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  • 2 11

    AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry (openai.com)
  • 0 9

    The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate (ghostinthedata.info)
  • 1 9

    Seventeen Camels and Where They Can Take You (mathenchant.wordpress.com)
  • 166 186

    Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society (techcrunch.com)
  • 2 15

    TREX: An AI code reviewer that runs your code (www.greptile.com)
  • 8 42

    How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s (browser-use.com)
  • 72 108

    US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks (www.reuters.com)
  • 117 111

    Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them (www.nytimes.com)
  • Trellis AI (YC W24) hiring a product lead to build agents for healthcare access (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 1 18

    Show HN: Deconvolution – a Rust image deconvolution and restoration crate (github.com)
  • 53 100

    Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball (ribbie.tv)
  • 25 64

    Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD (github.com)
  • 19 58

    Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code (github.com)
  • 22 68

    Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone (www.thesignalist.io)
  • 3 9

    Open-source React UI and D-pad focus engine for Meta Ray-Ban Display (glasskit.app)
  • 83 98

    French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation (www.science.org)
  • 177 268

    Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users (discuss.grapheneos.org)
  • 41 59

    Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users) (arstechnica.com)
  • 51 111

    ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker (www.404media.co)
  • 14 31

    The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd (www.statsignificant.com)
  • 47 56

    Why stdx is not on crates.io (kerkour.com)
  • 303 580

    Epic Games announces Lore version control system (lore.org)
  • 98 206

    AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (charitydotwtf.substack.com)
  • 17 96

    Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation (johnowhitaker.github.io)
  • 25 78

    Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload (brevio.pro)
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  • 217 503

    Want your images back? That'll be $5 (www.lutr.dev)
  • 39 122

    MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C (github.com)
  • 12 96

    Image Compression (www.makingsoftware.com)
  • 443 828

    Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff (wpvip.com)
  • 34 124

    Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields (airfields-freeman.com)
  • 108 231

    RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method (www.rfc-editor.org)
  • 37 121

    Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock (github.com)
  • 41 126

    GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 321 614

    GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 113 35

    Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?
  • 39 160

    Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata (cells2pixels.github.io)
  • 328 305

    U.S. science is in chaos (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 38 106

    Map Clustering Is Not My Favorite (blog.greg.technology)
  • 0 5

    Most of the CVE-2026-4020 attackers are the same client (honeylabs.net)
  • 139 420

    Hacker News but for independent blogs (bubbles.town)
  • 49 66

    From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap (stephantul.github.io)
  • 14 46

    Making 'food out of thin air' (2024) (www.noemamag.com)
  • 95 54

    Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025) (www.freerange.city)
  • 132 160

    The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup (claude.com)
  • 27 67

    Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems (arxiv.org)
  • 10 19

    Chameleon Ultra: a flashdrive sized NFC toolkit (github.com)
  • 31 54

    Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML (github.com)
  • 1 22

    Apple plans change to Hide My Email that could make it less effective (techcrunch.com)
  • 80 88

    DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security' (techcrunch.com)
  • 39 155

    Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length (www.theguardian.com)
  • 21 94

    NetNewsWire Status (inessential.com)
  • 7 39

    Working in Glass (www.asimov.press)
  • 237 216

    Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn (runtimewire.com)
  • 12 35

    The Amphibious Villagers of Indonesia (www.economist.com)
  • 0 5

    Demystifying Noise Contrastive Estimation (jxmo.io)
  • 266 330

    Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures (www.dexerto.com)
  • 13 40

    All about the IBM 1130 Computing System (ibm1130.org)
  • 65 95

    Kirkland Roundabouts (kirklandroundabouts.com)
  • 112 209

    Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15 (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 50 109

    A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022) (arstechnica.com)
  • 29 136

    NLnet announces funding for 67 more open-source projects (nlnet.nl)
  • 87 345

    Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time (mll.sh)
  • 2 23

    Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered (arstechnica.com)
  • 10 57

    A Nipkow Disk Mechanical TV Simulator (analogtv.net)
  • 143 132

    The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy (www.techdirt.com)
  • 14 96

    Show HN: cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust (github.com)
  • 32 35

    Total Iran Economic Damage Estimate (www.fdd.org)
  • 0 12

    W.H. Auden and James Schuyler in life and literature (hedgehogreview.com)
  • 535 961

    GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 (discuss.grapheneos.org)
  • 28 65

    AI is potentially a Dunning-Kruger effect amplifier (twitter.com)
  • 18 47

    Show HN: VoiceDraw – Talk system design out loud, the diagrams draw themselves (voicedraw.com)
  • 3 42

    ASM Shader Toy (wegfawefgawefg.github.io)
  • 13 64

    Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS (2024) (words.filippo.io)
  • 14 32

    Databricks Launches LTAP: A Unified OLAP/OLTP Data Architecture (www.databricks.com)
  • 104 186

    I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs (ankursethi.com)
  • 1 9

    Show HN: Azure DevOps TUI Management Style (github.com)
  • 266 440

    U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears (www.timescolonist.com)
  • 323 510

    Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless (arseniyshestakov.com)
  • 37 44

    The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear (www.minid.net)
  • 4 43

    Show HN: Sabela – A Reactive Notebook for Haskell (sabela.datahaskell.com)
  • 2 32

    Show HN: Pen and paper resource development game with an emergent world (www.jameshylands.co.uk)
  • 0 8

    Flip TABLE: storing arbitrary data in iNaturalist (exclav.es)
  • 448 384

    Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? (tim.blog)
  • 2 25

    Cooling at the Speed of Light (cacm.acm.org)
  • 283 247

    GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands (www.tno.nl)
  • 230 525

    Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity (therepublicofletters.substack.com)
  • 273 462

    Stop Using JWTs (gist.github.com)
  • 156 176

    10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module (www.gilesthomas.com)
  • 3 22

    The octopus architecture for AI agents (blog.goodman.dev)
  • 45 70

    SPECS Augmented Reality Glasses (newsroom.snap.com)
  • 156 189

    Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved] (status.claude.com)
  • 4 105

    Formal Methods and the Future of Programming (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 579 625

    Is Meta destroying its engineering organization? (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
  • 26 47

    Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts (securelist.com)
  • 131 219

    'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York (www.fastcompany.com)
  • 223 513

    TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP (mareksuppa.com)
  • 112 100

    After AI takes everything (ursb.me)
  • 147 115

    Never talk to the police (www.campolalaw.com)
  • 20 110

    Making ast.walk 220x Faster (reflex.dev)
  • 38 205

    Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence (qwen.ai)
  • 252 848

    Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness (www.theverge.com)
  • 13 25

    Infineon to open fab in Germany as part of sovereignty push (sg.finance.yahoo.com)
  • 13 39

    GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz (twitter.com)
  • 94 61

    UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 89 291

    But yak shaving is fun (2019) (parksb.github.io)
  • 21 107

    Fable ban was never about a jailbreak? (techcrunch.com)
  • 3 27

    SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO (techcrunch.com)
  • 10 25

    CJEU: Social networks are the 'publishers' of algorithmically-altered feeds (bsky.app)
  • 28 32

    The history of butterfly swimming (www.swimming.org)
  • 3 134

    Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers (tech.slashdot.org)
  • 573 1493

    Running local models is good now (vickiboykis.com)
  • 51 127

    SubQ 1.1 Small (subq.ai)
  • 131 154

    I Fired Google (www.theartofdoingstuff.com)
  • 53 45

    4× RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell on Water, and the One Card That Wouldn't Behave (sabareesh.com)
  • 370 284

    Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers (9to5google.com)
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  • 74 118

    An interview with an Apple emoji designer (shadycharacters.co.uk)
  • 57 67

    Is Fable 5 Back? (isfable5back.com)
  • 33 8

    Show HN: Voice Age Verification (agewarden.ai)
  • 50 93

    'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today (www.theguardian.com)
  • 30 108

    Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator (www.unicorn-engine.org)
  • 42 32

    AskHN:How do you handle skill atrophy from using coding agents?
  • 71 148

    Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland (www.bbc.com)
  • 3 289

    SpaceX Is Buying Cursor (www.bbc.com)
  • 63 186

    The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat (www.rferl.org)
  • 123 720

    Mechanical Watch (2022) (ciechanow.ski)
  • 88 303

    Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 (tck.mn)
  • 6 5

    Electrifying the Cow Path (sebas.fika.bar)
  • 1 10

    Hans Schulz – The father of the VEF Minox lens? (moments-of-now.com)
  • 1618 1095

    SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (www.reuters.com)
  • 353 587

    Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers (www.theregister.com)
  • 1 4

    Conquering Recursion (2019) (vector.org.uk)
  • 13 97

    Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org (trinket.strivemath.org)
  • 115 179

    Commodore Releases Flip Phone (commodore.net)
  • 26 182

    Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields (sighack.com)
  • 83 91

    Making espresso with ultrasound (www.unsw.edu.au)
  • 4 16

    Show HN: SharkClean MCP (github.com)
  • 36 130

    Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 0 11

    The Null Is Always False (Except When It Is True) (2014) (daniellakens.blogspot.com)
  • 10 52

    Chili peppers of the world: cultivars, species, and heat (www.notesfromtheroad.com)
  • 447 908

    I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer (twitter.com)
  • 96 287

    I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID (bobdahacker.com)
  • 4 23

    Honeypot Design (bruceediger.com)
  • 26 153

    Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art (garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com)
  • 169 493

    The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 0 11

    Laser Phase Plate Cryo-Electron Microscopy (biohub.org)
  • 97 194

    I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 75 154

    Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch (runtimewire.com)
  • 496 181

    Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion (www.economist.com)
  • 10 59

    The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis (shonczinner.github.io)
  • 73 81

    Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap (ishmeetbindra.com)
  • 138 121

    Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri (www.narracomm.com)
  • 40 142

    Cohere's First Model for Developers (cohere.com)
  • 8 19

    The ghost domain problem in DNS, and what we're doing about it (ohdear.app)
  • 7 19

    Show HN: Claude Code for Visual Studio (native diff with accept/reject) (github.com)