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  • 3 6

    All I wanted was a custom domain email (jacobg.co)
  • 1 8

    A man who listens to whales (blue-continuum.com)
  • 0 14

    Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability (github.com)
  • 20 23

    I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around (island-three.gruberbuilds.workers.dev)
  • 7 16

    Incentives in Academic Research (www.msoos.org)
  • 144 120

    Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage (www.1011now.com)
  • 82 168

    Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back (github.com)
  • 3 13

    Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws (scimigo.com)
  • 5 11

    Declaring a bird extinct: The median wait is 36 years after the last sighting (birdshistory.com)
  • 0 22

    Page Table Memory Consumption (frn.sh)
  • 61 45

    The evolution of effective altruism (www.economist.com)
  • 9 22

    Google Japan shows off conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to fingers (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 3 9

    Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed (fog-bank.org)
  • 2 9

    Second Chances (www.nybooks.com)
  • 4 32

    Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 3 7

    The dot and the Swarm: Benefitting from the bitter lesson (www.oneusefulthing.org)
  • 7 29

    How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 12 47

    Bill Draper has died (www.nytimes.com)
  • 21 55

    Results from the ASIC puzzle (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 38 43

    'Neanderthals Among Us' review (www.historytoday.com)
  • 6 5

    The CISA Alert: Security Beyond Solitary Confinement (jnior.com)
  • 13 26

    Software Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Product Engineering (newsletter.chainofthought.show)
  • 1 11

    Show HN: Dataviz, ranked daily from GitHub, NPM, PyPI and CRAN (awesomedataviz.com)
  • 8 29

    A Minsky machine in ncurses terminfo (seriot.ch)
  • 7 31

    Building a RAG pipeline for semantic code search (blog.jetbrains.com)
  • 20 21

    What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 9 6

    Background Passive FTP with No GUI Control Survives Apple Store DFU (knowledgeisuserdata.medium.com)
  • 3 12

    L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages (blog.plover.com)
  • 56 68

    Blindsight (Watts Novel) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 4 8

    Caffè Corretto (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 63 136

    A map of every lighthouse (mapped.earth)
  • 58 24

    RuneScape's Position on Gen AI (www.reddit.com)
  • 128 199

    Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening (automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu)
  • 7 19

    GVisor is being donated to CNCF (gvisor.dev)
  • 38 76

    Magic Switch: Share Apple Magic keyboard/track-pad/mouse between two Macs (joshua.hu)
  • 41 53

    What's the future for pure math research in the age of AI? (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 11 58

    The Heilbronn Problem (math.tejstead.com)
  • 252 499

    Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s (github.com)
  • 20 147

    Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash (niklasroy.com)
  • 70 100

    Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children (teachyourkids.substack.com)
  • 0 13

    Thought as a Technology (2016) (cognitivemedium.com)
  • 60 127

    Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com)
  • 1 10

    Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How to Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 10 69

    gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer (github.com)
  • 2 12

    Teenager suspected of leading KillSec ransomware group (www.europol.europa.eu)
  • 16 102

    VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next (gamehistory.org)
  • 41 31

    OpenBSD Developers Reject Uutils Coreutils (news.lavx.hu)
  • 30 113

    Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com)
  • 51 28

    Protest against housing crisis in Spain (www.theguardian.com)
  • 100 41

    "Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet (www.404media.co)
  • 178 161

    In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults (energytransition.org)
  • 28 71

    UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 7 67

    Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate) (devforum.play.date)
  • 2 11

    Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable (www.404media.co)
  • 11 12

    I stopped reviewing my agents' code. Here's what I do instead (alexeyindeev.substack.com)
  • 87 147

    We're working on a new RuneScape MMO (play.runescape.com)
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  • 272 264

    Why don't more developers “use the platform”? (nolanlawson.com)
  • 99 46

    Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family (www.aboutamazon.com)
  • 385 154

    Religious scholars met with Anthropic (www.nytimes.com)
  • 389 429

    So you think you could be an electrician? (asteriskmag.com)
  • 164 773

    Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
  • 31 77

    Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers (www.gadgetreview.com)
  • 33 67

    Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (2023) (www.youtube.com)
  • 296 578

    We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
  • 20 95

    Your body of work thinks back at you (photoni.st)
  • 58 21

    Writing code by hand is over, forever (eliocapella.com)
  • 2 40

    The Softmax function and its derivative (eli.thegreenplace.net)
  • 3 267

    OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken' (www.theguardian.com)
  • 18 95

    Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States (medium.com)
  • 18 27

    Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963) (www.computerhistory.org)
  • 170 121

    What Meta got right with Muse (metedata.substack.com)
  • 37 47

    Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016) (dave.recoil.org)
  • 36 47

    Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline (shannadige.com)
  • 21 26

    Haunted by the ghosts of materialism (blog.coredump.cx)
  • 66 100

    Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program (www.twz.com)
  • 52 88

    Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion? (thoreaubasic.com)
  • 182 305

    Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict (cosmowenman.substack.com)
  • 264 473

    Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' (techcrunch.com)
  • 5 37

    Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror (www.tdk.com)
  • 87 443

    The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux (www.phoronix.com)
  • 664 368

    LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents (fortune.com)
  • 16 80

    New York City should carefully measure a new tree (blog.willmeye.rs)
  • 202 330

    Agents don't need memory, they need documentation (liao.gg)
  • 7 58

    How to hack time, with C2PA (www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
  • 106 224

    Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked (ben.stolovitz.com)
  • 6 8

    Show HN: Local pretrained classifiers, GPU not needed (github.com)
  • 5 36

    Gboard Conveyor Belt Version (github.com)
  • 18 15

    Show HN: Factorio but with unreliable components (think-twice.me)
  • 66 123

    Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? (sjg.io)
  • 0 5

    At the Conformation Show: Chasing the Ideal Dog (www.theparisreview.org)
  • 10 66

    RSS Feed Best Practices (2022) (kevincox.ca)
  • 91 57

    Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being (www.telegraph.co.uk)
  • 185 207

    We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com)
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  • 155 231

    Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code (claude.dev)
  • 62 63

    Our AI Midwife (www.astralcodexten.com)
  • 34 62

    Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers (aviationa2z.com)
  • 54 75

    Vx – One Language, Every Chip (vxlang.org)
  • 62 264

    Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager (www.whec.com)
  • 166 115

    Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase (www.neowin.net)
  • 45 112

    Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server (pipod.dev)
  • 12 15

    Delta WiFi Survival Guide (dialta.adorellc.pro)
  • 262 226

    ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf] (www.cambridge.org)
  • 87 351

    Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields (notoriousbfg.com)
  • 5 109

    Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf] (aleph-alpha.com)
  • 9 41

    MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant Today (www.red5.net)
  • 20 6

    EventMaxxer – Automatically apply to events to get you in the right room (github.com)
  • RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 12 59

    Holes (1996-2025) (plato.stanford.edu)
  • 151 158

    City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2 (www.radical-elements.com)
  • 4 44

    Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos (www.nature.com)
  • 60 72

    US killer's sentence quashed because of AI video of victim shown in court (www.bbc.com)
  • 74 194

    FTL: A new operating system for clouds (ftl-os.org)
  • 127 151

    What is going on with ceiling fans (mcmansionhell.com)
  • 30 147

    Woking Electrical Control Room (2016) (www.darbiansphotography.com)
  • 750 449

    I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 24 16

    French Bond Risk Hits Euro-Crisis Levels [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 165 152

    The Escalation of War in Ethiopia (www.africanistperspective.com)
  • 323 650

    Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model (aleph-alpha.com)
  • 36 169

    C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler (github.com)
  • 12 417

    Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works (tej.as)
  • Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Engineers in Canada (Remote) (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 63 76

    Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace (offrun.dev)
  • 85 69

    cp: -r or -R? (movq.de)
  • 94 74

    GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default (github.blog)
  • 52 59

    Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models (www.reddit.com)
  • 79 49

    An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why (www.science.org)
  • 24 67

    Memory-Safe WebP Decoding (halide.cx)
  • 2 5

    Born Twice: Specimen and Record at the Moment of Collection (tjid3.org)
  • 8 44

    U.S. may have overthrown Venezuela due to chat with Grok (www.thedailybeast.com)
  • 0 14

    Programming the ENIAC (2011) (www.columbia.edu)
  • 89 64

    Why should I have to pay more for buses if I don't use a smartphone? (www.theguardian.com)
  • 1 19

    More like SC-Forth-thousand, am I right? (www.leadedsolder.com)
  • 88 49

    Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence (casp.ac)
  • 15 22

    Nobody Is Listening on Port 8125 (yeet.cx)
  • 150 106

    Barcodes are about to go extinct (thehustle.co)
  • 128 218

    Make Tmux the OS (matduggan.com)
  • 4 24

    The characters of plastics (2024) (yarchive.net)
  • 115 186

    An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows (blog.kagi.com)
  • 0 3

    Museum of Time-Based Art (motba.art)
  • 13 7

    What if AI worked at 1.000.000 tokens per seconds? (www.echohive.ai)
  • 0 10

    Change Coupling: Why One-Line Fixes Touch Ten Files (kb.buildingbetterteams.de)
  • 124 507

    Extra Big Ass Intelligence (www.extrabigassintelligence.com)
  • 95 201

    Cloudflare OHTTP gateway (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 4 23

    There's a new sea spider in town (nautil.us)
  • 28 54

    OKI Develops 124-Layer PCB Technology (www.oki.com)
  • 1 16

    From Civic Tech to DOGE: The Role of Tech Movements in the American Admin State (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 136 457

    Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art (www.newgrounds.com)
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  • 73 67

    Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble (gizmodo.com)
  • 27 47

    NTSB Preliminary Report: Prime Air 767 Runway Overrun [pdf] (www.ntsb.gov)
  • 0 7

    Epilepsy and multidimensional time:a perspective inspired by theoretical physics (www.frontiersin.org)
  • 5 9

    Show HN: Google Maps Scraper MCP (gmapscrawl.com)
  • 78 211

    Things that apparently cause cancer (www.breakthroughjournal.org)
  • 3 33

    Where Is the Planet (whereistheplanet.com)
  • 5 53

    Billions of triangles redux (zeux.io)
  • 6 21

    Debian Inference Portal (inference.debian.net)