- All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face (allaboutcookies.org)
- Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro (ariya.io)
- StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time (streetcomplete.app)
- Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained (fightchatcontrol.eu)
- Herdr: One terminal to rule them all (herdr.dev)
- AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl (blog.zksecurity.xyz)
- l: A new runtime for k and q (lv1.sh)
- Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI (davit.app)
- A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video] (www.youtube.com)
- 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format (30papers.com)
- Jim's TrueType QR Code Font (github.com)
- Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop (github.com)
- Notes on Software Quality (anthonyhobday.com)
- Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
- Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler (pgdog.dev)
- Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29 (www.notebookcheck.net)
- Automating AI Away (replicated.live)
- Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens (github.com)
- MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released (github.com)
- Computational Balloon Twisting: The Theory of Balloon Polyhedra [pdf] (cccg.ca)
- Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament (www.heise.de)
- Astro 7.0 (astro.build)
- China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes (www.bbc.com)
- 98% isn't much (whynothugo.nl)
- 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX (9mothers.com)
- Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again (www.dw.com)
- Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software (gamefromscratch.com)
- The revenge of the philosophy majors (www.nytimes.com)
- GitHub Freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service (github.com)
- Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents (github.com)
- Reducing Doom Loops with Final Token Preference Optimization (www.liquid.ai)
- Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types (postgres.saneengineer.com)
- The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup (www.wsj.com)
- Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years (www.theguardian.com)
- Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall? (self)
- The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
- Amazon without the knockoffs (knockoff.shopping)
- Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors (ciphercue.com)
- C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences (nekrozqliphort.github.io)
- Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal (www.euronews.com)
- Software Bonkers (craigmod.com)
- EPA Official Agrees to Review Meta Inc. Data Center Impacts on Water (news.bloomberglaw.com)
- Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home (firesphere.dev)
- Better Auth is joining Vercel (better-auth.com)
- Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels (www.theatlantic.com)
- Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world (thisbugslife.com)
- Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) (whimfiles.com)
- US manufacturers' energy costs soar because of AI data center demand (arstechnica.com)
- Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID (www.pcmag.com)
- Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k (govauctions.app)