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  • 0 5

    Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go (github.com)
  • 2 9

    Periodic Spaces (ianthehenry.com)
  • 24 44

    The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets (www.sciencefocus.com)
  • 1 15

    A thousand-year-long composition turns 25 (2024) (longplayer.org)
  • 2 10

    Using floating point numbers as hash keys (2017) (readafterwrite.wordpress.com)
  • 8 13

    Why I don’t root for the Many Worlds team (nautil.us)
  • 1 43

    Manual: Spaces (type.today)
  • 1 18

    Luarrow – True pipeline operators and elegant Haskell-style function compositio (github.com)
  • 73 115

    Modern Walkmans (walkman.land)
  • 65 91

    Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s (withdocket.com)
  • 0 5

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to Coherent Fabrics: 5 Programming Rules (www.sigarch.org)
  • 85 78

    The web runs on tolerance (shkspr.mobi)
  • 13 18

    Everything that is wrong in museums starts with wall labels (www.aaronland.info)
  • 26 71

    OSHW: Small tablet based on RK3568 and AMOLED screen (oshwhub.com)
  • 6 51

    $30M military wreath charity buys solely from its founders' farm (2023) (www.militarytimes.com)
  • 8 18

    The power of proximity to coworkers [pdf] (pallais.scholars.harvard.edu)
  • 9 40

    Latency Profiling in Python: From Code Bottlenecks to Observability (quant.engineering)
  • 266 356

    Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden (andyljones.com)
  • 20 69

    The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023) (www.untappedcities.com)
  • 6 44

    Scientific and Technical Amateur Radio (destevez.net)
  • 92 258

    The universal weight subspace hypothesis (arxiv.org)
  • 2 24

    Intel 8086 Microcode Explorer (nand2mario.github.io)
  • 126 147

    Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far (www.grocerydive.com)
  • 115 80

    Cassette tapes are making a comeback? (theconversation.com)
  • 71 55

    It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change (help.openai.com)
  • 33 79

    Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph (ampcode.com)
  • 69 43

    Doctors' estimates of the feasibility of preserving the dying for future revival (www.medrxiv.org)
  • 30 29

    The consumption of AI-generated content at scale (www.sh-reya.com)
  • 159 91

    Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks (blockclubchicago.org)
  • 34 41

    Running on Empty: Copper (thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)
  • 185 477

    Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
  • 22 96

    Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams (fanfa.dev)
  • 48 99

    GitHub no longer uses Toasts (primer.style)
  • 36 108

    Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms (www.nber.org)
  • 43 45

    Word spacing (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 1 13

    IBM Z17 Time Synchronization Resiliency Enhancements (planetmainframe.com)
  • 84 72

    Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it (www.nytimes.com)
  • 6 11

    Myocardial Fibrosis in Athletes: Risk Marker or Physiological Adaptation? (www.mdpi.com)
  • 398 265

    Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? (martinalderson.com)
  • 13 20

    Show HN: Persistent memory for Claude Code sessions (github.com)
  • 163 295

    NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle (philippeoger.com)
  • 57 106

    We collected 10k hours of neuro-language data in our basement (condu.it)
  • 6 19

    GitHub Notifications triggered by spam accounts are now correctly hidden (github.blog)
  • 127 350

    Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1 (jepsen.io)
  • 19 157

    Microsoft Download Center Archive (legacyupdate.net)
  • 13 67

    Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing (sql-flow.com)
  • 21 174

    A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos (blog.pkh.me)
  • 31 117

    Quanta to publish popular math and physics books by Terence Tao and David Tong (www.simonsfoundation.org)
  • 1 6

    "The Matilda Effect": How Pioneering Women Are Written Out of Science History (www.openculture.com)
  • 37 78

    How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet (www.theverge.com)
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  • 135 154

    AI should only run as fast as we can catch up (higashi.blog)
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    Apex: Universal Markdown Processor (brettterpstra.com)
  • 72 108

    Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents (www.trynia.ai)
  • Legion Health (YC S21) is hiring a founding engineer (SF, in-person)
  • 341 397

    Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products (www.windowscentral.com)
  • 142 302

    Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued (www3.nhk.or.jp)
  • 130 185

    Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users (www.forbes.com)
  • 88 252

    Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables (nkinternet.com)
  • 66 278

    Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle (tailscale.com)
  • 4 12

    ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse (asml.cyber.harvard.edu)
  • 130 147

    No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me (zerokspot.com)
  • 53 99

    Nova Programming Language (nova-lang.net)
  • 3 7

    Cool Facilities – The David Taylor Model Basin (www.navalgazing.net)
  • 41 243

    AMD GPU Debugger (thegeeko.me)
  • 4 133

    Tsunami warning issued after 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Japan (earthquake.usgs.gov)
  • 39 76

    Berkshire Hathaway Announces Leadership Appointments [pdf] (berkshirehathaway.com)
  • 91 108

    I successfully recreated the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude (theahura.substack.com)
  • 1 136

    7.6 earthquake off the coast of Japan (www.data.jma.go.jp)
  • 78 57

    Wayland Nvidia (kextcache.com)
  • 309 308

    Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros (www.cnbc.com)
  • 211 253

    Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 110 56

    Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts (www.theverge.com)
  • 313 386

    IBM to acquire Confluent (www.confluent.io)
  • 0 20

    C++ Enum Class and Error Codes, Part 3 (mropert.github.io)
  • 7 12

    Show HN: I wrote a book – Debugging TypeScript Applications (in beta) (pragprog.com)
  • 11 22

    AWS introduces Graviton5–the company's most powerful and efficient CPU (www.aboutamazon.com)
  • 17 49

    Colors of Growth (papers.ssrn.com)
  • 406 358

    Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices (office365itpros.com)
  • 88 99

    Alignment is capability (www.off-policy.com)
  • 46 173

    Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB (github.com)
  • 18 12

    Pantone Color of the Year 2026: Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer (www.pantone.com)
  • 3 29

    One too many words on AT&T's $2k Korn shell and other Usenet topics (blog.gabornyeki.com)
  • 0 17

    Sperry/Ford Mark-6 Fire Control Computer (2022) (www.glennsmuseum.com)
  • 77 27

    Solution to US debt crisis is severe austerity triggered by a fiscal calamity (fortune.com)
  • 24 40

    Removing juries: 'A move towards an authoritarian state' (www.theguardian.com)
  • 363 303

    The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks (steerlabs.substack.com)
  • 6 52

    Optimize for momentum (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
  • 23 45

    Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them (theintercept.com)
  • Nango (YC W23) is hiring back-end engineers and dev-rels (remote) (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 113 221

    Bad Dye Job (daringfireball.net)
  • 28 43

    Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules (resurf.me)
  • 0 7

    Guidance: A cheat code for diffusion models (sander.ai)
  • 11 52

    Client-side GPU load balancing with Redis and Lua (galileo.ai)
  • 7 32

    Why Leftover Pizza Might Be Healthier (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 14 19

    'Extraordinary Discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic Site (www.bbc.com)
  • 78 235

    Twelve Days of Shell (12days.cmdchallenge.com)
  • 3 50

    Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems (github.com)
  • 6 24

    Migrating Burningboard.net Mastodon Instance to a Multi-Jail FreeBSD Setup (blog.hofstede.it)
  • 103 124

    Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024) (shaddy.dev)
  • 188 462

    The fuck off contact page (www.nicchan.me)
  • 235 399

    GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst (nesbitt.io)
  • 32 94

    Show HN: Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git (github.com)
  • 91 72

    Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better (frequal.com)
  • 0 5

    Show HN: PVAC FHE over hypergraphs with LPN security (github.com)
  • 35 117

    Show HN: ReadyKit – Superfast SaaS Starter with Multi-Tenant Workspaces (readykit.dev)
  • Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
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  • 84 219

    Emacs is my new window manager (2015) (www.howardism.org)
  • 8 61

    Solving Rush Hour, the Puzzle (2018) (www.michaelfogleman.com)
  • 118 154

    Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed (247wallst.com)
  • 62 230

    Damn Small Linux (www.damnsmalllinux.org)
  • 63 48

    Impacts of working from home on mental health tracked in study of Australians (www.abc.net.au)
  • 121 70

    The era of jobs is ending (www.thepavement.xyz)
  • 57 306

    Turtletoy (turtletoy.net)
  • 6 30

    Noninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for measuring blood glucose (news.mit.edu)
  • 103 81

    Socialist ends by market means: A history (lucasvance.github.io)
  • 46 63

    Vibe coding: Empowering and imprisoning (www.anildash.com)
  • 52 35

    Toyota unintended acceleration and the big bowl of "spaghetti" code (2013) (www.safetyresearch.net)
  • 12 35

    Show HN: Cdecl-dump - represent C declarations visually (github.com)
  • 78 92

    Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 36 82

    Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep (howtech.substack.com)
  • 277 323

    How I block all online ads (troubled.engineer)
  • 4 17

    When exercising copyrights puts a gamedev under threat: My take on GBCOMPO 25 (allalonegamez.itch.io)
  • 111 105

    Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022) (www.niskanencenter.org)
  • 62 67

    Millions of Americans mess up their taxes, but a new law will help (www.wakeuptopolitics.com)