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  • 1 29

    Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for Apollo program, dies at 90 (news.mit.edu)
  • 0 8

    Brownian Motion (gregorygundersen.com)
  • 6 38

    Despite what Watson said, Rosalind Franklin understood structure of DNA first (link.springer.com)
  • 1 16

    The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
  • 12 30

    Why Pendulum had to write the most cursed "+" operator in all of Python (dev.arie.bovenberg.net)
  • 35 32

    Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs (gtlds.fyi)
  • 131 139

    The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
  • 5 13

    Show HN: Pointless but mostly-exact clone of Hacker News (news.ycombinator.lol)
  • 5 9

    Fitts's law: why the menu bar is at the top (milos.fyi)
  • 15 52

    Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits (debasishg.github.io)
  • 186 178

    Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI (www.rswebsols.com)
  • 27 25

    ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains (www.icann.org)
  • 21 56

    How machines learned precision (glinscott.github.io)
  • 28 20

    Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools (agent.reviews)
  • 4 12

    AI, Work, and the Next Downturn (watch.wilsoniumite.com)
  • 6 17

    AI Model Groupthink (magicnumbers.io)
  • 3 4

    When the machine boots but the reply disappears (mainbrella.com)
  • 54 118

    Docker Agent (github.com)
  • 1 13

    Claude Haiku 5.5 (platform.claude.com)
  • 0 10

    Fabrice Bellard: The Ghost in the Code (zbruceli.org)
  • 12 21

    Redis in the Wild: Unexpectedly Bumping into Antirez in His Hometown (orazioscicolone.it)
  • 16 16

    No new Ghostty updates since March (github.com)
  • 174 365

    GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone (openai.com)
  • 239 503

    Claude Haiku 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 1 13

    Show HN: Pinrail – A desktop inbox where coding agents wait for your review (github.com)
  • 0 7

    How to Assemble Science (aeon.co)
  • 28 35

    Show HN: A modern low-poly SimCity 2000 clone, built by Opus 5.5 (dator.dev)
  • 7 20

    EmDash uses Clef to moderate the plugin registry (emdashcms.com)
  • 0 9

    Normal Tools – Useful online tools, no nonsense (www.normaltools.com)
  • 21 46

    3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines (news.mit.edu)
  • 26 33

    All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS (aws.amazon.com)
  • 21 29

    Show HN: Durable Actors – OSS Durable Objects with configurable compute (github.com)
  • 83 250

    Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app (bigwords.page)
  • 12 45

    Open source 160 sound visualization experiments (www.kagan.in)
  • 61 14

    A Cop's Case for Flock (worksinprogress.co)
  • 2 9

    Show HN: Trigora – durable execution without history replay (github.com)
  • 8 31

    VECOS – A windows-like operating system for the Vectrex for the UVMC2 [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 15 24

    The Auditor's Opinion (www.cringely.com)
  • 2 45

    Paramount, Warner Bros Formally Merge, Form Giant Mountain of Disastrous Debt (www.techdirt.com)
  • 281 421

    Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees (www.classaction.org)
  • 36 58

    Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware (github.com)
  • 135 187

    Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation (arxiv.org)
  • 14 60

    ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 2 19

    Thank You Indonesia for the Clean Air (thankyouindoforthecleanair.web.app)
  • 30 84

    Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 100 125

    Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy (www.pewresearch.org)
  • 60 33

    AI firm HUMXN offers free plumbing and HVAC service in Minnesota to train robots (humxn.io)
  • 3 13

    GitHub Outage: Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 55 230

    Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages (ascii.rest)
  • 97 177

    Anti-patterns in software blogging (refactoringenglish.com)
  • 95 58

    Why were Victorian elites so effective? (worksinprogress.co)
  • 71 137

    God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser (github.com)
  • 176 223

    Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions – Resolved (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 10 4

    We Built an Alternative to Vector RAG for AI Agent Memory (www.claix.dev)
  • 7 16

    How many GPUs is 1M/B/T tokens? (cedana.com)
  • 25 30

    Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt in Rust and released it as OSS (bsky.app)
  • 13 47

    Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector (github.com)
  • 26 33

    Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous
  • 64 73

    SynthID Detector (synthid.com)
  • 52 17

    Device detection and occupancy monitoring for Airbnb hosts (www.minut.com)
  • 45 97

    AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares (github.com)
  • 2 113

    Google Playground (labs.google)
  • 25 30

    Southern Olive Oil (ambrook.com)
  • 12 11

    Bender: AI's 'Existential' Risk Is 'Fake' [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 59 136

    Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia (artmuseum.artfrompixels.com)
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  • 22 60

    Mallet Head Angle (www.timberframe-tools.com)
  • 2 8

    The keys to the Internet change on October 11. Are you ready? (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 180 94

    Google Playground: Create and play custom games (blog.google)
  • 137 121

    House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k (www.readingchronicle.co.uk)
  • 91 53

    It may soon be possible to create "mirror life" (www.economist.com)
  • 52 82

    Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese (fiveminutesforward.com)
  • 29 108

    Rust's derive often implies inline (yossarian.net)
  • 56 61

    Forever junior: Skills AI can't develop for you (tech.criteo.com)
  • 24 30

    LLMs and Data Poisoning Are Weaponized to Manufacture Consensus (medium.com)
  • 120 97

    PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace (www.pushsquare.com)
  • 283 439

    Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome (developer.chrome.com)
  • 30 86

    Show HN: AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens (astrohelm.app)
  • 108 40

    Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says (www.sci.news)
  • 3 9

    Immich Sequence Diagrams (app.ilograph.com)
  • 53 275

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai (www.nobelprize.org)
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    Show HN: Arcadeia – A self-hosted media library with animated video previews (github.com)
  • 60 359

    A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps (github.com)
  • 87 56

    Reasons to Dislike AI Coding (www.sicpers.info)
  • 2 9

    First Steps into Memory Management in Python (tech.daniellbastos.com.br)
  • 5 47

    Gallery of Processor Cache Effects (2010) (igoro.com)
  • 9 26

    Sharded, encrypted storage between friends over Yggdrasil (github.com)
  • 12 29

    The Legend of the Paper Crane (mazdastories.com)
  • 3 12

    OpenWAM: An Open Framework for Composable World-Action Models (openwam.stanford.edu)
  • 30 25

    Clean room implementation of Adobe products (github.com)
  • 1 10

    Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne's Sweden Scroll (Ca. 1425–35) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 28 61

    Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer (github.com)
  • 20 54

    Show HN: NanoMuse – An open-source AI agent for your phone and computer (github.com)
  • 47 137

    Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services (arstechnica.com)
  • 13 17

    My Homelab Two Years Later, Every Upgrade and What It Cost (www.joekarlsson.com)
  • 49 75

    Calling It Quits on ServerFault (sysadmin1138.net)
  • 84 104

    The art of defusing a second world war bomb (www.theguardian.com)
  • 10 18

    Improving and Stabilizing the Racoon2 IKE Daemon in NetBSD (blog.netbsd.org)
  • 73 143

    What is Codemode (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • 74 78

    Account bans on Reddit (orchidfiles.com)
  • 23 69

    La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay) (nanochess.org)
  • 11 43

    Treg (OpenRouter for Tools) (github.com)
  • 56 38

    Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights (www.theverge.com)
  • 3 11

    Mastering SIMD with Java Vector API (lemire.me)
  • 0 3

    Contamos – a shared multi-currency ledger your AI assistant can read and write (contamos.xyz)
  • 73 177

    ESP32-C3 Adblock (github.com)
  • 27 48

    Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed (www.sregym.com)
  • 78 274

    Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model (strandsagents.com)
  • 83 176

    The cost of lies: A Mineserver story (www.jeremyreimer.com)
  • 8 27

    Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years (phys.org)
  • 126 138

    Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald (www.cbc.ca)
  • 29 97

    South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks (www.reuters.com)
  • 1 10

    OpenAI releases 722 math manuscripts (github.com)
  • 291 339

    AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped) (github.com)
  • 3 16

    UniEvo-VL: Self-Distillation Training for Multimodal Model Self-Improvement (arxiv.org)
  • 12 54

    Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 161 236

    State of Devs 2026 (2026.stateofdevs.com)
  • 75 108

    Integer multiplication below n log n (github.com)
  • 2 42

    OpenAI just dropped 700 preprints of mathematical proofs and counterexamples (github.com)
  • 53 70

    How Fast is Python 3.15? (blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
  • 293 502

    Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
  • 171 230

    Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI (penguin-mail.com)
  • 16 33

    Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
  • 120 64

    Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure (andreklein.net)
  • 47 78

    When random is not actually random enough (ersc.io)
  • 59 102

    LLMs may have helped my RSI (vaughanhilts.me)
  • 43 8

    Ask HN: How would you feel if we nationalized Google?
  • 2 18

    The Query Transformation Pipeline (readyset.io)
  • 0 45

    Mathematical manuscripts and supporting proof artifacts produced by OpenAI (github.com)
  • 1367 1204

    Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
  • 221 381

    Decisions API is in public beta (developers.openai.com)
  • 45 45

    Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?
  • 1 11

    Google EmbeddingGemma 2 (twitter.com)
  • 151 261

    Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model (www.zohaib.cc)
  • 25 30

    Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT use "more disturbing" than known: reporter (www.cbc.ca)
  • 25 119

    OpenSSH 10.6 (www.openssh.org)
  • 13 18

    Meta's Muse AI agent is building a dossier on you (time.com)
  • 40 70

    System-level ad-blocking in Android (kevinboone.me)
  • 479 262

    Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (arstechnica.com)
  • 64 154

    Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill (citizenlab.ca)
  • 120 59

    A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over (dbushell.com)
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  • 45 101

    Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage (www.404media.co)
  • 45 412

    EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model (blog.google)
  • 78 63

    Berthd (berthd.app)
  • 220 290

    What's Earth's dominant species by mass? (signoregalilei.com)
  • 52 115

    Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught (www.erdosproblems.com)
  • 3 15

    Ask a model if code is malicious and it reaches for its morals (www.manifold.security)
  • 388 138

    California closed the Montana license plate loophole (www.thedrive.com)
  • 121 126

    Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason (www.reuters.com)
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  • 66 123

    Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust (github.com)
  • 112 178

    I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity (ajmoon.com)
  • 125 135

    Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight (www.techspot.com)
  • 8 20

    LibreOffice says 'no AI' is now a software feature (techcrunch.com)
  • 38 83

    Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer (peterszentkiralyi.eu)
  • 387 334

    OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI (github.com)
  • 85 122

    The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) (worrydream.com)
  • 1 6

    Prepare for your next tech interview, free (nokku.payanai.com)
  • 48 109

    Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP (arxiv.org)
  • 283 192

    Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand (www.autodidacts.io)
  • 53 145

    Benchmark in Milliseconds (matklad.github.io)
  • 50 33

    Screens Aren't Destroying Young Minds. I Should Know (humanprogress.org)
  • 66 130

    Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol (mihai.dinculescu.dev)
  • 24 84

    Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (www.parseable.com)
  • 15 27

    Show HN: Jotbus – a shared encrypted scratchpad for coding agents (jotbus.com)
  • 25 32

    Oracle Triggered the Implosion of the AI Bubble (medium.com)
  • 5 521

    Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" (mistral.ai)
  • 8 52

    Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl (mastodon.social)
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  • 4 70

    Mistral Large 4 (twitter.com)
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  • 3 11

    Remote Live vs. Pre-Recorded Exercise Training for Chronic Low Back Pain (RCT) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • 46 73

    Mathematics of Geothermal Energy (www.ebsco.com)
  • 1185 1988

    Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
  • 280 386

    Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire (www.techdirt.com)
  • 101 455

    Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
  • 556 590

    JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025 (www.helgilibrary.com)
  • 178 342

    Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study (phys.org)
  • 83 160

    First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months (techcrunch.com)
  • 43 64

    ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 1 7

    Asos users receive pop-up notification apparently sent by hackers (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 136 313

    Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore (gleam.run)
  • 208 569

    Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen (www.nobelprize.org)
  • 1 12

    Fundamentals of circadian entrainment by light (2021) (journals.sagepub.com)
  • 4 6

    DOOM, simulated and rendered inside the Firebird SQL database using WASM (github.com)
  • 15 43

    Protect Your Friends and Loved Ones (ephemeral.cx)
  • 91 80

    Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
  • 54 39

    German Bundeswehr uses AI to screen applicants for right-wing extremism (news.osna.fm)
  • 40 19

    'Pull the plug': protesters resort to direct action against AI firms (www.theguardian.com)
  • 28 72

    The complement of true is true, except when it's false (dryperspective.github.io)
  • 145 122

    We are going to kill "unalive" (www.anildash.com)
  • 32 87

    Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024) (liquidbrain.net)
  • 94 106

    Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales (blue-continuum.com)
  • 6 37

    Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster (www.stelabouras.com)
  • 17 129

    Wood Tape (2004) (gamesbyemail.com)
  • 40 112

    Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing (blog.pipetogrep.org)
  • 64 102

    Open Source as We Know It Is Dead (jross.me)
  • 396 292

    Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language (www.vivienhenz.com)
  • 7 16

    Using Theme park rides and smartphones for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics (iopscience.iop.org)
  • 5 24

    A single license fee of £100k.00 (dbushell.com)
  • 11 63

    Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers (github.com)
  • 119 181

    Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project (github.com)
  • 190 181

    High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days (www.thedrive.com)
  • 2 8

    Unruly Folded Sheets (literaryreview.co.uk)
  • 99 109

    An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot (blog.citp.princeton.edu)
  • 28 60

    Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle (gwern.net)
  • 69 73

    AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment (edworkingpapers.com)