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  1. You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass – geohot (geohot.github.io)
    ×4.66 | 12 points by mefengl 18 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. East Germany balloon escape (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.32 1 | 475 points by robertvc 12 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Cloudflare acquires Astro (astro.build)
    ×2.84 2 | 801 points by todotask2 18 hours ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. High-Level Is the Goal (bvisness.me)
    ×1.68 9 | 106 points by tobr 8 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Beebo, a wave simulator written in C (sr.ht)
    ×1.05 16 | 40 points by anon25783 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
    ×1.49 11 | 113 points by GaggiX 8 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
    ×3.23 3 | 526 points by embedding-shape 18 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.85 8 | 396 points by jaas 17 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. LLM Structured Outputs Handbook (nanonets.com)
    ×2.33 | 228 points by vitaelabitur 11 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC (neodyme.io)
    ×1.89 14 | 47 points by tripdout 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (google.com)
    ×1.17 17 | 113 points by linolevan 10 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. IKEA for Software (tommaso-girotto.co)
    ×1.72 7 | 59 points by tgirotto 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (dell.com)
    ×2.22 16 | 213 points by cebert 15 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada (ctvnews.ca)
    ×1.58 16 | 56 points by debo_ 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. STFU (github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna)
    ×5.48 13 | 800 points by tanelpoder 15 hours ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation (mintlify.com)
    ×1.23 24 | 65 points by npmipg 10 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.81 27 | 15 points by basilikum 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
    ×1.11 29 | 96 points by gmays 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity (github.com/trasta298)
    ×1.05 24 | 38 points by indigodaddy 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Every data centre is a U.S. military base (policyalternatives.ca)
    ×3.45 2 | 7 points by HotGarbage 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025) (raulnegron.me)
    ×1.28 15 | 86 points by todsacerdoti 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Tusk Drift – Turn production traffic into API tests (github.com/Use-Tusk)
    ×0.58 26 | 26 points by jy-tan 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Elasticsearch was never a database (paradedb.com)
    ×1.17 23 | 130 points by jamesgresql 16 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest ever crime (theguardian.com)
    ×2.15 18 | 11 points by c420 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing (jamanetwork.com)
    ×1.12 44 | 78 points by giuliomagnifico 14 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. HTTP RateLimit Headers (dotat.at)
    ×1.03 23 | 59 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The five orders of ignorance (2000) (acm.org)
    ×0.94 15 | 52 points by svilen_dobrev 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Artisanal Code (sunnyamrat.com)
    ×1.41 49 | 11 points by sunnyam 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (openculture.com)
    ×1.58 3 | 344 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Meditation and Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist (2022) (mit.edu)
    ×1.88 36 | 6 points by arunc 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory (acm.org)
    ×1.08 36 | 134 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains (shimmer.care)
    ×0.51 49 | 72 points by christalwang 16 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: CleanCloud – Cloud cleanup that can't delete anything (getcleancloud.com)
    ×0.83 27 | 7 points by sureshcsdp 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Zep AI (Agent Context Engineering, YC W24) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see (fromjason.xyz)
    ×3.50 24 | 253 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Just the Browser (justthebrowser.com)
    ×2.22 16 | 528 points by cl3misch 20 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Interactive eBPF (ebpf.party)
    ×1.73 27 | 230 points by samuel246 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context (github.com/loresuso)
    ×0.82 48 | 94 points by tanelpoder 19 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Re: Mix: open-source repairable blender (github.com/openfunkHQ)
    ×1.01 48 | 25 points by rishikeshs 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Training my smartwatch to track intelligence (dmvaldman.github.io)
    ×1.14 33 | 140 points by dmvaldman 20 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: 1Code – Open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code (github.com/21st-dev)
    ×0.59 47 | 59 points by Bunas 15 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.77 35 | 69 points by lalitmaganti 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Local-only Marstek Venus e-battery integration with Home Assistant (nkel.dev)
    ×0.62 29 | 12 points by Helmut10001 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Lock-Picking Robot (github.com/etinaude)
    ×1.68 9 | 293 points by p44v9n 19 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. CLI's completion should know what options you've typed (hackers.pub)
    ×0.66 58 | 22 points by dahlia 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing (robinlinacre.com)
    ×2.14 5 | 270 points by tosh 21 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine (theweek.com)
    ×2.32 54 | 63 points by Digit-Al 19 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Our approach to advertising (openai.com)
    ×3.78 25 | 236 points by rvz 14 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says (bbc.com)
    ×2.70 19 | 302 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Plunging US Birth Rate Leaves Too Many Colleges with Too Few Kids (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.94 25 | 45 points by toomuchtodo 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×3.18 43 | 900 points by susam 2 days ago | 2319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Alignment Game (2023) (dmvaldman.github.io)
    ×0.58 55 | 34 points by dmvaldman 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. An Ode to the Return of Wysiwyg (jeffverkoeyen.com)
    ×0.93 31 | 27 points by featherless 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language (github.com/ImJasonH)
    ×0.61 16 | 57 points by ImJasonH 12 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Reality Is Breaking the "AI Revolution" (planetearthandbeyond.co)
    ×3.86 16 | 10 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format (github.com/microsoft)
    ×0.58 55 | 25 points by ingve 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust (lwn.net)
    ×1.07 2 | 125 points by todsacerdoti 17 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage (culpium.com)
    ×2.18 | 760 points by speckx 1 day ago | 464 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor (undeadly.org)
    ×1.54 4 | 397 points by gpi 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How to wrangle non-deterministic AI outputs into conventional software? (2025) (domainlanguage.com)
    ×0.51 65 | 27 points by druther 15 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly (buildsoftwaresystems.com)
    ×0.68 39 | 92 points by ThierryBuilds 23 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. We Gave Our Browser Agent a 3MB Data Warehouse (100x.bot)
    ×0.62 35 | 30 points by shardullavekar 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Universal SSL exposes domains to BGP leaks (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.61 54 | 20 points by 8organicbits 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?
    ×0.65 32 | 31 points by scaredreally 12 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice (kyutai.org)
    ×2.78 12 | 616 points by pain_perdu 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool (evanhahn.com)
    ×3.58 44 | 17 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. List of individual trees (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.84 15 | 351 points by wilson090 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Feature Selection: A Primer (ikromshi.com)
    ×0.67 44 | 28 points by ikromshi 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: mdto.page – Turn Markdown into a shareable webpage instantly (mdto.page)
    ×0.74 51 | 46 points by hjinco 19 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Brain: PC virus [audio] (bbc.com)
    ×0.41 63 | 16 points by andsoitis 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: pgwire-replication - pure rust client for Postgres CDC (github.com/vnvo)
    ×0.50 75 | 43 points by sacs0ni 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Building a Quake PC (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.86 56 | 11 points by roskelld 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP (github.com/syncguy)
    ×0.95 61 | 134 points by Oxodao 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem (svelte.dev)
    ×0.90 49 | 179 points by tobr 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark (briarproject.org)
    ×3.09 14 | 573 points by us321 1 day ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet (kernel.org)
    ×4.03 54 | 170 points by luu 12 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant (esa.int)
    ×0.53 39 | 26 points by geox 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console (wiz.io)
    ×1.21 59 | 146 points by uvuv 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025) (atredis.com)
    ×0.96 6 | 29 points by notmine1337 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.10 60 | 159 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible (mvr.github.io)
    ×1.43 43 | 123 points by HeliumHydride 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. SkyVM: Instant desktop VMs from memory snapshots (skyvm.dev)
    ×1.59 57 | 19 points by jkelleyrtp 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout (yale.edu)
    ×4.77 8 | 741 points by mrtksn 1 day ago | 551 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure (hackernoon.com)
    ×1.76 2 | 439 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Making Claude Code sessions link-shareable
    ×0.94 30 | 6 points by reflectivetrap 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
    ×1.21 56 | 98 points by nz 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Prime chains (johndcook.com)
    ×0.52 73 | 43 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ask HN: Browser extension vs. native app for structured form filling?
    ×0.57 93 | 4 points by livrasand 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT's drug advice. He died from an overdose (sfgate.com)
    ×4.31 74 | 41 points by freediver 4 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
    ×1.99 29 | 392 points by tmaly 2 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???