Flipper One – we need your help(blog.flipper.net)
1208 points by sandebert | 464 comments
Flipper blog post by Pavel Zhovner introducing Flipper One, a portable Linux computer, and asking the community for help with its development.
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Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart(valhovey.github.io)
1146 points by speleo | 230 comments
An interactive 3D stellar navigation chart built from Gaia DR3 data, showing nearby stars and the Earth-to-Tau Ceti trajectory from Project Hail Mary.
Google's Antigravity bait and switch(0xsid.com)
712 points by ssiddharth | 316 comments
A personal blog post complaining that Google's Antigravity coding tool was changed into a standalone Codex-style experience after I/O 2026, framed as a bait and switch.
AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale(axelk.ee)
665 points by speckx | 542 comments
A personal blog post arguing that AI companies train on authors' work without consent or compensation, amounting to plagiarism at scale.
Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations(noslopgrenade.com)
651 points by napolux | 385 comments
A single-page site urging people not to paste AI-generated walls of text into chat conversations, with a Redis vs Memcached example of what not to do.
I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph(dougmacdowell.com)
643 points by dougdude3339 | 98 comments
Doug MacDowell's project essay about spending 50 hours designing and drawing a single line graph data visualization.
We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot(blog.google)
610 points by sofumel | 548 comments
Google Ads & Commerce Blog post announcing Gemini-built ad formats being tested in Search and an expanded Direct Offers pilot for brands.
The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics(davidoks.blog)
496 points by d0ks | 584 comments
Substack essay by David Oks arguing that AI-driven memory demand is causing a global memory crunch that is raising prices and killing cheap smartphones.
Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police(prismreports.org)
463 points by root-parent | 195 comments
Prism news article reporting that Amazon, Facebook, ICE, and the FBI have access to Seattle Shield, a private intelligence-sharing network run by Seattle police.
Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)(blog.simbastack.com)
451 points by asenna | 127 comments
Blog post describing how the author used Gemma 4 running locally on a five-year-old MacBook to index a year of personal video footage overnight.
Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines(blog.changs.co.uk)
414 points by rbanffy | 202 comments
Blog post surveying lesser-known features in Python 3.15 beyond headline changes, starting with asyncio TaskGroup graceful cancellation.
Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored(spectrum.ieee.org)
400 points by pseudolus | 118 comments
IEEE Spectrum feature presenting forgotten, restored photographs of the 1945 Trinity atomic bomb test and what they show about the project's scale.
Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD(crocidb.com)
353 points by speckx | 214 comments
Personal blog post describing migrating a blog from a decade-old Ubuntu 16.04 DigitalOcean VPS to a cheaper FreeBSD virtual machine on Hetzner.
Vivaldi 8.0(vivaldi.com)
351 points by OuterVale | 232 comments
Vivaldi blog post by Jon von Tetzchner announcing Vivaldi 8.0 for desktop, described as the browser's biggest design overhaul ever.
Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods(techcrunch.com)
348 points by mattas | 426 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Waymo paused its Atlanta robotaxi service after its vehicles repeatedly drove into flooded roads.
Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps(freenet.org)
323 points by sanity | 215 comments
Homepage of the redesigned Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps built on a global key-value store of WebAssembly contracts.
BBEdit 16(barebones.com)
296 points by qaz_plm | 87 comments
Shunning AI is the human choice(thehandbasket.co)
279 points by cdrnsf | 329 comments
Using Kagi Search with Low Vision(veroniiiica.com)
244 points by speckx | 80 comments
London Mayor Blocks Palantir(theguardian.com)
103 points by ZiiS | 19 comments
Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?(buffrr.dev)
88 points by ca98am79 | 54 comments
Michael Keating has died(bigfinish.com)
78 points by speckx | 35 comments
What is a Demand Coop(cahootzcoops.com)
72 points by DeonRob | 78 comments
Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers
62 points by theorchid | 26 comments
Highest Random Weight in Elixir(jola.dev)
60 points by shintoist | 3 comments
