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  • 1 5

    A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (www.theverge.com)
  • 0 6

    Inlining – The Ultimate Optimisation (xania.org)
  • 12 19

    The Housing Market Isn't for Single People (thewalrus.ca)
  • 4 16

    How to make a damn website (2024) (lmnt.me)
  • 0 12

    Show HN: Ever wanted to look at yourself in Braille? (github.com)
  • 3 8

    We rolled our own documentation site (blog.tangled.org)
  • 13 22

    Confer – End to end encrypted AI chat (confer.to)
  • 6 58

    Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever (github.com)
  • 39 58

    The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman (garymarcus.substack.com)
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  • 39 159

    Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk (coywolf.com)
  • 88 150

    AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp (old.reddit.com)
  • 2 18

    Show HN: Ayder – HTTP-native durable event log written in C (curl as client) (github.com)
  • 3 31

    The Case for Blogging in the Ruins (www.joanwestenberg.com)
  • 3 7

    Beating the House for the Love of Math (advantage-player.com)
  • 237 231

    90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet (state-of-iranblackout.whisper.security)
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    Show HN: FastScheduler – Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support (github.com)
  • 14 15

    Show HN: DebtBomb – Make TODOs expire and automatically create Jira tickets (github.com)
  • 22 87

    The Tulip Creative Computer (github.com)
  • 7 30

    Everything you never wanted to know about file locking (2010) (apenwarr.ca)
  • 137 208

    Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests (www.theguardian.com)
  • Legion Health (YC S21) Hiring Cracked Founding Eng for AI-Native Ops (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 3 410

    Scott Adams has died (www.usatoday.com)
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  • 236 182

    The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones (www.popularmechanics.com)
  • 0 4

    Show HN: I Will Do Whatever to Get Primeagen to My Hackathon Stream (vibe.devpost.com)
  • 15 18

    Command K Bars (maggieappleton.com)
  • 218 196

    What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025 (scotthelme.co.uk)
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  • 134 279

    Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation (discuss.python.org)
  • 688 328

    Scott Adams has died (www.youtube.com)
  • 0 23

    Learning Retro Computer Electronics Fault Finding and Restoration (retrogamecoders.com)
  • 6 7

    Thirteen Months That Changed IBM (2020) (newsroom.ibm.com)
  • 194 186

    Indifference is a power (aeon.co)
  • 325 378

    Apple Creator Studio (www.apple.com)
  • 224 330

    Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home (buckscountybeacon.com)
  • 6 47

    Show HN: SnackBase – Open-source, GxP-compliant back end for Python teams (snackbase.dev)
  • 84 54

    Why have death rates from accidental falls tripled? (usafacts.org)
  • 10 48

    NASA topples towers used to test Saturn rockets, space shuttle (arstechnica.com)
  • 217 192

    The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025) (freedomnews.org.uk)
  • 18 43

    Iran official says 2k people have been killed in unrest (www.reuters.com)
  • 120 150

    Mozilla's open source AI strategy (blog.mozilla.org)
  • 25 17

    The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV (www.wired.com)
  • 229 286

    Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout (www.heraldscotland.com)
  • 20 15

    Show HN: Junior devs don't know red flags we spot instantly & we never tell them (yourlead.dev)
  • 1 4

    The Homepage of Ron Goodwin (rongoodwin.co.uk)
  • 55 110

    Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011 (primoco.me)
  • 4 14

    Deconstructing the LuaJIT Pseudo Memory Leak (blog.openresty.com)
  • 19 86

    Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users to Stop Protest Videos from Going Global (www.wsj.com)
  • 112 62

    UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 94 132

    FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video] (fosdem.org)
  • 175 159

    U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded (www.nytimes.com)
  • 1 17

    Data Exfiltration via DNS Resolution (github.com)
  • 45 54

    Designing an IPv6-native P2P transport – lessons from building I6P (theushen.medium.com)
  • 1 26

    Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 30 35

    Day Fifteen of Iran's Nationwide Protests: Sharp Rise in Human Casualties (www.en-hrana.org)
  • 194 179

    Git Rebase for the Terrified (www.brethorsting.com)
  • 116 357

    Chromium Has Merged JpegXL (chromium-review.googlesource.com)
  • 0 19

    Zirgen: Compiler for a Domain-Specific Language (github.com)
  • 3 23

    Kafka Inc (libertiesjournal.com)
  • 96 250

    Text-based web browsers (cssence.com)
  • 95 71

    HP Reveals Keyboard Computer with Ryzen AI Chip (www.hp.com)
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  • 66 48

    Provenance Is the New Version Control (aicoding.leaflet.pub)
  • 21 45

    PawSense: Catproof Your Computer (bitboost.com)
  • 8 77

    Implementing a web server in a single printf() call (2014) (tinyhack.com)
  • 5 22

    A deep dive on agent sandboxes (pierce.dev)
  • 1 47

    Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises) (turbopuffer.com)
  • 79 138

    The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf] (s3data.computerhistory.org)
  • 45 68

    Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
  • 14 67

    Interview Coder Just Leaked Full Names and Companies of All SWEs Who Cheated [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 0 10

    Using DistributedDataParallel to train a base model from scratch in the cloud (www.gilesthomas.com)
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  • 148 213

    Google removes AI health summaries (arstechnica.com)
  • 79 156

    Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature (www.nature.com)
  • 34 45

    Non-Essential French Embassy Staff Have Left Iran (www.barrons.com)
  • 5 9

    Show HN: Sophomore at UMich, built an app with my dad (www.workjourney.ai)
  • 9 36

    I Taught Myself to Code on a Cracked Android Phone. Now I Can't Get Hired (www.rly0nheart.com)
  • F2 (YC S25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 6 25

    GitHub: A case study in link maintenance and 404 pages (2013) (chrismorgan.info)
  • 7 52

    Superhuman AI exfiltrates emails (www.promptarmor.com)
  • 26 51

    What old tennis players teach us (2017) (www.raphkoster.com)
  • 68 36

    Update on age requirements for apps distributed in Texas (developer.apple.com)
  • 90 222

    Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024) (www.bellard.org)
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  • 26 75

    Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants (metacpan.org)
  • 20 54

    Apps like Grok are banned under Google rules–why is it still in the Play Store? (arstechnica.com)
  • 322 320

    The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 43 105

    Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager (github.com)
  • 76 48

    Waymo passenger flees after car drives on Phoenix light rail tracks (www.azfamily.com)
  • 517 1205

    Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work (claude.com)
  • 60 76

    Presidential Immunity in the United States (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 30 77

    Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load (github.com)
  • 22 90

    Ansible battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, Nginx, MySQL (github.com)
  • 191 215

    X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It (www.wired.com)
  • 18 43

    Show HN: Customizable OSINT dashboard to monitor the situation (sr.ericli.tech)
  • 82 116

    Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir (github.com)
  • 57 40

    Anker goes big with new whole home backup system (www.theverge.com)
  • 137 412

    Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode (cy.md)
  • Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML) (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 9 32

    A Couple 3D AABB Tricks (gpfault.net)
  • 172 160

    Iran has now been offline for 96 hours (twitter.com)
  • 267 523

    Postal Arbitrage (walzr.com)
  • 29 88

    Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association (github.com)
  • 8 16

    History's Attention Gap (kidopoly.com)
  • 2 12

    Computational complexity of schema-guided document extraction (www.runpulse.com)
  • 20 60

    Computers that used to be human (digitalseams.com)
  • 9 31

    Show HN: Pane – An agent that edits spreadsheets (paneapp.com)
  • 101 181

    Show HN: AI in SolidWorks (www.trylad.com)
  • 28 100

    Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024) (www.cloudamqp.com)
  • 28 179

    Statement from Federal Reserve Chair (www.federalreserve.gov)
  • 15 108

    Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use (open-meteo.com)
  • Carma (YC W24 clients, A in 6mo) Eng hiring: Replace $500B human fleet ops with AI
  • 8 9

    Telegram recovery model allows permanent lockout after phishing (bugs.telegram.org)
  • 107 47

    How problematic is resampling audio from 44.1 to 48 kHz? (kevinboone.me)
  • 294 707

    TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 (github.com)
  • 182 438

    Date is out, Temporal is in (piccalil.li)
  • 607 976

    Apple picks Gemini to power Siri (www.cnbc.com)
  • 0 22

    The Manchester Garbage Collector and purple-garden's runtime (xnacly.me)
  • 47 40

    Why Ontario Digital Service couldn't procure '98% safe' LLMs (15M Canadians) (rosetta-labs-erb.github.io)
  • 51 50

    2025 marked a record-breaking year for Apple services (www.apple.com)
  • 76 371

    LLVM: The bad parts (www.npopov.com)
  • 51 84

    Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig (www.yankodesign.com)
  • 78 340

    Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2 (blog.yiningkarlli.com)
  • 402 711

    Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (blog.smartere.dk)
  • 30 112

    Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode (taylorkolasinski.com)
  • 94 150

    Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse (www.irishtimes.com)
  • 137 207

    Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C (github.com)
  • 214 228

    Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux (github.com)
  • 0 16

    Climbing the mountain: or, venturing into PL theory (techne98.com)
  • 34 55

    Show HN: 30k IKEA items in flat text (huggingface.co)
  • 235 340

    Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients (archaeologist.dev)
  • 21 15

    Shopify CEO vibe codes an MRI viewer (xcancel.com)
  • 844 441

    Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy (news.cornell.edu)
  • 62 148

    Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions (blog.gripdev.xyz)
  • 17 31

    How to Build Reactive Declarative UI in Vanilla JavaScript (jsdev.space)
  • 67 41

    Travel Is Not Education (fi-le.net)
  • 94 93

    Fossil versus Git (fossil-scm.org)
  • 48 21

    Show HN: DevicePrint – device fingerprinting without cookies
  • 13 14

    Google's Universal Commerce Protocol aims to make shopping AI-native
  • 62 187

    Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49 (www.bbc.com)
  • 13 61

    US prosecutors launch criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair (www.theguardian.com)
  • 31 75

    XMPP and Metadata (blog.mathieui.net)
  • 128 193

    Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig (lightpanda.io)
  • 13 37

    Show HN: Shellock, a real-time CLI flag explainer for fish shell (github.com)
  • 57 132

    Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios (conbini.kikkia.dev)
  • 133 316

    JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) (www.openculture.com)
  • 7 16

    1% vs. 67%: What happened when we stopped trusting embeddings alone (roampal.ai)
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  • 124 261

    39c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? [video] (media.ccc.de)
  • 239 306

    Xfce is great (rubenerd.com)
  • 8 12

    Pyinfra: Turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers (github.com)
  • 12 38

    DOJ has subpoenaed central bank, threatens criminal indictment (apnews.com)
  • 163 163

    Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn (www.bbc.com)
  • 33 47

    Show HN: An LLM-optimized programming language (github.com)
  • 0 8

    The Taming of Collection Scans (www.scylladb.com)
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  • 20 67

    Garbage collection is contrarian (trynova.dev)
  • 72 153

    Code is cheap now, but software isn't (www.chrisgregori.dev)
  • 2 9

    Show HN: The Thiele Machine – Coq-Verified Computational Model Beyond Turing (github.com)
  • 3 11

    Elephants Don't Play Chess (1990) [pdf] (people.csail.mit.edu)
  • 2 23

    Show HN: Voice Composer – Browser-based pitch detection to MIDI/strudel/tidal (dioptre.github.io)
  • 46 74

    Gadget Exposed a Spy Camera [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 2 13

    Ping: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication (www.penguin.co.uk)
  • 47 185

    Uncrossy (uncrossy.com)
  • 88 113

    Which programming languages are most token-efficient? (martinalderson.com)
  • 15 58

    Moving Scratch generation to Python on browser (kushaldas.in)
  • 1 13

    A Glimpse into DexProtector (www.romainthomas.fr)
  • 794 896

    Statement from Jerome Powell (www.federalreserve.gov)
  • 4 366

    Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome F. Powell [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 17 29

    Show HN: What if AI agents had Zodiac personalities? (github.com)
  • 13 35

    Rare Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard found (www.bbc.com)