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  • 0 4

    Wolfram Language and Mathematica Version 15, AI Assistant, Symbolic Music, More (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 0 13

    A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022) (arstechnica.com)
  • 5 22

    NLnet announces funding for 67 more open-source projects (nlnet.nl)
  • 0 16

    Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time (mll.sh)
  • 0 9

    Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered (arstechnica.com)
  • 2 9

    A Nipkow Disk Mechanical TV Simulator (analogtv.net)
  • 39 52

    The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy (www.techdirt.com)
  • 5 17

    Show HN: cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust (github.com)
  • 27 28

    Total Iran Economic Damage Estimate (www.fdd.org)
  • 0 11

    W.H. Auden and James Schuyler in life and literature (hedgehogreview.com)
  • 106 263

    GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 (discuss.grapheneos.org)
  • 16 44

    AI is potentially a Dunning-Kruger effect amplifier (twitter.com)
  • 11 24

    Show HN: VoiceDraw – Talk system design out loud, the diagrams draw themselves (voicedraw.com)
  • 3 34

    ASM Shader Toy (wegfawefgawefg.github.io)
  • 8 23

    Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS (2024) (words.filippo.io)
  • 9 26

    Databricks Launches LTAP: A Unified OLAP/OLTP Data Architecture (www.databricks.com)
  • 89 172

    I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs (ankursethi.com)
  • 0 6

    Show HN: Azure DevOps TUI Management Style (github.com)
  • 232 375

    U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears (www.timescolonist.com)
  • 214 348

    Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless (arseniyshestakov.com)
  • 27 36

    The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear (www.minid.net)
  • 1 27

    Show HN: Sabela – A Reactive Notebook for Haskell (sabela.datahaskell.com)
  • 1 17

    Show HN: Pen and paper resource development game with an emergent world (www.jameshylands.co.uk)
  • 0 7

    Flip TABLE: storing arbitrary data in iNaturalist (exclav.es)
  • 125 119

    Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? (tim.blog)
  • 2 24

    Cooling at the Speed of Light (cacm.acm.org)
  • 130 123

    GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands (www.tno.nl)
  • 105 233

    Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity (therepublicofletters.substack.com)
  • 126 199

    Stop Using JWTs (gist.github.com)
  • 64 83

    10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module (www.gilesthomas.com)
  • 3 18

    The octopus architecture for AI agents (blog.goodman.dev)
  • 40 66

    Specs Augmented Reality Glasses (newsroom.snap.com)
  • 151 178

    Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved] (status.claude.com)
  • 2 68

    Formal Methods and the Future of Programming (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 325 352

    Is Meta destroying its engineering organization? (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
  • 26 45

    Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts (securelist.com)
  • 100 168

    'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York (www.fastcompany.com)
  • 121 224

    TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP (mareksuppa.com)
  • 98 88

    After AI takes everything (ursb.me)
  • 135 97

    Never talk to the police (www.campolalaw.com)
  • 13 80

    Making ast.walk 220x Faster (reflex.dev)
  • 17 112

    Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence (qwen.ai)
  • 168 511

    Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness (www.theverge.com)
  • 13 24

    Infineon to open fab in Germany as part of sovereignty push (sg.finance.yahoo.com)
  • 12 35

    GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz (twitter.com)
  • 94 58

    UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 51 194

    But yak shaving is fun (2019) (parksb.github.io)
  • 18 107

    Fable ban was never about a jailbreak? (techcrunch.com)
  • 3 26

    SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO (techcrunch.com)
  • 10 24

    CJEU: Social networks are the 'publishers' of algorithmically-altered feeds (bsky.app)
  • 28 28

    The history of butterfly swimming (www.swimming.org)
  • 3 133

    Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers (tech.slashdot.org)
  • 407 941

    Running local models is good now (vickiboykis.com)
  • 45 102

    SubQ 1.1 Small (subq.ai)
  • 126 143

    I Fired Google (www.theartofdoingstuff.com)
  • 52 45

    4× RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell on Water, and the One Card That Wouldn't Behave (sabareesh.com)
  • 336 261

    Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers (9to5google.com)
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  • 50 98

    An interview with an Apple emoji designer (shadycharacters.co.uk)
  • 55 66

    Is Fable 5 Back? (isfable5back.com)
  • 32 8

    Show HN: Voice Age Verification (agewarden.ai)
  • 47 85

    'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today (www.theguardian.com)
  • 26 88

    Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator (www.unicorn-engine.org)
  • 39 30

    AskHN:How do you handle skill atrophy from using coding agents?
  • 68 139

    Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland (www.bbc.com)
  • 3 286

    SpaceX Is Buying Cursor (www.bbc.com)
  • 59 168

    The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat (www.rferl.org)
  • 113 609

    Mechanical Watch (2022) (ciechanow.ski)
  • 85 271

    Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 (tck.mn)
  • 6 5

    Electrifying the Cow Path (sebas.fika.bar)
  • 1 10

    Hans Schulz – The father of the VEF Minox lens? (moments-of-now.com)
  • 1251 817

    SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (www.reuters.com)
  • 317 535

    Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers (www.theregister.com)
  • 1 4

    Conquering Recursion (2019) (vector.org.uk)
  • 13 96

    Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org (trinket.strivemath.org)
  • 98 167

    Commodore Releases Flip Phone (commodore.net)
  • 23 169

    Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields (sighack.com)
  • 76 73

    Making espresso with ultrasound (www.unsw.edu.au)
  • 4 16

    Show HN: SharkClean MCP (github.com)
  • 35 116

    Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 0 11

    The Null Is Always False (Except When It Is True) (2014) (daniellakens.blogspot.com)
  • 10 50

    Chili peppers of the world: cultivars, species, and heat (www.notesfromtheroad.com)
  • 416 847

    I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer (twitter.com)
  • 95 260

    I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID (bobdahacker.com)
  • 4 22

    Honeypot Design (bruceediger.com)
  • 25 145

    Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art (garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com)
  • 158 476

    The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 0 11

    Laser Phase Plate Cryo-Electron Microscopy (biohub.org)
  • 87 171

    I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 70 154

    Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch (runtimewire.com)
  • 463 166

    Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion (www.economist.com)
  • 10 57

    The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis (shonczinner.github.io)
  • 72 78

    Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap (ishmeetbindra.com)
  • 133 120

    Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri (www.narracomm.com)
  • 37 133

    Cohere's First Model for Developers (cohere.com)
  • 8 19

    The ghost domain problem in DNS, and what we're doing about it (ohdear.app)
  • 7 19

    Show HN: Claude Code for Visual Studio (native diff with accept/reject) (github.com)
  • 19 55

    An O(x)Caml book that runs (kcsrk.info)
  • 85 78

    San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs (www.kqed.org)
  • 339 568

    Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb (www.richardosgood.com)
  • 83 54

    Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants (www.riksdagen.se)
  • 1 14

    Reviving an abandoned open-source project: 6 years of Atomic Calendar Revive (totaldebug.uk)
  • 94 216

    Why I email complete strangers (www.goodinternetmagazine.com)
  • 3 24

    Commander Keen Games (free book) (forgottenbytes.net)
  • 543 277

    Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible (gmalandrakis.com)
  • 201 253

    What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes (notnotp.com)
  • 54 64

    Techno-libertarians are flocking to the Caribbean (economist.com)
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  • 59 73

    Show HN: Veterinarian turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis (grassdx.com)
  • 24 29

    A calculator that doesn't round (constructive-calculator.dimview.org)
  • 193 225

    US battery manufacturing output continues to break records (fred.stlouisfed.org)
  • 157 298

    I Love the Computer (michaelenger.com)
  • 95 101

    US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says (www.reuters.com)
  • 292 1532

    A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer (roman.pt)
  • 7 39

    US Government Reportedly Allowing Federal Data Center Rules to Expire (gizmodo.com)
  • 40 115

    What every coder should know about gamma (2016) (blog.johnnovak.net)
  • 4 96

    Factoring "short-sleeve" RSA keys with polynomials (blog.trailofbits.com)
  • 115 155

    Claude Corps (www.anthropic.com)
  • 32 138

    Around 200 Stanford students walk out as Google CEO takes stage (www.sfgate.com)
  • 6 28

    The Alaska Server (serialport.org)
  • 79 230

    Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen (forgottenbytes.net)
  • 89 326

    Typst 0.15.0 (typst.app)
  • 1 9

    Building a plugin system without runtime, storage, or shared JavaScript context (tolgee.io)
  • 24 169

    How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data (roszigit.com)
  • 51 110

    Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding (fata.dev)
  • 56 131

    Boot Naked Linux (nick.zoic.org)
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  • 35 90

    Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI (machine0.io)
  • 1 40

    PRC-linked spies hid inside medical and military networks for more than a year (www.theregister.com)
  • 730 525

    Hetzner Price Adjustment (docs.hetzner.com)
  • 224 140

    How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++ (kobzol.github.io)
  • 63 57

    Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture
  • 181 982

    TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed) (tinywind.io)
  • 1 17

    How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts (www.theguardian.com)
  • 4 13

    Show HN: Nxui – Copy-paste animated UI components for Vue (nxui.geoql.in)
  • 2 18

    How to build a virtual cell and biology scaling laws (letter.nikomc.com)
  • 525 1235

    Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
  • 56 356

    My Homelab AI Dev Platform (rsgm.dev)
  • 3 31

    Show HN: Exploiting Slack's video embeds to achieve E2EE communication (v1c.rocks)
  • 50 143

    Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes (maurycyz.com)
  • 138 347

    Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins (www.monash.edu)
  • 422 1348

    Iroh 1.0 (www.iroh.computer)
  • 17 25

    Stdx, Rust's extended standard library (kerkour.com)
  • 8 79

    Fox Is Buying Roku (www.fastcompany.com)
  • 2 272

    Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x
  • 286 137

    Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns? (github.com)
  • 18 17

    I wrote 5000 lines of assembly because I was angry (ujjwalvivek.com)
  • 233 597

    CrankGPT (crankgpt.com)
  • 91 68

    It used to be hard (www.praf.me)
  • 18 42

    Applying Brevity and Language Efficiency in Prompt Engineering (prahladyeri.github.io)
  • 48 147

    Google Flight Simulator (developers.google.com)
  • 12 35

    India, UAE partner on AI sovereignty to bypass Google, Microsoft (restofworld.org)
  • 107 188

    Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 8 26

    Tesla presented misleading 'Full Self-Driving' safety data to European regulator (www.reuters.com)
  • 418 353

    Fox to buy Roku (www.wsj.com)
  • 239 323

    Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B (www.salesforce.com)
  • 150 211

    Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin (www.frontiersin.org)
  • 25 66

    Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine (github.com)
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  • 64 150

    Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI (github.com)
  • 108 116

    Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit (ernesernesto.github.io)
  • 190 211

    Anthropic's Safety Superpower (stratechery.com)
  • 191 96

    Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan (tokyopaladin.substack.com)
  • 84 213

    Openrouter Fusion API (openrouter.ai)
  • 69 56

    Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight (www.axios.com)
  • 57 66

    Being an old school web-based sports sim dev in the era of vibe coded games (zengm.com)
  • 99 47

    UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s (deadline.com)
  • 501 738

    What happened to nerds? (mrmarket.lol)
  • 13 79

    Exploring building a tiny FUSE filesystem (www.shayon.dev)
  • 116 69

    Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 33 103

    There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋) (www.fractalkitty.com)
  • Dalus (YC W25) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Germany (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 222 478

    Apple Foundation Models (platform.claude.com)
  • 313 778

    Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026 (daniel.haxx.se)
  • 55 102

    The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car (kottke.org)
  • 61 107

    Why does paper fold so well? (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 1 18

    David Sacks on Anthropic export control (twitter.com)
  • 54 77

    Prove you're human by winning a claw machine (feralui.vercel.app)
  • 134 353

    Even more batteries included with Emacs (karthinks.com)
  • 61 71

    A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012) (www.markhorrell.com)
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  • 56 142

    21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025) (blog.apnic.net)
  • 51 87

    The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic (psychedelics.co.uk)
  • 57 155

    The rich aren't your role models (theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com)
  • 8 277

    Bitsy (bitsy.org)
  • 81 273

    Write for One Person (wizardzines.com)