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  • 0 29

    Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended (www.reddit.com)
  • 0 3

    A Cocktail Party in the Street: An Interview with Alan Stillman (2010) (www.ediblegeography.com)
  • 2 34

    Apple Security Research Device (security.apple.com)
  • 2 5

    CowAgent – Open-Source Super AI Assistant (cowagent.ai)
  • 8 72

    OBS Studio 33 (github.com)
  • 9 14

    The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 3 32

    How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money (ayoships.com)
  • 5 37

    Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year (gizmodo.com)
  • 7 75

    How close can pure functional programming get to C? (rtfeldman.com)
  • 11 55

    A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents (danielball.com)
  • 8 28

    Elon Musk Acquires $1B Stake in CNN's Parent Company (symby.com)
  • 1 25

    One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 2 9

    The Anger Machine (Joan Kirner Social Justice Oration 2026) (www.andrewleigh.com)
  • 6 92

    The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses (funcarena.com)
  • 6 30

    The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026 (arstechnica.com)
  • 17 155

    Twelve years of distributed SQLite (philipotoole.com)
  • 22 91

    Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 74 60

    Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California's Proposed Wealth Tax (www.nytimes.com)
  • 13 64

    C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur (martinfinkel.com)
  • 28 118

    Bringing uv and ty together (astral.sh)
  • 86 156

    Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in Node, Python, and more (nitter.click)
  • 0 37

    Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record (www.cam.ac.uk)
  • 27 55

    German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying' (www.courthousenews.com)
  • 25 14

    Caffeine-like utility to keep you MacBook awake with its lid closed (github.com)
  • 18 75

    Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer (corgi.computer)
  • 3 14

    John Snow Cholera Data (johnsnow.rtwilson.com)
  • 21 42

    Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more (www.computerworld.com)
  • 61 159

    CVE Tracker (cve.0xosprey.com)
  • 10 45

    A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna (e360.yale.edu)
  • 34 46

    No Source Code? No Problem (queue.acm.org)
  • 7 45

    A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025) (quantum5.ca)
  • 14 51

    Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501 (rune.build)
  • 30 39

    DNS: A Replacement for Finger (altchan.org)
  • 103 102

    Securing our frontier model training environment (openai.com)
  • 76 76

    Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left (www.techpowerup.com)
  • 116 130

    We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970 (thanksforthatjim.bearblog.dev)
  • 0 9

    Kimi K3.1 Pro puts open-source AI a month behind the best (www.modelcompare.ai)
  • 171 345

    Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads (www.theverge.com)
  • 52 72

    Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home (www.nbcnews.com)
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  • 133 360

    Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech (block.xyz)
  • 101 37

    Reforming English Spelling (blog.oup.com)
  • 39 116

    Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line (artificialanalysis.ai)
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  • 108 114

    Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines (www.jefftk.com)
  • 3 58

    Animations for System Builders (brooker.co.za)
  • 1 11

    Show HN: Searching for optimal strategies in a puzzle game with chance (Drop7) (drop7.dev)
  • 228 734

    Apple Music 404 Not Found (music.apple.com)
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  • 34 70

    I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen (twitter.com)
  • 36 18

    AI Is Not a Tool (twitter.com)
  • 76 124

    Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files? (david.lequin.dev)
  • 33 70

    Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web (swurf.org)
  • 110 137

    UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities (alexsci.com)
  • 2 60

    Kimi K3.1 Pro (www.kimi.ai)
  • 76 126

    How is music possible (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
  • 211 397

    Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22 (www.eff.org)
  • 17 75

    Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world (www.impossiblemachines.xyz)
  • 33 35

    Time Nuts (2005) (leapsecond.com)
  • 19 61

    The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025) (isaacmarovitz.com)
  • 512 871

    Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed (www.kimi.ai)
  • 3 14

    Dagger 1.0 Beta (dagger.io)
  • 26 114

    Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy (bottlecapai.com)
  • 5 21

    Total Historian (www.theideasletter.org)
  • 3 17

    An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident (www.anthropic.com)
  • 1 38

    eMudhra Login Bypass (mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
  • 546 843

    Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone (blog.calif.io)
  • 77 289

    The Real Kevin Bacon (pudding.cool)
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  • 146 133

    Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for use at border (www.cnn.com)
  • 154 198

    eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
  • 12 46

    When the Term "Heatwave" Is No Longer Enough (coveringclimatenow.org)
  • 53 61

    Show HN: We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited (www.thisandthat.chat)
  • 107 156

    Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party (www.bitdefender.com)
  • 384 532

    Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers (www.kadoa.com)
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  • 341 496

    Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown (keepandroidopen.org)
  • 148 151

    Shitter – A Nitter Fork (codeberg.org)
  • 442 427

    Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier (www.tvfandomlounge.com)
  • 171 153

    No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
  • 62 182

    OpenSSL 4.1.0 (github.com)
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  • 119 317

    Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude (www.sverigesradio.se)
  • 192 161

    Is this the new cyber normal? (drew.silcock.dev)
  • 124 176

    Job loss and cortisone mania (tilschuenemann.de)
  • 191 295

    Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone (twitter.com)
  • 147 188

    Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching) (github.com)
  • 65 89

    The rise and fall of Jev hype (blog.alexewerlof.com)
  • 111 63

    France needs to read my paper (wilsoniumite.com)
  • 14 24

    Hand-bent after 3D printing, Oberdoerfer and Krebs' Bend chair (www.designboom.com)
  • 45 65

    I Did This Without Your Knowledge (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 155 140

    The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden (berget.ai)
  • 73 199

    How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images? (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 6 23

    Rule 30: one black cell (www.wolframcollatzmahler.com)
  • 18 49

    We have traits at home (www.axelmagn.com)
  • 73 96

    Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart (github.com)
  • 86 202

    The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions (arxiv.org)
  • 17 67

    LISP Comes of Age (1980) (microship.com)
  • 232 1355

    Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you (edjefferson.com)
  • 58 118

    The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial (developer.chrome.com)
  • 1 21

    Objects, attributes, maps, oh my (bernsteinbear.com)
  • 92 220

    Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key (github.com)
  • 48 71

    A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics (www.sciencealert.com)
  • 31 170

    Move Slow and Fix Things (2024) (endler.dev)
  • 5 5

    Take my toil, leave me my struggle (newsletter.kentbeck.com)
  • 31 80

    Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
  • 82 150

    This I Believe (1952) (www.awakin.org)
  • 50 59

    Why my Asus laptop kept rebooting after sleep and how to fix it (idiallo.com)
  • 105 132

    Mortality Among People with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (jamanetwork.com)
  • 46 179

    Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop (jank-lang.org)
  • 22 100

    The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere (blog.coredump.cx)
  • 255 366

    The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) (www.cs.utexas.edu)
  • 33 109

    Color Names (names.color.pizza)
  • 59 52

    AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market (www.economist.com)
  • 358 839

    Docker is weird (codeandcake.dev)
  • 11 44

    Mapping the Northern Sky (www.maps.com)