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  • 0 4

    Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data (blog.sturdystatistics.com)
  • 5 29

    MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk (www.menuetos.net)
  • 52 109

    LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions (github.com)
  • 24 88

    My AI Adoption Journey (mitchellh.com)
  • 29 53

    The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein (scottaaronson.blog)
  • 127 215

    Flock CEO calls Deflock a "terrorist organization" [video] (2025) (www.youtube.com)
  • 20 71

    There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (www.btboces.org)
  • 120 148

    We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler (www.anthropic.com)
  • 3 31

    A small, shared skill library by builders, for builders. (human and agent) (github.com)
  • 27 30

    Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models (arxiv.org)
  • 24 149

    Ardour 9.0 Released (ardour.org)
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  • 70 123

    Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code (www.axios.com)
  • 0 8

    Triton Bespoke Layouts (www.lei.chat)
  • 114 218

    Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority" (techoversight.org)
  • 107 229

    Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)
  • 276 697

    GPT-5.3-Codex (openai.com)
  • 60 38

    Everyone Is Stealing TV (www.theverge.com)
  • 23 100

    Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6 (claude.com)
  • 454 1056

    Claude Opus 4.6 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 23 93

    Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award (www.aljazeera.com)
  • Maihem (YC W24): hiring senior robotics perception engineer (London, on-site) (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 149 289

    European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams (www.euractiv.com)
  • 86 234

    CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook (simonwillison.net)
  • 15 106

    150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation (vermaden.wordpress.com)
  • 8 22

    CG/SQL – SQL dialect compiler to C for sqlite3 mimicking stored procedures (ricomariani.github.io)
  • 78 125

    The New Collabora Office for Desktop (www.collaboraonline.com)
  • 89 48

    Fined $48k for using a jammer to keep commuters from using phones while driving (transition.fcc.gov)
  • 44 112

    GB Renewables Map (renewables-map.robinhawkes.com)
  • 26 67

    Programming Patterns: The Story of the Jacquard Loom (www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk)
  • 102 109

    OpenAI Frontier (openai.com)
  • 98 190

    Company as Code (blog.42futures.com)
  • 3 26

    Improving Unnesting of Complex Queries [pdf] (15799.courses.cs.cmu.edu)
  • 234 320

    CIA to Sunset the World Factbook (www.abc.net.au)
  • 136 282

    Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware (1password.com)
  • 30 91

    Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science (1999) (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
  • Freshpaint (YC S19) Is Hiring a Senior SWE, Data (www.freshpaint.io)
  • 29 115

    Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social Security database [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)
  • 38 136

    A Broken Heart (allenpike.com)
  • 23 32

    Battle-Testing Lynx at Allegro (blog.allegro.tech)
  • 44 48

    The Missing Layer (yagmin.com)
  • 7 9

    Show HN: CLI tool to convert Markdown to rich HTML clipboard content (github.com)
  • 101 183

    Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw (github.com)
  • 4 13

    Justice.gov JEE files contains bash manual (framapiaf.org)
  • 30 93

    Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home (danielmangum.com)
  • 3 8

    Show HN: Pipeline and datasets for data-centric AI on real-world floor plans (archilyse.standfest.science)
  • 37 140

    Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp (github.com)
  • 67 91

    If you've got Nothing to Hide (2015) (jacquesmattheij.com)
  • 20 57

    Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites' (news.satnews.com)
  • 59 65

    Valve's Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing (www.theverge.com)
  • 65 137

    BMW's Newest "Innovation" Is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair (www.ifixit.com)
  • 27 24

    QuitGPT – OpenAI Execs Are Trump's Biggest Donors (quitgpt.org)
  • 48 58

    ICE Begins Buying 'Mega' Warehouse Detention Centers Across US (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 109 76

    Modernizing Linux swapping: introducing the swap table (lwn.net)
  • 54 69

    Adobe Animate will be discontinued (helpx.adobe.com)
  • 52 37

    Study: Older Cannabis Users Have Larger Brains, Better Cognition (news.cuanschutz.edu)
  • 74 36

    The TV industry concedes that the future may not be in 8K (arstechnica.com)
  • 7 32

    The CIA Is Sunsetting the World Factbook (actualityabridged.substack.com)
  • 424 1005

    Don't rent the cloud, own instead (blog.comma.ai)
  • 12 46

    I built a search engine to index the un-indexable parts of Telegram (telehunt.org)
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  • 79 174

    Wirth's Revenge (jmoiron.net)
  • 216 405

    When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown (rachelbythebay.com)
  • 18 64

    Why S7 Scheme? (2020) (iainctduncan.github.io)
  • 2 22

    A tale of two flows: Metaflow and Kubeflow (blog.kubeflow.org)
  • 310 269

    ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use (www.biometricupdate.com)
  • 35 63

    Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic Ad Campaign (twitter.com)
  • 21 86

    An interactive version of Byrne's The Elements of Euclid (1847) (c82.net)
  • 37 110

    A few CPU hardware bugs (www.taricorp.net)
  • 82 123

    Postgres Postmaster does not scale (www.recall.ai)
  • 141 133

    Child prodigies rarely become elite performers (www.economist.com)
  • 24 113

    Listen to Understand (talk.bradwoods.io)
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  • 121 253

    Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees (longevity.stanford.edu)
  • 0 17

    Toxic Truth: How Wikipedia Poisons Global Knowledge (ellakenan100.substack.com)
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  • 29 29

    We Used To Build Things. What Happened? (garryslist.org)
  • 50 57

    How not to securely erase a NVME drive (2022) (peterbabic.dev)
  • 47 94

    Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs (store.steampowered.com)
  • 44 68

    Lily Programming Language (lily-lang.org)
  • 101 84

    Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads (twitter.com)
  • 397 474

    OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been (www.jakequist.com)
  • 21 36

    Show HN: Bunqueue – Job queue for Bun using SQLite instead of Redis (github.com)
  • 4 27

    Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich (2014) (thebaffler.com)
  • 20 65

    Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Drift Away (www.phoronix.com)
  • 62 43

    NDP wants Carney to kill U.S. fighter jet contract in favour of Swedish aircraft (www.ctvnews.ca)
  • 51 248

    Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite (sqldef.github.io)
  • 81 81

    As Rocks May Think (evjang.com)
  • 26 35

    Litestream Writable VFS (fly.io)
  • 51 103

    Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam
  • 1 17

    Writing an optimizing tensor compiler from scratch (michaelmoroz.github.io)
  • 12 34

    Show HN: Morph – Videos of AI testing your PR, embedded in GitHub (morphllm.com)
  • 137 181

    Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell (www.cia.gov)
  • 7 45

    Data Poems (dr.eamer.dev)
  • 57 132

    Remarkable Pro Colors (www.thregr.org)
  • 196 79

    The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs (www.benshoemaker.us)
  • 26 50

    A real-world benchmark for AI code review (www.qodo.ai)
  • 11 10

    Disk Scout – Find the Cheapest SSDs Across Amazon (disk-scout.com)
  • 45 68

    Professors Are Being Watched: 'We've Never Seen This Much Surveillance' (www.nytimes.com)
  • 68 42

    The Singularity Is Always Near (2006) (kk.org)
  • 23 34

    No More Hidden Changes: How MySQL 9.6 Transforms Foreign Key Management (blogs.oracle.com)
  • 22 78

    Show HN: EpsteIn – Search the Epstein files for your LinkedIn connections (github.com)
  • 32 35

    Turn any website into a live, structured data feed (www.meter.sh)
  • 54 93

    Technocracy 2.0 (brooklynrail.org)
  • 19 39

    Show HN: Interactive California Budget (By Claude Code) (california-budget.com)
  • 80 50

    2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025 (mybooklist.club)
  • 197 374

    Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out (boxc.net)
  • 257 239

    How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post (www.newyorker.com)
  • 68 32

    Mean People Fail (2014) (paulgraham.com)
  • 34 40

    Women rejecting the hijab have doomed Iran's brutal regime (www.telegraph.co.uk)
  • 60 51

    Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future (garryslist.org)
  • 173 260

    Claude Code for Infrastructure (www.fluid.sh)
  • 74 60

    AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed (www.theguardian.com)
  • 40 73

    Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire" (2022) (www.currentaffairs.org)
  • 74 137

    Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain (www.newscientist.com)
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  • 6 12

    Cracking the Clit (2017) (logicmag.io)
  • 18 65

    Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web (www.divergent-desktop.org)
  • 20 79

    DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email (newrepublic.com)
  • 1 13

    Claude Code's /Insights (www.natemeyvis.com)
  • 13 26

    Show HN: SymDerive – A functional, stateless symbolic math library
  • 329 311

    The Great Unwind (occupywallst.com)
  • 42 119

    RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code (github.com)
  • 59 196

    Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch (www.scd31.com)
  • 151 107

    In Tehran (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 701 476

    AI is killing B2B SaaS (nmn.gl)
  • 60 60

    Intel will start making GPUs (techcrunch.com)
  • 84 135

    Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections (www.newsweek.com)
  • 72 219

    French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel (twitter.com)
  • 91 76

    Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety (news.uark.edu)
  • 19 82

    Fastmail Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation (www.perl.com)
  • 68 72

    Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative (blog.codinghorror.com)
  • 9 29

    The Voxel Is a Cutting-Edge Theater Experiment (bmoreart.com)
  • 257 477

    Claude is a space to think (www.anthropic.com)
  • Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring Product Engineers (NYC, In-Person) (www.runconverge.com)
  • 358 285

    Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems (www.wsj.com)
  • 6 27

    Male students show more tolerance for political enemies than females for allies (expression.fire.org)
  • 65 50

    Procedures for Repair of Potholes in Asphalt-Surfaced Pavements (highways.dot.gov)
  • 62 203

    Tractor (incoherency.co.uk)
  • 236 968

    Voxtral Transcribe 2 (mistral.ai)
  • 46 106

    Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix (michael.stapelberg.ch)
  • 91 161

    Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation (arxiv.org)
  • 223 385

    A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs (pdfa.org)
  • 19 55

    Thatcher Effect – Optical Illusion and Explanation (optical.toys)
  • 518 587

    FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled (www.404media.co)
  • 146 309

    Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025 (arstechnica.com)
  • 141 66

    Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function (medicalxpress.com)
  • 22 75

    Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps (oldinsurancemaps.net)
  • 466 292

    A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw (brandon.wang)
  • 0 8

    Bypassing Kernel32.dll for Fun and Nonprofit (ziglang.org)
  • 0 11

    Speculative Sampling Explained (saibo-creator.github.io)
  • 25 61

    I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 69 38

    Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time (newsletter.jantegze.com)
  • 10 29

    The fax numbers of the beast, and other mathematical sports (cabinetmagazine.org)
  • 25 24

    Anthropic Claude Max $200/mo: They claim 99% uptime, I calculated 84% Loss: $780 (gist.github.com)
  • 4 93

    Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map (saas-map.ssr.trapiche.cloud)
  • 14 61

    Broken Proofs and Broken Provers (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
  • 25 27

    The €10 Mirror: Why Enterprise Security Looks Like a Kid's Toy (labs.itresit.es)
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  • 17 126

    Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile (spritely.institute)
  • 15 78

    "time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours (twitter.com)
  • 5 10

    Show HN: BPU – An embedded scheduler for stable UART pipelines
  • 16 88

    The Mathematics of Tuning Systems (math.ucr.edu)
  • 66 291

    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)
  • 76 23

    The world is more equal than you think (economist.com)
  • 58 123

    High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 38 76

    The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today (xakpc.dev)
  • 47 71

    Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies (www.lttlabs.com)
  • 49 212

    Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany (www.openpetition.de)
  • 11 82

    Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy (foxmoss.com)
  • 691 1263

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

    Machinery and English Style (1904) (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 93 147

    The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75 (www.thedrive.com)
  • 10 20

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

    Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too (blogs.igalia.com)
  • 146 60

    Why poor countries stopped catching up (davidoks.blog)
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  • 59 79

    Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study (www.theguardian.com)
  • 45 167

    Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game (banteg.xyz)
  • 52 65

    GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster (twitter.com)
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    Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network after U.S. withdraws (capitolnewsillinois.com)