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  1. Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
    ×3.64 | 770 points by dwwoelfel 6 hours ago | 389 comments | ??? ???
  2. Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
    ×1.85 1 | 112 points by adam_rida 1 hour ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  3. The Beam Engine (glinscott.github.io)
    ×2.41 6 | 34 points by glinscott 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  4. What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)
    ×1.85 | 210 points by nickthegreek 4 hours ago | 91 comments | ??? ???
  5. Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)
    ×1.24 1 | 88 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  6. Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (politico.com)
    ×4.49 4 | 584 points by theanonymousone 6 hours ago | 555 comments | ??? ???
  7. Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)
    ×1.33 4 | 205 points by mpweiher 7 hours ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  8. A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements (uchicago.edu)
    ×0.95 6 | 49 points by MarcoDewey 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  9. Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. (science.org)
    ×2.68 11 | 8 points by Shortness8 28 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  10. Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)
    ×1.22 5 | 145 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  11. Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (eso.org)
    ×1.00 6 | 171 points by MarcoDewey 7 hours ago | 67 comments | ??? ???
  12. Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds (wuemeli.com)
    ×0.90 17 | 31 points by wuemeli 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com/palmier-io)
    ×1.21 20 | 81 points by hchtin 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  14. DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (darpa.mil)
    ×2.23 10 | 131 points by r2sk5t 7 hours ago | 129 comments | ??? ???
  15. Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents
    ×0.54 24 | 41 points by louis030195 4 hours ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  16. Geekbench 7 (geekbench.com)
    ×0.88 14 | 31 points by ilreb 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  17. The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)
    ×2.65 10 | 135 points by jjfoooo4 4 hours ago | 97 comments | ??? ???
  18. Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema (lrb.co.uk)
    ×0.65 80 | 5 points by mitchbob 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  19. Learn WebGPU for C++ (eliemichel.github.io)
    ×0.87 25 | 66 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Trifle – Open-source analytics that stores answers, not events (trifle.io)
    ×0.78 17 | 24 points by iluzone 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  21. Selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account (blog.google)
    ×2.65 3 | 27 points by lkurtz 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  22. Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency (rtx.com)
    ×0.96 23 | 78 points by r2sk5t 7 hours ago | 68 comments | ??? ???
  23. Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com/onecli)
    ×0.97 15 | 59 points by Jonathanfishner 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Claude-thermos – keeps your Claude session warm for you (github.com/izeigerman)
    ×1.13 12 | 41 points by s0ck_r4w 4 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  25. Escape Analysis in Go: Stack vs. Heap Allocations Explained (jetbrains.com)
    ×0.66 28 | 13 points by ingve 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  26. Fields Medals 2026 (mathunion.org)
    ×1.95 9 | 94 points by nill0 6 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  27. JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator) (openjdk.org)
    ×1.03 6 | 78 points by theanonymousone 5 hours ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  28. AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)
    ×4.57 23 | 509 points by technewssss 8 hours ago | 247 comments | ??? ???
  29. Emacs Is a Lispboard (andros.dev)
    ×1.36 22 | 74 points by andros 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  30. Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust (soteria-tools.com)
    ×0.73 29 | 24 points by annieversary 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone (github.com/h3nock)
    ×0.98 11 | 76 points by bitwise42 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  32. OpenStreetMap: Admin_level for All Countries (openstreetmap.org)
    ×1.20 11 | 88 points by ivanjermakov 7 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  33. Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts (github.com/Conradqh)
    ×1.01 1 | 70 points by conradqh 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  34. OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.79 38 | 314 points by abhisek 20 hours ago | 266 comments | ??? ???
  35. Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com/humanlayer)
    ×2.06 19 | 125 points by dhorthy 5 hours ago | 110 comments | ??? ???
  36. Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked
    ×3.76 26 | 10 points by Thrashed 14 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  37. From Evaluation to Guardrails: What We Brought to ACM FAccT 2026 (mozilla.ai)
    ×0.37 41 | 10 points by royapakzad 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig (yamafaktory.github.io)
    ×0.68 27 | 43 points by yamafaktory 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  39. Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: E2EE and the "Going Dark" Debate (ssrn.com)
    ×0.58 23 | 43 points by iamnothere 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  40. What happens when the information runs out (jimgrey.net)
    ×1.11 21 | 57 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  41. Scanning for Pangram Errors (veryfineprint.substack.com)
    ×0.70 38 | 70 points by jsnell 10 hours ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  42. AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees (msn.com)
    ×3.94 23 | 40 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  43. Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium (tangled.org)
    ×0.86 39 | 40 points by nerdypepper 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  44. The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal (unity.com)
    ×0.82 44 | 80 points by nateb2022 11 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  45. Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 (ziggit.dev)
    ×1.07 41 | 146 points by Erenay09 15 hours ago | 109 comments | ??? ???
  46. Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B (wsj.com)
    ×3.51 15 | 6 points by htrp 20 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  47. Why Sony Can't Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models (obsoletesony.substack.com)
    ×3.66 25 | 36 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  48. The Telegarden (1995-2004) (berkeley.edu)
    ×0.39 61 | 26 points by zetamax 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  49. US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system (theguardian.com)
    ×4.00 23 | 60 points by pastemato 4 hours ago | 34 comments | ??? ???
  50. Show HN: macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards (github.com/lx2026)
    ×0.81 27 | 36 points by linxy97 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  51. AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×2.23 62 | 6 points by pixelpoet 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  52. UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August (theguardian.com)
    ×2.30 18 | 70 points by DamonHD 5 hours ago | 44 comments | ??? ???
  53. Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample (chatgpt.com)
    ×4.09 6 | 1074 points by gmays 1 day ago | 609 comments | ??? ???
  54. Waymo's driverless cars crash less often than people (iihs.org)
    ×2.08 8 | 17 points by xnx 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  55. ANSI escape injection in MCP servers: Hidden from humans, visible to AI (brightsec.com)
    ×0.64 60 | 55 points by xgpyc2qp 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  56. Sorcery in the open: is generated code still source code? (semisafe.com)
    ×0.47 73 | 10 points by chotchkies 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  57. AMD's 256-core Epyc 9996 'Venice' claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.77 | 16 points by rndsignals 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  58. Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server (twitter.com/fried_rice)
    ×3.41 48 | 9 points by Alifatisk 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  59. New rental trend? A $200 'work-from-home fee' tacked on to Bay Area lease (abc7news.com)
    ×2.06 18 | 11 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  60. Americans – including many Republicans – are losing faith in capitalism (cnn.com)
    ×5.08 32 | 18 points by rawgabbit 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  61. California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth (theregister.com)
    ×2.04 9 | 13 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  62. Bakelite – first commercial synthetic plastic (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.12 13 | 6 points by gurjeet 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  63. The MoQ Alliance: Organization Dedicated to Making Media over QUIC Successful (moqalliance.org)
    ×0.35 82 | 3 points by mondainx 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  64. Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot (jointhefreeworld.org)
    ×0.89 28 | 129 points by jjba23 15 hours ago | 110 comments | ??? ???
  65. ChatGPT medical advice brought man 'to brink of death', lawsuit alleges (bbc.com)
    ×2.00 11 | 15 points by dijksterhuis 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I built a zero-latency developer tool suite in pure Vanilla JavaScript (omnideck.cc)
    ×0.79 46 | 17 points by AAPD_Studio 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  67. Fourth Circuit: Border Agents Can Search Your Phone by Hand, No Suspicion Needed (eff.org)
    ×2.43 12 | 45 points by leephillips 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  68. Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.80 15 | 163 points by giuliomagnifico 15 hours ago | 149 comments | ??? ???
  69. Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×2.31 1 | 476 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 232 comments | ??? ???
  70. Malleable computing, Emacs, and you (yummymelon.com)
    ×1.01 46 | 153 points by kickingvegas 1 day ago | 50 comments | ??? ???
  71. Back to Kagi (melashri.net)
    ×2.41 40 | 317 points by speckx 1 day ago | 242 comments | ??? ???
  72. Log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×0.80 47 | 15 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  73. DOT cranks up its campaign to strip bike lane references from federal websites (npr.org)
    ×3.41 13 | 23 points by Jtsummers 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  74. Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years (cnn.com)
    ×0.89 40 | 147 points by effects 23 hours ago | 51 comments | ??? ???
  75. LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×3.04 46 | 456 points by DemiGuru 1 day ago | 485 comments | ??? ???
  76. Making ASCII Art in Vim (alexyang.dev)
    ×1.13 34 | 110 points by evakhoury 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  77. Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)
    ×1.34 41 | 155 points by helonaut 1 day ago | 65 comments | ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
    ×0.50 7 | 27 points by amichail 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  79. Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere (textualize.io)
    ×1.29 49 | 185 points by willm 1 day ago | 138 comments | ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Dally – A little every day adds up (mctools.site)
    ×0.81 45 | 14 points by totaldude87 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  81. Everyone should know SIMD (mitchellh.com)
    ×3.33 10 | 611 points by WadeGrimridge 1 day ago | 225 comments | ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) (bento.page)
    ×3.99 26 | 978 points by starfallg 1 day ago | 228 comments | ??? ???
  83. I Reported on Flock's Cameras. Now I'm One of the System's Mistakes (thedrive.com)
    ×3.38 43 | 42 points by CharlesW 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  84. Test-time training 3D reconstruction (github.com/Inception3D)
    ×0.53 36 | 28 points by soupspaces 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  85. Frequently Asked Questions on Expertise (jtpeterson.substack.com)
    ×0.77 37 | 40 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  86. GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization (github.com/marcelroed)
    ×2.60 13 | 597 points by syrusakbary 1 day ago | 118 comments | ??? ???
  87. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (dylancastillo.co)
    ×3.45 17 | 655 points by dcastm 1 day ago | 237 comments | ??? ???
  88. All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized (claytondorge.com)
    ×1.37 42 | 95 points by toomuchtodo 23 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Hanky – ETL style framework for loading flash cards into Anki (github.com/Haeata-Ash)
    ×0.55 52 | 8 points by funfruit 7 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  90. Bloomy (YC S26) is hiring a founding engineer
    2 days ago | discuss | ??? ???