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  • 4 8

    Polishing Cloth Updated (512pixels.net)
  • 0 15

    Not Becoming a Cyborg (nolanlawson.com)
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  • CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 18 34

    Tmp.0ut Volume 5 (tmpout.sh)
  • 0 3

    Google Ads vs. Facebook Ads: Which Is Better for Small Businesses? (www.hostiqen.com)
  • 93 82

    AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too (www.hermit-tech.com)
  • 1 11

    Roget's Thesaurus (artflsrv04.uchicago.edu)
  • 8 19

    Vermell – Minimal, dependency-free C++ web framework using epoll (github.com)
  • 1 24

    Is MCP Good Yet? (ismcpgoodyet.com)
  • 0 7

    GPU World (www.gpuworld.org)
  • 77 185

    GPU World (www.gpuworld.org)
  • 0 19

    Flat vs. segmented memory – it's recursive (www.humprog.org)
  • 24 102

    Restroom Archive (restroomarchive.com)
  • 21 32

    DoltLite: A SQLite fork with Git-style version control, built with 2k agent PRs (www.dolthub.com)
  • 1 18

    A Cyanometer and a Cloud Colourimeter (byopiapress.wordpress.com)
  • 8 49

    RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3 (github.com)
  • 150 319

    Fastpotify (fastpotify.rocks)
  • 4 65

    Tailcat: Tailscale Without Tailscale, by Tailscale (tailscale.com)
  • 46 67

    Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost) (antigravity.google)
  • 2 8

    Optimal transport is art: images to collection of optimally placed particles (blog.wolfram.com)
  • 34 82

    Ex-Crips leader found guilty in 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur (www.bbc.com)
  • 26 64

    Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public (www.wallpaper.com)
  • 54 104

    2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up (jkm.dev)
  • 51 47

    Carmack: Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers? (twitter.com)
  • 2 30

    Visualizing Combos in Judo in R (www.r-bloggers.com)
  • 146 211

    Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination (datacolada.org)
  • 70 221

    Run macOS Software on Linux (www.darlinghq.org)
  • 53 103

    Lion-man (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 44 98

    Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk (cgicoffee.com)
  • 15 28

    Claude × retrocomputing: emulating a QIC-117 tape drive (dmitrybrant.com)
  • 7 28

    How we configured OpenTelemetry logs in Rails (www.sixpatterns.com)
  • 11 24

    Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor (kingsbridge-consultancy.com)
  • 511 668

    Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO (webiterate.dev)
  • Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring engineers
  • 111 180

    'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online (phys.org)
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  • 4 16

    I built a forgetting curve for an agent with one user (eris-system.dev)
  • 37 186

    Show HN: Laser Graffiti (laser.consti.de)
  • 13 46

    Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme (corporatemindgames.com)
  • 91 68

    Kids These Days (smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net)
  • 182 54

    Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting (www.theguardian.com)
  • 3 7

    I built a multiplayer version of the 4,500-year-old Royal Game of Ur (royalgameofur.app)
  • 27 61

    'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 58 204

    Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI (www.chosun.com)
  • 17 49

    Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires (www.governance.fyi)
  • 81 84

    Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message (www.gadgetreview.com)
  • 37 312

    A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 176 129

    The safest job from AI may be writing (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
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  • 128 132

    Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones (www.wsj.com)
  • 31 45

    Separating logic and language (news.mit.edu)
  • Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 72 120

    Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT (twitter.com)
  • 5 35

    Why are rivers so mathematical? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 55 399

    Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 72 94

    You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting (www.olafalders.com)
  • 125 209

    Reverse engineering my ADHD test (nullpt.rs)
  • 162 399

    Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
  • 2 120

    Tmp.0ut Volume 5 (tmpout.sh)
  • 4 16

    LeanDB a strongly Typed SQL front end (theoric.com)
  • 5 39

    Euphemisation of Taboo Areas (2023) [pdf] (ajmp.uwr.edu.pl)
  • 0 13

    How much of a problem is AI's water use? (knowablemagazine.org)
  • 92 76

    You probably own this 7-Eleven (and that's why it looks so sad) (www.thenewatlantis.com)
  • 16 25

    Wildfire Survivors Push Back Against Newsom-Led Utility Bailout (prospect.org)
  • 22 24

    British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry (www.theguardian.com)
  • 75 155

    Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding (www.heise.de)
  • 114 478

    I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system (jasontucker.blog)
  • 18 18

    Agents still can't automate Excel (www.orcaset.com)
  • 19 55

    Mental Health Workers Say Algorithmic Triage Is Hurting Patients (capitalandmain.com)
  • 114 197

    RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source (ravynos.com)
  • 9 36

    MapQuest app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario (techcrunch.com)
  • 61 32

    Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?
  • 78 55

    Marx, Keynes, and AI (www.unpopularfront.news)
  • 15 25

    ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU (www.theverge.com)
  • 10 33

    Navigation app for people with blindness and low vision (seas.harvard.edu)
  • 46 53

    Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company (usealmanac.com)
  • 109 98

    Rakuten Kobo returns to U.S. retail as sales double (www.publishersweekly.com)
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  • 52 81

    C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments (www.cppstories.com)
  • 3 18

    Agentic Trust Controls (trustcontrols.ai)
  • 12 44

    Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines (github.com)
  • 48 68

    The Snow/Leavis ‘two cultures’ clash (aeon.co)
  • 209 608

    Playa Phone (playaphone.com)
  • 27 94

    Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP (iggy.apache.org)
  • 46 59

    My experience has nuance, yours is a data point (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
  • 49 47

    Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri (serverbox.stupidlabs.lol)
  • 48 39

    Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America (www.nytimes.com)
  • 11 36

    Libertix installs Linux with 3 mouse clicks for Windows users (ekimia.fr)
  • 105 61

    Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons (omarchy.org)
  • 48 78

    DNS abuse and criminal infrastructure (labs.ripe.net)
  • 52 214

    ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference (codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site)
  • 3 20

    All CERN accelerators now on the road to HiLumi (home.cern)
  • 80 64

    SK Hynix CEO sees memory chip shortage lasting until 2030 (www.sammyfans.com)
  • 0 20

    Interviewing IBM's Christian Zoellin and Christian Jacobi (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 11 55

    The art of CHIP-8 (beyondloom.com)
  • 5 21

    Show HN: SlideOps – slides from a repo that flag when they drift from the code (github.com)
  • 5 69

    I attended the State of the Map conference (povesham.wordpress.com)
  • 40 151

    ReactOS 0.4.16 (reactos.org)
  • 443 392

    Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio (www.macrumors.com)
  • 16 45

    The British state has lost the argument (jonathancook.substack.com)
  • 19 23

    The Universe as a Minified Bundle (andrewarrow.dev)
  • 56 65

    Notes on Private Trackers (www.jenn.site)
  • 71 42

    Early 2000s were peak of humanity (lukaszkups.net)
  • 91 55

    AI-written code is still your code (martiansoftware.com)
  • 22 16

    I built a hardware-bound local password vault hidden in a photo (blindlock.app)
  • 20 25

    What I Learned About AI Trust from Reconciling over 100B Transactions (engineering.moniepoint.com)
  • 9 19

    Show HN: Floe – an open-source plugin for sample libraries – CLAP/VST3/AU (floe.audio)
  • 47 36

    1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer (www.bbc.com)
  • 30 102

    Malleable software = solid bases and custom code (www.mdubakov.me)
  • 0 11

    The AI-Native SDLC Starts with Your Infrastructure (metalbear.com)
  • 6 11

    Lake Ontario Now Called Lake America on Google Maps (apnews.com)
  • 89 174

    Agent memory as a file format (calpaterson.com)
  • 5 20

    DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp (huggingface.co)
  • 188 330

    I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked (signalandsilence.substack.com)
  • 9 38

    Using floci to emulate Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) (flowg.cloud)
  • 44 186

    A CVE Dispute (daniel.haxx.se)
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  • 55 87

    Study: Blue light impairs the eye's ability to distinguish fine detail most (research.uga.edu)
  • 132 560

    OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor (www.openshot.org)
  • 116 368

    Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (embracethered.com)
  • 2 12

    A spy satellite simulator in the browser, except the data is real (github.com)
  • 105 216

    uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache (github.com)
  • 13 21

    Formalization of the Solution to the Hopf Problem (github.com)
  • 17 73

    What 2000 Buried Underpants Revealed About Where Soil Is Most Alive (studyfinds.com)
  • 61 59

    Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails (au.pcmag.com)
  • 81 374

    A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history (arstechnica.com)
  • 69 118

    Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care (hank.bond)
  • 173 169

    Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable (maurycyz.com)
  • 63 22

    Why OOP Exists (mathspp.com)
  • 8 12

    Show HN: Prove your code produced your claims without making reviewers rerun it (github.com)
  • 173 145

    OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally (openclaw.ai)
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  • 62 374

    Damn fine tiny cafe (sandyuraz.com)
  • 152 211

    Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT (dreamstation.systems)
  • 84 104

    UC Berkeley indefinitely suspends international student work authorizations (www.dailycal.org)
  • 99 47

    The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers (tokenstead.ai)
  • 84 220

    P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names (ruurtjan.com)
  • 55 78

    Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine (www.neowin.net)
  • 21 32

    SolarWindow launches 0.85 mm-thick, self-adhesive solar film (www.pv-magazine.com)
  • 22 13

    CobaltC – The Successor to C? (strawberry9.github.io)
  • 86 96

    Why do I lose my passion and want to do nothing?
  • 253 234

    It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell (blog.vghaisas.com)
  • 187 331

    Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  • 1 8

    Adding a directional cost bias to a TSP heuristic reveals better local optima (tsp.uncledroid.app)
  • 77 184

    Matrox: Graphics for Professionals (www.abortretry.fail)
  • 20 177

    How to build a diffusion language model (kuleshov-group.github.io)
  • 67 64

    Yen weakens past ¥160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains (www.japantimes.co.jp)
  • 38 64

    Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic (relm4.org)