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  • 0 5

    The End of North America (paulkrugman.substack.com)
  • 0 7

    Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit (explainanalyze.com)
  • 0 13

    Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) (github.com)
  • 0 4

    Curveball (mightyburger.net)
  • 22 22

    California Bans 'Sell by' Labels, Hoping to Cut Food Waste (www.nytimes.com)
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    What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)
  • 11 14

    The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode (tane.dev)
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    Does average person understand that all disc media dies too?
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    A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why (arstechnica.com)
  • 32 33

    How working memory could give rise to consciousness (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 6 37

    Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language (www.freepressjournal.in)
  • 61 161

    Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com)
  • 28 190

    Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (peteris.rocks)
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  • 21 52

    Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2 (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 83 91

    The Vespa at 80 (www.cbc.ca)
  • 11 21

    Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588 (www.irishtimes.com)
  • 1 8

    Unearthing the Reality of "Zombie Energy Systems" in Africa's Energy Transition (www.catf.us)
  • 74 131

    Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 2 30

    The Scanline Sweeper: A Glyph Rendering Algorithm [pdf] (rookandpossum.com)
  • 38 119

    Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained (www.databricks.com)
  • 5 9

    Godot bans "vibe-coded" code contributions (theguptalog.blogspot.com)
  • 3 32

    Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (github.com)
  • 351 614

    The bottleneck might be the air in the room (blog.mikebowler.ca)
  • 116 50

    2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results (www.hyperstitionai.com)
  • 9 24

    Bloomberg Terminal Is Ugly and Clunky–Everyone Still Uses It (oztalking.com)
  • 8 21

    Study reveals what people see when they read lips (news.ku.edu)
  • 33 124

    David Beazley – Programming Courses (www.dabeaz.com)
  • 68 134

    Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era (mirtitles.org)
  • 150 313

    Maybe you should learn something (www.marginalia.nu)
  • 69 150

    Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island (danluu.com)
  • 5 23

    Reverse-engineering Codemasters' BIGF archive format in Ruby (davidslv.uk)
  • 31 131

    Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)
  • 15 42

    Show HN: A statically typed, cross-platform, easily bootstrappable build system (github.com)
  • 3 9

    CueBench for Developers is live: score how well you drive coding agents (app.cuebench.dev)
  • 0 7

    XMM-Newton helps revise distance to outer spiral arms (www.esa.int)
  • 6 12

    You can get Unicode working on DOS (twitter.com)
  • 30 23

    I Could Kill You with a Consumer Drone (www.defenseone.com)
  • 52 127

    MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds (mrbruh.com)
  • 8 26

    Scientists discover guidance system for migratory songbirds (news.exeter.ac.uk)
  • 116 53

    What does privatization of the US Postal Service mean? (phenomenalworld.org)
  • 34 116

    Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)
  • 0 15

    Notes from Building Tinkerfont (mighil.com)
  • 309 219

    Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (katamari64.se)
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    Disputing the Declaration of Independence (www.historytoday.com)
  • 13 33

    We put a Redis server inside our runtime (encore.dev)
  • 26 60

    GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card (gitfut.com)
  • 20 81

    The circuit that lets your brain think and see (www.engineering.columbia.edu)
  • 44 180

    Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV (github.com)
  • 107 245

    Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research (news.exeter.ac.uk)
  • 128 315

    Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (www.wafer.ai)
  • 8 40

    Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation in small language models (chenliu-1996.github.io)
  • 89 314

    Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (mistral.ai)
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  • 5 14

    Elevating Privileges from Firefox to Android Root (rootme.nebusec.ai)
  • 29 121

    The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam (worksinprogress.co)
  • 6 26

    Coding without AI: a revolutionary new way to work (isaaclyman.com)
  • 17 112

    Software, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)
  • 62 145

    New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview (epoch.ai)
  • 71 80

    The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker (nooneshappy.com)
  • 0 7

    Nerdle Review (dles.gg)
  • 22 49

    Goodbye, Forever, Probably (whitep4nth3r.com)
  • 12 137

    Applied Category Theory Course (2018) (math.ucr.edu)
  • 222 198

    Africans Are Turning to Starlink (www.economist.com)
  • 24 32

    AI First: How the Federal Government Is Prioritizing AI over People and Planet (stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org)
  • 0 11

    Show HN: ContextCodeCache in Rust (github.com)
  • 11 7

    Show HN: Updated my landing page with Fable (retro pixel style) (www.tryguildly.com)
  • 3 8

    Show HN: Topics, Not Feeds (blogsreader.com)
  • 113 400

    Espionage Against the European Parliament (citizenlab.ca)
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  • 13 64

    Kagi Changelog (July 2): Heads, tails, and an AI toggle (kagi.com)
  • Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 33 40

    Pet projects are getting too big to pet (www.nnehdi.me)
  • 70 253

    SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine (github.com)
  • 14 21

    Oak: Git for Agents (oak.space)
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    HammerDB v6.0 Response Times, Percentiles and Reservoir Sampling (www.hammerdb.com)
  • 1 16

    ClawdMojis – A Clawd for Every Occasion (github.com)
  • 75 178

    FreeBSD ate my RAM (crocidb.com)
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    Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines (apnews.com)
  • 40 235

    Holes (xkcd.com)
  • 0 7

    Closer to Rude Than Snide: An Interview with Leo Robson (www.theideasletter.org)
  • 87 82

    Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students (www.science.org)
  • 127 220

    I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025) (inpreparation.substack.com)
  • 91 75

    AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money (okaneland.com)
  • 19 58

    Show HN: Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI) (github.com)
  • 480 499

    Costco is the anti-Amazon (phenomenalworld.org)
  • 95 159

    International chess federation sanctions Kramnik (www.fide.com)
  • 142 104

    US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials (www.theguardian.com)
  • 92 292

    60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it (github.com)
  • 156 178

    Memorizing session transcripts isn't useful (12gramsofcarbon.com)
  • 16 121

    The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything (www.filfre.net)
  • 59 90

    My dad helped build North America's oat supply chain: Can it be remade? (ambrook.com)
  • 177 127

    America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report (www.derekthompson.org)
  • 112 266

    Factories are just rooms (interconnected.org)
  • 155 225

    Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP (arxiv.org)
  • 6 7

    Show HN: TaskPeace – a task queue my AI coding agents pull work from over MCP (taskpeace.com)
  • 3 23

    Anatomy of Persistent Memory's 3 Layers: Comparing ContextNest, Mem0 and Zep (promptowl.ai)
  • 105 86

    Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things (superuserdone.com)
  • 172 383

    Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (github.com)
  • 17 84

    Best Simple System for Now (2025) (dannorth.net)
  • 133 52

    It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026) (publicznyprofil.github.io)
  • 28 226

    Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+ (ubuntu.com)
  • 5 51

    Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions (arxiv.org)
  • 63 147

    The Fall and Rise of Screwworm (www.construction-physics.com)
  • 4 14

    Show HN: OM Core – multidimensional models without spreadsheet cell formulas (github.com)
  • 71 90

    Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access (www.theregister.com)
  • 50 62

    Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17 (docs.cloud.google.com)
  • 21 29

    Goodebye Forever Probably: Why I’m leaving developer relations (whitep4nth3r.com)
  • 252 231

    Please stop the AI confidence theater (www.elenaverna.com)
  • 113 181

    PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit (www.ubicloud.com)
  • 109 576

    Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own (www.gamingonlinux.com)
  • 223 242

    Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective (eshumarneedi.com)
  • 23 35

    Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor (www.theverge.com)
  • 68 55

    AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report (www.wsj.com)
  • 17 22

    The Beauty of Tautologies (scottsumner.substack.com)
  • 70 47

    Ed Zitron on CNBC: GenAI Doesn't Work, and Big Tech Is Out of Hypergrowth Ideas (www.youtube.com)
  • 109 61

    Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition (www.swiftsilentdeadly.com)
  • 10 70

    Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL (thombrown.blogspot.com)
  • 104 309

    Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
  • 19 24

    Q&A with Micron's VP and GM of Memory (morethanmoore.substack.com)
  • 391 1307

    Half-Baked Product (weli.dev)
  • 22 163

    Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021) (js13kgames.com)
  • 278 329

    Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says (www.reuters.com)
  • 74 41

    AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence? (www.bbc.com)
  • 82 90

    How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps (iinteractive.com)
  • 17 9

    I Type Holes in Keyboard Covers – This One Survived (medium.com)
  • 180 167

    Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
  • 52 97

    Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel (www.nature.com)
  • 74 264

    The Safari MCP server for web developers (webkit.org)
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    Cowboys, Frontiersmen, Settlers, Townspeople, Cityfolk (huntersoftwareconsulting.com)
  • 4 14

    Wasmer: Fast, secure, lightweight containers based on WebAssembly (wasmer.io)
  • 12 79

    Faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore (manticoresearch.com)
  • 429 534

    Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't (stefan.schueller.net)
  • 92 95

    Is the iPhone birth control? Causal evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 monopoly [pdf] (www.nber.org)
  • 5 24

    Perform DFU Restores on Apple Silicon Macs with Macvdmtool (2021) (www.bkurtz.io)
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  • 5 22

    Crossword Heatmap (arbourtrary.com)
  • 702 564

    CarPlay Is Additive (www.caseyliss.com)
  • 4 25

    Show HN: Gitstock–Transform you GitHub commit history into K-line and animations (gitstock.org)
  • 79 31

    "An AI Job Apocalypse?" – Goldman Sachs Report [pdf] (www.goldmansachs.com)
  • 187 531

    Protect your right to run local AI (righttointelligence.org)
  • 114 152

    Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo (forms.cloud.microsoft)
  • 10 29

    Show HN: I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you (github.com)
  • 13 44

    Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand (dfarq.homeip.net)
  • 134 404

    An American Privacy Emergency (scottaaronson.blog)