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Convert potentially dangerous PDFs to safe PDFs
Stevey's Birthday Blog
Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
Mystery of the Head Activator
Golfing APL/K in 90 Lines of Python
Show HN: Grov – Multiplayer for AI coding agents
Show HN: I made AI earphones remember everything
Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned
A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study
Show HN: RatatuiRuby wraps Rust Ratatui as a RubyGem – TUIs with the joy of Ruby
What if AI is both good and not that disruptive?
Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain
Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing
Open source server code for the BitCraft MMORPG
TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source
Show HN: Retain – A unified knowledge base for all your AI coding conversations
TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB
SIMD programming in pure Rust
L∃AN together – live stream schedule
Show HN: UltraContext – A simple context API for AI agents with auto-versioning
Show HN: SpeechOS – Wispr Flow-inspired voice input for any web app
eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update
Three types of LLM workloads and how to serve them
Challenges in join optimization
Magnetic remote control of biology
OpenAI API Logs: Unpatched data exfiltration
Devin Review: AI to Stop Slop
Show HN: Semantic search engine for Studio Ghibli movie
I finally got my sway layout to autostart the way I like it
Building an RL environment to train agents for production debugging
Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring
Deaths Linked to AI Chatbots
FreeBSD
Judge blocks government from searching data seized from Washington Post reporter
Letting Claude play text adventures
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The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly
Ask HN: How are you automating your coding work?
TeraWave Satellite Communications Network
Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
Linux from Scratch
Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967)
Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account
Show HN: Rails UI
GenAI, the snake eating its own tail
Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples
Show HN: Company hiring trends and insights from job postings
Claude's new constitution
illumos
Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
Beowulf's opening "What" is no interjection (2013)
Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds
JPEG XL Test Page
Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring – AI-native financial advisor at 0% advisory fees
European lawmakers suspend U.S. trade deal
Skip is now free and open source
PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts
BitChat.land – Global Bitchat relay overview
Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
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SmartOS
Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code
DOGE Employees Shared Social Security Data
Show HN: yolo-cage – AI coding agents that can't exfiltrate secrets
The first 100 days as a Renovate maintainer
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TPM on embedded systems: Pitfalls and caveats to watch out for
libcurl memory use some years later
I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds
Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
Finding Matrices that you can multiply wrong, right
Uber Faces Growing Pressure over Sexual Assault Record
Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback
Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
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How AI destroys institutions
Nested code fences in Markdown
Canada Announces Divorce from America
RTS for Agents
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Vibecoding #2
What Is a PC Compatible?
Nukeproof: Manifesto for European Data Sovereignty
Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time (2024)
The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)
SETI@home is in hiberation
Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring
EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity
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Batmobile: 10-20x Faster CUDA Kernels for Equivariant Graph Neural Networks
Parliament tells Dutch government to keep DigiD data out of American hands
EU inc: a new European company structure
EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'
Leave X – Protect Democracy
Hypnosis with Aphantasia
The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing
Can you slim macOS down?
EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators
Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie
Crates.io: Development Update
EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification
The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns
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