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  • 4 10

    We have broken SHA-1 in practice (shattered.io)
  • 0 20

    The F Word (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
  • 0 7

    Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 (github.com)
  • 34 39

    Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs? (www.windowscentral.com)
  • 9 21

    Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions (www.hpcwire.com)
  • 13 65

    SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (xorvoid.com)
  • 90 112

    I write games in C (yes, C) (jonathanwhiting.com)
  • 3 25

    Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version (github.com)
  • 363 311

    We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)
  • 45 39

    Speed up responses with fast mode (code.claude.com)
  • 4 11

    Selection Rather Than Prediction (voratiq.com)
  • 197 256

    U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession (www.forbes.com)
  • 12 19

    What Is Stoicism? (stoacentral.com)
  • 0 15

    Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop (design-milk.com)
  • 6 8

    Show HN: I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading ancient texts. (the-lexicon-project.netlify.app)
  • 1 39

    StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code (simonwillison.net)
  • 9 60

    Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney (spillhistorie.no)
  • 150 78

    Software factories and the agentic moment (factory.strongdm.ai)
  • 6 34

    72M Points of Interest (tech.marksblogg.com)
  • 198 188

    British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years (www.bbc.com)
  • 49 62

    First Proof (arxiv.org)
  • 15 9

    Show HN: One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop (cloudbot-ai.com)
  • 3 7

    Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts (shkspr.mobi)
  • 11 88

    Stories from 25 Years of Software Development (susam.net)
  • 9 45

    A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System (www.rs-online.com)
  • 52 139

    Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE (www.bbc.com)
  • 14 28

    Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev (github.com)
  • 265 604

    France's homegrown open source online office suite (github.com)
  • 11 4

    Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary (api-production-caa8.up.railway.app)
  • 397 248

    Coding agents have replaced every framework I used (blog.alaindichiappari.dev)
  • 18 13

    Omarchy First Impressions (brianlovin.com)
  • 1 7

    Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2 (medium.com)
  • 5 89

    Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (rlhfbook.com)
  • 19 60

    UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone (www.bbc.com)
  • 26 140

    Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly (www.spritely.institute)
  • 242 175

    The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 18 43

    Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler (fosdem.org)
  • 101 90

    Where did all the starships go? (www.datawrapper.de)
  • 188 510

    Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) (rhodesmill.org)
  • 49 47

    Welcome to the Room – A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella (www.jsnover.com)
  • 80 227

    Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself (jesperordrup.github.io)
  • 15 33

    Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox? (arxiv.org)
  • 74 72

    What Is Ruliology? (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 15 26

    Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better (github.com)
  • 37 122

    Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production (arcadeblogger.com)
  • 2 18

    Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit (github.com)
  • 12 48

    WebView performance significantly slower than PWA (issues.chromium.org)
  • 3 40

    Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads (mirageos.org)
  • 10 9

    Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety (github.com)
  • 25 71

    Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo (www.si.edu)
  • 39 52

    Hello world does not compile (github.com)
  • 52 157

    Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes (floedb.ai)
  • 32 81

    Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server (developers.googleblog.com)
  • 13 85

    PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok (martypc.blogspot.com)
  • 168 196

    Why I Joined OpenAI (www.brendangregg.com)
  • 89 142

    I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor (andrewjrod.substack.com)
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  • 39 115

    Dark Alley Mathematics (blog.szczepan.org)
  • 22 115

    A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked (arstechnica.com)
  • 4 28

    The Oklahoma Architect Who Turned Kitsch into Art (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 18 53

    Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days (red.anthropic.com)
  • 12 53

    Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents (github.com)
  • 5 27

    Show HN: Horizons – OSS agent execution engine (github.com)
  • 1 13

    The mystery of the mole playing rough (2019) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 10 22

    Show HN: Gigacode – Use OpenCode's UI with Claude Code/Codex/Amp (github.com)
  • 25 72

    FORTH? Really!? (rescrv.net)
  • 32 44

    How virtual textures work (www.shlom.dev)
  • 43 101

    Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked
  • 156 293

    Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI (github.com)
  • 5 38

    The Beauty of Slag (mag.uchicago.edu)
  • 1 23

    Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI (github.com)
  • 130 180

    Early Christian Writings (earlychristianwritings.com)
  • 16 84

    Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM (github.com)
  • 255 847

    OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III (openciv3.org)
  • 38 282

    Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox (github.com)
  • 110 68

    Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped (www.educationnext.org)
  • 55 27

    Welcome to the Room: A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella (www.jsnover.com)
  • 81 122

    Claude Composer (www.josh.ing)
  • 87 174

    I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing (infisical.com)
  • 12 29

    Show HN: BioTradingArena – Benchmark for LLMs to predict biotech stock movements (www.biotradingarena.com)
  • 4 32

    Masked namespace vulnerability in Temporal (depthfirst.com)
  • 10 46

    Planetary Roller Screws (www.humanityslastmachine.com)
  • 216 356

    Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer? (eljojo.github.io)
  • 280 311

    How to effectively write quality code with AI (heidenstedt.org)
  • 90 54

    Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested, says it was AI (www.latimes.com)
  • 1 6

    The Gnome Village: Treads fight, gnomes cooperate (2025) (happihacking.com)
  • 169 369

    Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use (vecti.com)
  • 114 208

    Learning from context is harder than we thought (hy.tencent.com)
  • 8 14

    Show HN: Daily-updated database of malicious browser extensions (github.com)
  • 75 57

    Uber Found Liable in Rape by Driver, Setting Stage for Cases (www.nytimes.com)
  • 194 157

    Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes (www.bitsaboutmoney.com)
  • 70 49

    Evolution of car door handles over the decades (newatlas.com)
  • 113 434

    Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info (www.sheldonbrown.com)
  • 0 8

    Bytes as Braille (www.engrenage.ch)
  • 41 23

    White House launches direct-to-consumer drug site TrumpRx (www.cnbc.com)
  • 617 1084

    The Waymo World Model (waymo.com)
  • 35 64

    The Monad Called Free (blog.sigfpe.com)
  • 5 84

    Animated Engines (animatedengines.com)
  • 434 186

    NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing (inpractice.yimbyaction.org)
  • 324 476

    An Update on Heroku (www.heroku.com)
  • 51 330

    Understanding Neural Network, Visually (visualrambling.space)
  • 201 379

    Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS (github.com)
  • 52 61

    Wall Street just lost $285B because of 13 Markdown files (martinalderson.com)
  • 275 563

    Hackers (1995) Animated Experience (hackers-1995.vercel.app)
  • 87 88

    Amazon plunge continues $1T wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off (www.cnbc.com)
  • 67 68

    Product and design are the new bottlenecks (www.jampa.dev)
  • 140 124

    LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers (alperenkeles.com)
  • 3 40

    Solving Shrinkwrap: New Experimental Technique (kizu.dev)
  • 13 63

    Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic elements (2007) (www.pa3fwm.nl)
  • 70 95

    Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents (docs.smooth.sh)
  • 513 1136

    I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams (kirkville.com)
  • 516 656

    TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe (www.nytimes.com)
  • 9 47

    Coding Agents and Use Cases (justsitandgrin.im)
  • 50 45

    Show HN: Agent Arena – Test How Manipulation-Proof Your AI Agent Is (wiz.jock.pl)
  • 136 107

    US Immigration on the Easiest Setting (pluralistic.net)
  • 49 158

    DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved (www.bhusalmanish.com.np)
  • 233 554

    A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content (www.niemanlab.org)
  • 90 146

    Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy (www.caltech.edu)
  • 10 20

    Sealos – AI Native Cloud Cloud Operating System (github.com)
  • 18 85

    Plasma Effect (2016) (www.4rknova.com)
  • 8 38

    The Color of Safety (protocolized.summerofprotocols.com)
  • 77 182

    Stay Away from My Trash (tldraw.dev)
  • 64 154

    Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust (github.com)
  • 104 109

    How to carry more than your own bodyweight (2025) (www.bbc.com)
  • 32 97

    Volkswagen overtook Tesla as Europe's top EV seller in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
  • 91 253

    Things Unix can do atomically (2010) (rcrowley.org)
  • 8 82

    Waiting for Postgres 19: Better planner hints with path generation strategies [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 0 28

    Generative Pen-Trained Transformer (theodore.net)
  • 49 81

    The browser catches homograph attacks, the terminal doesn't (github.com)
  • 117 270

    Systems Thinking (theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com)
  • 3 17

    Same Radio, Different Citizens (blog.cosmos-institute.org)
  • 6 95

    Unlocking high-performance PostgreSQL with key memory optimizations (stormatics.tech)
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  • 6 40

    What's at the Other End of 8.8.8.8? (blog.nono.io)
  • 200 380

    GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams (www.iankduncan.com)
  • 198 122

    India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI (www.theguardian.com)
  • 7 25

    Why we need to know about CORS (2020) (evan-moon.github.io)
  • 50 109

    I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded (vespalec.com)
  • 3 45

    Pong Cam – My ESP32S3 Thinks It's a WebCam (www.atomic14.com)
  • 2 13

    Show HN: Calfkit – an SDK to build distributed, event-driven AI agents on Kafka (github.com)
  • 66 54

    Bitcoin gets a zero price target in wake of Burry warning (seekingalpha.com)
  • 2 25

    Show HN: Local task classifier and dispatcher on RTX 3080 (github.com)
  • 3 14

    Housman's Introductory Lecture (1892) (worrydream.com)
  • 195 108

    C isn't a programming language anymore (2022) (faultlore.com)
  • 160 369

    The RCE that AMD won't fix (mrbruh.com)
  • 8 72

    Launching My Side Project as a Solo Dev: The Walkthrough (alt-romes.github.io)
  • 44 107

    What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023) (blog.janestreet.com)