Anthropic S-1(sec.gov)
1087 points by SiNTEx | 1016 comments
Anthropic, PBC's Form S-1 registration statement filed with the SEC for an initial public offering of Class A common stock on Nasdaq under the symbol ANT.
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library(imaginationlibrary.com)
659 points by jumploops | 106 comments
Homepage of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, a nonprofit that mails free books monthly to children from birth to age five in five countries.
Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale(blocks.manifold3d.ch)
401 points by theanonymousone | 194 comments
Product page for a 1:1 scale Minecraft Java map of Switzerland built from swisstopo open geodata, with a free Jungfrau-Aletsch area and paid full-country download.
Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997(titleart.dvy.io)
366 points by davidbarker | 69 comments
TitleArt is a browser-based WordArt-style editor with a Windows 9x interface for creating text with classic shapes, colors, shadows, and 3-D effects.
Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
297 points by sgiannopoulos | 38 comments
Sebastian Raschka's Ahead of AI post presenting an eight-video, 11-hour course on coding LLM reasoning models from scratch in Python and PyTorch, accompanying his book.
Websites Should Be Printable(brennenputh.me)
211 points by bagatelle | 149 comments
A personal blog post arguing websites should be printable, sharing the author's @media print CSS snippet for hiding headers, adjusting font sizes, and styling links.
Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category(korindiehacker.bloffy.blog)
165 points by textlanes33 | 104 comments
A developer's blog post explaining how replacing Next.js with Hono and using Cloudflare CDN and image transformations got their blog platform to 100 on all Lighthouse scores.
OLED iPad Mini(apple.com)
151 points by etothet | 202 comments
Apple Store pre-order page for the new iPad mini with A20 Pro chip, starting at $699, with storage, glass, connectivity and accessory options.
Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM(ubicloud.com)
118 points by coffeemug | 62 comments
Ubicloud blog post explaining tool-call schema accuracy problems when serving open-weight models like Kimi K2.6 in vLLM and how constrained decoding fixes them.
The new iPad mini(apple.com)
101 points by soheilpro | 98 comments
Apple press release announcing a redesigned iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED display, A20 Pro chip, IP67 rating, N1 and C2 chips, and iPadOS 27.
US Wages Share of GDI at 75 Year Low(fred.stlouisfed.org)
74 points by omgwtfbyobbq | 30 comments
FRED data series page showing wage and salary disbursements as a percentage share of US gross domestic income, annually since 1948 (42.0% in 2025).
Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline(bbc.com)
395 points by cisc | 166 comments
BBC Future article on research showing birdwatching reshapes the brain, may slow cognitive ageing, and is used as therapy for dementia patients.
Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs(charliegerard.dev)
385 points by speckx | 129 comments
Blog post by Charlie Gerard introducing Overgrown, a Chrome extension that grows plants over neglected browser tabs which users must slash away to access them.
PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP(github.com)
219 points by vardhan1237 | 77 comments
GitHub repository for PaperPilot, a local, zero-cloud pure-Rust PDF engine and AI document copilot with WASM builds and an MCP server.
Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)(humantransit.org)
202 points by skadamat | 96 comments
Human Transit blog post by Jarrett Walker on Blaise Pascal's 1662 Paris carriage network, the first fixed-route public transport, and its network design principles.
CSS-Tricks has a new owner(css-tricks.com)
168 points by edent | 42 comments
Geoff Graham announces he has taken independent ownership of CSS-Tricks from DigitalOcean and outlines plans for ads, memberships, courses, and the newsletter.
F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS(hypnotize.works)
144 points by bpierre | 81 comments
A post-mortem of porting the F-Zero X decompilation (G-Diffuser) to Old and New Nintendo 3DS with a native renderer and 64DD Expansion Kit, built largely by Claude agents.
The result of the C++26 DIS ballot(train-it.eu)
48 points by uasi | 54 comments
Blog post, part 6 of a series, reporting that the C++26 draft failed its ISO DIS ballot over contracts, with vote counts, country positions, and next steps.
Lula Wins Brazilian Election(resultados.tse.jus.br)
41 points by JumpCrisscross | 8 comments
Official Brazilian electoral court (TSE) results page for the 2026 presidential runoff, showing Lula elected with 51.77% over Flávio Bolsonaro.
Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections(panamericandispatch.org)
15 points by guitcastro | 1 comments
Substack news article reporting that Meta employees, via the UK CWU union, issued a statement denouncing the company's alleged favoritism toward the Bolsonaros in Brazil's elections.
Lula wins election after final votes tallied(reuters.com)
371 points by laurenth | 482 comments
Reuters live coverage page of Brazil's presidential runoff between Lula and Bolsonaro; the capture shows only a device verification screen.
Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard(github.com)
256 points by NotARoomba | 89 comments
GitHub repository for Keybytes, an open-hardware modular keyboard where each key is its own PCB with a RISC-V MCU, connected via pogo pins and magnetic cases.
Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office(exhibits.stanford.edu)
230 points by Austin_Conlon | 138 comments
Stanford Libraries exhibit gallery of Doug Menuez photographs documenting daily life inside NeXT Computer, Inc.
Pharo 14(pharo.org)
168 points by xkriva11 | 38 comments
Official announcement of the Pharo 14 release, detailing new development tools, refactoring infrastructure, and virtual machine improvements such as RISC-V JIT support.
Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism(contraptions.venkateshrao.com)
62 points by ianand | 62 comments
Venkatesh Rao essay arguing that AI panic resembles mercantilist thinking before capitalism, drawing on Joyce Appleby's history of capitalism to frame intelligence as abundant.
Why I Am a Programmer(alfie.wtf)
303 points by jruohonen | 94 comments
Personal blog essay recounting how BBS-era cracktros, the demoscene, and Denthor's ASPHYXIA Pascal demo tutorials inspired the author to become a programmer.
Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)(arxiv.org)
177 points by westurner | 62 comments
arXiv paper proposing an attention-free sequence model using Grassmann flows and Plucker coordinates, compared against Transformers on Wikitext-2 and SNLI.
Growing Trees(brashandplucky.com)
176 points by ibobev | 25 comments
Blog post explaining an implementation of procedural tree growth based on Palubicki et al.'s self-organizing tree models, covering light competition, resource allocation, and foliage rendering.
What goes into making an animated film?(disneyanimation.com)
157 points by embedding-shape | 67 comments
Walt Disney Animation Studios page explaining its filmmaking process, breaking down Zootopia 2 into sequences, shots, and frames across departments.
SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller(shraiwi.com)
86 points by zdw | 21 comments
A blog post describing a SIMD-accelerated FAST corner detector written in assembly for the ESP32-S3, roughly doubling the reference implementation's performance.
Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository(typemill.net)
38 points by trendschau | 36 comments
A Typemill knowledge-hub article arguing for storing development tasks as Markdown files in Git so AI coding agents can read them alongside code and docs.
The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration(entire.com)
33 points by lizziepika | 11 comments
Entire's launch blog post introducing a Git forge for agent-human collaboration, featuring Trails review with agent evals, distributed Git hosting, and Continuous Memory.
The Curse of Soldered RAM(blog.hardill.me.uk)
93 points by gsky | 98 comments
Blog post on diagnosing faulty soldered RAM in a Lenovo X1 Carbon with Memtest86+ and working around it via the Linux memmap kernel parameter on Fedora.
The State of Context Engineering(dbreunig.com)
230 points by pchristensen | 58 comments
Slides and transcript of Drew Breunig's AGNTCon talk "Context Fails & Fixes," reviewing the history, failure modes, and future of context engineering for LLMs.
Colorfigures(april-zhu.com)
97 points by the-mitr | 16 comments
Landing page for Colorfigures, an MIT-licensed AI agent skill that generates interactive, hand-inked isometric HTML figures of everyday machines from a text prompt.
Diamond Transistor(df.com)
45 points by Gravityloss | 26 comments
Diamond Foundry product page describing all-diamond MOSFETs developed with Stanford using hydrogen-terminated surface transfer doping, claiming 50x faster switching.
Partyline: A group voice application for Reticulum, built on LXST(github.com)
31 points by iamnothere | 11 comments
GitHub repository for Partyline, an encrypted Mumble-inspired group voice chat application and server for the Reticulum network, built on LXST.
A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis(lynchlab.net)
615 points by sungam | 259 comments
A dermatologist's blog post comparing two frontier LLMs with a fine-tuned Inception v3 CNN on diagnosing 200 biopsy-proven skin lesions, where the CNN scored 62% versus the LLMs' 42%.
Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained(shattered.io)
65 points by gmays | 24 comments
News article explaining Microsoft-Decision-1, a 9B decision-scoring model post-trained from Qwen3.5-9B, with its benchmarks, speed claims, pricing, and availability.
Brazil elections: Lula secures fourth term after dramatic comeback(bbc.com)
63 points by gverrilla | 7 comments
BBC News article reporting Lula's re-election to a fourth term as Brazil's president after beating Flávio Bolsonaro in a run-off, facing a hostile Congress.
The Fall of Scientific American(thenation.com)
49 points by littlexsparkee | 32 comments
A Nation investigative article on how Springer Nature pressured Scientific American's editorial staff over political coverage, leading to unionization efforts and the magazine's sale to LabX.
OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?(minimaxir.com)
365 points by minimaxir | 347 comments
Blog post by Max Woolf tracing a 2026 timeline of OpenAI and Anthropic LLM price cuts and analyzing why, citing competition from cheap open-weight models.
IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem(theregister.com)
364 points by Betelbuddy | 261 comments
The Register reports IBM CEO Arvind Krishna's Q3 earnings call remarks that open weight models now offer 90% of frontier performance at a fraction of the cost for on-prem use.
Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement(reuters.com)
239 points by consumer451 | 156 comments
Reuters news article reporting that Serbian President Vucic conceded defeat in a snap election, a win for the student movement; the page showed a device verification screen.
Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI(brown.edu)
133 points by cdrnsf | 107 comments
Brown University news article about student Cunyan Ma's interactive map linking tech companies and data labeling firms to low-wage AI data workers worldwide.
PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025)(hallofdreams.org)
74 points by bmacho | 42 comments
Blog post investigating how PhysicsForums inserted ~115,000 backdated LLM-generated posts attributed to real former users, framed around the Dead Internet Theory.
Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist(english.elpais.com)
74 points by geox | 29 comments
El País English profile of Peter Thiel covering his political influence, Palantir, backing of J.D. Vance and Trump, and his religious rhetoric about the Antichrist.
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Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf](gwern.net)
18 points by zahrevsky | 3 comments
PDF of Greg Egan's science fiction short story "Learning to Be Me," about a brain-implanted jewel that learns to imitate its host's mind.
I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27(talkweb.eu)
501 points by Tomte | 242 comments
Blog post announcing the Digital Dissident Devroom at FOSDEM 2027 and its call for talks on censorship circumvention, metadata-resistant messaging and at-risk user tools.
Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce(seattletimes.com)
361 points by doctorzook | 311 comments
Seattle Times article reporting Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, to cut head count without layoffs.
iPhone Duo Teardown(ifixit.com)
103 points by kripy | 98 comments
iFixit teardown of Apple's folding iPhone Duo, examining its repairability, nano-texture crease-hiding display, oval subpixels, hinge design, and costly screen repairs.
Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again(getty.edu)
57 points by laybak | 1 comments
Getty Museum article by conservator Susanne Gänsicke on conserving and reassembling a 5th–6th century clay Buddha head excavated at Merv, Turkmenistan.
Nietzschian Debugger(github.com)
12 points by dilawargopang | 2 comments
GitHub repository for Nietzschian Debugger, a Python CLI that uses an LLM to ask developers confrontational Socratic questions instead of giving debugging answers.
Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)(iosiflazaridis.github.io)
127 points by endorphine | 49 comments
An interactive map and dataset of all 1,709 named land and sea battles fought by the Romans from 753 BCE to 1475 CE, with opponents, results and records.
Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria(archaeologymag.com)
114 points by janandonly | 56 comments
Archaeology News article reporting the discovery of a large Iron Age salt-mining chamber complex, at least 300 meters long, beneath Hallstatt, Austria.
Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part(a16z.news)
56 points by gmays | 36 comments
An a16z essay arguing that AI models may soon master hardware design, but the lossy interface between digital designs and physical manufacturing and measurement remains the hard part.
'It's offensively cheap': Solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear(bbc.com)
46 points by geox | 28 comments
BBC Future article explaining how global solar electricity generation has overtaken nuclear, with seven reasons for solar's growth including falling costs and batteries.
If AI displaces human workers, they will lose more than just pay(economist.com)
23 points by andsoitis | 34 comments
An Economist business article arguing that workers displaced by AI lose more than wages; the captured page shows an access-restricted bot block.
Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?(chronicle.com)
18 points by Anon84 | 36 comments
Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay by Allison Stanger arguing analytical academic writing should be judged by quality rather than whether AI helped write it.
Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop(theintercept.com)
464 points by tdeck | 126 comments
Intercept opinion piece on Eugene, Oregon police quoting a local news outlet a $2.5M fee for public records about an officer accused of misconduct.