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151. Buried in Snow, Yellowstone's Bison Have No Problems Weathering Winter
Wyoming’s Yellowstone bison look miserable when caked in snow and frost, but their thick coats, fat reserves and efficient digestion keep them warm and…
152. Gild Just One Lily
“Gilding the lily” isn’t always bad. In design, a touch of metaphorical gold — a subtle animated transition, a hint of color, or added depth in a drop shadow — can help communicate a level of care and attention that builds trust. But first? You need a lily. Nail the fundamentals. Then, gild it carefully.
153. Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig
Minimalist, dependency-free virtual machine sandbox for microcontrollers and other resource-constrained devices. Single C file, no dynamic memory allocations, asynchronous design, pure C99 - ringtailsoftware/uvm32
154. Google De-Indexed My Bear Blog and I Don't Know Why
A month after I started my first Bear blog at , my blog was entirely de-indexed by Google for no apparent reason: I have since migrated to (you ar...
155. Systems of Record Are Evolving
A thoughtful look at whether systems of record are really “dying” in the age of agents, arguing that sources of truth matter more than ever for reliable enterprise workflows.
156. Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
157. Secondary school maths showing that AI systems don't think
Educators can show in secondary school maths that AI systems don’t think, making maths more interesting while teaching core concepts of AI.
158. Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory
159. Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
RJ opened the first ever Autonomy and AI Day explaining why Rivian believes it is positioned to lead in this next phase of the industry. The company is leaning hard into compute, custom hardware, large scale AI systems, and a shared data foundation that touches every part of the ownership experience. Let's break it all
160. Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
161. Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils. Contribute to uutils/coreutils development by creating an account on GitHub.
162. 1 html search engine
163. Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust
A Modern Embedded SQL Database written in Rust. Contribute to stoolap/stoolap development by creating an account on GitHub.
164. CRISPR Fungus: Protein-Packed, Sustainable, and Tastes Like Meat
165. Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union
165 workers at Doom studio id Software have voted to unionise under the Communication Workers of America (CWA).
166. Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring
Ultra-low-latency RPC framework for Java with zero-copy serialization and io_uring transport
167. Denmark sees US as potential security concern
Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.
168. Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow
Recent advancements in Cloudflare Python Workers means fast cold starts, comprehensive package support, and a great developer experience. We explain how they were achieved and show how Python can be used to build serverless applications on Cloudflare.
169. Z8086: Rebuilding the 8086 from Original Microcode
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170. BpfJailer: eBPF Mandatory Access Control [pdf]
171. Hacking Google Chrome Source Code: Make Puppeteer work over Redis PubSub
Replacing DevTools' HTTP Handler With Redis Pub/Sub
172. How the Brain Parses Language
Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LLMs.
173. String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof
Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. Other mathematicians had their doubts. Now he says he has a proof.
174. Show HN: Tripwire: A new anti evil maid defense
Contribute to fr33-sh/Tripwire development by creating an account on GitHub.
175. Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
176. Training LLMs for Honesty via Confessions
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2512.08093: Training LLMs for Honesty via Confessions
177. Google Releases Its New Google Sans Flex Font as Open Source
A font's a font – unless you're into typography! Google Sans Flex font is a new open source font made for screens. It looks great set as Ubuntu's system font.
178. Fast Median Filter over arbitrary datatypes
179. I miss the old Internet of 10-20 years ago
180. Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components