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    Bionic robot arm lets plants play musical instruments (2024) (djmag.com)
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    Nerve pain drug gabapentin linked to increased dementia, cognitive impairment (medicalxpress.com)
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    Apple-1 Computer, handmade by Steve Jobs [video] (www.youtube.com)
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    Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels (github.com)
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    Foundations of Search: A Perspective from Computer Science (2012) [pdf] (staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk)
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    'Autofocus' specs promise sharp vision, near or far (www.bbc.com)
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    Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push (www.politico.com)
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    Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan, improves survival of aged mice (www.nature.com)
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    Batch Mode in the Gemini API: Process More for Less (developers.googleblog.com)
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    Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)" (simonwillison.net)
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    Turkey bans Grok over Erdoğan insults (www.politico.eu)
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    AI coding tools can reduce productivity (secondthoughts.ai)
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    Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exit package?
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    Yamlfmt: An extensible command line tool or library to format YAML files (github.com)
  • 59 57

    An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education (openletter.earth)
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    The FBI Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials' Loyalty (www.nytimes.com)
  • 29 33

    US to Stop Producing Pennies in 2026 (www.axios.com)
  • 71 88

    The ChompSaw: A Benchtop Power Tool That's Safe for Kids to Use (www.core77.com)
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    Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation (www.ntsb.gov)
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    Radiocarbon dating reveals Rapa Nui not as isolated as previously thought (phys.org)
  • 59 172

    Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet (www.browseros.com)
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    Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale (www.recall.ai)
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    Why, Why, Why, Eliza? (www.learningfromexamples.com)
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    Grok 4 (simonwillison.net)
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    Working with the UK Government to Protect Children Online (bsky.social)
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    Exploiting a 20 years old NTFS Vulnerability (swarm.ptsecurity.com)
  • 1 41

    eBPF: Connecting with Container Runtimes (h0x0er.github.io)
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    Optical and Acoustic Super-Radiance via a Microtubule (2024) (www.researchgate.net)
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    U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications (www.npr.org)
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    Regarding Prollyferation: Followup to "People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees" (www.dolthub.com)
  • 47 119

    Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones
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    Writing Bounds-Safe Code in C with Arrays (uecker.codeberg.page)
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    Bitchat - P2P Chat on Bluetooth (no Internet, phone number, etc.) (github.com)
  • 51 63

    Belkin ending support for older Wemo products (www.belkin.com)
  • 79 235

    What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024) (dynamicland.org)
  • 45 38

    Bear-Sized Giant Beavers Once Roamed North America (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 61 57

    EU rules ask tech giants to publicly track how, when AI models go off the rails (arstechnica.com)
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    US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data centre demand booms (www.ft.com)
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    Millions of Cars Exposed to Remote Hacking via PerfektBlue Attack (www.securityweek.com)
  • 58 94

    Orwell Diaries 1938-1942 (orwelldiaries.wordpress.com)
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    Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods (www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk)
  • 27 53

    Launch HN: Leaping (YC W25) – Self-Improving Voice AI
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    Show HN: asyncmcp – Run MCP over async transport via AWS SNS+SQS (github.com)
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    State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings (www.nber.org)
  • 13 194

    Graphical Linear Algebra (graphicallinearalgebra.net)
  • 63 56

    Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser (techcrunch.com)
  • 74 168

    Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide (stylepedia.net)
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    Bribe or community benefit? Sweeteners for renewables need to be done right (theconversation.com)
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    Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity (metr.org)
  • 26 39

    Show HN: CXXStateTree – A modern C++ library for hierarchical state machines (github.com)
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    Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn (www.vice.com)
  • 42 182

    FOKS: Federated Open Key Service (foks.pub)
  • 27 94

    Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs (github.com)
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    Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines (camelai.com)
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    Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough (apnews.com)
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    Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language (flix.dev)
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    Executed Chinese prisoners likely used in UK exhibition (2021) (www.theartnewspaper.com)
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    AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds (www.reuters.com)
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    Automatically Packaging a Haskell Library as a Swift Binary XCFramework (alt-romes.github.io)
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    Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of human disease history (www.cam.ac.uk)
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    Could a Paper Plane Thrown from the ISS Survive the Flight? (www.sciencealert.com)
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    Koala: A benchmark suite for performance-oriented shell-optimization research (github.com)
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    PEP 779: Free-threaded Python is officially supported (docs.python.org)
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    Millions of tonnes of nanoplastics are polluting the ocean (www.nature.com)
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    ChatGPT Guessing Game Leads to Users Extracting Free Windows OS Keys and More (0din.ai)
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    AI is turning Apple into a "loser" (www.axios.com)
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    Async Ruby Is the Future of AI Apps (and It's Already Here) (paolino.me)
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    The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard–It's Worse (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 58 261

    Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes? (simedw.com)
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    Mini robots detect and fix water pipe leaks without digging (www.foxnews.com)
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    YouTube prepares crackdown on mass-produced videos as concern over AI slop grows (techcrunch.com)
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    Browser extensions turn nearly 1M browsers into website-scraping bots (arstechnica.com)
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    Magic .env files built for sharing: Human-first, AI-friendly (varlock.dev)
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    At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto (www.theregister.com)
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    Author of William the Conqueror's 'Medieval Big Data' Project Revealed (www.ox.ac.uk)
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    Kite News (kite.kagi.com)
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    Radiocarbon dating reveals Rapa Nui not as isolated as previously thought (phys.org)
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    How to prove false statements: Practical attacks on Fiat-Shamir (www.quantamagazine.org)
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    Show HN: Typeform was too expensive so I built my own forms (www.ikiform.com)
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    What's your AI development path?
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    Optimizing a Math Expression Parser in Rust (rpallas.xyz)
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    From Task to Table: How I Got to the Korean Burger (medium.com)
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    I made a parody of enterprise AI chatbots (github.com)
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    Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse” (blog.thunderbird.net)
  • 44 153

    Matt Trout has died (www.shadowcat.co.uk)
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    Cmdk – CD anywhere and open anything in your terminal (github.com)
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    I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft (vitalik.eth.limo)
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    Do AI Tutors Empower or Enslave Learners? (arxiv.org)
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    Generic interfaces (go.dev)
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    German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws (therecord.media)
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    El Salvador Tells UN That US Has "Exclusive" Jurisdiction over Detainees (www.techdirt.com)
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    A lightweight Cloudflare Dynamic DNS shell script (github.com)
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    Evaluating the Effectiveness of Memory Safety Sanitizers (www.computer.org)
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    The Persecution of Francesca Albanese (chrishedges.substack.com)
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    Grok 4 Launch [video] (twitter.com)
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    A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity (lithub.com)
  • 42 59

    Code and Trust: Vibrators to Pacemakers (punkx.org)
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    How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? Say "I give up" (www.theregister.com)
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    The case for building operator interfaces before AI agents (www.henrypray.com)
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    Show HN: I built a playground to showcase what Flux Kontext is good at (fluxkontextlab.com)
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    AI Can't Take over Soon Enough for Me (rodyne.com)
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    The Origin of the Research University (asteriskmag.com)
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    Show HN: Virby, a vfkit-based Linux builder for Nix-Darwin (github.com)
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    Your Prize for Saving Time at Work with AI: More Work (www.wsj.com)
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    Ask HN: How is the tech scene in LA?