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2026-07-21 16:35:09 UTC

Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa
Link: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/benin-coral-reef
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993816

2026-07-21 13:35:07 UTC

How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes
Link: https://compilade.net/blog/ternary-packing
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912812

2026-07-21 04:45:06 UTC

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding
Link: https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987863

2026-07-20 22:45:08 UTC

Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981136

2026-07-20 15:30:08 UTC

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing
Link: https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979269

2026-07-20 06:10:07 UTC

Power companies are using eminent domain to seize land for data centers
Link: https://fortune.com/2026/07/19/data-center-eminent-domain-public-use/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974292

2026-07-19 02:05:07 UTC

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

2026-07-18 19:40:07 UTC

REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
Link: https://reotrucks.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960607

2026-07-18 19:40:06 UTC

The Kimi K3 Moment
Link: https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/07/18/the-kimi-k3-moment/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960218

2026-07-17 22:35:07 UTC

FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/faa-boeing-737-max-787.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952439

2026-07-17 07:40:07 UTC

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

2026-07-16 22:25:07 UTC

Pseudpocalypse
Link: https://dynomight.net/pseudpocalypse/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908886

2026-07-16 04:35:07 UTC

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

2026-07-14 18:20:06 UTC

Paxos Made Simple (2001)[pdf]
Link: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850688

2026-07-13 16:55:06 UTC

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 03:05:08 UTC

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 03:05:08 UTC

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

2026-07-10 22:35:08 UTC

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

2026-07-10 10:50:07 UTC

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

2026-07-08 15:20:07 UTC

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 16:35:06 UTC

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 03:45:07 UTC

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 19:40:09 UTC

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 12:55:07 UTC

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

2026-07-05 16:35:07 UTC

Show HN: KiCad in the Browser
Link: https://demo.pcbjam.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793542

2026-07-05 10:35:07 UTC

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 17:25:08 UTC

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

2026-06-28 22:50:07 UTC

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

2026-06-28 21:00:08 UTC

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 17:50:07 UTC

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

2026-06-26 22:00:08 UTC

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 20:15:08 UTC

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

2026-06-21 15:30:07 UTC

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 15:40:07 UTC

Iroh 1.0
Link: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542480

2026-06-15 01:25:06 UTC

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

2026-06-13 12:20:07 UTC

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 18:55:06 UTC

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 16:30:07 UTC

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 17:45:08 UTC

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 18:35:06 UTC

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 21:15:07 UTC

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 03:15:06 UTC

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 18:25:06 UTC

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 07:15:07 UTC

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 21:35:06 UTC

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 17:50:07 UTC

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

2026-05-15 20:50:07 UTC

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 20:10:08 UTC

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 20:10:08 UTC

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 06:10:06 UTC

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

2026-05-13 02:40:07 UTC

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 20:00:07 UTC

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

2026-05-09 10:00:06 UTC

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 05:45:07 UTC

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 01:50:07 UTC

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 20:15:06 UTC

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

2026-05-06 20:15:06 UTC

What makes a good smartphone camera?
Link: https://cadence.moe/blog/2026-05-05-what-makes-a-good-smartphone-camera
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026773

2026-05-01 20:55:07 UTC

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

2026-04-30 02:05:07 UTC

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 21:30:08 UTC

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

2026-04-28 20:00:07 UTC

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 10:55:07 UTC

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 03:35:07 UTC

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 21:55:08 UTC

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 15:25:08 UTC

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

2026-04-15 04:55:07 UTC

Troubleshooting Email Delivery to Microsoft Users
Link: https://rozumem.xyz/posts/14
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738962

2026-04-10 04:25:07 UTC

Generative art over the years
Link: https://blog.veitheller.de/Generative_art_over_the_years.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675906

2026-04-08 11:10:07 UTC

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 11:30:06 UTC

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 17:15:06 UTC

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 18:25:07 UTC

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 17:05:06 UTC

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 16:40:08 UTC

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 15:45:07 UTC

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 14:55:08 UTC

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 14:45:08 UTC

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 14:15:07 UTC

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 13:00:07 UTC

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

2026-03-28 11:40:07 UTC

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 10:45:06 UTC

.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 10:40:06 UTC

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 08:15:06 UTC

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 07:55:07 UTC

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 07:10:07 UTC

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 02:40:07 UTC

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 02:40:07 UTC

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 02:35:08 UTC

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

2026-03-28 01:45:07 UTC

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 22:45:07 UTC

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

2026-03-27 22:35:07 UTC

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 21:35:06 UTC

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 21:20:06 UTC

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 20:55:07 UTC

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

2026-03-27 20:50:07 UTC

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 20:30:07 UTC

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 20:00:08 UTC

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

2026-03-27 19:30:08 UTC

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 19:15:07 UTC

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 19:10:07 UTC

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

2026-03-27 18:35:07 UTC

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