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2026-08-17 23:15:07 UTC

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Link: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338328

2026-08-09 02:30:08 UTC

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
Link: https://os8088.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226923

2026-07-05 16:45:07 UTC

Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
Link: https://www.devever.net/~hl/webcrypto
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792203

2026-05-25 14:05:06 UTC

Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few
Link: https://religionnews.com/2026/05/25/in-his-first-encyclical-pope-leo-xiv-says-ai-must-serve-humanity-not-the-powerful-few/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266485

2026-05-21 23:25:06 UTC

Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team
Link: https://www.runtm.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225040

2026-05-15 10:35:06 UTC

UK sovereign LLM inference
Link: https://relax.ai/docs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146424

2026-03-24 20:15:07 UTC

Tony Hoare and His Imprint on Computer Science
Link: https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/tony-hoare-and-his-imprint-on-computer-science/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47461036

2026-03-24 20:15:07 UTC

Data Manipulation in Clojure Compared to R and Python
Link: https://codewithkira.com/2024-07-18-tablecloth-dplyr-pandas-polars.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475930

2026-03-24 19:55:07 UTC

Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls
Link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epic-games-said-tuesday-that-it-will-lay-off-more-than-1000-employees-2026-03-24/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503810

2026-03-24 19:45:07 UTC

Overcoming the friendship recession
Link: https://joeprevite.com/friendship-recession/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453737

2026-03-24 19:25:06 UTC

io_uring, libaio performance across Linux kernels and an unexpected IOMMU trap
Link: https://blog.ydb.tech/how-io-uring-overtook-libaio-performance-across-linux-kernels-and-an-unexpected-iommu-trap-ea6126d9ef14
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47502193

2026-03-24 19:15:07 UTC

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
Link: https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507150

2026-03-24 18:55:07 UTC

WolfGuard: WireGuard with FIPS 140-3 cryptography
Link: https://github.com/wolfssl/wolfguard
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504498

2026-03-24 18:55:07 UTC

ARM AGI CPU: Specs and SKUs
Link: https://sbcwiki.com/docs/soc-manufacturers/arm/arm-silicon/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506641

2026-03-24 18:45:06 UTC

Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501426

2026-03-24 18:45:06 UTC

Arm AGI CPU
Link: https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/introducing-arm-agi-cpu
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506251

2026-03-24 18:35:08 UTC

Country that put backdoors in Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/fcc_foreign_routers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506279

2026-03-24 18:35:08 UTC

The AI Industry Is Lying to You
Link: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506259

2026-03-24 18:30:08 UTC

Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML
Link: https://www.emailmd.dev/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505144

2026-03-24 18:15:07 UTC

FCC has banned the import of all new foreign-made routers here's what you can do
Link: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/24/fcc-just-banned-the-import-of-all-new-foreign-made-routers-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506519

2026-03-24 17:30:06 UTC

Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search
Link: https://github.com/ssrajadh/sentrysearch
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503617

2026-03-24 17:25:07 UTC

Run a 1T parameter model on a 32gb Mac by streaming tensors from NVMe
Link: https://github.com/t8/hypura
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504695

2026-03-24 16:45:08 UTC

No Terms. No Conditions
Link: https://notermsnoconditions.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504615

2026-03-24 16:45:08 UTC

Hypothesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
Link: https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/hegel/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504094

2026-03-24 16:35:07 UTC

Apple Business
Link: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/introducing-apple-business-a-new-all-in-one-platform-for-businesses-of-all-sizes/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504112

2026-03-24 16:15:06 UTC

LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?
Link: https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/rys-ii/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500709

2026-03-24 16:05:06 UTC

LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/24/laguardia-airplane-pilots-safety-concerns-crash
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503965

2026-03-24 16:05:06 UTC

Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment 2026 Guide [pdf]
Link: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-81r3.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501511

2026-03-24 15:45:07 UTC

Major insider trading on oil detected ahead of Iran talks
Link: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-03-24-2026/card/mystery-jump-in-oil-trading-ahead-of-trump-post-draws-scrutiny-56sgwdXtlOlonqIKDsL6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504060

2026-03-24 15:40:06 UTC

Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
Link: https://nanobrew.trilok.ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501211

2026-03-24 15:25:07 UTC

The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI
Link: https://danielhomola.com/m%20&%20e/ai/your-bridge-to-wealth-is-being-pulled-up/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503296

2026-03-24 15:05:06 UTC

I Quit Editing Photos
Link: https://jamesbaker.uk/i-quit-editing-photos/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459625

2026-03-24 14:55:06 UTC

So where are all the AI apps?
Link: https://www.answer.ai/posts/2026-03-12-so-where-are-all-the-ai-apps.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503006

2026-03-24 14:45:06 UTC

MSA: Memory Sparse Attention
Link: https://github.com/EverMind-AI/MSA
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467543

2026-03-24 14:25:06 UTC

NanoClaw Adopts OneCLI Agent Vault
Link: https://nanoclaw.dev/blog/nanoclaw-agent-vault/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501840

2026-03-24 13:50:06 UTC

Missile Defense Is NP-Complete
Link: https://smu160.github.io/posts/missile-defense-is-np-complete/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501950

2026-03-24 13:50:06 UTC

curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd
Link: https://astrid.tech/2026/03/24/0/curl-to-dev-sda/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500522

2026-03-24 13:30:07 UTC

Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths
Link: https://chrisdown.name/2026/03/24/zswap-vs-zram-when-to-use-what.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500746

2026-03-24 13:25:07 UTC

LiteLLM Python package compromised by supply-chain attack
Link: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/24512
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501729

2026-03-24 13:20:07 UTC

Gerd Faltings, who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize
Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gerd-faltings-mathematician-who-proved-the-mordell-conjecture-wins-the-abel/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444387

2026-03-24 12:25:07 UTC

No-build, no-NPM, SSR-first JavaScript framework if you hate React, love HTML
Link: https://qitejs.qount25.dev
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47439413

2026-03-24 12:05:08 UTC

A 6502 disassembler with a TUI: A modern take on Regenerator
Link: https://github.com/ricardoquesada/regenerator2000
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456997

2026-03-24 11:40:06 UTC

BIO – The Bao I/O Co-Processor
Link: https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao/updates/bio-the-bao-i-o-co-processor
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469744

2026-03-24 11:40:06 UTC

Sunsetting the Techempower Framework Benchmarks
Link: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/10932
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47497763

2026-03-24 11:20:06 UTC

Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build
Link: https://proofshot.argil.io/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499672

2026-03-24 11:00:06 UTC

Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)
Link: https://burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499245

2026-03-24 10:55:07 UTC

Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)
Link: https://www.web-rewind.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499721

2026-03-24 10:45:08 UTC

Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating
Link: https://www.sambent.com/microsofts-plan-to-fix-windows-11-is-gaslighting/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500335

2026-03-24 07:35:06 UTC

Log File Viewer for the Terminal
Link: https://lnav.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498924

2026-03-24 06:45:07 UTC

Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom to work with Apple Home
Link: https://www.jackhogan.me/blog/box-of-secrets/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488686

2026-03-24 05:30:06 UTC

TI-89 Height-Mapped Raycaster
Link: https://github.com/dzoba/ti-89-raycasting-with-z
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449741

2026-03-24 05:20:06 UTC

Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun'
Link: https://phys.org/news/2026-03-pompeii-scars-linked-ancient-machine.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453398

2026-03-24 05:20:06 UTC

IRIX 3dfx Voodoo driver and glide2x IRIX port
Link: https://sdz-mods.com/index.php/2026/03/23/irix-3dfx-voodoo-driver-glide2x-irix-port/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496089

2026-03-24 04:10:06 UTC

Abusing Customizable Selects
Link: https://css-tricks.com/abusing-customizable-selects/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47429393

2026-03-24 03:40:06 UTC

Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem
Link: https://epoch.ai/frontiermath/open-problems/ramsey-hypergraphs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47497757

2026-03-24 03:25:07 UTC

I created my first AI-assisted pull request
Link: https://nelson.cloud/i-created-my-first-ai-assisted-pull-request-and-i-feel-like-a-fraud/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47497679

2026-03-24 02:05:06 UTC

A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp
Link: https://github.com/bjarneo/cliamp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494821

2026-03-24 01:55:06 UTC

Pentagon Adopts New Limits for Journalists After Court Loss
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/business/media/pentagon-closes-journalists-work-area.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496305

2026-03-24 01:50:07 UTC

Ju Ci: The Art of Repairing Porcelain
Link: https://thesublimeblog.org/2025/03/13/ju-ci-the-ancient-art-of-repairing-porcelain/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467719

2026-03-24 01:10:07 UTC

Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents
Link: https://blog.mozilla.ai/cq-stack-overflow-for-agents/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491466

2026-03-24 00:30:06 UTC

Chat GPT 5.2 cannot explain the German word "geschniegelt"
Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1r4goxh/chat_gpt_52_cannot_explain_the_word_geschniegelt/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495568

2026-03-24 00:10:07 UTC

Hacker Mints $80M USD Worth of USR Stablecoins
Link: https://bfmtimes.com/hacker-mints-80-million-worth-of-fake-stablecoins-and-swaps-them-for-eth/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495719

2026-03-24 00:00:15 UTC

Designing AI for Disruptive Science
Link: https://www.asimov.press/p/ai-science
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493194

2026-03-24 00:00:15 UTC

Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive
Link: https://github.com/andreasjansson/win-3.1-backgrounds
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496221

2026-03-23 23:20:08 UTC

Claude Code Cheat Sheet
Link: https://cc.storyfox.cz
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495527

2026-03-23 23:05:06 UTC

FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers
Link: https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-updates-covered-list-include-foreign-made-consumer-routers
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495344

2026-03-23 22:10:07 UTC

Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application
Link: https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475417

2026-03-23 22:00:07 UTC

How I'm Productive with Claude Code
Link: https://neilkakkar.com/productive-with-claude-code.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494890

2026-03-23 22:00:07 UTC

America tells private firms to "hack back"
Link: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/03/22/america-tells-private-firms-to-hack-back
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489044

2026-03-23 21:35:06 UTC

Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/23/bets-us-iran-ceasefire-show-signs-of-insider-knowledge-say-experts-polymarket
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494629

2026-03-23 21:20:07 UTC

An incoherent Rust
Link: https://www.boxyuwu.blog/posts/an-incoherent-rust/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490648

2026-03-23 21:10:08 UTC

American Aviation Is Near Collapse
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/03/aviation-failures-tsa-dhs-shutdown/686505/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494469

2026-03-23 20:30:06 UTC

Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run
Link: https://github.com/localstack/localstack
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493657

2026-03-23 20:05:06 UTC

Show HN: Threadprocs – executables sharing one address space (0-copy pointers)
Link: https://github.com/jer-irl/threadprocs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491414

2026-03-23 20:00:06 UTC

The quadratic problem nobody fixed
Link: https://iev.ee/blog/the-quadratic-problem-nobody-fixed/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443903

2026-03-23 19:20:06 UTC

I tried Karpathy's Autoresearch on an old research project
Link: https://ykumar.me/blog/eclip-autoresearch/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493460

2026-03-23 19:10:07 UTC

BIO: The Bao I/O Coprocessor
Link: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2026/bio-the-bao-i-o-coprocessor/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459363

2026-03-23 19:00:07 UTC

US govt pays TotalEnergies nearly $1B to stop US offshore wind projects
Link: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/23/us-and-totalenergies-reach-nearly-1-billion-deal-to-end-offshore-wind-projects_6751739_4.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492599

2026-03-23 18:25:07 UTC

Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets
Link: https://socket.dev/blog/trivy-under-attack-again-github-actions-compromise
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475888

2026-03-23 18:15:07 UTC

Show HN: The King Wen Permutation: [52, 10, 2]
Link: https://gzw1987-bit.github.io/iching-math/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486680

2026-03-23 17:05:07 UTC

I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop
Link: https://www.itsthatlady.dev/blog/building-an-ai-receptionist-for-my-brother/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487536

2026-03-23 16:55:07 UTC

Is it a pint?
Link: https://isitapint.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491496

2026-03-23 16:50:06 UTC

Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago
Link: https://www.cyber.mil/stigs/downloads
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490816

2026-03-23 16:30:07 UTC

Study: 'Security Fatigue' May Weaken Digital Defenses
Link: https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2026-study-security-fatigue-may-weaken-digital-defenses
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490150

2026-03-23 15:50:07 UTC

An Unsolicited Guide to Being a Researcher [pdf]
Link: https://emerge-lab.github.io/papers/an-unsolicited-guide-to-good-research.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437005

2026-03-23 15:50:07 UTC

iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM
Link: https://twitter.com/anemll/status/2035901335984611412
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490070

2026-03-23 15:45:07 UTC

If Dspy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?
Link: https://skylarbpayne.com/posts/dspy-engineering-patterns/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490365

2026-03-23 15:10:07 UTC

Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded in the US
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/cyberattack-on-vehicle-breathalyzer-company-leaves-drivers-stranded-across-the-us/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489058

2026-03-23 14:50:07 UTC

General Motors Is Assisting with the Restoration of a Rare EV1
Link: https://evinfo.net/2026/03/general-motors-is-assisting-with-the-restoration-of-an-1996-ev1/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47458248

2026-03-23 14:45:07 UTC

Jazz CRJ9 at New York on Mar 22nd 2026, collision with fire truck on runway
Link: https://avherald.com/h?article=536bb98e
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487790

2026-03-23 13:55:06 UTC

Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs by Antithesis
Link: https://github.com/antithesishq/bombadil
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436592

2026-03-23 13:50:07 UTC

Fyn: An uv fork with new features, bug fixes, stripped telemetry
Link: https://github.com/duriantaco/fyn
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488635

2026-03-23 13:10:06 UTC

Dataframe 1.0.0.0
Link: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ann-dataframe-1-0-0-0/13834
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486915

2026-03-23 12:40:06 UTC

Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved online
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016517652200283X
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488015

2026-03-23 12:00:07 UTC

GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/10/github_outages/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487584

2026-03-23 11:45:06 UTC

Ordered dithering with arbitrary or irregular colour palettes (2023)
Link: https://matejlou.blog/2023/12/06/ordered-dithering-for-arbitrary-or-irregular-palettes/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414104

2026-03-23 11:15:07 UTC

Migrating to the EU
Link: https://rz01.org/eu-migration/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487436

2026-03-23 10:25:06 UTC

Plane and ground vehicle collide at New York's LaGuardia airport halting flights
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy01g522ww4o
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486386

2026-03-23 10:05:06 UTC

A Copy-Paste Bug That Broke PSpice AES-256 Encryption
Link: https://jtsylve.blog/post/2026/03/18/PSpice-Encryption-Weakness
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47439948

2026-03-23 10:00:07 UTC

Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website
Link: https://searchengineland.com/walmart-chatgpt-checkout-converted-worse-472071
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444812