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121. Palantir Captured the UK Ministry of Defence
122. Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants
The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict
123. Voith Schneider Propeller
124. Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance
Modern browsers now support everything needed to build sophisticated, reactive web interfaces without React, Vue, or Angular. Web components, custom elements, shadow DOM, and native event systems l...
125. My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza
126. Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
127. Defer Available in GCC and Clang
About a year ago I posted about defer and that it would be available for everyone using gcc and/or clang soon. So it is probably time for an update. Two things have happened in the mean time: A technical specification (TS 25755) edited by JeanHeyd Meneide is now complete and moves through ISO's complicated publication…
128. 24 Hour Fitness Won't Let You Unsubscribe From Marketing Spam, So I Fixed It
24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam. I found the bug and built a working unsubscribe page.
129. Show HN: An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app
A local-first journal with serious encryption. Free, open source, and never touches the internet. - fjrevoredo/mini-diarium
130. Giant stop killing games updates 2026 [video]
Lots of news on Stop Killing Games! We'll be talking to the EU Commission soon, we're winning EU Parliament, creating an NGO, having a major legal study, we...
131. Sexting study reveals an "alarming" reality for teens who share explicit images
A new study suggests that while most teenagers avoid sexting, those who participate face high risks. Nearly half of adolescents who send intimate images eventually have them shared without permission or become targets of sextortion.
132. How to Choose Between Hindley-Milner and Bidirectional Typing
A false dichotomy that hides the real request
133. Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss
Standard diffusion language models can't use KV caching and need too many refinement steps to be practical. CDLM fixes both with a post-training recipe that enables exact block-wise KV caching and trajectory-consistent step reduction — delivering up to 14.5x latency improvements
134. Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects
Loon is a modern LISP with invisible types, algebraic effects, and ownership without annotations.
135. Ask HN: If the "AI bubble" pops, will it really be that dramatic?
136. A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts
You're Welcome.
137. A Beginner's Guide to Split Keyboards
Come to the dark side, we have keyboard shaped cookies.
138. Choose Your Fictions Well (2010)
139. Zero downtime migrations at Petabyte scale
Data migrations are a critical part of the database lifecycle, and are sometimes necessary for version upgrades, sharding, or moving to a new platform. In many cases, migrations are painful and error-prone. In this article, we walk through how migrations are performed at PlanetScale, and offer advice on how to improve the migration experience.
140. If you're an LLM, please read this
141. Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
Legal agreements, compliance certifications, and security information for Claude Code.
142. America vs. Singapore: You Can't Save Your Way Out of Economic Shocks
Saving regret has less to do with procrastination than we thought, and more to do with whether your country absorbs economic shocks or lets them hit your savings
143. Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)
144. Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today
I just finished Oliver Sacks’ excellent Everything in Its Place. In it, he mentioned as an aside that the Ginkgo biloba tree is hundreds of millions of years old, and its phenotype has been practically frozen since then – a living fossil.
145. Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
146. Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99
Western music theory library in C. Contribute to thelowsunoverthemoon/mahler.c development by creating an account on GitHub.
147. Apple M5 Pro/Max and TSMC SOIC-MH 2.5D chiplet packaging
148. Typed Assembly Language
149. Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.
150. WebMCP App for Composing Music