Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (www.inkandswitch.com)
Wharton Esherick and the Armstrong Linoleum Company (whartonesherickmuseum.org)
JavelinGuard: Low-Cost Transformer Architectures for LLM Security (arxiv.org)
Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application (news.ycombinator.com)
Denmark: Minister for Digitalization wants to phase out Microsoft (nordjyske.dk)
BitBoard (YC X25) – AI agents for healthcare back-offices (news.ycombinator.com)
Teaching National Security Policy with AI (steveblank.com)
Intentional math errors in David Foster Wallace''s work (2009) (www.thehowlingfantods.com)
Always On, Always Connected, Always Searching, Always Distracted (leejo.github.io)
WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History (512pixels.net)
Denuvo Analysis (connorjaydunn.github.io)
1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet (www.theregister.com)
Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI (mistral.ai)
Plato got virtually everything wrong (2018) (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)
PyDoll – Async Python scraping engine with native CAPTCHA bypass (github.com)
Finding Atari Games in Randomly Generated Data (bbenchoff.github.io)
Spoofing OpenPGP.js signature verification (codeanlabs.com)
Drone shows: Will they overtake firework displays? (www.bbc.co.uk)
The curious case of shell commands, or how "this bug is required by POSIX" (notes.volution.ro)
Apple Fails to Clear a Low Bar on AI (www.wsj.com)
CompactLog – Solving CT Scalability with LSM-Trees (github.com)
A Primer on Molecular Dynamics (www.owlposting.com)
Faster, easier 2D vector rendering [video] (www.youtube.com)
Why does C think my class is copy-constructible when it can''t be? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
High End Color Quantizer (github.com)
Onlook (YC W25) Is Hiring a a Founding Engineer in SF (news.ycombinator.com)
''Proof'' Review: Finding Truth in Numbers (www.wsj.com)
IBM to build first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028 (www.technologyreview.com)
Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle (istories.media)
OpenAI''s Sora is now available for Free to all users through Bing Video Creator (venturebeat.com)
NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Volcano Peeking Above Morning Cloud Tops (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice (politiken.dk)
Encapsulated Co–Ni alloy boosts high-temperature CO2 electroreduction (www.nature.com)
How to not use AI to code for you (mandaputtra.id)
Mozilla shuts down even more Firefox services (www.neowin.net)
AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare (tylertringas.com)
I dream of roombas: 1000s of automated AI robots that autonomously maintain code (ghuntley.com)
Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why (tuta.com)
Animate a mesh across a sphere''s surface (garden.bradwoods.io)
A MCP server and client implementing the latest spec (github.com)
Ada Continues to Climb in June Tiobe Index and PYPL (forum.ada-lang.io)
The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction (www.science.org)
Smart People Don''t Chase Goals; They Create Limits (www.joanwestenberg.com)
Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel (tedium.co)
World fertility rates in ''unprecedented decline'', UN says (www.bbc.co.uk)
Researchers recreate ancient Egyptian blues (news.wsu.edu)
Micrographia (1665) [pdf] (arhipa.org)
Scientific Papers: Innovation or Imitation? (www.johndcook.com)
JavaScript await was rogue rogue along (codedynasty.dev)
Working with the EPA to Secure Exposed Water HMIs (censys.com)
Apps shouldn''t let users enter OpenSSL cipher-suite strings (00f.net)
Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction [pdf] (discrete.openmathbooks.org)
Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests (www.cnn.com)
Every LLM buzzword explained as a fantasy story (RAG, MoE, LoRA, RoPE, etc.) (medium.com)
Implementing DOES in Forth, the entire reason I started this mess (boston.conman.org)
Debugging Azure Networking for Elastic Cloud Serverless (www.elastic.co)
Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees (www.npr.org)
Why agents are bad pair programmers (justin.searls.co)
An open-source rhythm dungeon crawler in 16 x 9 pixels (github.com)
The Posse Comitatus Act Explained (www.brennancenter.org)
The Brilliant Milky Way Connects Photographers in an Annual Contest (www.thisiscolossal.com)
Container: Apple''s Linux-Container Runtime (github.com)
Sly Stone has died (abcnews.go.com)
The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and Rewriting a Running GUI (www.righto.com)
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee (apnews.com)
Google battling ''fox infestation'' on roof of 1B London office (www.theguardian.com)
How do you prototype a nice language? (kevinlynagh.com)
Kennedy guts CDC''s vaccine panel of independent experts (www.nbcnews.com)
Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS (github.com)
Domains I Love (www.ahmedsaoudi.com)
Object firing signals at Earth every 44 minutes (www.livescience.com)
What methylene blue can (and can’t) do for the brain (neurofrontiers.blog)
Universal Basic Income isn''t about free money – it''s about a freer life (medium.com)
A bit more on Twitter/X''s new encrypted messaging (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
Pi in Pascal''s Triangle (www.cut-the-knot.org)
YouTube will "protect free expression" by pulling back on content moderation (arstechnica.com)
Somo – a human friendly alternative to netstat (github.com)
Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing (github.com)
Apple Announces Foundation Models Framework for Developers to Leverage AI (www.apple.com)
Frederick Forsyth has died (www.theguardian.com)
Apple introduces a universal design across platforms (www.apple.com)
Potential and Limitation of High-Frequency Cores and Caches (2024) (arch.cs.ucdavis.edu)
Why Go is a good fit for agents (docs.hatchet.run)
Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) (news.ycombinator.com)
Trusting your own judgement on ''AI'' is a risk (www.baldurbjarnason.com)
A man rebuilding the last Inca rope bridge (www.atlasobscura.com)
What API or software are people using for transcription? (news.ycombinator.com)
Chonkie (YC X25) – Open-Source Library for Advanced Chunking (news.ycombinator.com)
Glowstick – type level tensor shapes in stable rust (github.com)
Algovivo an energy-based formulation for soft-bodied virtual creatures (juniorrojas.com)
Anthropic''s AI-generated blog dies an early death (techcrunch.com)
Vibe code isn''t meant to be reviewed (monadical.com)
Most users won''t report bugs unless you make it stupidly easy (news.ycombinator.com)
The Legend of Prince''s Special Custom-Font Symbol Floppy Disks (nymag.com)
Maypole Dance of Braid Like Groups (divisbyzero.com)
Hokusai Moyo Gafu: an album of dyeing patterns (ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp)
The New Godel Prize Winner Tastes Great and Is Less Filling (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
Why Quadratic Funding Is Not Optimal (jonathanwarden.com)
Doctors Could Hack the Nervous System with Ultrasound (spectrum.ieee.org)
Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ''words'', scientist claims (www.theguardian.com)
What Is OAuth and How Does It Work? (fusionauth.io)
The Child-Like Role of Dogs in Western Societies (econtent.hogrefe.com)
CoverDrop: A secure messaging system for newsreader apps (github.com)
Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user (brutecat.com)
AI Angst (www.tbray.org)
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Defiant Loyalists Paid Dearly for Choosing Wrong Side in the American Revolution (www.smithsonianmag.com)
LLMs are cheap (www.snellman.net)
Ex-FCC Chair Ajit Pai is now a wireless lobbyist–and enemy of cable companies (arstechnica.com)
We came to be ruled by Death Eaters (2014) (georgiebc.wordpress.com)
So Long, Figma. Thanks for Everything (jondaiello.medium.com)
EU OS for the Public Sector (eu-os.eu)
Congress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance -In 1798 (www.forbes.com)
Finding Shawn Mendes (ericneyman.wordpress.com)
The Illusion of "The Illusion of Thinking" (www.seangoedecke.com)
Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs (www.theregister.com)
One Man Armies (quarter--mile.com)
Scientists Show Reforestation Helps Cool the Planet Even More Than Thought (news.ucr.edu)
Web Designs are Getting too Complicated (websmith.studio)
Kagi Reaches 50k Users (kagi.com)
FSE meets the FBI (blog.freespeechextremist.com)
Software Is About Promises (www.bramadams.dev)
tcpulse: A TCP/UDP load generator that provides fine-grained, flow-level control (github.com)
Analyzing IPv4 Trades with Gnuplot (ipv4a-5539ad.gitlab.io)
How to get started with writing tech video essays (news.ycombinator.com)
Riding high in Germany on the world''s oldest suspended railway (www.theguardian.com)
In 15 years, what will a gas station visit look like? (news.ycombinator.com)
Zig Devlog: Self-Hosted x86 Back End Is Now Default in Debug Mode (ziglang.org)
Tracking Copilot vs. Codex vs. Cursor vs. Devin PR Performance (aavetis.github.io)
I Used AI-Powered Calorie Counting Apps, and They Were Even Worse Than Expected (lifehacker.com)
OpenBSD IO Benchmarking: How Many Jobs Are Worth It? (rsadowski.de)
Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn''t good for democracy (helentoner.substack.com)
The Wire That Transforms Much of Manhattan into One Big, Symbolic Home (www.atlasobscura.com)
America''s infatuation with boy geniuses and ''Great Men'' is ruining us (www.theguardian.com)
Poison everywhere: No output from your MCP server is safe (www.cyberark.com)
Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament (arstechnica.com)
Generating Pixels One by One (tunahansalih.github.io)
Omnimax [70mm IMAX Format] (computer.rip)
Congress is poised to increase energy bills by hundreds of dollars per household (grist.org)
Why Android can''t use CDC Ethernet (2023) (jordemort.dev)
My first attempt at iOS app development (mgx.me)
What Happens When People Don''t Understand How AI Works (www.theatlantic.com)
Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews (www.theguardian.com)
Acetylated cellulose suppresses mass through commensals consuming carbohydrates (www.sciencedirect.com)
Tapping into the World’s largest gold reserves (www.uni-goettingen.de)
The race to find GPS alternatives (www.technologyreview.com)
Futa – A functionally useless AI terminal assistant (github.com)
Launching the BeOS on Hitachi Flora Prius Systems (1999) (testou.free.fr)
Startup Equity 101 (quarter--mile.com)
PS5 shooter goes from 5 players to bestseller after devs defend game (www.polygon.com)
Panjandrum: The ''giant firework'' built to break Hitler''s Atlantic Wall (www.bbc.com)
Let’s Bend – Open-Source Harmonica Bending Trainer (letsbend.de)
Nginx Restic Back End (www.grepular.com)
Cheap yet ultrapure titanium might enable widespread use in industry (2024) (phys.org)
How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025 (xania.org)
Rents fall in most U.S. metros since 2023, demand struggles to match supply (seekingalpha.com)
College Students Are Using ''No Contact Orders'' to Block Each Other in Real Life (www.wsj.com)
Administering immunotherapy in the morning seems to matter. Why? (www.owlposting.com)
Efficient mRNA delivery to resting T cells to reverse HIV latency (www.nature.com)
I was enjoying a midnight swim. My girlfriend kissed me and the nightmare began (www.theguardian.com)
The printer that transcends dimensions and corrupts reality (ghuntley.com)
BYD''s Five-Minute Charging Puts China in the Lead for EVs (spectrum.ieee.org)
Abstract visual reasoning based on algebraic methods (www.nature.com)
Binfmtc – binfmt_misc C scripting interface (www.netfort.gr.jp)
Apple Is on Defense at WWDC (www.theverge.com)
Focus and Context and LLMs (taras.glek.net)
How to learn CUDA to professional level (news.ycombinator.com)
I got a remote job for a EU company, I''d find it hard to go back to a US-based (www.businessinsider.com)
The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models (machinelearning.apple.com)
A Knockout Blow for LLMs? (garymarcus.substack.com)
Gaussian Integration Is Cool (rohangautam.github.io)
The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles (simonwillison.net)
A look at Cloudflare''s AI-coded OAuth library (neilmadden.blog)
Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)? (www.bsdhowto.ch)
YouTuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand (www.amiga-news.de)
Reverse engineering Claude Code (April 2025) (kirshatrov.com)
Knowledge Management in the Age of AI (ericgardner.info)
FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems (www.tomshardware.com)
Fray: A Controlled Concurrency Testing Framework for the JVM (github.com)
Re: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts (skarlso.github.io)
Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work (ashishb.net)
Installing Microsoft Windows 98 in DOSBox-X (dosbox-x.com)
Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News? (news.ycombinator.com)
and (danq.me)
Louis Rossmann: We''ve started a foundation to bring back ownership [video] (www.youtube.com)
Reinforcement Learning to Train Large Language Models to Explain Human Decisions (arxiv.org)
Should I Use a Carousel? (shouldiuseacarousel.com)
An innovative superfamily of fonts for code (monaspace.githubnext.com)
The US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state (english.elpais.com)
Don''t Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted a Lot of This (krisstgabriel.substack.com)
Why Understanding Software Cycle Time Is Messy, Not Magic (arxiv.org)
Coventry Very Light Rail (www.coventry.gov.uk)
Joining Apple Computer (www.folklore.org)
Math Symbol Frequencies (leancrew.com)
You Need Much Less Memory Than Time (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
Stop Vibe Coding. Start Cyborg Coding (chaserabenn.medium.com)
Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude (diwank.space)
Convert Photos to Atkinson Dithering (gazs.github.io)
Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users (help.openai.com)
Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own (www.ssp.sh)
PyOpticL – Code-to-CAD optical system engineering (github.com)
Bill Atkinson Dies from Cancer at 74 (daringfireball.net)
Who Needs a Belt 3D Printer When You Have a Treadmill? (www.hackster.io)
Hollywood Is Already Using AI (and Hiding It) (www.vulture.com)
Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging It in 30 Minutes with Fray (aoli.al)
BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore (github.com)
Log-Linear Attention (arxiv.org)
My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong''s jungle (corentin.trebaol.com)
I''m Wirecutter''s Water-Quality Expert. I Don''t Filter My Water (www.nytimes.com)
Washington Post''s Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) (tech.slashdot.org)
The Spectacle of "Building" (fakepixels.substack.com)
OneText (YC W23) Is Hiring a DevOps/DBA Lead Engineer (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
Why Pandas feels clunky when coming from R (2024) (www.sumsar.net)
Bill Atkinson has passed away (m.facebook.com)
After Pornhub left France, this VPN saw a 1,000% surge in signups in 30 minutes (mashable.com)
EFF to the FTC: DMCA Section 1201 Creates Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers (www.eff.org)
Asimov and the Disease of Boredom (1964) (archive.nytimes.com)
Hate Radio (rwandanstories.org)
Unfit for Work – The startling rise of disability in America (apps.npr.org)
Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts (spacenews.com)
If it works, it''s not AI: a commercial look at AI startups (1999) (dspace.mit.edu)
What was Radiant AI, anyway? (blog.paavo.me)
I started with a SQL question. He said "that''s a dumb question." (twitter.com)
Taurine and aging: Is there anything to it? (www.science.org)
Uber Just Reinvented the Bus Again (www.wired.com)
Why We''re Moving on from Nix (blog.railway.com)
A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (github.com)
Gander (YC F24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers and Interns (www.ycombinator.com)
Low-Level Optimization with Zig (alloc.dev)
Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021) (www.michaelhorowitz.com)
I built a knowledge system that gives AI perfect codebase memory (github.com)
Reverse Engineering Cursor''s LLM Client (www.tensorzero.com)
Ziina (YC W21) the Series A fintech is hiring product engineers (ziina.notion.site)
Good pixel art can be one-shotted by AI now (gametorch.app)
A new path forward for WordPress, and for the open web (joost.blog)
Tesla AI VP Milan Kovac Resigns After 9 Years Leading FSD and Optimus Projects (gearmusk.com)
NASA delays next flight of Boeing''s alternative to SpaceX Dragon (theedgemalaysia.com)
Why are front end dev demand so high if front end development is easier? (2012) (simonwillison.net)
Getting Past Procastination (spectrum.ieee.org)
Why Are Smokestacks So Tall? (practical.engineering)
Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise (blog.pkh.me)
Why You Should Move Your Site Away from Weebly (YC W07) (www.articulation.blog)
Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious (byronsharman.com)
I Read All of Cloudflare''s Claude-Generated Commits (www.maxemitchell.com)
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation (flightaware.engineering)
Food additive titanium dioxide likely has more toxic effects than thought (www.theguardian.com)
What "Working" Means in the Era of AI Apps (a16z.com)
Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold with Glass (www.atlasobscura.com)
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (www.jeffgeerling.com)
Japanese researchers develop transparent paper as alternative to plastics (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp (storytotell.org)
How many trees are there in the North American boreal forest? (nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts (www.economist.com)
Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data (www.nbcnews.com)
Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data (www.bloomberg.com)
Onyx (YC W24) – AI Assistants for Work Hiring Founding AE (www.ycombinator.com)
DNS traffic spiked as Musk–Trump clash boosted Truth Social (268%) and X (20%) (twitter.com)
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf] (ml-site.cdn-apple.com)
Online Sports Betting Is for Losers (doc.searls.com)
United States Digital Service Origins (usdigitalserviceorigins.org)
A year of funded FreeBSD development (www.daemonology.net)
AI game animation sprite generator (www.godmodeai.cloud)
A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square (www.thisiscolossal.com)
Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks (sutro.sh)
Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire (www.theregister.com)
Switching to Mojo gave a 14% improvement over CUDA (veitner.bearblog.dev)
The time bomb in the tax code that''s fueling mass tech layoffs (qz.com)
Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record (www.heise.de)
SaaS Is Just Vendor Lock-In with Better Branding (rwsdk.com)
Series C and Scale (Cursor) (www.cursor.com)
Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Director of Customer Success (www.ycombinator.com)
Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ''overwhelmed'' (www.theguardian.com)
Exploring AI Integrations with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro (www.mikechambers.com)
Exa (YC S21) Is Hiring a Founding Physical Design Engineer to Build Chips for AI (www.ycombinator.com)
See how a dollar would have grown over the past 94 years [pdf] (www.newyorklifeinvestments.com)
Silicon Valley aghast at the Musk-Trump divorce (www.ft.com)
4-7-8 Breathing (www.breathbelly.com)
Apple warns Australia against joining EU in mandating iPhone app sideloading (www.neowin.net)
Any good tools for viewing congressional bills? (news.ycombinator.com)
Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes (about.gitlab.com)
Meta: Shut Down Your Invasive AI Discover Feed. Now (www.mozillafoundation.org)
Why Bell Labs Worked (links.fabiomanganiello.com)
Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer – Blocks and Files (blocksandfiles.com)
OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs "indefinitely." Here''s who''s affected (arstechnica.com)
Too Many Open Files (mattrighetti.com)
Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction (zju3dv.github.io)
VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV (torrentfreak.com)
Race, ethnicity don''t match genetic ancestry, according to a large U.S. study (www.science.org)
I built a retro hacker game. It''s free. Feedback? (blacklight.dev)
Curate Your Shell History (esham.io)
The Coleco Adam Computer (dfarq.homeip.net)
An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting (blog.sagyamthapa.com.np)
Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with ''the biggest, baddest CPU'' (www.oregonlive.com)
A masochist''s guide to web development (sebastiano.tronto.net)
Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games (odyc.dev)
ThornWalli/web-workbench: Old operating system as homepage (github.com)
How to (actually) send DTMF on Android without being the default call app (edm115.dev)
Small Programs and Languages (ratfactor.com)
Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google (wordsmith.social)
Teenage Engineering lets you pick the price for their OP-1f (teenage.engineering)