1. ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
    (alexharri.com)

  2. We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
    (labs.ramp.com)

  3. Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city
    (github.com)

  4. The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'
    (www.bbc.com)

  5. The Dilbert Afterlife
    (www.astralcodexten.com)

  6. ClickHouse acquires Langfuse
    (langfuse.com)

  7. East Germany balloon escape
    (en.wikipedia.org)

  8. The recurring dream of replacing developers
    (www.caimito.net)

  9. Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them
    (github.com)

  10. Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases
    (techcrunch.com)

  11. Cloudflare acquires Astro
    (astro.build)

  12. US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it
    (electrek.co)

  13. Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems
    (eugeneyan.com)

  14. Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
    (disconnect.blog)

  15. The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime
    (www.theguardian.com)

  16. Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
    (embedding-shapes.github.io)

  17. Sergei Fedorov's Escape from Soviet Union Helped Save Red Wings (2020)
    (www.freep.com)

  18. High-Level Is the Goal
    (bvisness.me)

  19. Show HN: I built a tool to assist AI agents to know when a PR is good to go
    (dsifry.github.io)

  20. 16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise
    (nesbitt.io)

  21. Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes
    (systemstack.dev)

  22. The Resonant Computing Manifesto
    (resonantcomputing.org)

  23. 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
    (letsencrypt.org)

  24. PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
    (www.theregister.com)

  25. Architecture for Disposable Systems
    (tuananh.net)

  26. FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence
    (bfl.ai)

  27. An explanation of cheating in Doom2 Deathmatch (1999)
    (www.doom2.net)

  28. The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says
    (www.npr.org)

  29. Lies, Damned Lies and Proofs: Formal Methods Are Not Slopless
    (www.lesswrong.com)

  30. LLM Structured Outputs Handbook
    (nanonets.com)