2. Why, After All These Years, MZI-Based Transistorlessness Might Finally Be Here (write.as)
If youβve spent any time around photonics researchers, you know the joke. Optical computing is yet another one of those technologies that has been 'five years away' since roughly 1985. Entire careers have been b...
3. Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks (strangelyentangled.com)
Random musings around computing in the 80s and a DIY cyberdeck build
5. IETF draft-meow-mrrp-00 (www.ietf.org)
6. Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms β Moncef Abboud (cefboud.com)
Dissecting various compression algorithms.
7. Testosterone shifts political preferences in weakly affiliated Democratic men (www.psypost.org)
What if the key to swaying a swing voter lies in their biology? New research found giving testosterone to weakly affiliated Democratic men made them less loyal to their party and more open to Republicans, revealing a potential hormonal link to political persuasion.
10. "Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition) (publicdomainreview.org)
11. Show HN: Pyra β a Python toolchain experiment inspired by uv and Bun (github.com)
Modern Python, without the friction. Contribute to treyorr/pyra development by creating an account on GitHub.
12. Congress extends controversial surveillance powers for 10 days (www.npr.org)
Earlier in the morning GOP leaders had pushed for either a five-year renewal or the 18-month renewal President Trump had demanded, but both votes tanked.
13. How to make buffet breakfasts less wasteful (www.economist.com)
14. 288,493 Requests β How I Spotted an XML-RPC Brute Force from a Weird Cache Ratio (marcindudek.dev)
A 0.8% Cloudflare cache ratio led me to a single Singapore IP flooding a WordPress site with 288k xmlrpc.php requests. Detection, vector, and two-layer mitigation.
15. First bikebell against noise-canceling headphones (www.welovecycling.com)
Ε koda DuoBell is a worldβfirst bicycle bell engineered to be heard through noiseβcancelling headphones. An elegant analogue solution, to a digital problem.
16. Precision over perception: Why architecture matters in benchmarking (www.redhat.com)
Dive into the details of a benchmark comparing VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 with vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and Red Hat OpenShift in terms of pod density. Discover the methodology issues, configuration asymmetries, and the missed opportunity for a true 'apples-to-apples' evaluation.
17. Show HN: React Email 6.0 β An open-source email editor you can embed in your app (github.com)
π Build and send emails using React. Contribute to resend/react-email development by creating an account on GitHub.
18. Rubens Menin's 150 Years "Old" Port Wine (neofeed.com.br)
Founder of Menin Douro Estates, the Minas Gerais businessman celebrates his 70th birthday with the presentation of a very rare Port wine, the result of "almost archaeological" work through the cellars of the Douro Valley in Portugal.
20. Show HN: XitDB β an immutable single-file database (github.com)
an immutable database for zig. Contribute to xit-vcs/xitdb development by creating an account on GitHub.
21. xAI has Released Grok 4.3 (beta) (twitter.com)
22. Show HN: I turned my MacBook notch into a live Claude Code dashboard (github.com)
A live companion for Claude Code that lives in your MacBook notch. Reacts to what Claude is doing, intercepts permission prompts, and shows all your running sessions at a glance. - devmegablaster/N...
23. Show HN: Noodlist β Letterboxd for Instant Ramen (noodl.ist)
Real reviews on the best instant Ramen.
24. Python Package Compiler:Package Matlab Programs for Deployment as Python Package (www.mathworks.com)
The Python Package Compiler packages MATLAB programs into Python packages that you can integrate into Python applications.
25. Show HN: Waputer β The WebAssembly Computer (waputer.app)
26. Show HN: Bird, a CLI for Tired Brains (github.com)
A command-line tool for tired brains. Type `bird`, receive something. - DavidLiedle/bird
27. Show HN: web-pinentry: a pinentry program that leverages matrix and http (codeberg.org)
web-pinentry
28. Show HN: Free API and widget to look up US representatives (repscontact.com)
Find your US senators and house representative by zip code. Free, no signup. Get phone numbers, websites, and official contact forms in seconds.
29. Show HN: NoFS β What if files are just projections, graph is the truth? (nofs.ai)
NoFS β The file system had a good run. A research initiative exploring graph-native knowledge storage beyond traditional filesystems.