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  1. Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
    594 points • by dwwoelfel • today at 2:24 PM • 297 comments
  2. What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)
    141 points • by nickthegreek • today at 4:53 PM • 53 comments
  3. Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)
    40 points • by speckx • today at 6:23 PM • 12 comments
  4. A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements (pme.uchicago.edu)
    19 points • by MarcoDewey • today at 6:13 PM • 0 comments
  5. Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)
    172 points • by mpweiher • today at 2:17 PM • 30 comments
  6. Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)
    117 points • by ibobev • today at 2:53 PM • 66 comments
  7. Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (www.politico.com)
    454 points • by theanonymousone • today at 3:18 PM • 457 comments
  8. Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (www.eso.org)
    153 points • by MarcoDewey • today at 2:02 PM • 56 comments
  9. Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents (self)
    30 points • by louis030195 • today at 4:48 PM • 30 comments
  10. JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator) (openjdk.org)
    61 points • by theanonymousone • today at 4:01 PM • 42 comments
  11. Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com)
    48 points • by harrisontin • today at 3:11 PM • 12 comments
  12. Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com)
    90 points • by dhorthy • today at 3:18 PM • 65 comments
  13. The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)
    79 points • by jjfoooo4 • today at 4:49 PM • 54 comments
  14. Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds (wuemeli.com)
    9 points • by wuemeli • last Monday at 8:54 PM • 0 comments
  15. Learn WebGPU for C++ (eliemichel.github.io)
    48 points • by ibobev • today at 2:55 PM • 9 comments
  16. DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (www.darpa.mil)
    77 points • by r2sk5t • today at 1:51 PM • 65 comments
  17. Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com)
    43 points • by Jonathanfishner • today at 3:42 PM • 19 comments
  18. Geekbench 7 (www.geekbench.com)
    16 points • by ilreb • today at 6:11 PM • 7 comments
  19. Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency (www.rtx.com)
    66 points • by r2sk5t • today at 2:07 PM • 46 comments
  20. Show HN: Trifle – Open-source analytics that stores answers, not events (trifle.io)
    7 points • by iluzone • yesterday at 2:39 PM • 0 comments
  21. AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)
    436 points • by technewssss • today at 1:09 PM • 207 comments
  22. From Evaluation to Guardrails: What We Brought to ACM FAccT 2026 (blog.mozilla.ai)
    5 points • by royapakzad • today at 6:29 PM • 0 comments
  23. Show HN: Claude-thermos – keeps your Claude session warm for you (github.com)
    23 points • by s0ck_r4w • today at 5:06 PM • 19 comments
  24. Show HN: Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone (github.com)
    60 points • by bitwise42 • today at 2:31 PM • 22 comments
  25. Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust (soteria-tools.com)
    12 points • by annieversary • last Monday at 1:59 PM • 0 comments
  26. Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts (github.com)
    57 points • by conradqh • today at 3:45 PM • 5 comments
  27. ICE Illegally Scooped Up Medicaid Data, Then Shared It with Palantir (www.techdirt.com)
    34 points • by cdrnsf • today at 6:51 PM • 1 comment
  28. OpenStreetMap: Admin_level for All Countries (wiki.openstreetmap.org)
    74 points • by ivanjermakov • last Sunday at 1:19 PM • 13 comments
  29. Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: E2EE and the "Going Dark" Debate (papers.ssrn.com)
    37 points • by iamnothere • today at 2:55 PM • 15 comments
  30. Emacs Is a Lispboard (en.andros.dev)
    49 points • by andros • today at 2:02 PM • 12 comments
  31. Fields Medals 2026 (www.mathunion.org)
    57 points • by nill0 • today at 2:23 PM • 17 comments
  32. OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
    290 points • by abhisek • today at 1:16 AM • 253 comments
  33. Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig (yamafaktory.github.io)
    36 points • by yamafaktory • today at 2:37 PM • 22 comments
  34. What happens when the information runs out (blog.jimgrey.net)
    46 points • by mooreds • today at 1:49 PM • 17 comments
  35. Scanning for Pangram Errors (veryfineprint.substack.com)
    68 points • by jsnell • last Friday at 9:29 AM • 36 comments
  36. Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium (tangled.org)
    35 points • by nerdypepper • today at 1:55 PM • 12 comments
  37. The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal (unity.com)
    77 points • by nateb2022 • last Tuesday at 5:51 PM • 24 comments
  38. AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees (www.msn.com)
    18 points • by petethomas • today at 6:07 PM • 1 comment
  39. Show HN: macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards (github.com)
    29 points • by linxy97 • today at 2:32 PM • 3 comments
  40. The Telegarden (1995-2004) (goldberg.berkeley.edu)
    23 points • by zetamax • last Monday at 11:30 PM • 2 comments
  41. Waymo's driverless cars crash less often than people (www.iihs.org)
    6 points • by xnx • today at 6:45 PM • 0 comments
  42. US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system (www.theguardian.com)
    37 points • by pastemato • today at 4:37 PM • 21 comments
  43. Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 (ziggit.dev)
    144 points • by Erenay09 • today at 5:40 AM • 107 comments
  44. You can now run same OCI images as containers or Firecracker microVMs (github.com)
    47 points • by pullrun • today at 2:08 PM • 15 comments
  45. UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August (www.theguardian.com)
    60 points • by DamonHD • today at 3:35 PM • 39 comments
  46. Why Sony Can't Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models (obsoletesony.substack.com)
    18 points • by speckx • today at 6:08 PM • 5 comments
  47. AMD's 256-core Epyc 9996 'Venice' claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon (www.tomshardware.com)
    9 points • by rndsignals • today at 6:16 PM • 2 comments
  48. I Reported on Flock's Cameras. Now I'm One of the System's Mistakes (www.thedrive.com)
    28 points • by CharlesW • today at 4:41 PM • 6 comments
  49. Leaked Document Shows the Surveillance Tech at ICE's Fingertips (www.404media.co)
    42 points • by colinprince • today at 3:20 PM • 4 comments
  50. ChatGPT medical advice brought man 'to brink of death', lawsuit alleges (www.bbc.com)
    7 points • by dijksterhuis • today at 6:40 PM • 0 comments