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Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
asteroidos.org
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Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat
arstechnica.com

Colbert: "I want to assure you this decision is for purely financial reasons."

Russia's economy has entered the death zone
economist.com
Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - Tesla has reported five new crashes involving its “Robotaxi” fleet in Austin, Texas, bringing the total to 14 incidents since...

Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic.com
Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic.com

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.

Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification
kotaku.com

John Walker - TeamSpeak seems to be rather enjoying the technical issues

A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+
twitter.com
Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School
404media.co

Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."

Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?
semiengineering.com

Liz Allan - To fill the talent gap, CS majors could be taught to design hardware, and the EE curriculum could be adapted or even shortened.

Gentoo on Codeberg
gentoo.org

News and information from Gentoo Linux

Chess engines do weird stuff
girl.surgery
So you want to build a tunnel
practical.engineering

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] It seems like homemade tunnels are kind of having a moment. Just about everywhere I look, it feels like someone is carving new spaces from the ground and documenting the process online. Colin Furze might be the quintessential ex

Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart
hannahritchie.substack.com

Hannah Ritchie - Most people are personally optimistic, but socially pessimistic. This can be a drag on collective progress.

Async/Await on the GPU
vectorware.com

GPU code can now use Rust's async/await. We share the reasons why and what this unlocks for GPU programming.

HackMyClaw
hackmyclaw.com
Using go fix to modernize Go code
go.dev

Go 1.26 includes a new implementation of go fix that can help you use more modern features of Go.

CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC
nbcnews.com

Colbert kicked off Monday's episode of "The Late Show" by saying that the network's lawyers told him he could not have Talarico on the broadcast.

Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other
mage-bench.com
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Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring
theregister.com

opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring

Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp
berksoft.ca
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Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File
github.com/christopherkarani

🍯 Memory layer for on-device AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer. - GitHub - christopherkarani/Wax: 🍯 Memory layer for on-device AI Agents. Replace...

America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital
governance.fyi

Dave Deek - $6 trillion in patient capital, $60+ billion in annual fees, and the infrastructure that never gets built

I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D
aeris.edbn.me

kewonit - Track live flights in 3D over the world's busiest airspaces. Altitude-aware, beautifully rendered, and completely free.

Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage
lesswrong.com

David Oks published a well-written essay yesterday arguing that the current panic about AI job displacement is overblown. I agree with a few of his p…

Undo in Vi and Its Successors
utcc.utoronto.ca
Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
arthurcnops.blog
GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
blog.tomaszdunia.pl

Tomasz Dunia - 🇬🇧->🇵🇱 Przejdź do polskiej wersji tego wpisu / Go to polish version of this post

WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026
heise.de

Mark Mantel - Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.

Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like
oceandrops.substack.com

Ellie - Is America next?

SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution
svardos.org
Xbox UI Portfolio Site
gabrielcabrera.co

Gabriel Cabrera - A portal to my creative work and projects. Watch my reel, explore old YouTube, and browse my picture library.

Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market
cnbc.com
Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems
newsletter.mikekonczal.com

Mike Konczal - There are many ways inflation makes people worse off even when real incomes recover, especially for essentials.

Poor Deming never stood a chance
surfingcomplexity.blog

This post is an elaboration of a shorter post I wrote about five years ago. The two management giants of the mid-twentieth century were Peter Drucker and W. Edwards Deming. Ironically, while Drucke…

Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm
bbc.com

The law funds troops who want to freeze their eggs or their sperm, as Ukraine's population plummets.

An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs
reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs
Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout
vo2maxpro.com

By Xipu Li, creator of VO2 Max Pro - Your brain uses 20% of your body's energy just idling. Intense thinking barely adds to that. But the mental byproducts of a long cognitive day quietly sabotage your endurance in ways no amount of willpower can fix.

Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
news.ycombinator.com
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Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction
bbc.com

Instagram's Adam Mosseri faced questioning about the impact of his platform on minors.

Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
bbc.com

Detectives desperate to locate a 12-year-old, seen abused online, found a surprising lead.

More macOS 26.3 Finder column view silliness
lapcatsoftware.com
AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
jeffgeerling.com

Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer. The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scott Shambaugh, was harassed by someone's AI agent over not merging it's AI slop code. It's likely the bot was running through someone's local 'agentic AI' instance (likely using OpenClaw). The guy who built OpenClaw was just hired b

Show HN: Andrej Karpathy's microgpt.py to C99 microgpt.c – 4,600x faster
github.com/enjector
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Contribute to enjector/microgpt-c development by creating an account on GitHub.

Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI
codemade.net

Loris Bognanni - My Plasma task switcher was a second too slow, so I built - and shipped - my own in Zig, without actually knowing Zig, using AI tools.

Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary
forestrydiary.com
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H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation
h1bexposed.tech

Banking sector H-1B visa sponsorship investigation — public data, real numbers.

Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox
docker.com

Learn how to run NanoClaw, a Claude-powered WhatsApp assistant, inside a Docker Sandboxes shell sandbox for stronger isolation and proxy-managed API keys.

Resist and Unsubscribe (Scott Galloway)
resistandunsubscribe.com
10 years building vertical software: are we cooked?
twitter.com
Kim Dotcom says Palantir allegedly hacked
twitter.com
Rise of the Triforce
dolphin-emu.org

During the rapid technological advancements of the early 1990s, the video game industry was on the cusp of a massive addition - another dimension. With console shenanigans like the Super FX chip giving players a taste of 3D, hype was at an all-time high. But the games released for home consoles were nothing compared to what arcade developers were capable of doing. By employing gigantic budgets and cutting-edge hardwa

SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks
arxiv.org

Agent Skills are structured packages of procedural knowledge that augment LLM agents at inference time. Despite rapid adoption, there is no standard way to measure whether they actually help. We present SkillsBench, a benchmark of 86 tasks across 11 domains paired with curated Skills and deterministic verifiers. Each task is evaluated under three conditions: no Skills, curated Skills, and self-generated Skills. We te

Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
apps.apple.com
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Download Wildex Identify Plants/Animals by DREAMPRESS LTD on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Wildex Identify…

Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
github.com/zachlatta
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Free and open source alternative to Wispr Flow / Superwhisper / Monologue / etc - zachlatta/freeflow

Suicide Linux (2009)
qntm.org
Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers
lirbank.com

Synchronization barriers let you test for race conditions with confidence.

State of Show HN: 2025
blog.sturdystatistics.com
Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator
simonhalvdansson.github.io
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Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe
wero-wallet.eu

Experience fast and secure digital payments with Wero’s wallet, enabling you to send and receive money between bank accounts in under 10 seconds.

Neurons outside the brain
essays.debugyourpain.com

Max Shen - The three brains in our body

How not to answer the salary question
adatosystems.com

Leon - Before you read a single line more, I will give the usual but still important caveats – this blog is my opinion, based on my experiences. Take it with a big ol’...

Robert Duvall has died
nytimes.com

Duvall starred in nearly 100 films during his career, which spanned over seven decades.

"I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us with $30K Workers" [video]
youtube.com
Use protocols, not services
notnotp.com
14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
smithsonianmag.com

Ramsha Waseem - Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight

LCM: Lossless Context Management [pdf]
papers.voltropy.com
"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name
jkap.io

You're absolutely right!

The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation
blog.chrislewis.au

After rapid advances thanks to one-shot decompilation, progress on the Snowboard Kids 2 decompilation began to falter. This post explores the workflow evolution, tooling improvements, and fundamental LLM limits that emerged when tackling the long tail of increasingly difficult functions.

AI optimism is a class privilege
joshcollinsworth.com

I think I have an idea why we're so extremely divided on AI: it's because we have an intuitive sense of who it stands to benefit, and who stands to pay the costs. I think whether you see reason for optimism has a lot to do with which group you see yourself in.

Privilege is bad grammar
tadaima.bearblog.dev

When I got my first real job, I used to get so nervous about writing emails to my boss. I would run spellcheck, triple-check the grammar, read over it again ...

Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52
dexerto.com

Shutaro Ida, the longtime Castlevania and Bloodstained developer, has died at the age of 52 after battling cancer.

Palantir CEO wants to spray "fentanyl-laced urine" on analysts
twitter.com
I guess I kinda get why people hate AI
anthony.noided.media
WebMCP Proposal
webmachinelearning.github.io
macOS Tahoe Finder Bug Underscores Apple's Slipping UI Polish
macrumors.com

Apple released macOS Tahoe last September, but despite two point updates since then, it is still struggling to resolve an embarrassing interface issue in Finder that appears to have been introduced with its Liquid Glass redesign. If you updated your Mac to macOS Tahoe and you prefer to work in Finder's column view, there's a good chance you've been frustrated by the glitch, which developer Jeff Johnson has been admir

How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video]
youtube.com
History of AT&T Long Lines
telephoneworld.org
Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter
github.com/SpaceTurth
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A simple view into your org roam notes with editing, backlinks, and rendered math. - SpaceTurth/Org-Web-Adapter

STM32G431 Analogue TV Transmitter
slyka.net
The End of the Office
blog.andrewyang.com

Andrew Yang - I write this filled with sadness.

Hilbert Map of IPv6 address space
observablehq.com

Vasco Asturiano - Inspired by xkcd's version. Data provided by IANA. Address space represented along a Hilbert Curve, using the hilbert-chart D3 component. See also the IPv4 version or the AS numbers version. Data Dependencies

Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium
github.com/HenryNdubuaku
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Learn maths, computing, and artificial intelligence with real-world intuition. - HenryNdubuaku/maths-cs-ai-compendium

iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life
macrumors.com

Apple's iOS 27 update will prioritize cleaning up the operating system's internals, with engineers making changes that could result in better battery life, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The effort is said to be similar to what Apple did with its Snow Leopard Mac update years ago, and will involve removing old code, rewriting existing features, and subtly upgrading apps to improve their performance. The result

UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
rockpapershotgun.com

Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel.

Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment
axios.com
What your Bluetooth devices reveal
blog.dmcc.io

Danny - Building Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner that reveals what information we leak just by having Bluetooth enabled on our devices.

The Sideprocalypse
johan.hal.se

You can't open a feed today without having AI boosters fling word salad like "agentic engineering" or "openclaw" into your beautiful but disapproving face. I'm terrible at predicting the future—you should ask me about selling NVIDIA stock in early 2022 some time—but one thing seems abundantly clear at this point.

Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?
news.ycombinator.com
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Twitter(X) Is Down
news.ycombinator.com
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Running My Own XMPP Server
blog.dmcc.io

Danny - Notes from setting up Prosody in Docker for federated messaging, with file sharing, voice calls, and end-to-end encryption.

Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
legalcheek.com

Legal Cheek - Blow for open justice

Turning Our Back on Clean Energy
paulkrugman.substack.com

Paul Krugman - Why does MAGA hate the planet?

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
mashable.com
Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
arxiv.org

A widespread practice in software development is to tailor coding agents to repositories using context files, such as AGENTS.md, by either manually or automatically generating them. Although this practice is strongly encouraged by agent developers, there is currently no rigorous investigation into whether such context files are actually effective for real-world tasks. In this work, we study this question and evaluate

The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself
ahmedeldin.substack.com

Ahmed Eldin - The Billion-Dollar Surveillance Pipeline: From Occupation Technology to Global Control

Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser
glitchycam.com
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eb - Short-circuit your phone's camera in real time. Rewire CCD chip pins to glitch, distort, and bend your video feed — then capture one-of-a-kind photos.

OpenAI president becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift
sfgate.com
planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary
github.com/nineties

Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun. - GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.

Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
theregister.com

: The software doesn't show what files it's working on

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