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A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands

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AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

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Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2607.25398: HANDBOOK.md: A Benchmark for Long-Context Agentic Instruction Following

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Logic for Programmers

Practical math for the working programmer.

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A Trampoline

Data scientist and researcher exploring how digital environments shape human behaviour.,I didn’t want to buy a trampoline. It wasn’t the money.

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The coolest use for the Vision Pro

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NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a $47 million investment over ﬁve years, along with additional ﬁnancial commitments from nearly three dozen universities and private industry...

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The Productivity Mirage

What I once thought about programming productivity was wrong

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The Cold Email

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

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Superlogical

Building the multiplexer for all work.

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Darktable

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LLM Honeypot

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Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10

Find cheap food near you — great meals under $10 across the US. Hidden gems, lunch specials, and cheap eats worth the drive, with no ads or sponsored placements.

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Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)

TL;DR: DIY home automation is ezpz with nothing more than a stepper motor, an esp32, and a high tolerance for Jank. My rental apartment’s AC unit can only be controlled using these retro-looking analog knob-based controls, mounted right onto the unit. No separate wall-mounted thermostat, no remote control… nothin’ fancy whatsoever. These knobs work… but having to constantly stand up and fiddle with them gets annoying pretty quick. Fortunately, there’s an ‘ol Prilik family saying that goes something like this: “remember son - the hardest problems in life can usually be solved with nothing more than a stepper motor, an esp32, and a dream”1 And sure enough, after dropping ~$15 on parts, waiting

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Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

The equivalent of keyboard projects QMK and ZMK. - ZGM. That's the name of peripheral manufacturer Keychron's upcoming open-source gaming mouse firmware, ann...

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SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring FDEs

The Mission America's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s. Billions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) still move through email threads, excel sheets, and disconnected ERPs. We're replacing that with an AI-native platform that makes aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense supply-chain operations nearly autonomous. Faster quoting. Faster procurement. Full visibility. Real operational intelligence for the companies our nation depends on. Quick Facts - YC W25 company. Top 5% growth in batch - Raised $10M+ from investors including Paul Graham, SV Angel, Pear VC, and CRV - Team of 20 co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses - 7 figure ARR trans

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Kimi K3-256k

Kimi Code Documentation

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Angels in Coptic Magic I: Introduction

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Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

Gemma 4 26B-A4B inference in ~2 GB of RAM on any M-series MacBook - drumih/turbo-fieldfare

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On this day

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands

AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

Logic for Programmers

A Trampoline

The coolest use for the Vision Pro

NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements

The Productivity Mirage

The Cold Email

Superlogical

Darktable

LLM Honeypot

Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10

Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)

Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring FDEs

Kimi K3-256k

Angels in Coptic Magic I: Introduction

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

On this day

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.

A series of landslides occurs in Kerala, India, causing over 420 fatalities.

NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.

A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.

A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.

Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.

The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.

An Israeli airstrike kills 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children.

In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

Three years after the death of the last Pyrenean ibex, Celia, a clone of her is born only to subsequently die from lung defects. Within minutes, the Pyrenean ibex becomes the first and so-far only species to have ever gone de-extinct as well as go extinct twice.

Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.

As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.

Vanuatu gains independence.

Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.

The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.

Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.

Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin in the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.

An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan, killing 162.

Vietnam War: U.S. president Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.

England defeats West Germany to win the FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium 4–2 after extra time.

U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

The Trans-Canada Highway, the then-longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.

A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.

World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.

Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.

In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup by beating Argentina.

The Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor kills four and destroys some $20,000,000 worth of military goods.

Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.

The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.

Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.

The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.

American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.

American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.

Valuev Circular banned the publication of religious, educational and training books in Ukrainian in the Russian Empire.

First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.

Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.

In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.

Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.

Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.

The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force.

English Civil War: Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven launch the Siege of Hereford, a remaining Royalist stronghold.

Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.

An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.

In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.

Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.

Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.

First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.

The Mor Bar Sauma Monastery is destroyed by a fire.

Baghdad is founded.

Election of pope Vitalian following the death of pope Eugene I in the previous month.

Mark Antony wins a final cavalry battle against Octavian in the battle of Alexandria, but his infantry is defeated and the next day his fleet and troops start to desert to Octavian.

On this day

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.

A series of landslides occurs in Kerala, India, causing over 420 fatalities.

NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.