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  • 1 3

    Piezoelectric effect in polycrystalline diamond membranes (www.science.org)
  • 2 15

    Datamimic – don't let your coding agent invent its own test world (github.com)
  • 13 20

    Doing Everyone Else's Job (yosefk.com)
  • 49 102

    Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger (inflightsimulator.com)
  • 0 26

    An interactive world map of the stories cultures have told (originmap.sunnyguha.com)
  • 17 65

    Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New (blog.archive.org)
  • 79 146

    Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography (security.apple.com)
  • 30 50

    Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 3 12

    The madman's guide to stamp collecting (www.wsj.com)
  • 46 37

    The Beauty of Roundabouts (gruhn.me)
  • 19 93

    Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA (nand2mario.github.io)
  • 5 33

    Sierra digital cameras on the Apple II (www.colino.net)
  • 33 77

    Saving Jet Fuel (tech.marksblogg.com)
  • 3 23

    XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis (google.github.io)
  • 173 164

    Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes (dank.systems)
  • 0 77

    Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up (mnoukhov.github.io)
  • 25 44

    Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in the background (github.com)
  • 2 36

    Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go (theconsensus.dev)
  • 7 35

    Iran war has cost on average $246M per day in its first five months (www.cnbc.com)
  • 58 178

    German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol (rheinmetall.github.io)
  • 61 35

    Vibe Coding is the new Internet Dating? (joecmarshall.com)
  • 21 127

    Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100 (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
  • 3 8

    The Two MMLU Scores: What a Benchmark Name Does Not Fix (zatona.dev)
  • 25 30

    Leaving Proton Mail (runarcn.no)
  • 151 243

    Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month (codyho.dev)
  • 153 95

    How much oil-market buffer is left? (www.depletion.org)
  • 48 133

    WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages (github.com)
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    Introducing System One Models and Jev (typesafe.ai)
  • 13 124

    Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit (www.reddit.com)
  • 146 156

    Chopping up books when they're physically too big (attainablefelicity.mattkirkland.com)
  • 0 17

    Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 46 142

    Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it (thenextweb.com)
  • 8 14

    How AI tool calling works (40 lines of vanilla JavaScript) (buttercup.sh)
  • 240 374

    Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (blog.google)
  • 249 484

    An update on Wayback Machine access (blog.archive.org)
  • 142 263

    We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub (www.strix.ai)
  • 1 13

    Rat and Mouse Gazette: Nursing Care (1996) (www.rmca.org)
  • 11 9

    Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back (deadparrotbbs.com)
  • 57 37

    Show HN: The bottom 50% of U.S. households are short after essentials (BLS data) (whats-left-over.pages.dev)
  • 96 178

    Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality (dallincrump.com)
  • 61 115

    GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview (marc.info)
  • 68 22

    Leaving Linux (jackevans.bearblog.dev)
  • 261 308

    Most people prefer traditional architecture (www.worksinprogress.news)
  • 170 288

    America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster (www.lawfaremedia.org)
  • Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Engineer (Remote/US) (jiga.io)
  • 3 37

    OrangePi Zero 3W Review: Tiny yet Powerful (boilingsteam.com)
  • 159 217

    There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet (www.404media.co)
  • 0 11

    Show HN: SCIP MIP solver bindings for Go, ported from russcip (github.com)
  • 40 68

    Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network (haveibeenproxied.com)
  • 20 22

    Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations (academic.oup.com)
  • 9 20

    GRP-Obliteration: Unaligning LLMs with a Single Unlabeled Prompt (arxiv.org)
  • 2 11

    The bitter lesson of browser agents (browser-use.com)
  • 13 137

    The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026 (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 8 12

    V1.1 state of open source- OS 4.4 months behind frontier [pdf] (stateofopensource.ai)
  • 11 32

    What we have learned at OpenShell applying formal methods to control AI agents (nvidia.github.io)
  • 76 138

    The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped (josprague.com)
  • 20 26

    Closing the IPv6 first-packet gap with GRAND (labs.ripe.net)
  • 160 104

    Giving up on smart rings (notesbylex.com)
  • 60 122

    Swift 6.4 Released (www.swift.org)
  • 78 105

    Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design (www.formas.ai)
  • 2 11

    Suchir Balaji's Homepage (suchir.net)
  • 73 281

    Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary (www.reutersconnect.com)
  • 2 5

    Sovereign: A Unified GPU Inference Substrate (Fractal Memory, Manifold Routing) (github.com)
  • 21 53

    Firefox 156 shows ads in the address bar (dubbed "Firefox Suggest") (www.heise.de)
  • 25 91

    Archiving pirate radio station Kool FM (londonist.com)
  • 72 119

    A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO' (www.techtimes.co.uk)
  • 27 23

    German companies rely almost exclusively on AI models and services from the USA (www.heise.de)
  • 75 85

    AI is breaking our proxies for expertise (www.seangoedecke.com)
  • 167 158

    Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers (www.reuters.com)
  • 112 55

    AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC (www.bbc.com)
  • 15 6

    Show HN: Jexxa: High Speed on Device Dictation (jexxa.org)
  • 19 48

    Show HN: Panel – A research workspace where the agent can build its own panes (github.com)
  • 30 50

    Show HN: Ordewell – turn one goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks (github.com)
  • 126 315

    Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite (withcapsule.app)
  • 21 69

    Sony's First Computer – The SMC-70 from 1982 [video] (www.youtube.com)
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  • 98 116

    Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance (www.reddit.com)
  • 33 186

    Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device (bkovac.github.io)
  • 307 327

    Java 27 (mail.openjdk.org)
  • 193 1492

    Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com)
  • 15 49

    Inverse-Square Law (blog.coredump.cx)
  • 36 38

    When Google Cuts Off Access: Poland and the World (dossier.reasoner.pl)
  • 7 151

    25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough [Auth: Cindy Cohn; Bruce Schneier] (www.lawfaremedia.org)
  • 97 125

    OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M (techcrunch.com)
  • 310 835

    25 years of mass surveillance is enough (www.schneier.com)
  • 16 43

    There are only twelve 4x4 sudokus (and a cool trick for finding minimal subsets) (baldino.dev)
  • 1 16

    Pythoncall.jl – Python and Julia in Harmony (github.com)
  • 101 62

    A rough guide for going back to the Moon (research.ibm.com)
  • 110 251

    CSS-Tricks in Limbo (vale.rocks)
  • 408 466

    Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption (www.bbc.com)
  • 171 128

    How much of F-Droid is LLM generated? (tintotint.eu)
  • 373 359

    Let's make quality the norm again (www.forbrukerradet.no)
  • 4 13

    Glyph Immersive (glyph.kateander.com)
  • 100 249

    Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 (rmoff.net)
  • 35 102

    The k-server conjecture is true (arxiv.org)
  • 325 454

    US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons (www.bbc.com)
  • 441 1037

    I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea (notnottalmud.substack.com)
  • Lingo.dev (YC F24) is hiring a senior content engineer (Remote, worldwide) (lingo.dev)
  • 0 24

    Synthesizing Loop-Free Programs with Rust and Z3 (2020) (fitzgen.com)
  • 48 39

    When code is a maze, smart developers make maps (2025) (medium.com)
  • 109 363

    Linux from Scratch (www.linuxfromscratch.org)
  • 55 206

    OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm (github.com)
  • 109 69

    Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here (www.wsj.com)
  • 66 86

    Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2 (github.com)
  • 26 170

    Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model (poltora.dev)
  • 96 46

    Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself? (sunkcost.ai)
  • 134 223

    Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent (www.theregister.com)
  • 17 48

    The biggest dinosaurs couldn't sit on their eggs (www.cbc.ca)
  • 58 200

    4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls (arkeonews.net)
  • 89 103

    I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information (explorator.dev)