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Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran
nytimes.com
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
techcrunch.com

Zack Whittaker - While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands.

Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot
twitter.com
US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables
futurism.com

Frank Landymore - The US government deployed xAI's Grok to give dietary advice -- and it's giving some eyebrow-raising advice.

Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks
anthropic.com

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Writing code is cheap now
simonwillison.net
ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030
reuters.com
Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries
linguabase.org
What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust
smallcultfollowing.com
Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives
reddit.com/r/DataHoarder
AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]
youtube.com
Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later
text.npr.org
Silicon Valley can't import talent like before. So it's exporting jobs
restofworld.org

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and other U.S. tech giants are ramping up India hiring.

Show HN: C99 implementation of new O(m log^(2/3) n) shortest path algorithm
github.com/danalec
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Experimental C implementation of “Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths” by Ran Duan, Jiayi Mao, Xiao Mao, Xinkai Shu, and Longhui Yin (STOC 2025) - danalec/DMMSY-SSSP

A simple web we own
rsdoiel.github.io
If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat?
theguardian.com

Amid talk of artificial intelligence taking our jobs, the big unasked question is: how will we be fed?

First, They Came for the Journalists
codastory.com

Isobel Cockerell - Four stories of reporters in exile from Venezuela to Russia, Cuba to Afghanistan

Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)
sowbot.co.uk
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Our mission is to bridge the gap between sustainability and scale by providing researchers and farmers with reproducible, lightweight robotics that reduce labour and environmental impact without proprietary dependencies. The Sowbot Open AgBot ecosystem is designed to bridge the “prototype gap” in

AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
arstechnica.com

LLMs memorize more training data than previously thought.

Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app
github.com/pgdogdev
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PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder. - pgdogdev/pgdog

Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index
anthropic.com

Anthropic's AI Fluency Index measures 11 observable behaviors across thousands of Claude.ai conversations to understand how people develop AI collaboration skills.

NASA uses Mars Helicopter's SoC for rover navigation upgrade
theregister.com

: Upgrade allows robot to travel ‘potentially unlimited distances’ without phoning home for help

The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)
sabrinas.space
The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
spectrum.ieee.org

Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?

How did Joann Fabrics die while Best Buy survived? It wasn't Amazon
governance.fyi

Dave Deek - A debt-free retailer with 850 stores got a leveraged buyout. A failing electronics chain got a CEO. Thirteen years later, only one is still standing

VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]
pub-fee113bb711e441db5c353d2d31abbb3.r2.dev
femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation
github.com/JeffBezanson

a lightweight, robust, scheme-like lisp implementation - JeffBezanson/femtolisp

I Donut Believe – Presenting Third Party Results (Donut Lab)
idonutbelieve.com

The place where independent analysis of Donut Lab’s solid-state battery claims, with public test data, reports, and technical commentary is released.

Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt
blog.nytsoi.net

Mikko Ahlroth - Facebook is requesting my robots.txt thousands of times per hour.

Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%
reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU
Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026
coinerella.com

I used a professional transactional email service with a dedicated IP. One of Germany's largest email providers blocked me anyway - for not sending enough email. And people suggested I should self-host?

Ladybird adopts Rust
ladybird.org

Andreas Kling - We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025)
iopscience.iop.org

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-end Processing* , Korpela, E. J., Anderson, D. P., Cobb, J., Lebofsky, M., Liu, W., Werthimer, D.

Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
hackernews.love

A two-decade retrospective of launches Hacker News dismissed. And what happened next.

Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
docs.hetzner.com
What I Learned After Building 3 TV Apps Coming from Mobile
dinkomarinac.dev

Practical lessons from three TV app projects on why mobile assumptions fail on TV, covering UX, performance, hardware constraints, and developer experience.

Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)
llm-timeline.com
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LLM Timeline - Track every major LLM from 2017 to 2026. From Transformers → GPT → ChatGPT → Claude → Gemini → DeepSeek and beyond.

Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel
chrisbrunet.com

Christopher Brunet - 12 papers retracted, 7 editor positions removed, and the "open secret" of Elsevier’s elite paper mill exposed.

Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer
magicalmushroom.com

Magical Mushroom Company harnesses the natural flexibility and strength of mycelium, the material structure of fungi, to grow mushroom packaging

Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
ewtnnews.com
Ask HN: Have you ever cloned a cat?
news.ycombinator.com
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Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January
theguardian.com

Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts

How close are we to a vision for 2010?
shkspr.mobi

Terence Eden - Twenty five years ago today, the EU's IST advisory group published a paper about the future of "Ambient Intelligence". Way before the world got distracted with cryptoscams and AI slop, we genuinely thought that computers would be so pervasive and well-integrated that the dream of "Ubiquitous Computing" would become a reality. The ISTAG published an optimistic paper called "Scenarios for ambient…

Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation
404media.co

Users are exhausted fighting AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI-first features.

What I learned designing a barebones UI engine
madebymohammed.com

Mohammed Nasr - Deriving user interfaces from first principles

Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025
andrewkchan.dev
Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet
fmhy.net

The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!

The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
oxc.rs

A collection of high-performance JavaScript tools written in Rust

Agentic Software Engineering Book
agenticse-book.github.io
Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents
github.com/quailyquaily

Aqua, a cli message tool for AI agents . Contribute to quailyquaily/aqua development by creating an account on GitHub.

$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents
yahoo.com

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

The power of daily rituals (2021)
bbc.com

Rituals come in many different forms and are practised in cultures the world over, but why have they become such an important part of our lives?

IT Staffing Firms (TCS, Cognizant, Infosis Underpay Developers by 80–100%
h1bdatahub.com

H1B Data Hub Research Team - Investigation reveals how India's top IT firms file 27% of H1B visas but pay 40% below tech industry average. The outsourcing model exposed through data.

Tesla loses bid to overturn $243M Autopilot verdict
techcrunch.com

Kirsten Korosec - "The grounds for relief that Tesla relies upon are virtually the same as those Tesla put forth previously during the course of trial."

Show HN: WARN Firehose – Every US layoff notice in one searchable database
warnfirehose.com
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Track mass layoffs and plant closures across all 50 US states. Search 100,000+ WARN Act notices updated daily. Free API, bulk exports, and analytics.

Large US company came after me for releasing a free open-source alternative
reddit.com/r/selfhosted
Zuckerberg's "fix" for child safety could end anonymous internet access for all
reclaimthenet.org
Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
discuss.ai.google.dev

I’m seeking assistance regarding a sudden restriction on my Google AI Ultra account that has persisted for three days. I received no prior warnings or notifications regarding a potential violation. The only recent change in my workflow was connecting Gemini models via OpenClaw OAuth. If third-party integrations are the issue, I would expect the platform to block the integration rather than restrict a paid account ($

Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15
blog.feld.me

FreeBSD 15 comes with a new bridging implementation which has native support for VLANs. They have also soft-deprecated the ability to have any layer 3 addresses on member interfaces which makes it behave like a real hardware switch. The net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs sysctl controls this behavior and it will …

AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss
nytimes.com
Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived
github.com/algolia

Hacker News Search. Contribute to algolia/hn-search development by creating an account on GitHub.

Music Discovery
secondtrack.co

Second Track - AI-powered record discovery. Describe a vibe, name a record you love, or tell us how you're feeling — the clerk will dig through the crates for you.

Global Intelligence Crisis
citriniresearch.com

Citrini - A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future

Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable
cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev
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36 years of structured intelligence data. Search, browse, compare, and export 1,061,522 fields across 281 entities (1990-2025).

In world without BlackBerry, physical keyboards on phones are making a comeback
cnet.com

Commentary: You might not even need a new phone to get clicky buttons.

Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov
twitter.com
The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015)
cacm.acm.org
'Peanut butter' pay raises could cost companies their top performers
cnbc.com
The Geometry of Tostitos Scoops
chip-tech-rob.zocomputer.io
Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California
latimes.com

This year, state legislators in California believe that with a little state assistance, they want to make 2026 the Year of the Housing Factory.

Six Math Essentials
terrytao.wordpress.com

Just a brief announcement that I have been working with Quanta Books to publish a short book in popular mathematics entitled “Six Math Essentials”, which will cover six of the fundament…

Black-White Array: fast, ordered and based on with O(log N) memory allocations
github.com/dronnix

Black-White Array: fast, ordered data structure based on arrays with O(log N) memory allocations - dronnix/bwarr

An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia
gizmodo.com

Justin Caffier - Speaking at India's AI Impact Summit, Wales went in on the hallucinating pretender to the throne.

NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker
twitter.com
I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
hawksley.org
Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
joinloops.org

All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and communities.

Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS
shuru.run
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Local-first microVM sandbox for AI agents on macOS

Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic
hayzam.com

Most linux software just work on FreeBSD

Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go
github.com/puzpuzpuz

Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go - puzpuzpuz/go-concurrent-map-bench

Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work
github.com/FreHu

A vscode file explorer which shows only recently modified files based on a combination of Git history and your pending changes - FreHu/vscode-fresh-file-explorer

Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community
orgmode.org
Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser
pieter.com

Windows 3.11 Emulator - retro computer with working dial-up modem internet with Winsock that lives inside your browser by @levelsio

Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human
reddit.com/r/singularity
Amazon, Meta, Alphabet report plunging tax bills thanks to AI and tax changes
finance.yahoo.com

The build-out of artificial intelligence data centers along with business-friendly provisions in President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" are combining to make 2025 a banner tax year for Big Tech.

Fix your tools
ochagavia.nl

Last week I had to diagnose a bug in an open source library I maintain. The issue was gnarly enough that I couldn’t find it right away, but then I thought: if I set a breakpoint here and fire up the debugger, I will likely find the root cause very soon… and then proceed to mercilessly destroy it! So I rolled up my sleeves, set the breakpoint, fired up the debugger, and… saw the program run to completion without inter

Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS
voxjong.com
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Play VoxJong, a free CSS Mahjong Solitaire.

Show HN: Rendering 18,000 videos in real-time with Python
madebymohammed.com
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Mohammed Nasr - How I used game engine tech to solve a video streaming problem

Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map
live.xweather.com

Xweather - Discover real-time weather insights with advanced interactive maps, powered by Vaisala Xweather. Perfect for prosumer, transportation, and martime use cases.

We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them
quesma.com

Piotr Grabowski, Rafał Strzaliński, Michał Kowalczyk, Piotr Migdał, Jacek Migdal - BinaryAudit benchmarks AI agents using Ghidra to find backdoors in compiled binaries of real open-source servers, proxies, and network infrastructure.

Yet Another Fix Coming for Older AMD GPUs on Linux – Thanks to Valve Developer
phoronix.com
Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums
popsci.com

Mack DeGeurin - Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller.

Git's Magic Files
nesbitt.io

Andrew Nesbitt - Magic files and where to find them: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .mailmap, .git-blame-ignore-revs, .lfsconfig, and more.

Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
bbc.com

Student protesters honoured thousands of those killed when nationwide mass protests were put down by Iranian authorities last month.

I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall
rename.world

A playful collaborative map where the community discovers, claims, and renames the world in real time

Show HN: TLA+ Workbench skill for coding agents (compat. with Vercel skills CLI)
github.com/younes-io
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Contribute to younes-io/agent-skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

Volatility: The volatile memory forensic extraction framework
github.com/volatilityfoundation

Volatility 3.0 development. Contribute to volatilityfoundation/volatility3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct
theguardian.com

Exclusive: Police Federation condemns deployment of US firm’s tech to analyse behaviour as ‘automated suspicion’

The dance floor is disappearing in a sea of phones
bloomberg.com

Electronic music’s club culture is facing an existential moment as bigger venues, higher ticket prices and social media turn dance floors into spectator events.

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