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  • 3 7

    Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself (werd.io)
  • 2 19

    Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
  • 1 10

    Pull request limits are cutting down the noise (github.blog)
  • 7 30

    The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader (blog.omgmog.net)
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  • 47 85

    For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward (techstrong.ai)
  • 35 45

    CAPTCHAs have failed for 20 years (www.browserbase.com)
  • 10 21

    Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser (github.com)
  • 3 33

    I taught a bucket to speak Git (www.tigrisdata.com)
  • 39 46

    PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s (www.greptile.com)
  • 135 292

    John Carmack on the mistakes around Quake that ruined id software (twitter.com)
  • 35 85

    Boffin claims Microsoft's "quantum leap" is invalid due to "basic Python errors" (www.theregister.com)
  • 72 76

    Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights (www.cbc.ca)
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    Edsger Dijkstra's Library (Housed and Archived in Leuven, Belgium) (www.dijkstrascry.com)
  • 69 36

    GTA 6 will cost $80 (www.bbc.com)
  • 18 51

    Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis (svpow.com)
  • 51 131

    OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip (openai.com)
  • 86 73

    Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected) (www.euronews.com)
  • 2 21

    Systems optimization should be part of CI/CD (ucbskyadrs.github.io)
  • 25 204

    RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers (rubyllm.com)
  • 28 120

    Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js (github.com)
  • 16 51

    Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine (astral-os.org)
  • 7 38

    Show HN: Pure Effect – Reproduce production bugs on your laptop without a DB (pure-effect.org)
  • 2 59

    Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market (techcrunch.com)
  • 81 116

    Stealing Is a Skill (ben-mini.com)
  • 53 77

    Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets (freedom.press)
  • 31 165

    A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding (labs.iximiuz.com)
  • 318 210

    Slate EV truck starts at $24,950 (www.slate.auto)
  • 29 27

    Everyone Is Wrong About AI Except Me (jasonpargin.substack.com)
  • 537 463

    Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice (paolino.me)
  • 236 208

    Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck' (fortune.com)
  • 7 10

    Show HN: Make your game multiplayer in one prompt (antics.gg)
  • 2 12

    Cointegration and Long-Horizon Forecasting (2025) (www.philadelphiafed.org)
  • 3 5

    Uptime Monitor Shows green but visitors are getting errors (medium.com)
  • 20 67

    Haystack: Open-Source AI Framework for Production Ready Agents, RAG (haystack.deepset.ai)
  • 60 106

    Minimus container images are now free (images.minimus.io)
  • 110 25

    Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner (www.economist.com)
  • 24 196

    Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model (www.krea.ai)
  • 58 74

    Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions (rworks.dev)
  • 121 165

    A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading (www.sciencenews.org)
  • 3 53

    François Englert (1932 – 2026) (home.cern)
  • 15 113

    Statistics that live in your SQL (kolistat.com)
  • 46 57

    How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots (arstechnica.com)
  • 40 69

    European Commission's Metsola Overrides MEPs to Force Through Chat Control (www.politico.eu)
  • 18 16

    Grok Build 0.1: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 214 671

    We’re making Bunny DNS free (bunny.net)
  • 4 51

    Vector Graphics in Lil (beyondloom.com)
  • 24 23

    GitHub Is Becoming a Giant AI Code Dump (maref.cc)
  • 44 57

    Why eval startups fail (2025) (thomasliao.com)
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  • 5 16

    Show HN: Graphical SQL Builder and Debugger (github.com)
  • Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMEA Engineers Who Can Design (www.ashbyhq.com)
  • 5 37

    Lithp.py (~2008) (fogus.me)
  • 4 74

    Remaking BBC test cards to teach you video processing (www.youtube.com)
  • 81 192

    "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds (gist.github.com)
  • 48 188

    Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine (glyphcss.com)
  • 110 231

    Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter (gitlab.com)
  • 3 9

    Sakana Fugu: a multi-agent system delivered as one model (github.com)
  • 0 12

    LineShine Debuts at No. 1 as the TOP500 Enters a New Global Exascale Era (top500.org)
  • 2 58

    The Teensy Executable Revisited (www.muppetlabs.com)
  • 50 181

    Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents (arxiv.org)
  • 5 27

    Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft (primecrunch.com)
  • 1 40

    DiffusionBench: Towards Holistic Evaluation of Generative Diffusion Transformers (github.com)
  • 18 21

    Congress Clears Housing Bill, Cementing a Rare Bipartisan Feat (www.nytimes.com)
  • 260 268

    The war on terror primed America for autocracy (www.economist.com)
  • 17 46

    Let's say you're hungry for a sandwich (beige.party)
  • 5 20

    How to move a beluga across the world (www.cbc.ca)
  • 25 42

    QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture (qsoe-dev.blogspot.com)
  • 233 308

    Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak (www.wired.com)
  • 19 32

    How to Passive-Aggressively Shame People Who Use LLMs Selfishly (joshmoody.org)
  • 20 32

    Show HN: Y – A malleable coding-agent desktop app built with Electron (github.com)
  • 37 65

    Prairieland Defendants Sentenced Today to Prison Terms Ranging from 30-100 Years (prairielanddefendants.com)
  • 4 42

    Show HN: FastUbu – An Ultrafast Video Archive (fastubu.com)
  • 206 363

    Vulnerability reports are not special anymore (words.filippo.io)
  • 141 214

    A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison (www.thedrive.com)
  • 62 46

    Wolves are reconquering Europe. Can people learn to live with them? (www.science.org)
  • 14 40

    I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs? (natkr.com)
  • 20 98

    Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives (www.monolisa.dev)
  • 52 69

    AI has already killed academia as we know it? (truths-and-loves.ghost.io)
  • 35 163

    Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine (dirtylittlezine.com)
  • 437 386

    Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning (www.lse.ac.uk)
  • 20 115

    Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time (www.patrickdomanico.com)
  • 36 176

    Usbliter8: an A12/A13 SecureROM Exploit (ps.tc)
  • 82 222

    Rhombus Language 1.0 (blog.racket-lang.org)
  • 100 206

    Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite (www.thinkgeoenergy.com)
  • 3 6

    The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 8 24

    Show HN: RLM-based local debugger for AI agent traces (github.com)
  • 8 18

    2004 Huygens probe to Saturn's Titan: Still our only outer solar system lander (spacedaily.com)
  • 195 274

    California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business (www.the3dprintingnerd.com)
  • 5 13

    On the Skin-Furrows of the Hand (1880) [pdf] (galton.org)
  • 65 109

    United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB (unitedwizardsofthecoast.com)
  • 4 40

    ATProto Permissioned Data Proposal Draft (github.com)
  • 98 556

    In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 1 27

    WaPo Loves Data Centers More Than Disclosing Bezos's Financial Interest in Them (washingtonian.com)
  • 3 16

    I automated my job (and it made me a better leader) (github.blog)
  • 12 11

    No AI Co-Authors. A Manifesto (no-ai-coauthors.dev)
  • 2 73

    All train services in Germany halted after train radio communications disruption (english.news.cn)
  • 181 178

    Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem (apnews.com)
  • 46 102

    F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel (github.com)
  • 7 24

    Audit finds San Francisco tax official steered $10M contract to friend (sfstandard.com)
  • 58 187

    Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them (milek7.pl)
  • 21 30

    Scars mark Britain's economy 10 years after Brexit vote (www.reuters.com)
  • 44 360

    Printing Gaussian Splats (www.patreon.com)
  • 9 25

    Show HN: The Cascade Graph – An interactive map of AI and energy constraints (atomprophet.io)
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  • 180 193

    Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity (www.anthropic.com)
  • 152 150

    Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring (hai.stanford.edu)
  • 235 658

    FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model (swipe.futo.tech)
  • 9 13

    A 0.5s periodic hitch in my local screen stream turned out to be macOS AWDL (github.com)
  • 18 20

    The End of Code Review: Coding Agents Supersede Human Inspection (arxiv.org)
  • 276 368

    The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated (dynomight.net)
  • 4 18

    Modal Auto Endpoints: Optimized inference you own (modal.com)
  • 385 647

    Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI (twitter.com)
  • 62 557

    Jerry's Map (www.jerrysmap.com)
  • 110 67

    I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry (blog.zarfhome.com)
  • 9 48

    Performance improvements in libffi (atgreen.github.io)
  • 77 231

    Swift Package Index joins Apple (swiftpackageindex.com)
  • 63 108

    The truth about being a manager (sofiakodar.github.io)
  • 16 194

    75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why (www.thedrive.com)
  • 140 97

    Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app (www.nytimes.com)
  • 180 259

    Claude Tag (www.anthropic.com)
  • 4 19

    Rethinking Modularity in Ruby Applications (noteflakes.com)
  • 131 643

    F3 (github.com)
  • 50 158

    San Diego photologs from the 1970s (www.beautifulpublicdata.com)
  • 5 61

    Pact: Anonymous Credentials for the Web (hacks.mozilla.org)
  • 6 16

    Backblaze Announces Five-Year Multi-Exabyte Agreement with CoreWeave (www.businesswire.com)
  • 363 219

    Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 44 121

    Samsung demonstrates 3D stacked FETs with triple nanosheet channels at 42nm (semiconductor.samsung.com)
  • 33 130

    Five monitors on a Commodore 128 [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 18 50

    Show HN: Treedocs: Documentation that automatically checks for staleness (dandylyons.github.io)
  • 402 313

    AI's Affordability Crisis (blog.dshr.org)
  • 10 47

    Open Source for IBM Z and LinuxONE (community.ibm.com)
  • 13 115

    Lift4D: Harmonizing Single-View 3D Estimation for 4D Reconstruction In-the-Wild (lift4d.github.io)
  • 95 156

    The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring (nega.tv)
  • 74 428

    Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX (tikz.dev)
  • 15 63

    Lossless GIF recompression via exhaustive search (blog.arusekk.pl)
  • 9 48

    80386 Early Start Memory Access (nand2mario.github.io)
  • 37 55

    Show HN: Bun-sqlgen – Type-safe raw SQL for Bun, no ORM (github.com)
  • 132 482

    Mistral OCR 4 (mistral.ai)
  • 264 211

    Elevated error rate across multiple models (status.claude.com)
  • 61 58

    Solving Wordle using information theory (www.binghamton.edu)
  • 494 894

    What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance (pluralistic.net)
  • 31 37

    You already have a Git server (gopeek-lovat.vercel.app)
  • 92 314

    Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists against facial recognition (www.404media.co)
  • 1 75

    CL-BBS: the schemeBBS-like textboard rewritten in Common Lisp (github.com)
  • 8 30

    Matrix and Quaternion FAQ (j3d.org)
  • 203 153

    Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 88 85

    Epidurals are a miracle technology (worksinprogress.co)
  • 281 411

    The Coming Loop (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • 128 106

    Oracle shed about 20k roles globally in the last year (www.bbc.com)
  • 109 479

    Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing (github.com)
  • 4 58

    Show HN: Shumai – open-source Frame.io alternative for creative work (github.com)
  • 86 117

    Apple is going to raise device prices, but when? (daringfireball.net)
  • 44 25

    The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A" (2023) (arxiv.org)
  • 248 494

    Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says (www.reuters.com)
  • 508 405

    Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place (www.stephendiehl.com)
  • 19 86

    Show HN: Neural Particle Automata (selforg-npa.github.io)
  • 0 4

    Scaling Akvorado BMP RIB with Sharding (vincent.bernat.ch)
  • 54 57

    The Traditional Vi (2007) (ex-vi.sourceforge.net)
  • 15 17

    Show HN: Ideate a trading strategy with an Ex-Citadel Trader (sean-but-ai.vercel.app)
  • 147 70

    8086 Segmented Memory was a good idea (owl.billpg.com)
  • 11 11

    Gemini models increasingly stucking in thinking loop
  • 33 45

    Who Does What? Team Topologies for the Agentic Platform (blog.owulveryck.info)
  • 96 88

    AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost (www.lwilko.com)
  • 74 263

    Plotnine (plotnine.org)
  • 5 15

    Meta Invests $900M in CRED, Taps Founder to Head WhatsApp (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 3 8

    EU could open deportation centres outside bloc by next year, says Denmark PM (www.ft.com)
  • 19 49

    EU Member States (and Google) suddenly want to keep cookie banners (noyb.eu)
  • 23 48

    Show HN: A pure ARM64 Assembly web server, now on Linux with CGI for no reason (github.com)
  • 18 37

    Improvements to Std:Format in C++26 (mariusbancila.ro)
  • 86 77

    Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
  • 167 215

    The new HTTP QUERY method explained (kreya.app)
  • 1 11

    How Lume Works: The Retrieval Primitives (deepbluedynamics.com)
  • 171 215

    OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber (openai.com)
  • 11 13

    I built an offline tool to stabilize TV audio because nothing else worked (github.com)
  • 222 314

    Will It Mythos? (swelljoe.com)
  • 120 216

    Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times (cowboystatedaily.com)
  • 60 39

    Package Managers need global hooks (captnemo.in)
  • 383 465

    Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators (www.wsj.com)
  • 88 77

    SpaceX sheds $400B in market value as debut rally hits reverse (www.ft.com)
  • 36 101

    An Introduction to YOLO26 (blog.roboflow.com)
  • 9 55

    Ultralytics YOLO26: Unified Real-Time End-to-End Vision Models (arxiv.org)
  • 204 390

    VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO (arxiv.org)
  • 34 249

    1,700 free online courses from top universities (www.openculture.com)
  • 102 262

    In praise of memcached (jchri.st)
  • 12 97

    Windows NT for GameCube/Wii (github.com)
  • 8 176

    Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake (arstechnica.com)
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