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    The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software (brandur.org)
  • 3 27

    Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers, uncles, anyone in that role!
  • Wildcard (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Applied ML Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 4 15

    AI is a mass psychotic delusion [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 0 12

    Occupancy Math on the AMD MI355X: A From-First-Principles Guide (indianspeedster.github.io)
  • 32 35

    AI Has Broken Hiring (hbr.org)
  • 61 89

    Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (2016) (sandimetz.com)
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    System call instrumentation on Linux/x86‑64 using memory‑indirect calls, part I (www.humprog.org)
  • 24 54

    (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010) (norvig.com)
  • 28 55

    Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use (cleantechnica.com)
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  • 16 21

    Smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism (worksinprogress.co)
  • 45 66

    Commodore Made a Digital Detox Phone That Isn't Dumb (www.wired.me)
  • 2 12

    I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner (twitter.com)
  • 97 103

    Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You (kevinak.se)
  • 10 23

    AI Under Trump's Control: Can France Still Avoid Digital Dependence? (thenewassociationwebmasters.blogspot.com)
  • 6 11

    The Great Intermediary Panic (www.minid.net)
  • 1 13

    Artificial (www.inkandswitch.com)
  • 19 39

    David Ahl's Basic Computer Games Ported to C (github.com)
  • 25 54

    Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math (www.devashish.me)
  • 1 12

    TypeScript 7 RC: the compiler rewritten in Go, around 10x faster (jatniel.dev)
  • 130 131

    Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8 (old.reddit.com)
  • 10 17

    Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs Drive America's Unicorn Boom (news.crunchbase.com)
  • 138 274

    Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS) (www.beyondallreason.info)
  • 5 30

    100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time (birdhistory.substack.com)
  • 87 103

    The case against geometric algebra (2024) (alexkritchevsky.com)
  • 4 16

    Cosmodial Sky Atlas (frankforce.com)
  • 12 33

    Rare medieval bookmark exceeds expectations at auction (www.thehistoryblog.com)
  • 25 23

    NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours" (www.economist.com)
  • 62 73

    CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt (shiftmag.dev)
  • 22 54

    A tale of two path separators (alexwlchan.net)
  • 72 106

    Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file (movq.de)
  • 5 18

    Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87 (www.nytimes.com)
  • 324 339

    Google Hits 50% IPv6 (blog.apnic.net)
  • 10 116

    A 3D voxel game engine written in APL (github.com)
  • 24 163

    Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way (taoofmac.com)
  • 50 40

    Public Service Announcement: Don't Say You Use AI for Writing (www.satisfice.com)
  • 50 50

    Excessive nil pointer checks in Go (konradreiche.com)
  • 1 31

    The Lost Story of Alan Turing's "Delilah" Project (2025) (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 77 133

    The 100k Whys of AI (lcamtuf.substack.com)
  • 36 65

    Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controllers (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 40 160

    Building reliable agentic AI systems (martinfowler.com)
  • 21 112

    Zigzag Decoding with AVX-512 (zeux.io)
  • 2 41

    Armstrong Effect (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 249 274

    Your brain was never designed for this much bad news (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 6 58

    Guide to the TD4 4-bit DIY CPU (www.philipzucker.com)
  • 233 293

    Developers don't understand CORS (2019) (fosterelli.co)
  • 1 10

    Moving Beyond Fork() + Exec() (lwn.net)
  • 146 210

    When I reject AI code even if it works (vinibrasil.com)
  • 110 114

    White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report (www.reuters.com)
  • 87 81

    'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots (www.bbc.com)
  • 131 179

    15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test (www.bostonglobe.com)
  • 23 71

    Project Fetch: Phase Two (www.anthropic.com)
  • 6 11

    Show HN: Submarius – Global water clarity for divers (submarius.com)
  • 20 104

    Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography (www.nature.com)
  • 176 443

    Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see (github.com)
  • 94 323

    Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior (www.cell.com)
  • 125 220

    Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites (townsquare.cauenapier.com)
  • 3 10

    Show HN: Domphy – plain-object UI for tool apps, AI-correctable output
  • 53 224

    Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux (sibexi.co)
  • 173 299

    Renting a sewing machine from the library (www.bbc.com)
  • 82 192

    Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World (www.esquire.com)
  • 8 19

    Stop calling the Super Productionizer a 'baby blender' – Frank Elavsky (www.frank.computer)
  • 22 73

    Semiconductor Lifeline Keeps Fighter Jets in the Air (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 124 203

    Pre-2022 Books (notes.lorenzogravina.com)
  • 106 92

    Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed (abcnews.com)
  • 20 41

    Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl (www.phoronix.com)
  • 5 54

    A Love Story (pudding.cool)
  • 37 136

    Alice is impatient (brooker.co.za)
  • 5 18

    Coding a Brick Tower [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 42 30

    Dallas Fed: 30% of housing cost increase driven by unauthorized immigration [pdf] (www.dallasfed.org)
  • 36 129

    Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025) (www.theregister.com)
  • 286 264

    Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches (www.phoronix.com)
  • 128 178

    Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil (www.cnn.com)
  • 5 53

    Seeing the world in radio waves with the QuadRF (hackaday.com)
  • 78 38

    UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence (www.publictechnology.net)
  • 17 83

    Inference cost at scale with napkin math (injuly.in)
  • 39 165

    AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 16 13

    Google display wrong flags for world cup 2026 (swiss-cow.com)
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  • 5 41

    Now You Don't: When Espionage Meets Magic (www.politicshome.com)
  • 22 108

    PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services (clickhouse.com)
  • 13 40

    Show HN: Tiny – An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions (github.com)
  • 58 135

    Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) (github.com)
  • 33 67

    Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod (mitchivin.com)
  • 57 65

    Why has the pointe shoe been so resistant to change? (dancemagazine.com)
  • 38 88

    Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing (www.argusred.com)
  • 152 386

    The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows (waxy.org)
  • 56 146

    The rise of South Korea’s weapons business (www.politico.com)
  • 1 4

    Show HN: Cody – Voice control for Neovim using its own commands, LSP (github.com)
  • 66 188

    The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 60 60

    Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?
  • 294 140

    Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore (github.com)
  • 3 5

    AIPropel, AI-powered proposal generation for freelancers and agencies (www.aipropel.app)
  • 6 30

    S‑CURVES a field guide to technology adoption · 1825–2026 (escurves.com)
  • 49 220

    UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro (www.lispm.net)
  • 65 218

    Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase (startupwiki.tech)
  • 96 282

    SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (www.smpte.org)
  • 26 99

    Show HN: Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility (github.com)
  • 27 73

    Show HN: Microcrad – Micrograd Reimplemented in C (github.com)
  • 17 75

    Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios (vawaa.com)
  • 6 19

    Sogen Kato (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 52 62

    Big Tech is borrowing like never before (startupfortune.com)
  • 70 271

    DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots (neuviemeporte.github.io)
  • 1 25

    Mencius (2016) (scholarworks.iu.edu)
  • 101 67

    Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why? (www.ft.com)
  • 9 30

    Cargo-Geiger (github.com)
  • 173 301

    Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (www.extremetech.com)
  • 116 173

    Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash (www.reuters.com)
  • 10 77

    US Scientist John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic (www.reuters.com)
  • 350 300

    VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate' (www.birminghammail.co.uk)
  • 19 52

    Web Browsers on PDAS (vale.rocks)
  • 119 104

    The European Social Stack (european.social)
  • 1 16

    "Career coaches" are fear-farming the Stanford AI hiring study [debunk] (placementist.com)
  • 12 11

    The Doctor Who Treats Patients with a Gaming Mouse (textexpander.com)
  • 2 15

    New (Old) 3D Golf: Porting PC-9801 and Virtual Boy to Mega Drive (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
  • 4 35

    Pong in S Favicon (pong-in-a-favicon.franzai.com)
  • 20 45

    I restarted a 10 year old Xeon 174 times to delete 12 flags and gain 4 tps (point.free)
  • 136 232

    Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 17 41

    Computed goto for efficient dispatch tables (2012) (eli.thegreenplace.net)
  • 70 154

    From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone (techcrunch.com)
  • 41 121

    Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server (bootimus.com)
  • 20 54

    Human Judgment as a Specification (blog.brownplt.org)
  • 95 126

    Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones (www.lrt.lt)
  • 110 520

    CSSQuake (cssquake.com)
  • 18 52

    16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes, 25x the drive's rating (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 28 64

    The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  • 4 29

    Cirrus: ATProto Personal Data Server That Runs on Cloudflare Workers (github.com)
  • 0 5

    Visiting the History of Computing and Play (arbesman.substack.com)
  • 67 199

    LLMs Are Complicated Now (ianbarber.blog)
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    Mental causation is not load-bearing (unstableontology.com)
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  • 27 85

    A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse (ironicsans.ghost.io)
  • 17 36

    Designing a backyard deck for my house (blog.cosmin.cloud)
  • 19 41

    Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years (arcadeheroes.com)
  • 273 543

    GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 (arrowtsx.dev)
  • 119 466

    Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You (moultano.wordpress.com)
  • 107 305

    I Stored a Website in a Favicon (www.timwehrle.de)
  • 146 315

    Can you see three trees? (www.not-ship.com)
  • 101 180

    Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering (www.space.com)
  • 57 43

    Snap Smart Glasses (www.specs.com)
  • 51 122

    The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory (www.ibm.com)
  • 4 29

    Meet Nikolai Evreinov, the 19th century Nathan Fielder (mssv.net)
  • 35 191

    Data Compression Explained (2012) (mattmahoney.net)
  • 15 29

    XLibre XServer 25.2.0 Released (github.com)
  • 0 11

    We built a lab to evaluate data agents – Hex (hex.tech)
  • 24 38

    I solved my mystery fatigue with AI (metalearn.substack.com)
  • 0 13

    A Love Story (pudding.cool)
  • 57 155

    How to feed a dictator (www.theguardian.com)
  • 87 68

    A record 242 US cities now have starter homes that cost $1M (investors.zillowgroup.com)
  • 13 36

    Aikido Code Audit (www.aikido.dev)
  • 65 74

    Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem (2017) (digitalorientalist.com)
  • 126 221

    Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks (newsletter.kentbeck.com)