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  • 1 6

    Show HN: UnisonDB – B+Tree DB with sub-second replication to 100+ nodes (github.com)
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    Lawmakers want to ban VPNs and have no idea what they're doing (www.eff.org)
  • 0 4

    Ucs-Detect (ucs-detect.readthedocs.io)
  • 2 18

    AMD GPUs Go Brrr (hazyresearch.stanford.edu)
  • 5 11

    Hiring the Joker (quarter--mile.com)
  • 1 16

    Scientists reverse kidney damage in mice, hope for humans next (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 35 101

    I can't recommend Grafana anymore (henrikgerdes.me)
  • 33 28

    Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science (www.cell.com)
  • 1 7

    I built a modular Java game engine without a GUI, designed to be AI-native (frontend-neutron-v2.vercel.app)
  • 42 69

    AI note-taking startup Fireflies was really two guys typing notes by hand (www.pcgamer.com)
  • 5 20

    Async Mutexes (matklad.github.io)
  • 3 21

    Raycore: GPU accelerated and modular ray intersections (makie.org)
  • 2 9

    Nothing impossible happens (www.oxonianreview.com)
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    Show HN: A visual guide to learning Jujutsu (JJ) (excalidraw.com)
  • 4 41

    GEN-0 / Embodied Foundation Models That Scale with Physical Interaction (generalistai.com)
  • 3 54

    No Leak, No Problem – Bypassing ASLR with a ROP Chain to Gain RCE (modzero.com)
  • 111 147

    Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf] (www.nber.org)
  • 60 68

    Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux (github.com)
  • 37 127

    SSL Configuration Generator (ssl-config.mozilla.org)
  • 63 46

    USDA head says 'everyone' on SNAP will now have to reapply (thehill.com)
  • 74 133

    Go's Sweet 16 (go.dev)
  • 1 14

    Show HN: Cj–tiny no-deps JIT in C for x86-64 and ARM64 (github.com)
  • 71 51

    30 Days, 9 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go? (kyla.substack.com)
  • 161 256

    A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition (generativehistory.substack.com)
  • 46 124

    HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels (hazyresearch.stanford.edu)
  • 59 70

    Genergo: Propellantless space-propulsion system (www.satcom.digital)
  • 2 11

    First Microprocessor – 50th Anniversary 2020 (firstmicroprocessor.com)
  • 8 42

    Xqerl – Erlang XQuery 3.1 Processor (zadean.github.io)
  • 44 262

    Show HN: Epstein Files Organized and Searchable (searchepsteinfiles.com)
  • Mentra (YC W25) Is Hiring: Head of Growth to Make Smart Glasses Mainstream (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 32 56

    Anthropic Rides an Artificial Wave (berryvilleiml.com)
  • 6 22

    The accidental click that changed everything: the Apify origin story (blog.apify.com)
  • 85 160

    All praise to the lunch ladies (bittersoutherner.com)
  • 12 28

    Show HN: Chirp – Local Windows dictation with ParakeetV3 no executable required (github.com)
  • 7 18

    GPG and Me (2015) (moxie.org)
  • 14 116

    Show HN: Tiny Diffusion – A character-level text diffusion model from scratch (github.com)
  • 57 122

    Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform (www.claude.com)
  • 40 73

    Minisforum Stuffs Entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1 (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 29 33

    Show HN: Dumbass Business Ideas (dumbassideas.com)
  • 295 899

    AI World Clocks (clocks.brianmoore.com)
  • 42 119

    Awk Technical Notes (2023) (maximullaris.com)
  • 97 56

    Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Kills by Claiming Targeting Drugs, Not People (theintercept.com)
  • 68 210

    A race condition in Aurora RDS (hightouch.com)
  • 219 411

    Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet (updates.techforpalestine.org)
  • 80 43

    Norway's Wealth Tax Unchains a Capital Exodus (citizenx.com)
  • 242 579

    The disguised return of EU Chat Control (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 36 96

    Meeting notes between Forgejo and the Dutch government via Git commits (codeberg.org)
  • 76 134

    Manganese is Lyme disease's double-edge sword (news.northwestern.edu)
  • 48 109

    US Tech Market Treemap (caplocus.com)
  • 68 12

    Why is there no Uber for plumbing/HVAC? (and why there ought to be) (nikolaihlebowitsh.substack.com)
  • 30 74

    Google Releases CodeWiki (codewiki.google)
  • 65 69

    Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad (wssite.vercel.app)
  • 144 199

    Germany to ban Huawei from future 6G network (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 18 27

    What Comes After Science? (www.science.org)
  • 533 444

    Being poor vs. being broke (blog.ctms.me)
  • 108 212

    'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately (www.techdirt.com)
  • RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 3 13

    Cgp-serde: A modular serialization library for Serde powered by CGP (contextgeneric.dev)
  • 9 26

    The American Tradition of Trying to Address Anxiety with Parks (time.com)
  • 100 132

    Linear algebra explains why some words are effectively untranslatable (aethermug.com)
  • 51 84

    Wealthy foreigners 'paid for chance to shoot civilians in Sarajevo' (www.thetimes.com)
  • 175 208

    Oracle hit hard in Wall Street's tech sell-off over its AI bet (www.ft.com)
  • 58 151

    Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor (linuxcontainers.org)
  • 39 39

    Show HN: European tech news in 6 languages (europedigital.cloud)
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  • 57 75

    Writerdeck.org (www.writerdeck.org)
  • 47 119

    Magit manuals are available online again (github.com)
  • 693 1172

    I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla (manualdousuario.net)
  • 3 16

    Arrival Radar (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 4 18

    Furry Studies conference gathers worldwide wisdom at second annual event (dogpatch.press)
  • 128 208

    Winamp clone in Swift for macOS (github.com)
  • 34 91

    EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014) (edeproject.org)
  • 569 580

    AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering (www.tomwphillips.co.uk)
  • 75 167

    Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 15 16

    A Spectral-Geometric Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis (zenodo.org)
  • 23 11

    LiteAI – OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google LLMs at a discount (www.liteapi.ai)
  • 22 164

    Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025 (www.backblaze.com)
  • 5 71

    Scientists Produce Powerhouse Pigment Behind Octopus Camouflage (today.ucsd.edu)
  • 105 302

    Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned (www.levs.fyi)
  • 117 63

    GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code (linuxiac.com)
  • 47 70

    Show HN: Encore – Type-safe back end framework that generates infra from code (github.com)
  • 19 116

    Needy Programs (tonsky.me)
  • 31 76

    A Common Semiconductor Just Became a Superconductor (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 13 33

    Show HN: An easy-to-use online curve fitting tool (byx2000.github.io)
  • 33 118

    V8 Garbage Collector (wingolog.org)
  • 108 269

    Operating Margins (fi-le.net)
  • 6 14

    The Floating Head Phenomenon (michaelestrin.substack.com)
  • 48 32

    Show HN: Pegma, an open-source version of the classic Peg solitaire (pegma.vercel.app)
  • 35 44

    Ask HN: Is building for the web even worth it now?
  • 22 35

    Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 33 146

    RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries (boringsql.com)
  • 2 19

    Sarah Mason, inventor of the continuity script, first script supervisor (wfpp.columbia.edu)
  • 7 18

    Codables – Swift-inspired, declarative JSON serialization (github.com)
  • 1 38

    Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 0 17

    'The Dream Factory' Review: A Building and Its Bard (www.wsj.com)
  • 103 168

    What happened with the CIA and The Paris Review? (www.theparisreview.org)
  • 3 16

    The Useful Personal Computer (technicshistory.com)
  • 74 46

    Why do voice transcription apps charge monthly when Whisper runs locally? (www.lucidvoice.app)
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    Canadian boycott of US travel shows no sign of slowing (www.bbc.com)
  • 82 125

    Why I'm Learning Sumerian (mindthenerd.com)
  • 36 90

    Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential data (apnews.com)
  • 10 3

    What Technologies Are Running on 50k Websites (Oct 2025) (www.dropbox.com)
  • 30 57

    A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata (raganwald.com)
  • 86 82

    Copyright winter is coming (to Wikipedia?) (authorsalliance.substack.com)
  • 90 136

    Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are both betting on "world models" (entropytown.com)
  • 76 202

    How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS (blog.lyc8503.net)
  • 6 8

    Prefer Boring Technology (itwont.work)
  • 160 205

    Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring (www.kubernetes.dev)
  • 4 47

    I Built a One File Edge Probe to Tell Me When Time Is Lying (physical-ai.ghost.io)
  • 65 115

    Apple Mini Apps Partner Program (developer.apple.com)
  • 9 33

    How to fix subsystem request failed on channel 0 (blog.x-way.org)