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  • 1 7

    Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI (www.theregister.com)
  • 1 4

    I built a golf career management SIM (like Basketball GM, but golf) (www.rainydaygc.com)
  • 11 16

    When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old (twitter.com)
  • 4 30

    IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 19 141

    Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
  • 10 55

    Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
  • 2 24

    Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data (moultano.wordpress.com)
  • 16 41

    git git git git git (caiustheory.com)
  • 3 20

    Micron, SK Commit Billions to RAM Capacity, but Almost Nothing Lands Before 2028 (www.storagereview.com)
  • 4 31

    Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with (www.cell.com)
  • 9 18

    Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure (irz.fr)
  • 13 62

    The 37signals Manager Playbook (basecamp.com)
  • 27 47

    Expert Witness to ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0 percent at fault" (www.404media.co)
  • 76 102

    I don't enjoy the Internet any more (btao.org)
  • 0 7

    Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present (thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
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  • 62 75

    Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders (www.rnz.co.nz)
  • 1 6

    What's Better Than Binary? – Advent of Computing Episode 187 (adventofcomputing.libsyn.com)
  • 30 111

    The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
  • 37 20

    California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year (grist.org)
  • 0 7

    Gum Wrappers World (gww.su)
  • 51 71

    Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet (www.science.org)
  • 121 180

    Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
  • 33 76

    Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents (www.axios.com)
  • 15 36

    A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 18 117

    Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (www.repaircafe.org)
  • 44 57

    Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates (atlpresscollective.com)
  • 31 58

    PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history (www.pm.gc.ca)
  • 4 8

    Un-AI Your Internet (un-ai.digitalprophet.online)
  • 25 52

    Cursor Origin (cursor.com)
  • 30 75

    The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
  • 4 24

    Puppy PPE (amosdudley.com)
  • 282 452

    GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% (openrouter.ai)
  • 15 34

    scScript for Linux (scapplications.com)
  • 22 59

    GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform (status.cursor.com)
  • 146 49

    My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup (www.fast.ai)
  • 1 6

    Some Virtues of Narrative Poetry (newversereview.substack.com)
  • 42 43

    'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent (www.nytimes.com)
  • 151 359

    Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 45 57

    How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 59 42

    Colorado River plummets as lakes Powell and Mead drop to record lows (www.nytimes.com)
  • 352 533

    How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots (timmarinin.net)
  • 47 204

    Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
  • 7 40

    Intriguing stories in computer science (inventwithpython.com)
  • 322 526

    Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots (responsiblestatecraft.org)
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  • 81 122

    Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
  • 17 49

    A simple fix for LLM tail latency (engineering.myhoai.com)
  • 75 59

    The Origin of Consciousness (2008) (blog.plover.com)
  • 145 241

    An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail (moddedbear.com)
  • 79 83

    Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family? (beachfront.bearblog.dev)
  • 187 154

    India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions (www.bbc.com)
  • 37 72

    The oldest bar in every state (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 544 891

    AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) (www.rickmanelius.com)
  • 6 127

    AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI (arstechnica.com)
  • 16 91

    Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI (techcrunch.com)
  • 43 39

    Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data (2020) (www.jacquescorbytuech.com)
  • 3 50

    Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models (blog.roboflow.com)
  • 53 147

    Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia (www.newyorker.com)
  • 44 216

    GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast (arxiv.org)
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  • 41 47

    How I over-engineered my book (ben.balter.com)
  • 46 42

    We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng (secretspec.dev)
  • 5 14

    Demand for Canadian citizenship certificates soaring, fuelled by Americans (www.cbc.ca)
  • 83 82

    Meta faces 'astronomical' consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment (www.cnbc.com)
  • 157 349

    Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 63 167

    Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data (current.org)
  • 79 105

    Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 45 139

    A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball' (www.nature.com)
  • 77 233

    Sun Clock (sunclock.net)
  • 147 136

    Buy Your Friends Batteries (domenkozar.com)
  • 0 7

    Cross-Validation From Scratch and a Surprise at n=100 (www.kenkoonwong.com)
  • 57 146

    Anthropic's War on open source AI (twitter.com)
  • 31 63

    GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere? (dhruv2038.bearblog.dev)
  • 0 5

    Amazon’s new user agreement seeks to curb class-action suits (www.theindianalawyer.com)
  • 3 12

    Show HN: LLMs each trading $100K vs. a frozen rulebook – the rulebook leads (aitradingcompetition.com)
  • 45 40

    Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized (saggar.marginalutility.dev)
  • 536 398

    Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study (ysph.yale.edu)
  • 82 450

    Olo (Color) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 48 56

    Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules (reason.com)
  • 58 106

    Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI (speko.ai)
  • 79 103

    Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
  • 28 50

    Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz (flagquizzes.com)
  • 35 38

    Qwen3.8 27B at 256K: 50 TPS on a 24 GB GPU (piszczek.pl)
  • 18 66

    The only known trebuchet casualty in history (arstechnica.com)
  • 2 11

    File Recovery in Process (gwolf.org)
  • 9 68

    How to ship a database every day (turbopuffer.com)
  • 0 11

    Speeding Up the Plush Garbage Collector (pointersgonewild.com)
  • 4 10

    Show HN: Eve Software Factory (github.com)
  • 26 109

    How to put 170 atoms in an atom (signoregalilei.com)
  • 0 11

    Human Interface Guidelines from various platforms (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 113 639

    A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (duckdb.org)
  • 143 376

    AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira (www.wiz.io)
  • 94 247

    Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals (www.bundeskartellamt.de)
  • 178 301

    How to disable or avoid intrusive AI (www.librarian.net)
  • 14 84

    How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser (nanochess.org)
  • 379 594

    Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
  • 294 142

    We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (www.404media.co)
  • 85 79

    My Ten Years in No Man's Sky (nmsspot.com)
  • 2 288

    GitHub down again? no PR access
  • 2 698

    Incident with Github.com (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 90 35

    Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models (1667.ai)
  • 937 544

    Incident with Github.com [resolved] (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 69 95

    Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug (www.npr.org)
  • 44 97

    Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 42 68

    Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver (mkornreich.me)
  • 21 55

    Pi coding agent: config folder is out of place on Linux (github.com)
  • 29 114

    Mexico crackdown on coastal development (yucatanmagazine.com)
  • 162 340

    GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released (blog.roboflow.com)
  • 27 53

    David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post (twitter.com)
  • 140 110

    Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA (twitter.com)
  • 10 29

    Who Owns Commodore? The Retro PC Brand Still Exists, but a Lot Has Changed (www.bgr.com)
  • 2 29

    The Marxist Case for the Technofeudal Hypothesis (jacobin.com)
  • 196 143

    People are worried about America's solvency (www.ft.com)
  • 68 66

    How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy (func25.dev)
  • 175 118

    Self hosted email continues to steeply decline (labs.ripe.net)
  • 68 148

    Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)
  • 1 20

    Production-ready detection and response queries for osquery (github.com)
  • 67 90

    The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes (www.outsideonline.com)
  • 15 45

    The continuing "Q collar" scandal (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  • 61 31

    Beware the Permanent Periphery (asteriskmag.com)
  • 61 57

    HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons (duti.dev)
  • 515 242

    On AI regulation and messaging (twitter.com)
  • 12 70

    Gakutensoku (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 243 258

    GIMP Development Update (www.gimp.org)
  • 106 262

    Linear algebra done right (linear.axler.net)
  • 13 34

    Design 3D-printable parts by talking (nurb.dev)
  • 34 78

    $12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
  • 1 15

    Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024) (infoscience.epfl.ch)
  • 39 50

    Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device (vocalslice.com)
  • 13 20

    Hayden Panetierre Dies at 36 (abcnews.com)
  • 2 13

    The Orwellian Company Behind ICE's New Electric Shock Gloves (www.motherjones.com)
  • 172 225

    How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024) (support.google.com)
  • 17 51

    If Meta loses this trial, Instagram and Facebook could change forever (www.bbc.com)
  • 43 32

    Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners (boston.conman.org)
  • 1 9

    The Marvelously Inventive Life of Mária Telkes (2023) (www.pbs.org)
  • 12 56

    Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees (github.com)
  • 30 71

    Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye” (www.science.org)
  • 0 7

    The FastLanes Unified Transport Layout (blog.dave.tf)
  • 24 128

    AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)
  • 28 99

    Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI (www.cst.cam.ac.uk)
  • 15 62

    Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013) (breakintochat.com)
  • 77 224

    Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)
  • 57 123

    Rhombus 1.1 is now available (blog.racket-lang.org)
  • 0 23

    Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 369 775

    Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
  • 187 280

    The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (www.highereddive.com)
  • 119 217

    The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (www.ischool.berkeley.edu)
  • 6 15

    Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone (brennan.day)
  • 6 44

    Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012) (community.wolfram.com)