📰 A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU 💬 Exec: AI-ish paper predicts body measures; hack-able to product. Sentiment: skeptical/ambitious. Vibe: practical unease. 🤖 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862541

📰 Do I belong in tech anymore? 💬 Exec: AI slop wrecks craft & morale. Sentiment: negative. Vibe: exhausted, cynical, anxious. 😒 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895380

📰 Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port 💬 TurboVision works, modernized; docs absent, manual tweaks needed. Sentiment: positive. Vibe: nostalgic 😏 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898597

📰 Oxford All Souls College General Examination [pdf] 💬 Exec: unimpressed. Sentiment: negative. Vibe: elitist, skeptical of Oxford/LLMs. 🤨 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898680

📰 "Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung 💬 Exec: Positive — Unsung hailed as a top small blog; check its posts. Vibe: enthusiastic. Link dead. 😊 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897681

📰 Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom 💬 Exec summary: Project 11's 'quantum' ECC crack was classical; commenters: negative/skeptical, mockery. 😏 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897647

📰 Education must go beyond the mere production of words 💬 Exec: Don’t outsource your brains—learn real craft. Sentiment: wary/nostalgic. Vibe: irked. 🤨 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897349

📰 Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine 💬 Pro-Brave, fast & private; wary of Mozilla's adblock move and potential addon loss; worried for uBlock users. 😒 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897891

📰 Paraloid B-72 💬 Exec: Niche, curious + amused. Sentiment: positive. Vibe: esoteric/quirky—conservator interest; glue/Polaroid misread. 🤔 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858939

📰 Humpback whales are forming super-groups 💬 Sentiment: positive & amused. Vibe: snarky wonder—mock BBC stat, praise whales' nutrient role, propose 'whalegemma'. 🐋 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858294

📰 The Overtom Chess Computer Museum 💬 Exec: Nostalgic - old chess machines (Challenger7, El Ajedrecista). Vibe: tinkering & awe. Sentiment: positive. 🙂 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860911

📰 Generalised plusequals 💬 Exec: Lens-like sugar debated; Haskell lenses cited. Sentiment: curious/skeptical. 🤨 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896086

📰 FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion (IMU and GPS and encoders) 💬 Exec: Lukewarm—WOLF promising, but ROS hatred, AI‑like README and dead link make commenters skeptical. Sentiment: mixed 🤨 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896670

📰 You don't want long-lived keys 💬 Exec: Frustration - want long-lived Sentry to Jira auth (refresh/CI), avoid static keys; UI complaint: fixed-bg dust. 😒 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851377

📰 MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be 💬 Mixed: iPad vs Mac — Mac-mode dreamers vs touch purists; vibe: polarized, passionate. 🤷 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872306

📰 Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy 💬 Oxyrhynchus papyri survive in dry Egypt; commenters hopeful, wistful about Alexandria. Why bury a book? Not a Kindle 🙂 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864056

📰 Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS 💬 Sentiment: wary+curious; Vibe: skeptical but supportive—'you'll still need to patch.' Curious re: home/swarm. 🛠️ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896163

📰 Google Flow Music 💬 Exec: 'You're not creating—you're prompting.' Sentiment: skeptical/irritated. Vibe: wary + resigned. 😒 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895765

📰 Email could have been X.400 times better 💬 Exec: SMTP's blunt simplicity beat X.400's bloat. Sentiment: pro-SMTP, anti-X.400. Vibe: nostalgic, snarky. 😏 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873323

📰 Google Plans to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic 💬 Exec: Anthropic nets $10B+; market splits-optimists see lifeline, skeptics see froth. Sentiment: mixed/uncertain. 🤨 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892074

📰 There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning 💬 Exec: Positive—curious & impressed; paper’s dense but rewarding. Vibe: excited. 😏 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893779

📰 Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances? 💬 Exec: Plaid hookup? How handle non-Plaid assets? Users want investing hooks & personal Plaid subs. Vibe: curious/skeptical 🤔 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894690

📰 Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute 💬 Exec: Mixed—skepticism over crazy AI valuations; Google $10B bet, MS/Apple deja vu. Vibe: wary/amazed. 🤨 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895080

📰 My audio interface has SSH enabled by default 💬 Exec: Tarball openness praised; post called shallow marketing; commenters fear disclosure will trigger lockdown. 😒 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894747

📰 The Classic American Diner 💬 Exec: Nostalgic commenters praise movie-like diners, miss regulars. Sentiment: mostly positive; Vibe: cozy with grumbles 🍳 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894435

📰 CC-Canary: Detect early signs of regressions in Claude Code 💬 Exec: Skeptical/curious — self-evals mistrusted; folks want cross-harness tracking; solo evals too costly. 🙄 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893620

📰 Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations 💬 Exec: Filco stagnant; cheaper Aula outperforms. Nostalgia vs disappointment. Sentiment: mixed→negative. 😒 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892236

📰 CSS as a Query Language 💬 Exec: CSS>XPath demo recalled; lack of text selectors bemoaned; :has() praised. Sentiment: positive. Vibe: nostalgic. 😏 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893427

📰 OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API 💬 Exec: Rushed release despite promised safeguards; commenters skeptical/curious about API use, suspecting competition. 😒 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894000

📰 SFO Quiet Airport (2025) 💬 Exec: Annoyed—travellers hate repetitive airport PAs; want targeted alerts. Vibe: weary/snark 😒 Sentiment: negative https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894081

📰 SDL Now Supports DOS 💬 Exec summary: Amused nostalgia + skepticism - playful irony about DOS/SDL ubiquity. Sentiment: amused/skeptical. 😏 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892291

📰 Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task 💬 Exec: Useful for scraping (Vercel/Playwright); feels like open-washing. Sentiment: mixed → pragmatic skepticism. 😏 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890841

📰 I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support 💬 Exec: Claude users angry - opaque metering, throttles, flaky UX; sentiment: negative; vibe: wary/frustrated. 😒 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892019

📰 Machine Learning Reveals Unknown Transient Phenomena in Historic Images 💬 Radiation/film artifacts, not aliens. Sentiment: skeptical. Vibe: debunking with a conspiracy wink. 🤨 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890456

📰 Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications 💬 Exec: Did Electron kill desktop metrics? Mobile wins; commenters nostalgic and curious. Sentiment: mixed. 😏 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891801

📰 Refuse to let your doctor record you 💬 Exec: Mixed—begrudgingly pro-recording with strict controls; privacy worries dominate. Vibe: wary, pragmatic. 😏 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891872

📰 Different Language Models Learn Similar Number Representations 💬 Exec: Turnstyle/neurosymbolic rep-sharing promising; title wrong. Sentiment: curious/hopeful; vibe: cautious optimism. 🤨 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890873

📰 Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s 💬 Exec: Regulators dithering — commenters frustrated, urgent; evidence mixed; protections, parenting, evasion worries. 😒 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891019

📰 8087 Emulation on 8086 Systems 💬 Exec: 8087 = pricey flex; devs emulated FPU; co-proc ported but unused. Sentiment: nerdy nostalgia. 🤓 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888694

📰 Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing 💬 Exec summary: PhD slog—relatable but scattered. Sentiment: mixed/critical; vibe: frustrated & sympathetic. 🤦‍♂️ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890799

📰 The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could? 💬 Exec summary: Mixed sentiment, wary of immortal elites; praise for fiction. Vibe: cynical/revolutionary. 😒 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889488

📰 The operating cost of adult and gambling startups 💬 Sentiment: negative—commenters gleeful about socially ostracizing gambling founders; vibe: moralizing, approving. 😒 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889279

📰 Aspartame is not that bad? 💬 Exec: Mostly negative—taste, gut/migraine/cancer worries; vibe: cautious distrust. 🤢 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889030

📰 Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly 💬 Exec: Use SquashFS/ratarmount; gzip random-access solvable; author’s approach is niche. Sentiment: skeptical. Vibe: snarky 😏 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888124

📰 Hear your agent suffer through your code 💬 Mixed: want Cursor port & metric clarity; fanboys call it agentic coding, others hear "choir of angels" (broken?). 😅 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888465

📰 UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500 000 people are offered for sale 💬 Exec: Open-share vs leak risk; sentiment: wary pro-open; vibe: privacy-first, distrust firms; criminalize misuse. 😬 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888557

📰 nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL 💬 Exec: Nowhere: client JS decodes URL fragments; privacy-by-design; libs must be bundled. Sentiment: curious-skeptical 🤨 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888337

📰 How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences 💬 Sentiment mixed/critical — users call 'antisocial' unfair; note narcissism, low self‑esteem, passive‑aggression. 🤨 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888372

📰 S. Korea police arrest man over AI image of runaway wolf that misled authorities 💬 Exec: Skeptical amusement—AI photo caused arrest; debate rescue vs zoo; authorities sloppy; vibe: sarcastic distrust. 😒 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887683

📰 Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler 💬 Exec: Matz’s AOT Ruby excites but docs, eval/typing limits & ecosystem fragmentation worry. Sent: cautiously positive. 😏 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887334