2. Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment (www.up.com)
As warmer temperatures return, Union Pacific is applying an innovative concept to manage heat-related track conditions β part of a broader strategy that helped the railroad deliver its best-ever full-year derailment incident rate in 2025, improving 19% year over year.
3. Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events (app.everything.diena.co)
Explore the timeline of everything, from the Big Bang to the present day, and beyond. Discover the history of the universe, life on Earth, and human civilization in a new and interactive way.
4. Frank Lloyd Wright's First Home (www.architecturaldigest.com)
Located in Illinois, he first designed the residence at age 22 and lived in it for 20 years
5. Minikotlin (minikotlin.run)
minikotlin is a from-scratch Kotlin-to-WebAssembly compiler written in C. The compiler itself is compiled to WASM, so the whole toolchain runs client-side. Write multi-file Kotlin in the Studio, hit Run, watch output.
6. Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust (github.com)
A batteries-included framework for building web apps - tokio-rs/topcoat
8. AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM (blog.zksecurity.xyz)
We turned zkao (our AI auditor) on OpenVM, a state-of-the-art zkVM, and it found a critical soundness bug: the pairing check accepted a prover-supplied witness without proper subfield checking, which lets a malicious prover forge any pairing equality. It is fixed in OpenVM 1.6.0 and tracked as CVE-2026-46669. This is the second post in our series on bugs our agents found across open source cryptography.
10. Old Icons (leancrew.com)
11. Show HN: Explore the Workspaces of Modern Creators (workspaces.xyz)
A weekly tour of real desk setups from designers, founders, and builders. Every Saturday.
12. I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64 (www.goto10retro.com)
13. Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms (sofar.belfortlabs.cloud)
Live encrypted ResNet-20 inference under FHE. The server never sees your image.
14. M 3.9 Experimental Explosion β 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida (earthquake.usgs.gov)
15. Designing emoji for the way we communicate today (blog.google)
On World Emoji Day, go behind the scenes of Noto 3D to learn how we redesigned thousands of emoji for modern communication.
16. Starlink from 1984 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
17. MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games (github.com)
Contribute to CharmingBlaze/moonbasic development by creating an account on GitHub.
18. The US Grocery Slowdown Is Real (www.bain.com)
19. Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts (www.bbc.com)
Trump Media is launching a fast, paid feed to its most influential posts for Wall Street traders.
20. 6Γ faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy (pythonspeed.com)
Even once youβre using compiled code, there are still opportunities for faster performance by avoiding fighting the CPU.
21. VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool (www.capitalone.com)
Announcing the release of VulnHunter, an open-source AI code security tool with an agentic reasoning workflow developed by Capital One.
22. After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch (www.androidauthority.com)
The Pebble Time 2 isn't like other modern smartwatches, and that's precisely why I think it's the best smartwatch I've worn in years.
23. ICE Flight Monitor Interactive Dashboard (www.humanrightsfirst.org)
24. SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month (www.businessinsider.com)
SpaceX's market cap has lost about $1 trillion in value since its June 16 peak and hit a new low since its record-breaking IPO.
25. Multi-Primary Color Display Emerges as Next-Gen Color Reproduction Technology (en.ubiresearchnet.com)
At the 2026 Multi Primary Color Display Ecosystem Conference, multi-primary color display technology was highlighted as a next-generation approach beyond RGB, targeting wider color gamut, higher color accuracy, reduced metamerism, and human-centric visual performance.
26. Everybody's Weirded Out by AIβExcept the People Who Foist It on Us (newrepublic.com)
27. CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years (link.springer.com)
28. PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum (github.com)
PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum computing, quantum machine learning, and quantum chemistry. Create meaningful quantum algorithms, from inspiration to implementatio...
29. SQLite Is All You Need (www.dbpro.app)
We built a social network on SQLite, put it behind a Node API, and hit it until something broke. One file, one process, 315 million requests a day on the heaviest endpoint. Here are the numbers, the config, and the honest limits.