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  • 7 12

    Your Website Is Not for You (websmith.studio)
  • 2 24

    Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app (xcancel.com)
  • 0 21

    Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine (lovable.dev)
  • 52 18

    If I could make my own GitHub (matduggan.com)
  • 5 23

    A beginner's guide to Sourcehut (2025) (btxx.org)
  • 28 55

    After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber (techcrunch.com)
  • 5 35

    The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023) (skysedge.com)
  • 5 38

    Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
  • 44 143

    Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables (github.com)
  • 26 67

    Your biggest vulnerability is your shitty compensation (green.spacedino.net)
  • 11 25

    How we run iSCSI over the internet (scsipub.com)
  • 160 132

    Grok 4.3 (docs.x.ai)
  • 19 74

    Auto Polo (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 24 73

    Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h (status.canonical.com)
  • 2 70

    If I could make my own GitHub (matduggan.com)
  • 13 36

    Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100) (nikhiljha.com)
  • 37 49

    It’s Toasted (yadin.com)
  • 10 32

    U.S. Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live with Their Families (www.propublica.org)
  • 74 90

    Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months (www.macrumors.com)
  • 7 63

    Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care? (idlemachines.co.uk)
  • 52 86

    New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome (www.tcd.ie)
  • 8 36

    Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 2 25

    Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve (phys.org)
  • 83 90

    I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers (gregraiz.com)
  • 43 79

    Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows (github.com)
  • 5 33

    The Hearts of the Super Nintendo (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
  • 7 27

    Show HN: What happens when you load a webpage (Interactive) (toolkit.whysonil.dev)
  • 92 107

    OpenWarp (openwarp.zerx.dev)
  • 1 5

    AI Skills as loader spec, not prompts – why the architecture changes everything (internals.laxmena.com)
  • 93 120

    Maladaptive Frugality (herbertlui.net)
  • 48 117

    CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940 (labs.watchtowr.com)
  • 17 35

    $500M for Virtual Biology Initiative, Funded by Zuckerbergs (biohub.org)
  • 0 6

    ClawIRC – IRC Chat for Agents (clawirc.com)
  • 0 18

    The Accidental Ancestor – How Verifying Numbers Shaped Modern Hashing (0xkrt26.github.io)
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  • 0 31

    A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8 (www.alphaxiv.org)
  • 38 92

    Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected (sciencex.com)
  • 3 32

    Compositing and Blending – Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes (nik.digital)
  • 2 29

    SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding (simplex.chat)
  • 193 371

    Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey (www.theargumentmag.com)
  • 75 158

    New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges (wideluxx.com)
  • 21 82

    Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell (pu.dev)
  • 99 88

    Apple reports second quarter results (www.apple.com)
  • 3 14

    Patch Your Kernel NOW: 732byte Python rootkit, cracks all distros since 2017 (github.com)
  • 5 37

    Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel and WHM (techcrunch.com)
  • 128 112

    American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were (www.derekthompson.org)
  • 55 177

    Vercel’s pricing page (theupsellgame.com)
  • 266 641

    Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? (rivian.com)
  • 193 423

    LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions (404privacy.com)
  • 6 103

    The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 99 300

    U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets (www.wsj.com)
  • 11 71

    Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo (dustri.org)
  • 49 211

    Reverse Engineering SimTower (phulin.me)
  • 64 142

    Does Postgres Scale? (www.dbos.dev)
  • 2 18

    The Human Creativity Benchmark – Evaluating Generative AI in Creative Work (contralabs.com)
  • 15 52

    A statement from members of the Toki Pona community (tokipona.net)
  • 31 152

    Full-Text Search with DuckDB (peterdohertys.website)
  • 61 38

    If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over (www.techadvisor.com)
  • 31 45

    How Semiconductors Were Made in America (www.siliconimist.com)
  • 17 64

    Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec (lost-number.bearblog.dev)
  • 415 519

    For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions (www.openwall.com)
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  • 6 36

    Show HN: TRiP – a complete transformer engine in C built from scratch just by me (github.com)
  • 11 19

    Kubereboot/Kured: Kubernetes Reboot Daemon (github.com)
  • 66 290

    I built a Game Boy emulator in F# (nickkossolapov.github.io)
  • 149 208

    10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home (www.gilesthomas.com)
  • 42 68

    I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens (burla-cloud.github.io)
  • 147 406

    Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library (semgrep.dev)
  • 15 74

    Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly Canceled (www.404media.co)
  • 208 617

    How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  • 52 49

    SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin (github.com)
  • 31 94

    A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  • 2 11

    Show HN: FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion that outperforms robot_localization (github.com)
  • 193 488

    Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga (www.democrata.es)
  • 56 217

    Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file (honker.dev)
  • 11 39

    Because It Doesn't Have To (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
  • 68 93

    Japan is building cardboard suicide drones (www.404media.co)
  • 1 11

    The Complete Claude Setup Checklist: 72 Steps from Default to Power User (medium.com)
  • 21 31

    Show HN: I wrote a DOOM clone in my own programming language (spectrelang.org)
  • 134 122

    The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It (www.theverge.com)
  • 659 1192

    Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw" (twitter.com)
  • 144 327

    You can beat the binary search (lemire.me)
  • 81 129

    The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all (markready.io)
  • 136 439

    How an oil refinery works (www.construction-physics.com)
  • 6 23

    The UAE doubles down on Israel and America (www.economist.com)
  • 6 8

    I Built a WebAssembly Runtime in 5 Days (tingouw.com)
  • 31 66

    The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 400 502

    Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs (www.bbc.com)
  • 224 164

    U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP (www.wsj.com)
  • 24 82

    My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock (coverclock.blogspot.com)
  • 79 285

    I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search (bidprowl.com)
  • 154 114

    For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa (twitter.com)
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    Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants (dpa-international.com)
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  • 51 295

    GCC 16 has been released (gcc.gnu.org)
  • 70 33

    How to disable Firefox's new emoji picker (emsh.cat)
  • 13 17

    Copy-fail-destroyer: K8s remediation for CVE-2026-31431 (github.com)
  • 71 59

    1.4 GW: battery storage at former Grohnde nuclear power plant (www.heise.de)
  • 21 140

    A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve? (pomax.github.io)
  • 190 295

    Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE (firethering.com)
  • 36 45

    Why isn't AMD's MI300X competitive? (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
  • 28 139

    DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble (datacenter.fm)
  • 42 84

    "Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++ (derekrodriguez.dev)
  • 224 625

    Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API (github.com)
  • 9 26

    A 25-Year-Fight over a 2-Second Sample (www.plagiarismtoday.com)
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  • 100 84

    Will you heed my warnings now? (scottaaronson.blog)
  • 15 22

    Who Is That Knocking at My (SSH) Door? (sheep.horse)
  • 0 4

    Lessons from Building an OTel Normalizer for GenAI (www.groundcover.com)
  • 3 23

    Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution (xint.io)
  • 49 98

    Monad Tutorials Timeline (wiki.haskell.org)
  • 36 120

    London to Calcutta by Bus (2022) (www.amusingplanet.com)
  • 108 488

    Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (www.noctua.at)
  • 9 70

    Zulip 12.0 Released (blog.zulip.com)
  • 144 189

    Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig (pure-systems.org)
  • 158 191

    Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs (github.com)
  • 28 200

    Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (burrito.bio)
  • 440 656

    The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy (simonwillison.net)
  • 18 77

    Microsoft open sources DOS 1.00 on 45th anniversary (opensource.microsoft.com)
  • 635 1034

    Where the goblins came from (openai.com)
  • 4 13

    Show HN: Qumulator – quantum circuit simulator, 1000 qubits, no GPU (github.com)
  • 2 52

    A grounded conceptual model for ownership types in Rust (cacm.acm.org)
  • 99 200

    Mike: open-source legal AI (mikeoss.com)
  • 18 120

    Creating a Color Palette from an Image (amandahinton.com)
  • 237 87

    Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight (www.flyingmag.com)
  • 82 331

    Craig Venter has died (www.jcvi.org)
  • 24 34

    Claude.ai down again?
  • 120 118

    Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed] (status.claude.com)
  • 29 93

    Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 119 113

    What can we gain by losing infinity? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 17 31

    The Lingua Franca of LaTeX (2019) (increment.com)