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  • 20 58

    PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU) (www.flatpanelshd.com)
  • 0 11

    Understanding B-Tree Indexes in PostgreSQL: A Comprehensive Guide– Part 1 (medium.com)
  • 8 65

    What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us? (e360.yale.edu)
  • 44 64

    Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?
  • 21 46

    Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents (microsoft.github.io)
  • 99 173

    Grok 4.5 (x.ai)
  • 66 212

    TypeScript 7 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 44 154

    EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules (cyberinsider.com)
  • 12 48

    TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type (philatype.com)
  • 250 353

    GPT‑Live (openai.com)
  • 66 37

    Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease (www.lifesitenews.com)
  • 85 134

    SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence (cognition.com)
  • 1 16

    Catastrophe theory; geniuses and maniacs (2011) (glassbottomblog.blogspot.com)
  • 17 29

    Show HN: Kastor – Terraform-style specs for AI agents (github.com)
  • 31 18

    Answering "why do you want to relocate?" during interviews (relocateme.substack.com)
  • 104 390

    Chatto is now Open Source (www.hmans.dev)
  • 8 20

    Anyone here with an "in" with eBay?
  • 67 303

    Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model (mistral.ai)
  • 85 178

    OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root (nvd.nist.gov)
  • 33 158

    Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 43 96

    Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D (ride.nexttrain.london)
  • 266 127

    It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 129 187

    FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food (www.theguardian.com)
  • 35 33

    "Can We Make the Villain a White Guy?" (hollywoodgadfly.substack.com)
  • 95 68

    Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool (www.bbc.com)
  • 17 133

    Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid (www3.nhk.or.jp)
  • 86 55

    How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner (mydiplomaticlife.com)
  • 209 253

    Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips (www.apple.com)
  • 24 17

    We Got This Wrong. and We Are Fixing It (community.hubspot.com)
  • 59 39

    List of European organizations that have banned personal messaging apps at work (www.birdy.chat)
  • 47 91

    NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta (manualmeida.dev)
  • 114 317

    EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why (www.gamesindustry.biz)
  • 13 108

    Geosql: A Claude/Codex skill for geospatial data (github.com)
  • 186 1113

    Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt (tris.sherliker.net)
  • 47 98

    Ants: Who looks after the injured in a colony? (www.uni-wuerzburg.de)
  • 30 54

    Reform UK leader 'in real trouble' against Count Binface (www.mirror.co.uk)
  • 52 162

    Home made GPU escalated quickly [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 92 62

    The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley (www.ft.com)
  • 23 46

    Automate Excel with Python: From manual grind to one-click workflow (nostarch.com)
  • 178 464

    GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos (noma.security)
  • 0 9

    Out of the Armchair (literaryreview.co.uk)
  • 70 130

    The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" (pluralistic.net)
  • 197 226

    GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday (twitter.com)
  • 63 164

    Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks (www.digipres.org)
  • 212 314

    How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024) (neil.computer)
  • 64 80

    Show HN: Neil the Seal Game (neiltheseal.app)
  • 102 175

    LineageOS Statistics (stats.lineageos.org)
  • 14 43

    Pure-Python symbolic regression that rediscovered Kepler's law from 8 data point (github.com)
  • 7 16

    Show HN: Ghostmeet – Self-hosted meeting transcription and summaries (ghostmeet.sshlab.dev)
  • 165 135

    Is The Economist Always Wrong? (www.economist.com)
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  • 239 221

    We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12 (twitter.com)
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  • 18 139

    Scheme Is a Hoot (gracefulliberty.com)
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  • 1 7

    Rlm-Workflow (try.works)
  • 5 16

    Git Hash Chain Malleability (arxiv.org)
  • 113 328

    Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor (kb.cert.org)
  • 12 49

    Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor (moxiedocs.com)
  • 15 71

    Show HN: Chiptune Radio (chiptune-radio.alephvoid.com)
  • 134 234

    Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years (www.cbc.ca)
  • 41 311

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986) (ocw.mit.edu)
  • 4 18

    A 13th-Century Enumeration Algorithm, Ignored for 700 Years (blog.klipse.tech)
  • 17 39

    Honey, We Bought an AI Story (www.bona-books.com)
  • 58 42

    Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked (github.com)
  • 13 41

    An interactive explorer for Benford's Law across real datasets (vatsalbakshi.com)
  • 16 52

    First Principles of Model Routing (try.works)
  • 224 290

    We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code (odra.dev)
  • 4 15

    FrankenMarkdown (franken-markdown.com)
  • 140 265

    GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup (www.gao.gov)
  • 50 58

    Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021) (www.sfgate.com)
  • 21 102

    IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Training Course (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 73 74

    Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years (www.theguardian.com)
  • 51 85

    Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29 (www.notebookcheck.net)
  • 979 743

    Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera (allaboutcookies.org)
  • 96 60

    Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home (firesphere.dev)
  • 164 377

    Herdr: One terminal to rule them all (herdr.dev)
  • 95 373

    Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI (davit.app)
  • 89 208

    Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop (github.com)
  • 23 37

    Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents (github.com)
  • 4 5

    Decrypting View State Messages (zeroed.tech)
  • 12 111

    AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl (blog.zksecurity.xyz)
  • 27 105

    Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
  • 66 156

    Notes on Software Quality (anthonyhobday.com)
  • 30 68

    Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens (github.com)
  • 59 209

    Astro 7.0 (astro.build)
  • 92 501

    Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro (ariya.io)
  • 36 51

    Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
  • 107 166

    l: A new runtime for k and q (lv1.sh)
  • 8 15

    New Literalism Comes for Museums (jaymollica.com)
  • 0 48

    Computational Balloon Twisting: The Theory of Balloon Polyhedra [pdf] (cccg.ca)
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  • 32 45

    Midtown Manhattan blocks evacuated after beams buckling at construction site (abcnews.com)
  • 62 247

    Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler (pgdog.dev)
  • 328 872

    Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained (fightchatcontrol.eu)
  • 21 34

    Software Bonkers (craigmod.com)
  • 3 15

    Sites that block AI training crawlers mostly ignore the answer time bots (sitedex.dev)
  • 104 605

    30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format (30papers.com)
  • 1 41

    GitHub Freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service (github.com)
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  • 60 127

    Automating AI Away (replicated.live)
  • 111 106

    Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k (govauctions.app)
  • 28 206

    Jim's TrueType QR Code Font (github.com)
  • 9 31

    Reducing Doom Loops with Final Token Preference Optimization (www.liquid.ai)
  • 18 82

    MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released (github.com)
  • 256 324

    Amazon without the knockoffs (knockoff.shopping)
  • 443 342

    China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes (www.bbc.com)
  • 84 125

    Better Auth is joining Vercel (better-auth.com)
  • 13 53

    But Nothing Has Changed on Our Side (cacm.acm.org)
  • 579 645

    Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software (gamefromscratch.com)
  • 4 10

    A System of Systems for the Selection of Optimal Climate Change Decisions (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
  • 258 616

    Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament (www.heise.de)
  • 32 30

    Yes, AI Will Take Your Job (blog.calebjay.com)
  • 14 45

    Almost all coders at Id Software have been fired, following Xbox reset (xcancel.com)
  • 19 94

    Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types (postgres.saneengineer.com)
  • 35 32

    Show HN: Shellular – run Claude Code, Codex, Pi from your phone (shellular.dev)
  • 15 55

    Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
  • 256 161

    The revenge of the philosophy majors (www.nytimes.com)
  • 33 53

    Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
  • 60 39

    Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage (www.newscientist.com)
  • 8 65

    C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences (nekrozqliphort.github.io)
  • 175 166

    Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T (www.the-independent.com)
  • 180 523

    A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 204 799

    StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time (streetcomplete.app)
  • 250 304

    Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal (www.euronews.com)
  • 28 59

    The Making of Claude Code (www.anthropic.com)
  • 338 515

    98% isn't much (whynothugo.nl)
  • 72 91

    The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup (www.wsj.com)
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  • 183 251

    Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors (ciphercue.com)
  • 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX (9mothers.com)
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  • 11 28

    PostgreSQL Benchmark: AWS RDS vs. Self-Hosted on Hetzner (2026) (hostim.dev)
  • 257 317

    Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch) (www.nwo.nl)
  • 2 35

    Not Dark Yet (agoodhardstare.substack.com)
  • 3 8

    IDE with agentic support built using Flutter (lumide.dev)
  • 793 282

    Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again (www.dw.com)
  • 28 117

    Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 68 97

    Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) (whimfiles.com)
  • 3 13

    Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013) (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 58 229

    The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
  • 158 346

    Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID (www.pcmag.com)
  • 98 114

    YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood (www.fastcompany.com)
  • 52 77

    In Praise of Observational Evidence (asteriskmag.com)
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  • 19 63

    Inkfield (www.inkfield.studio)
  • 113 104

    Kernel anti-cheat is an overreach (nooneshappy.com)
  • Lago (YC S21) Is Hiring for Our GTM Team (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 40 138

    Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world (thisbugslife.com)
  • 1 23

    Tiny-C Reference Manual Excerpt (permacomputer.solarpunk.au)
  • 7 12

    Giving a domain a hill to climb: benchmarking as data activation (sparsethought.com)
  • 2 6

    Artificial and Fake Eggs: Dance of Death (www.researchgate.net)
  • 29 24

    Craig Mod built his own Good Reads (craigmod.com)
  • 2 7

    LLMs Are Not a Default Execution Engine (unmeshed.io)
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  • 80 273

    Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 30 9

    Strata – An app that talks me out of dying outdoors (strata.highloop.co)
  • 186 145

    NSA and IETF: Fairness (blog.cr.yp.to)
  • 13 27

    The Music of Destruction (thebaffler.com)
  • 31 26

    Show HN: InstantVideos.org – short documentaries in ~30 seconds (instantvideos.org)
  • 154 377

    How to sequence your own DNA at home (bradleywoolf.com)