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  • 2 7

    Level of Detail (phinze.com)
  • 6 35

    We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science (www.theguardian.com)
  • 15 16

    AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton (www.kasava.dev)
  • 28 50

    US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere (www.reuters.com)
  • 4 10

    University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects" (www.texastribune.org)
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  • 39 55

    Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging (www.hankgreen.com)
  • 39 31

    Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists (aftermath.site)
  • 25 18

    YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users (www.pcmag.com)
  • 4 25

    My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza (technologizer.com)
  • 71 41

    Micropayments as a reality check for news sites (blog.zgp.org)
  • 154 162

    California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves (blog.adafruit.com)
  • 53 76

    Farewell, Rust for web (yieldcode.blog)
  • 105 172

    IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup (www.theregister.com)
  • 80 57

    Productivity gains from AI coding assistants haven’t budged past 10% – survey (shiftmag.dev)
  • 9 52

    Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 1 6

    Show HN: Provisioner per-board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up
  • 128 229

    South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection (www.theguardian.com)
  • 44 144

    DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' (www.techdirt.com)
  • 241 400

    AI makes you boring (www.marginalia.nu)
  • 58 32

    Choosing a language based on its syntax? (www.gingerbill.org)
  • 15 97

    A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data (github.com)
  • 2 6

    Show HN: Chaos Studies – attractors and spatial audio (iOS/Mac/Playdate) (fieldbw.com)
  • 12 18

    Why applicant tracking systems are broken by design (www.saj.ad)
  • 19 62

    Hitler's Greenland Obsession (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 62 111

    Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals and Underage Users at California Trial (www.wsj.com)
  • 3 38

    Arrays in Forth (www.forth.org)
  • 8 7

    AI found 12 of 12 OpenSSL zero-days (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 23 12

    Why Do the Police Exist? (2020) (novaramedia.com)
  • 82 82

    AI made coding more enjoyable (weberdominik.com)
  • 94 304

    Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal (micasa.dev)
  • 6 595

    Gemini 3.1 Pro (deepmind.google)
  • 65 79

    Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022) (borischerny.com)
  • 513 241

    Gemini 3.1 Pro (blog.google)
  • 12 60

    Zero downtime migrations at Petabyte scale (planetscale.com)
  • 4 13

    How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013) (arstechnica.com)
  • 22 59

    Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice (www.anthropic.com)
  • 24 30

    Against Theory-Motivated Experimentation (journals.sagepub.com)
  • 14 58

    Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts with Python (crimede-coder.com)
  • 226 162

    America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks (www.governance.fyi)
  • 55 44

    Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?
  • 62 46

    C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime (www.sandordargo.com)
  • 29 40

    Famous Signatures Through History (signatory.app)
  • 93 97

    -fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C (clang.llvm.org)
  • 16 39

    The future belongs to those who can refute AI, not just generate with AI (learningloom.substack.com)
  • 97 32

    Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools (economist.com)
  • 173 310

    DOGE Track (dogetrack.info)
  • 55 42

    UK to force social media to remove abusive pics in 48 hours (www.theregister.com)
  • 110 235

    Pebble Production: February Update (repebble.com)
  • 45 260

    Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)
  • 8 10

    Virgins, Unicorns and Medieval Literature (2017) (www.bowdoin.edu)
  • 9 100

    Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (kodiak64.co.uk)
  • 16 18

    Show HN: LatentScore – Type a mood, get procedural/ambient music (open source) (latentscore.com)
  • 50 149

    Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia (makie.org)
  • 51 106

    Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban (oban.pro)
  • 14 62

    ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory (github.com)
  • 48 98

    Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app (github.com)
  • 8 42

    Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell (lilush.link)
  • 68 163

    Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails (royapakzad.substack.com)
  • 50 92

    The Mongol Khans of Medieval France (www.historytoday.com)
  • 39 62

    I made ChatGPT and Google tell I'm a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion (bsky.app)
  • 29 103

    Voith Schneider Propeller (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 44 23

    /Deslop (tahigichigi.substack.com)
  • 44 121

    What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents (georgeguimaraes.com)
  • 39 65

    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office (www.bbc.com)
  • 15 38

    Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole' – how it got that way (phys.org)
  • 101 114

    Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial (www.ft.com)
  • 15 90

    Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010) (singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com)
  • 45 101

    A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts (tempus-word.de)
  • 56 84

    US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted' (www.theguardian.com)
  • 138 130

    Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 23 27

    Stoolap/Node: A Native Node.js Driver That's Surprisingly Fast (stoolap.io)
  • 4 13

    Making the Vortex Mixer (www.asimov.press)
  • 13 69

    Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024) (zyedidia.github.io)
  • 22 78

    Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container (github.com)
  • 163 245

    European Tech Alternatives (eutechmap.com)
  • 9 93

    Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down (old.reddit.com)
  • 1 9

    Brendan Carr defends FCC role in dropped Colbert interview: 'No censorship' (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 22 24

    Show HN: I built a fuse box for microservices (www.openfuse.io)
  • 53 151

    Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript (blackboard.sh)
  • 128 161

    How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe (cepr.org)
  • 86 206

    Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed (static.stepfun.com)
  • 727 590

    Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use (code.claude.com)
  • 2 25

    Show HN: Respectlytics – Open-source, privacy-first mobile analytics (MIT+AGPL) (github.com)
  • 71 194

    15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern (nicolasdickenmann.com)
  • 157 263

    Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan (www.gamingonlinux.com)
  • 48 130

    How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing (thunderseethe.dev)
  • 5 28

    Roads to Rome (2015) (benedikt-gross.de)
  • 15 35

    The Pentagon just threatened to blacklist Anthropic (twitter.com)
  • 210 344

    Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed] (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 270 296

    Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption (github.com)
  • 79 101

    All Look Same? (alllooksame.com)
  • 5 30

    When interfaces become disposable (chrisloy.dev)
  • 12 91

    Making a font with ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals (digitalseams.com)
  • 264 438

    27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates (old.reddit.com)
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  • 5 18

    Assigning Open Problems in Class (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
  • 48 101

    Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll
  • 406 787

    Sizing chaos (pudding.cool)
  • Metriport (YC S22) is hiring a security engineer to harden healthcare infra (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 34 63

    Delphi is 31 years old – innovation timeline (blogs.embarcadero.com)
  • 271 226

    There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024) (science.nasa.gov)
  • 17 18

    Show HN: Strava for Claude Code (straude.com)
  • 75 87

    Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015) (www.historytoday.com)
  • 129 132

    What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI (resobscura.substack.com)
  • 99 81

    The political effects of X's feed algorithm (werd.io)
  • 6 12

    Microsoft team creates 'revolutionary' data storage system that lasts millennia (www.nature.com)
  • 80 151

    The Perils of ISBN (rygoldstein.com)
  • 11 44

    A solver for Semantle (victoriaritvo.com)
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  • 5 60

    Discrete Structures [pdf] (kyleormsby.github.io)
  • 93 79

    OpenClaw is dangerous (12gramsofcarbon.com)
  • 75 96

    What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization (spawn-queue.acm.org)
  • 21 93

    R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth (github.com)
  • 119 132

    99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds (arstechnica.com)
  • 70 118

    Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty (replay.software)
  • 147 446

    Cosmologically Unique IDs (jasonfantl.com)
  • 147 309

    DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation (letsencrypt.org)
  • 16 128

    Learning Lean: Part 1 (rkirov.github.io)
  • 21 20

    Vermont EV buses prove unreliable for transportation this winter (vermontdailychronicle.com)
  • 17 63

    Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from A16Z, Nvidia to advance its world models (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 30 86

    Disney trip turned into immigration detention (www.propublica.org)
  • Activeloop (YC S18) Is Hiring Back End Engineer (Go) (app.dover.com)
  • 176 162

    Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock (finbold.com)
  • 168 136

    Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 14 44

    The true history of the Minotaur: what archaeology reveals (www.nationalgeographic.fr)
  • 29 38

    Show HN: Trust Protocols for Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini (www.mnemom.ai)
  • 15 86

    Cistercian Numbers (www.omniglot.com)
  • 98 68

    Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion (www.bloomberg.com)
  • Weave (YC W25) Is Hiring ML, Design, and Product Engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 235 457

    Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available (tailscale.com)
  • Flexport Is Hiring Engineers in Amsterdam (flexport.com)
  • 10 20

    Dear Comrade Xi (www.campbellramble.ai)
  • 90 70

    Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32 (codeberg.org)
  • 27 62

    Show HN: Formally verified FPGA watchdog for AM broadcast in unmanned tunnels (github.com)
  • 209 371

    Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild (chromereleases.googleblog.com)
  • 6 27

    Show HN: A Unix environment in a single HTML file (420 KB) (shiro.computer)
  • 36 136

    Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction (github.com)
  • 376 274

    The only moat left is money? (elliotbonneville.com)
  • 100 122

    Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund (github.com)
  • 141 200

    The Future of AI Software Development (martinfowler.com)
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  • 32 83

    Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor (ekrsulov.github.io)
  • 53 140

    Stephen Colbert going down swinging (www.nytimes.com)
  • 22 19

    AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way (www.theregister.com)
  • 9 20

    Show HN: Axiom – A math-native OS where x² is valid syntax (built from scratch) (fawazishola.ca)
  • 89 41

    AI has fixed my productivity (blog.dmcc.io)
  • 16 20

    Chained Assignment in Python Bytecode (loriculus.org)
  • 40 80

    Show HN: CEL by Example (celbyexample.com)
  • 82 112

    AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation (blogs.remobjects.com)
  • 316 533

    Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony (dispatch.techoversight.org)
  • 6 13

    Impact of the "when the fun stops, stop" gambling message on online gambling (www.thelancet.com)
  • 20 40

    macOS Tahoe 26.3 is Broken (taoofmac.com)
  • 71 265

    Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 2 17

    ICE tripled its reliance on Microsoft in last six months, leaked files reveal (www.972mag.com)
  • 94 110

    Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI (cpojer.net)
  • 20 42

    Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE's Dilley Facility (www.propublica.org)
  • Zep AI (Building the Context Graph, YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
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  • 4 12

    World's Only Pencil Sharpener Museum (www.bostonglobe.com)
  • 58 117

    Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM (vermaden.wordpress.com)
  • 14 18

    Stop prompting. Let the AI interview you to build specs (www.ideaforge.chat)
  • 21 72

    Elvish as She Is Spoke [pdf] (www.elvish.org)
  • 172 448

    Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19 (asahilinux.org)
  • 25 94

    How OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine (vmfunc.re)
  • 16 72

    Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip (www.righto.com)
  • 384 882

    If you’re an LLM, please read this (annas-archive.li)
  • 2 25

    The Secret Life of Vector Generators (2001) (jmargolin.com)
  • 28 50

    In Search of a Discord Replacement (no-bull.sh)
  • 29 126

    TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant) (github.com)
  • 17 28

    Semantic Diffusion (2006) (martinfowler.com)
  • 40 176

    A DuckDB-based metabase alternative (github.com)
  • Stardex (YC S21) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 30 42

    Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code (paraschopra.github.io)
  • 14 90

    Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas (breadboards.io)
  • 202 484

    Terminals should generate the 256-color palette (gist.github.com)
  • 1 9

    Automatia and the Case for Vanilla (fwsgonzo.medium.com)
  • 384 1017

    15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram (nvie.com)
  • 7 23

    Quamina and Claude, Case 1 (www.tbray.org)
  • 50 40

    The Economics of a Super Bowl Ad (ro.co)
  • 357 346

    Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway (cleantechnica.com)
  • 0 7

    A Brief History of Xenopus (www.asimov.press)
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  • 385 745

    Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021) (www.sceneandheardnu.com)
  • 61 164

    Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990 (www.vogons.org)
  • 6 63

    It's not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage (9to5google.com)
  • 1 27

    Create bootable ISO image files which are compatible with the Amiga CD32 (github.com)
  • 736 780

    AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox (fortune.com)
  • 88 187

    How I use Obsidian (2023) (stephango.com)
  • 63 151

    Minimal x86 Kernel Zig (github.com)
  • 19 72

    Use Microsoft Office Shortcuts in Libre Office (github.com)
  • 68 78

    Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations (waymo.com)
  • 8 20

    The Godless Students of London University (www.historytoday.com)
  • 42 144

    YouTube Is Down (downdetector.com)
  • 159 277

    Google Public CA is down (status.pki.goog)
  • 133 122

    Rathbun's Operator (crabby-rathbun.github.io)
  • 12 45

    Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans (gizmodo.com)
  • 2 17

    Old School Telecine, circa 1980s (2017) (www.liftgammagain.com)