Hacker News Summarizer

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    Writing by hand is good for your brain nealstephenson.substack.com
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    Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
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    The Beam Engine glinscott.github.io
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    Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI politico.com
  5. 5
    What happened to TheNumbers.com stephenfollows.com
  6. 6
    What else do people draw on gradient.horse? rybakov.com
  7. 7
    Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) github.com
  8. 8
    98.css jdan.github.io
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    Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ haqr.eu
  10. 10
    Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL learnopengl.com
  11. 11
    Building on ATProto lukekanies.com
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    Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI github.com
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    DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 darpa.mil
  14. 14
    Freeze-Casting en.wikipedia.org
  15. 15
    Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models obsoletesony.substack.com
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    Astronomers may have found the first exomoon eso.org
  17. 17
    Fields Medals 2026 mathunion.org
  18. 18
    I regret migrating to Codeberg xn--gckvb8fzb.com
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    The Visual 6502 visual6502.org
  20. 20
    Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents
  21. 21
    OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened simonwillison.net
  22. 22
    Modula-3 History Collection on Computer History Museum softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org
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    Quickly rewrite Git repository history github.com
  24. 24
    Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis wheresyoured.at
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    A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements pme.uchicago.edu
  26. 26
    The arguments against open source AI are bad tombedor.dev
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    Fractl.art – a fractal generator with 8 octillion different patterns fractl.art
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    Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents github.com
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    Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you github.com
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    Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. science.org

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