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  • 0 9

    xAI Ignores Laws and Profits: Rules for Thee, Not for Me (illegal.solutions)
  • 11 27

    Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work (jacobin.com)
  • 14 22

    Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
  • 44 76

    GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 55 130

    Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 2 28

    Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
  • 23 35

    Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users (openai.com)
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    My phone detects going on a run as "someone snatching my phone and running off" (mastodon.gamedev.place)
  • 43 55

    Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 2 24

    California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% of the Time (www.techdirt.com)
  • 11 31

    Sailors on USS Lincoln outside Iran are exhausted and suffering from poor morale (www.independent.co.uk)
  • 4 22

    Building progressively enhanced forms using Htmx (www.rafa.ee)
  • 34 50

    Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself (www.dezeen.com)
  • 6 44

    Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561) (github.com)
  • 1 19

    Show HN: Silo – S3-compatible object storage, a maintained fork of MinIO (silo.pgsty.com)
  • 22 33

    What Happened to Talenti? (www.nytimes.com)
  • 6 15

    Show HN: Science for Kids (science.ocaho.com)
  • 8 11

    The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved 220 years ago today (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 1 9

    Wyden proposes new taxes on data centers (www.politico.com)
  • 41 93

    A handful of cities have replaced Flock with Axon (www.404media.co)
  • 16 23

    Poles of Inaccessibility in the San Gabriel Mountains (notes.secretsauce.net)
  • 1 35

    Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo (nashvillebanner.com)
  • 11 45

    Microsoft filings suggest "around 70%" of its AI revenue is on OpenAI (www.windowscentral.com)
  • 91 157

    GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 17 62

    Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com)
  • 94 129

    Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
  • 118 41

    Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built (www.cnn.com)
  • 15 64

    The Simple Elegance of the Integrated Timing Belt Loopback Fastener (danielmangum.com)
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  • 192 165

    Almost no skill required to cook a steak (blog.sydorets.com)
  • 195 229

    Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard (electronicmaterialsoffice.com)
  • 72 58

    Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities (www.bbc.com)
  • 35 33

    Taylor Farms Cyclospora outbreak triples in size (efoodalert.com)
  • 20 50

    The 11 Types of Washington, DC, Metro Station Architecture (2018) (ggwash.org)
  • 73 56

    Degrees of Wealth (jaapgrolleman.com)
  • 64 69

    DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices (platform.deepseek.com)
  • 9 45

    Former Federal Prosecutors to Senate: Stop Confirming Election Deniers as Judges (abovethelaw.com)
  • 100 46

    US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money (www.bbc.com)
  • 70 59

    Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 91 64

    I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me (en.andros.dev)
  • 9 20

    Rice Deserves Better Than a Kochbeutel (blog.hofstede.it)
  • 4 23

    Telephones Caught in Between (computer.rip)
  • 8 35

    Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM (geosona.com)
  • 22 14

    Humans Will Never Leave the Solar System (www.erscream.com)
  • 86 32

    Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move? (libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
  • 166 206

    Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
  • 10 34

    Join Me in Jamverse (contraptions.venkateshrao.com)
  • 38 36

    Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism (intergalacticrobots.app)
  • 135 728

    Mario Meets Pareto (www.mayerowitz.io)
  • 31 126

    Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
  • 102 44

    How Americans View Capitalism, Socialism and Free Enterprise (news.gallup.com)
  • 160 196

    On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails (github.com)
  • 85 194

    Pareto Front (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 1 17

    The Cipher Behind Qsyrupwd: Reconstructing IBM i Password Hashes (blog.silentsignal.eu)
  • 106 123

    What I love about Django (buttondown.com)
  • 19 60

    Morioka Shoten (www.takram.com)
  • 177 406

    How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
  • 78 103

    Let's all meet up in the Y2K (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
  • 2 8

    Ryg_rans Is Not a Library (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
  • 179 586

    Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
  • 16 44

    Virginia orders data centers to pay for dedicated new electric infrastructure (www.realtor.com)
  • 44 47

    Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer (github.com)
  • 21 32

    Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more (github.com)
  • 8 5

    Ship Safe, an open source security scanner for coding agents (github.com)
  • 27 65

    Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers (quantego.org)
  • 33 54

    Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom (www.economist.com)
  • 14 25

    Do birds enjoy flying? Analysis of affect after flight in galah (E roseicapilla) (brill.com)
  • 1 21

    New Keyboard: Alicja v2 (marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl)
  • 449 311

    Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo (www.costar.com)
  • 90 72

    LLMs won't break symmetric crypto (www.bfswa.blog)
  • 100 276

    Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (www.greyblake.com)
  • 2 33

    The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1 (www.truegrittexturesupply.com)
  • 3 24

    DHS Wants Protesters' Signal Group Chats (www.wired.com)
  • 53 67

    Something is changing in the unit economics of software (nicolo.xyz)
  • 33 53

    Pushing the limits of RISC-V emulation (shuklaayu.sh)
  • 24 75

    Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates (github.com)
  • 266 132

    I'll be stepping back from leading product for X (twitter.com)
  • 196 399

    The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)
  • 31 53

    OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record (community.openai.com)
  • 44 194

    Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 57 234

    Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (www.primeintellect.ai)
  • 6 22

    Show HN: My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning (github.com)
  • 12 35

    Pam Bondi Implicated in as Much as $5.5M in Insider Trading (cmarmitage.substack.com)
  • 15 7

    We let models localize into 16 languages. How we made it read native. (reelang.com)
  • 446 423

    I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
  • 12 30

    The Job Board Is Lying to You (nanomicon.com)
  • 259 315

    Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (www.wired.com)
  • 55 74

    What happens if you put work into the second dimension? (norbertkozsir.com)
  • 38 97

    Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust (cacm.acm.org)
  • 12 35

    Ban the Throbber (banthethrobber.neocities.org)
  • 242 315

    Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (research.meta.ai)
  • 6 58

    Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog (sagredo.dev)
  • 5 21

    Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems (benchmark.clickhouse.com)
  • 18 23

    Show HN: Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content (sprinklz.io)
  • 43 49

    You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard (2021) (www.wbur.org)
  • 8 62

    See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet (www.bbc.com)
  • 13 82

    Stop sending me your errors (kramkow.ski)
  • 32 82

    Proxmox VE now available for ARM64 (forum.proxmox.com)
  • 298 514

    Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
  • 451 386

    Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (blog.fogus.me)
  • 16 70

    Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 91 160

    Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
  • 114 412

    Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
  • 146 218

    GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 (www.gnu.org)
  • 33 26

    Antigravity 2.0 (antigravity.google)
  • 48 266

    Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com)
  • 0 13

    Your model already knows the answer: how benchmark answers leak into LLMs (elman.ai)
  • 64 19

    I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words (dylan.blog)
  • 130 290

    Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (www.promptarmor.com)
  • 214 132

    I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy (naomibashkansky.com)
  • 19 56

    Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure (securelist.com)
  • 36 25

    AI is a bubble, just like dot-com (www.constraintlab.com)
  • 7 10

    When "no healthy upstream" isn't about the upstream you think (sahansera.dev)
  • 48 65

    Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (www.hyperprobe.co)
  • 2 79

    Jeff Dean Leaving Google (twitter.com)
  • 859 806

    Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
  • 0 10

    What is distributed Key Generation (DKG)? (stoffelmpc.com)
  • 560 887

    Discovery Loop (www.discoveryloop.com)
  • 198 201

    The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You (sightlessscribbles.com)
  • 9 297

    Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet (www.nytimes.com)
  • 1 369

    Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind (www.axios.com)
  • 2 28

    The Law of Jante (2015) (www.theparisreview.org)
  • 93 124

    Western Sahara (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 47 70

    Microsoft Is Quietly Deleting Mentions of 32 GB RAM Recommendation for Win 11 (www.techpowerup.com)
  • 90 215

    The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
  • 127 191

    Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18 (www.cnelecar.com)
  • 53 191

    Qwen Image 3.0 Pro (www.qwencloud.com)
  • 6 15

    Where was Mythos when WordPress fell? (patrik.re)
  • 52 41

    Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up (www.cnbc.com)
  • 14 46

    Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system (www.righto.com)
  • 189 322

    Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search (www.404media.co)
  • 21 58

    International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF) (knock-knock.net)
  • 31 31

    Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices (images.seroundtable.com)
  • 3 9

    Cloudflare OS (os.cloudflare.app)
  • 5 13

    Got a hot date? A secondhand SK Hynix jacket is perfect as bonuses raise cachet (www.koreajoongangdaily.com)
  • 116 122

    Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck (www.writingruxandrabio.com)
  • 19 31

    People who tell you 'AI is changing everything' are lying (www.thenerve.news)
  • 68 149

    Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast (www.science.org)
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  • 20 108

    Painting with Gaussians (yogthos.net)
  • 1 5

    KTX Images Converter for WebGL/GPU and Threejs (ktxconverter.robertborghesi.is)
  • 10 43

    Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy (apoxy.dev)
  • 10 26

    OpenAI settles claims of discrimination against US workers for $3.2M (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 94 93

    Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have (franciscotrindade.me)
  • 43 126

    Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
  • 52 48

    Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else (observer.co.uk)
  • 14 137

    The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
  • 59 58

    TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas (tson.io)
  • 20 105

    Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field (rubinobservatory.org)
  • 12 18

    Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words (www.vocab.top)
  • 92 186

    Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (www.campion.edu.au)
  • 39 92

    Faster Than Ninja (build2.org)
  • 315 641

    Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 14 42

    Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport (www.cnn.com)
  • 118 85

    A Sick People (householderkarl.com)
  • 9 26

    Piece of SpaceX rocket believed to have crashed into the moon (www.reuters.com)
  • 79 39

    Universities would prefer no AI (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)
  • 21 54

    Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack (www.bbc.co.uk)
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  • 6 32

    BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake (github.com)
  • 13 16

    'I want to rejoin the EU Brexit has been a disaster' – Andy Burnham (www.thelondoneconomic.com)
  • 133 146

    Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 13 25

    The journalist taking on the 'tech fascists' of Silicon Valley (www.theguardian.com)
  • 110 251

    TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In (www.vincentschmalbach.com)
  • 120 60

    Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash (www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov)
  • 2 12

    The Fish Who Could Not Imagine Air (www.novaspivack.com)
  • 73 41

    Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia? (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 190 158

    Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024) (divingintheshallowend.com)
  • 60 28

    Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers (www.politico.com)
  • 204 295

    Position: LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
  • 19 106

    Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python (labs.quansight.org)
  • 263 482

    Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (www.wired.com)
  • 160 56

    No Data Centers in My Backyard (jasmi.news)
  • 9 58

    Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
  • 134 182

    Helsinki Hacker News Meetup (calpaterson.com)
  • 4 8

    Bitcoin BIP110 mandatory activation this Saturday, how game theory will unfold? (www.simondixon.com)
  • 79 54

    The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
  • 3 6

    I ran a 1998 artificial life SIM at 560x speed and caught a rare easter egg [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 4 21

    Colorimeter 3nh CR4501 RAL Hack (github.com)
  • 11 51

    The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (1851) (www.thehopkinthomasproject.com)
  • 71 112

    Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy (blog.rust-lang.org)
  • 141 214

    “Gravity is worth asking about” (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 38 84

    Why is it all in the kernel? (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
  • 13 96

    Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents (arxiv.org)
  • 6 19

    Italy putting nearly all major cities on highest heat alert (www.bbc.com)
  • 20 67

    An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3 (github.com)
  • 71 76

    The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized (www.bbc.com)
  • 64 70

    The Golden Age of British Ice Cream (www.vittlesmagazine.com)
  • 112 48

    Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base (www.wardsauto.com)
  • 16 41

    Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s (sonar21.com)
  • 17 53

    Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable (rioterm.com)
  • 218 383

    Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (simonwillison.net)
  • 3 25

    From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017) (www.practicallyefficient.com)
  • 117 87

    After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted (www.asiae.co.kr)
  • 20 56

    Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 38 58

    Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100 (www.godox.com)
  • 45 58

    Flowise is shutting down (flowiseai.com)
  • 96 105

    Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice (arxiv.org)
  • 32 81

    Bugtraq is back (lists.securityfocus.com)
  • 15 17

    Show HN: A little physical breakout clone (brontosaurusrex.github.io)
  • 247 287

    Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (queue.acm.org)