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Table of Contents Tailscale and Kindle Innovations More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle Nostalgia in User Interfaces User Interfaces of the Demo Scene SQLite in Production SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers Innovative Tools and Platforms Codex Security Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript The Future of Learning and Design LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one-to-one learning experiences Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design

Table of Contents AI & Machine Learning Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27 Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary Software & Development PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf] Innovations & Projects Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs History & Nostalgia How Unix spell ran in 64 kB of RAM HTMX 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy Nature & Technology French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees

Table of Contents AI Innovations and Developments Flux 3 Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models Cognitive and Software Quality Insights Writing by hand is good for your brain What happened to TheNumbers.com Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) Nothing works and everyone is euphoric Personal Reflections and Experiences The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) I regret migrating to Codeberg Learning and Resources Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL Claude Cookbook The Book Prize Index

Table of Contents AI Innovations and Incidents OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude Hardware and Software Advances Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon Advertise in ChatGPT Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting Open Source and Community Projects Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books Mathematical Breakthroughs and Discoveries A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)

Table of Contents Cybersecurity and AI Insights Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25 Eliminating Go bounds checks with unsafe Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now Innovative Hardware Solutions Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s Self-Powered Trailers Promise Leaner Freight Runs What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard Game Streaming and Development Updates Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3 Robotics and AI Advances Xiaomi-Robotics-1 LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques Cultural and Environmental News Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years

Table of Contents JPEG Innovations Regressive JPEGs Tech Glitches & Community Love AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work Hardware Revivals & Innovations Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 AI Developments & Tools Porting nanochat to a TPU: what carries over from PyTorch, and what breaks Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark Software Supply Chain & More In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby

Table of Contents AI Innovations Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model Grok Build is open source High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights Web Development & Design If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe Making 768 servers look like 1 SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions Historical Insights and Cultural Commentary The lost joy of music piracy What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013) 1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored Tech Developments and Acquisitions Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources Bluesky Trademarks ATProto Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later Software Engineering Insights In defense of not understanding your codebase The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency I also filed the corners off my MacBook

Table of Contents Battery Breakthroughs Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries AI and Hardware Innovations Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware Is x86 ready to ACE it? Software Tools and Updates The git history command Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode Data Management and Visualization YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites Cultural Insights and Discussions Just Let Me Write Digits Zero Knowledge Tolstoyan Art

Table of Contents Visualization and AI Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh Tech Milestones and Innovations Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet,” is retiring Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises Emerging Technologies and Trends Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format Cultural Insights and Practical Applications Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts Modern decor may be straining people's brains

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Table of Contents Tech Vulnerabilities and Security Insights GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor DIY and Data Preservation How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024) Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks Machine Learning and AI Innovations 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro New Tools and Applications Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI Herdr: One terminal to rule them all Reflections on Technology and Society Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup

Table of Contents Mapping the Future Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network Organic Maps Gaming and Ownership It's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownership Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years AI Insights GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex When AI Costs More Than the Engineer Innovation and Challenges OpenPrinter Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected Education and History Completing a computer science degree on Coursera Starring the Computer

Table of Contents Open Source Innovations Open Source Low Tech .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting AI and Machine Learning Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding Nostalgic Computing Exploring PDP-1 Lisp (1960) Linux for the Sega MegaDrive Old Computer Challenge Tech Industry Developments Rocketlab acquires Iridium One million passports leaked online US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections Technical Insights Memory Safe Context Switching How to corrupt an SQLite database file Alan Kay on the meaning of "object-oriented programming" (2003)

Table of Contents AI Innovations HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88 GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024) Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing Tech Developments Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF) Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal US Grid Constraints: Towards 40GW+ of Behind-the-Meter Datacenter by 2028? We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library Historical Insights Historical memory prices 1960-2026 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920) Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck? Cultural Reflections The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online Deciphering basmala I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI Let's Decode the Mystery Bytes [video]

Table of Contents AI Innovations and Regulations Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 Tech Nostalgia and Revivals WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off Technical Developments and Innovations DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf] Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512 Fusion Programming Language Security and Threat Awareness Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control

Table of Contents HTTP Innovations The new HTTP QUERY method explained Gaming and Hardware News Steam Machine launches today AI Models and Security Will It Mythos? VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber Data Visualization and Programming Plotnine Improvements to Std:Format in C++26 Tech Reflections and Innovations My Mathematical Regression Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components Who Does What? Team Topologies for the Agentic Platform

Table of Contents AI Innovations and Challenges Midjourney Medical DeepSeek Introduces Vision I Hate Compilers A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok? Version Control and Project Management Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability The Forge We Deserve Sogen – High-performance Windows and Linux userspace emulator Tech Industry Developments AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks Cultural and Miscellaneous Insights Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags) How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024) The 2-Year Apartment Rule

Table of Contents AI Adventures AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks Software Innovations Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 MiMo Code is now released and open-source Software is made between commits Digital Sovereignty and Privacy Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22 Cultural Insights How we made hit video game Prince of Persia Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage Tech Challenges Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux

Table of Contents Tech Innovations and Breakthroughs The Cypherpunk Library APC-2 – A Professional Record Cutter 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse DeepSeek V4 Pro Beats GPT-5.5 Pro on Precision Cultural Reflections and Critiques Dopamine Fracking Making Peace with Your Unlived Dreams (2023) Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring Health and Wellness Advances New Drug 'Functionally Cures' Many Hepatitis B Virus Infections Richard Scolyer Has Died Learning and Development The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python Spherical Voronoi Diagram

Table of Contents Open Source and Software Development Changing How We Develop Ladybird Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995 Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub Programming Languages and Tools C++: The Documentary Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC driver Tech Innovations and Research Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity Leap in DNA synthesis slashes time to build new genetic sequences Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool Hardware and Connectivity ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol Watching a Z80 from an RP2350 WiFi Time

Table of Contents Security Vulnerabilities and Innovations 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device Innovative Projects and Tools Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2 Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework Tech Insights and Reflections Writing Portable ARM64 Assembly (2023) My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month It is an amazing time for programmers Industry Developments and Trends Microsoft Doubles Down on Controversial Quantum Computing Claims CT scans of BYD car parts Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

Table of Contents Old Hardware, New Tricks A 10 year old Xeon is all you need ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks Corporate Censorship and Innovations Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions Innovative Tools for Developers Rift: Better Alternative to Git Worktrees Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/http/httptrace Tech and Nature Collide Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers Miscellaneous Headlines United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert Why are large language models so terrible at video games?

Table of Contents AI Innovations and Impact YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs? Nostalgic Tech and Gaming SimCity 3k in 4k (2025) Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter Exploring New Communities Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum) Personal Insights and Analysis I analysed 20 years of my chats What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications Tech Tools and Resources Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025)

Table of Contents Gaming Ethics and Emotion The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters What Gets Kept Tech Updates and Vulnerabilities BadHost – CVE-2026-48710: Starlette Host-Header Auth Bypass Unicode 18.0.0 Beta Innovative Tools and Features Cloudflare Flagship Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers Automation and Productivity Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline Regulatory Moves and Societal Impact Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

Table of Contents Sound Innovations in Audio Editing Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web Show HN: Geomatic – a command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff Programming Paradigms and Language Transition Migrating from Go to Rust C constructs that still don't work in C++ Tech Breakthroughs and Discoveries A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine The Future of Computing and Tools Microsoft open-sources 'the earliest DOS source code discovered to date' Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu

Table of Contents Tech Innovations & Software Updates Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby Deno 2.8 Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card Corporate Moves & Culture Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses Why Japanese companies do so many different things Security & Vulnerabilities Project Glasswing: An Initial Update CISA tries to contain data leak Research & Development Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart Curious Projects & Ideas A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark

Table of Contents AI Breakthroughs and Innovations An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 Security Concerns in Tech GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension All the bugs they found Exciting New Tools and Features Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK Vivaldi 8.0 Phosphene: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers Programming and Development Updates New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++ How fast is N tokens per second really?

Table of Contents Privacy Concerns in Modern Vehicles Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid Exploring Tech Nostalgia Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop Innovative AI Solutions Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management Claude for Legal Emerging Security Challenges A few words on DS4 First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 Tech Innovations and Exploits New Nginx Exploit Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet

Table of Contents Binary Translation Breakthrough Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics 3D Printing and Cloud Controversies Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers Text Editing and Nostalgia The vi family Security Concerns and Innovations CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq Creative Coding and Fun Projects My graduation cap runs Rust

Table of Contents Local vs. Cloud AI Local AI needs to be the norm Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory I'm going back to writing code by hand Security and Privacy Issues Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability Programming and Development Insights 7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010) Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings? Nostalgia and Cultural Moments The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024) Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years dBase: 1979-2026 Cloud Services and User Experiences I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

Table of Contents Data Breaches and Workforce Changes Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce Security Vulnerabilities Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE Programming and Development ClojureScript Gets Async/Await Dithering with CSS Floats Don't Agree with Themselves AI Innovations Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal Miscellaneous Insights The map that keeps Burning Man honest The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

Table of Contents Automation and AI Innovations Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters Gadgets and Hardware StarFighter 16-Inch 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping Robotics and Smart Tech CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors Cultural and Philosophical Discussions Knitting bullshit Write some software, give it away for free Internet Trends and Challenges YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken The Boring Internet

Table of Contents AI Developments Where the goblins came from The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs Programming Innovations Zed 1.0 Parse, don't validate Tech Products and Policies Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans Copy Fail Tributes and Reflections Craig Venter has died London to Calcutta by Bus (2022)

Table of Contents The Future of Coding and AI Attention is your scarcest resource (2020) Vibe code is legacy code I know when you're vibe coding Innovations in User Experience Ollama's new app AgentGuard – Auto-kill AI agents before they burn through your budget Breakthroughs in Science and Technology A Quantum Gravimeter for GPS Backup Early universe's 'little red dots' may be black hole stars Reviving Classics Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes Industry Updates Figma will IPO on July 31 Fixing Ctrl+C in Rust terminal apps: Child process management

Table of Contents Natural Disasters and Human Response M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued Tech in Education Study mode Innovations in AI and Open Source Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker Show HN: Terminal-Bench-RL: Training long-horizon terminal agents with RL Science and Technology Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria How the brain increases blood flow on demand Cultural Reflections in Tech RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession Analoguediehard

Table of Contents Programming Innovations Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language SQLx – Rust SQL Toolkit Gaming and Streaming Technologies I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs User Experiences and Concerns Sign in with Google in Chrome The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025 Fun and Quirky Projects Built a rickroll machine that rickrolls you with microservices Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act Miscellaneous Insights Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children Different Clocks

Table of Contents AI and User Experience LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide Enough AI Copilots, We Need AI HUDs Claude Code Router Web Development Insights How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy Performance and Telemetry Analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode Fork Creative Hacks and Innovations I Hacked My Washing Machine Making Postgres Slower Mobile BESS Powers Remote Heavy Equipment Nostalgic Tech and New Tools ZUSE – The Modern IRC Chat for the Terminal Made in Go/Bubbletea Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

Table of Contents Corporate Transformations When We Get Komooted Chemical process produces critical battery metals with no waste Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused Tech Innovations Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs Smallest particulate matter sensor revolutionizes air quality measurement AI Developments Sapients paper on the concept of Hierarchical Reasoning Model How we rooted Copilot Rust running on every GPU Programming and Development Resizable structs in Zig Implementing dynamic scope for Fennel and Lua Janet: Lightweight, Expressive, Modern Lisp Cultural and Philosophical Insights Purple Earth hypothesis Beyond Food and People 16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

Table of Contents The App vs. Web Debate Do not download the app, use the website It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA Innovations in Research and Technology CCTV Footage Captures the First-Ever Video of an Earthquake Fault in Motion Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot Tools and Techniques for Developers Turn any diagram image into an editable Draw.io file. No more redrawing Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus Reflections on Programming and History Why I Do Programming The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic League Hardware and Performance Insights Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm? Never write your own date parsing library

Table of Contents Security and Privacy Google spoofed via DKIM replay attack: A technical breakdown Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build AI and Evaluation Terence Tao: Quantitative AI progress needs accurate and transparent evaluation There is no memory safety without thread safety Development Tools and IDEs Developing with Kiro: Amazon's New Agentic IDE Positron – A next-generation data science IDE Gaming and Graphics Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping A GPU Calculator That Helps Calculate What GPU to Use Celebrating Achievements Celebrating 20 Years of MDN Inter-Planetary Network Special Interest Group

Table of Contents Robotics Revolution CARA – High precision robot dog using rope Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars Navigating the Internet Landscape BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks Cybersecurity Concerns Shattering the Rotation Illusion: The Attacker View & AWSKeyLockdown Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture Innovations in AI and Programming Distillation makes AI models smaller and cheaper Parsing Protobuf like never before Nostalgia and Creative Quirks Solving a Childhood Mystery: How BASIC Games Learned to Win I drank every cocktail

Table of Contents Innovative Programming Models Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024) WebAssembly and the Future of Coding When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support? Algorithms for Modern Processor Architectures Data Quality in AI AI groups spend to replace low-cost 'data labellers' with high-paid experts We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries Nostalgic Tech and New Tools Rescuing two PDP-11s from a former British Telecom underground shelter (2023) Show HN: WTFfmpeg – Natural Language to FFmpeg Translator Exploring New Frontiers Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning YouTube Won the Battle for TV Viewers

Table of Contents Tech Innovations on the Horizon Tiny Code Reader: a $7 QR code sensor Show HN: Any-LLM – lightweight and open-source router to access any LLM Provider Better Auth (YC X25) Is Hiring Space Exploration Excitement First Hubble Telescope Images of Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Gemini North Discovers Long-Predicted Stellar Companion of Betelgeuse Programming and Development Insights Go Allocation Probe Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code Don't Animate Height Tech Culture and Philosophy Why Facts Don't Change Minds – Structure Does (A Systems Analysis of Belief) TODOs Aren't for Doing Emerging Tools and Technologies Blip: Peer-to-Peer Massive File Sharing by Former Dropbox Engineers Yt-transcriber – Give a YouTube URL and get a transcription Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: Why HTTP Parsing at the Edge Is Harder Than It Looks