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  • 3 6

    In Search of a Discord Replacement (no-bull.sh)
  • 0 4

    Semantic Diffusion (2006) (martinfowler.com)
  • 1 4

    TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant) (github.com)
  • 3 19

    A DuckDB-based metabase alternative (github.com)
  • Stardex (YC S21) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 7 24

    Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code (paraschopra.github.io)
  • 0 10

    Show HN: Breadboard – a modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas (breadboards.io)
  • 12 49

    Terminals should generate the 256-color palette (gist.github.com)
  • 0 5

    Automatia and the Case for Vanilla (fwsgonzo.medium.com)
  • 80 247

    15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram (nvie.com)
  • 2 16

    Quamina and Claude, Case 1 (www.tbray.org)
  • 25 27

    The Economics of a Super Bowl Ad (ro.co)
  • 199 235

    Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway (cleantechnica.com)
  • 0 5

    A Brief History of Xenopus (www.asimov.press)
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  • 194 367

    Halt and Catch Fire: TV's Best Drama You've Probably Never Heard Of (2021) (www.sceneandheardnu.com)
  • 14 71

    Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990 (www.vogons.org)
  • 4 58

    It's not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage (9to5google.com)
  • 1 18

    Create bootable ISO image files which are compatible with the Amiga CD32 (github.com)
  • 278 400

    Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity (fortune.com)
  • 44 77

    How I use Obsidian (2023) (stephango.com)
  • 28 91

    Minimal x86 Kernel Zig (github.com)
  • 10 43

    Use Microsoft Office Shortcuts in Libre Office (github.com)
  • 59 69

    Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations (waymo.com)
  • 5 17

    The Godless Students of London University (www.historytoday.com)
  • 39 137

    YouTube Is Down (downdetector.com)
  • 136 241

    Google Public CA is down (status.pki.goog)
  • 78 68

    Rathbun's Operator (crabby-rathbun.github.io)
  • 12 42

    Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans (gizmodo.com)
  • 2 13

    Old School Telecine, circa 1980s (2017) (www.liftgammagain.com)
  • 12 52

    'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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  • 51 148

    I swear the UFO is coming any minute (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 2 21

    pg_background: Make Postgres do the long work (while your session stays light) (vibhorkumar.wordpress.com)
  • 75 729

    Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
  • 1 27

    Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries (alexanderbjoy.com)
  • 50 44

    After 800 episodes, 'The Simpsons' creators look back and ahead (apnews.com)
  • 81 71

    Claims of disability are highest at elite universities (www.robkhenderson.com)
  • 2 17

    Dolphin Emulator – Rise of the Triforce (br.dolphin-emu.org)
  • 102 270

    BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (github.com)
  • 25 62

    Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript (github.com)
  • 34 93

    Assistant to the Regional Manager (smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net)
  • 73 41

    Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible (www.pricepoints.health)
  • Structured AI (YC F25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 43 55

    Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station (www.kpbj.fm)
  • 5 40

    Contra "Grandmaster-level chess without search" (2024) (cosmo.tardis.ac)
  • 78 107

    An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout (theshamblog.com)
  • 92 84

    Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026 (dzrh.com.ph)
  • 18 27

    The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 39 97

    Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it (www.usatoday.com)
  • 65 206

    Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat (arstechnica.com)
  • 39 354

    Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway (asteroidos.org)
  • 237 431

    Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans (electrek.co)
  • 169 84

    Russia's economy has entered the death zone (www.economist.com)
  • 14 94

    Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 34 107

    Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File (github.com)
  • 125 234

    Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification (kotaku.com)
  • 50 49

    Don't pass on small block ciphers (00f.net)
  • 26 77

    Claude Sonnet 4.6 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 926 1054

    Claude Sonnet 4.6 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 110 318

    Gentoo on Codeberg (www.gentoo.org)
  • 12 55

    Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps (fuji.halfof8.com)
  • 61 138

    A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+ (twitter.com)
  • 65 47

    Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware? (semiengineering.com)
  • 0 15

    Show HN: Clawntown – An Evolving Crustacean Island (clawntown.lol)
  • 74 86

    Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School (www.404media.co)
  • 7 40

    Show HN: Continue – Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI (docs.continue.dev)
  • 77 102

    Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other (mage-bench.com)
  • 69 327

    Using go fix to modernize Go code (go.dev)
  • 74 197

    Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp (berksoft.ca)
  • 8 31

    Show HN: 6cy – Experimental streaming archive format with per-block codecs (github.com)
  • 76 144

    Chess engines do weird stuff (girl.surgery)
  • 13 27

    Launch HN: Sonarly (YC W26) – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts (sonarly.com)
  • 50 188

    Async/Await on the GPU (www.vectorware.com)
  • 11 36

    Labyrinth Locator (labyrinthlocator.org)
  • 29 62

    Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart (hannahritchie.substack.com)
  • 84 210

    So you want to build a tunnel (practical.engineering)
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  • Trata (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (NYC)
  • 147 295

    HackMyClaw (hackmyclaw.com)
  • 15 23

    Show HN: I built a simulated AI containment terminal for my sci-fi novel (vertex.flowlogix.ai)
  • 221 486

    CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 2 19

    Show HN: Cycast – High-performance radio streaming server written in Python (github.com)
  • 184 247

    Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring (www.theregister.com)
  • 51 33

    Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball (priceperball.net)
  • 53 33

    This is What It's Like to Spend Your Life in Prison (2023) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 8 26

    Claude Code talking about unexpected, different projects
  • 328 180

    America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital (www.governance.fyi)
  • 48 247

    I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D (aeris.edbn.me)
  • 11 73

    Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite (notnotp.com)
  • 8 18

    The mathematical mystery inside the legendary '90s shooter Quake 3 (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 116 82

    Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 151 239

    A Programmer's Loss of Identity (ratfactor.com)
  • 41 42

    Undo in Vi and Its Successors (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 69 62

    Rethinking High-School Science Fairs (asteriskmag.com)
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  • 1 15

    How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy (paulkrugman.substack.com)
  • 11 22

    Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence (www.mpg.de)
  • 5 42

    The Rev. Jesse Jackson, pioneering civil rights activist, dies at 84 (www.cnn.com)
  • 55 68

    How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is (www.newscientist.com)
  • 386 462

    Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning (www.arthurcnops.blog)
  • 790 1109

    GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple (blog.tomaszdunia.pl)
  • 52 55

    Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like (oceandrops.substack.com)
  • 180 163

    WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 (www.heise.de)
  • 8 13

    Slopware AI: Ship Garbage Even Faster (slopware.ai)
  • 0 6

    The Professor of the Lower Senses (www.vittlesmagazine.com)
  • 47 158

    Xbox UI Portfolio Site (gabrielcabrera.co)
  • 44 69

    Show HN: I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer) (github.com)
  • 21 161

    Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser (glitchycam.com)
  • 27 143

    Rendering the Visible Spectrum (brandonli.net)
  • 46 69

    Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction (www.bbc.com)
  • 14 71

    SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution (svardos.org)
  • 127 192

    Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)
  • 78 331

    Four Column ASCII (2017) (garbagecollected.org)
  • 140 180

    Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout (vo2maxpro.com)
  • 152 193

    Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents? (arxiv.org)
  • 6 19

    Portable 1MV X-ray system combines Cockcroft–Walton with Van de Graaff dome (www.lanl.gov)
  • 83 83

    Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market (www.cnbc.com)
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  • 57 160

    A deep dive into Apple's .car file format (dbg.re)
  • 74 61

    Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems (newsletter.mikekonczal.com)
  • 45 92

    DBASE on the Kaypro II (stonetools.ghost.io)
  • 91 67

    Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm (www.bbc.com)
  • 88 67

    What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf] (www.complang.tuwien.ac.at)
  • 63 107

    Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI (codemade.net)
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  • 39 82

    Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (www.openculture.com)
  • 345 553

    Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse (www.bbc.com)
  • 329 403

    AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  • 4 10

    Show HN: Journey – A Custom 2D ECS Game Engine Written in Rust and WGPU (ujjwalvivek.com)
  • 29 23

    Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips (arstechnica.com)