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Human Canaries: Remembering the Munitionettes [7d] [hn]
What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025) [7d] [hn]
Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder [7d] [hn]
Show HN: ContextVault – Shared memory layer for your AI and your team [7d] [hn]
Estimating the heights of New Yorkers from their scuff marks [7d] [hn]
The AI Whale Fall and Open Source [7d] [hn]
An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold [7d] [hn]
Manifest Man [7d] [hn]
Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite [7d] [hn]
California rocked by another earthquake that will unleash the Big One [8d] [hn]
‘Asia's cleanest village’ bans tourists on Sundays [8d] [hn]
Show HN: I built a one-prompt hackathon platform, free entry, sponsored prizes [8d] [hn]
Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks [8d] [hn]
The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard [8d] [hn]
Primate 0.40: Route pages, store enums, async schemas and events [8d] [hn]
MIT's New Method Flags AI Models Trained on CASM Without Generating It [8d] [hn]
A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI [8d] [hn]
SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF) [8d] [hn]
Accidental Anonymity [8d] [hn]
Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser [8d] [hn]
Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU [8d] [hn]
Show HN: Sigwire – a live TUI switchboard for every signal on your Linux box [8d] [hn]
The security checks in every Lionshead PR [8d] [hn]
Bootstrapping GDC with DMD [8d] [hn]
Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let them use it to train AI [8d] [hn]
Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL [8d] [hn]
Show HN: PlanWright – A control plane for AI coding agents [8d] [hn]
Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources [8d] [hn]
Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it [8d] [hn]
Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended [8d] [hn]
AI Is a Bad Tool [8d] [hn]
Section 219, the US-Israel Military Merger, Would Thwart American Democracy [8d] [hn]
TFTP Honey Pot Results [8d] [hn]
The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes [8d] [hn]
The Chud Vision of Roman History [8d] [hn]
Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback [8d] [hn]
The real prices of frontier models. Tokens * Price, right? [8d] [hn]
New Flagship Grok Voices [8d] [hn]
Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans [8d] [hn]
The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn't doomed [8d] [hn]
Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode [8d] [hn]
A full body MRI earns you a year of smoking [8d] [hn]
Optimizing Lua string literals to save 400 bytes [8d] [hn]
Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway? [8d] [hn]
Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents [8d] [hn]
How the Elite See Rome [8d] [hn]
Latent Space as a New Medium [8d] [hn]
xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Git Repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket [8d] [hn]
Ask HN: Should I do a masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon? [8d] [hn]
The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USAID [8d] [hn]
NTSB Report on NetJets first fatality in 40 years (Josh Baer RIP) [8d] [hn]
Show HN: Super Dario [8d] [hn]
Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here [8d] [hn]
Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise [8d] [hn]
Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System [8d] [hn]
Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models [8d] [hn]
Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers [8d] [hn]
A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game [8d] [hn]
PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Software Engineer [8d] [hn]
Solod: Go can be a better C [8d] [hn]
Designing APIs for Agents [8d] [hn]
Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor [8d] [hn]
World GeoHistoGram [8d] [hn]
Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now [8d] [hn]
DOGE is done. What happened to its records? [8d] [hn]
Go-Flavored Concurrency in C [8d] [hn]
Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code [8d] [hn]
LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire [8d] [hn]
The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed [8d] [hn]
Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices [8d] [hn]
Precursor [8d] [hn]
Detained by settlers, US Democrat Ro Khanna now faces pro-Israel attacks [8d] [hn]
From Muon to Gradient Clipping: Some Thoughts on QK Stability [8d] [hn]
Revisiting Yliluoma's ordered dither algorithm [8d] [hn]
Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop [8d] [hn]
Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Afternoon [8d] [hn]
Editing React components that never rendered [8d] [hn]
Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads [8d] [hn]
Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers [8d] [hn]
Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS [8d] [hn]
MITS: Rockets, Calculators, and Personal Computers [8d] [hn]
A Right Too Expensive to Exercise Isn't a Right [8d] [hn]
I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp [8d] [hn]
A Farewell to ARPs: IPv4 Service on IPv6-Only Networks [8d] [hn]
Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance [8d] [hn]