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  • 5 9

    Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)
  • 2 5

    The Victorian War on Rabies (www.historytoday.com)
  • 0 23

    The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] (www.math.ucdavis.edu)
  • 0 16

    Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds (www.pnas.org)
  • 5 64

    We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (clickhouse.com)
  • 0 15

    Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts (www.atariarchives.org)
  • 34 58

    USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025 (www.expressnews.com)
  • 42 49

    Show HN: Richest people in the world by wealth creation instead of ownership (anti-forbes-list.vercel.app)
  • 30 59

    Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf] (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
  • 5 10

    Semantic/Hybrid Search in the Browser (bart.degoe.de)
  • 1 5

    Show HN: Sdlc factory built on pi.dev:intent->DDD->architecture->tested code (github.com)
  • 75 110

    Your code is fast – if you're lucky (tiki.li)
  • 83 82

    FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky (theconversation.com)
  • 51 181

    Networking and the Internet, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)
  • 9 20

    Show HN: HTMLDrive – serve HTML files from your Google Drive (html-drive.com)
  • 10 17

    pgrust passes 100% of the Postgres regression tests (malisper.me)
  • 6 56

    The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits (questdb.com)
  • 33 68

    Google Search lets creators know more about their reach (www.theverge.com)
  • 94 115

    Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot (www.mixfont.com)
  • 97 89

    Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 1 9

    Show HN: Dotenv-Diff v3.0.0 (github.com)
  • 26 43

    Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs (www.economist.com)
  • 1 70

    Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials (alexandrepoupeau.com)
  • 10 28

    Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet (gerireid.com)
  • 14 44

    What's the best way to do authentication in modern applications (neciudan.dev)
  • 60 177

    The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)
  • 0 4

    The Rule of 7 and the 7-Touchpoint Myth (anartfulscience.com)
  • 35 31

    The Lindy effect in software (www.clemsau.com)
  • 1 10

    Show HN: Phobos – A tiny scale-free kernel language with tile-DAG support (www.joa-ebert.com)
  • 21 93

    Silent speech with ultrasound (alephneuro.com)
  • 20 41

    The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters (blog.alexbeals.com)
  • 30 15

    I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time (peakd.io)
  • 20 55

    Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash (www.bbc.com)
  • 0 14

    Choosing the Right AI Agent Memory Strategy: A Decision-Tree Approach (machinelearningmastery.com)
  • 50 150

    An iroh powered smart fan (www.iroh.computer)
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    Show HN: We beat Cloudflare's bot detection (open-source stealth browser) (tilion.dev)
  • 34 48

    FreeCAD in the Browser (magik.net)
  • 23 66

    Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe (www.economist.com)
  • 7 43

    Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019) (pvk.ca)
  • 422 353

    AI 2040: Plan A (ai-2040.com)
  • 149 341

    Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (www.brown.edu)
  • 756 1403

    Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (9to5mac.com)
  • 8 23

    Postgres locks do not scale (www.recall.ai)
  • 19 91

    GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
  • 40 109

    Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit (mimo.xiaomi.com)
  • 15 113

    Apple sues OpenAI, accusing it of stealing company secrets (www.nytimes.com)
  • 4 23

    Show HN: SubjectiveZero, an open-source agentic node editor for creative coding (sxp.studio)
  • 0 13

    Prismata: Confining cross-site prompt injection in web agents (arxiv.org)
  • 42 65

    Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker (www.nytimes.com)
  • Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 84 150

    GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps (www.tryai.dev)
  • 22 37

    Why We Don't Trust the Database with Authentication (blog.sturdystatistics.com)
  • 84 128

    Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash (discuss.ai.google.dev)
  • 293 275

    An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation (lwn.net)
  • 30 61

    The Clouds of Hiroshima (doomsdaymachines.net)
  • 127 84

    45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC (www.pushsquare.com)
  • 48 38

    Capitalism Gone Wrong (kasperjunge.com)
  • 2 182

    Mayor Mamdani announces "Click-to-Cancel" rules (www.nyc.gov)
  • 24 77

    Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine (github.com)
  • 14 29

    Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery (www.atomscale.ai)
  • 16 50

    Auburn California Flock Surveillance Cameras Stolen and Dumped in a Canal (www.gadgetreview.com)
  • 17 56

    Cpp2Rust: Translates C++ to safe Rust automatically (github.com)
  • 186 219

    How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI (casp.ac)
  • 83 78

    Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
  • 414 497

    GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)
  • 1 40

    Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk fines, EU tells Meta (arstechnica.com)
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  • 311 597

    New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices (www.theguardian.com)
  • 69 178

    War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (waratlas.org)
  • 26 23

    Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
  • 76 220

    Combustion engine web-based simulator (combustionlab.net)
  • 930 258

    SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth (www.zdnet.com)
  • 3 7

    Chat Control 1.0 has been passed (gerarddupre.dev)
  • 136 43

    You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand (www.minid.net)
  • 43 48

    Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice? (lists.osgeo.org)
  • 43 51

    Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo (www.microcenter.com)
  • 85 243

    The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) (vfxblog.com)
  • 58 54

    Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI (www.fadingmaize.com)
  • 14 7

    Let's Reinvent the Scroll Wheel (scrollpods.app)
  • 162 217

    Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 10 12

    Garnix Is Joining Shopify (garnix.io)
  • 131 158

    Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)
  • 12 67

    The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)
  • 217 679

    QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 104 188

    Alternate clock designs and time systems (serialc.github.io)
  • 101 177

    A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)
  • 133 95

    Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C (novaramedia.com)
  • 189 202

    Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church (www.dailymail.com)
  • 55 49

    My burner email blocklist blocked me (benjamin.piouffle.com)
  • 9 23

    How RCA Victor sold Sound Service to classrooms in 1939 (pncnmnp.github.io)
  • 3 15

    Man nearly sucked out of window mid-air on Ryanair plane (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 2 8

    Ryanair passenger almost sucked out of shattered window during flight (www.theguardian.com)
  • 56 71

    Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't (vettedconsumer.com)
  • 29 47

    Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded (github.com)
  • 4 30

    Ancient Coins: What About Spartan Coins? (coinweek.com)
  • 240 203

    After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell (avi.press)
  • 81 228

    Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)
  • 39 59

    ActivityPub over ATProto (2023) (berjon.com)
  • 220 184

    Punk, or why I don't stream anymore (geohot.github.io)
  • 9 19

    Offline tool to stabilize TV volume using IR control and spike detection (github.com)
  • 4 16

    Man nearly sucked out of 'detached' window on Ryanair flight (www.rte.ie)
  • 291 339

    Write code like a human will maintain it (unstack.io)
  • 40 35

    Proton AG Services is currently experiencing some issues (status.proton.me)
  • 85 43

    Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
  • 69 72

    Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure (simpleflying.com)
  • 283 405

    Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)
  • 24 21

    AI doesn't know how to forgive and cannot forget (tejassuds.com)
  • 230 511

    Good Tools Are Invisible (www.gingerbill.org)
  • 57 54

    Java 27: What's New? (www.loicmathieu.fr)
  • Laylo (YC S20) Is Hiring a Head of Finance (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 36 135

    The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia (mappingignorance.org)
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  • 191 267

    EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA (ec.europa.eu)
  • 44 98

    Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian (benjamintoll.com)
  • 0 11

    Tiny Tapeout Explorer: WASM FET-level circuit SIM&vis (znah.net)
  • 106 246

    In Emacs, everything looks like a service (yummymelon.com)
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    Browser Fingerprinting – How websites track you across internet –without cookies (mysysinfo.com)
  • 235 281

    AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region (nevo-project.epfl.ch)
  • 8 23

    Damaged Earth Catalog (damaged.bleu255.com)
  • 2 6

    Preempt_none Is Dead; Your Postgres Probably Doesn't Care (thebuild.com)
  • 11 31

    Harman and Dr. Sean Olive are reshaping headphone sound (2025) (www.crutchfield.com)
  • 66 48

    What Big Food Did to Ice Cream (medium.com)
  • 7 41

    Common prefix skipping, adaptive sort (smalldatum.blogspot.com)
  • 303 212

    Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future (www.macrumors.com)
  • 83 80

    Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust (www.anthropic.com)
  • 149 171

    Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond (www.frontiersin.org)
  • 23 66

    Life with Hazard Ratios (dynomight.net)
  • 24 39

    Cache-Conscious Data Layout in Rust: Field Zoning, False Sharing, 128-Byte Rule (debasishg.github.io)
  • 23 67

    Build your own vulnerability harness (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 60 42

    Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet (www.nytimes.com)
  • 54 101

    Focus (boz.com)
  • 10 12

    Show HN: I built a free app for New Yorkers to save money on groceries (sbnyc.app)
  • 16 70

    Triple Dragon Fractal (2020) (paulbourke.net)