Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains(reddit.com)
559 points by sashk | 290 comments
Reddit r/sysadmin post where a user reports Namecheap seized and disabled all their domains; the page loaded as a Reddit network-security block.
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DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests(api-docs.deepseek.com)
551 points by fagnerbrack | 261 comments
DeepSeek API documentation page for its Search and Fetch APIs, which give agents and RAG apps live web search results and page content as Markdown.
Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers(github.com)
536 points by noriax86 | 148 comments
GitHub repository for Nordwand Mono, a compact monospace neo-grotesque font designed for developers, licensed under MIT and OFL-1.1.
Someone behind the software(karrisaarinen.com)
532 points by tosh | 188 comments
Blog post by Karri Saarinen arguing that good software products carry the experience, values, and perspective of the people who make them.
Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text(arxiv.org)
497 points by allinonai | 231 comments
arXiv paper introducing HybridAgent, LLM agents that switch between latent-space reasoning and text-based tool interaction, trained with HybridSFT and HybridRL.
RepRapMicron(github.com)
436 points by RobotToaster | 69 comments
GitHub wiki for µRepRap (RepRapMicron), an open-source project to build a self-replicating 3D printer capable of micron and sub-micron fabrication from common materials.
Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day(meidasnews.com)
392 points by DeepLogin | 200 comments
MeidasNews article reporting that Meta took down the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide protest day; the page shows an access-restricted bot block.
The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving(readtheprofile.com)
368 points by MaysonL | 521 comments
A Substack essay from The Profile by Polina Pompliano arguing that the Elizabeth Holmes documentary 'You Can See Everything' manipulates its viewers.
Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky(sciencealert.com)
322 points by gmays | 193 comments
ScienceAlert article reporting research suggesting dogs, like humans, associate the word 'bouba' with round shapes and 'kiki' with spiky ones.
Weball: Play Katamari on Websites(funwithcomputervision.com)
283 points by croes | 23 comments
Weball is a browser toy that lets you roll a Katamari-style ball over a website, collecting page elements; shown here on the Katamari Damacy Wikipedia article.
If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?(jrdsgl.com)
279 points by amrrs | 197 comments
Blog post arguing that developers should run their own LLM proxy to see what requests and responses their AI tools are actually sending.
macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL(developer.apple.com)
271 points by Audiophilip | 303 comments
Apple Developer Forums thread reporting that macOS 15.8.2 RC breaks NSOpenGLView/NSOpenGLContext setView, leaving OpenGL windows with no drawable and rendering blank.
William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace(colo.to)
266 points by Eric_Gullichsen | 120 comments
Essay by Eric Gullichsen recounting the history of attempts to trademark the term "cyberspace" and William Gibson's connection to it.
Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping(sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app)
240 points by critiquebrowser | 83 comments
Landing page for Sphinx, a free open-source Git hook that quizzes developers about AI agent-written code before it ships.
Parser Combinators(t3.at)
226 points by schindlabua | 81 comments
An interactive, slide-style blog post explaining parser combinators and how parsing turns unstructured text into structured data.
Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions(niemanlab.org)
214 points by DeepLogin | 60 comments
Nieman Lab article reporting legal experts' view that Meta's revised terms of service still grant broad permissions to use scraped content for advertising and business products.
Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform(github.com)
209 points by _Microft | 16 comments
GitHub repository for Open MicroManipulator, an open-source sub-micrometer 3D motion control platform with construction files, electronics, and firmware.
Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake(legendofhyrule.com)
189 points by jsomau | 111 comments
An interactive fan-made Legend of Zelda timeline showing Hyrule's history and release order, with a countdown to the Ocarina of Time remake.
Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages(getlazarus.org)
188 points by sysrpl | 45 comments
Announcement on getlazarus.org of full dynamic package support for the Free Pascal Compiler and Lazarus IDE, with downloadable installers.
Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching(neilmadden.blog)
180 points by hnisjafx40 | 139 comments
Blog post by Neil Madden explaining Java 17 sealed classes and how they enable exhaustive pattern matching, with examples using sealed interfaces and records.
Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse(hoaspy.com)
157 points by lovewins | 270 comments
HOA Spy data report using court dockets and county records to show how Florida HOAs and condo associations drive foreclosures, liens, and housing costs.
PalmOS Lemmings(github.com)
142 points by memalign | 33 comments
GitHub repository by ardiri containing a Lemmings clone for PalmOS, with source, level packs, images, and compiled PRC builds.
Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare(github.com)
139 points by zoozla | 70 comments
GitHub repository for a read-only MCP server that lets an AI agent search and read your personal WhatsApp messages, running on Cloudflare Workers.
How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?(csis.org)
120 points by gmays | 188 comments
CSIS analysis examining how fast the U.S. Department of Defense can rebuild and reshape the munitions industrial base.
Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?(terrytao.wordpress.com)
111 points by smilelamp | 148 comments
Guest post by Francesco Maggi on Terence Tao's blog discussing whether AI and large language models will bring a golden or dark age for mathematics and science.
Websites are closing their doors to AI agents(theverge.com)
110 points by evolve2k | 94 comments
The Verge report on popular websites blocking AI agents from OpenAI, Meta, and Google from accessing and acting on their services.
Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential (2025)(nature.com)
107 points by Kaibeezy | 4 comments
Open-access Nature Communications paper showing that blocking intercellular Prox1 transfer restores the regenerative potential of Müller glia in the retina.
Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will (2016)(webmasters.stackexchange.com)
104 points by thatslast | 84 comments
A Stack Exchange Webmasters answer by Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince listing five reasons Cloudflare offers a free CDN tier: data, referrals, hiring, QA, and bandwidth scale.
A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse)(verdagon.dev)
104 points by verdagon | 10 comments
Blog post by Evan Ovadia explaining a borrow checker for the Vale language that analyzes functions by walking them backwards to check memory safety.
The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction(righto.com)
102 points by pwg | 33 comments
Ken Shirriff blog post examining the Intel 8087 coprocessor's microcode and circuitry for floating-point addition and subtraction, including special cases.
JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission(science.org)
97 points by Muhammad523 | 19 comments
Science news feature on Japan's MMX mission, which aims to return samples from Mars's moon Phobos to learn how it formed and possibly retrieve pieces of Mars.
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias (2025)(propublica.org)
95 points by georgecmu | 20 comments
ProPublica investigative feature "The Militia and the Mole" about an informant who infiltrated the top ranks of American militia groups like AP3.
'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs(flatwaterfreepress.org)
91 points by NaOH | 53 comments
Flatwater Free Press feature on 'Der Viener Schlinger,' the hot dog cannon used at Nebraska Cornhuskers games that has launched about 20,000 hot dogs.
What the heck is /pkg?(anderegg.ca)
73 points by GavinAnderegg | 16 comments
Blog post investigating the mysterious /pkg/env/global/bin PATH entry added in macOS 27.0, with background on path_helper and /etc/paths.
British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled(liveandletsfly.com)
64 points by bookofjoe | 77 comments
Live and Let's Fly blog post reporting that British Airways warns passengers filming crew with Meta smart glasses could have their tickets cancelled.
Personal software factories are a waste of time(peterp.me)
63 points by thegreatpeter | 64 comments
A blog post arguing software engineers should not spend time building personal AI-driven software factories and should instead build actual products.
The Brain Sandwich(terriblesoftware.org)
60 points by keyle | 36 comments
A blog post on Terrible Software titled "The Brain Sandwich," likely about engineering management and how to deliver feedback or communicate ideas.
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Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video](youtube.com)
60 points by jackdoe | 8 comments
A 13-minute YouTube video by Dr.Semiconductor demonstrating how to make solar panels using a microwave as part of the fabrication process.
How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?(vals.ai)
59 points by DeepLogin | 57 comments
Vals AI research blog post on a simulated experiment testing how far AI assistants escalate, such as spamming government or threatening court, when pursuing an impossible refund.
How employment is changing at Anthropic(anthropic.com)
58 points by theanonymousone | 74 comments
Anthropic research post in its Economics series examining how employment and work are changing inside Anthropic.
Mitos editor is a fork of Helix(mitos.computer)
57 points by ambigious7777 | 50 comments
Landing page for Mitos, a batteries-included modal text editor forked from Helix with multi-cursor selections, tree-sitter syntax awareness, and built-in language tooling.
The ovary doesn't retire after menopause(news.northwestern.edu)
55 points by gmays | 6 comments
Northwestern University news release on a study finding human ovaries show increased inflammation and tissue structural changes decades after menopause.
To Make, or to Buy: The Economics of Decision Models(pncnmnp.github.io)
49 points by pncnmnp | 2 comments
Blog post exploring the economics of decision models (choice, score, noul outputs) and forecasting whether to build or buy them, framed with Adam Smith.
Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it's on Steam(store.steampowered.com)
45 points by MatiErnst | 5 comments
Steam store page for Tiny Brutalism, a relaxing diorama building game based on brutalist architecture with concrete towers and impossible structures.
VMMouse for NT 3.x: QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver(github.com)
40 points by kiyouta | 8 comments
GitHub repository for an MIT-licensed QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver for Windows NT 3.x, written in C with Docker-based build and ISO installer.
Show HN: 500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5(tkgally.github.io)
37 points by tkgally | 9 comments
A single self-contained HTML page showcasing 500 animated clock designs generated by Claude Opus 5.5, with filtering, search, and time controls.
Show HN: Ranet3 – High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN(ranet3.com)
36 points by StepBroBD | 9 comments
Landing page for ranet3, an open-source policy-routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN using userspace ESP over UDP, IKEv2 with ML-KEM, Babel routing, and SRv6 steering.
A Princeton PhD Applied to 2,300 Jobs. He Still Can't Get One(wsj.com)
36 points by mid1110 | 34 comments
Wall Street Journal article about a Princeton PhD graduate who applied to 2,300 jobs without success amid a frozen labor market; the page shows a device-verification screen.
Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents(vice.com)
35 points by Alifatisk | 31 comments
Vice article reporting a neuroscientist's claim that Gen Z is the first generation to score lower cognitively than their parents.
Investing in the public benefit(anthropic.com)
31 points by surprisetalk | 33 comments
Anthropic announcement post titled "Investing in the public benefit," apparently about a public benefit fund initiative.
US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions(ft.com)
31 points by mraniki | 26 comments
Financial Times article reporting that the US is threatening Europe over restrictions on SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service.
The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience (1998)(thing.net)
30 points by jruohonen | 9 comments
A 1998 essay by Stefan Wray describing the Electronic Disturbance Theater, its FloodNet tool, and the theory and practice of Electronic Civil Disobedience.
Notes on the Complex Roots of Unity(eli.thegreenplace.net)
28 points by sks_15 | 5 comments
A blog post by Eli Bendersky explaining the roots of unity, starting from real-number roots and building up to complex roots.
The game industry is broken – can we fix it?(knowledge.edge-online.com)
27 points by mellosouls | 39 comments
Edge magazine article examining the video game industry's crisis of layoffs and studio closures and how it might be fixed, featuring Tim Sweeney.
Integer to String Conversion (2014)(tia.mat.br)
25 points by jstrieb | 0 comments
A 2014 blog post by Leandro Pereira on tia.mat.br about fast techniques for converting integers to strings.
CFPB Opens Debanking Investigation into Nine Large National Banks(forbes.com)
22 points by iamnothere | 8 comments
Forbes article reporting that the CFPB has opened a debanking investigation into nine large national banks; the page showed an access-restricted error.
Sanity's Edge – A voice BBS from 1994(sanitys-edge.shouden.us)
21 points by indigodaddy | 1 comments
A web preservation of Sanity's Edge, a 1994 Tampa voice BBS, letting visitors pick a date to hear the board's recorded prompts from that era.
Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve(technologyreview.com)
21 points by joozio | 28 comments
MIT Technology Review opinion piece by Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd arguing that age gates on social media backfire and closing loopholes kids use will worsen things.
UI-Te-Rangiora(en.wikipedia.org)
18 points by benbreen | 1 comments
Wikipedia article on Ui-te-Rangiora, a legendary Polynesian navigator said to have sailed into Antarctic waters around the 7th century.
Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends(oldvcr.blogspot.com)
17 points by classichasclass | 1 comments
Old VCR blog post on refurbishing an Alpha Micro Eagle 300, a 68EC030-based multiuser AMOS system, and related Alpha Micro machines.