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  • 1 6

    The Short Leash AI Coding Method for Beating Fable (blog.okturtles.org)
  • 1 5

    A New Catalog of Stellar Rotation Periods for over a Million Stars (aasnova.org)
  • 1 9

    Claude-real-video - any LLM can watch a video (github.com)
  • 0 11

    Modeling the Covid-19 Outbreak with J (2020) (datakinds.github.io)
  • 0 6

    Great Salt Lake Tracker – Grow the Flow (growtheflowutah.org)
  • 2 7

    Wireless LAN SD (www.sdcard.org)
  • 6 44

    EFF letter to FTC on X consent order (2 July 2026) [pdf] (cdn.arstechnica.net)
  • 4 4

    Rust Is Not a Memory-Safe Language (unsoliciteddave.blogspot.com)
  • 9 26

    Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0 (www.lmdb.tech)
  • 76 90

    Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years (www.cnbc.com)
  • 10 37

    Vulkan is now available on NetBSD (github.com)
  • 51 49

    Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer" (github.com)
  • 14 45

    Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower (www.dbos.dev)
  • 15 53

    Immich v3.0.0 Released (github.com)
  • 12 33

    JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM moved to preview (openjdk.org)
  • 17 15

    Klara and the Sun Essay Contest – $1k Prize – AI Use Allowed (willpenman.com)
  • 0 10

    Too many tables are bad for you (www.cybertec-postgresql.com)
  • 51 147

    Exapunks (2018) (www.zachtronics.com)
  • 88 230

    Podman v6.0.0 (blog.podman.io)
  • 77 98

    No LLM Code in Dependencies (joeyh.name)
  • 6 35

    How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout (victoriametrics.com)
  • 106 103

    The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies (moeonmargin.substack.com)
  • 4 13

    Lunatic: An Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly (lunatic.solutions)
  • 22 26

    Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone (theguptalog.blogspot.com)
  • 58 85

    NSA tries to weaken mlkem standardisation (nsa.2026.action.cr.yp.to)
  • 28 28

    Show HN: QUALITY.md – open format/specification, agent skill, and CLI (getquality.md)
  • 9 19

    EU Court of Justice allows criminal prosecution for reposting RT videos (tass.com)
  • 4 13

    What Breaks a Cell's Ribs Can Make It Stronger (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 96 62

    24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012) (people.xiph.org)
  • 128 424

    Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies (clashreport.com)
  • 1 28

    Show HN: zkGolf, competitive optimization of formally verified circuits. (zk.golf)
  • 0 10

    Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats (www.pnas.org)
  • 162 332

    Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory (mathstodon.xyz)
  • 169 393

    PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform (github.com)
  • 57 88

    Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud (manufact.com)
  • 182 389

    The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing (www.thebignewsletter.com)
  • 16 44

    Comparing Fable and 10 other LLMs on refactoring a LangGraph god node (wtf.korridzy.com)
  • 19 80

    Show HN: A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser (freegraphpaper.net)
  • 171 315

    AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
  • 41 94

    Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail (mailmemories.com)
  • 30 66

    Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models (github.com)
  • 48 24

    Orbital Data Centers: Why the Hype Outpaces Reality (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 40 290

    How to ask for help from people who don't know you (pradyuprasad.com)
  • 57 186

    Germany’s Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy (www.rfi.fr)
  • 57 100

    Winamp Skin Museum (skins.webamp.org)
  • 50 110

    Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3 (www.zerofs.net)
  • 39 119

    German button maker searched rivers of American Midwest for valuable shells (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 2 9

    An AI board that pre-registers its bets – bet #1 just graded wrong (github.com)
  • 20 13

    In the age of algorithms and AI, is traditional media democracy's defence? (www.martenscentre.eu)
  • 155 292

    The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain (mathstodon.xyz)
  • 32 42

    Show HN: Claudoro, Pomodoro timer embedded in the Claude Code statusline (github.com)
  • Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring for Our Largest Government Contract (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 52 147

    AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news (www.niemanlab.org)
  • 29 125

    Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train (arxiv.org)
  • 4 6

    Foreign Influence in the Campaign Against American AI (www.btcpolicy.org)
  • 1 8

    Using Aspect-Oriented Programming to Record DRL Agents' Data (blog.ptidej.net)
  • 21 19

    Karp: Anthropic/OpenAI are stealing customer IP and their tokens have low value (twitter.com)
  • 396 333

    This blog is written in en-GB (shkspr.mobi)
  • 134 165

    Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)
  • 135 208

    Vite+ Beta (voidzero.dev)
  • 5 78

    WinPE as a stateless harness for Windows driver testing and fuzzing (bednars.me)
  • 21 21

    Canadian boy, 11, dies of rabies after waking to bat on his face (www.bbc.com)
  • 127 118

    OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’ (www.theguardian.com)
  • 10 23

    Nvidia offers startup customers chance to swap compute power for revenue share (www.cnbc.com)
  • 65 27

    Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity (www.reuters.com)
  • 11 20

    Creating a Personalised Bin Calendar (alexwlchan.net)
  • 251 321

    Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass (docs.google.com)
  • 3 18

    Aerial Photographs (2017) (www.toronto.ca)
  • 226 276

    Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine (www.cnbc.com)
  • 119 121

    My favorite keyboards (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 98 229

    The fall of the theorem economy (davidbessis.substack.com)
  • 105 60

    We Don't Have to Be This Bad at Improving Society (kasperjunge.com)
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  • 39 98

    Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction (www.mixedbread.com)
  • 96 76

    The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower (2025) (intrepidkarthi.com)
  • 12 47

    The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer) (github.com)
  • 91 152

    CursorBench 3.1 (cursor.com)
  • 162 388

    Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot (github.blog)
  • 3 8

    Avo 4 released – 15 months and 2000 commits later (avohq.io)
  • 5 42

    Database Traffic Control (planetscale.com)
  • 46 112

    Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van (thisismodest.com)
  • 10 17

    The vibration of the pager has a sound all its own (www.notyouremergency.com)
  • 630 1521

    Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection (f-droid.org)
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  • 103 160

    Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers (senior-swe-bench.snorkel.ai)
  • 325 516

    Bring back crappy forums (tedium.co)
  • 4 17

    Show HN: Unobin compiles Infrastructure as Code to one binary (cloudboss.co)
  • 4 17

    Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems (builder.aws.com)
  • 16 19

    Fable 5 update: Still willing to cybercrime (alec.is)
  • 4 29

    LibreCAD in the Browser (magik.net)
  • 22 35

    Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1 (stonetools.ghost.io)
  • 87 445

    Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself (makerspet.com)
  • 419 323

    Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise  (news.ubc.ca)
  • 143 145

    Meta caps internal AI token spending (mlq.ai)
  • 5 12

    Show HN: Curvytron 2, I rewrote my browser party game, 10 years later (curvytron2.com)
  • 54 85

    The <usermedia> HTML element (developer.chrome.com)
  • 102 164

    How do wombats poop cubes? (2021) (www.science.org)
  • 247 219

    Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance (blog.google)
  • 96 144

    Healthy but sedentary people show early decline in cellular energy production (news.cuanschutz.edu)
  • 247 279

    Why jet engines aren't made in China (aakash.substack.com)
  • 8 107

    The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf] (www.diva-portal.org)
  • 6 19

    Show HN: Cyclearchive.com – search vintage cycling magazines (cyclearchive.com)
  • 14 104

    Chip Off The Old Block (www.astralcodexten.com)
  • 12 121

    The Underhanded C Contest (underhanded-c.org)
  • 29 47

    US feds are actively hiring "person who decides which models to ban" (www.usajobs.gov)
  • 5 29

    Client-side load balancing at a million requests per second (engineering.zalando.com)
  • 25 37

    Flavor Graveyard (www.benjerry.com)
  • 12 41

    OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase (github.com)
  • 336 495

    ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2 (zcode.z.ai)
  • 17 42

    Japan has 41% of the 100-year companies – secrets of 1,447-year survival (www.j-times.org)
  • 17 17

    Fable open sourced NanoClaw's agent factory. It cost $800 (twitter.com)
  • 66 131

    Qualcomm Linux 2.0 (www.qualcomm.com)
  • 26 91

    The Apple Disk II Controller Card (2021) (www.bigmessowires.com)
  • 13 115

    I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013) (escapepod.org)
  • 77 386

    Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops (www.workerowned.info)
  • Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 30 42

    One KW wind turbine without civil engineering (www.windtowatt.com)
  • 0 28

    Generating Images with a 2025 Android (www.duration.ai)
  • 63 67

    Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business (anatoliybabushka.com)
  • 90 102

    Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access (support.claude.com)
  • 23 23

    Show HN: Z-Jail – A 130 KB Linux sandbox-C99 with 7 defense layers and zero deps (github.com)
  • 403 403

    Fable 5 is Back (twitter.com)
  • 8 31

    Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Scheduler (internals-for-interns.com)
  • 21 70

    Mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019 (www.researchgate.net)
  • 14 276

    ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM (zcode.z.ai)
  • 363 229

    Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries (www.weaverobotics.com)
  • 14 63

    A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly (wasm.chdb.io)
  • 12 81

    Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font (qr.jim.sh)
  • 27 99

    Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom (hanakai.org)
  • 23 61

    Building Gin: Simple over Easy (manualmeida.dev)
  • 2 16

    Chasing the OPNsense RCE: The Story Behind My First CVEs (hackerask.com)
  • 3 4

    Show HN: LIBR tracing with source ledger rows and byte-exact PDF verification (exitprotocols.com)
  • 230 410

    What to learn to be a graphics programmer (blog.demofox.org)
  • 4 22

    My OSCP Pentesting Cheatsheet (hackerask.com)
  • 1 7

    Show HN: AnalystAIPack – 118 runnable agent skills for malware analysis and RE (meltedinhex.com)
  • 61 37

    Are readers generating fiction with AI models? (arxiv.org)
  • 4 18

    Because It Speaks in Words (brianschrader.com)
  • 6 39

    Show HN: Pglayers – PostgreSQL extensions as stackable Docker layers (github.com)
  • 77 67

    Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me (devz.cl)
  • 140 434

    FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder (hydrogenaudio.org)
  • 81 289

    Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses (easyoptouts.com)
  • 14 77

    Fixing a kubelet memory leak in Kubernetes 1.36 (heyoncall.com)
  • 380 144

    Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
  • 264 233

    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
  • 9 25

    Show HN: PMB – local memory for coding agents that shows if it is used (pmbai.dev)
  • 15 50

    Reduce GVisor Cold Starts with GPU Snapshotting (cerebrium.ai)
  • 68 48

    Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine (golemui.com)
  • 56 177

    How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster (probelab.io)
  • 78 170

    Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children (www.reuters.com)
  • 23 24

    The C to Rust migration book (mainmatter.com)
  • 16 54

    Ray Tracer in SQL (github.com)
  • 28 189

    1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis (hypertalking.com)
  • 79 113

    The Anti-Palantir Manifesto (nym.com)
  • 101 328

    Internal Combustion Engine (2021) (ciechanow.ski)
  • 2 81

    SpudCell: The first synthetic cell with a complete cell cycle (biotic.org)
  • 8 45

    This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. and It's Manmade (www.nytimes.com)
  • 290 917

    For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 243 339

    Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402 (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 279 601

    Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 20 76

    Red Programming Language: Static linking support (www.red-lang.org)
  • 120 504

    Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine (box2d.org)
  • 92 88

    Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle (www.thedrive.com)
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  • 12 19

    Show HN: Frond – a frontend runtime for your app's dependency graph (frondruntime.dev)
  • 97 31

    What's wrong with EU age verification? (Nothing) (blog.vrypan.net)
  • 54 54

    Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API
  • 556 702

    Most arguments are about ego, not ideas (wangcong.org)
  • 6 30

    Compiler-Assisted Floating-Point Error Analysis and Profiling with FPChecker (fpanalysistools.org)
  • Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Developer Advocate in SF (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 3 81

    Sony will no longer produce discs for PlayStation games starting in January 2028 (www.eurogamer.net)
  • 7 23

    The DC Bar Is Refusing to Investigate Chief Justice Roberts over a $10M Scandal (cmarmitage.substack.com)
  • 341 549

    Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10% (mynintendonews.com)
  • 762 759

    Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation (blog.playstation.com)
  • 10 40

    A deep dive into SmallVector:push_back (maskray.me)
  • 55 28

    Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client (hackernows.app)
  • 126 129

    Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages (www.reuters.com)
  • 296 267

    A retrospective of my time on the internet (cleberg.net)
  • 197 346

    Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice (www.thefocalpoints.com)
  • 12 82

    Obfuscation: Building the final boss of cryptography (Part I) (vitalik.eth.limo)
  • 75 93

    I don't maintain my homelab, it maintains itself (cleberg.net)
  • 225 564

    Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report (asahilinux.org)
  • 63 136

    Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
  • 63 260

    Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants (phys.org)
  • Dexter (YC F24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in Berlin
  • 6 18

    Register Korea's First PC 'SE-8001' as a National Important Material (www.dongascience.com)
  • 91 121

    Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 391 551

    Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions (www.pcgamer.com)
  • 15 75

    Single header Parser Combinators for C (github.com)
  • 5 13

    Homemade Transistor from Cadmium Sulfide Photocell (2009) (sparkbangbuzz.com)
  • 53 52

    Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses (www.theverge.com)
  • 28 23

    How information theory saved my word game (motplot.app)
  • 3 46

    Claude Fable 5 available globally tomorrow (twitter.com)
  • 95 290

    ArXiv's Next Chapter (blog.arxiv.org)
  • 31 58

    Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
  • 32 85

    Matrix Orthogonalization Improves Memory in Recurrent Models (ayushtambde.com)
  • 135 175

    The first early human eggs from stem cells (www.conception.bio)
  • 48 53

    How employment changes when firms adopt generative AI (ramp.com)
  • 55 167

    Redeploying Fable 5 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 2 14

    Segmenting Robot Video into Actionable Subtasks (macrodata.co)
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  • 82 75

    Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban (www.forbes.com)
  • 1 21

    Structural Correctness (blog.sao.dev)
  • 20 88

    Scaling Laws, Carefully (lilianweng.github.io)
  • 12 47

    From Julia to Rust: a differentiable tensor stack for scientific computing (tensor4all.org)
  • 26 100

    Forestiere Underground Gardens (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 55 205

    Trump made more than $1B on crypto deals, part of 2025 windfall (www.wsj.com)
  • 11 35

    Deriving the SVD (Single Value Decomposition) from scratch (stillthinking.net)
  • 2 66

    Claude Fable 5 export control lifted (twitter.com)
  • 58 296

    Google copybara: moving code between repositories (github.com)
  • 9 58

    Anthropic restoring access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from tomorrow (twitter.com)
  • 678 960

    Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (twitter.com)
  • 2 24

    Loko Scheme 0.13.0 (weinholt.se)