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241. Bassoontracker, Tracking in the Browser
242. Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In
243. Students Are Finding New Ways to Cheat on the SAT
244. A History of Haggis
245. Show HN: WordRE, Wordle for Real Estate
246. Who sets the Doomsday Clock?
Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival.
247. The Netherlands rethinks its US tech addiction
Dutch society is built on US digital services. That’s now seen as a glaring security issue.
248. Video Games as Art
Video games are art, but a strange art: their essence is transformation of the player, not description to the player. This makes meaningful criticism nearly impossible—you can point at the moon, but it’s not the moon, and once someone sees it, they no longer need the pointing.
249. The Only Moat Left Is Knowing Things
When everyone uses the same tools, differentiation comes from what you know that the tools don't. A framework for content that can't be replicated.
250. San Francisco Graffiti
251. Ex-Google engineer convicted of stealing AI secrets for Chinese companies
252. The mountain that weighed the Earth
Suppose you want to find out how much you weigh. It’s easy enough – get a scale, stand on it, and read the number. Now suppose you want to know how much the Earth weighs. You get out a scale and…hmm. What exactly do you do with it? Let’s do a little physics class refresher.…
253. Lennart Poettering, Systemd daddy departs Microsoft for Linux startup
254. Call Screening Is Aggravating the Rich and Powerful
255. "IG is a drug": Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
A loss could cost social media companies billions and force changes on platforms.
256. The 30th anniversary of the first C++ compiler: let's find the bugs in it
Cfront is a C++ compiler which came into existence in 1983, and was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. At that time it was known as C with Classes. Cfront had a complete parser, symbol tables, and...
257. Apple acquires Israeli AI startup q.ai in second deal with PrimeSense founder
Aviad Maizels previously founded PrimeSense, an Israeli startup whose motion-sensing technology became central to Apple’s Face ID system; Apple acquired PrimeSense in 2013 in a deal widely estimated at about $350 million
258. I was right about ATProto key management
259. State Department confirms federal censorship shield law incoming
Today, Sarah Rogers, United States Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, confirmed that the US is poised to forever block foreign censorship of US citizens under laws like the UK Online Safety Act or the EU Digital Services Act. https://twitter.com/mrharrycole/status/2016580769477505098?s=46 Cognizant this may come as a shock to some of you, it's actually the latest…
260. Another Energy Transition Is Possible
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s dizzying history of energy consumption argues that no energy transition has ever occurred: each generation consumes more of past fuels. Not only are his claims ahistorical but they justify an unwarranted pessimism about the future.
261. Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids
Interactive map of 59,000+ active US Coast Guard lighthouses and navigational aids. View light characteristics, flash patterns, ranges, and locations from the 2025 Light List.
262. Running the Stupid Cricut Software on Linux
Getting the Cricut Software to run on Linux, under WINE
263. Handling Long Branches
264. RIP Low-Code 2014-2025
Agentic coding presents an existential threat to a broad set of low-code tools.
265. OpenAI plans to IPO in Q4 2026
266. Super Monkey Ball ported to a website
267. Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'
At what point do "you" end and the outside world begins? It might feel like a weird question with an obvious answer, but your brain has to work surprisingly hard to judge that boundary.
268. The age of Pump and Dump software
269. Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
I found this tiny fanless Thunderbolt 25G Ethernet adapter. With a little tinkering, it actually works.
270. Hexagonal Grids
Amit's guide to math, algorithms, and code for hexagonal grids