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    Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization (mines.fyi)
  • 0 11

    OpenScan (openscan.eu)
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    Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI (twitter.com)
  • 0 4

    Escaping Misconfigured VSCode Extensions (2023) (blog.trailofbits.com)
  • 4 16

    A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh (zknill.io)
  • 69 135

    Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links (arstechnica.com)
  • 68 114

    I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer (dixken.de)
  • 1 30

    How to Review an AUR Package (bertptrs.nl)
  • 5 22

    Testing Super Mario Using a Behavior Model Autonomously (testflows.com)
  • 4 23

    Photopea-Online Photo Editor (www.photopea.com)
  • 27 35

    KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 4 11

    Do you want to build a community where users search or hang? (2021) (www.mooreds.com)
  • 80 52

    Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet (www.neuroai.science)
  • 264 384

    Facebook is cooked (pilk.website)
  • 27 71

    Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders (www.anthropic.com)
  • 107 100

    Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says (electrek.co)
  • 6 70

    Lil' Fun Langs (taylor.town)
  • 6 16

    Tensions between The Pentagon and AI giant Anthropic reach a boiling point (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 266 677

    Keep Android Open (f-droid.org)
  • 0 15

    Lessons learned from `oapi-codegen`'s time in the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund (www.jvt.me)
  • 41 22

    Why Is the American Diet So Deadly? (2025) (www.newyorker.com)
  • Legion Health (YC) Is Hiring Cracked SWEs for Autonomous Mental Health (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 2 35

    Visible Spectra of the Elements (atomic-spectra.net)
  • 164 152

    No Skill. No Taste (blog.kinglycrow.com)
  • 37 52

    The Gay Tech Mafia (www.wired.com)
  • 27 49

    The Popper Principle (theamericanscholar.org)
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    Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court (www.bbc.com)
  • 177 279

    Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking (harpers.org)
  • 94 90

    How to stop being boring (www.joanwestenberg.com)
  • 199 537

    I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs (spencer.wtf)
  • 103 136

    Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI (github.com)
  • 136 577

    Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI (github.com)
  • 71 227

    PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 9 Mothers (YC X26) Is Hiring (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 7 58

    The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021) (japan-forward.com)
  • 75 121

    Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran (www.cnbc.com)
  • 5 23

    I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I've always wanted (blakewatson.com)
  • 98 91

    Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows (medicalxpress.com)
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    Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment (www.ft.com)
  • 9 28

    Fast Sorting, Branchless by Design (00f.net)
  • 8 17

    Ask HN: How to measure how much data one can effectively process or understand?
  • Hyperbound (YC S23, Series A) needs a Engineer with something to prove (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 6 12

    A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest (acoup.blog)
  • 59 118

    Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2 (stripe.dev)
  • 42 65

    Notes on Clarifying Man Pages (jvns.ca)
  • 356 615

    The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec) (taalas.com)
  • 1 30

    SwiftUI Agent Skill: Build Better Views with AI (www.avanderlee.com)
  • 122 180

    Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance (www.caimito.net)
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  • 31 24

    Spell Checking a Year's Worth of Hacker News (fi-le.net)
  • 42 122

    Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse (learn.pimoroni.com)
  • 29 172

    Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer (jimmyhmiller.com)
  • 2 13

    Show HN: Write native binary web apps with TypeScript and Express (github.com)
  • 346 662

    I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure (www.coinerella.com)
  • 2 10

    William Latham – Art and the Computer (1990) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 0 9

    Debugging Kernel Oops (2024) (lfhernandez.com)
  • 4 7

    Show HN: Fostrom, an IoT Cloud Platform built for developers (fostrom.io)
  • 15 63

    Fast KV Compaction via Attention Matching (arxiv.org)
  • 55 129

    Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit (github.com)
  • 166 377

    FreeCAD (www.freecad.org)
  • 77 130

    Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system (www.bbc.com)
  • 226 244

    Defer available in gcc and clang (gustedt.wordpress.com)
  • 87 195

    Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss (www.together.ai)
  • 12 36

    Microsoft's new 10k-year data storage medium: glass (arstechnica.com)
  • 0 22

    A Famous Enigma: On Alexandre Kojève (clereviewofbooks.com)
  • 448 505

    An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward (theshamblog.com)
  • 26 99

    Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel (github.com)
  • 132 307

    MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes (gist.github.com)
  • 7 69

    Lindenmayer.jl: Defining recursive patterns in Julia (cormullion.github.io)
  • 88 113

    An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review (sour.coffee)
  • 2 40

    The Chinese periodic table goes hard [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 18 49

    Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99 (github.com)
  • 208 463

    Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024) (cep.dev)
  • 2 21

    Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer (bernsteinbear.com)
  • 11 27

    Freedom.gov (freedom.gov)
  • 4 13

    Claude just gave me access to another user's legal documents (old.reddit.com)
  • 7 34

    HUD proposes rule that would force noncitizens from public housing (www.washingtonpost.com)
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    Minnesota judge holds federal attorney in civil contempt (www.cnn.com)
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    Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus (www.bbc.com)
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    A beginner's guide to split keyboards (www.justinmklam.com)
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    A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression (www.economist.com)
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    Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications (github.com)
  • 5 38

    Level of Detail (phinze.com)
  • 522 505

    We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science (www.theguardian.com)
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    AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton (www.kasava.dev)
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    US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere (www.reuters.com)
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    University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects" (www.texastribune.org)
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  • 148 152

    Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging (www.hankgreen.com)
  • 66 45

    Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists (aftermath.site)
  • 40 43

    YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users (www.pcmag.com)
  • 42 121

    My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza (technologizer.com)
  • 380 187

    Micropayments as a reality check for news sites (blog.zgp.org)
  • 362 306

    California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves (blog.adafruit.com)
  • 178 134

    Farewell, Rust for web (yieldcode.blog)
  • 163 267

    IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup (www.theregister.com)
  • 95 72

    Productivity gains from AI coding assistants haven’t budged past 10% – survey (shiftmag.dev)
  • 33 112

    Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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    Show HN: Provisioner per-board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up
  • 154 278

    South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection (www.theguardian.com)
  • 49 184

    DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' (www.techdirt.com)
  • 366 672

    AI makes you boring (www.marginalia.nu)
  • 84 37

    Choosing a language based on its syntax? (www.gingerbill.org)
  • 41 248

    A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data (github.com)
  • 2 6

    Show HN: Chaos Studies – attractors and spatial audio (iOS/Mac/Playdate) (fieldbw.com)
  • 14 18

    Why applicant tracking systems are broken by design (www.saj.ad)
  • 19 76

    Hitler's Greenland Obsession (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 118 210

    Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial (www.wsj.com)
  • 3 39

    Arrays in Forth (www.forth.org)
  • 8 8

    AI found 12 of 12 OpenSSL zero-days (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 24 13

    Why Do the Police Exist? (2020) (novaramedia.com)
  • 93 98

    AI made coding more enjoyable (weberdominik.com)
  • 195 618

    Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal (micasa.dev)
  • 9 607

    Gemini 3.1 Pro (deepmind.google)
  • 95 129

    Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022) (borischerny.com)
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    Gemini 3.1 Pro (blog.google)
  • 35 105

    Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024) (planetscale.com)
  • 4 13

    How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013) (arstechnica.com)
  • 49 111

    Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice (www.anthropic.com)
  • 29 38

    Can random experimental choice lead to better theories? (journals.sagepub.com)
  • 16 58

    Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts with Python (crimede-coder.com)
  • 458 302

    America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks (www.governance.fyi)
  • 61 48

    Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?
  • 70 48

    C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime (www.sandordargo.com)
  • 32 50

    Famous Signatures Through History (signatory.app)
  • 112 106

    -fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C (clang.llvm.org)
  • 18 44

    The future belongs to those who can refute AI, not just generate with AI (learningloom.substack.com)
  • 102 35

    Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools (economist.com)
  • 195 339

    DOGE Track (dogetrack.info)
  • 66 43

    UK to force social media to remove abusive pics in 48 hours (www.theregister.com)
  • 156 306

    Pebble Production: February Update (repebble.com)
  • 64 419

    Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)
  • 8 10

    Virgins, Unicorns and Medieval Literature (2017) (www.bowdoin.edu)
  • 22 136

    Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025) (kodiak64.co.uk)
  • 20 20

    Show HN: LatentScore – Type a mood, get procedural/ambient music (open source) (latentscore.com)
  • 84 189

    Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia (makie.org)
  • 54 135

    Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban (oban.pro)
  • 21 76

    ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory (github.com)
  • 62 129

    Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app (github.com)
  • 10 46

    Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell (lilush.link)
  • 86 219

    Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails (royapakzad.substack.com)
  • 58 101

    The Mongol Khans of Medieval France (www.historytoday.com)
  • 41 64

    I made ChatGPT and Google tell I'm a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion (bsky.app)
  • 35 135

    Voith Schneider Propeller (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 45 27

    /Deslop (tahigichigi.substack.com)
  • 50 134

    What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents (georgeguimaraes.com)
  • 44 69

    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office (www.bbc.com)
  • 20 41

    Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole' – how it got that way (phys.org)
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    Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial (www.ft.com)
  • 16 97

    Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010) (singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com)
  • 48 117

    A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts (tempus-word.de)
  • 60 90

    US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted' (www.theguardian.com)
  • 140 134

    Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 23 27

    Stoolap/Node: A Native Node.js Driver That's Surprisingly Fast (stoolap.io)
  • 4 13

    Making the Vortex Mixer (www.asimov.press)
  • 18 78

    Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024) (zyedidia.github.io)
  • 27 81

    Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container (github.com)
  • 178 252

    European Tech Alternatives (eutechmap.com)
  • 9 96

    Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down (old.reddit.com)
  • 1 10

    Brendan Carr defends FCC role in dropped Colbert interview: 'No censorship' (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 22 26

    Show HN: I built a fuse box for microservices (www.openfuse.io)
  • 56 159

    Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript (blackboard.sh)
  • 132 169

    How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe (cepr.org)
  • 88 223

    Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed (static.stepfun.com)
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    Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use (code.claude.com)
  • 2 25

    Show HN: Respectlytics – Open-source, privacy-first mobile analytics (MIT+AGPL) (github.com)
  • 77 201

    15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern (nicolasdickenmann.com)
  • 171 281

    Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan (www.gamingonlinux.com)
  • 49 146

    How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing (thunderseethe.dev)
  • 5 28

    Roads to Rome (2015) (benedikt-gross.de)
  • 15 35

    The Pentagon just threatened to blacklist Anthropic (twitter.com)