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  • 8 35

    Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake (arstechnica.com)
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    AI's PR Problem (blog.dshr.org)
  • 11 23

    Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology (blog.hydroponictrash.solar)
  • 1 51

    ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs (xenodium.com)
  • 15 28

    Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system? (yoebuild.org)
  • 65 156

    Runing GLM-5.2 on local hardware (unsloth.ai)
  • 183 64

    Job application asked for my SAT scores (mrmarket.lol)
  • 133 93

    Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too (manualdousuario.net)
  • 132 193

    Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs (spur.us)
  • 1 32

    PivCo-Huffman “merge” operations (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
  • Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 70 61

    Canyon HUD helmet for road riding (media-centre.canyon.com)
  • 125 327

    Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed (ipvm.com)
  • 49 53

    Walt Disney Company is the most successful at monetizing human nostalgia [audio] (www.acquired.fm)
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  • 36 94

    Japanese symbols that speak without words (arun.is)
  • 22 99

    Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components (github.com)
  • 54 49

    SpaceX Drops 14% in One Day, Price Now Below IPO Launch (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 221 273

    Jobs and Software Is Fucked (urflow.bearblog.dev)
  • 64 104

    British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres (www.crunchydata.com)
  • 5 12

    A New Book on Plagiarism (www.commentary.org)
  • 33 108

    Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon (www.theregister.com)
  • 139 274

    Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040 (www.cbc.ca)
  • 52 108

    Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration (2025) (lwn.net)
  • 1 22

    How it feels to practice for IOAI in Iran (howitfeels.netlify.app)
  • 20 77

    Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics (www.wespiser.com)
  • 69 200

    My Mathematical Regression (blog.dahl.dev)
  • 49 26

    Bain tests software takeover targets by vibecoding AI replicas (www.ft.com)
  • 6 45

    Steam Machine Launches Today (store.steampowered.com)
  • 18 12

    Five Eyes warns AI models capable of toppling governments are months away (www.theguardian.com)
  • 1 33

    Steam Machine 512GB (store.steampowered.com)
  • 1 55

    Steam Machine game testing (www.lttlabs.com)
  • 156 185

    Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV (gizmodo.com)
  • 0 30

    Show HN: Selector Forge – browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors (github.com)
  • 7 37

    Tata Electronics cyber breach claiming to expose Apple, Tesla trade secrets (www.yahoo.com)
  • 1063 1181

    Steam Machine launches today (store.steampowered.com)
  • 4 14

    The Optimal Amount of Slop Is Non-Zero (www.slater.dev)
  • 57 88

    Blogger defeats photographer's copyright claim (blog.ericgoldman.org)
  • 27 92

    DisplayMate (www.displaymate.com)
  • 79 148

    Prompt Injection as Role Confusion (role-confusion.github.io)
  • Charge Robotics (YC S21) Is Hiring Software and Hardware Engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 84 143

    NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say (www.science.org)
  • 7 49

    UUID: NewV7() always generates a UUID with 7000 on browsers (Golang) (github.com)
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  • 72 45

    Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend (github.com)
  • 38 88

    Nintendo Wii U games running from a 1980's Bernoulli disk [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 140 144

    Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents (oak.space)
  • 12 35

    Rive, Fast and reliable background jobs in Go (github.com)
  • 53 122

    DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships (www.wsj.com)
  • 11 23

    I built Ponytrail, a local audit trail for AI coding-agent edits (github.com)
  • 191 272

    The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output (patrickmccanna.net)
  • 109 118

    Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center (www.chevron.com)
  • 64 227

    Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance (hustvl.github.io)
  • 9 50

    Granularity comes at a cost (www.sidhantbansal.com)
  • 18 80

    Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter (2020) (www.righto.com)
  • 387 690

    Never Give Them Your Face (nevergivethemyourface.com)
  • 46 82

    Nvidia Halos (www.nvidia.com)
  • 98 137

    Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site (puzzlelair.com)
  • 245 723

    Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation (mitchellh.com)
  • 4 33

    Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara on Her 100th "Little People, Big Dreams" Book (www.amightygirl.com)
  • 45 33

    WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History (medium.com)
  • 204 204

    Alan Greenspan has died (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 97 99

    window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world (steveharrison.dev)
  • 109 207

    Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers (www.davidrevoy.com)
  • 80 100

    Becoming a dad changes men's brains (www.scientificamerican.com)
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    Manticore Search 27.1.5: Auth, sharding, conversational and faster vector search (manticoresearch.com)
  • 117 49

    Britain's prime minister to step down, Burnham puts himself forward as successor (www.reuters.com)
  • 10 19

    UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025) (clisystems.com)
  • 16 29

    LLMs do not merely reflect the bias of their training, they police it (2025) (twitter.com)
  • 18 41

    Writing Postcards with a 3D Printer (severinbucher.com)
  • 8 6

    Use AI for reviewing code especially when the diff is huge (simianwords.bearblog.dev)
  • 3 19

    Luis Alvarez's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 71 94

    Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time (www.fca.org.uk)
  • 46 93

    My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992 (blog.plover.com)
  • 94 210

    Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom (people.idsia.ch)
  • 319 482

    GLM 5.2 vs. Opus (techstackups.com)
  • 252 462

    Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs (github.com)
  • 18 114

    Lisp in the Rust Type System (github.com)
  • 370 1023

    Deno Desktop (docs.deno.com)
  • 6 18

    Shape Suffixes – Good Coding Style (medium.com)
  • 7 6

    How the dark, violent medieval origins of Robin Hood were erased (www.bbc.com)
  • 396 413

    Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police (twitter.com)
  • 16 66

    Chinas War on Female Delusion (mamathemagazine.com)
  • 33 98

    Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs: Chapter 4/part 2 (6it.dev)
  • 10 51

    Canadian government spent $46.8M on a secret Palantir contract (theijf.org)
  • 27 33

    The Flat Curve Society (steve-yegge.medium.com)
  • 120 483

    Help I accidentally a wigglegram (lmao.center)
  • 117 212

    Sakana Fugu (sakana.ai)
  • 23 67

    You're probably using Agent Skills wrong (notes.ansonbiggs.com)
  • 43 172

    Memory Safe Inline Assembly (fil-c.org)
  • 25 75

    1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone (www.oldtelephoneroom.ca)
  • 6 33

    Architecting a Conversion Engine in Swift (blog.minimal.app)
  • 151 141

    The Doom Justifies the Valuation (geohot.github.io)
  • 8 42

    My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992 (blog.plover.com)
  • 46 203

    Good results fine tuning a local LLM like Qwen 3:0.6B to categorize questions (www.teachmecoolstuff.com)
  • 77 76

    Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models (mcipetition.com)
  • 38 34

    Claude: Elevated Error Rates for Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6 (status.claude.com)
  • 0 20

    New Super Pac Aims to Rally Tech Workers to Help Limit A.I (www.nytimes.com)
  • 7 16

    Show HN: StartupsBR – A map of Brazilian startups (www.startupsbr.com)
  • 10 15

    Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript? (brainfrog.lol)
  • 54 174

    Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf (the-criterion-closet.vercel.app)
  • 21 43

    Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs (minipcs.zip)
  • 1 14

    Show HN: HN Game Stories – mini-documentary of games that hit the front page (video.intellios.ai)
  • 1 5

    Norway Bans AI for Kids 6-13 in Schools (yipzap.com)