2. Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Students at a high school in Rome stumbled upon a well-preserved villa that dates to the mid-second century C.E. Eventually, archaeologists hope to open the sprawling space to the public
3. How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data (roszigit.com)
TimescaleDB compression with hypercore - columnar storage with up to 98% ratio in PostgreSQL. segmentby/orderby configuration and a benchmark for IoT and time-series.
4. Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI (github.com)
C++ Path Tracer from scratch with zero third-party libraries. - themartiano/luz
5. Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock (github.com)
capacitor blow up human wake up. Contribute to ArcaEge/capacitor-alarm-clock development by creating an account on GitHub.
6. Claude Corps (www.anthropic.com)
Weβre launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program for people early in their careers who are passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.
7. 21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025) (blog.apnic.net)
Eight long held and common beliefs about the network have been shown, time after time, to be false. What are they, and what do they mean?
8. Making glass-to-metal seals for homeΒmade vacuum tubes (maurycyz.com)
9. Memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++ (kobzol.github.io)
CVE is a database used for categorizing and reporting security vulnerabilities in software. There are various kinds of vulnerabilities that can be reported. Some of them are caused simply by bugs in the program logic (like a recent CVE reported in Cargo), but some of the most nasty ones are caused by memory unsafety, which can easily lead to exploits. In this post I want to focus on the latter kind of CVEs, how they are reported, especially in libraries, and how it differs between Rust and C or C++.
10. Show HN: Fata β Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding (fata.dev)
You can't direct what you don't understand. fata builds the full-stack fundamentals to lead a coding agent through frontend, backend, and the technical design that holds up in production.
11. Google Flight Simulator (developers.google.com)
12. Show HN: We built an 8-bit CPU as 2nd year EE students (github.com)
8-bit Harvard CPU built from individual logic gates in Logisim-Evolution. - c0rRupT9/STEPLA-1
13. What every coder should know about Gamma Correction (blog.johnnovak.net)
14. Show HN: Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns? (github.com)
A sourced model and short report: can Europe train a sovereign frontier AI model on the public compute it already owns, while gigawatt datacenters wait years for grid power? - sammysltd/euromesh
15. Boot Naked Linux (nick.zoic.org)
16. Ported my C game to WASM, here's everybug that I hit (ernesernesto.github.io)
ernesernesto dev blog
17. Show HN: machine0 β Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI (machine0.io)
Persistent VMs from the CLI.
18. The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car (kottke.org)
Oof, what a beauty. In the 1960s, four Porsche 912s were customized for use as police cars in Japan. This one, which was used in Kanagawa until 1973, is the
19. Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan (tokyopaladin.substack.com)
20. Why does paper fold so well? (www.bbc.co.uk)
Origami is the art of folding paper, but what makes paper remember its creases?
21. There Is(Ζ) β Such That (β) (www.fractalkitty.com)
Let me tell you about a language. But if you wish to go play instead go here. It's going to get a little abstract below.
There is a Canvas to Compose Upon
The canvas is a square with the largest circle that has a radius of Ο.
There are
There is a Canvas to Compose Upon
The canvas is a square with the largest circle that has a radius of Ο.
There are
22. Factoring "short-sleeve" RSA keys with polynomials (blog.trailofbits.com)
We found hundreds of weak RSA and DSA keys with biased bits that we could quickly factor using a new polynomial-based cryptanalytic technique.
23. Show HN: Vet turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis (grassdx.com)
Upload a photo of your lawn, enter your ZIP code, and get an instant AI diagnosis with a personalized treatment plan built for your exact region and grass type.
24. Fox Is Buying Roku (www.fastcompany.com)
25. Around 200 Stanford students walk out as Google CEO takes stage (www.sfgate.com)
College graduates nationwide have been booing speakers that mention the technology.
26. A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (www.markhorrell.com)
Rising above the Southern Patagonian Ice Field on the border of Chile and Argentina is a narrow finger of rock 3128 metres in height that for over 50 years has been a source of controversy among thβ¦
27. Prove you're human by winning a claw machine (feralui.vercel.app)
A small library of playful, physics-driven React elements: a ceiling pull-cord with a real Verlet rope, a claw-machine captcha, and more.
28. Exploring building a tiny FUSE filesystem (www.shayon.dev)
Building a small filesystem in Rust with metadata in JSON and file contents in plain local files, using FUSE to explore inodes, caching, and what it means for a write to become durable.
29. US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says (www.reuters.com)
30. The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic (psychedelics.co.uk)
Hundreds of people a year are hospitalised seeing little people after a meal of a prized Yunnan bolete. Its genome has now been read in full, and whatever causes the visions is nothing science recognises.