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Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass 433 ❤️
Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module 128 ❤️
GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks 281 ❤️
Using an engineering notebook 12 ❤️
Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated 54 ❤️
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From 34% to 96%: The Porting Initiative Delivers – Hologram v0.7.0 4 ❤️
Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime 57 ❤️
Show HN: Double blind entropy using Drand for verifiably fair randomness 6 ❤️
Lessons from Zig 9 ❤️
GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding 236 ❤️
Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents 21 ❤️
Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video] 28 ❤️
We rendered and embedded one million CAD files 105 ❤️

Miscellaneous // 185 ❤️‍🔥

"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work 111 ❤️
Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024) 74 ❤️

Entertainment and Gaming // 417 ❤️‍🔥

Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter 417 ❤️

Art and Culture // 60 ❤️‍🔥

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines 41 ❤️
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832) 19 ❤️

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning // 181 ❤️‍🔥

GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment 181 ❤️

Social Issues and Economics // 221 ❤️‍🔥

Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists 165 ❤️
Should your developer company go open source? 56 ❤️

Security and Hacking // 1118 ❤️‍🔥

Claude Code is being dumbed down? 781 ❤️
Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport 337 ❤️

Technology Companies and Products // 60 ❤️‍🔥

Heroku is not dead 22 ❤️
Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags 38 ❤️

Privacy and Surveillance // 785 ❤️‍🔥

WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System 313 ❤️
Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance 472 ❤️

Other // 82 ❤️‍🔥

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