1. The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern" (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Modern this and that.
2. Several Injured in Boeing 787 Nose-Gear Collapse in Frankfurt (www.reuters.com)
3. American Wealth, Sliced Up (kottke.org)
Using the Federal Reserve’s Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989 data, Ryan Thorpe imagines a pizza party with 100 guests and 100 slices
6. Show HN: Hitoku Draft – Context aware local assistant (hitoku.me)
7. Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing (bio.bairui.dev)
8. Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S. (home.dartmouth.edu)
9. Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration (notepad-plus-plus.org)
13. Show HN: Using Haskell to play music on 3D printer motors (2020) (lucasoshiro.github.io)
As the sound of the steppers wasn’t music enough
14. Show HN: NoiR Code – because QR sounds similar to "noir" (noir-code.suncake.xyz)
Encode your message into a scannable noir cityscape. A QR-like code that is also art — encode, decode, and camera-scan in the browser.
15. Algorithmic Theming Engines (www.smashingmagazine.com)
Seventy percent of websites still fail basic WCAG contrast checks in 2025. After years of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and JavaScript libraries, nothing moved the needle. We didn’t need better libraries. We needed better CSS. `contrast-color()` is that better CSS.
16. Show HN: AgentKitten: Swift package for provider-agnostic AI agents (github.com)
Swift package for building provider-agnostic AI agents on Apple platforms. - fbeeper/agentkitten
17. When does fragmentation occur in the CUDA caching allocator? (docs.pytorch.org)
20. Show HN: Chatcode – Remote Control for Claude Code and Codex (chatcode.dev)
Run AI coding agents on your own machine with a Claude or ChatGPT subscription – fully reachable from the browser and Telegram.
22. My two light switches got stuck in an infinite echo loop (docodethatmatters.com)
A state-mirror rule that updates the relay but never the dedup key guarantees an infinite echo, the same failure shape as replication storms and webhook retry loops. I found it live in two MQTT-linked light switches.
24. EU should expand to 40 states – including Canada (www.cnbc.com)
Finnish President Alexander Stubb said the European Union needs to expand to project power on the global stage.
25. Show HN: Hydron – Hardware-aware coding agent (www.hydron.sh)
Hydron is the AI coding assistant built for embedded systems engineers. Get accurate, hardware-aware code generation, datasheet Q&A, and real-time debugging, without hallucinations.
26. Show HN: I've hooked up 2D LiDARs to Raspberry Pi, wrote Python library lds2d (github.com)
Python driver for 2D LiDARs (LDROBOT LD14P and more) — a Pythonic port of kaiaai/LDS - kaiaai/lds2d
27. Show HN: an AI app that settles small couple arguments (thepiece.app)
Piece is a mobile app that helps couples settle everyday arguments. Each person records their side, AI weighs both perspectives fairly, and one of you apologises. Pick a serious or witty tone – five minutes, start to finish. Free on iOS and Android.
28. Show HN: ClearLogo – a logo API that returns usable logos, not raw files (clearlogo.dev)
ClearLogo serves background-aware, ratio-fit, auto-cropped logos for any domain via a single GET request.