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  • 45 52

    Rendezvous with Rama (blog.engora.com)
  • 46 83

    Mark Zuckerberg creating new Applied AI engineering company, reorganises teams (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
  • 6 9

    Teenagers report for duty as Croatia reinstates conscription (www.bbc.com)
  • 6 13

    So you want to write an "app" (2025) (arcanenibble.github.io)
  • 23 82

    Oracle is building yesterday's data centers with tomorrow's debt (www.cnbc.com)
  • 65 61

    Things I've Done with AI (sjer.red)
  • 3 21

    Thomas Selfridge: The First Airplane Fatality (www.amusingplanet.com)
  • 4 18

    The Most Beautiful Freezer in the World: Notes on Baking at the South Pole (www.newyorker.com)
  • 9 28

    Velxio, Arduino Emulator (velxio.dev)
  • 12 23

    Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems (durdraw.org)
  • 59 88

    Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker." (anon-ex-uber.medium.com)
  • 190 214

    Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down (bsky.social)
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  • 48 131

    Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom (arstechnica.com)
  • 11 33

    Rethinking Syntax: Binding by Adjacency (github.com)
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  • 80 59

    Oil is near a price that hurts the economy (www.wsj.com)
  • 2 7

    UK Cryptography Developer claims IP to protect UK National Security was stolen (lists.libre-soc.org)
  • 154 66

    Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US (www.dexerto.com)
  • 24 72

    The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Tariffs. Now It Says It Can't (www.techdirt.com)
  • 37 88

    Show HN: The Mog Programming Language (moglang.org)
  • 8 54

    An opinionated take on how to do important research that matters (nicholas.carlini.com)
  • 1 17

    Show HN: I gave my robot physical memory – it stopped repeating mistakes (github.com)
  • 86 59

    The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19 (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 38 171

    JSLinux Now Supports x86_64 (bellard.org)
  • 335 221

    Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional (cbs12.com)
  • 11 119

    Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists (fixfest.therestartproject.org)
  • 9 9

    Show HN: Zenòdot – Find if a book has been translated into your language (www.zenodot.app)
  • 12 24

    What I Always Wanted to Know about Second Class Values (dl.acm.org)
  • 111 113

    DARPA's new X-76 (www.darpa.mil)
  • 2 21

    A modder runs GTA V in Linux on PS5 (www.notebookcheck.net)
  • 65 66

    Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw (github.com)
  • 20 23

    The 1979 Design Choice Breaking AI Workloads (www.cerebrium.ai)
  • 41 304

    Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse (felixturner.github.io)
  • 1 10

    Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound (www.npr.org)
  • 50 62

    Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents
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  • 10 14

    Lazy JWT Key Rotation in .NET: Redis-Powered JWKS That Just Works (www.aaronpina.com)
  • 108 169

    Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery (liliputing.com)
  • 71 110

    US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows (www.bbc.com)
  • 242 240

    Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft (writings.hongminhee.org)
  • 6 55

    Algebraic topology: knots links and braids (aeb.win.tue.nl)
  • 49 41

    I'm Getting a Whiff of Iain Banks' Culture (probablydance.com)
  • 45 80

    Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020) (www.rs-online.com)
  • 120 134

    Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day (www.twz.com)
  • 16 11

    Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?
  • 44 79

    Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments' (www.theguardian.com)
  • 65 59

    No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026 (lists.iana.org)
  • 253 194

    The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future (europeancorrespondent.com)
  • 60 114

    Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later (old.reddit.com)
  • 160 164

    New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates (twitter.com)
  • 5 18

    The Finger and the Moon (taylor.town)
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  • 29 31

    Global Stocks Sink as Oil Prices Surge (www.nytimes.com)
  • 40 109

    FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing (vivianvoss.net)
  • 56 130

    Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol (tamarack.cloud)
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  • 88 136

    The window chrome of our discontent (pxlnv.com)
  • 56 89

    Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps (techcrunch.com)
  • 7 7

    Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters (www.theregister.com)
  • 88 206

    FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale (engineering.fb.com)
  • 42 85

    Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer (www.appsoftware.com)
  • 33 91

    Segagaga Has Been Translated into English (www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk)
  • 44 87

    We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works (gfrm.in)
  • 16 15

    MiniMax Music 2.5 – AI Music Generation Model for Fast Song Creation (www.minimax-music.com)
  • 2 4

    A stupid little map tool has been more valuable than all the content on my site (mapscaping.com)
  • 46 48

    Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6B valuation (www.cnbc.com)
  • 497 807

    Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) (www.pv-magazine.com)
  • 88 116

    Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL (arxiv.org)
  • 128 396

    Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font (arcade.pirillo.com)
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  • 1 11

    How to win slots and influence people (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 42 101

    I love email (2023) (blog.xoria.org)
  • 171 122

    Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers (www.wired.com)
  • 185 101

    Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed (www.theguardian.com)
  • 3 62

    Grammarly is using our identities without permission (www.theverge.com)
  • 54 33

    Claude built a system in 3 rounds, latent bugs from round 1 exploded in round 3 (github.com)
  • 13 17

    Are You Noticing This? (ryanholiday.net)
  • 99 138

    Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP (github.com)
  • 398 510

    US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf] (cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov)
  • 18 27

    Humanoid robot: The evolution of Kawasaki’s challenge (kawasakirobotics.com)
  • 13 46

    Thermal Grizzly was scammed twice on raw materials worth €40k (videocardz.com)
  • 213 378

    How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier (old.reddit.com)
  • 30 21

    Triumph of the toons: how animation came to rule the box office (economist.com)
  • 151 227

    The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025) (www.smartlab.at)
  • 8 23

    Show HN: Reviving a 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI (quesma.com)
  • 0 7

    Some Lotto Math (leancrew.com)
  • 58 71

    Claude helped select targets for Iran strikes, possibly including school (twitter.com)
  • 2 25

    My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world (www.theguardian.com)
  • 42 41

    Last Statements (walzr.com)
  • 3 22

    Case Study: lynnandtonic.com 2025 refresh (lynnandtonic.com)
  • 22 43

    Tell HN: Tired of Generic Long Form A.I Posts
  • 9 45

    The legendary Mojave Phone Booth is back (2013) (dailydot.com)
  • 960 260

    Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
  • 26 122

    Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021) (offlinemark.com)
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  • 64 254

    PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug (github.com)
  • 5 22

    An Analysis of User-Space Idle State Instructions on x86 Processors (dl.acm.org)
  • 242 228

    Most of the US economy is in a recession (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 7 11

    Detection Is Not Protection: What WAF Detection Mode Does (and Doesn't) (blog.ebbypeter.com)
  • 94 143

    Blacksky AppView (github.com)
  • 6 19

    SQG (SQL to Code Generator) v0.10: Java Streams and List Type Support (sqg.dev)
  • 35 104

    Lil Finder Guy (basicappleguy.com)
  • 22 163

    Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life (github.com)
  • 27 47

    She called 911 for an ambulance. She got a nightmare instead (www.seattletimes.com)
  • 23 25

    71% Desk Workers Say Screen-Related Visual Discomfort Is Reducing Productivity (www.vspvision.com)
  • 216 281

    We should revisit literate programming in the agent era (silly.business)
  • 11 11

    Show HN: WhatsApp Clone – No Setup or Signup (positive-intentions.com)
  • 174 781

    Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents (agent-safehouse.dev)
  • 68 220

    Every single board computer I tested in 2025 (bret.dk)
  • 84 600

    Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc (www.youtube.com)
  • 49 98

    Neural Boids (campedersen.com)
  • 20 120

    Pushing and Pulling: Three reactivity algorithms (jonathan-frere.com)
  • 16 32

    The human.json Protocol (codeberg.org)
  • 15 150

    Z80 Sans – a disassembler in a font (2024) (github.com)
  • 478 679

    Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
  • 100 66

    AI doesn't replace white collar work (www.marble.onl)
  • 111 294

    Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds (github.com)
  • 40 113

    I made a programming language with M&Ms (mufeedvh.com)
  • 8 18

    In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a game-world(2022) (www.cell.com)
  • 63 130

    WSL Manager (github.com)
  • 178 133

    Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package (techcrunch.com)
  • 60 48

    A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way (www.economist.com)
  • 25 34

    "I can't do that, Dave" – No agent yet (systemic.engineering)
  • 55 103

    Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better (skir.build)
  • 40 25

    The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead (lowendbox.com)
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  • 78 380

    LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown (blog.documentfoundation.org)
  • 211 323

    My Homelab Setup (bryananthonio.com)
  • 151 167

    Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus (www.forbes.com)
  • 363 399

    The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines (mlumiste.com)
  • 78 118

    Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 7 65

    If It Quacks Like a Package Manager (nesbitt.io)
  • 248 243

    Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 19 97

    What if the Apple ][ had run on Field-Sequential? (nicole.express)
  • 228 176

    Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat (www.cio.com)
  • 3 16

    Accessing inactive union members through char (www.sandordargo.com)
  • 84 509

    FrameBook (fb.edoo.gg)
  • 49 105

    Beagle, a source code management system that stores AST trees (github.com)
  • 52 304

    LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances (blog.documentfoundation.org)
  • 32 15

    Show HN: AI agents run my one-person company on Gemini's free tier – $0/month
  • 172 242

    Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019) (www.ethanhein.com)
  • 144 94

    The new Apple begins to emerge (parkerortolani.blog)
  • 20 75

    CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior, synced using Git (github.com)
  • 285 150

    How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents (thehustle.co)
  • 11 91

    Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model (www.microsoft.com)
  • 1 5

    Show HN: I logged Gemini's stock predictions for 38 days to study LLM drift (huggingface.co)
  • 25 20

    You Don't Need a Vector Database (vecstore.app)
  • 526 635

    Ask HN: How to be alone?
  • 163 359

    I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine (xcancel.com)
  • 24 116

    Some Words on WigglyPaint (beyondloom.com)
  • 16 75

    Show HN: Eyot, A programming language where the GPU is just another thread (cowleyforniastudios.com)
  • 61 36

    Fatbikes are wreaking havoc in Sydney's wealthy beach suburbs (www.bbc.com)
  • 5 105

    The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp (mssv.net)
  • 248 382

    Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage (arstechnica.com)
  • 16 45

    Strike on girls' school that killed 150 in Iran 'likely' carried out by US (today.lorientlejour.com)
  • 53 120

    The Lobster Programming Language (strlen.com)
  • 18 92

    Sem – Semantic version control. Entity-level diffs on top of Git (github.com)
  • 111 226

    Notes on writing Rust-based Wasm (notes.brooklynzelenka.com)
  • 85 39

    Ask HN: Why there are no actual studies that show AI is more productive?
  • 33 138

    Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (www.rijksmuseum.nl)
  • 72 53

    I'm Not Consulting an LLM (lr0.org)
  • 3 14

    Invoker Commands API (developer.mozilla.org)
  • 3 16

    Llm9p: LLM as a Plan 9 file system (github.com)
  • 3 39

    Digital Iris [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 22 80

    Show HN: Curiosity – DIY 6" Newtonian Reflector Telescope (curiosity-telescope.vercel.app)
  • 24 20

    New Research Reassesses the Value of Agents.md Files for AI Coding (www.infoq.com)
  • 42 119

    SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI (arxiv.org)
  • 3 30

    Revisiting Time: UT1, UTC, NTP and NTS (www.potaroo.net)
  • 34 86

    From RGB to L*a*b* color space (2024) (kaizoudou.com)
  • 27 88

    To the Polypropylene Makers (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 3 8

    Netdata is a seriously impressive server monitoring tool (thenewstack.io)
  • 2 13

    Malcolm Cowley helped build a golden age of American letters (newrepublic.com)
  • 22 53

    Ten years of deploying to production (brandonvin.github.io)
  • 159 481

    How to run Qwen 3.5 locally (unsloth.ai)
  • 123 109

    I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years (www.seangoedecke.com)
  • 300 262

    My “grand vision” for Rust (blog.yoshuawuyts.com)
  • 209 111

    What if the Hormuz closure will not be brief? (www.lloydslist.com)
  • 169 316

    Warn about PyPy being unmaintained (github.com)
  • 70 110

    MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games (github.com)
  • 12 52

    Give Up GitHub – Software Freedom Conservancy (sfconservancy.org)
  • 7 31

    Americans Are Now a Target for ICE (www.wsj.com)
  • 42 48

    Best performance of a C++ singleton (andreasfertig.com)
  • 56 58

    Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran (www.nytimes.com)
  • 100 104

    Will Claude Code ruin our team? (justinjackson.ca)
  • 19 114

    Emacs internals: Deconstructing Lisp_Object in C (Part 2) (thecloudlet.github.io)
  • 45 51

    Iranian Women Graduate in Stem 3× the Rate of U.S. Women and Has 5× More PhDs (hrnews1.substack.com)
  • 54 115

    Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video (pulsefeedback.io)
  • 104 62

    Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi? (www.typebarmagazine.com)
  • 159 341

    Cloud VM benchmarks 2026 (devblog.ecuadors.net)
  • 3 24

    Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats (www.cnn.com)
  • 5 20

    Hidden Overheads (2023) (blog.xoria.org)
  • 43 24

    Ghostmd: Ghostty but for Markdown Notes (mimoo.github.io)
  • 13 61

    Lisp-style C++ template meta programming (github.com)
  • 5 35

    The influence of anxiety: Harold Bloom and literary inheritance (thepointmag.com)
  • 62 85

    How important was the Battle of Hastings? (www.historytoday.com)