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  • 5 27

    Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE (firethering.com)
  • 10 17

    Why isn't AMD's MI300X competitive? (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
  • 5 20

    DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble (datacenter.fm)
  • 4 30

    "Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++ (derekrodriguez.dev)
  • 47 106

    Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API (github.com)
  • 3 14

    A 25-Year-Fight over a 2-Second Sample (www.plagiarismtoday.com)
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    Will you heed my warnings now? (scottaaronson.blog)
  • 14 21

    Who Is That Knocking at My (SSH) Door? (sheep.horse)
  • 0 4

    Lessons from Building an OTel Normalizer for GenAI (www.groundcover.com)
  • 3 19

    Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution (xint.io)
  • 15 41

    Monad Tutorials Timeline (wiki.haskell.org)
  • 25 67

    London to Calcutta by Bus (2022) (www.amusingplanet.com)
  • 61 280

    Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (www.noctua.at)
  • 6 59

    Zulip 12.0 Released (blog.zulip.com)
  • 96 131

    Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig (pure-systems.org)
  • 107 143

    Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs (github.com)
  • 17 109

    Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (burrito.bio)
  • 150 320

    The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy (simonwillison.net)
  • 15 59

    Microsoft open sources DOS 1.00 on 45th anniversary (opensource.microsoft.com)
  • 371 683

    Where the goblins came from (openai.com)
  • 3 12

    Show HN: Qumulator – quantum circuit simulator, 1000 qubits, no GPU (github.com)
  • 2 39

    A grounded conceptual model for ownership types in Rust (cacm.acm.org)
  • 43 108

    Mike: open-source legal AI (mikeoss.com)
  • 12 81

    Creating a Color Palette from an Image (amandahinton.com)
  • 141 54

    Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight (www.flyingmag.com)
  • 44 245

    Craig Venter has died (www.jcvi.org)
  • 22 29

    Claude.ai down again?
  • 112 116

    Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed] (status.claude.com)
  • 25 66

    Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 46 29

    What can we gain by losing infinity? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 8 22

    The Lingua Franca of LaTeX (2019) (increment.com)
  • 3 53

    DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design (www.eetimes.com)
  • 14 112

    Be Alexandra Elbakyan (twitter.com)
  • 4 20

    8647 Is a Prime Number (www.numberempire.com)
  • 83 95

    Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write (github.com)
  • 56 120

    I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot (lina.sh)
  • 63 85

    I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief." (www.maxtaylor.me)
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  • 93 131

    Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world (prm.ua)
  • 4 13

    Blaster Beam (Musical Instrument) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 51 78

    Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today (tradingeconomics.com)
  • Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 18 84

    Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL (bensimms.moe)
  • 104 61

    California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate (kmph.com)
  • 124 110

    Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results (abc.xyz)
  • 92 81

    Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year (www.foxnews.com)
  • 69 280

    OpenTrafficMap (opentrafficmap.org)
  • 95 332

    Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years (jivx.com)
  • 230 162

    "People who don't use AI will be left behind" (migrainebrain.bearblog.dev)
  • 7 14

    The end of "Just ask Sarah" (simme.dev)
  • 125 232

    Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell (jointhefreeworld.org)
  • 485 1140

    HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing (github.com)
  • 26 97

    Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different (eclecticlight.co)
  • 36 82

    At Protocol: Building the Social Internet (atproto.com)
  • 369 1024

    Copy Fail (copy.fail)
  • 42 130

    Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials (www.promptarmor.com)
  • 35 24

    Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer (www.hfsresearch.com)
  • 42 278

    Laws of UX (lawsofux.com)
  • 2 15

    Why Software Needs a Third Loop [audio] (www.heavybit.com)
  • 120 67

    The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness (deepmind.google)
  • 159 972

    Cursor Camp (neal.fun)
  • 191 300

    Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores (www.theguardian.com)
  • 57 119

    How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 18 35

    Show HN: My retired dad and I made a daily, somewhat difficult, quiz (kviss.eu)
  • 80 255

    Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown (www.chrisbrunet.com)
  • 10 31

    Attempt to repeal Colorado's right-to-repair law fails (www.wired.com)
  • 84 352

    FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies (www.agwa.name)
  • 5 58

    Shrdlu (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 21 52

    Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs (interfaze.ai)
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  • 110 259

    An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce (github.com)
  • 66 86

    Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories (www.theguardian.com)
  • 81 109

    Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns (cowboystatedaily.com)
  • 14 20

    Data center boom strains Texas homebuilders' need for electricians (www.texastribune.org)
  • 67 130

    Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained (read.thecoder.cafe)
  • 599 894

    Online age verification is the hill to die on (x.com)
  • 1 45

    I built ten custom subagents to tame a 500K-line Clojure codebase (www.metabase.com)
  • 170 108

    U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official (www.reuters.com)
  • 214 277

    Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them (www.bbc.com)
  • 215 465

    Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral.ai)
  • 598 1880

    Zed 1.0 (zed.dev)
  • 14 38

    Fidelity Won't Let Fund Holders Donate to Southern Poverty Law Center (www.nytimes.com)
  • 24 38

    Facebook Has a Health Scam Problem (www.nytimes.com)
  • 52 59

    Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team (healthmanagement.org)
  • 367 577

    We need a federation of forges (blog.tangled.org)
  • 11 142

    GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts (github.com)
  • 29 128

    Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing (blog.jeffschomay.com)
  • 31 34

    Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait (www.macrumors.com)
  • 42 90

    Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker (github.com)
  • 0 11

    Read any beehiiv site paywall/distraction free (beehiiv-reader.vercel.app)
  • 297 238

    He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice (www.diabettech.com)
  • 51 104

    Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew (physicsworld.com)
  • Stardex Is Hiring a Founding Customer Success Lead (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 227 402

    HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work' (www.theregister.com)
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  • 71 48

    Two-thirds of babies watch screens – some for eight hours a day (www.thetimes.com)
  • 68 83

    Why Law Is Law-Shaped (lawvm.org)
  • 112 173

    Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things (rip.so)
  • 124 541

    Soft launch of open-source code platform for government (www.nldigitalgovernment.nl)
  • 48 79

    Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
  • 9 36

    Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off platforms (www.theguardian.com)
  • 60 59

    Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag (www.heise.de)
  • 4 69

    Low-Compilation-Cost Register Allocation in LLVM-Based Binary Translation (dl.acm.org)
  • 47 116

    Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage (github.com)
  • 181 152

    Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity (www.newsweek.com)
  • 34 157

    HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle (hardenedbsd.org)
  • 13 86

    Gallium oxide electronics withstand extreme cold (discovery.kaust.edu.sa)
  • 7 147

    200 Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive's Role in Preserving Public Record (www.savethearchive.com)
  • 13 41

    The Downgrading of the American Tech Worker (nymag.com)
  • 20 131

    Withnail's Coat and I (ontherow.substack.com)
  • 3 12

    Building a Hamiltonian Path Puzzle (www.4rknova.com)
  • 60 91

    When the Internet Was a Place (2025) (www.frontporchrepublic.com)
  • 2 6

    Bridging West Papua Through Dispossession (failedarchitecture.com)
  • 353 651

    Bugs Rust won't catch (corrode.dev)
  • 63 82

    We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G" (arstechnica.com)
  • 75 232

    Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU (github.com)
  • 4 39

    Nonlinearity Affects a Pendulum (www.johndcook.com)
  • 9 88

    Apple CMF (Color-Matching Functions) 2026 (www.lttlabs.com)
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  • 10 12

    The biggest insect ever was a "dragonfly" (eartharchives.org)
  • 31 104

    We decreased our LLM costs with Opus (www.mendral.com)
  • 17 29

    Choo Choo Words: Spell words to make train tracks, stop the train from crashing (choochoowords.chyuang.com)
  • 144 249

    Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals (github.com)
  • 111 149

    Claude for Creative Work (www.anthropic.com)
  • 351 495

    How ChatGPT serves ads (www.buchodi.com)