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  • 2 7

    How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (www.davidma.org)
  • 1 18

    Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (www.nature.com)
  • 0 12

    The Unix Executable as a Smalltalk Method [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 26 65

    A simplified model of Fil-C (www.corsix.org)
  • 1 48

    Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) (www.tobyord.com)
  • 2 36

    The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (inria.hal.science)
  • 22 54

    Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe (blog.calif.io)
  • 94 101

    I'm spending 3 months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)
  • 6 24

    Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
  • Arc Prize Foundation (YC W26) Is Hiring a Platform Engineer for ARC-AGI-4 (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 95 140

    Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD (electrek.co)
  • 6 25

    MZI-based transistorlessness might finally be here (write.as)
  • 59 64

    I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months (www.wespiser.com)
  • 14 20

    Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks (strangelyentangled.com)
  • 101 187

    All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (www.esa.int)
  • 38 46

    NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation (www.heise.de)
  • 0 50

    Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech (citizenlab.ca)
  • 6 9

    xAI has Released Grok 4.3 (beta) (twitter.com)
  • 14 50

    Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box (datagirl.xyz)
  • 9 60

    Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (www.bbc.com)
  • 80 191

    Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com)
  • 35 33

    Congress extends controversial surveillance powers for 10 days (www.npr.org)
  • 42 98

    Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com)
  • 0 4

    Claude Design (claude.ai)
  • 17 38

    Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590% (github.com)
  • Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 7 5

    Why "200 OK" does not mean your system worked (blog.bridgexapi.io)
  • 77 98

    Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects (twitter.com)
  • 9 53

    The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant (gregorio-project.github.io)
  • 216 195

    NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
  • 7 66

    Designing the Transport Typeface (www.thamesandhudson.com)
  • 347 508

    Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (www.claudecodecamp.com)
  • 37 158

    NIST gives up enriching most CVEs (risky.biz)
  • 16 36

    IETF draft-meow-mrrp-00 (www.ietf.org)
  • 2 10

    Brussels launched an age checking app. It took 2 minutes to hack it (www.politico.eu)
  • 14 99

    Iceye Open Data (www.iceye.com)
  • 514 766

    Claude Design (www.anthropic.com)
  • 86 186

    Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (www.thehistoryblog.com)
  • 46 72

    The Utopia of the Family Computer (mudmapmagazine.com)
  • 38 126

    Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010) (prologue.blogs.archives.gov)
  • 62 134

    Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (blog.healthchecks.io)
  • 153 556

    Ban the sale of precise geolocation (www.lawfaremedia.org)
  • 52 99

    We reproduced Anthropic's Mythos findings with public models (blog.vidocsecurity.com)
  • 161 92

    Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents (isitagentready.com)
  • 8 33

    The missing catalogue: why finding books in translation is still so hard (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
  • 86 86

    Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review (stagereview.app)
  • 6 17

    Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms – Moncef Abboud (cefboud.com)
  • 235 588

    Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
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  • 95 114

    Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers? (www.thenation.com)
  • 85 85

    Average is all you need (rawquery.dev)
  • 37 76

    中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron (blog.kevinzwu.com)
  • 27 70

    EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted (xcancel.com)
  • 9 18

    Rubens Menin's 150 Years "Old" Port Wine (neofeed.com.br)
  • 61 177

    How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll (www.investigate-europe.eu)
  • 169 244

    Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (www.iqiipi.com)
  • 0 19

    Precision over perception: Why architecture matters in benchmarking (www.redhat.com)
  • 57 19

    How to make buffet breakfasts less wasteful (www.economist.com)
  • 2 29

    PROBoter – Open-source platform for automated PCB analysis (www.schutzwerk.com)
  • 71 134

    FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer (www.nongnu.org)
  • 8 38

    Building a Web Page That Edits Itself (www.patrickweaver.net)
  • 8 11

    First bikebell against noise-canceling headphones (www.welovecycling.com)
  • 13 47

    Century-bandwidth antenna reinvented,patented after 18 yrs with decade bandwidth (2006) (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
  • 104 134

    Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming (chapel-lang.org)
  • 54 114

    Human Accelerated Region 1 (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 45 141

    A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
  • 84 154

    Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day (www.theverge.com)
  • 13 47

    FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why (arstechnica.com)
  • 305 379

    US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 17 67

    A Git helper tool that breaks large merges into parallelizable tasks (github.com)
  • 81 206

    Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source (blog.discourse.org)
  • 22 92

    ReBot-DevArm: open-source Robotic Arm (github.com)
  • Substrate AI Is Hiring Harness Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 11 13

    288,493 Requests – How I Spotted an XML-RPC Brute Force from a Weird Cache Ratio (marcindudek.dev)
  • 59 216

    CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models (cadquery.github.io)
  • 2 28

    Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon's growing reliance on SpaceX (www.reuters.com)
  • 32 118

    Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code (lucasgerads.com)
  • 234 315

    Everything we like is a psyop? (techcrunch.com)
  • 115 175

    Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 17

    "Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 59 82

    George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (www.openculture.com)
  • 4 10

    Python Package Compiler:Package Matlab Programs for Deployment as Python Package (www.mathworks.com)
  • 67 256

    New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims (www.theguardian.com)
  • 30 34

    U.S. to Create High-Tech Manufacturing Zone in Philippines (www.wsj.com)
  • 2 6

    Sir-Bench – benchmark for security incident response agents (arxiv.org)
  • 46 221

    Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine (github.com)
  • 4 34

    IBM AP-101 general-purpose computer [pdf] (gandalfddi.z19.web.core.windows.net)
  • 112 256

    Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design (news.play.date)
  • 35 60

    U.S. set to launch tariff refund system on April 20 (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 38 36

    Five men control AI. Who should control them? (www.economist.com)
  • 35 69

    Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding (github.com)
  • 107 320

    Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links (clojure.org)
  • 211 169

    The beginning of scarcity in AI (tomtunguz.com)
  • 30 152

    A better R programming experience thanks to Tree-sitter (ropensci.org)
  • 1 9

    How the Roll Function Works (In APL\360 and Its Descendants) (www.jsoftware.com)
  • 29 99

    GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research (openai.com)
  • 266 372

    The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs (www.joanwestenberg.com)
  • Join Akkari's Founding Team (YC P26) as an Engineer
  • 127 299

    Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent (android-developers.googleblog.com)
  • 3 45

    Circuit Transformations, Loop Fusion, and Inductive Proof (natetyoung.github.io)
  • 81 121

    European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp (www.politico.eu)
  • 74 57

    German Dog Commands (www.fluentu.com)
  • 35 65

    TigerBeetle: A Trillion Transactions [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 82 115

    Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left" (apnews.com)
  • 92 442

    Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
  • 39 109

    PCI Express over Fiber [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 34 62

    Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now (www.wired.com)
  • 529 985

    Codex for almost everything (openai.com)
  • 128 166

    Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants (www.japantimes.co.jp)
  • 23 99

    Show HN: CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task (github.com)
  • 115 99

    Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip (raymii.org)
  • 25 206

    Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git (blog.cloudflare.com)
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  • 279 197

    We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit (andonlabs.com)
  • 84 94

    Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs (www.zatanna.ai)
  • 14 102

    Six Characters (ajitem.com)
  • 1419 1933

    Claude Opus 4.7 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 122 207

    Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent (techstackups.com)
  • 6 17

    Show HN: Agent-cache – Multi-tier LLM/tool/session caching for Valkey and Redis
  • 63 50

    There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains (www.engadget.com)
  • 81 176

    Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card (anthropic.com)
  • 12 186

    Claude Opus 4.7 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 41 146

    Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh (github.com)
  • 17 20

    Fly Drones from the Browser (fpvsim.com)
  • 326 364

    Mozilla Thunderbolt (www.thunderbolt.io)
  • 514 1233

    Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all (qwen.ai)
  • 199 450

    Cloudflare Email Service (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 745 711

    The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here? (aphyr.com)
  • 93 305

    Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 3 29

    Long Instruction Word architectures and the ELI-512 (dl.acm.org)
  • 88 233

    AI cybersecurity is not proof of work (antirez.com)
  • 25 74

    Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
  • 73 83

    Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials (www.apple.com)
  • 284 396

    €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs (discuss.ai.google.dev)
  • 19 15

    Study: EVs with V2H cut household electricity costs and need for home batteries (adelaide.edu.au)
  • 45 121

    PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations (wiki.php.net)
  • 67 64

    The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up? (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 66 46

    The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces (vale.rocks)
  • 131 253

    Codex Hacked a Samsung TV (blog.calif.io)
  • 68 68

    Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf] (reich.hms.harvard.edu)
  • 133 127

    SDL bans AI-written commits (github.com)
  • 21 184

    Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (www.lighterra.com)
  • 12 17

    Pokemon Evolution vs Darwinian Evolution (superheroetc.wordpress.com)
  • 26 60

    The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock (boat.horse)
  • 117 50

    Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45 (www.bbc.com)
  • 4 59

    FIXAPL (fixapl.netlify.app)
  • RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 606 802

    IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark (www.google.com)
  • 7 19

    Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library (www.b-list.org)
  • 208 631

    The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama (sleepingrobots.com)
  • 92 155

    North American English Dialects (aschmann.net)
  • 73 58

    Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet (www.chalkbeat.org)
  • 21 76

    Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus (medium.com)
  • 20 35

    Show HN: SmallDocs - Markdown without the frustrations
  • 114 149

    Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick (heather.cafe)
  • 107 125

    Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) (www.ietf.org)
  • 11 12

    AWS/GCP too expensive? Cloudexit.pro will help you move to bare-metal (cloudexit.pro)
  • 222 388

    FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account (daedal.io)
  • 13 77

    A Look into NaviDial, Japan's Legacy Phone Service (www.tokyodev.com)
  • 58 187

    RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update (github.com)
  • 245 491

    Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs (darkbloom.dev)
  • 22 101

    Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie (2011) (stevehanov.ca)
  • 8 49

    Intel Xpress Resurrection: Reviving a Forgotten EISA Beast (x86.fr)
  • 7 37

    Show HN: Hiraeth – AWS Emulator (github.com)
  • 59 119

    Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 87 286

    The paper computer (jsomers.net)
  • 34 79

    Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness (github.com)
  • 6 18

    A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator (www.universetoday.com)
  • 10 62

    Amazon AI Cancelling Webcomics (www.kleefeldoncomics.com)
  • 38 71

    Arguing with Agents (blowmage.com)
  • 8 39

    A Better Ludum Dare; Or, How to Ruin a Legacy (ldjam.com)
  • 15 25

    Keycard – inject API keys into subprocesses, never touch shell env (www.keycard.studio)
  • 29 149

    Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers (gpfault.net)
  • 62 64

    Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk' (www.afr.com)
  • 10 21

    The Universal Constraint Engine: Neuromorphic Computing Without Neural Networks (zenodo.org)
  • 26 55

    Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor. Workers told to keep going (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 4 20

    Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks – The Writing Secrets of Stephen King (www.theguardian.com)