Cloudflare acquires Deno(deno.com)
1349 points by ilreb | 702 comments
Deno blog post announcing that Deno is joining Cloudflare.
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Triple-A Minesweeper(minesweeper.mikelacher.com)
1327 points by robin_reala | 265 comments
A browser-playable Minesweeper game with a classic 9x9 grid, mine counter, timer, and smiley reset button.
Sorry, I'm in a meeting(iminafleeting.com)
953 points by splintersio | 265 comments
Fleeting is a web app that plays plausible fake meeting audio, such as standups or sales calls, so users can pretend to be busy in a meeting.
REA Reverse – Engineer Anything(rea.tools)
716 points by modinfo | 308 comments
Landing page for REA, a tool that gives AI coding agents capabilities to reverse engineer and explain how programs work, with setup instructions.
Our $445M Series D(oxide.computer)
675 points by ahlCVA | 303 comments
Oxide Computer Company blog post announcing its $445 million Series D funding round.
YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops(gizmodo.com)
605 points by gumby | 330 comments
Gizmodo article about a YouTuber who says police visited him after he built a Flock-style license plate camera to track police vehicles.
Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay(nobelprize.org)
441 points by Anon84 | 225 comments
Official Nobel Prize press release announcing the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Navanethem Pillay.
Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B(typesafe.ai)
413 points by tosh | 332 comments
Company blog post from Typesafe AI announcing an $870M funding round at a $7.5B valuation.
Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded(carrierexplode.com)
396 points by simplyalec | 46 comments
Carrier-explode is a site that archives and decodes carrier settings (APNs, VoLTE, Wi-Fi Calling, 5G) from iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy firmware, with comparisons and an API.
Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen(github.com)
387 points by franze | 170 comments
GitHub repository for a macOS CLI tool and skill that lets AI agents like Claude Code and Codex draw click-through arrows, boxes and text on screen.
US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize(reuters.com)
378 points by poly2it | 258 comments
Reuters news article reporting that the US imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court hours after a former ICC judge won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs(unsung.aresluna.org)
321 points by sohkamyung | 260 comments
A deep-dive blog post on the Unsung software craft blog comparing keyboard layouts, keys, and shortcut conventions between Windows PCs and Macs.
OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"(techcrunch.com)
308 points by trakkstar | 201 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute the company's misconduct claims and warn of a chilling effect on safety work.
No Man Is an Island(borretti.me)
260 points by zetalyrae | 162 comments
Blog essay arguing that individual intellectual activity depends on human intellectual communities, which AI is dissolving.
'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone(animationobsessive.substack.com)
259 points by vinhnx | 41 comments
An Animation Obsessive newsletter post on how Nick Park made the first Wallace and Gromit film largely by himself, plus animation news bits.
Python 3.15(python.org)
248 points by ngoldbaum | 65 comments
Official python.org release page for Python 3.15.0, listing its release date and download information.
Nix wrote half of my debugger(fzakaria.com)
226 points by ingve | 54 comments
Blog post by Farid Zakaria describing how Nix helped build a debugger on top of Rewind VM, a deterministic VM for Nix builds.
Programming Isn't Special(blog.glyph.im)
219 points by ingve | 236 comments
Blog post by Glyph arguing that programming is creative work like art and that programmers should resist AI as artists and writers have.
Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0(blogs.windows.com)
215 points by smokel | 61 comments
Windows Developer Blog post announcing Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) 1.0.0, a policy-driven containment system for running AI agents on Windows.
Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team(cockroachlabs.com)
197 points by rafiss | 89 comments
Cockroach Labs blog post describing a five-month experiment using a hospital-style workflow where bugs are patients and AI coding agents act as a medical team.
Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser(quake-srp.pages.dev)
196 points by ilreb | 160 comments
A browser-playable port of Quake rewritten in safe Rust, shown loading its engine with fullscreen, sound, and key controls.
MXC - a sandboxed code execution system(github.com)
181 points by nreece | 81 comments
GitHub repository for Microsoft's MXC, a policy-driven, layered isolation and containment system for sandboxed code execution.
Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape(euronews.com)
178 points by ohjeez | 96 comments
News article about Germany converting abandoned lignite coal mines into a network of artificial lakes forming Europe's largest man-made lake landscape.
What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI(terrytao.wordpress.com)
178 points by matt_d | 50 comments
Terence Tao blog post on what mathematicians should know about the Lean theorem prover, covering reliability and AI; the capture shows only a browser-check interstitial.
Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists(twitter.com)
175 points by bilsbie | 194 comments
A post on X by @WallStreetApes alleging that food companies use 'ingredient splitting' of sweeteners so items like strawberries appear first on labels.
Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more(jessewaites.com)
173 points by piratebroadcast | 88 comments
Blog post describing how the author used AI to search 400 years of historical records, surfacing a forgotten meteorite report, lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcanic eruptions.
Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?(blog.janestreet.com)
173 points by jsomers | 53 comments
Jane Street blog post exploring whether autoregressive diffusion models can generate realistic synthetic financial market data.
Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours(united24media.com)
170 points by ortusdux | 184 comments
United24 Media news article reporting that Yandex's largest Russian data center was damaged, the company's second data center hit within 48 hours.
Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT(washingtonpost.com)
164 points by cainxinth | 140 comments
Washington Post article reporting that OpenAI found an Iranian campaign used ChatGPT to place about 100 AI-generated articles in at least 20 U.S. news outlets.
Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making(commandline.microsoft.com)
162 points by lisajaloza | 56 comments
Microsoft Command Line blog post announcing Microsoft-Decision-1, a model built for fast decision-making and available through Foundry.
Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder(nbcphiladelphia.com)
152 points by Zambyte | 110 comments
NBC10 Philadelphia news article reporting that police are investigating a false tip on an unsolved Philadelphia murder submitted by an Anthropic AI model.
Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants(broadinstitute.org)
147 points by luu | 39 comments
Broad Institute news article announcing that a clinical trial of an siRNA drug candidate targeting the prion protein has begun enrolling human participants.
M7.6 Earthquake in Panama(earthquake.usgs.gov)
143 points by gslin | 37 comments
USGS event page for a M7.7 earthquake 12 km WSW of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama, with maps, location, depth and impact tools.
Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court(state.gov)
140 points by TechTechTech | 146 comments
US State Department press release page about imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court; it loaded as an error page showing a forbidden exception.
Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read(readrare.com)
139 points by miletus | 51 comments
Read Rare is a site collecting rare tech documents and books, such as historic memos, letters, and offerings, shown as a shelf and free to read or borrow.
What should we tell our students?(terrytao.wordpress.com)
129 points by sajid | 173 comments
A Terry Tao blog post titled "What should we tell our students?"; the capture shows only a browser-check interstitial instead of the content.
Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice(lwn.net)
127 points by peter_d_sherman | 37 comments
LWN article describing Eurydice, a project that compiles Rust code into readable C for use with verification tools and platforms lacking a Rust compiler.
Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)(experimental-history.com)
127 points by rafaelc | 56 comments
Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History essay arguing against the claim that new ideas are getting harder to find, saying discovery is still possible.
I guess I'm using WebP now?(anderegg.ca)
117 points by Brajeshwar | 133 comments
A personal blog post about finally adopting the WebP image format after years of using older formats, reviewing its browser support history.
Reducing undefined behavior in the C language(lwn.net)
115 points by signa11 | 110 comments
LWN article covering Martin Uecker's Kernel Recipes talk on undefined behavior in C and whether C can become a memory-safe language.
A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad(blog.torproject.org)
109 points by runtimewire | 253 comments
A Tor Project blog post issuing a statement about the organization's relationship with the VPN company Mullvad.
The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview(hetzner.com)
91 points by cnkk | 24 comments
Hetzner engineering blog post giving a history and technical overview of the Hetzner Cloud network stack.
Once: Cache CLI commands(github.com)
85 points by baquero | 37 comments
GitHub repository for once, a Go CLI tool that runs a command once and reuses its cached output for a period of time.
Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation(epoch.ai)
85 points by merksittich | 64 comments
Epoch AI report by David Owen presenting InnovationEval, finding early evidence that AI models cannot yet automate AI R&D or match human algorithmic innovation.
Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction(ndstudio.gov)
85 points by nateb2022 | 32 comments
National Design Studio blog post announcing Rampart, a browser-native tool for on-device redaction of personally identifiable information.
Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes(hangul.ink)
84 points by jbaudanza | 16 comments
Blog post announcing a publicly available neural network that generates Korean Hangul handwriting pen strokes, released for Hangul Day with a browser demo.
11 of 23 Core Open Source Projects Run on 1 or 2 People(linuxstans.com)
81 points by dxs | 35 comments
Linux Stans news article reporting that 11 of 23 core open source projects are maintained by just one or two people, citing the tz database maintained by Paul Eggert.
100+ reactions to 100+ solutions(proofsandprompts.com)
79 points by jacobedawson | 73 comments
A blog post on Proofs and Prompts reacting to over 100 solutions, likely AI-generated math proofs; the page showed only a browser check screen.
Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware(werwolv.net)
78 points by speckx | 15 comments
Blog post describing how the author got childhood Macromedia Director games running on modern hardware by working around old copy-protection mechanisms.
How big is a Git commit?(ratfactor.com)
77 points by theanonymousone | 33 comments
A personal wiki card explaining how large a Git commit is on disk, covering zlib-compressed loose objects and packfiles.
Study: Exercise increases cancer survival rates(nejm.org)
71 points by RickJWagner | 39 comments
A New England Journal of Medicine study page on exercise and cancer survival, blocked here by a Cloudflare security verification screen.
Why are coding agents so dumb?(mtlynch.io)
68 points by mtlynch | 47 comments
Michael Lynch blog post arguing that AI coding agents remain buggy and primitive despite capable underlying LLMs, reflecting on his experience since February 2025.
A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis(arstechnica.com)
61 points by pseudolus | 26 comments
Ars Technica article about a Cray-1 supercomputer replica built from 30 old Mac Minis at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
You might want to try being less creative(blog.bawolf.com)
61 points by bryantwolf | 31 comments
A Substack newsletter essay arguing that trying to be original everywhere hinders progress, drawn from a jam session experience about finishing songs.
Japan's Most Famous Tuna Buyer Says He Turned Somali Pirates into Fishermen(japaninsides.com)
58 points by robaato | 30 comments
Japan Inside article about Kiyoshi Kimura, Japan's famous tuna buyer, who says he helped turn Somali pirates into fishermen by supplying boats and buying their catch.
Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots(theverifiedpost.com)
57 points by kgolubic | 7 comments
Article on the 15-year effort where costumed pilots in ultralight aircraft led whooping crane chicks south to restore an eastern US migratory population.
The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI(bsky.app)
54 points by doener | 33 comments
A Bluesky thread arguing that the 'superintelligence' framing is a public humiliation ritual for OpenAI and the AI sector, tied to regime politics.
Atari Falcon(atarimuseum.nl)
53 points by debo_ | 17 comments
Atari Museum NL page about the Atari Falcon030, Atari Corporation's final computer, with a 68030 CPU and 56000 DSP, released 1992 and cancelled 1993.
OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack(opentelemetry.io)
51 points by dhruv_ahuja | 10 comments
OpenTelemetry blog post on designing self-hosted and SaaS products to export logs, traces, and metrics natively via OTel to any observability backend.
Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R(adolfoalvarez.cl)
51 points by sinnsro | 3 comments
A blog post by Adolfo Álvarez tracing the history of the pipe operator in R, from a 2012 Stack Overflow question to magrittr and the native pipe.