.org)
  • 45 51

    What Capital Never Told You About Rent (www.humansontheloop.com)
  • 173 231

    OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev (arcturus-labs.com)
  • 402 531

    Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy (www.techradar.com)
  • 49 146

    Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support (droprun.sh)
  • 5 14

    We broke an Over-The-Air update on the ESP32 on purpose (groundrun.io)
  • 58 81

    Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising (stanfordreview.org)
  • 345 499

    OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 (www.cryptocellar.org)
  • 52 68

    People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI (www.404media.co)
  • 28 61

    Texas police department ordered to close for failing to provide public benefit (www.dallasnews.com)
  • 12 19

    AI Is Antithetical to Learning (jola.dev)
  • 32 134

    MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco (daniel.lawrence.lu)
  • 504 358

    AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You (alexn.org)
  • 2 32

    Video games inspire great UX (2019) (jenson.org)
  • 56 27

    Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It? (albertoarena.it)
  • 23 36

    Type Punning in C and C++ (blog.pwkf.org)
  • 2 16

    A build graph that rolls dice (fzakaria.com)
  • 5 12

    A Tokyo school counts the mornings it can see Mt. Fuji: 22 in 1965, 170 in 2023 (jivx.com)
  • 104 66

    JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development (blog.jetbrains.com)
  • 210 169

    9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game" (www.bristol.ac.uk)
  • 49 86

    Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B (verda.com)
  • 12 47

    JavaFX 27 Native Image on a Raspberry Pi 5 (ennerf.github.io)
  • 186 239

    AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0? (board.flatassembler.net)
  • 40 84

    A font that reads what you wrote (rohanadwankar.github.io)
  • 114 62

    Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences (norwegianscitechnews.com)
  • 624 767

    I said no and Apple said yes (dbushell.com)
  • 91 44

    Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking
  • 64 61

    What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers (www.wsj.com)
  • 15 47

    Jev introduces a new shape of LLM (simonwillison.net)
  • 38 57

    Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024) (gregorygundersen.com)
  • 142 365

    Can gzip be a language model? (nathan.rs)
  • 48 50

    Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide (2019) (www.bobble.tech)
  • 3 37

    World Wide Words (www.worldwidewords.org)
  • 1 10

    AMD briefly joins the $1T club (www.theregister.com)
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  • 61 151

    MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 93 65

    Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 12

    Epoll and Kqueue: How Operating Systems Learned to Wait Efficiently (thecodinggopher.substack.com)
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  • 46 53

    PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022) (gwern.net)
  • 10 23

    Smart Ring Maker Oura, Backers Seek $2.2B in US IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 1 9

    Copper-Rs: Live Telemetry Deterministic Twins for Robots (www.copper-robotics.com)
  • 32 44

    Truman World (trumanworld.live)
  • 1 35

    Paper Models of Polyhedra (www.polyhedra.net)
  • 61 93

    Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame' (variety.com)
  • 52 66

    Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011) (wondermark.com)
  • 108 138

    Elevated errors for multiple models – Resolved (status.claude.com)
  • 40 51

    More floating point alternatives (wizardzines.com)
  • 7 26

    The agents, they just want to talk (snats.xyz)
  • 104 186

    Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0 (lwn.net)
  • 9 29

    7 out of 9 Planetary Boundaries are breached (www.planetaryhealthcheck.org)
  • 3 14

    There Are Over 1M NYC Street Signs. Here is How They Are Made. (www.nytimes.com)
  • 12 95

    First Shader from Zero in Godot 4 (www.gdquest.com)
  • 16 30

    Do not fear AI. Fear AI companies (df7sc6o35ljoz.cloudfront.net)
  • 159 642

    Spymarks, not Watermarks (brand.io)
  • 0 13

    The Journey of a Migratory Shorebird (www.newyorker.com)
  • 415 978

    I don't want to read what you didn't write (blog.colinbreck.com)
  • 39 78

    Data Protection Commission fines Google €403M over processing of location data (www.dataprotection.ie)
  • 1 28

    'Epigenetic' editing banishes hepatitis B virus (www.nature.com)
  • 142 158

    Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less (www.personalimportation.org)
  • 8 34

    TXR: An Original, New Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging (www.nongnu.org)
  • 36 204

    Divide by depth for instant 3D (gabrieloc.com)
  • 10 29

    Show HN: A website that tracks US food prices every day (www.kadoa.com)
  • 469 1087

    MiMo v2.6 (mimo.xiaomi.com)
  • 23 57

    Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions? (robocurve.org)
  • 87 590

    Transformers Explained Visually (poloclub.github.io)
  • 75 61

    U.S. Small Biz Can't Ship to the EU Anymore (glog.glennf.com)
  • 99 176

    Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware (timdettmers.com)
  • 48 158

    Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser (www.pagetable.com)
  • 378 308

    AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up (linear.app)
  • 15 40

    Gravity Linux Alpha Release: Linux on the M4 Mac Mini with GPU and DCP Support (gravitylinux.org)
  • 372 444

    NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead (www.science.org)
  • 85 70

    Wall Street is growing skeptical of the data center boom (www.nytimes.com)
  • 79 154

    The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 1 13

    Grok 4.7 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 4 48

    In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
  • 39 135

    Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader? (safedep.io)
  • 140 231

    US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut (www.reuters.com)
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  • 6 24

    Avoiding the babbling-idiot failure in a time-triggered communication system (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
  • 66 75

    Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (openai.com)
  • 218 340

    Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac (support.apple.com)
  • 170 68

    Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees (www.multifamilydive.com)
  • 158 151

    Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com (www.forbes.com)
  • 67 177

    HERMES radio enables voice and data communication over vast distances (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 15 45

    Show HN: Foremerge – Catch intent conflicts between parallel coding agents (github.com)
  • 289 416

    Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August (twitter.com)
  • 82 107

    How do traffic signals work? (2019) (practical.engineering)
  • 44 98

    A restored PDP-11/83 serving this page on 211BSD Unix (pdp1173.com)
  • 514 597

    Grok 4.7 (x.ai)
  • 53 35

    Whirlpool Washer Transmission Repair (2007) (k0lee.com)
  • 41 263

    Python Workers are now generally available (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 59 76

    Noodle Gallery – Self-hosted photo and video manager forked from Immich (digitalescapetools.com)
  • 311 1027

    Attention is all you have (alicegg.tech)
  • 146 142

    Good people refuse to do bad things (carette.xyz)
  • 162 94

    The Claude Delusion (pluralistic.net)
  • 63 104

    Sublime Text Build 4213 (www.sublimetext.com)
  • 152 139

    Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain (www.theguardian.com)
  • 120 235

    macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage (www.reddit.com)
  • 90 109

    Apple Mac mini review (arstechnica.com)
  • 70 41

    We write code by hand (handcraftedcode.org)
  • 257 260

    M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review (www.macstories.net)
  • 5 8

    Show HN: SQLBraid – Write SQL directly in TypeScript without a query-builder DSL (github.com)
  • 187 159

    Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death (consumerrights.wiki)
  • 83 143

    Don't Use AI to Write (paulbakker.io)
  • 388 671

    What Sun got wrong (bcantrill.dtrace.org)
  • 81 150

    Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?
  • 208 248

    Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips (forums.raspberrypi.com)
  • 29 64

    Show HN: Lossless-memory – a personal AI memory that never summarizes (github.com)
  • 11 11

    NEC V20 CPU: A bit of pep for an XT (dfarq.homeip.net)
  • 5 605

    ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room (zuckoff.app)
  • 347 397

    ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you (www.wired.me)
  • 363 504

    Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions (consumerrights.wiki)
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  • 26 56

    Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser (machinedrum-study.pages.dev)
  • 87 231

    Jev-Leftpad (github.com)
  • 109 263

    Heretic removes restrictions from language models (heretic-project.org)
  • 78 32

    In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches (twitter.com)
  • 198 452

    Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 (github.com)
  • 72 272

    Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM (github.com)
  • 98 373

    Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] (gameshelf.jmac.org)
  • 151 71

    Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing (www.reuters.com)
  • 131 109

    Winning the visa lottery (www.aeaweb.org)
  • 88 156

    AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time' (www.ft.com)
  • 1 30

    Coding Theory: A Playful Introduction (paramrathour.github.io)
  • 17 56

    Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell (outdata.net)
  • 19 36

    Can I Let My AI Agent Run on Shabbat? (www.chabad.org)
  • 10 69

    Why Backprop Goes Backward (2018) (gregorygundersen.com)
  • 23 26

    Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 20

    DAPO: An Open-source RL System from ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR (github.com)
  • 3 14

    The LLMs Yearn for the Spines (buttondown.com)
  • 65 143

    Amiga Unix, Again (amigaux.org)