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  • 0 8

    Lidar waveforms are worth 40x128x33 words (openaccess.thecvf.com)
  • 5 27

    Museum of Plugs and Sockets (plugsocketmuseum.nl)
  • 9 25

    Kansas invalidates driver's licenses, birth certificates for ~1k transgender (www.reuters.com)
  • 40 81

    What Claude Code Chooses (amplifying.ai)
  • 12 59

    OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation (osmand.net)
  • 11 42

    The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge (www.combinatorprize.org)
  • 6 25

    Show HN: Rev-dep – 20x faster knip.dev alternative build in Go (github.com)
  • 27 56

    Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor (www.usecardboard.com)
  • 30 43

    Show HN: Deff – side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal (github.com)
  • 33 88

    He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, uncovered a surveillance network (calmatters.org)
  • 38 74

    iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information (www.apple.com)
  • 16 28

    Show HN: Beehive – Multi-Workspace Agent Orchestrator (storozhenko98.github.io)
  • 5 25

    Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents (github.com)
  • 67 80

    Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." (twitter.com)
  • 97 146

    I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life (www.theguardian.com)
  • 3 30

    Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra (www.guidelabs.ai)
  • 65 62

    SynthID (deepmind.google)
  • 47 59

    Show HN: Hacker Smacker – spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance (hackersmacker.org)
  • 70 102

    Google Street View in 2026 (tech.marksblogg.com)
  • 2 26

    America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 31 61

    The Pentagon Feuding with an AI Company Is a Bad Sign (foreignpolicy.com)
  • 49 112

    Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf] (cs.uml.edu)
  • 196 188

    Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? (read.technically.dev)
  • 22 17

    Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades? (boilingsteam.com)
  • Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Interns to Make Housing Affordable (www.workatastartup.com)
  • 110 167

    Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers (endowment.dev)
  • 17 18

    How AI skills are quietly automating my workday (medium.com)
  • 70 52

    Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI (www.bhusalmanish.com.np)
  • 385 398

    Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model (blog.google)
  • 1 11

    Apple Launch on Monday (twitter.com)
  • 88 70

    This time is different (shkspr.mobi)
  • 130 269

    AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (www.ndss-symposium.org)
  • 6 31

    Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents (machinelearning.apple.com)
  • 122 186

    In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% (bsky.app)
  • 31 114

    BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)
  • 8 34

    Some silly Z3 scripts I wrote (www.hillelwayne.com)
  • 1 13

    Kansas Sends Letters to Trans People Demanding the Surrender of Drivers Licenses (www.erininthemorning.com)
  • 41 98

    Story of XZ Backdoor [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 52 91

    just-bash: Bash for Agents (github.com)
  • 84 61

    Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you' (www.theverge.com)
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  • 36 42

    Those who can, teach history (www.historytoday.com)
  • 68 42

    What podcasts are you listening to?
  • 3 542

    Anthropic ditches its core safety promise (www.cnn.com)
  • 84 62

    Number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high ahead of crackdown (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 75 63

    Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications (www.scripps.edu)
  • 40 32

    Nihilistic Violent Extremism (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 47 63

    Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS) (github.com)
  • 90 85

    Technical Excellence Is Not Enough (raccoon.land)
  • 99 85

    Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals' (www.cnn.com)
  • 76 78

    The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph (www.mikeayles.com)
  • Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring (hightouch.com)
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  • 287 188

    You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account (www.heltweg.org)
  • 4 24

    Show HN: Modern Reimplementation of the Speck Molecule Renderer (github.com)
  • 65 266

    Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line (gitlab.com)
  • 200 537

    Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
  • 44 38

    Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience (www.better-hub.com)
  • 11 61

    RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel (www.collabora.com)
  • 16 59

    A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight (arxiv.org)
  • 1 12

    UPP: Universal Predicate Pushdown to Smart Storage (dl.acm.org)
  • 5 32

    Out of Light Adjust Share: Caravaggio, La Tour, and the Art of Attention (harpers.org)
  • 10 15

    Even the Mars Rover Uses Zip Ties (2021) (www.thedrive.com)
  • 35 81

    Writers and Their Day Jobs (lithub.com)
  • 223 160

    I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word” (www.grumpy-economist.com)
  • 16 29

    Apple Needs to Copy Samsung's New Security Smartphone Screen ASAP (www.wsj.com)
  • 13 55

    What Pressure Does to an Athlete's Body (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 56 34

    Self-improving software won't produce Skynet (contalign.jefflunt.com)
  • 7 48

    Gauss's Weekday Algorithm, Visualized (lukasmetzner.github.io)
  • 279 1176

    Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules (trufflesecurity.com)
  • 80 92

    Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (www.wsj.com)
  • 18 34

    Show HN: OpenSwarm – Multi‑Agent Claude CLI Orchestrator for Linear/GitHub (github.com)
  • 76 99

    The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) (quod.lib.umich.edu)
  • 318 369

    RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs (arstechnica.com)
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  • 8 57

    Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts (github.com)
  • 5 15

    Show HN: Unix for the Commodore 64? Open Source (github.com)
  • 614 451

    How will OpenAI compete? (www.ben-evans.com)
  • 4 23

    Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 69 167

    Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit (www.disruptionbanking.com)
  • 135 443

    Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance (www.eff.org)
  • 73 44

    Larry Page has moved to Florida (twitter.com)
  • 69 55

    The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck (www.mikeayles.com)
  • 70 64

    Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
  • 563 488

    Banned in California (www.bannedincalifornia.org)
  • 84 298

    First Website (1992) (info.cern.ch)
  • 66 36

    Why every automaker is quietly bringing back the inline-six engine (carbuzz.com)
  • 79 328

    The First Fully General Computer Action Model (si.inc)
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  • 35 110

    Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26) (norlinder.nu)
  • 5 22

    ECS Survivors Parts VII – X (blog.ptidej.net)
  • 7 37

    PA bench: Evaluating web agents on real world personal assistant workflows (vibrantlabs.com)
  • 10 72

    Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information (www.motherjones.com)
  • 0 13

    Cuba says four shot dead on US-registered speedboat (www.bbc.com)
  • 72 129

    An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop (aircada.com)
  • 212 207

    Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better (respectify.org)
  • 27 80

    Access to a Shared Unix Computer (tilde.club)
  • 8 25

    Reverse engineering the KakaoTalk app so I can build a Beeper Bridge (jusung.dev)
  • 15 125

    Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments (www.linum.ai)
  • 116 305

    Making MCP cheaper via CLI (kanyilmaz.me)
  • 226 638

    Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 17 29

    Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back (www.playlinex.com)
  • 5 10

    Show HN: Django-xbench – slow endpoint aggregation for Django (github.com)
  • 37 53

    Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism (david.alvarezrosa.com)
  • 1 14

    The Appeal and Reality of Recycling LoRAs with Adaptive Merging (arxiv.org)
  • 16 19

    Attyx – tiny and fast GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Zig (github.com)
  • 70 85

    I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus (github.com)
  • 2 33

    Scipy.stats. Chatterjeexi (docs.scipy.org)
  • 0 9

    Disabled woman put in nursing home against her will says she feels 'betrayed' (www.bbc.com)
  • 104 217

    Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go (github.com)
  • 92 100

    The Slow Death of the Power User (fireborn.mataroa.blog)
  • 104 293

    The Om Programming Language (www.om-language.com)
  • 286 133

    Why isn't LA repaving streets? (lapublicpress.org)
  • 119 183

    The Pentagon threatens Anthropic (www.astralcodexten.com)
  • 102 110

    Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw (tachyon.so)
  • 23 80

    Text-Based Google Directions (gdir.telae.net)
  • 81 93

    Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious' (www.theregister.com)
  • 233 335

    Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs (simonlermen.substack.com)
  • 515 346

    Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown (blogs.windows.com)
  • 442 481

    Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid (arstechnica.com)
  • 2 70

    Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs (arxiv.org)
  • Trellis AI (YC W24) is hiring deployment lead to accelerate medication access (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 16 72

    PL/0 (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 21 34

    Show HN: Sgai – Goal-driven multi-agent software dev (GOAL.md → working code) (github.com)
  • 614 414

    Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (worksinprogress.co)
  • 15 149

    Racket v9.1 (blog.racket-lang.org)
  • 1 16

    Our Computer Using agent just solved CAPTCHA up to Level 6
  • 136 157

    The Misuses of the University (www.publicbooks.org)
  • 1 18

    The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks (www.popsci.com)
  • 57 182

    GNU Texmacs (www.texmacs.org)
  • 587 694

    New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes (www.marginalia.nu)
  • 32 73

    Topological Naming Problem (wiki.freecad.org)
  • 53 129

    Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin (github.com)
  • 464 522

    US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives (www.reuters.com)
  • 87 79

    Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
  • 2 39

    The History of a Security Hole (www.os2museum.com)
  • 60 54

    Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats (app.teamout.com)
  • 94 123

    Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock (www.clocksimulator.com)
  • 136 44

    What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?
  • 78 124

    Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build (thenewstack.io)
  • 39 60

    Confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters (paultendo.github.io)
  • 258 252

    AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations (www.newscientist.com)
  • 472 759

    Never buy a .online domain (www.0xsid.com)
  • 44 279

    How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996) (web.archive.org)
  • 97 179

    100M-Row Challenge with PHP (github.com)
  • Event Horizon Labs (YC W24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 22 25

    Read Locks Are Not Your Friends (eventual-consistency.vercel.app)
  • 3 20

    Running RISC-V in a VM to test my snaps (blog.popey.com)
  • 2 17

    Vinext – The Next.js API surface, reimplemented on Vite (github.com)
  • 314 533

    Claude Code Remote Control (code.claude.com)
  • 419 820

    Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) (therecord.media)
  • 77 212

    Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play (llmskirmish.com)
  • 13 33

    Michael Pollan punctures the AI bubble (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 1 27

    30 Years of Decompilation and the Unsolved Structuring Problem: Part 1 (2024) (mahaloz.re)
  • 0 7

    Show HN: LookTake – Try anyone's makeup, outfit, or hairstyle on your photo (about.looktake.io)
  • 2 50

    Show HN: Scheme-langserver – Digest incomplete code with static analysis (github.com)
  • 144 254

    LLM=True (blog.codemine.be)
  • 5 55

    Meta problem with URPF our bundle in Boca raton (metafixthis.com)
  • 114 56

    Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo (www.dropbox.com)
  • 56 27

    Show HN: Quantifying opportunity cost with a deliberately "simple" web app (shouldhavebought.com)
  • 7 21

    React just left meta. Here's what that means for developers (sulat.com)
  • 40 67

    Sovereignty in a System Prompt (pop.rdi.sh)
  • 46 164

    Japanese Death Poems (www.secretorum.life)
  • 11 35

    3D-Printed electric motor via multi-modal, multi-material extrusion (www.tandfonline.com)
  • 26 133

    Turing Completeness of GNU find (arxiv.org)
  • 23 77

    Show HN: Context Mode – 315 KB of MCP output becomes 5.4 KB in Claude Code (github.com)
  • 19 44

    Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers to Use AI. They're Enforcing It (www.wsj.com)
  • 24 88

    Cl-kawa: Scheme on Java on Common Lisp (github.com)
  • 74 96

    Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
  • 89 80

    Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years (www.wsetglobal.com)
  • 96 78

    What Happened to Fry's Electronics (dfarq.homeip.net)
  • 134 97

    Code has always been the easy part (laughingmeme.org)
  • 1 10

    Capybara: A Unified Visual Creation Model (github.com)
  • 642 692

    Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge (time.com)
  • 276 680

    Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy (www.thebignewsletter.com)
  • 98 198

    US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards (www.theguardian.com)
  • 49 106

    Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty (matklad.github.io)
  • 3 24

    PageMaker pioneer Paul Brainerd, 1947-2026 (www.geekwire.com)
  • Corgi Labs (YC W23) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
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  • 37 113

    Aesthetics of single threading (ta.fo)
  • 125 343

    Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion (www.inceptionlabs.ai)