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  • 0 3

    Programmable Probabilistic Computer with 1M p-bits (arxiv.org)
  • 0 5

    Reflections on Software Engineering in the Age of AI (adiamond.me)
  • 0 7

    Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
  • 3 6

    The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 7 7

    Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing (12gramsofcarbon.com)
  • 46 37

    I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI (antoine.fi)
  • 8 32

    Daisugi the Japanese Technique of Trees Out of Trees, Making Exact Straight Wood (2020) (www.openculture.com)
  • 8 27

    Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor (www.righto.com)
  • 4 10

    Does Your Paper Really Suck? (www.sina.bio)
  • 12 28

    Show HN: Zanagrams (zanagrams.com)
  • 2 15

    Designing a Personal Pebble Watchface (www.jonashietala.se)
  • 18 48

    California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database (papersplease.org)
  • 59 103

    Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 33 142

    5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920 (pudding.cool)
  • 21 37

    Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? (devz.cl)
  • 173 284

    EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors (www.patrick-breyer.de)
  • 133 223

    Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast (www.engadget.com)
  • 57 44

    Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?
  • 34 146

    EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools (github.com)
  • 78 27

    Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor? (www.dnews.gr)
  • 33 29

    Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?
  • 44 102

    Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models (www.cnbc.com)
  • 3 12

    Mobile Web Computing Before Smartphones. (University of Liverpool, ~2010) [pdf] (cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk)
  • 90 93

    Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 35 161

    The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015) (aresluna.org)
  • 17 40

    The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition (github.com)
  • 2 44

    Bringing Swift to the Apple ][ (yeokhengmeng.com)
  • 34 74

    The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024) (www.cbc.ca)
  • 85 122

    A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex (github.com)
  • 159 129

    Kids act would require age checks to get online (www.eff.org)
  • 28 21

    Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI (twitter.com)
  • 0 6

    Instantiating UI Components with Distinguishing Variations [pdf] (static.barik.net)
  • 44 31

    More evidence of life on Mars but still no life (2025) (www.cbc.ca)
  • 34 92

    DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 5 27

    From Pentagons to Pentagrams (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
  • 5 30

    Armadillo – A DNS Server in Gleam for Homelab Use (github.com)
  • 1 23

    From Hallmark to neon signs: A look at Jim Parkinson's career in letter art (typographica.org)
  • 30 61

    A stray "j" ruined my evening (napkins.mtmn.name)
  • 1 12

    Hungary holds first post-Orban Budapest Pride march (www.dw.com)
  • 68 45

    Can China build its own ASML? (nikkei.shorthandstories.com)
  • 9 23

    Experimenting with Random() in CSS (polypane.app)
  • 2 31

    Reflecting to optimise (magnusross.github.io)
  • 70 95

    Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs (github.com)
  • 0 13

    Show HN: Metaspec: The DpANS3R Common Lisp Spec in S-Expr and HTML Format (metaspec.dev)
  • 33 87

    Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician (2022) (the.scapegoat.dev)
  • 27 107

    Engineering for Bounded Cognition (shapeofthesystem.com)
  • 50 101

    Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM (github.com)
  • 56 64

    Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them (thedailyeconomy.org)
  • 2 12

    I built a 100% local network privacy appliance to stop smart home spying (www.edgedefenseai.com)
  • 160 219

    Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly (www.the-independent.com)
  • 161 166

    Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo (www.thedrive.com)
  • 6 50

    How a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya's sand cat does exist (www.theguardian.com)
  • 104 356

    Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep (www.marfapublicradio.org)
  • 15 125

    WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups (clickhouse.com)
  • 20 94

    Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display (californiasciencecenter.org)
  • 188 341

    The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams (jayacunzo.com)
  • 66 175

    Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C (decomp-academy.dev)
  • 62 210

    AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide (github.com)
  • 0 18

    Show HN: Kiso, an open-source publishing engine for Open Knowledge Format (oak-invest.github.io)
  • 37 90

    Regular expressions that work “everywhere” (www.johndcook.com)
  • 44 64

    America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers (hntrbrk.com)
  • 7 25

    Set Up Your Own DoH Service (nochan.net)
  • 45 55

    Codeberg Is Down (social.anoxinon.de)
  • 106 248

    Choosing a Public DNS Resolver (evilbit.de)
  • 7 26

    Show HN: Starglyphs - A constellation puzzle game based on Euler paths (starglyphs.com)
  • 0 9

    Remembering the life and artwork of Ron Spears (magic.wizards.com)
  • 60 72

    Enhancing x11 Application Security with LXC (2025) (dobrowolski.dev)
  • 25 51

    How do you keep Web MIDI from crashing a 1983 synthesizer? (knob.monster)
  • 51 12

    Should European housing politics be Americanized? (worksinprogress.co)
  • 84 183

    Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs (www.msn.com)
  • 472 183

    What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis (www.psychologytoday.com)
  • 77 192

    'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence (fortune.com)
  • 15 33

    Mojo programming language will become open-source soon (console.modular.com)
  • 2 48

    Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 73 117

    Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work (github.com)
  • 59 110

    A Farmer Arrested for Going 5 Seconds over His Time Limit at Data Center Meeting (www.gadgetreview.com)
  • 2 39

    The eerie interface of man and machine (Life Magazine, October 1967) (blog.jgc.org)
  • 11 61

    Running a software jam in a world of slop (foxmoss.com)
  • 157 318

    IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet (ipcrawl.com)
  • 172 59

    Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike (www.lloydslist.com)
  • 44 16

    "No, I swear I wrote this." (revise.io)
  • 8 23

    The Card That Made the Apple II Serious (www.wiseowl.com)
  • 9 55

    A History of Menus Is a Menu of History (pudding.cool)
  • 129 287

    Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other (cauenapier.com)
  • 37 91

    Screen time can damage under-twos' development, landmark study suggests (www.theguardian.com)
  • 164 258

    AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for Multigres (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 22 11

    Why Windows 95 Was Tech's Last True Revolution (comuniq.xyz)
  • 31 72

    Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He had worms (arstechnica.com)
  • 165 229

    Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada (www.sciencedirect.com)
  • 10 93

    One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V (www.theregister.com)
  • 32 45

    Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together (ethz.ch)
  • 16 12

    Like a Bouncer at a Bookstore: Texas' App Store Accountability Act (cdt.org)
  • 3 43

    A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals (lyra.horse)
  • 356 905

    Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days (github.com)
  • 275 734

    Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)
  • 91 261

    Suspicious Discontinuities (2020) (danluu.com)
  • 150 148

    Underarm bowling incident of 1981 (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 63 167

    Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on (cephalosec.com)
  • 107 127

    How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024) (texashighways.com)
  • 190 258

    Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models (techcrunch.com)
  • 132 130

    How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 91 278

    Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California (arstechnica.com)
  • 16 47

    Task Failed Successfully: Saturating NIC and Disk Bandwidth (blog.mrcroxx.com)
  • 335 469

    The case for physical media ownership (dervis.de)
  • 145 767

    OpenRA (www.openra.net)
  • Nox Metals (YC S25) Is Hiring SWE (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 6 51

    Cultures of Making and Relating (blog.khinsen.net)
  • 15 34

    Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release (factorio.com)
  • 77 167

    The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II (www.flutetunes.com)
  • 201 607

    Fintech Engineering Handbook (w.pitula.me)
  • 62 134

    Beer CSS – Build material design in record time (www.beercss.com)
  • 13 52

    Jest/Vitest interactive course (runs in the browser) (howtotestfrontend.com)
  • 342 776

    DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf] (github.com)
  • 5 56

    Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512 (medium.com)
  • 162 178

    Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off (www.economist.com)
  • 14 18

    World Cup fans frustrated by 'confusing and expensive' tipping culture in US (www.bbc.com)
  • 12 13

    Decline in IQ linked to frequent or dependent use of cannabis use in youth (www.cambridge.org)
  • 110 54

    Is America becoming a gerontocracy? (www.economist.com)
  • 129 210

    Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide (www.fosslinux.com)
  • 1 13

    Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59 (www.nytimes.com)
  • 0 15

    Building apps using TanStack Start (lovable.dev)
  • 46 229

    OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1 (www.openttd.org)
  • 1 24

    SCC Technical Assistance Program (nerocam.com)
  • 8 53

    IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering (github.com)
  • 28 151

    Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack (grack.com)
  • 5 9

    Show HN: Turn images into audio that can be decoded with a spectrogram (nsspot.herokuapp.com)
  • 62 132

    International investment and local rules push prices up faster than supply (news.mccombs.utexas.edu)
  • 65 33

    Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
  • 92 171

    WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) (www.sfwriter.com)
  • 1 8

    Kamod Hooks – a Preact hooks library ported from ahooks (kamod-ch.github.io)
  • 47 112

    Fusion Programming Language (fusion-lang.org)
  • 26 94

    Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression (kirill.korins.ky)
  • 21 109

    Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board (popflame.quickish.space)
  • 5 12

    I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I'm Banned for Life (www.thefp.com)
  • 28 45

    Making Sense of Proof by Contradiction [pdf] (www.foster77.co.uk)
  • 22 511

    Om (daringfireball.net)
  • 19 87

    Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres (github.com)