1. Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects (nagylukas.github.io)
Point your camera at the sky to find the ISS, satellites, planets, constellations, and orbital debris in augmented reality.
2. Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (pluralistic.net)
3. Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf] (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
4. Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh (amber-lang.com)
Amber The Programming Language
5. ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files (www.zerofs.net)
A comparison of Amazon S3 Files and ZeroFS: storage layout, fsync behavior, S3 interoperability, rename cost, and pricing.
6. The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits (questdb.com)
A deep dive into the known-bits abstraction that recently landed in HotSpot's C2 JIT compiler: the same tristate-bit abstraction LLVM and GCC use, and why it lets the JVM delete redundant masks and shifts.
7. Who manages the agents? (www.off-policy.com)
There are two visions for the future: AI as a deity built and controlled by a small group of clergy, or humans at the center with AI as an amplifier. The future has not been decided.
8. The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human (www.sixthtone.com)
AI has made Shen Anyu’s voice cheap to copy and nearly impossible to control, drawing him and his wife into a widening fight over income, identity and ownership.
9. Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts (www.atariarchives.org)
10. Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs (github.com)
Reame — CPU-first LLM inference server on llama.cpp: disk KV cache, self-regulating speculation, generation archive, interleaved multi-user, the Conclave. Your hardware, your realm. - swellweb/reame
11. Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests (github.com)
An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests. Contribute to skorotkiewicz/earth-game development by creating an account on GitHub.
14. Show HN: Richest people in the world by wealth creation instead of ownership (anti-forbes-list.vercel.app)
Jeff Bezos asked for a list that ranks people by how much wealth they've created for other people. This is that list — every number traceable to an SEC filing, updated every 15 minutes.
15. AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It) (www.jamesdrandall.com)
Recreating a 1986 BBC Micro game by using AI to reverse-engineer 6502 assembly — extracting Q7.8 fixed-point physics, emulating the SN76489 sound chip, and discovering why the original feels the way it does. Software archaeology with a modern accomplice.
16. Show HN: Sqlsure – deterministic semantic checks for AI-generated SQL (github.com)
Semantic inspector for SQL — catches fan-out double-counting, additivity violations, wrong join keys, and policy breaches before the query runs. Found real bugs in the BIRD/Spider text-to-SQL bench...
20. USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025 (www.expressnews.com)
Denials have been an ongoing issue for insurers, and data show the rate of nonpayment of claims has been inching up for years. Climate change is a factor.
21. What's the best way to do authentication in modern applications (neciudan.dev)
Where should your auth token live so an XSS bug can't steal it? Here's how to build auth that survives the crazy non-secure world we live in.
22. Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe (www.economist.com)
23. The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters (blog.alexbeals.com)
Fleurons, and other printer
24. FreeCAD in the Browser (magik.net)
25. Earendel (Astronomical Object) (en.wikipedia.org)
26. I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it (www.androidauthority.com)
For the longest time, Claude was hands-down my favorite AI chatbot. However, that's changed after the latest models were released.
27. The Lindy Effect in Software (www.clemsau.com)
The lindy effect in software wluld mean that mean that the longer a technology has been around, the most robust it could be and hence the better it is to bet on it in comparison to recent trendy tech.
28. Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs (www.economist.com)
For the heaviest users, tokenmaxxing is losing its appeal
