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  • 1 4

    Remarkable Pro Colors (www.thregr.org)
  • 14 25

    The Codex app is cool, and it illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs (www.benshoemaker.us)
  • 2 12

    We built a real-world benchmark for AI code review (www.qodo.ai)
  • 10 10

    Disk Scout – Find the Cheapest SSDs Across Amazon (disk-scout.com)
  • 20 26

    Professors Are Being Watched: 'We've Never Seen This Much Surveillance' (www.nytimes.com)
  • 6 18

    The Singularity Is Always Near (2006) (kk.org)
  • 5 13

    No More Hidden Changes: How MySQL 9.6 Transforms Foreign Key Management (blogs.oracle.com)
  • 11 47

    Show HN: EpsteIn – Search the Epstein files for your LinkedIn connections (github.com)
  • 8 13

    Turn any website into a live, structured data feed (www.meter.sh)
  • 18 34

    Technocracy 2.0 (brooklynrail.org)
  • 6 13

    Show HN: Interactive California Budget (By Claude Code) (california-budget.com)
  • 54 37

    2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025 (mybooklist.club)
  • 28 80

    Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out (boxc.net)
  • 181 188

    How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post (www.newyorker.com)
  • 59 28

    Mean People Fail (2014) (paulgraham.com)
  • 27 31

    Women rejecting the hijab have doomed Iran's brutal regime (www.telegraph.co.uk)
  • 44 41

    Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future (garryslist.org)
  • 65 74

    Claude Code for Infrastructure (www.fluid.sh)
  • 56 55

    AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed (www.theguardian.com)
  • 25 53

    Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire" (2022) (www.currentaffairs.org)
  • 58 118

    Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain (www.newscientist.com)
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  • 2 5

    Cracking the Clit (2017) (logicmag.io)
  • 12 35

    Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web (www.divergent-desktop.org)
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  • 1 13

    Claude Code's /Insights (www.natemeyvis.com)
  • 5 19

    Show HN: SymDerive – A functional, stateless symbolic math library
  • 150 198

    The Great Unwind (occupywallst.com)
  • 28 70

    RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code (github.com)
  • 20 83

    Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch (www.scd31.com)
  • 121 85

    In Tehran (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 185 114

    AI is killing B2B SaaS (nmn.gl)
  • 52 52

    Intel will start making GPUs (techcrunch.com)
  • 59 87

    Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections (www.newsweek.com)
  • 58 184

    French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel (twitter.com)
  • 64 59

    Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety (news.uark.edu)
  • 12 74

    Fastmail Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation (www.perl.com)
  • 50 59

    Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative (blog.codinghorror.com)
  • 8 29

    The Voxel Is a Cutting-Edge Theater Experiment (bmoreart.com)
  • 145 287

    Claude Is a Space to Think (www.anthropic.com)
  • Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring Product Engineers (NYC, In-Person) (www.runconverge.com)
  • 58 49

    Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into big problems (www.wsj.com)
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  • 45 46

    Procedures for Repair of Potholes in Asphalt-Surfaced Pavements (highways.dot.gov)
  • 34 108

    Tractor (incoherency.co.uk)
  • 141 547

    Voxtral Transcribe 2 (mistral.ai)
  • 35 72

    Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix (michael.stapelberg.ch)
  • 69 135

    Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation (arxiv.org)
  • 114 212

    A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs (pdfa.org)
  • 17 46

    Thatcher Effect – Optical Illusion and Explanation (optical.toys)
  • 436 522

    FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled (www.404media.co)
  • 88 213

    Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025 (arstechnica.com)
  • 123 60

    Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function (medicalxpress.com)
  • 22 73

    Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps (oldinsurancemaps.net)
  • 350 218

    A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw (brandon.wang)
  • 0 5

    Bypassing Kernel32.dll for Fun and Nonprofit (ziglang.org)
  • 0 10

    Speculative Sampling Explained (saibo-creator.github.io)
  • 21 56

    I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 69 37

    Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time (newsletter.jantegze.com)
  • 10 25

    The fax numbers of the beast, and other mathematical sports (cabinetmagazine.org)
  • 23 20

    Anthropic Claude Max $200/mo: They claim 99% uptime, I calculated 84% Loss: $780 (gist.github.com)
  • 4 88

    Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map (saas-map.ssr.trapiche.cloud)
  • 14 57

    Broken Proofs and Broken Provers (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
  • 21 25

    The €10 Mirror: Why Enterprise Security Looks Like a Kid's Toy (labs.itresit.es)
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  • 16 119

    Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile (spritely.institute)
  • 13 72

    "time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours (twitter.com)
  • 1 9

    Show HN: BPU – An embedded scheduler for stable UART pipelines
  • 14 77

    The Mathematics of Tuning Systems (math.ucr.edu)
  • 63 252

    Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering (github.com)
  • 6 54

    How watercolor brushes are made (2015) (www.handprint.com)
  • 71 21

    The world is more equal than you think (economist.com)
  • 51 103

    High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 37 71

    The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today (xakpc.dev)
  • 44 68

    Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies (www.lttlabs.com)
  • 46 202

    Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany (www.openpetition.de)
  • 9 73

    Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy (foxmoss.com)
  • 652 1180

    I miss thinking hard (www.jernesto.com)
  • 1 9

    Machinery and English Style (1904) (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 90 145

    The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75 (www.thedrive.com)
  • 10 19

    A programmer's guide to leaving GitHub (lord.io)
  • 0 17

    Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too (blogs.igalia.com)
  • 133 57

    Why poor countries stopped catching up (davidoks.blog)
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  • 58 73

    Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study (www.theguardian.com)
  • 43 158

    Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game (banteg.xyz)
  • 48 65

    GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster (twitter.com)
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  • 49 133

    Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network after U.S. withdraws (capitolnewsillinois.com)
  • 154 522

    Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery (github.com)
  • 165 359

    Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown (securelist.com)
  • 34 132

    1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico (www.cnn.com)
  • 378 781

    Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product (www.simonberens.com)
  • 1194 1021

    Data centers in space makes no sense (civai.org)
  • 56 112

    FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention (dl.acm.org)
  • 68 104

    OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up (cacm.acm.org)
  • 19 94

    AI and Trust (2023) (www.schneier.com)
  • 0 13

    I became a maintainer and all I got was a lousy perspective on librarianship (www.hughrundle.net)
  • 24 35

    When rust ≠ performance. a lesson in developer experience (suriya.cc)
  • 67 81

    Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 60 78

    How vibe coding is killing open source (hackaday.com)
  • 2 35

    Another London: Excavating the disenchanted city (harpers.org)
  • 171 147

    China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 67 113

    Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux (blog.senko.net)
  • 92 47

    Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden (internationaljournalofwellbeing.org)
  • 50 140

    Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025 (www.pugetsystems.com)
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  • 291 156

    Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins (fortune.com)
  • 44 280

    AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines (github.com)
  • 31 29

    Show HN: I built "AI Wattpad" to eval LLMs on fiction (narrator.sh)
  • 9 17

    Show HN: PII-Shield – Log Sanitization Sidecar with JSON Integrity (Go, Entropy) (github.com)
  • 248 307

    221 Cannon is Not For Sale (fredbenenson.com)
  • 312 357

    Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode (www.apple.com)
  • 127 140

    I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored (nikolak.com)
  • 2 13

    Visual Family Cosmos (rosano.ca)
  • 15 288

    X offices raided in France (apnews.com)
  • 26 38

    Migrate Wizard – IMAP Based Email Migration Tool (migratewizard.com)
  • 160 512

    Deno Sandbox (deno.com)
  • 1 12

    Sonnet 5 (Full Text) (www.folger.edu)
  • 81 91

    The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines (aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org)
  • 13 59

    Tadpole – A modular and extensible DSL built for web scraping (tadpolehq.com)
  • 17 63

    Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy (github.com)
  • 386 109

    1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? (waspdev.com)
  • 32 61

    Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing (octosphere.social)
  • 573 1120

    France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US (apnews.com)
  • 4 41

    Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf] (people.csail.mit.edu)
  • 113 102

    AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was (www.jasonwillems.com)
  • 1 15

    Athena Parthenos: A Reconstruction (2000) (www.goddess-athena.org)
  • 119 278

    Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust (github.com)
  • 43 69

    Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework
  • 766 633

    New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers (blog.adafruit.com)
  • 413 714

    Qwen3-Coder-Next (qwen.ai)
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  • 41 127

    The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019) (thewrongtools.wordpress.com)
  • 142 149

    Anthropic is Down (updog.ai)
  • 64 91

    Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants (www.wired.com)
  • 1 19

    Preserved hair reveals just how bad lead exposure was in the 20th century (www.livescience.com)
  • 8 37

    A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats (www.malwarebytes.com)
  • 22 75

    Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly (github.com)
  • 33 60

    Show HN: GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests (blog.rbby.dev)
  • 118 171

    Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% (www.science.org)
  • 132 316

    Bunny Database (bunny.net)
  • 47 44

    Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go) (github.com)
  • 4 21

    Show HN: Inverting Agent Model (App as Clients, Chat as Server and Reflection) (github.com)
  • 62 42

    Decentralizing my smartphone with single purpose devices (ambertherambler.bearblog.dev)
  • 115 118

    Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
  • 250 514

    Agent Skills (agentskills.io)
  • 7 13

    KDE Binds Itself Tightly to Systemd, Drops Support for Non-Systemd Systems (hackaday.com)
  • 12 8

    Is a RAM-only PWA "Secure Camera" safe for journalists?
  • 74 45

    KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd (forums.freebsd.org)
  • 2 22

    Lead in archived hair documents a decline in lead exposure to humans after EPA (www.pnas.org)
  • 2 15

    Reducing Cassandra p99 latency by fixing OS page cache thrashing (blog.speedyio.com)
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  • 36 68

    Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API) (github.com)
  • Emerge Career (YC S22) is hiring a product designer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 2 11

    SVGs are uniquely legible to LLMs (turbek.com)
  • 1062 562

    X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok (www.bbc.com)
  • 105 131

    Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI (rentahuman.ai)
  • 101 59

    Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says (www.reuters.com)
  • 29 28

    Crime rates of undocumented-, legal immigrants, & native-born citizens in Texas (www.pnas.org)
  • 6 17

    Same SQL, Different Results: A Subtle Oracle vs. PostgreSQL Migration Bug (databaserookies.wordpress.com)
  • 94 184

    Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB) (safe-now.live)
  • 41 16

    Claude Sonnet 5 Is Imminent – and It Could Be a Generation Ahead of Google (ucstrategies.com)
  • 34 45

    Why The Jetsons still matters (2012) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 188 662

    What's up with all those equals signs anyway? (lars.ingebrigtsen.no)
  • 14 13

    Boring Go! (golang.college)
  • 30 70

    LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc. (github.com)
  • 169 103

    From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 22 76

    Astrological CPU Scheduler (github.com)
  • 10 46

    Minichord: A pocket-sized musical instrument (github.com)
  • 15 54

    The Physics of Ideas: Reality as a Coordination Problem (bpe.xyz)
  • 65 49

    Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
  • 0 35

    Phenakistoscopes (1833) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 52 54

    Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
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    Show HN: Open-source semantic search over your local notes via CLI (github.com)
  • 140 183

    Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem (www.bicameral-ai.com)
  • 4 25

    Frog 'saunas' could help endangered species beat a deadly fungus (2024) (www.science.org)
  • 51 55

    50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates' (thenewstack.io)
  • 164 352

    Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog? (gyrovague.com)
  • 182 245

    Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition (krzysztofjankowski.com)
  • 245 138

    See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments (serjaimelannister.github.io)
  • 4 31

    Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency (www.wsj.com)
  • 18 35

    G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
  • 288 352

    Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair (attheu.utah.edu)
  • 28 124

    Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server (128.237.157.9)
  • 68 136

    GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs (github.com)
  • 21 20

    Al is killing programming and the Python community (www.reddit.com)
  • 32 115

    The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt (tamikothiel.com)
  • 79 239

    How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity? (alignment.anthropic.com)
  • 33 169

    Julia (borretti.me)
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