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  • 0 5

    Attention Residuals (github.com)
  • 3 6

    Show HN: An open-source safety net for home hemodialysis (safehemo.com)
  • 17 53

    BYD's bet on EVs is paying off as drivers ditch gas amid rising oil prices (electrek.co)
  • 3 8

    Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service (substack.com)
  • 23 38

    US to deploy additional troops to the Middle East, officials say (www.reuters.com)
  • 1 9

    Randomization in Controlled Experiments (queue.acm.org)
  • 19 19

    Launch HN: Sitefire (YC W26) – Automating actions to improve AI visibility
  • 98 87

    MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System (www.sharpai.org)
  • 84 218

    Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service (deepdelver.substack.com)
  • 9 19

    Chuck Norris dies at age 86 (www.bbc.com)
  • 49 62

    90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective (www.mollywhite.net)
  • 22 46

    Parallel Perl – autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT (perl.petamem.com)
  • 164 228

    Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers' (portlandtribune.com)
  • 42 99

    VisiCalc Reconstructed (zserge.com)
  • 94 196

    Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot (www.forbes.com)
  • 201 107

    Having Kids (2019) (paulgraham.com)
  • 9 70

    The Social Smolnet (ploum.net)
  • 2 27

    Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving (slab.org)
  • 101 180

    The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild (practical.engineering)
  • 114 123

    Java is fast, code might not be (jvogel.me)
  • 333 528

    Chuck Norris has died (variety.com)
  • 19 129

    Germany Mandates ODF for Public Administration (linuxiac.com)
  • 48 99

    Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice (news.northwestern.edu)
  • 159 249

    HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025) (arstechnica.com)
  • 568 691

    I'm OK being left behind, thanks (shkspr.mobi)
  • 226 217

    France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app (www.lemonde.fr)
  • 33 18

    Nvidia's Huang pitches AI tokens on top of salary (www.cnbc.com)
  • 39 99

    Regex Blaster (mdp.github.io)
  • 23 10

    The 12" chef knife, a humble plea (kellykozakandjoshdonald.substack.com)
  • 7 14

    Floating wetlands boost water quality, slash greenhouse emissions (www.science.org)
  • 101 61

    The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 45 115

    Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg (www.khronos.org)
  • 55 96

    Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost (github.com)
  • 27 42

    Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support (blogs.embarcadero.com)
  • 49 145

    Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout (www.entsoe.eu)
  • 40 46

    3M's PFAS exit killed the supply chain for two-phase immersion cooling in DCs (thecoolingreport.com)
  • 52 107

    Just Put It on a Map (progressandpoverty.substack.com)
  • 61 60

    AI (2014) (blog.samaltman.com)
  • 30 108

    The Soul of a Pedicab Driver (www.sheldonbrown.com)
  • 10 142

    Flash-KMeans: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact K-Means (arxiv.org)
  • 35 40

    Essex police pause facial recognition camera use after study finds racial bias (www.theguardian.com)
  • 124 235

    Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL (twitter.com)
  • 48 83

    Too Much Color (www.keithcirkel.co.uk)
  • 8 10

    CAIveat Emptor: What You Tell AI Can and Will Be Used Against You (natlawreview.com)
  • 25 156

    Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg (ayosec.github.io)
  • 25 101

    FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us (fsfe.org)
  • 26 85

    Building a Reader for the Smallest Hard Drive (www.willwhang.dev)
  • 100 190

    FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic (www.fsf.org)
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    Physicists Trace Sun's Magnetic Engine, 200k Kilometers Below Surface (news.njit.edu)
  • 49 58

    A Journey Through Infertility (pudding.cool)
  • 217 642

    ArXiv declares independence from Cornell (www.science.org)
  • 16 28

    Last love: a romance in a care home (2023) (www.theguardian.com)
  • 3 49

    Linux Page Faults, MMAP, and userfaultfd for faster VM boots (www.shayon.dev)
  • 2 18

    Cover Flow with Modern CSS: Scroll-Driven Animations in Action (2025) (addyosmani.com)
  • 80 266

    Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found (trustedsec.com)
  • 72 250

    Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011) (gist.github.com)
  • 406 302

    Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? (omar.yt)
  • 229 386

    Push events into a running session with channels (code.claude.com)
  • 3 6

    I built a clip-on muscle sensor so personal trainers can show clients progress (inara.technology)
  • 57 101

    How many branches can your CPU predict? (lemire.me)
  • 8 85

    The day I discovered type design (www.marksimonson.com)
  • 132 170

    Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm (www.bristol.ac.uk)
  • 17 35

    Minecraft Source Code Is Interesting (www.karanjanthe.me)
  • 5 37

    My Random Forest Was Mostly Learning Time-to-Expiry Noise (illya.sh)
  • 3 51

    Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety (android-developers.googleblog.com)
  • 101 114

    Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and Lidar, still undercuts Tesla (electrek.co)
  • 92 158

    Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase (aicode.swerdlow.dev)
  • 3 26

    The Need for an Independent AI Grid (amppublic.com)
  • 9 14

    The Power of Playtesting in the Classroom (landenlove.com)
  • 164 319

    How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel (www.carryology.com)
  • 53 96

    EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Languages (esolang-bench.vercel.app)
  • 75 137

    Clockwise acquired by Salesforce (www.getclockwise.com)
  • 34 58

    No AI in Node.js Core (github.com)
  • 120 189

    Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf] (static.nhtsa.gov)
  • 173 309

    Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers (github.com)
  • 370 341

    Waymo Safety Impact (waymo.com)
  • 2 29

    Successes and Breakdowns in Everyday Non-Display Smart Glasses Use (arxiv.org)
  • 365 463

    Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode (github.com)
  • 28 122

    From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story (2022) (www.mattkeeter.com)
  • 8 40

    Show HN: I built a P2P network where AI agents publish formally verified science
  • 44 163

    NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute (qlabs.sh)
  • 135 165

    A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta (www.theverge.com)
  • 32 47

    Connecticut and the 1 Kilometer Effect (alearningaday.blog)
  • 36 238

    Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust (www.iroh.computer)
  • 56 454

    Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game (forums.tigsource.com)
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    Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps (arstechnica.com)
  • 1 59

    UK's Ofcom has today fined 4chan £450k for not having age checks in place (www.ofcom.org.uk)
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  • 165 169

    How to defer US taxes (taylor.town)
  • 227 333

    An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD (www.openttd.org)
  • 41 20

    Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff
  • 91 217

    Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster (blog.skypilot.co)
  • 829 439

    4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches (www.bbc.com)
  • 50 116

    I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI (fabian-kuebler.com)
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  • 12 34

    AI Isn't Killing Developers–It's Creating a $10T Maintenance Crisis (rakiabensassi.substack.com)
  • 22 80

    Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment (pluralistic.net)
  • 150 101

    US national debt surges past $39 Trillion (apnews.com)
  • 0 4

    Show HN: PearlOS: we gave AI a talking desktop environment instead of a text box
  • 5 8

    55-Mile Chevy Squarebody Still Wrapped in Factory Plastic Sells for $100K (www.thedrive.com)
  • 1 30

    Monuses and Heaps (doisinkidney.com)
  • 108 132

    World Happiness Report 2026 (www.worldhappiness.report)
  • 27 80

    Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities
  • 0 20

    A survey on LLMs for spreadsheet intelligence (orbilu.uni.lu)
  • 37 125

    Prompt Injecting Contributing.md (glama.ai)
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  • 55 75

    Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 24 58

    Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code
  • 173 519

    Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB (github.com)
  • 55 59

    What if Python was natively distributable? (medium.com)
  • 35 96

    Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence (ramtrack.eu)
  • 112 104

    Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields (www.theguardian.com)
  • 12 65

    Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API (github.com)
  • 199 371

    macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal (gist.github.com)
  • 2 49

    A Preview of Coalton 0.2 (coalton-lang.github.io)
  • 107 90

    Store birth date in systemd for age verification (github.com)
  • 22 114

    The Shape of Inequalities (www.andreinc.net)
  • 77 62

    WFH is becoming a benefit again
  • 0 22

    Gluon: Explicit Performance (www.lei.chat)
  • 11 79

    Consensus Board Game (matklad.github.io)
  • 2 7

    Show HN: Budibase Agents Beta – model-agnostic AI agents for internal workflows (budibase.com)
  • 63 214

    OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier (undeadly.org)
  • 40 74

    The next fight over the use of facial recognition could be in the supermarkets (www.politico.com)
  • 15 37

    The RAM stick is dying, and the replacement is something most have never seen (www.xda-developers.com)
  • 870 1427

    Astral to Join OpenAI (astral.sh)
  • 6 160

    OpenAI to Acquire Astral (openai.com)
  • 152 259

    Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019) (consequence.net)
  • 1 123

    How many branches can your CPU predict? (lemire.me)
  • 3 16

    The Operator That Dethroned a King: Python's Walrus Operator Story (techlife.blog)
  • 2 14

    Ask HN: AWS account restricted 18h despite remediation (Case 177385077300217)
  • 3 385

    Afroman Wins Civil Trial over Use of Police Raid Footage in His Music Videos (www.nytimes.com)
  • 39 52

    The strait of Hormuz blockade will strangle US defense industry (www.theguardian.com)
  • 432 312

    Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence (www.reuters.com)
  • 17 89

    Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata (hanseungwook.github.io)
  • 594 411

    Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland (bsky.app)
  • 325 563

    “Your frustration is the product” (daringfireball.net)
  • 704 1202

    Afroman found not liable in defamation case (nypost.com)
  • 15 33

    Twelve-Tone Composition (www.johndcook.com)
  • 156 194

    2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews (blog.icml.cc)
  • 0 15

    The Serial Safety Net: Efficient Concurrency Control on Modern Hardware (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
  • 54 84

    Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf] (ir.cwi.nl)
  • 22 112

    Translate Garry Tan's LinkedIn-speak to plain English (github.com)
  • 52 125

    Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80 (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 13 66

    Why Cloudflare rule order matters? (www.brzozowski.io)
  • 30 26

    Ask HN: What do you look for in your first 10 hires?
  • 13 37

    Show HN: Pano, a bookmarking tool built around shareable shelves (www.panoit.com)
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  • 185 197

    What 81,000 people want from AI (www.anthropic.com)
  • 2 12

    David Altrath Photography Diary (davidaltrath.com)
  • 83 326

    Conway's Game of Life, in real life (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 56 86

    We Have Learned Nothing (colossus.com)
  • 36 53

    Show HN: Browser grand strategy game for hundreds of players on huge maps (borderhold.io)
  • 155 256

    Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149 (cyberinsider.com)
  • 329 624

    A sufficiently detailed spec is code (haskellforall.com)
  • 105 169

    LotusNotes (computer.rip)
  • 91 297

    Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code (rjcorwin.github.io)
  • 0 6

    Show HN: ATO – a GUI to see and fix what your LLM agents configured (github.com)
  • 38 83

    Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 0 12

    Shooting-Free Days Decline in Major U.S. Cities (www.publichealth.columbia.edu)
  • 194 147

    Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?
  • 104 139

    RX – a new random-access JSON alternative (github.com)
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  • 32 166

    Autoresearch for SAT Solvers (github.com)
  • 10 39

    An x86-64 back end for raven-uxn (www.mattkeeter.com)
  • 81 248

    Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training (github.com)
  • 981 798

    Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents (www.pew.org)
  • 1 6

    The TOMY Spinjas (medium.com)