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  • 3 36

    Norway Salmon (www.abc.net.au)
  • 22 74

    A Rant About “Technology” (2005) (www.ursulakleguin.com)
  • 6 27

    The Seinfeld Chronicles: Digital Edition (seinfeld.visualisingdata.com)
  • 6 38

    Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2 (16-bits.org)
  • 11 30

    Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective (blog.rust-lang.org)
  • 9 13

    I made a Promise-aware debounce and throttle library for TypeScript (github.com)
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  • 17 60

    F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language (fstar-lang.org)
  • 6 35

    ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification (peterneufeld.wordpress.com)
  • 4 57

    Folding Paper Globes (foldingglobes.com)
  • 78 56

    Has the New Cocaine Arrived? (playboy.substack.com)
  • 11 79

    Twenty Years of RISC OS Open (www.riscosopen.org)
  • 65 47

    The Vanishing Page: AI Firms Scan Then Destroy Rare Book Editions (dallasexpress.com)
  • 3 20

    Show HN: Katharos Functional programming and CSP-style concurrency for Python (github.com)
  • 9 53

    Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language (fuselang.org)
  • 56 39

    Only 8.9% of sites block AI crawlers, but 94.8% are never cited in AI answers (website-auditor.io)
  • 41 44

    An internal OpenAI Astra model solved 10 major open math and CS problems (twitter.com)
  • Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 12 113

    Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side (meshdiff.com)
  • 202 240

    Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 90 32

    Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books (arxiv.org)
  • 16 83

    Holocloth (holocloth.vercel.app)
  • 79 126

    US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market (www.ft.com)
  • 74 36

    Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today? (mattsclancy.github.io)
  • 21 81

    Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge (publicdomainreview.org)
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    Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops (getbor.dev)
  • 14 17

    Police in the US are making their own true crime podcasts (www.bbc.com)
  • 28 45

    IBM i (OS/400) the Database Operating System (osadmins.com)
  • 0 4

    Agent4Lease (agent4lease.com)
  • 50 39

    Mathematics Without Mathematicians (borretti.me)
  • 42 41

    Cyberscript (cyberscript.dev)
  • 20 56

    Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores (github.com)
  • 52 38

    Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours (www.uclahealth.org)
  • 10 20

    Instrumenting my espresso machine with OpenTelemetry (clickhouse.com)
  • 25 43

    The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago (mastodon.online)
  • 3 21

    Show HN: Logan Basic v2.1 - An online BASIC interpreter. (sinusoft.com)
  • 141 136

    I don't recommend Tailwind CSS (en.andros.dev)
  • 5 10

    Show HN: Tone Generator (soundtonegenerator.com)
  • 8 13

    CRM: An open-source, agentic-first CRM (github.com)
  • 60 50

    Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals (www.theintrinsicperspective.com)
  • 114 30

    Australia's social media ban has failed (www.reuters.com)
  • 157 194

    A big win for Android interoperability (www.openhomefoundation.org)
  • 6 60

    Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components (elenajs.com)
  • 38 23

    Canadians are leaving the country at record levels. Can anyone solve this? (thehub.ca)
  • 8 20

    P[drive failure]: how reliable is your NAS? (khz.ac)
  • 19 31

    The Prospects for 128 Bit Processors ( John Mashey SGI 1995) (yarchive.net)
  • 40 34

    Don't credit the LLM (isaacsu.com)
  • 89 175

    Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300 (www.wafer.ai)
  • 38 32

    OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf] (philarchive.org)
  • 8 14

    The Cipher Behind QSYRUPWD: Reconstructing IBM i Password Hashes (blog.silentsignal.eu)
  • 83 169

    Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America (old.reddit.com)
  • 42 87

    Deep-sea vehicles spot 'alien' sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific (www.science.org)
  • 22 45

    The teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 12

    The Theater of Sport: Bill Buford Revisits Among the Thugs (www.theparisreview.org)
  • 124 95

    Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow (www.regen.co.uk)
  • 8 81

    MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150 (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
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  • 40 78

    When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work (insider.btcpp.dev)
  • 8 20

    Show HN: CostPerPrompt – Live AI API pricing and real-workload cost calculators (costperprompt.com)
  • 80 115

    Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter (chrismorgan.info)
  • 79 246

    Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built (github.com)
  • 9 28

    Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment (rodneybrooks.com)
  • 33 20

    Why Is Europe Burning? (www.newyorker.com)
  • 98 106

    China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines (www.reuters.com)
  • 4 16

    Art Invented Humanity (aeon.co)
  • 38 95

    ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine (plug-world.com)
  • 7 23

    AI opens new era in cognitive studies of wild primates (news.emory.edu)
  • 9 10

    The Greenhouse and the Lens: Two Modes of Agentic AI Work (www.brethorsting.com)
  • 1 16

    A Uiua Type System (2025) (www.uiua.org)
  • 2 13

    Kobuk the Destroyer – Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering (wwnorton.com)
  • 2 8

    Moore's Law for Everything (2021) (moores.samaltman.com)
  • 4 10

    Persistent State Machines: LLM Attention with INT4 In-Memory Cells (zenodo.org)
  • 0 5

    Walsh: Multi-agent research pipeline with risk manager that can veto trades (github.com)
  • 145 296

    Go 1.27 Interactive Tour (victoriametrics.com)
  • 17 53

    We accidentally built an LLVM compiler for Jax (iza.ac)
  • 7 18

    Designing Icons (m3.material.io)
  • 17 72

    RFC 10015: Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 (www.rfc-editor.org)
  • 33 33

    A stray commit buried multiple levels deep cost me months (www.droppedasbaby.com)
  • 0 16

    Show HN: Legionlinuxtui – Control Lenovo legion laptops in the terminal (github.com)
  • 46 185

    Anime User Interfaces (animeuserinterface.tumblr.com)
  • 43 101

    Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation (www.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
  • 39 52

    Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI (www.youtube.com)
  • Morph (YC S23) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 3 9

    Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
  • 358 322

    AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions (mitsloan.mit.edu)
  • 65 111

    YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview (sfstandard.com)
  • 219 403

    Seedance 2.5 (seed.bytedance.com)
  • 12 14

    The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone (shub.club)
  • 10 35

    Scanning 7.6 Petabytes of HuggingFace Training Data for Secrets (trufflesecurity.com)
  • 150 230

    The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder (zaksa.zip)
  • 50 437

    Diátaxis (diataxis.fr)
  • 0 4

    I made Squirrel game with Flutter and Flame (danvilela.com)
  • 2 12

    Show HN: Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust (episko.dev)
  • 44 50

    Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now (www.worseonpurpose.com)
  • 119 118

    Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future (arstechnica.com)
  • 28 27

    Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned (www.dailymail.com)
  • 67 90

    CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting (censys.com)
  • 9 105

    But can your calculator run Linux? (raymii.org)
  • 31 36

    Fermi Paradox (en.wikipedia.org)
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  • 203 567

    How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) (openrss.org)
  • 1 14

    Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink (2023) [pdf] (radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu)
  • 201 276

    Google has abandoned Google News? (elgan.com)
  • 44 62

    Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe? (www.theguardian.com)
  • 15 78

    Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 74 60

    Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices (www.npr.org)
  • 59 160

    Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576 (leodemoura.github.io)
  • 56 97

    Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
  • 48 33

    Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken (franken.domains)
  • 142 298

    NetBSD 11.0 (blog.netbsd.org)
  • 91 154

    Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga (www.seriouseats.com)
  • 13 91

    Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor (glyphsapp.com)
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  • 7 14

    Twelve Years Without a VPN (khessin.de)
  • 99 90

    BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat (www.theautopian.com)
  • 2 14

    Floundering A.I. 'Nostradamus' Hedge Fund Is Rescued by Rival (www.nytimes.com)
  • 6 8

    Toast IDE Gets Markdown Spell Checking (github.com)
  • 4 10

    Assessment of open AI math results (twitter.com)
  • 10 56

    Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter (kaisel.dev)
  • 47 23

    I Fired My AI Assitant (chreke.com)
  • 7 5

    DNS propagation checker that shows the results as a box of 24 donuts (donutdns.com)
  • 89 175

    A directory of people who love RSS (andrewshell.org)
  • 8 28

    Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity (rjp.io)
  • 62 33

    Ask HN: Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science?
  • 48 67

    Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast (brandur.org)
  • 2 10

    Crystal Wars – turn-based strategy on a fresh Voronoi map every match (play.crystalwars.io)
  • 79 66

    Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran (www.nytimes.com)
  • 150 328

    Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export (forum.cursor.com)
  • 26 107

    Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses (alexiglad.github.io)
  • 3 18

    Indexing the Data Lake for Online Point Queries (engineering.atspotify.com)
  • 131 87

    GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement (lalitm.com)
  • 128 130

    On the non-use of AI in my writing process (www.antipope.org)
  • 69 54

    Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages (news.yale.edu)
  • 111 227

    The Art of 64-bit Assembly (nostarch.com)
  • 1 20

    Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8) (rsadowski.de)
  • 73 36

    How to Spot AI Writing (www.economist.com)
  • 162 297

    A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention (www.michaelgeist.ca)
  • 45 122

    Linux on ESP32 (github.com)
  • 10 32

    Astro Loop (pubdeer.com)
  • 102 62

    Google kills Earth AI generator after one day (twitter.com)
  • 11 45

    Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team (lists.archlinux.org)
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  • 187 276

    RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches (github.com)
  • 7 35

    The First Idempotency Key (hatchet.run)
  • 3 9

    John Bell and the most obscure journal in physics (physicsworld.com)
  • Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 32 127

    Manual: •.,:;…!?· (type.today)
  • 105 75

    EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2 (www.engadget.com)
  • 4 23

    AWS Secrets Manager Terraform: Least-Privilege Access (blog.victorsilva.com.uy)
  • 69 89

    How to Do Great Work (2023) (paulgraham.com)
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  • 39 101

    Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers (github.com)
  • 287 258

    AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job (weeraman.com)
  • 122 239

    RamenHaus (ramen.haus)
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  • 5 83

    G'mic 4.0: Squaring the Pixel, Easier (gmic.eu)
  • 307 441

    Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
  • 2 11

    When Internal Memory Fails: A No-Solder Wii U Recovery (smolnero.com)
  • 78 36

    A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies (economist.com)
  • 65 219

    The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
  • 168 194

    Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified (nascompares.com)
  • 2 9

    History remembers two Robert McNamaras (indevelopmentmag.com)
  • 65 45

    What liberal arts education is for (2024) (innig.net)
  • 58 37

    Firefighter arson a long-standing issue – expert (www.firerescue1.com)
  • 11 70

    Attention Decode on AMD MI450 GPUs: A Gluon Kernel Optimization Guide (rocm.blogs.amd.com)
  • 1 3

    What Is MiniMax H3? Everything You Need to Know About the Hailuo 3.0 Video Model (minimaxh3.art)
  • 74 88

    A week in Matrix (piegames.de)
  • 162 237

    BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising (consumerrights.wiki)
  • 86 164

    The development pipeline is a production system (sundry.jerryorr.com)
  • 2 8

    Printing floating point numbers in binary (www.johndcook.com)
  • 1 7

    Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator [video] (www.infoq.com)
  • 68 266

    Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era (microsoft.github.io)
  • 263 256

    Software for One (www.ajwaxman.com)
  • 234 389

    How to Exist (www.raptitude.com)
  • 39 59

    Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth (www.digitaldigging.org)
  • 64 89

    Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019) (www.phidgets.com)
  • 9 14

    Anime Professions (github.com)