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    voyage-context-3: Contextual Retrieval Without the LLM (blog.voyageai.com)
  • 11 35

    Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023) (dewesoft.com)
  • 1 6

    Windows Directory Structure Synchronizer (github.com)
  • 17 58

    Mountain of Ink (mountainofink.com)
  • 19 35

    LLM leaderboard – Comparing models from OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek and others (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 38 37

    Age verification doesn't need to be a privacy footgun (soatok.blog)
  • 12 22

    Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs (github.com)
  • 3 18

    Telephone colophon: Or, how I overengineered my call audio (2020) (noahliebman.net)
  • 1 10

    We Asked 100 AI Models to Write Code (www.veracode.com)
  • 21 41

    Fair Access to Banking (usips.org)
  • 2 17

    Scientists and engineers craft radio telescope bound for the moon (www.bnl.gov)
  • 2 14

    A memory safe C framework, RAII, I/O, coroutine and other concurrency primitives (zelang-dev.github.io)
  • 1 12

    Show HN: Walk-through of rocket landing optimization paper [pdf] (scpowers.github.io)
  • 67 59

    British man claims he's unable to watch porn as tattoos confuse age check system (needtoknow.co.uk)
  • 1 9

    Golden Literal Testing in UTest (www.lihaoyi.com)
  • 31 56

    Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler (mayhul.com)
  • 5 15

    Understanding the Complete Identity Management Ecosystem (guptadeepak.com)
  • 4 24

    Crafting your own Static Site Generator using Phoenix (2023) (fly.io)
  • 0 14

    Hawaiian petroglyphs reemerge on Oahu's shores after years of being hidden (archaeologymag.com)
  • 88 71

    “No tax on tips” is an industry plant (www.newyorker.com)
  • 7 16

    Benchmarking MicroPython (blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
  • 104 170

    Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry (www.cryonceaweek.com)
  • 431 299

    The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong (www.derekthompson.org)
  • 65 75

    A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble (fluxus.io)
  • 67 70

    Programmers aren’t so humble anymore, maybe because nobody codes in Perl (www.wired.com)
  • 275 247

    Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market (denverite.com)
  • 142 103

    Kaleidos – A portable nuclear microreactor that replaces diesel generators (radiantnuclear.com)
  • 85 251

    Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea (www.krea.ai)
  • 1 17

    Build a confetti bot with a Raspberry Pi (2023) (docs.viam.com)
  • 2 11

    Show HN: SafeRate – AI chat-native mortgage lender (saferate.com)
  • 169 689

    Slow (michaelnotebook.com)
  • 4 52

    Astronomical Telescope “Hadley” – an easy assembly, high performance Newtonian (www.printables.com)
  • 0 9

    Show HN: The easiest accessibility (a11y) checker for VSCode (github.com)
  • 20 82

    Show HN: Sourcebot – Self-hosted Perplexity for your codebase (github.com)
  • 45 71

    Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents (chat.agentmail.to)
  • 58 110

    Show HN: Mcp-use – Connect any LLM to any MCP (github.com)
  • 168 279

    AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser (elroy.bot)
  • 49 48

    How long before superintelligence? (1997) (nickbostrom.com)
  • 6 27

    Engineering Buy-In (venki.dev)
  • 91 71

    Ferrari Status (collabfund.com)
  • 63 119

    Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
  • 4 16

    How to Scan Force Pushed Commits for Secrets (trufflesecurity.com)
  • 2 14

    Introduction to XEphem (Motif) (2006) (spiff.rit.edu)
  • 2 35

    Go Assembly Mutation Testing (words.filippo.io)
  • 4 25

    Show HN: Astro dev blog template with interactive colorschemes (multiterm.stelclementine.com)
  • 70 205

    Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering (developers.googleblog.com)
  • Kaizen (YC X25) is hiring engineers to build browser agents that work (www.kaizenautomation.com)
  • 17 14

    Restaurant Industry Report from Square (squareup.com)
  • 7 20

    Advanced Rust macros with derive-deftly (diziet.pages.torproject.net)
  • 76 97

    The Chrome Speculation Rules API allows the browser to preload and prerender (www.docuseal.com)
  • 221 273

    Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting (lazyadmin.nl)
  • 26 55

    Launch HN: Gecko Security (YC F24) – AI That Finds Vulnerabilities in Code
  • 28 44

    Hundreds of agencies tap Atherton surveillance system for feds; Fails own rules (www.almanacnews.com)
  • 4 14

    How Not to Study a Disease (2023) (neurofrontiers.blog)
  • 177 234

    QUIC for the kernel (lwn.net)
  • 10 36

    The Future of Programming (2013) (worrydream.com)
  • 286 526

    Face it: you're a crazy person (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 92 102

    Orion Browser (kagi.com)
  • 6 34

    Magentic-UI: Towards Human-in-the-Loop Agentic Systems (arxiv.org)
  • 111 113

    Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ (docs.carbon-lang.dev)
  • 0 17

    GCP CloudQuarry: Searching for Secrets in Public GCP Images (trufflesecurity.com)
  • 31 88

    Ursa: A leaderless, object storage–based alternative to Kafka (streamnative.io)
  • 227 245

    U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD" (torrentfreak.com)
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    Italy Armed to the Teeth: My Top Nine Poliziotteschi (multiglom.com)
  • 41 97

    Dark patterns (www.nsw.gov.au)
  • 22 22

    Do PE firms create value? How? (www.gain.pro)
  • 24 101

    Zig Profiling on Apple Silicon (blog.bugsiki.dev)
  • 175 370

    MacBook Pro Insomnia (manuel.bernhardt.io)
  • 30 29

    Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of almost right AI code (venturebeat.com)
  • 2 9

    Stream Kafka Topic to the Iceberg Tables with Zero-ETL (vutr.substack.com)
  • 5 44

    Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering (larstofus.com)
  • 9 27

    GenosDB (GDB) – Decentralized P2P Graph Database (www.npmjs.com)
  • 51 106

    What is gVisor? (blog.yelinaung.com)
  • 51 45

    Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy? (wire.com)
  • 23 60

    Nova: A New Web Framework for Erlang
  • 60 34

    Anaconda Raises $150M Series C (www.anaconda.com)
  • 35 29

    Severe turbulence forces Delta A330 to make emergency landing, 25 injured (www.theguardian.com)
  • 38 57

    How Scientific Empires End (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 3 15

    Benchmarks in CI: Escaping the Cloud Chaos (codspeed.io)
  • 162 233

    So you're a manager now (scottkosman.com)
  • 41 84

    Following Up on the Python JIT (lwn.net)
  • 254 353

    Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided (digitalcourage.social)
  • 14 24

    Altima NSX (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
  • 39 69

    How to trigger a command on Linux when power switches from AC to battery (dataswamp.org)
  • Infracost (YC W21) hiring first PM to shift $600B cloud spend to proactive (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 67 487

    How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created? (movies.stackexchange.com)
  • 70 266

    Introduction to Computer Music (cmtext.com)
  • 46 66

    Go’s race detector has a mutex blind spot (doublefree.dev)
  • 224 332

    I tried Servo (www.spacebar.news)
  • 24 90

    GEPA: Reflective prompt evolution can outperform reinforcement learning (arxiviq.substack.com)
  • 28 141

    Sumo – Simulation of Urban Mobility (eclipse.dev)
  • 163 180

    Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 260 224

    OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification (arstechnica.com)
  • 33 41

    A Quantum Gravimeter for GPS Backup (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 6 17

    New DNA Map of the Pistachio Could Create Better Varieties (www.ucdavis.edu)
  • 180 319

    Attention is your scarcest resource (2020) (www.benkuhn.net)
  • 26 43

    Show HN: AgentGuard – Auto-kill AI agents before they burn through your budget (github.com)
  • 10 54

    Friction and Not Being Touched (tante.cc)
  • 4 7

    JANET – The UK Joint Academic Network (1988) [pdf] (serials.uksg.org)
  • 0 40

    Tracking source locations in the Futhark compiler (futhark-lang.org)
  • 113 102

    Stargate Norway (openai.com)
  • 161 332

    I know when you're vibe coding (alexkondov.com)
  • 6 29

    Open source BOM management (for me) (www.vincentuden.xyz)
  • 147 202

    Microsoft became incompetent in IT (mikekaganski.wordpress.com)
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  • 44 121

    150 years of Hans Christian Andersen (www.newstatesman.com)
  • 3 38

    Show HN: Open-source physical rack-mounted GUI for home lab (www.getubo.com)
  • 59 127

    Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD (undeadly.org)
  • 6 34

    Ferroelectric helps break transistor limits (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 47 97

    Pentagon Pizza Index (www.pizzint.watch)
  • 8 24

    Paradise Lost (alexandermigdal.com)
  • 1 19

    GiveWP plugin for WordPress revealed email addresses of donors in page source (corbettreport.com)
  • 9 24

    “Good first issues” are usually not good first issues (am17an.bearblog.dev)
  • Sei (YC W22) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer in Chennai, India (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 233 325

    Figma will IPO on July 31 (www.figma.com)
  • 0 9

    Zigzag Number Spiral (susam.net)