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2026-07-19 04:05:07 CEST

Transcribe.cpp
Link: https://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/transcribe-cpp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48963879

2026-07-17 09:40:07 CEST

Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12395
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940603

2026-07-17 00:55:07 CEST

Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20
Link: https://github.com/samyeyo/clx
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871547

2026-07-17 00:50:08 CEST

The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker
Link: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260715-how-period-trackers-share-womens-private-details
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939641

2026-07-17 00:50:07 CEST

Mathematics of Data Science
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11938
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939896

2026-07-16 19:55:09 CEST

Guide to data tools landscape for developers
Link: https://sinja.io/blog/data-landscape-guide-for-developers
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935510

2026-07-16 06:35:07 CEST

Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner's Meta Glasses Campaign
Link: https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930011

2026-07-13 18:55:06 CEST

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
Link: https://get-inscribe.com/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894752

2026-07-12 05:05:08 CEST

What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI
Link: https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877371

2026-07-12 05:05:08 CEST

Long Covid May Physically Damage the Nerves That Control the Stomach
Link: https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(26)00608-9/fulltext
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877192

2026-07-11 00:35:08 CEST

An Update on the scraper situation
Link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864252

2026-07-10 12:50:07 CEST

Triple Dragon Fractal (2020)
Link: https://paulbourke.net/fractals/tripledragon/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804400

2026-07-09 08:25:07 CEST

Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit
Link: https://mhloppy.com/2026/05/mechcommander-weapons-left-arm-bug-fix/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795591

2026-07-08 17:20:07 CEST

It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830868

2026-07-07 18:35:06 CEST

The Family Keeping Watch over a 52-Year-Old Pot of Soup
Link: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/the-family-keeping-watch-over-a-52-year-old-pot-of-soup-1e72f115
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48741447

2026-07-07 05:45:07 CEST

Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene
Link: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-use-of-precision-editing-to-study-human-embryo-development-reveals-role-of-master-gene
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769854

2026-07-06 21:40:09 CEST

Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web
Link: https://usefeyn.com/blog/pulpie-pareto-optimal-models-for-cleaning-the-web/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806575

2026-07-06 14:55:07 CEST

Road to Elm 1.0
Link: https://elm-lang.org/news/faster-builds
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803364

2026-07-05 12:35:07 CEST

sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/5/sqlite-utils-fable/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791708

2026-07-04 19:25:08 CEST

Leaking YouTube Creators Private Videos
Link: https://javoriuski.com/post/youtube
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786781

2026-07-04 16:05:06 CEST

The Vespa at 80: Why the Italian scooter remains the coolest thing on 2 wheels
Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vespa-italy-postwar-design-9.7252641
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746327

2026-06-29 00:50:07 CEST

Show HN: DRM-Free Books
Link: https://frequal.com/Perspectives/DrmFreeAuthors.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709186

2026-06-28 23:00:08 CEST

The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It
Link: https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/the-us-used-to-demand-the-best-tech-now-we-ban-it
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710437

2026-06-28 19:50:07 CEST

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
Link: https://antoine.fi/mri-analysis-using-claude-code-opus
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708941

2026-06-27 00:00:08 CEST

What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?
Link: https://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introduction.html#what-is-a-nomogram-and-why-would-it-interest-me
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689277

2026-06-25 22:15:08 CEST

Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
Link: https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675435

2026-06-23 21:20:07 CEST

Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI
Link: https://twitter.com/JPoehnelt/status/2069482265953087602
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649011

2026-06-21 17:30:07 CEST

Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You
Link: https://kevinak.se/blog/who-actually-owns-your-atproto-identity-hint-its-probably-not-you
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619140

2026-06-15 03:25:06 CEST

Write for One Person
Link: https://wizardzines.com/comics/write-for-one-person/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507039

2026-06-13 14:20:07 CEST

On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles
Link: https://6it.dev/blog/on-cpu-physics-and-cpu-cycles-80730
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513222

2026-06-10 20:55:06 CEST

How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science
Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479705

2026-05-29 18:30:07 CEST

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care
Link: https://www.404media.co/headway-therapy-facial-scan-biometric-data-identity-verification/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323397

2026-05-27 19:45:08 CEST

Declassified CIA Cartography Maps from the 1980s
Link: https://brilliantmaps.com/cia-maps-1980s/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294831

2026-05-26 20:35:06 CEST

The Ballad of TIGIT
Link: https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-ballad-of-tigit
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281367

2026-05-24 23:15:07 CEST

Migrating from Go to Rust
Link: https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259808

2026-05-22 05:15:06 CEST

Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar
Link: https://qz.com/samsung-chip-workers-bonus-ai-profits-052126
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230892

2026-05-21 20:25:06 CEST

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
Link: https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/13/was-my-48k-gpu-worth-it/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184402

2026-05-19 09:15:07 CEST

Turn your Android phone into a ham radio transceiver
Link: https://www.kv4p.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161772

2026-05-17 23:35:06 CEST

Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
Link: https://github.com/MinishLab/semble
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169874

2026-05-17 19:50:07 CEST

High-Entropy Alloy
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-entropy_alloy
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133293

2026-05-15 22:50:07 CEST

California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down
Link: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152994

2026-05-14 22:10:08 CEST

The AI Zombification of Universities
Link: https://www.thenewcritic.com/p/the-great-zombification
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139355

2026-05-14 22:10:08 CEST

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M
Link: https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/14/kde-bags-13m-as-europe-realizes-it-might-need-an-os-of-its-own/5240562
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139912

2026-05-13 08:10:06 CEST

Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents
Link: https://voker.ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109962

2026-05-13 04:40:07 CEST

Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot
Link: https://x86.lol/generic/2022/11/26/lanzaboote.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077291

2026-05-10 22:00:07 CEST

Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes
Link: https://theindex.fyi
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083580

2026-05-09 12:00:06 CEST

What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting
Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting-20260506/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037517

2026-05-08 07:45:07 CEST

Creating for a niche
Link: https://www.davesnider.com/posts/working-in-a-niche
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053770

2026-05-08 03:50:07 CEST

Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect
Link: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/research-and-discoveries-articles/nonprofit-hospitals-spend-billions-on-management-consultants
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056158

2026-05-06 22:15:06 CEST

Proton Meet
Link: https://proton.me/business/blog/introducing-proton-meet
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039674

2026-05-01 22:55:07 CEST

Apocalypse Early Warning System
Link: https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976566

2026-04-30 04:05:07 CEST

Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write
Link: https://github.com/aallan/vera
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955118

2026-04-28 23:30:08 CEST

Patch applies fake diffs from commit messages
Link: https://samizdat.dev/phantom-patch/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917250

2026-04-28 22:00:07 CEST

Warp is now open-source
Link: https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936264

2026-04-25 12:55:07 CEST

Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do
Link: https://alash3al.github.io/stash?_v01
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897790

2026-04-22 05:35:07 CEST

The Mystery in the Medicine Cabinet: Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and what to know
Link: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/the-mystery-in-the-medicine-cabinet
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835635

2026-04-17 23:55:08 CEST

Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished
Link: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260413-the-mystery-of-a-missing-folk-music-pioneer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776663

2026-04-16 17:25:08 CEST

Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
Link: https://techstackups.com/articles/laravel-raised-money-and-now-injects-ads-directly-into-your-agent/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793926

2026-04-08 13:10:07 CEST

I've Sold Out
Link: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-04-08-ive-sold-out/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687533

2026-04-06 13:30:06 CEST

Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
Link: https://www.dw.com/en/is-germanys-gold-safe-in-new-york/video-75766873
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659252

2026-04-03 19:15:06 CEST

If you're running OpenClaw, you probably got hacked in the last week
Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1sbdw29/if_youre_running_openclaw_you_probably_got_hacked/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628608

2026-03-28 19:25:07 CET

Linux is an interpreter
Link: https://astrid.tech/2026/03/28/0/linux-is-an-interpreter/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556359

2026-03-28 18:05:06 CET

Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting
Link: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/awesome-git-diffs-with-delta-fzf-and-a-little-shell-scripting
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503687

2026-03-28 17:40:08 CET

I decompiled the White House's new app
Link: https://thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555556

2026-03-28 16:45:07 CET

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/27/sycophantic_ai_risks/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555090

2026-03-28 15:55:08 CET

Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/arm-launches-its-own-cpu-with-meta-as-first-customer.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511112

2026-03-28 15:45:08 CET

No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations
Link: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/what-happens-next-with-nasas-plan-to-replace-the-iss-source-it-could-get-ugly/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553516

2026-03-28 15:15:07 CET

Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer
Link: https://github.com/dbrll/ATTN-11
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518568

2026-03-28 14:00:07 CET

Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables
Link: https://grid.iamkate.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553484

2026-03-28 12:40:07 CET

Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly
Link: https://github.com/J-x-Z/cocoa-way
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553185

2026-03-28 11:45:06 CET

.apks are just .zips; semi-legally hacking software for orphaned hardware [video]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1kfuCkWo24
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515783

2026-03-28 11:40:06 CET

Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors
Link: https://schilk.co/projects/fetsncrosses/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511581

2026-03-28 09:15:06 CET

Capability-Based Security for Redox: Namespace and CWD as Capabilities
Link: https://www.redox-os.org/news/nlnet-cap-nsmgr-cwd/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546911

2026-03-28 08:55:07 CET

Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer
Link: https://geniecrate.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521845

2026-03-28 08:10:07 CET

The bee that everyone wants to save
Link: https://naturalist.bearblog.dev/the-bee-that-everyone-wants-to-save/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520599

2026-03-28 03:40:07 CET

Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting
Link: https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/surveillance-pricing-wage-setting/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547602

2026-03-28 03:40:07 CET

Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86e3eglv2go
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550726

2026-03-28 03:35:08 CET

Don't YOLO your file system
Link: https://jai.scs.stanford.edu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550282

2026-03-28 02:45:07 CET

Improving Composer through real-time RL
Link: https://cursor.com/blog/real-time-rl-for-composer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532770

2026-03-27 23:45:07 CET

ISBN Visualization – Annas Archive
Link: https://annas-archive.gd/isbn-visualization?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547508

2026-03-27 23:35:07 CET

LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3096432/lgs-new-1hz-display-is-the-secret-behind-a-new-laptops-battery-life.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495245

2026-03-27 22:35:06 CET

Nashville library launches Memory Lab for digitizing home movies
Link: https://www.axios.com/local/nashville/2026/03/16/nashville-library-digitize-home-movies
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498571

2026-03-27 22:20:06 CET

If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548243

2026-03-27 21:55:07 CET

21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains
Link: https://jacobfilipp.com/yu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524051

2026-03-27 21:50:07 CET

EMachines never obsolete PCs: More than a meme
Link: https://dfarq.homeip.net/emachines-never-obsolete-pcs-more-than-a-meme/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503853

2026-03-27 21:30:07 CET

Building FireStriker: Making Civic Tech Free
Link: https://firestriker.org/blog/building-firestriker-why-im-making-civic-tech-free
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533709

2026-03-27 21:00:08 CET

Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)
Link: https://lr0.org/blog/p/macos/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547009

2026-03-27 20:30:08 CET

Telnyx package compromised on PyPI
Link: https://www.aikido.dev/blog/telnyx-pypi-compromised-teampcp-canisterworm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546265

2026-03-27 20:15:07 CET

We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it
Link: https://stateofutopia.com/papers/2/we-broke-92-percent-of-sha-256.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546028

2026-03-27 20:10:07 CET

Should QA exist?
Link: https://www.rubick.com/should-qa-exist/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540929

2026-03-27 19:35:07 CET

Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/netflix-increases-prices-for-all-plans-by-up-to-2-per-month/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544785

2026-03-27 19:00:06 CET

Sand from Different Beaches in the World
Link: https://magnifiedsand.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493677

2026-03-27 18:45:06 CET

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544980

2026-03-27 18:30:07 CET

Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/teropa.bsky.social/post/3mi2dbt27m226
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543189

2026-03-27 18:20:07 CET

I am leaving the AI party after one drink
Link: https://lara-aigmueller.at/thoughts/leaving-the-ai-party/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545030

2026-03-27 18:15:08 CET

Iran-linked hackers have breached FBI director's personal emails
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/27/politics/iran-linked-hackers-fbi-director-patel
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545032

2026-03-27 18:15:08 CET

Last gasps of the rent seeking class?
Link: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/02/26/the-last-gasps-of-the-rent-seeking-class.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543201

2026-03-27 17:50:06 CET

Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust
Link: https://iev.ee/blog/gzip-decompression-in-250-lines-of-rust/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499262

2026-03-27 17:00:08 CET

People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
Link: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/people-inside-microsoft-are-fighting-to-drop-windows-11s-mandatory-microsoft-account-requirements-during-setup
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542695

2026-03-27 17:00:08 CET

Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS Certificate on a Brother Printer with Certbot
Link: https://owltec.ca/Other/Installing+a+Let%27s+Encrypt+TLS+certificate+on+a+Brother+printer+automatically+with+Certbot+(%26+Cloudflare)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542644