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Quick thoughts on GitHub Actions Aug 26 incident (surfingcomplexity.blog)

×0.93 | 1 points by aray07 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Workday reads two-column resumes left-to-right and interleaves them (cvai.dev)

×0.88 | 1 points by quackquavk 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RSS Amplifier Re-Publishes 19 Full NLJ Articles Without Permission (thenewleafjournal.com)

×0.87 | 1 points by rdmuser 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Looking for an old submission about sneering culture

×1.58 | 2 points by annex-winged-cr 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agent Optimized Codebases (12gramsofcarbon.com)

×0.76 | 1 points by theahura 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mother convicted of: her 5 yo walks short way to pond alone in Virginia (washingtonpost.com)

×1.82 | 2 points by doctorpangloss 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nevarro, newsletter discovery and management platform (nevarroapp.com)

×1.75 | 2 points by Linden207 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are other "uncrackable benchmarks"?

×2.43 50 | 3 points by Nail2680 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days (anthropic.com)

×1.58 | 2 points by fourfire 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emacs/Wayland Window Manager in pure elisp (github.com/thkoch2001)

×0.68 | 1 points by thkoch 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tinkering with J Space (darshanmakwana412.github.io)

×0.68 | 1 points by martianvoid 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenLedger – Local-first double-entry accounting, MCP-native (Apache 2.0) (github.com/Attri-Inc)

×0.68 | 1 points by gtmattri 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Boeing 767 overran Miami runway (avherald.com)

×2.50 44 | 3 points by r2sk5t 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Epigenetic reprogramming as a key to reverse ageing and increase longevity (nih.gov)

×0.66 | 1 points by andsoitis 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Those still optimistic about a career in software – why?

×2.16 32 | 3 points by cipherdc 53 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Donut math: how donut.c works (2011) (a1k0n.net)

×0.55 | 1 points by azhenley 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Attention Developers: New Open IssueTracker Ticket on Data Deletion Fraud (google.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by Bitu79 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gigantic Research, Friend

×0.56 | 1 points by KnoxProtocol 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf] (harvard.edu)

×1.33 | 2 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PL Education in the Age of AI: Interview with Shriram Krishnamurthi (typetheoryforall.com)

×1.31 | 2 points by gnyeki 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Equal Earth: Explore the world interactively with the Equal Earth map (kuboon.github.io)

×0.57 | 1 points by nogajun 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security (oxide.computer)

×0.57 | 2 points by cyb0rg0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
P&G goes wide with a waterless, plastic-free Tide (trellis.net)

×0.57 | 1 points by plun9 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ripwire: ripgrep of AI context (CLI+MCP) giving coding agents a map of any repo (github.com/redhat-et)

×2.05 20 | 3 points by guessmyname 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How I make games in Batch Script: Multithreading (github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon)

×0.57 | 1 points by lowsun 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Portal Speedrunners Discover "Singularity Warp" After 18 Years [video] (youtube.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by aw1621107 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cost of running agent memory/vector search (polign.com)

×1.25 | 2 points by anuptalwalkar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Rogue AI Swarm Could Hide Inside an AI Company [video] (youtube.com)

×2.75 36 | 4 points by alwillis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why We Need a Return to Élan (joanwestenberg.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by Ariarule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Runic SSH – Open-Source SSH/SFTP Client in Rust and Tauri (github.com/marciopaiva)

×0.48 | 1 points by marciopaiva 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic Has Committed More Than $100B to AWS (fool.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by geoffbp 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine (1999) (thekurzweillibrary.com)

×1.10 | 2 points by thedreammachine 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fauxnix – bash for AI agents on Windows, no WSL (we measured the PS tax) (github.com/20000419)

×0.49 | 1 points by cl0602830 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Perplexity Pro vs. Claude – what are you paying for?

×1.10 | 2 points by daytonflyers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everyone is right about AI (formasimplex.com)

×1.14 4 | 3 points by wsintra 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post (gettogether.dev)

×2.69 7 #18 | 9 points by nchudleigh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets (gizmodo.com)

×1.26 6 #50 | 5 points by Gaishan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built a (wacky) date string utility (progressier.com)

×1.14 | 2 points by kbst 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Software for One (christophermeiklejohn.com)

×1.10 | 2 points by azhenley 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opened the source of my game (multiplatform autobattler) (github.com/lfarroco)

×1.09 | 2 points by lfarroco 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Americans Without Degrees Are Having One of the Best Job Markets in Years (wsj.com)

×2.84 19 #43 | 12 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mirror Life Is Theoretical - The Danger Is Anything But (rand.org)

×2.72 4 #66 | 5 points by jonbaer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ponytail: Lazy Senior Engineer Skill (ponytail.dev)

×2.16 83 | 30 points by zatkin 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails (techcrunch.com)

×1.60 17 | 3 points by NoRagrets 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Always free and privacy-first image editor – PicFiddle (picfiddle.com)

×1.69 18 | 3 points by iplaypc 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New method predicts where earthquakes will strike (phys.org)

×1.66 20 | 3 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't build your organization around a model provider (juanreyero.com)

×1.09 | 2 points by juanre 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everyone Has a Distaste for the Artificial (emailstotheworld.com)

×1.74 21 | 3 points by rsktaker 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Speech2Speech – browser-based STT and TTS for interacting with local LLMs (github.com/rhulha)

×1.14 | 2 points by Curiositry 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bespoke: A Programming Language for People Who Say Please – Larvitz Blog (hofstede.it)

×1.08 | 2 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Music Theory (brianberns.github.io)

×1.08 | 2 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Army to spend $465M on 'Group 3 killer' anti-drone laser (taskandpurpose.com)

×1.05 | 2 points by bushwart 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ROCm 10.0: A Decade of Open Compute, Built for the Age of Agentic AI (amd.com)

×1.86 3 #55 | 7 points by metrofun 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Is Already Making Us Less Human (theatlantic.com)

×1.95 4 #65 | 6 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-6 Astra beats portal [video] (youtube.com)

×1.45 39 #84 | 3 points by aizk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Airbnb cut authentication code by 60% with server-driven flows (medium.com)

×1.40 33 | 3 points by CoderLim110 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Where Temporary Decisions Become Permanent Behavior (medium.com)

×1.48 35 | 3 points by gps372 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] (youtube.com)

×6.91 24 #36 | 39 points by treve 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MathKernel: An evidence-aware multi-engine mathematics kernel and MCP server (github.com/Staatsgeheim)

×1.03 26 #8 | 13 points by staatsgeheim 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meditations on Moloch (2014) (slatestarcodexabridged.com)

×1.44 22 | 4 points by vermilingua 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Death of Educational Content on YouTube [video] (youtube.com)

×0.90 | 2 points by josephcsible 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prediction of maternal and infant outcomes with a Mother-Child AI agent (doi.org)

×0.95 | 2 points by sbulaev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LED Sports Ticker – A high-performance 60fps stadium-style scoreboard (google.com)

×0.86 | 2 points by scrolling 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hard-Chat – A serverless, RAM-only P2P terminal chat (github.com/mrhardlint)

×1.64 51 | 13 points by hardlint 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Five dead after Amazon-branded cargo plane overruns runway at Miami airport (nbcnews.com)

×1.34 41 | 3 points by r_singh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
App Review Shenanigans (kaylees.site)

×1.44 29 | 4 points by latexr 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Four Weeks of a Vegan Diet Alter Signs of Inflammation and Aging (uniklinik-freiburg.de)

×3.10 70 | 27 points by marvinborner 3 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CrisperWhisper – Speech to Text Model That Transcribes What You Say Verbatim (github.com/nyrahealth)

×1.26 45 | 3 points by Curiositry 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Turpentine Effect (2010) (ribbonfarm.com)

×1.26 46 | 3 points by Curiositry 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pivot to AI safety, I beg you (ceselder.substack.com)

×1.93 6 #63 | 11 points by doitLP 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Genius AI Detector (geniusaidetector.com)

×0.84 | 2 points by ohjeez 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When the Building Becomes the Computer (medium.com)

×1.36 48 | 3 points by richieadomako 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Find people who share your taste in books, films, and music (joinstratum.app)

×0.37 | 1 points by JeffreyInyang 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An MCP for Telling the Time? (smithery.ai)

×0.90 | 2 points by Facingsouth 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Draw the Rest of the Owl (luke.zip)

×1.36 49 | 3 points by yathern 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Maths.free – Learn all of maths, in order (maths.free)

×0.90 | 2 points by nadermx 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm a father who studies the impact of AI: this is what parents need to know (theguardian.com)

×0.85 | 2 points by lemming 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition (npr.org)

×3.48 42 | 14 points by anticorporate 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is your biggest struggle while learning?

×1.07 | 2 points by Cursed666 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Have the frontier labs mixed up AI safety and security? (martinalderson.com)

×0.87 | 2 points by ymolodtsov 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CellularFlow – Continual-learning LLM using associative memory (github.com/celcilin)

×0.88 | 2 points by celcilin 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes (austinhenley.com)

×1.61 1 #1 | 128 points by azhenley 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Music-player – a music daemon where server and client are one binary (github.com/tsirysndr)

×0.38 | 1 points by tsiry 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PortableMind – Offline AI on a USB (portablemind.io)

×0.39 | 1 points by shaunpud 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comparison of Power Training vs. Traditional Strength Training in Older Adults (jamanetwork.com)

×0.40 | 1 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One Hundred Authors Against Einstein (archive.org)

×1.65 8 #90 | 8 points by tzury 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Grsshppr – Hop Devices Across Macs (Wi-Fi/BLE/AWDL) (grsshppr.app)

×0.93 | 2 points by PeanutOS 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every MCP tool argument is model-chosen, so the signature is the boundary (gumroad.com)

×0.41 | 1 points by csolomon0704 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Chrome-bridge – let any AI agent drive your real logged-in Chrome (github.com/siropkin)

×0.42 | 1 points by siropkin 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory? (mbmccoy.dev)

×1.47 65 | 25 points by _alternator_ 4 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???