1. Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes
    (ryan.science)

  2. Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
    (developer.nvidia.com)

  3. Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
    (rohanbansal.com)

  4. Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard
    (mimo.xiaomi.com)

  5. Backups Aren't Simple
    (filipovski.net)

  6. Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs
    (arxiv.org)

  7. Small programming tricks
    (will-keleher.com)

  8. Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus
    (www.amazon.science)

  9. The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
    (johnjwang.com)

  10. A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server
    (labs.watchtowr.com)

  11. The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind
    (gcaptain.com)

  12. OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework
    (openspec.dev)

  13. The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning
    (www.madshrimps.be)

  14. Performance Improvements in .NET 11
    (devblogs.microsoft.com)

  15. AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
    (www.wsj.com)

  16. PCB is brought to you by Fable 5
    (a6mzero.com)

  17. Reversing Factorio's RNG
    (gegell.github.io)

  18. HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
    (harnesstax.github.io)

  19. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
    (github.com)

  20. Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough
    (www.bbc.com)

  21. Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
    (untranslatedjp.substack.com)

  22. Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
    (evanhahn.com)

  23. Reverse-engineered Jev-like model
    (github.com)

  24. Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps
    (www.danvk.org)

  25. Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
    (arxiv.org)

  26. Anatomy of a Texture
    (agentlien.github.io)

  27. DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression
    (zartbot.github.io)

  28. Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
    (www.wired.com)

  29. Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008)
    (www.vanityfair.com)

  30. The DeepMind Institute
    (institute.deepmind.com)