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  1. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
    76 points • by elffjs • today at 12:20 AM • 28 comments
  2. Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields (notoriousbfg.com)
    220 points • by trwhite • yesterday at 6:06 PM • 57 comments
  3. Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict (cosmowenman.substack.com)
    65 points • by CosmoWenman • yesterday at 6:01 PM • 31 comments
  4. The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux (www.phoronix.com)
    104 points • by speckx • yesterday at 7:14 PM • 12 comments
  5. Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked (ben.stolovitz.com)
    79 points • by citelao • yesterday at 8:49 PM • 32 comments
  6. Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager (www.whec.com)
    138 points • by gscott • last Thursday at 4:32 PM • 40 comments
  7. Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model (aleph-alpha.com)
    498 points • by bastitx • yesterday at 9:36 AM • 298 comments
  8. Agents don't need memory, they need documentation (liao.gg)
    46 points • by kmeh • yesterday at 5:03 PM • 26 comments
  9. OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken' (www.theguardian.com)
    97 points • by jethronethro • yesterday at 10:18 PM • 57 comments
  10. New York City should carefully measure a new tree (blog.willmeye.rs)
    39 points • by willmeyers • yesterday at 2:28 AM • 6 comments
  11. Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion? (thoreaubasic.com)
    26 points • by Gorsefound • yesterday at 7:28 AM • 6 comments
  12. Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' (techcrunch.com)
    276 points • by sbulaev • yesterday at 10:07 PM • 173 comments
  13. Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code (claude.dev)
    155 points • by saikatsg • yesterday at 6:29 PM • 115 comments
  14. Your body of work thinks back at you (photoni.st)
    13 points • by surprisetalk • last Wednesday at 1:20 PM • 0 comments
  15. FTL: A new operating system for clouds (ftl-os.org)
    145 points • by romac • yesterday at 3:02 PM • 59 comments
  16. Gboard Conveyor Belt Version (github.com)
    17 points • by xnx • last Thursday at 9:54 PM • 3 comments
  17. Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server (pipod.dev)
    75 points • by edverma2 • last Friday at 7:10 PM • 30 comments
  18. Memory-Safe WebP Decoding (halide.cx)
    36 points • by computerbuster • yesterday at 5:45 AM • 11 comments
  19. We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com)
    98 points • by geoffbp • yesterday at 7:33 PM • 86 comments
  20. Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (www.youtube.com)
    3 points • by bobajeff • yesterday at 1:11 AM • 0 comments
  21. RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
    1 points • by sarah74 • yesterday at 5:00 PM • 0 comments
  22. Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963) (www.computerhistory.org)
    14 points • by mooreds • yesterday at 12:27 PM • 9 comments
  23. RSS Feed Best Practices (2022) (kevincox.ca)
    36 points • by KomoD • yesterday at 7:09 PM • 7 comments
  24. Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline (shannadige.com)
    13 points • by shannadige • yesterday at 5:35 PM • 4 comments
  25. Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? (sjg.io)
    36 points • by simonjgreen • yesterday at 8:27 PM • 17 comments
  26. Woking Electrical Control Room (2016) (www.darbiansphotography.com)
    123 points • by NaOH • last Friday at 8:44 PM • 23 comments
  27. How to hack time, with C2PA (www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
    16 points • by Retr0id • yesterday at 6:52 PM • 3 comments
  28. Vx – One Language, Every Chip (vxlang.org)
    60 points • by elffjs • yesterday at 5:23 PM • 29 comments
  29. The Softmax function and its derivative (eli.thegreenplace.net)
    13 points • by costco • last Thursday at 11:24 PM • 1 comment
  30. Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016) (dave.recoil.org)
    17 points • by avsm • yesterday at 3:55 PM • 10 comments
  31. C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler (github.com)
    135 points • by rramadass • last Thursday at 11:53 PM • 27 comments
  32. Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers (www.gadgetreview.com)
    11 points • by josephcsible • today at 12:09 AM • 4 comments
  33. Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (againstallodds.games)
    69 points • by nor-and-or-not • last Friday at 10:40 AM • 26 comments
  34. MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant Today (www.red5.net)
    35 points • by mondainx • last Thursday at 4:11 PM • 10 comments
  35. Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror (www.tdk.com)
    19 points • by bookofjoe • yesterday at 2:04 PM • 1 comment
  36. Holes (1996-2025) (plato.stanford.edu)
    45 points • by surprisetalk • last Friday at 3:00 PM • 11 comments
  37. Show HN: Graphene – Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent (github.com)
    25 points • by kcmarr • last Thursday at 9:29 PM • 7 comments
  38. Haunted by the ghosts of materialism (blog.coredump.cx)
    19 points • by surprisetalk • yesterday at 5:30 AM • 6 comments
  39. Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos (www.nature.com)
    37 points • by bryanrasmussen • last Wednesday at 7:17 PM • 4 comments
  40. LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents (fortune.com)
    74 points • by Anon84 • yesterday at 5:44 PM • 88 comments
  41. Cloudflare OHTTP gateway (blog.cloudflare.com)
    183 points • by est • yesterday at 3:15 AM • 89 comments
  42. Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program (www.twz.com)
    10 points • by rkagerer • yesterday at 7:32 AM • 5 comments
  43. Make Tmux the OS (matduggan.com)
    188 points • by weaksauce • last Friday at 7:29 PM • 116 comments
  44. There are only 5,000 elite software engineers in the world (jaredpalmer.com)
    12 points • by ilreb • yesterday at 6:01 PM • 13 comments
  45. Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente (www.sanders.senate.gov)
    32 points • by TeaVMFan • yesterday at 7:50 PM • 1 comment
  46. Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers (aviationa2z.com)
    55 points • by samch • yesterday at 7:07 PM • 30 comments
  47. Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS (developer.apple.com)
    288 points • by notfirstpost • last Friday at 7:37 PM • 204 comments
  48. An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows (blog.kagi.com)
    177 points • by pentagrama • yesterday at 4:53 AM • 104 comments
  49. Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art (www.newgrounds.com)
    435 points • by azhenley • yesterday at 12:55 AM • 130 comments
  50. Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility (www.eff.org)
    777 points • by hn_acker • last Thursday at 10:23 PM • 383 comments