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    How to Optimize MongoDB Query Performance with Indexes (visualeaf.com)
  • 46 97

    All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot (adele.pages.casa)
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    America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy (apnews.com)
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    The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (2012) (www.blu-ray.com)
  • 9 59

    What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 53 47

    I Will Never Use AI to Code (antman-does-software.com)
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    EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push (cyberinsider.com)
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    PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons (portalvr.io)
  • 86 151

    Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (twitter.com)
  • 183 327

    A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (gowers.wordpress.com)
  • 5 54

    The soul of maintaining a new machine (books.worksinprogress.co)
  • 1 12

    A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (gowers.wordpress.com)
  • 81 142

    Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux (techrights.org)
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    Boosting multimodal inference performance by >10% with a single Python dict (modal.com)
  • 112 165

    Mythical Man Month (martinfowler.com)
  • 131 117

    People Hate AI Art (mccue.dev)
  • 33 6

    I built GitHub Store to 12,500 stars in 6 months – I started at 16 (github-store.org)
  • 27 104

    Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso (mceglowski.substack.com)
  • 22 77

    Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible (www.colorado.edu)
  • 37 50

    The Tax of Living in a Low-Trust Society: How Collapsed Trust Costs You (yourbrainonmoney.substack.com)
  • 81 327

    OpenAI’s WebRTC problem (moq.dev)
  • 4 24

    Human typing habits and token counts (pankajpipada.com)
  • 20 85

    Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+? (www.sigops.org)
  • 8 147

    The React2Shell Story (lachlan.nz)
  • 9 48

    When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions (0xkrt26.github.io)
  • 5 14

    RISC-V Server Platform Spec Ratified (github.com)
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    Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD (cadara.app)
  • 53 88

    Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests (www.nhtsa.gov)
  • 4 19

    Hosting a site on a Raspberry Pi (m4rt.nl)
  • 10 59

    Judge rules DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional (apnews.com)
  • 13 13

    If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (ifanyonebuildsit.com)
  • 0 32

    Compound drivers of Antarctic sea ice loss and Southern Ocean destratification (www.science.org)
  • 62 246

    Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (www.wiisfi.com)
  • 3 37

    AWS data center outage hits trading on Fanduel, Coinbase (www.cnbc.com)
  • 173 269

    Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging (www.pcmag.com)
  • 3 8

    Show HN: The independent guide to agent orchestrators (agentmgmt.dev)
  • 1 19

    Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE (github.com)
  • 80 169

    Teaching Claude Why (www.anthropic.com)
  • 147 227

    AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved (www.cnbc.com)
  • 46 58

    All means are fair except solving the problem (yosefk.com)
  • 12 45

    Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs (flox.dev)
  • 38 108

    Looking at the data behind prediction markets (asteriskmag.com)
  • Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring (www.mux.com)
  • 48 168

    Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster (www.404media.co)
  • 3 22

    Roadside Attraction (theoffingmag.com)
  • 58 88

    Discord Incident – Resolved (discordstatus.com)
  • 109 186

    You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)
  • 81 138

    Let’s Encrypt: Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident – Resolved (letsencrypt.status.io)
  • 28 45

    My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem (blog.pavementlink.ch)
  • 40 35

    Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB (www.getadb.com)
  • 4 13

    pg_flight_recorder: Continuously sample PostgreSQL system state via pg_cron (github.com)
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    What we lost the last time code got cheap (www.poppastring.com)
  • 360 1056

    Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 17 86

    Court to DOGE: Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' Is Not Proper Legal Process (www.techdirt.com)
  • 134 340

    AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (www.jefftk.com)
  • 8 18

    Defeating Works by Design's Unpickable Lock [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 72 82

    How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022) (www.stroustrup.com)
  • 136 217

    Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal (www.reuters.com)
  • 5 17

    Hallucinations Undermine Trust; Metacognition Is a Way Forward (arxiv.org)
  • 108 347

    Cartoon Network Flash Games (www.webdesignmuseum.org)
  • 4 15

    Banks are funding climate chaos. You don't have to (www.not-ship.com)
  • 126 648

    David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (www.bbc.com)
  • 89 225

    Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
  • 46 101

    Show HN: Git for AI Agents (github.com)
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    Four stable kernels with partial fixes for Dirty Frag (lwn.net)
  • 58 138

    PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
  • 281 570

    A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
  • 257 208

    Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off (www.theverge.com)
  • 341 676

    Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
  • 24 128

    Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit (garrido.io)
  • 2 62

    UFO Release 1: Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (www.war.gov)
  • 180 195

    Just Use Go (blainsmith.com)
  • 438 299

    US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (www.war.gov)
  • 25 89

    QBE – Compiler Back End (c9x.me)
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    Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
  • 158 455

    An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
  • 30 113

    Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads (www.neowin.net)
  • 74 157

    GeoJSON (geojson.org)
  • 34 37

    Floats Don't Agree with Themselves (docs.merca.earth)
  • 285 364

    Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
  • 234 231

    Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2 (www.nintendo.co.jp)
  • 57 76

    The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs (sdocs.dev)
  • 29 110

    Dithering with CSS (ikesau.co)
  • 72 269

    ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
  • 40 33

    HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker (hantawatch.net)
  • 243 1590

    Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
  • 64 206

    GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)
  • 104 46

    Inventing Cyrillic (2024) (www.historytoday.com)
  • 10 56

    Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation (lwn.net)
  • 58 70

    US will start revoking passports for parents who owe child support (apnews.com)
  • 30 100

    A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)
  • 221 351

    Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
  • 50 99

    Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE (github.com)
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    Evaluating Geekbench 6 (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 9 23

    Agentic Engineering (addyosmani.com)
  • 12 74

    How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device (zknill.io)
  • 13 37

    Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo (github.com)
  • 159 354

    Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)
  • 12 38

    New York state set to ban law enforcement, including ICE, from wearing masks (www.reuters.com)
  • 5 43

    Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos (www.lanl.gov)
  • 545 348

    Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (www.theguardian.com)
  • 129 299

    Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)
  • 2 145

    ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas) (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 6 25

    The Traveling Salesdog Problem (www.wespiser.com)
  • 42 58

    Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love (etke.cc)
  • 57 125

    GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com)
  • 80 96

    Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study (www.cam.ac.uk)
  • 179 139

    The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
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    Hackers deface school login pages after claiming another Instructure hack (techcrunch.com)
  • 76 197

    Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (www.uchicagomedicine.org)