Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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Lore is a centralized, content-addressed version control system that represents repository state as Merkle trees and an immutable revision chain, optimized for binary-first storage, deduplication, and sparse/on-demand data hydration at scale.

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

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Adam New's CADAM generates CAD models in seconds from plain language descriptions. It exports models as OpenSCAD, STL, SCAD, or DXF, showcasing parametric designs for various parts and machines.

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

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GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model with a score of 51 on the Intelligence Index v4.1, surpassing MiniMax-M3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro. It uses 43k output tokens per task, but is less token-efficient compared to peers.

Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

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Live MLB games reimagined as 8-bit pixel art — scores, counts, baserunners, and every play, in real time.

How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s

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Browser Use Cloud rebuilt its system using Firecracker, a lightweight VM system, to create isolated and cheap cloud browsers. They optimized the system to reduce latency and cost, achieving a VM cold start under 400ms and end-to-end browser create latency of 825ms.

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

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The QUERY method is a safe and idempotent HTTP request that allows a client to ask a server to perform a query operation without changing the target resource's state. It is used to initiate a server-side query and can be cached like GET requests.

U.S. science is in chaos

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Scientists face unprecedented disruptions to their funding due to government cuts and changes in priorities, threatening the future of research and innovation in the US. The shift in government support for science has led to a loss of trust between researchers and the federal government, potentially dismantling the compact that made the US a successful and prosperous nation.

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

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The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate

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Organisations must focus on human connection, not just automation, to build trust and loyalty. By investing in employees and redeploying them to focus on relationships, companies can create a moat that differentiates them from competitors.

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

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Conversations with others produce better thinking by forcing precision and correcting thought direction. This is because human reasoning evolved as a social tool for constructing arguments, not for solo thinking.

Want your images back? That'll be $5

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User had to pay $5 to download childhood images from Photobucket. They felt tricked into a monthly subscription and regret paying the fee.

Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

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The user created an interactive watercolor painting app called Inkwash using Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model, which simulates water and ink behavior. The app uses WebGL2 and allows users to draw and paint with a stylus or finger.

Trellis AI (YC W24) hiring a product lead to build agents for healthcare access

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Trellis builds AI agents to automate healthcare workflows, helping patients access life-saving therapies. As Product Lead, you'll drive product development, work with customers, and shape company strategy to accelerate access to treatment.

MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

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The library is a lightweight UI framework that generates drawing commands for custom controls and UI elements. It's free and open-source under the MIT license, accepting bug reports and pull requests.

Using AI to improve a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry

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GPT-5.4 and Maria AI collaborated to improve Chan-Lam Coupling yields for over 80% of tested substrates. The optimized conditions showed a significant improvement in yields, with a mean yield rising from 16.6% to 25.2%.

TREX: An AI code reviewer that runs your code

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Shlok from Greptile describes TREX, a code review tool that runs code and shows what went wrong, addressing limitations of static code review. TREX uses a model-agnostic harness, sandboxed environments, and artifact verification to provide trustworthy results and move towards a world with no bugs.

Hacker News but for independent blogs

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5034 independent, personal blogs. One front page. Ranked by votes and freshness, shaped by you.

Kirkland Roundabouts

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The game is a satirical model of the 85th St & I-405 interchange, inspired by Kirkland roundabouts, and not intended for driving instruction. It's designed for computers with a keyboard and laptop-sized screen, with suboptimal mobile controls.

The Return of Rigorous Full-System Timing Simulation

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Accurate timing simulation remains one of the most important tools in computer architecture, but modern systems have made cycle-level simulation increasingly impractical. Today’s platforms combine many-core CPUs, deep memory hierarchies, accelerators, complex I/O, and large software stacks, making detailed simulation extremely slow—often requiring months to simulate seconds of execution. This ...

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AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

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The author discusses the rapid advancements in AI-generated code and its implications on software engineering, arguing that discipline and understanding of the system are more important than code itself. They believe that AI will augment human capabilities, not replace them, and that the future of software engineering will be shaped by the ability to encode knowledge and understanding into the system.

Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)

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Landlords in high-priced metros keep commercial spaces empty due to financial pressure from banks, not social pressure. The "extend and pretend" strategy allows them to avoid losses by sticking to original financial models, even if they're no longer viable.

The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Founders are using AI to build startups, shifting from individual contributors to orchestrators, and focusing on high-value tasks. A practical playbook remaps the startup lifecycle for AI-native startups, providing goals, exit criteria, and AI-powered exercises for each stage.

The Capitoline Wolf

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The Capitoline Wolf is a bronze statue symbolizing survival and protection, depicting Romulus and Remus being nursed by a she-wolf. It's featured in Siena's architecture and public art, connecting the city to Rome's mythology.

Show HN: StarScope – Free astronomy dashboard for observers outside the US/UK

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Citizen Astronomy Without Borders — real-time feeds, hemisphere-aware alerts, and a worldwide community for serious amateur astronomers. What's worth pointing your telescope at right now. Planets, deep sky objects, meteor showers, ISS passes, and aurora conditions — tailored to your hemisphere. Real-Time Alerts — Live NASA GCN transients, NOAA space weather, Near-Earth Object approaches, ...

Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields

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The website Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields documents vanished or abandoned airfields with their unusual histories. It was created in 1999 and celebrated its 25th anniversary in April 2024.

Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout

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01 - See it, try it FlicKey arms the right input language for each app - watch the menu-bar badge as it switches. Open the FlicKey app from the dock to fix some gibberish yourself. 03 - Features macOS has a per-app input setting. It forgets, lags, and resets. FlicKey is what it should have been. CORE Remembers the right input language for every app and switches the moment you focus it. ...

Seventeen Camels and Where They Can Take You

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The user shares six puzzles with a common elegant solution involving adding a seemingly extraneous element to make the problem simpler. Each puzzle has a unique solution that can be derived using the "camel trick" of adding an extra object to facilitate the solution.

Solar in California surpassed natural gas in the first five months of 2026

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Utility-scale solar generation surpassed natural gas in CAISO in 82% of days in the first five months of 2026. Solar and battery storage capacity increased while natural gas capacity remained flat in CAISO from 2024 to 2026.