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Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms (www.latimes.com)
Police departments weren’t looking for Flock abuse. We did it for them. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras (www.texastribune.org)
I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul (sfstandard.com)
Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online (defrag98.com)
Twitter (Not affiliated with X Corp) (twitter.now)
California Passes AB-1856 for Open-Source Relief over Age Verification (www.phoronix.com)
Aptera announces a $44M to design and build a solar electric vehicle (frequal.com)
What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (www.strangeloopcanon.com)
Zod v4.5 adds schema compilation (3-9x faster validation) (twitter.com/colinhacks)
Tencent Releases and Open-Sources Tencent Hy4 Preview (www.tencent.com)
The new Go JSON API: twice as fast, or 1.5x slower? (lemire.me)
Domain-Driven Agents (coldtake.dev)
A safe MySQL upgrade that wasn't so safe (blog.elis.cc)
Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude (claude.com)
Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns (dl.acm.org)
Breaking persistent undo shows Neovim can't be trusted (infosec.exchange)
DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions (www.theguardian.com)
The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now (www.stephendiehl.com)
LLMs are making me lose my savviness (pgaleone.eu)
Sony Music and Warner Chappell Are Suing Anthropic (www.theverge.com)
vLLM v0.28.0 (github.com/vllm-project)
Show HN: PhpEZ – A tiny PHP framework for shared LAMP hosting (github.com/QcFe)
Magnetic core memory USB drive used for sneakernet file transfer (www.tomshardware.com)
Show HN: Flint – A minimal C/C++ package manager and build tool written in C (github.com/mainak55512)
Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role (tucker.wales)
Music publishers sue Anthropic, allege "blantant theft" of copyrighted music (www.axios.com)
An $18B settlement – and Zuckerberg barely blinked (www.theguardian.com)
Animal Size Comparison (www.skeletaldrawing.com)
Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI (newsletter.eng-leadership.com)
A better SQL in 11 lines of code (prela-lang.org)
Google Reduced Pixel 11's Security (twitter.com/GrapheneOS)
Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report (www.theguardian.com)
ICE eyes spending up to $2M on Boston Dynamics robot dogs to up 'officer safety' (www.bostonglobe.com)
Introduction to Probability – 2nd Edition (open.umn.edu)
Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022) (www.coolboulder.org)
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (science.nasa.gov)
Quantifying Colour (ekunazanu.foo)
Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV (www.dampfkraft.com)
GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE) (bsky.app)
Google translate is a better writer than me (theoo.dev)
Why Everybody Hates Palantir (www.economist.com)
Don't enthusiastically agree to rewrite the system at work (blahaj.bearblog.dev)
AROS, the FOSS Recreation of AmigaOS, Comes to Raspberry Pi (www.theregister.com)
Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack (uecker.codeberg.page)
Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" (lwn.net)
SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview (store.steampowered.com)
Global Trade and the United States Navy (acoup.blog)
Study links listening to live metal improves tolerance for pain, cold (gizmodo.com)
Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU (www.bbc.com)
Show HN: Qwiksi a CLI tool for adding your signature to a PDFs (github.com/krisraven)
ICANN de-accredits "bulletproof" domain registrar Trustname (domainnamewire.com)
Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002) (www.inventati.org)
Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM) (chipsandcheese.com)
Show HN: AMC Stocks Hub – asset-manager profiles, 13F holdings, and co-holdings (assetmanagementcompany.net)
Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT (twitter.com/andrew_n_carr)
Quest for the Eternal Dock – Lambdock (jointhefreeworld.org)
TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store (github.com/kingroryg)
OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco (www.sfgate.com)
Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop (www.kumander.org)
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX (openai.com)
The IBM PC, Part 2: Tsunami (technicshistory.com)
StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator (github.com/stemdeckapp)
Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events? (www.vectorian.be)
PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry (www.rascal.news)
9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight (azmirror.com)
I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis (pwning.systems)
Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework (github.com/Lakr233)
Identifying fake cosmetics using AI (groverlab.org)
Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors (spectrum.ieee.org)
A few feral cats in an ALGOL trenchcoat. (wiki.xxiivv.com)
Stopping the smart TV from being used against you (www.s-config.com)
Racter (1984) (www.ubu.com)
Show HN: Hacker News Client with Claude Code and Codex Integration (github.com/nilbuild)
Initially delayed, the pass-through of tariffs to consumer prices has arrived (www.minneapolisfed.org)
A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken (www.currentaffairs.org)
Aspirational Clownmaxxing and Joey's cadillac todo list (charlesleifer.com)
Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes (www.gadgetreview.com)
Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager (usesesame.app)
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches this Sunday (www.npr.org)
Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock over 2k times (www.cnn.com)
Service Discontinued (twitterwebviewer.com)
Show HN: Blast – Open-source sandbox-as-a-service (github.com/stanford-mast)
Corporate profits hit highest share since WWII, as worker payouts wilt (www.ft.com)
Secrets of the Atomic City (longreads.com)
Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment (arxiv.org)
Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research (www.ycombinator.com)
Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days (anil.recoil.org)
How Dactyl Works (dactyl.dev)
Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio (terminalbytes.com)
EasyEffects can improve laptop speaker sound quality (www.osnews.com)
Barrier lake continues to pose flood risk, China warns (kathmandupost.com)
GLM-5.3 is now open-weight (huggingface.co)
Zig to remove support for wasi-libc (codeberg.org)
GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven (ckardaris.com)
Don't use musl if you care about performance (blog.brokk.ai)
Superhuman Attention (perfloop.ai)
Make a Portable Wide-screen Mechanical TV (spectrum.ieee.org)
Creating the Aetheryte Radio (haz.ee)
Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need (geekyschmidt.com)
Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits (www.hanselman.com)
“Weird” is a weird word (www.deadlanguagesociety.com)
State of the Map 2026 (2026.stateofthemap.org)
Autistici/Inventati case sets a new counterterrorism precedent, Irdi says (decode39.com)
Get your Windows license refund (en.refund4freedom.org)
The Finn – an agent that lives in my router and complains about it (github.com/YuriKovalov22)
Htmx 4.0 (four.htmx.org)
KHMS – a file-based long-term memory an LLM agent installs into itself (github.com/kostey)
The Loss of Changelogs (amxmln.com)
AutoSaddler: Automatic Harness Optimization (arxiv.org)
I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again (joshkaramuth.com)
Interactive pattern discovery in binaries (FF-16-TUI) (github.com/HexLasso)
U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective (www.inventati.org)
An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations (www.audubon.org)
A Badass Way to Connect Programs Togther What Is OSC? (joearms.github.io)
“It works better in the app” (shkspr.mobi)
Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions (www.orbify.eu)
Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise (www.nature.com)
Terry Rozier and the Teleprompt Operator (iainschmitt.com)
AI Agent Has Root (infernalcode.com)
ALMA Reveals Long-Lived Hotspots on Betelgeuse's Bubbling Surface (www.almaobservatory.org)
Bhartrhari's Paradox (www.futilitycloset.com)
Migrating to HTTPX2 (github.com/openai)
HTTPX2 – A next-generation HTTP client for Python (github.com/pydantic)
Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material (subsmith.app)
LLM Cliché Highlighter (tools.simonwillison.net)
Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018) (alyssarosenzweig.ca)
Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map (cartographia40k.com)
Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice (blog.luanti.org)
Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak (modal.cx)
USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida (cbsaustin.com)
Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal (www.nytimes.com)
Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal (www.bloomberg.com)
Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows (www.terminal-bench-science.ai)
The Twelve-Factor App (2025) (12factor.net)
Select * from Internet.blogposts (pfrazee.leaflet.pub)
Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal (www.newscientist.com)
Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance (github.com/elyosh)
Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? (www.quantamagazine.org)
Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model (github.com/experientiallabs)
Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology (www.science.org)
Previewing the Model Hardware Standard (www.anthropic.com)
Gemini-3.5-Transcribe (blog.google)
Show HN: Voronoi Go (voronoigo.com)
We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer (code.ffmpeg.org)
M5Stack Launches PaperMono (shop.m5stack.com)
Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache (blog.cloudflare.com)
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (blog.google)
Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why (github.com/kelviq)
Small Models Have Arrived (calv.info)
Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card (www.tokyodev.com)
Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots
Show HN: Watches user sessions, finds bugs that matter, and fixes them (github.com/opslane)
Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives (acs.digitellinc.com)
The mechanics of the Nepali flash flood (www.economist.com)
Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days (blog.chrislewis.au)
Launching Route 53 Files (www.daemonology.net)
Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore (github.com/ahmadpiran)
The Wandering Yamamura Theater Troupe (cinemasojourns.com)
507 Mechanical Movements (507movements.com)
Tmp.0ut Volume 5 (tmpout.sh)
Harness Engineering (Habitat-Thinking.github.io)
Trade (and Tariffs) (xkcd.com)
CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem (www.comaps.app)
Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode (rahuljuliato.com)
Aphantasia Beginner's Guide (aphantasia.com)
US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist" (crimethinc.com)
MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training (aiandeducation.mit.edu)
Microduck (pollen-robotics.com)
Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude (louisabraham.github.io)
Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards (economist.com)
Kusama Yayoi has died (www.nytimes.com)
Laion Big Video Dataset (projects.laion.ai)
CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO (github.com/SenteLabsAI)
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B (www.businessinsider.com)
Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS (morphing.cloud)
Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 (www.mturk.com)
Zohran and the Short Link (iamwillwang.com)
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2 (asahilinux.org)
Europe's last regular standard-gauge steam passenger service (parowozowniawolsztyn.pl)
Stripe acquires Clerky (www.clerky.com)
IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE (newsroom.ibm.com)
GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? (isgithubcooked.com)
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead (openai.com)
Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math (ben3d.ca)
The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada (thetariffcost.com)
Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane (github.com/tailscale)
An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation (lwn.net)
YouTube Format IDs (gist.github.com)
U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications (www.wsj.com)
CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela (hotosm.org)
The Harness Is the Thing (scott-fryxell.github.io)
Show HN: Build your own theme park (www.magicpatterns.com)
FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer (www.fda.gov)
Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies (www.risklytics.ai)
It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI (www.ssp.sh)
Show HN: A lightweight, stateless database for agent memory (polign.com)
Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems (sigma-star.at)
Nebula Sans (www.nebulasans.com)
VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents (blog.trailofbits.com)
PageRank explained (praveshkoirala.com)
Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk (farmaction.us)
GLM-5.3-Flash (z.ai)
Access to Urban Woodlands Linked with Lower Use of Antidepressants (e360.yale.edu)
Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children (www.reuters.com)
11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey (www.thehistoryblog.com)
Recovering Corrupt Zip Files (www.construct.net)
AWS Acquires DuckLabs (ducklabs.com)
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (qwen.ai)
Memory Ordering in CPUs (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
A curmudgeon tries a language server (entropicthoughts.com)
The turbulent AI era is here (www.gatesnotes.com)
Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript (typebase.io)
The turbulent AI era is here (www.gatesnotes.com)
Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds (www.bbc.com)
Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence (var0.xyz)
Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project (openstreetmap.us)
RAG Is Simpler Than You Think (www.lighthousenewsletter.com)
Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia (openai.com)
Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War (spectrum.ieee.org)
Visual Analysis of Binary Files (binvis.io)
Actually Queryable Executables (fzakaria.com)
Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015) (www.wired.com)
FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels (www.fda.gov)
Flyway for freeloaders, rollback implemented in Python (aconcan.io)
Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases (github.com/jeffhajewski)
The ArtQrCode a twist on the classic black and white Quick Response Code (art-qrcode.com)
Time complexity of operations on Python's built-in types (docs.python.org)
Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs (e360.yale.edu)
OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
EVE Online moves to Python 3 (www.eveonline.com)
New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra (www.apple.com)
Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra (www.apple.com)
Don't Wordle (dontwordle.com)
How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer (www.library.hbs.edu)
Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language (r136a1.dev)
SiFive's First Server Platform (chipsandcheese.com)
Box of 300 Love Letters Showed Up, What Whimsical WWII Soldier Who Wrote Them? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
SQLite as a Document Database (2020) (dgl.cx)
Intel's Wildcat Lake (chipsandcheese.com)
Glacier Mice (en.wikipedia.org)
Visualizing Binary Files (movq.de)
Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe (acko.net)
Queen Caroline turned King Arthur into an 18C royal PR strategy (theconversation.com)
MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (xusheng.dev)
Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded (twitter.com/lemire)
Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer (galaxium.app)
You've heard of CSV files, but have you heard of CCSV files? (robida.net)
Experiments with Plotter Art (sometimes.digital)
What's new in Emacs 31.1 (www.masteringemacs.org)
Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo (arstechnica.com)
Kmart Digicam Mod Part 2 (mason.bearblog.dev)
Monzo Stand-In (monzo.com)
Sloc Cloc and Code 4.0 (scc) – Finding the files that need the most attention (boyter.org)
Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux (zackbartel.com)
Vim's UserGettingBored Autocmd (evanhahn.com)