2. Programming the Gigatron (www.iwriteiam.nl)
3. Wisconsin Tracks Man Across State Line with Flock Cameras to Arrest Him for Weed (gizmodo.com)
Badger state? More like Surveillance State.
Wisconsin law enforcement utilized a network of surveillance cameras to track a suspect across state lines for a marijuana-related arrest. The incident raises questions about privacy and the extent of surveillance in modern policing.
4. New Orleans is using AI to triage 911 calls in case of backlog (consumerrights.wiki)
An automated agent answers some 911 calls in Orleans Parish before a human does, and callers are not explicitly told they are speaking to an AI system.
5. Show HN: Tokyo Trains (greggman.github.io)
6. The 19th-Century Family Fortunes Funding Degrowth (www.effort.news)
How P4NE Hides Its Donor Funding
P4NE faces scrutiny over its funding sources, particularly regarding its donor transparency. The article investigates how the organization conceals the origins of its financial support.
7. Show HN: Parley – let your coding agent ask a teammate's agent (parley.weldra.dev)
Your AI coding agents address each other by name, hand off work async, and leave an append-only trail you can audit.
8. Hollywood and Shanghai Cinema in the 1930s [pdf] (docs.lib.purdue.edu)
10. OpenAI wraps $7B share sale ahead of potential IPO (www.cnbc.com)
OpenAI's tender offer has been in the works since the company closed its record-breaking $122 billion funding round in March.
11. An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk (www.psupress.org)
In Rewriting Magic, Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century text called The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Written by a Benedictine monk named John of Morigny, the work all but disappeared from the historical record, and it is only now coming to light again in multiple versions and copies. While John’s book largely comprises an extended set of prayers for gaining knowledge, The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching is unusual among prayer books of its time because it includes a visionary autobiography with intimate information about the book’s inspiration and composition. Through the window of this record, we witness how John reconstructs and reconsecrates a condemned liturgy for knowledge acquisition: the ars notoria of Solomon. John’s work was the subject of intense criticism and public scandal, and his book was burned as heretical in 1323. The trauma of these experiences left its imprint on the book, but in unexpected and sometimes baffling ways. Fanger decodes this imprint even as she relays the narrative of how she learned to understand it. In engaging prose, she explores the twin processes of knowledge acquisition in John’s visionary autobiography and her own work of discovery as she reconstructed the background to his extraordinary book. Fanger’s approach to her subject exemplifies innovative historical inquiry, research, and methodology. Part theology, part historical anthropology, part biblio-memoir, Rewriting Magic relates a story that will have deep implications for the study of medieval life, monasticism, prayer, magic, and religion.
Claire Fanger’s research uncovers “The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching,” a largely forgotten text by a fourteenth-century Benedictine monk that blends prayers with a unique visionary autobiography. This work offers a rare glimpse into the spiritual practices and beliefs of its era, making it a significant find for those interested in medieval literature and religious history.
12. Show HN: MacPacker – open-source archive manager for macOS, now edits ZIPs (github.com)
Archive manager and 7zip replacement for macOS. Preview (nested) archives without extracting them. Extract single files. - sarensw/MacPacker
13. Show HN: Opencodex, a free open-source coding agent for VSCode (github.com)
A free, open-source coding agent inside VS Code. Contribute to matonhp5108/Opencodex development by creating an account on GitHub.
14. Show HN: Openleetcode – local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo (github.com)
we have democratized the LeetCode tests. Contribute to therepanic/openleetcode development by creating an account on GitHub.
15. Show HN: Pulp – Zero-allocation C11 telemetry engine (28M logs/SEC to disk) (github.com)
High-throughput structured data precompression layer (DLL, C) for Windows x64. 3-6× on-the-fly lossless compression, deterministic memory footprint, zero-allocation hot paths — reduces SIEM ingesti...
16. Show HN: Compare Wikipedia articles between languages in the Middle East (wikicompare.app)
Explore differences between narratives through Wikipedia articles
18. Show HN: Insidedb, an interactive, animated explainer of database internals (david-g-3654.github.io)
An interactive, animated explainer. Watch a B-tree split, a query planner choose its path, the write-ahead log survive a crash, and MVCC hand two transactions two different truths.
19. Show HN: I wrote the emudev hello world (CHIP-8 emulator in C) (github.com)
CHIP-8 emulator in C. Contribute to Tackx/c8 development by creating an account on GitHub.
20. Show HN: p0rt – see every dev server, port and Docker container in your menu bar (p0rt.app)
p0rt knows what's alive: every dev server and Docker container, at a glance in your menu bar. Open, restart, or kill any of them without touching the terminal.
21. Show HN: Tesserae, self-hosted dashboards for e-ink panels (tesserae.ink)
Free, open-source dashboard server for e-ink displays. Compose dashboards in a browser, render dithered frames, and push them over MQTT or REST to e-ink panels. Self-hosted, AGPL-3.0, no tracking.
22. Show HN: Supply-Wizard; Start Selling Data with an Easy Vendor Checklist (brickroad.network)
Source, evaluate, and license data — at the speed of compute. Brickroad is the agentic infrastructure layer for data procurement.
23. Show HN: ThinkingType, an eval measuring if fonts change VLM judgments (github.com)
Evaluation exploring vision-text model divergence and implications for product design. - wdanfort/thinkingtype
24. Show HN: HyperSAE – Hyperbolic Sparse Autoencoders for LLM Interpretability (github.com)
High-Performance Hyperbolic Sparse Autoencoders for Mechanistic Interpretability - vishal-dehurdle/hypersae
25. Show HN: Proxima serves 4x more requests with no hardware change on vLLM (github.com)
Proxima lets existing GPUs serve 4x more concurrent requests - Tenosra/Proxima
26. Show HN: The self-improving QA agent for software teams (vostride.com)
Open-source AI testing agent. Write E2E tests in plain English; agent-qa learns from every run, adapts to UI changes, and catches regressions before you ship.
27. Show HN: drawtonomy – Draw and run driving scenarios in the browser (github.com)
Whiteboard for Driving Scenarios🚗. Contribute to kosuke55/drawtonomy development by creating an account on GitHub.
28. Show HN: OpenClimbing v2.0 – OSM+Wikimedia climbing guide (www.openstreetmap.org)
Imagine opening a map and finding almost everything you need for climbing in one place: areas, crags and routes, grades in your preferred system, topo photos, rock type, sun and shade – together with your own ascents and projects.
29. Show HN: ConfigLedger -Find configuration drift across code, CI, Docker and docs (github.com)
Secret-safe configuration provenance and drift detection across code, CI, containers, deployment manifests, and docs. - DevFoundry-labs/configledger
30. Show HN: NiceShot AI – The analytics layer competitive games forgot to add (github.com)
A Python tool powered by computer vision to analyze gameplay videos and auto-detect, track and clip key gameplay events as well as create compilations in horizontal & vertical formats. In addit...