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  • 1 7

    The Grug Brained Developer (grugbrain.dev)
  • 11 12

    Texas electricity maximum renewables record (www.gridstatus.io)
  • 2 21

    OpenAI weighs "nuclear option" of antitrust complaint against Microsoft (arstechnica.com)
  • 10 28

    Programming Language Design in the Era of LLMs: A Return to Mediocrity? (kirancodes.me)
  • 43 59

    Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices (apnews.com)
  • 0 16

    Real-time action chunking with large models (www.pi.website)
  • 6 14

    After millions of years, why are carnivorous plants still so small? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 65 58

    Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre (www.dedoimedo.com)
  • 10 23

    Astronomers Just Solved the Mystery of the Universe's Missing Matter (gizmodo.com)
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  • 15 89

    Building Effective AI Agents (www.anthropic.com)
  • 6 22

    Calculating Oil Storage Tank Occupancy with Help of Satellite Imagery (medium.com)
  • 10 53

    AMD's CDNA 4 Architecture Announcement (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 47 38

    Threads is adding Fediverse content to social feeds (www.theverge.com)
  • 12 33

    Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers (kumo.ai)
  • 4 18

    Celebrating 50K users with Kagi free search portal, Kagi for libraries, and more (blog.kagi.com)
  • 60 191

    Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers (kianbradley.com)
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  • 2 30

    Guidelines on how to be a scientific sleuth released (osf.io)
  • 143 97

    Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors (electrek.co)
  • 2 18

    Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 86 149

    ICE arrests NYC Comptroller because he asked to see a warrant (www.thecity.nyc)
  • 2 12

    CPU-Based Layout Design for Picker-to-Parts Pallet Warehouses (arxiv.org)
  • 7 47

    Celebrated pianist and writer Alfred Brendel dies aged 94 (www.theguardian.com)
  • 23 68

    Miscalculation by Spanish power grid operator REE contributed to blackout (www.reuters.com)
  • 132 73

    Windows 10 EOL (solhsa.com)
  • 127 212

    Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (blog.google)
  • 52 31

    Fujifilm X half: Is it the perfect family camera? (arslan.io)
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  • 62 91

    KiCad and Wayland Support (www.kicad.org)
  • 90 132

    O3 Turns Pro (thezvi.substack.com)
  • 204 592

    Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket (global.honda)
  • 24 24

    Israel said Iran racing toward a nuclear weapon. US Intel says it was years away (www.cnn.com)
  • 15 39

    Cmapv2: A high performance, concurrent map (github.com)
  • 52 82

    Now might be the best time to learn software development (substack.com)
  • 169 93

    Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024) (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 12 38

    Voyager: Real-Time Splatting City-Scale 3D Gaussians on Your Phone (arxiv.org)
  • 6 21

    The Collapse of Complex Societies (matthewbutterick.com)
  • 23 43

    Rules, Not Renewables, Might Explain the Iberian Blackout (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 5 38

    What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting into ARIA (www.smashingmagazine.com)
  • 6 71

    Attempting to Make the Smallest* Electric Motor [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 93 43

    The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable? (www.nngroup.com)
  • 122 144

    Should we design for iffy internet? (bytes.zone)
  • 1 9

    'AI is not doing its job and should leave us alone' says Gartner's top analyst (www.theregister.com)
  • 1 17

    please add an option to block or disable "AI" (github.com)
  • 0 30

    How to run a shadow library: operations at Anna's Archive (2023) (annas-archive.org)
  • 49 40

    US Streetlights Are Turning Purple (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 1 10

    Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline? (www.glamelab.org)
  • 78 84

    "Microsoft Locked My Account – I Lost 30 Years of Photos and Work" (old.reddit.com)
  • 41 72

    BMW ConnectedDrive lets me control my returned rental car (Sixt)
  • 62 45

    Google aims to reinvent email with Wave (2009) (www.cbc.ca)
  • 87 45

    NexusMods Changes Hands (www.nexusmods.com)
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  • 15 12

    [Dennis Yurichev] was forcefully draften/enrolled to Ukraine army (yurichev.com)
  • 12 15

    Hack the Planet: 90s Hacker Culture vs. Today's AI Devs (gizvault.com)
  • 5 15

    Insanity: Locked Out (2020) (theandrewbailey.com)
  • 7 40

    Linux kernel WireGuard can go 'fast' on decent hardware (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 24 15

    Is documentation like pineapple on pizza? (techleadtoolkit.substack.com)
  • 136 36

    Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need? (medium.com)
  • 86 49

    AI threatens to raid the water reserves of Europe's driest regions (www.politico.eu)
  • 1 5

    Inverted commas are falling out of fashion (www.economist.com)
  • 0 8

    Show HN: FaynoSync Self-Hosted API for Automatic App Updates (github.com)
  • 16 92

    AMD's Pre-Zen Interconnect: Testing Trinity's Northbridge (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 59 84

    Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA's Gamble on America's Drugs (www.propublica.org)
  • 200 209

    No Hello (nohello.net)
  • 70 97

    How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you (www.nature.com)
  • 53 112

    Fun with Telnet (2024) (brandonrozek.com)
  • 55 41

    Why Claude Code feels like magic? (omarabid.com)
  • 40 73

    Pitfalls of premature closure with LLM assisted coding (www.shayon.dev)
  • 107 369

    Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps (github.com)
  • 97 153

    The magic of through running (www.worksinprogress.news)
  • 7 26

    Jacob's Phone Simulator (jacobfilipp.com)
  • 11 139

    Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task (www.brainonllm.com)
  • 0 7

    Case Study: Mars College (supernuclear.substack.com)
  • 23 60

    Photon transport through the entire adult human head (www.spiedigitallibrary.org)
  • 1 25

    Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200M 'frontier AI' pilot project (www.theregister.com)
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  • 13 35

    Natural rubber with high resistance to crack growth (www.nature.com)
  • 64 174

    Show HN: I recreated 90s Mode X demoscene effects in JavaScript and Canvas (jdfio.com)
  • 61 103

    The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over (www.dbreunig.com)
  • 28 101

    Iron nitride permanent magnets made with DIY ball mill [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 8 23

    William Langewiesche, the 'Steve McQueen of Journalism,' Dies at 70 (www.nytimes.com)
  • 29 114

    The Humble Programmer (1972) (www.cs.utexas.edu)
  • 61 189

    How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 116 196

    Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs (nolanlawson.com)
  • 38 107

    ZX Spectrum graphics magic (zxonline.net)
  • 19 97

    Finland warms up the world's largest sand battery, the economics look appealing (techcrunch.com)
  • 65 79

    Ask HN: How to Deal with a Bad Manager?
  • 20 30

    What I talk about when I talk about IRs (bernsteinbear.com)
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  • 418 358

    Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me (blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
  • 1 10

    Social media now main source of news in US, research suggests (www.bbc.com)
  • 75 66

    George Orwell's 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth (www.openculture.com)
  • 52 58

    Battle to eradicate invasive pythons in Florida achieves milestone (phys.org)
  • 8 23

    Identity Assertion Authorization Grant (www.ietf.org)
  • 75 113

    Privacy implications of browsers’ (mis)implementations of Widevine EME (2023) (hal.science)
  • 251 290

    OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract (www.cnbc.com)
  • 37 96

    OpenAI and Microsoft tensions are reaching a boiling point (www.wsj.com)
  • 456 308

    What happens when clergy take psilocybin (nautil.us)
  • 8 55

    Denmark tests unmanned robotic sailboat fleet (apnews.com)
  • 234 309

    Snorting the AGI with Claude Code (kadekillary.work)
  • Blaze (YC S24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 64 366

    Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser (chawan.net)
  • 27 80

    Show HN: Nexus.js - Fabric.js for 3D (punk.cam)
  • 23 66

    Breaking Quadratic Barriers: A Non-Attention LLM for Ultra-Long Context Horizons (arxiv.org)
  • 48 140

    Retrobootstrapping Rust for some reason (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
  • 27 100

    Open-Source RISC-V: Energy Efficiency of Superscalar, Out-of-Order Execution (arxiv.org)
  • 74 120

    Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature's research papers (www.nature.com)
  • 117 296

    Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes (github.com)
  • 52 46

    Scientists genetically engineer a lethal mosquito STD to combat malaria (newatlas.com)
  • 122 222

    Dull Men’s Club (www.theguardian.com)
  • 0 22

    Show HN: Trieve CLI – Terminal-Based LLM Agent Loop with Search Tool for PDFs (github.com)
  • 3 13

    Novo Nordisk will lose billions because it didn't pay a couple hundred dollars (www.marketwatch.com)
  • 9 34

    Meta ignores RFC 2920; ZuckMail can't send mail to servers running OpenSMTPD (marc.info)
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  • 188 140

    Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170
  • 13 28

    Use Copilot Agent Mode in Visual Studio (Preview) (learn.microsoft.com)
  • 10 28

    Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent (www.theregister.com)
  • 27 60

    Sincerity Wins the War (www.wheresyoured.at)
  • 2 63

    Adding public transport data to Transitous (www.volkerkrause.eu)
  • 93 35

    Income Inequality Depresses Support for Higher Minimum Wages [pdf] (www.apa.org)
  • 39 125

    OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs (coroot.com)
  • 6 15

    The Renegade Richard Foreman (yalereview.org)
  • 11 42

    Goodbye Dark, Inc. – Welcome Darklang, Inc (blog.darklang.com)
  • 79 161

    Darklang Goes Open Source (blog.darklang.com)
  • 13 20

    This is nuts. When’s the crash? (www.ft.com)
  • 108 112

    Object personification in autism: This paper will be sad if you don't read (2018) (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • 58 33

    Quantum mechanics provide truly random numbers on demand (phys.org)
  • 0 22

    How the first electric grid was built (www.worksinprogress.news)
  • 103 232

    Benzene at 200 (www.chemistryworld.com)
  • 54 72

    ZjsComponent: A Pragmatic Approach to Reusable UI Fragments for Web Development (arxiv.org)
  • 24 61

    Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and PostScript (personal.math.ubc.ca)
  • 9 60

    Show HN: dk – A script runner and cross-compiler, written in OCaml (diskuv.com)
  • 0 23

    Mechanisms for Detection and Repair of Puncture Damage in Soft Robotics [pdf] (smr.unl.edu)
  • 2 8

    WhatsApp adds ads to the status screen (techcrunch.com)
  • 84 143

    Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests (www.theregister.com)
  • 907 662

    WhatsApp introduces ads in its app (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2 23

    A Framework for Characterizing Emergent Conflict Between Non-Coordinating Agents [pdf] (paperclipmaximizer.ai)
  • 519 821

    Working on databases from prison (turso.tech)
  • 16 42

    Show HN: Socket-call – Call socket.io events like normal JavaScript functions (github.com)
  • 21 37

    LLM Chat via SSH (github.com)
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  • Infracost (YC W21) is hiring software engineers (GMT+2 to GMT-6) (infracost.io)
  • 28 32

    Changes to the Kubernetes Slack (www.kubernetes.dev)
  • 17 78

    Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment (www.mexicolore.co.uk)
  • 44 204

    Show HN: Zeekstd – Rust Implementation of the ZSTD Seekable Format (github.com)
  • 1 18

    The long afterlife of a literary classic (thecritic.co.uk)
  • 129 70

    How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous (www.openculture.com)
  • 155 144

    Tesla blows past stopped school bus and hits kid-sized dummies in FSD tests (www.engadget.com)
  • 18 21

    The Illusion of Thinking: A Reality Check on AI Reasoning (leotsem.com)
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  • 2 35

    Hyperspectral scans of historical pigments and painting reconstructions (github.com)
  • 71 49

    Why Claude's Comment Paper Is a Poor Rebuttal (victoramartinez.com)
  • 249 169

    Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time (www.vidarholen.net)
  • 329 558

    Start your own Internet Resiliency Club (bowshock.nl)
  • 18 54

    Solving LinkedIn Queens with APL (pitr.ca)
  • 13 23

    Unprecedented optical clock network lays groundwork for redefining the second (phys.org)
  • 6 79

    NesDev.org – A community of homebrew game devs for NES and other retro consoles (www.nesdev.org)
  • 75 341

    Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown (huggingface.co)
  • 13 20

    Being a Force Multiplier (substack.com)
  • 262 296

    Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look (www.quantamagazine.org)
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  • 258 296

    Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task (arxiv.org)
  • 30 55

    The Hewlett-Packard Archive (hparchive.com)
  • 7 48

    Random Walk: A Modern Introduction (2010) [pdf] (www.math.uchicago.edu)
  • 166 285

    Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API (voxelmanip.se)
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    Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book (www.understandingai.org)
  • 87 92

    Let's Talk About ChatGPT-Induced Spiritual Psychosis (default.blog)
  • 12 41

    League of Professional System Administrators - Board to Dissolve Organization (lopsa.org)
  • 25 107

    Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing (lisp-stat.dev)
  • 30 130

    Real-time CO2 monitoring without batteries or external power (news.kaist.ac.kr)
  • 106 148

    DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming (www.darpa.mil)
  • 77 103

    Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise (www.nature.com)
  • 31 29

    Coding agents have crossed a chasm (blog.singleton.io)