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37

  1. ▲ 324Denmark's CPR Registry Breach Exposes 8.8 Million Citizens' Data
  2. ▲ 266F1 Drivers Slam 'Horrible' Software Glitch That Delayed Bahrain GP
  3. ▲ 265Lab Worker Dies of Plague After Breaking a Test Tube, Nearly 200 Now Under Observation
  4. ▲ 257Germany's RobCo becomes Europe's newest robotics unicorn with $1B valuation
  5. ▲ 232Doom Ported to SQL: The Classic Shooter Now Runs Entirely Inside a Database
  6. ▲ 210The Tao of Backup: A Classic Guide to Data Protection
  7. ▲ 194Tippett Studios' Lost Animation Archive Rescued by an Anonymous Fan
  8. ▲ 182Cloudflare launches Web Search API to ground AI agents in live data
  9. ▲ 182GrapheneOS may skip Pixel 11 after Google cut a key security feature
  10. ▲ 137Jev's decision models don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers
  11. ▲ 130Apple's Security Update Left Me Hacked—and My AI Agent Saved Me
  12. ▲ 114Huawei and Qualcomm Sign Broad Multi-Year Patent Deal Covering 5G, AI, and Compute
  13. ▲ 106ArtCraft builds seven open-source creative apps in pure Rust
  14. ▲ 102A 40ms Go GC pause caused by swap
  15. ▲ 97Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026 awarded for optogenetics, the light switch that controls brain cells
  16. ▲ 94We Won't Stop Using Plastics, and That's the Real Climate Problem
  17. ▲ 87Florida woman used Claude as a diary; Anthropic flagged her entry and she now faces a felony
  18. ▲ 77A Trick for Type-Safe Generic Data Structures in C
  19. ▲ 66Tufte's Data-Ink Ratio: Why Chasing 100% Is a Mistake
  20. ▲ 60Why foldl and foldr Are Not About Left and Right
  21. ▲ 56Sales of sub-€25,000 electric cars are set to rise sevenfold
  22. ▲ 54UCEPROTECT blacklists innocent sites by ASN, then charges $30/month to whitelist them
  23. ▲ 52Gitframes renders video directly on WebGPU, skipping the headless browser entirely
  24. ▲ 51Babylonian schools taught gods, not scripture
  25. ▲ 50The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news
  26. ▲ 49America Could Wipe Out Mosquito-Borne Diseases—If Regulators Let It
  27. ▲ 43GNOME Security Lead: AI Vulnerability Scanning Is Now Non-Negotiable
  28. ▲ 40Med-El Launches World's First Fully Implanted Cochlear Implant
  29. ▲ 39OCaml for Quantitative Finance: A Comprehensive Guide
  30. ▲ 35Optimistic Lock Coupling Scales Read-Heavy Trees Without the Usual Race Conditions
  31. ▲ 25Mold linker rewritten in Rust, version 3.0.0 released
  32. ▲ 23Mars's Chaos Terrain: A Landscape Unlike Any on Earth
  33. ▲ 12Why Your Algorithm Settles for the Wrong Answer
  34. ▲ 11Tech Worker Embarrassed by Industry's Failure to Make Digital Life Usable
  35. ▲ 10A JavaScript Port of River Raid, Rebuilt from the Atari 2600 ROM One Instruction at a Time
  36. ▲ 8Minigraf - Embedded bi-temporal graph database in Rust
  37. ▲ 5Building a GTK Todo App in Haskell with the Elm Architecture

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  1. ▲ 913Bob Cringely, the Man Behind 'Triumph of the Nerds,' Has Died
  2. ▲ 867Run a 125B AI model on your gaming PC at 100 tokens per second
  3. ▲ 698RemoveMacAI deletes Apple Intelligence models from macOS 27 and blocks re-downloads
  4. ▲ 615AWS Finally Adds Hard Budget Caps as AI Agents Make Runaway Cloud Bills a Real Threat
  5. ▲ 476Google's 'Trade Secret' Redactions Exposed by Copy-Paste, Revealing Massive Data Center Water and Power Use
  6. ▲ 464A Veteran Electrician Dismantles the 'Learn a Trade' Myth
  7. ▲ 332A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
  8. ▲ 314Why Developers Ignore the Platform: It's More Fun to Build It Yourself
  9. ▲ 218Watchmaker's descendant builds a working clock from trash in Glashütte
  10. ▲ 214Your car is spying on you, and 19 of 21 vehicles tested leaked data to third parties
  11. ▲ 191A Map of Every Lighthouse on the Planet—But You Might Get Lost Trying to Use It
  12. ▲ 174Ukraine's Distributed Renewables Survive Russian Strikes
  13. ▲ 173Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with only SSH and nginx
  14. ▲ 164Anthropic Convenes Religious Scholars to Argue That Claude Might Be Conscious
  15. ▲ 163A Wild Pointer Bug in Infidel Corrupted Memory for 40 Years
  16. ▲ 161Jagex Reveals a New RuneScape MMO Built in Unreal Engine
  17. ▲ 156SCM - Local AI Search for Every Photo and Video Frame on macOS
  18. ▲ 140Rust builds up to twice as fast by emitting metadata early
  19. ▲ 133Bill Draper, the investor who bet on tech before Silicon Valley had a name, dies at 98
  20. ▲ 107Video Game History Foundation's Digital Archive Hits 5,000 Magazines, Adds Japanese Support
  21. ▲ 106Why Gifted Kids Hear Rejection in a Neutral Comment
  22. ▲ 105A Photographer's Archive Reveals He Was an Involuntary Witness to Hostile Architecture
  23. ▲ 103Peter Watts's Blindsight: The Sci-Fi Novel That Asks If Consciousness Is an Evolutionary Dead End
  24. ▲ 95Jane Street's ASIC puzzle: 400 submissions, one hidden Star Battle chip
  25. ▲ 95How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI
  26. ▲ 91Why Custom Domain Email Is a Surprisingly Deep Rabbit Hole
  27. ▲ 85Magic Switch: Share a Magic Keyboard and Trackpad Between Two Macs Without Re-pairing
  28. ▲ 83Xray-core hid a certificate bypass that left users exposed for half a year
  29. ▲ 82Neanderthals Are Not Just Among Us—They're Within Us
  30. ▲ 79Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers
  31. ▲ 78Stanford professor pushes Homa to replace TCP in AI clusters
  32. ▲ 77The Playdate's CPU is fast, but its 4KB instruction cache will punish your code
  33. ▲ 74Grant Sanderson Explains Math's Pedagogical Curse
  34. ▲ 74Valve's gpuvis turns messy GPU traces into a visual timeline
  35. ▲ 74Effective altruism conquered the world — and may yet end it
  36. ▲ 73UK Home Office Unit Kept Secret Files on People Who Criticized Prevent Program
  37. ▲ 70When 1500 processes share memory, page tables can eat 878 GB
  38. ▲ 65Stephen Wolfram: Pure Math Isn't About Proving Theorems—It's About Asking the Right Questions
  39. ▲ 63The Heilbronn Problem: New Records Push the Limits of Point Placement
  40. ▲ 55Amazon's new Kindle lineup is thinner, lighter, and finally edge-to-edge color
  41. ▲ 53Peter Bex on CHICKEN Scheme 6.0.0 and the Heap Corruption That Almost Delayed It
  42. ▲ 52Academic Research's Incentives Have Drifted from the Pursuit of Truth
  43. ▲ 46A GitHub Project 'Tortures' LLMs in a Robot Prison—and Triggers AI's Dumbest Debate
  44. ▲ 40Build with Python - Beginner course where your code draws
  45. ▲ 38JetBrains on Building a Semantic Code Search RAG Pipeline: Parsing, Chunking, and Vectorization
  46. ▲ 32A Parasitic Fibonacci Program Hidden in Terminfo, Clocked by /usr/bin/top
  47. ▲ 30Claude builds a walkable O'Neill cylinder with real physics
  48. ▲ 29Spain's housing crisis erupts: 500,000 demand action after eviction of 87-year-old
  49. ▲ 27Software Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Product Engineering
  50. ▲ 25The Median Wait to Declare a Bird Extinct Is 36 Years After the Last Sighting
  51. ▲ 22Legal and Governance Professionals Are Hungry for AI Safety Knowledge
  52. ▲ 16L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages
  53. ▲ 16Project CETI uses AI to decode sperm whale clicks and finds vowel-like sounds
  54. ▲ 15"No Vendor Lock-In" Is Code for "No Product"
  55. ▲ 13Why Reprinting a Lost Novel Can Kill It Forever
  56. ▲ 13Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed
  57. ▲ 11Awesome Dataviz - Daily-ranked directory of data visualization tools
  58. ▲ 11I Was Wrong About Managing AI Agents
  59. ▲ 10Tiny Brine Shrimp Reveal How to Reverse the Flow of Energy in Turbulence
  60. ▲ 6MacBook Neo Survives Apple Store DFU with Passive FTP and Hidden UI Overrides
  61. ▲ 5CISA's Urgent OT Warning: Why the Best Defense May Be Invisibility

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  1. ▲ 654Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a sovereign open-weight AI model built for German and English
  2. ▲ 510AI Is Now Illegal: Federally Mandated Super Intelligence Replaces It
  3. ▲ 474Judge Calls Flock's Warrantless Searches 'Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance'
  4. ▲ 457Newgrounds: Where Everything Is Made by Everyone
  5. ▲ 456Valve engineer gives decade-old AMD GPUs a 30% Linux gaming boost
  6. ▲ 454I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
  7. ▲ 417Aleph Alpha Kolibri - Sovereign German LLM with 78B parameters
  8. ▲ 402A 12-year telescope sequence captures four giant exoplanets orbiting their star
  9. ▲ 383Yann LeCun has 'zero concerns' about AI wiping out humanity, calls Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei 'deluded'
  10. ▲ 354Hole Punch: Bend a Spaceship's Course with Black Holes
  11. ▲ 343Agents Don't Need Memory, They Need Documentation
  12. ▲ 309Apple Moves to Rein In Full Disk Access on macOS as AI Agents Raise the Stakes
  13. ▲ 309French High Court Rules Rodin Museum's 3D Scans Are Not Public Documents
  14. ▲ 267OpenAI safety leader quits, calling the company's culture 'broken'
  15. ▲ 266A Mother's Kidney Turns 100 Inside the Son She Saved
  16. ▲ 231Opus 5.5 runs coding tasks for hours with little oversight
  17. ▲ 227Why more adults are asking if they have ADHD or autism — and why the answer is often complex trauma
  18. ▲ 226I spent years avoiding EMT training. Then I finally did it.
  19. ▲ 220Make tmux the OS
  20. ▲ 211Harvard's Cancer Study Links Costco to 120,000 Deaths
  21. ▲ 210Cloudflare Wants You to Build the Next Git Platform for AI Agents
  22. ▲ 201Cloudflare Launches OHTTP Gateway to Keep User IPs Out of App Servers
  23. ▲ 195FTL lets you build a custom OS as a library and run Linux binaries
  24. ▲ 188Ceiling fans have become a chaotic, unregulated design genre
  25. ▲ 186Kagi Abandons Orion Browser for Linux and Windows, Open-Sources Both
  26. ▲ 171C++ Insights: See Your Code Through the Compiler's Eyes
  27. ▲ 158Cities: Skylines 2's sterile perfection is killing the genre's soul
  28. ▲ 152Ethiopia's Elites Are Choosing War Again, and 600,000 Deaths Mean Nothing to Them
  29. ▲ 149Inside the Abandoned Control Room That Once Powered Britain's Railways
  30. ▲ 148ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
  31. ▲ 125This developer put ultra-wideband radios on six wheelie bins to answer one question: have you actually put the bins out?
  32. ▲ 122Meta's Muse proves that design, not tech, wins consumer AI
  33. ▲ 116Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase
  34. ▲ 113Pi pod - Self-hosted sandboxes for your pi coding agent
  35. ▲ 109Aleph Alpha's Kolibri: A 78B-Parameter Open Model That Hits the Pareto Frontier in English and German
  36. ▲ 106The barcode is dying, and QR codes are taking over everything you buy
  37. ▲ 102NASA's Secret Plan to Fly the SR-71 Again: A Former Engineer Reveals the Real Reason
  38. ▲ 95A 20-Year-Old With a Cybercrime Past Now Faces Felony Charges in Six States Over Social Security Data
  39. ▲ 89Thoreau BASIC - Modern 64-bit BASIC with UEFI boot and JIT
  40. ▲ 88SEEDS - Terraform alien planets with a built-in RISC-V Linux emulator
  41. ▲ 84Redditor Buys Used CPU, Discovers It's Banned on Valorant
  42. ▲ 81Why `cp -r` and `cp -R` Are No Longer the Same
  43. ▲ 81New York City's tallest tree record is 20 years old — LiDAR reveals bigger candidates
  44. ▲ 76Offrun - One workspace for every coding agent you run
  45. ▲ 75Vx: A Language That Makes Device Pointer Errors Compile-Time Failures
  46. ▲ 74GitHub's new dashboard is now the default for everyone
  47. ▲ 72AI video of a dead victim gets an Arizona killer's sentence thrown out
  48. ▲ 68Halide's wpd Decoder: 3.19x Faster Than libwebp, Written in Rust
  49. ▲ 67Ozempic Users Report Nail Loss Alongside Hair Loss, Study Finds
  50. ▲ 67Atom Beats RSS: Why Your Blog Feed Should Ditch the Old Standard
  51. ▲ 64A bus rider without a smartphone pays £264 extra a year
  52. ▲ 63An AI chatbot helped a couple conceive after six years of unexplained infertility
  53. ▲ 62Two American Eagle Jets Flew at the Same Time with the Same Callsign
  54. ▲ 59Philosophers Have Poked at Holes for Decades, and They Still Can't Agree If They Exist
  55. ▲ 58C2PA's exclusion feature lets you sign nothing and fake timestamps
  56. ▲ 58Claude nearly broke my film scanner, so I built a better pipeline
  57. ▲ 57Anthropic Lobbied the Pope to Argue AI Could Be Conscious
  58. ▲ 54OKI packs 124 layers into a 7.6mm PCB for AI chip testing
  59. ▲ 53NVIDIA's Zorah Scene Packs 1.6 Billion Triangles into 32 GB
  60. ▲ 49AI could trigger an intelligence explosion as it automates its own R&D
  61. ▲ 48Docker has always used microVMs (well, since 2016)
  62. ▲ 47NTSB: Amazon Prime Air 767 Overruns Miami Runway, Killing Five on the Ground
  63. ▲ 44Goffin’s cockatoos pass the body-as-obstacle test, hinting at self-awareness
  64. ▲ 41MPEG-2 Transport Streams Are Still the Backbone of Live Video, and MOQ Needs Them
  65. ▲ 41The Softmax Function and Its Derivative: A Deep Dive
  66. ▲ 39Elon Musk's emails reveal a pattern of hardcore demands and impulsive threats
  67. ▲ 36Google's Gboard Conveyor Belt Version puts a physical keyboard on a moving loop
  68. ▲ 33This Tool Predicts Exactly Where to Find Directly Imaged Exoplanets
  69. ▲ 33We still can't map earthworms underground—but a worm detector could change that
  70. ▲ 28IBM's CEO asks how 34 people, including the janitor, beat us
  71. ▲ 26If determinism is true, nothing matters — and that's self-defeating
  72. ▲ 25Plastics Have Personalities: From Snow White to Queen Victoria
  73. ▲ 23New Sea Spider Species Discovered in the Salish Sea After a Century
  74. ▲ 22Nobody Is Listening on Port 8125 — And That's Fine
  75. ▲ 21After 18 Years of Writing Code by Hand, I Can't Imagine Going Back
  76. ▲ 19Sega SG-1000 Gets Its Own Forth Interpreter
  77. ▲ 15Rely - Automation puzzle game with unreliable components
  78. ▲ 14Programming the ENIAC: rewiring cables instead of writing code
  79. ▲ 12Philip Sidney, the Elizabethan Master of the Parenthesis
  80. ▲ 10Why One-Line Fixes Touch Ten Files: The Hidden Force of Change Coupling
  81. ▲ 8Jeffy - Pretrained text classifiers that run and retrain on CPU
  82. ▲ 7A Million Tokens a Second Is Not a Million Times Faster Work
  83. ▲ 5Born Twice: A Single HTML File That Records Specimens at the Moment of Collection
  84. ▲ 5Inside the Dog Show Where Breeders Chase an Ideal That Never Existed