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  • 1 3

    The Soul of an Old Machine (skalski.dev)
  • 0 5

    The Life and Death of the Book Review (libertiesjournal.com)
  • 0 7

    Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents (www.rilldata.com)
  • 1 8

    Democratic AI to serve the public – OneProject.org (oneproject.org)
  • 6 47

    Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system (pijul.org)
  • 3 19

    New synthesis of astronomical measurements shows Hubble tension is real (noirlab.edu)
  • 48 102

    Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023) (khronokernel.com)
  • 53 107

    447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane (zenodo.org)
  • 9 86

    Dark Castle (darkcastle.co.uk)
  • 12 40

    What Is a Property? (alperenkeles.com)
  • 63 55

    One neat trick to end extreme poverty (www.economist.com)
  • 24 10

    Show HN: Editing 2000 photos made me build a macOS bulk photo editor (apps.apple.com)
  • 44 169

    How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next (rdi.berkeley.edu)
  • 44 44

    Layoff Thinking (blogs.newardassociates.com)
  • 8 35

    The APL programming language source code (2012) (computerhistory.org)
  • 5 51

    Killing of Hind Rajab (2024) (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 4 63

    How to build a `Git diff` driver (www.jvt.me)
  • 72 64

    Mexican surveillance company Grupo Seguritech watches the U.S. border (restofworld.org)
  • 44 199

    Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D (flight-viz.com)
  • 54 162

    The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet (www.osnews.com)
  • 20 70

    Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy (planetscale.com)
  • 5 54

    Phone Trips (www.wideweb.com)
  • 198 733

    Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found (aisle.com)
  • 42 87

    Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom (kotaku.com)
  • 2 9

    Can It Resolve Doom? Game Engine in 2k DNS Records (blog.rice.is)
  • 49 176

    Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS (www.v68k.org)
  • 50 152

    Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust (notes.brooklynzelenka.com)
  • 124 198

    The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances (aphyr.com)
  • 9 33

    Borges' cartographers and the tacit skill of reading LM output (galsapir.github.io)
  • 35 95

    The Problem That Built an Industry (ajitem.com)
  • 2 12

    Brazil seizes over 1,100 weapons and 1.5 tons of drugs from US, says official (www.reuters.com)
  • 13 61

    Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus (www.thehistoryblog.com)
  • 2 35

    Cooperative Vectors Introduction (www.evolvebenchmark.com)
  • 82 293

    South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access (www.theregister.com)
  • 11 66

    How much linear memory access is enough? (solidean.com)
  • 111 222

    Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI (cirruslabs.org)
  • 191 211

    Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops (www.coindesk.com)
  • 16 51

    Show HN: Hormuz Havoc, a satirical game that got overrun by AI bots in 24 hours (www.hormuz-havoc.com)
  • 87 72

    How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home (www.bbc.com)
  • 115 147

    Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war (www.theguardian.com)
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  • 9 27

    A New Way to Spray Paint Color (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 70 46

    Artemis II is competency porn (lizplank.substack.com)
  • 47 145

    How Passive Radar Works (www.passiveradar.com)
  • 9 23

    BlueHammer abuses Windows Defender's update process to gain SYSTEM access (hackingpassion.com)
  • 182 349

    Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
  • 0 25

    Sybilproof reputation mechanisms (2005) [pdf] (dl.acm.org)
  • 227 402

    France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk (www.xda-developers.com)
  • 9 20

    Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd (moooo.farm)
  • 30 243

    Optimal Strategy for Connect 4 (2swap.github.io)
  • 56 43

    The Seasons Are Wrong (kentwalters.com)
  • 65 338

    Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove (apnews.com)
  • 12 30

    Flashback to a time when government reports were works of art (www.chicagotribune.com)
  • 19 33

    Tesla's supervised self-driving software gets Dutch okay, first in Europe (www.reuters.com)
  • 45 118

    Productive Procrastination (www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl)
  • 54 42

    Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply (www.bbc.com)
  • 60 240

    20 years on AWS and never not my job (www.daemonology.net)
  • 0 7

    Static code analysis in Kotlin – tools overview (blog.allegro.tech)
  • 136 546

    Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file (playstarfling.com)
  • 33 81

    Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool (github.com)
  • 61 101

    The Zettelkasten method in Obsidian (desktopcommander.app)
  • 44 130

    Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources (taintedcoders.com)
  • 26 74

    Investigating Split Locks on x86-64 (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 25 73

    PGLite Evangelism (substack.com)
  • 394 1229

    Artemis II safely splashes down (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 20 113

    Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty (www.historytoday.com)
  • 17 120

    The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  • 59 44

    Has Mythos just broken the deal that kept the internet safe? (martinalderson.com)
  • 862 342

    Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident (blog.samaltman.com)
  • 76 627

    Installing every* Firefox extension (jack.cab)
  • 607 1290

    Filing the corners off my MacBooks (kentwalters.com)
  • 13 49

    Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache (vinyl-cache.org)
  • 12 31

    Simulating a 2D Quadcopter from Scratch (mrandri19.github.io)
  • 34 66

    Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work (eve.new)
  • 48 84

    Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more (scitechdaily.com)
  • 166 145

    OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break (blog.nishantsoni.com)
  • 20 52

    A security scanner as fast as a linter – written in Rust (github.com)
  • 22 107

    DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Accord (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 64 247

    DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public (theintercept.com)
  • 284 213

    Nowhere is safe (steveblank.com)
  • 370 489

    AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel (github.com)
  • 252 416

    Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers (www.bbc.com)
  • 108 132

    What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical (ubuntu.com)
  • 17 17

    "Not Even Government Agencies" - Proton's misleading marketing (blog.ppb1701.com)
  • 132 275

    JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware (github.com)
  • 36 80

    Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python (codeberg.org)
  • 8 109

    Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go (eli.thegreenplace.net)
  • 588 243

    Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman (www.nytimes.com)
  • 33 141

    Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript (fluidcad.io)
  • 4 5

    Claude AI Assistant for Microsoft Office (pivot.claude.ai)
  • 17 25

    Autonomy Is Real Now (steelforfuel.substack.com)
  • 15 41

    The best seat in town (www.torched.la)
  • 3 36

    Adobe Diddles with Your /etc./Hosts File (old.reddit.com)
  • 82 76

    Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs (twill.ai)
  • 72 110

    HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X (torrentfreak.com)
  • 143 280

    A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it (ericwbailey.website)
  • 0 5

    Investigating Split Locks on x86-64 (chipsandcheese.com)
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  • 35 69

    The difficulty of making sure your website is broken (letsencrypt.org)
  • Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 40 63

    Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C# (nockawa.github.io)
  • 89 53

    Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members (www.theguardian.com)
  • 139 446

    Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice (github.com)
  • 21 155

    Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures (andreyor.st)
  • 73 137

    Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem (pckt.blog)
  • 155 535

    WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution (lists.zx2c4.com)
  • 159 957

    1D Chess (rowan441.github.io)
  • 101 391

    CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (www.theregister.com)
  • 257 357

    Helium is hard to replace (www.construction-physics.com)
  • 165 492

    You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings (eclecticlight.co)
  • 680 588

    France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech (techcrunch.com)
  • 10 45

    C++: Freestanding Standard Library (www.sandordargo.com)
  • 10 41

    Names and faces of those killed by Israel in its April 8 massacre (today.lorientlejour.com)
  • 38 76

    "Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says (arstechnica.com)
  • 11 18

    Born Private: Reserve your child's first email address with Proton (proton.me)
  • 6 27

    Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on "vibe coding" (arstechnica.com)
  • 63 121

    Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate (kerkour.com)
  • 98 137

    Code is run more than read (2023) (olano.dev)
  • 94 106

    US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model (www.theguardian.com)
  • 112 51

    Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 3 17

    Consumer sentiment plummets to record low as Iran war jacks up inflation (www.cnn.com)
  • 1 125

    CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (old.reddit.com)
  • 71 41

    Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster (relocateme.substack.com)
  • 4 35

    Deterministic Primality Testing for Limited Bit Width (www.jeremykun.com)
  • 49 42

    Ads in ChatGPT (help.openai.com)
  • 31 46

    Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke Ext4 Hardlinks (blog.discourse.org)
  • 102 95

    The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 13 29

    Show HN: QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications
  • 24 105

    Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf] (www.cis.upenn.edu)
  • 319 439

    OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable (www.wired.com)
  • 136 54

    Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men? (text.npr.org)
  • 34 135

    Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents (github.com)
  • 80 149

    White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 163 185

    Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989 (dfarq.homeip.net)
  • 302 612

    FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages (9to5mac.com)
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  • 136 364

    Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 1 8

    Sorting Performance Rabbit Hole (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
  • 7 7

    We're Getting the Wrong Message from Mythos (danielmiessler.com)
  • 1 849

    France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins (www.numerique.gouv.fr)
  • 74 105

    Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons (www.loskutoff.com)
  • 6 25

    Untaxed hidden wealth surpasses wealth of the poorest half of humanity (www.oxfam.org)
  • 61 50

    US plans to automatically register young men for military draft (www.bbc.com)
  • 32 62

    Show HN: Keeper – embedded secret store for Go (help me break it) (github.com)
  • 15 52

    The Art of Risk Management (2017) (www.bcg.com)
  • 91 90

    Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real (www.nature.com)
  • 67 84

    Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon (www.ansto.gov.au)
  • 76 159

    Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia (www.ucdavis.edu)
  • 12 14

    Zero-build privacy policies with Astro (www.openpolicy.sh)
  • 52 231

    Team from ETH Zurich make high quality quantum swap gate using a geometric phase (ethz.ch)
  • 18 32

    War on Raze (gist.github.com)
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  • 2 21

    Knit File Formats (soup.agnescameron.info)
  • 15 35

    The tool that won't let AI say anything it can't cite (github.com)
  • 104 161

    YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription (pocketables.com)
  • 0 17

    VFX HQ: Visual Effects Headquarters (2000) (www.vfxhq.com)
  • 2 18

    Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250{,XY?} (jcs.org)
  • CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 64 184

    Afrika Bambaataa has died (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 34 178

    Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects (blog.kagi.com)
  • 29 132

    The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019) (www.cockroachlabs.com)
  • 19 83

    Principles of Mechanical Sympathy (martinfowler.com)
  • 727 326

    We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git (blog.gitbutler.com)
  • 141 227

    New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK (bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)
  • 5 15

    Resident Evil Requiem with Denuvo DRM Cracked (pastebin.com)
  • 365 446

    I still prefer MCP over skills (david.coffee)
  • 149 391

    DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 56 66

    Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Concepts (futurism.com)
  • 67 231

    Generative art over the years (blog.veitheller.de)
  • 5 13

    Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD (lwn.net)
  • 45 102

    Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem (www.elevenforum.com)
  • 3 33

    Show HN: Rust based eBook library for Python, with MIT license (github.com)
  • 7 29

    How Close Is Too Close? Applying Fluid Dynamics Research Methods to PC Cooling (www.lttlabs.com)
  • 227 623

    How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer (cacm.acm.org)