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31. America's Throwaway Spies: How the CIA Failed Iranian Informants in Tehran
32. Claude Cowork runs Linux VM via Apple virtualization framework
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
33. A Unique Performance Optimization for a 3D Geometry Language
For the past several months, I’ve been working on a programming language called Geoscript. It’s specialized for generating and manipulating 3D geometry for use in a Shadertoy-inspired web app called Geotoy.
34. Design and Implementation of Sprites
So that we may educate as well as horrify: the internals of our new Sprites execution platform.
35. Playing Arcade Mahjong at Home? Or is it just a Mirage?
A lot of the things I’ve looked at on this blog have never left Japan, often for good reason. One genre that stands out in this is mahjong, a tile-based gamb...
36. I Learned Everything I Know About Programming
37. Noninvasive brain treatment for depression proves helpful
At Stanford, a treatment that aims magnetic pulses at the brain is showing results for people with treatment-resistant depression. It’s called SAINT, and here’s how it works.
38. The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project
39. Remails: A European Mail Transfer Agent
Increasingly more organizations are reviewing their dependencies on foreign software and IT services from countries like the US. One broad necessity for many organizations is sending automated ema ...
40. The <Geolocation> HTML Element
Discover the new way to request user location data.
41. Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website
42. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
43. The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible
44. Everything you need to know about act() in React tests
An in depth look into the act() function when testing React, how to use it, when to use it and fix common issues when using it
45. Have Taken Up Farming
ex program, en farm
46. Sinclair C5
47. U.S. carbon pollution rose in 2025, a reversal from prior years
U.S. emissions rose last year, new research says: The country spewed 2.4% more heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels in 2025 than in the year before.
48. The Executive Assistant Paradox: Why AI Makes This Role Critical, Not Obsolete
As artificial intelligence reshapes the workplace, the executive assistant isn’t disappearing—it’s evolving into something far more strategic and valuable.
49. We Gave Our Browser Agent a 3MB Data Warehouse
Record once, automate forever. 100X Bot transforms screen recordings into powerful automations for hiring, SEO, sales, and marketing teams.
50. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
51. Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper
In a world where ideas are cheap and software is cheaper, what truly matters now?
52. Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection as a result of known-but-unresolved isolation flaws in Claude's code execution environment.
53. GitHub Incident
GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Issues and Pull Requests.
54. Managing the development of large software systems (1970) [pdf]
55. Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
Today Raspberry Pi launched their new $130 AI HAT+ 2 which includes a Hailo 10H and 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM. With that, the Hailo 10H is capable of running LLMs entirely standalone, freeing the Pi's CPU and system RAM for other tasks. The chip runs at a maximum of 3W, with 40 TOPS of INT8 NPU inference performance in addition to the equivalent 26 TOPS INT4 machine vision performance on the earlier AI HAT with Hailo 8.
56. One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE
‘We have to make sure people are watching. We have to make sure we’re keeping track of our community members.’
57. The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography
58. Show HN: The Hessian of tall-skinny networks is easy to invert
The Hessian of tall-skinny networks is easy to invert - a-rahimi/hessian
59. Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files
60. A letter to those who fired tech writers because of AI
Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical writing positions last year because of AI. You, who are buying into the promise of docs entirely authored by LLMs without expert oversight or guidance. You, who unloaded the weight of docs on your devs’ shoulders, as if it was a trivial chore. You are making a big mistake. But you can still undo the damage.