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Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
• A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing
• The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
• U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
• MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
• We Can Still Stop California's 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme
• The "Bizarre Headgear" exhibit at the Sam Noble museum
• Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor
• Ultrasound imaging of the brain
• Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring
• What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?
• The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
• PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
• Modern GPU Programming for MLSys
• The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on Deaths
• A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage
• Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification
• Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off
• Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It
• The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)
• Lippmann Photography
• Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory
• The US lifts its block on Mythos 5
• Data centers trigger voter backlash
• LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers
• My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable
• Bipartite Matching Is in NC
• Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter
• Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck
• Om Malik has died