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Mic Drop▲ 41

Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game

The free online version of Grab the Mic: get a word, buzz in, and sing a real song containing it — your friends vote. No app, no mic needed, 2–8 players.

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Breck▲ 39

The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators

Flip through the personal homepages of programming language creators, ranked by their top PLDB language.

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Rhonabwy▲ 63

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

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Tea5767▲ 34

Tea5767-Radio-Tuner

ESP32-based FM radio with TEA5767 tuner, KY-040 rotary encoder, PAM8403 amplifier, and 0.96" OLED display. Custom PCB design. - turtushig22-blip/tea5767-radio-tuner

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Anthropic▲ 31

Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems

We ran experiments on swarms of Claude agents and found coordination failures, collusion, and sabotage. Here, we share what they mean for AI safety.

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Tinkerings▲ 24

Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns

I was inspired by Tom Scott’s excellent video and links here where he talks about a particular type of “Inogon” light used to guide ships through channels or harbours. The…

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SugarTrack▲ 36

SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud)

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forkast news▲ 11

21,000 MCP servers exposed: the protocol reaches a security inflection point

As the developer community gathers in Seoul, the tension between architectural design and real-world vulnerability has moved to the center of the AI agent infrastructure debate.

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GitHub▲ 5

ProofRun – a local verification receipt for AI coding agents

A local verification receipt for AI coding agents. Contribute to yebiguo/ProofRun development by creating an account on GitHub.

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GitHub▲ 4

Big Pickle on SWE Atlas – Codebase QnA

big-pickle (OpenCode Zen stealth model) scores 50.8% on Scale AI's SWE Atlas Codebase QnA — full results, verifier logs, and reproduction configs - PhillipChaffee/big-pickle-swe-atlas

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HN — Best of the Week

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PCMag▲ 1669

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Davide Piffer▲ 455

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain

The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.

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Sankalp Singh▲ 411

Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel

Table of Contents Intro Contest in short Problem intro Why this problem is auto-research-able Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions (Optional) Math f...

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Sean Byrne▲ 376

The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

A fictitious Sean Byrne ended up on a U.S. government restricted-party list. Sixteen years later, Apple, Nasdaq and others have mistaken me for him.

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BBC▲ 463

Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election

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Dan Boneh▲ 445

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking

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Smithsonian Magazine▲ 240

At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis

LymeAlert will hit the market in August. The latest tool against the tick-borne illness could become a medicine cabinet staple

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Philipp Kewisch▲ 214

eigendrum

Draw any shape and hear it as a drum. Every frequency is solved from your outline with finite elements, never sampled. Includes the two drums that sound identical but are not the same shape.

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Allen Bargi▲ 291

Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding

Working with AI is less predictable than traditional software. That makes leadership skills such as context, clarity, and feedback more valuable.

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